Essays on Damned

Contrast the journey to America described by Richard Whyte coming to America from Ireland, with Richard Duden's description of the Midwest as he travels around the countryside in the 1820s seeking to persuade German immigrants to make the trip to lands far richer than anything they can expect to possess back in the homeland. Is one more "right" than the other in his presentation? Both Richard Whyte and Richard Duden pioneered efforts to inhabit America. Richard Whyte’s journey gave hope to many Irish people resulting in waves of immigrants from the country in the United States. The journey ...

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What is one of the major goals of art? Art reflects the society and a battle between the external world and the human inward. For instance, fashion is much more than just clothes; it is a reflection of a person through the prism of his mental world, knowledge, and emotion, and, what is more important, a way of communication. And photography, in turn, is also much more than just beautiful, or strange pictures. Given the subjective nature of its creation, what do photographs offer the viewer? Photography challenges the audience to search for truth, “in a fragmented, ...

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Mark Twain, one of the most important figures in the American literature, through his essay “The damned human race” throws light on the mankind’s useless ethical outlook. Twain sarcastically points to the fact that humans carry out evil deeds while claiming to be the only species to have moral sense. According to him, man is not a developed creature but the least evolved species in several respects. He says that the birds, the fishes, the insects, the reptiles, etc “are links in the chain which stretches down from the higher animals to man at ...

Augustine of Hippo and His View of Election As Regards Salvation

Biography Augustine of Hippo, or more popularly known as St. Augustine, was the child of St. Monica. However, despite a religious upbringing, Augustine spent most of his young life in blasphemous beliefs and immoral lifestyle. Although he was a remarkably intelligent person and had been indoctrinated to the Christian faith early in life, his sins of wickedness and his self-glorification corrupted his thoughts too much, that he became completely blind to the Divine Truth. Augustine's mother, Monica, was a devout Christian, while his father supported paganism for most of his life, merely converting to Christianity prior to his death. ...

Many scholars have debated the role of women in politics over the ages. The reason for this is that the women’s intellect has been compared with her potential to also trick male leaders into failing in love with her. Throughout the ages women have played both roles. Before Christianity, women have been heavily involved in politics and political theory. It was not until the dark ages, that women took a more backseat role to those aspects of politics that they are just beginning to come back from today. In the books of the Aeneid, Virgil absolutely compares women ...

Symbolic communication can be defined as the things that we have given a special meaning and as such represent a particular idea. Further symbolic communication can be interpreted as a language that is dependent upon the use of symbols created for the sole purpose of achieving exactitude. A look at the use of symbolic language in the text “How Language Shapes Thought” by Lera Boroditsky. Lera progress idea of symbolic communication in her article based on the arguments that the language of thought is mostly the same type of language used by humans or the instance as form of ...

Convict Women have usually been portrayed as Prostitutes and Criminals.

Convict women have usually been portrayed as prostitutes and criminals. Prostitution among female convicts was a common practice in the new colony where women convicts were considered sexual objects for men. Most female convicts were punished with transportation when found guilty of their offences for the purpose of serving the needs of other sailors. Female convicts were subjected to harsh conditions where besides receiving and giving sexual favors they were forced to work as servants as well as laborers for the few individuals who had influence within their context such as the prison officers. Only a few of the ...