...Natural Effects on a Boy Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions has the entire life of its author’s experiences, virtues, and detailed imperfections. Rousseau’s Confessions is one of the first notable autobiographies and has influenced many forms of narratives. It inaugurated modern day autobiography and inspired a narrative technic used in many great novels. Rousseau wrote this autobiography in order to tell the world about himself and express the nature of man. He did not want to be known by how people thought of him, but rather be able to tell people exactly what happened in his life and let them be the judge. Rousseau begins Confessions by stating, “this is the only portrait of a man, painted exactly according to nature and in all of its truth, that exists and will probably ever exist” (57). He included embarrassing experiences and personal thoughts from throughout his life to show every possible virtue of his life. He portrays what every boy encounters from mischievous trickery to entering sexual adulthood. The events that change his life and himself become a consistent theme while he describes his childhood, sexual cravings, and natural thoughts of a boy’s life. One of the most common subjects in Rousseau autobiography is the story of his childhood and the nature of a boy. Rousseau’s mother passed away during his birth, which strained the relation between him and his father. When they tried to speak of her the conversation would end with tears because his father saw Rousseau’s...
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...Name: Course: Tutor: Date: Influence of “The Aeneid” and “Confessions” in Dante's Poem Dante in his poem “"The Inferno" talks of his journey to hell and back. He narrates it in the form of an autobiography. The poem does, however, indicate a strong influence from Maro's "The Aeneid" and Augustine's the "Confessions." The influence from the two in the “Inferno” range from the themes, concepts, literature devices and the language styles used. Maro Virgil, the author of the poem “The Aeneid” was a controversial figure in most Christian texts at the time. His influence in the “Inferno” is clear because Dante uses the name for the leader in the poem. Virgil is an influence in the poem rather than just a fiction figure or character. Dante does not borrow directly from the Aeneid, but expresses his own ideas in different twist. A major difference in the texts is that while Dante uses the underworld to denote hell, Virgil extends the physical world, as we know it. Dante feels that the pagan Virgil is contradicting in his ways, and Dante’s hell is an extension of Virgil’s underworld. Virgil influenced the way Dante denotes hell in specific circles or steps. While Virgil had only three; Tartarus, Elysium and Lugentes Campi, Dante had nine; Limbo, Gluttony, Lust, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery. Apparently, it is also clear that the concept of underworld is yet another influence Dante received from Maro’s “The Aeneid” (Maro 930-939). Throughout the “Inferno”...
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...did not do. Many individuals tend to make false confessions because they feel pressured into doing so. This pressure sometimes comes from themselves, the police officers, and how susceptible the individuals are to suggestibility. The interrogation process, age, and other vulnerabilities among adolescents is what makes individuals confess to something they did not do. This has been evident in many cases in the United States, and other studies that have tired to prove this...
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...evidence be disclosed in an interview with a suspect? An experiment with mock-suspects” (2009) by Steven Sellars and Mark R. Kebbell, is a review of different experiments done by others regarding the strength of evidence and timing of disclosure of the evidence to suspects of crimes. This paper is important because it provides useful knowledge for police to have when interviewing suspects and trying to get confessions. According to different researchers referenced in this article the consensus is that if you have strong evidence against suspects it leads to a higher rate of confession. However there seems to be more controversy in the studies of when the evidence should be disclosed to suspects. Some say it should be very early on in the interview. Others say it can be dangerous to disclose evidence early if your goal is a confession because the suspect will become defensive and go into denial mode and stay there. The initial moments of the interview shapes the relationship between the interviewer and suspect and might be better used to develop trust, which could lead to later confession. Another reason against early disclosure is if the police present their story first the suspect can shape their story in order to protect themselves. The authors who do favour early evidence disclosure still believe it...
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...“Literary Analysis of First Confession by: Frank O’Connor” Frank O’ Connor’s “First Confession” is a fastidious short story about fear of eternal punishment for childhood sins. This is a story of a misunderstood young boy who feels disdain and disgust towards his grandmother’s looks and old ways. He also feels anger toward his relatives because they sided with his grandmother. He blames his grandmother for his childhood sins. From trying to lash his sister with a bread knife, not eating the food prepared by her grandmother, kicking his grandmother on the shin, to the extent of planning to kill his grandmother. These childhood sins have to be confessed to a priest because of Jackie’s fear of damnation and eternal punishment. His sister accompanies him to the church on his first confession. After the confession, the priest gave Jackie a very light and absurd punishment of three Hail Mary’s and to suck a bullseyes, which his sister finds ironic. An analysis of “First Confession” reveals a boy’s first confession as a fundamental experience of becoming a better individual. Frank O’Connor is careful with his words as to not fear the character but empathize with him. The story “First Confession” is written in first person point of view which assists in O’Connor’s depiction of the characters confession. "I decided that, between one thing and another, I must have broken the whole ten commandments, all on account of that old woman, and so far as I could see, so long as she remained in...
