Essays on Fervor

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Are humans threatening the survival of our planet by disrupting the ecosystem? Marvin Gaye and the public believed this to be the case in the 1960’s and 1970’s when the modern Green Movement first began. Gaye sang “Poison is in the wind that blows from the north and south and east. Radiation underground and in the sky, animals and birds live near by all die. What about this crowded land, how much more abuse from man can we stand?” . Greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, ocean poisoning, topsoil depletion, food chain poisoning, acid rain, pollution along with demands ...

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The Aeneid is an epic poem that portrays the journey of the Aeneas from the city Trojan to Rome (Hardie, 1999). The city of Trojan was destroyed by the Greeks, and the Aeneas initiates a painful journey to the Trojan. The major reason why Aeneas travelled to Rome is based on a dream in which he was commanded by the god to build a city for his men in Rome. Aeneas’s relationship with Pallas in the entire poem has a central role. Aeneid’s association with Pallas played a critical role in his rage against the Turnur’s ...

The Salem Witch Hunts resulted from many instabilities that faced the new colonists. The religious beliefs held by the new colonists were strict and biased. The lack of structure in society and government created rivals in the community. The community had just endured a massive drought and disease outbreak, and they lived on the edge daily worrying about possible raids by the Indians or the French. Under all this pressure, the citizens threw away all sense of equality, diversity and democracy and gave in to their fears, and as a result, the witch hunts transpired. Witch hunts were already ...