Mercury Seven

As Elbert Hubbard says, “We are not punished for our sins, but by them.” This is most certainly the case in Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner. Through the protagonist’s eyes, we are shown how evil, in the form of sins, can control people from birth, adolescence, adulthood, and can lead to their demise. This is primarily demonstrated with Baba’s pride blinding and controlling him from Hassan’s conception, to his own death. Another example of sin is the rage displayed in Assef, a boy who…

What is greed? The most common distinction pertains to a strong and selfish desire for something, such as wealth or power. The question is, what kind of person would intentionally succumb to such a malicious concept? The notion itself appears in countless works of literature, from fiction and non-fiction alike, and stands as an extremely prominent theme that has been featured in countless collected works. However, regardless of its commonality, greed is still a sinful conception that many men…

Geoffrey Chaucer, during his time and even today, is considered one of the greatest English poets of the Middle Ages. Through his diverse characters and confounding morals, he is able to capture and relate to a broad audience. One of his more memorable characters is The Pardoner. The Pardoner is an interesting character as he seems to meet the exact opposite of what is expected of him, purposely by Chaucer, to voice a statement. The Pardoner’s introduction and tale encompasses several themes,…

Canto 18 Dante and Virgil are outside the eighth Circle of Hell, known as Malebolge. The circle has a wall along the outside, and has a circular pit in the center. The ridges create ten separate pits. This is where the people receive their punishment for fraud. This is where Virgil and Dante see souls from one side to another. The demons with great whips cause pain to the souls when they come to the demon’s reach, which then force the souls to the other ridge. There is an Italian that Dante…

It is well known that Donald Trump has lived a life of decadence and self-pleasure. But the general public is largely unaware of his associations with organized crime. Much of his wealth was amassed on the addictions of the poor in his Atlantic City casinos. The four times his casinos filed for bankruptcy, he gained millions as his employees, contractors and investors suffered loss. I would encourage people to do some research into Trump’s past. The Antichrist is described as “wicked”, which…

The short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathanial Hawthorne takes place in Salem, Massachusetts. The time of the story takes place during puritan times, mostly meaning that everybody was going to end up with god if one does not sin. Sins do not make a person evil, because everybody sins, and Nathanial Hawthorne proves the theme everybody has sins throughout the use of symbolism, irony, and foreshadowing. One of the literary techniques Hawthorn uses to develop the theme everybody sins, is by…

Dante’s Inferno is considered one of the best works of humanity. In Inferno, Dante literally puts all kind of men into hell for their sins; from great kings to slaves, from every type of ethnicity, race, country and anything else a man identifies by. Based on Christian doctrines of his time, Dante has taken revenge over all kind of figures that he knew by. Furthermore, Inferno is filled with allegories and represents a deep literature. In this essay, we will discuss about the uses and…

The Middle Ages contained some of the most interesting classes of people this world has ever seen. The amount of knowledge that is possessed from this era is very little, but the quantity of what the world does possess gives the people fascinating information about what life was like in those days. The most remarkable piece is the class system and just how corrupt the church system was at that time. Geoffrey Chaucer does a fantastic job at showing this corruption. The church system contained…

All of the great works of philosophy from Socrates to Martin Buber have utilized the tool of dialogue as a method of explaining their teachings. Philosophical dialogue is primarily a conversation between two people on the topic of a particular philosophy, generally the dialogue is between a younger inexperienced but inquisitive person and an older wiser master who in some cases is the founder of the philosophy being discussed. Many times the conversation is based on the questions posed by the…

agreements, the colonists wouldn’t have had the slightest of chances in defeating the British. Out of all the nations the colonists took help from, France served the greatest role. They themselves had a harboring hatred for the British dating back to the Seven Years War and it showed when they were willing to send thousands of weapons and even some of their best military officers to the colonies. That too, the French were risking all their assets when they formed a shell corporation, The…