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...sees as her sister’s false confessions of love, the honest and youngest sister, Cordelia, chooses a path of sincerity to not profess her love for her father. Outraged, the king then banishes Cordelia and divides the land between Goneril and Regan. This decision comes to haunt Lear, when the two sisters take away his title and drive him mad. Cordelia’s honesty, loyalty and maturity are traits that separate her from her sisters and contrast their untruthful, unfaithful and insecure nature. To begin, Cordelia and her sisters are very different in the sense that Cordelia is honest and her sisters are untruthful. Cordelia portrays a very honest character and her integrity is evident from the beginning of the play and it is carried through all the way to the end. “Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond, no more nor less.” (I. ii. 91- 93) This line is delivered after Cordelia is once again asked by Lear to confess her love to him after she already she has nothing to confess. She is being honest with Lear when she tells him she simply loves him the way a daughter should. Lear was expecting Cordelia to act like her sisters and exaggerate her words to make him feel loved and honored. Sadly, Cordelia is nothing like her sisters and her honesty outrages Lear, who disowns her and banishes her from his kingdom. On the opposite hand of this situation are Goneril and Regan. Their exaggerated confessions of love place them on the opposite...
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...The Sacrament of Reconciliation is one of the many parts of the catholic culture. Before you can enter confession you must first go through Baptism and Conformation. The Catholic Church does this so you are mature enough to know right from wrong. Before you ask for confession you must know what a sin is and why it is wrong. Overall before you confess you must have an understanding of the Catholic Church and their teachings. The Sacrament of Reconciliation takes places in the church where you and your priest talk about the sins you have committed. After you have confessed your sins, the priest will ask you to repent by saying prays. The Sacrament of Reconciliation allows you to interact with God through the priest and gives Catholics the option for a fresh start. There are three elements of the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Conversion, Confession and Celebration. Yet the most important the most important thing is once we are forgiven we must pass that along and forgive others who have done us wrong. Our faith our rules. There are many different cultures in the world today, each culture has different views and traditions. Within every culture there typically are stages to becoming an adult. Some stages are more extreme than others. Regardless, everyone will experience trials and tribulations before being recognized as an adult. These stages are often called rites of passage. Nancy Bonvillian and Brain Schwimmer define rites of passage as “Rituals that mark culturally significant...
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...The Confessions of Saint Augustine St. Augustine main conflict was accepting God in his life. He struggle to acknowledge that God has possessed him. His father was a pagan, but his mother was such a devoted Christian woman; she dedicated her life to pray for the conversion of her son. St. Augustine was a teacher and during his youth days he encounters conflicts with Christian morality. He questioned himself many time “who am I” and “who are men?” he was a sinner and lived a very disorderly life. For example, as a child he was not baptized, he was not initiated in the Christian formation and he became afraid to sin after receiving the sacrament. This kept enriching his Manichean beliefs, he was “seduced and he seduced others, deceived and deceiving by various desires” and his doubts about encountering the truth kept increasing. He was too proud, too full of vanities, he had affairs with many women, and even had a son, but he realizes that his vision that happiness cannot be found in worldly pleasures but in the search for truth beyond the material world. “My heart was made dark by sorrow, and whatever I looked upon was death” he refers to the death of his closes friend whom he had perverted, and whose death he felt and wept bitterly. He became very desperate, confused and mad because he...
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...I sit there and talk for ten minutes or so. I feel really happy that there is someone I could talk to and was listening to me that time. I couldn’t talk it out with my friends and even my family. Maybe I just wanted someone with a kind heart that would listen to me through the end of the story. As I got the absolution from the priest and it all ended well. It feels like I am flying through the clouds and that thing that was holding onto me was suddenly gone. I was happy to hear what he said to me that time. He said that “You could always come here and I would welcome you, anytime”. I was so moved that my tears started falling and couldn’t hold it off, anymore. I was really happy and blessed that day. Confession is a very intimate experience because individual confessions are made private. There's an old saying, "God hates the sin, not the sinner." Just as a loving mother disapproves of those destructive behaviours which harm her child, so God condemns our sins. So while it's true that when you sin you turn away from God, it does not follow that God...
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...Augustine Dealing with Death “A Friend’s Death” in the book “Confessions,” written in Hippo in 397, pretty clearly identifies what this portion of the text encompasses. The excerpt begins with Augustine’s recurrence of confusion with God; watching his friend suffer so intensely makes him wonder why God doesn’t divinely intervene to end his misery. This leads to a reflection on his recent dark days and more ambiguity with God’s presence. While unconscious, Augustine’s friend receives a baptism that Augustine is sure he would not have preferred if mentally present. With this in mind, Augustine pokes fun of it when his friend comes to, which is seen as repulsively unforgiveable, and threatens to end their friendship. Not long afterwards, the friend passes, which leaves no time for reconciliation for the two. This leads Augustine descending into a deep depression where constantly reminders of his loss lie and ultimately his only relief is found through weeping. Although this time period was extremely devastating to Augustine in the moment, do you think the reborn St. Augustine looks back on this memory as more of a weight off of his shoulders than a devastating loss while writing the selection? In the beginning sentences of the selection, Augustine goes into detail about the diminishing condition of his ailing friend. He goes into depth when describing his friend’s pain, stating that he was “convulsed with fever, lying insensible in a lethal sweat and given up for lost”...
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...not commit and have it follow them to their adult life would be a great injustice to the minors in the case. Without the presence of the suspect’s parent/guardian or a child advocate opens up the chance for intimidation and persuasion the suspects to confess or incriminate themselves. Also, the minors in this case could very well go to the news agencies with the story of how they were treated by our department. This would cause a field day with the media. We would be bombarded by reporters asking questions of why we did what we did and how could we have infringed upon these young men’s rights. Without parent/guardian presence during and interrogation would be unethical to the minors because they could be tricked into giving a false confession to the detectives. Without the detective recording in the interview or having someone present to witness the interview there could be some misunderstanding of what was said. The detective could change the...
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...ch y Psychology can assist law enforcement by profiling criminal suspects assessing in truthfulness of suspects and evaluating the validity of their confessions. Psychological theory and techniques can be used to improve police officers evaluations of criminal suspects. * Profiling is usually performed at the beginning of criminal investigation when the police need help focusing on certain types of people who might be the suspect * Once a suspect has been identified law enforcement officials use other procedures to determine whether any of them should be charged. * Police look for visual and verbal cues to determine whether they are giving truthful responses Suspects are sometimes given a lie detector test to encourage them to confess. * The tests provide more information about their guilt or innocence. * They conflict with some psychological findings about their accuracy. * Sometimes they are submitted into evidence. * Many psychologists question the validity of the test. The police interrogate suspects and encourage them to confess because the confessions make it more likely that suspects will successfully prosecute and eventually convicted the suspects. Psychological finding often conflict with the courts evaluations of a voluntary confession. There is some evidence psychological characteristics are linked to behavioral patterns and they can be detected by a psychological analysis of crime scenes. * Criminal profiling is used to...
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...stopping it and stop it from falling out and having cracks in them that easily can tell how bad or strong your crucible is. By keeping it string and seeing it burned by not making any cracks in them has we all make decisions to tell the truth or keep it, which puts you in danger because you would burn and by the burnets and cracks you make breaks apart what you’ve done. Like in the end of the play John Procter had a strong crucible because he confess the truth about cheating on his wife and affair with Abigail but not only that but he dies rather than confess to a sin that he did not commit and finally breaks the cycle, but decides to break his cycle with his affair with Abigail but this confession is trumped by the accusation of witchcraft against him which turns into demands of a confession. ...
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...text he screeched allowed and admitted to the crime, though he has already he might not in court. The narrator admits to his crime committed of killing the old man out of what could have been his guilt of committing the crime. Then again maybe the narrator confessed because he would rather play the “I’m crazy” card rather than just being put in prison. At the time that the narrator is in court it is more likely to believe that he will not take the responsibility of the murder. When he confessed the first time he was under lots of guilt or just doing it to show that he is insane. In court or during his trial he could plead that he had no idea that what he was doing and that he had been in an unstable condition when he made the confession. Even with his confession, and then if he were to deny his accountability of the crime how are the police supposed to pin the crime on him if they have no evidence to back it up… Throughout the story the narrator repeats many times the same rhetorical question “How am I mad?” or “Am I mad?”. The fact that he asks that question so many times puts a new thought into the reader’s mind that gives the reader idea that the narrator is insane. Perhaps if the narrator never mentioned anything about him being insane then maybe there would be no question about it. But the fact that he did mention it and continuously reminds the reader of how insane he may or may not be shows his obsession of his own being of insanity. Evidence throughout the story develops...
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... In the play The Crucible , John Proctor is the tragic hero of the play because his sin has refrained him from, speaking upon against what is wrong, when he does speak up it is too late, then finally his pride is so strong that it leads to his downfall, and his dedication to his family makes him decide to do the wrong thing. Proctor has many flaws, but even with them he is truly a good person, he showed nonconformity by not doing something he doesn't believe in, An example is when Hale asked him why he wasn't going to church he said,”I think, sometimes, the man dreams cathedrals, not clapboard meetin' houses.”(Act2 pg.65). This implying that he feels that Parris cares more about wealth and reputation he gains from it rather than Christian morals.Proctor also doesn't support that Parris views himself as a nobleman, who doesn't need to conform to Parris warped view of Christianity and Puritan belief.He also portrays brilliant characteristics for his children to look up to because he put up a fight for his family until his last breath. John Proctor’s dedication and trust in people make him a tragic hero because if John didn’t truly believe that Abigail would spare him and his family he probably would have stayed quiet.Proctor believes at the beginning of the play that she would leave him and his family alone until she accuses Elizabeth.Elizabeth accusation is what leads him to confess.His dedication is shown when he was arrested and they ask Proctor confess, so he does for the...
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