...Traditionally, pride was frequently and widely established as the greatest possible sin to commit. Dante’s Purgatorio demonstrates how those who have been too prideful in their mortal lifetime are condemned to the first and farthest terrace from Paradise. But through the passage of time, the negative opinions that the seven deadly sins were originally regarded with have slowly changed for the better, and pride in particular has even become a quality to be encouraged. The seven deadly sins are traditionally thought to be the be all and end all of evils that mankind should avoid at all costs, and pride is the worst one of all, being the sin that leads to all other sins. To take pride in any achievements is to sin, which would guarantee one’s...
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...Questions for the movie Seven Morgan Freeman – detective William Somerset: It doesn’t hurt that the film features some magnificent acting. I think, Morgan Freeman has been casted for the movie, because he’s a phenomenal actor. He’s a very convincing actor, who gives his roles a perfect touch. He seems so real in action. Morgan Freeman is likely the best performer working today, and I don’t think he’s ever been better than here as veteran detective Somerset. Freeman is a very versatile actor and he embodies the range of emotions felt by Somerset vividly. The detective is a complex character and Freeman manages to display these impressions quietly and subtly but with beautiful precision. Freeman exhibits the unreliable tones of the role and makes the character come to life. In Seven he appears as the veteran. He knows what he’s doing, and supposed to do in the movie, to make it good. In the beginning he gets David Mills on the neck, which is trying hard to make a good job to impress William. I think, Morgan Freeman and Brad Pitt compliment each other well, and they have many similarities and differences. For example the age, the play, the way they are interpreting their roles and so on. Brad Pitt – detective David Mills: I think, Brad Pitt has been casted for the movie, because he’s the perfect contrast to Morgan Freeman and also a very good actor. They are absolute opposites, young and older, black and white, spontaneous and thoughtful. Kevin Spacey – John Doe: I’ve read that...
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...loving Savior Who forgives my sins and Who gives me the grace to become a saint. Jesus Christ, through the ministry of His priests, does both in the Sacrament of Penance. "As the Father hath sent Me, I also send you ... Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." (John 20:21-23) "If your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow." (Isaias 1:18) "I am not come to call the just, but sinners." (Matt. 9:13) "Men have received from God a power not granted to angels or archangels. Never was it said to the heavenly spirits, ‘Whatsoever you shall bind and unbind on earth shall be bound and unbound in heaven.’ The princes of this world can only bind and unbind the body. The power of the priest extends further; it reaches the soul, and it is exercised not only in baptizing, but still more in pardoning sins. Let us not blush, then, to confess our faults. He who blushes to discover his sins to a man, and who will not confess, shall be covered with shame on the Day of Judgment in the presence of the whole universe." (St. John Chrysostom, Treatise on Priests, Bk. 3) Prayer before Confession: O Lord, grant me light to see myself as Thou dost see me, and the grace to be truly and effectively sorry for my sins. O Mary, help me to make a good confession. How to Confess: First examine your conscience well, then tell the priest the specific kind of sins you have committed and,...
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...Reverend Popoff claimed that he knew people’s problems because God told him, but he actually found out about their problems after his wife interviewed them and told him about it through an earpiece. Another example of Reverend Popoff’s fakeness is demonstrated in paragraph seven as he would be selling people “a tiny bag of “prayer-blessed” Dead Sea salt.” Investigations were done on this salt and it turns out that this salt is very close to that of table salt. Therefore, people were spending lots of money on what they thought was some kind of special salt when all it was was table salt. Just as Reverend Popoff sold people fake things such as the salt, the Pardoner also sold people fake things and those things were relics. This is demonstrated in lines 720-721 which states, “And, in a glass, a rubble of pigs’ bones. And with these relics, any time he found…” In these lines, the Pardoner is supposed to be selling people authentic relics so that they can be forgiven for their sins, but he is using fake relics as he is using bones of a pig. He lies to the people and takes advantage of their stupidity as he sells them relics that they believe are real when they are, in fact,...
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...talks a lot about logic and all of the things he can do. He reads "to dispute well logics chiefest end" he says, "affords this art no greater miracle?" He has mastered this art and achieved his goals already. He even decides that medicine is not good enough as he has no power over life and death. He the turns to necromancy and decides that he wants to be more than a mortal "yet art thou still but Faustus and a man." Marlowe is pushing boundaries by making the protagonist want to do Gods work, to be above him, by raising the dead. The audience may view Faustus as the villain as he turns to black magic and sells his soul to the devil. However, Marlowe also portrays him as a protagonist whose ambitions lead him to his downfall. Marlowe uses the seven deadly sins to portray Faustus' character. Pride is the main one as he deludes himself into thinking that he can be the most powerful "all things that move between the quiet poles shall be at my command." This sin also leads to laziness as he takes the easy route to gain success and power. Instead of studying at university he chooses to summon evil spirits to give him everything he wishes for but he of course has to sacrifice his soul. "Shall I make spirits fetch me what I please" Dr. Faustus also contradicts himself as he rejects studying law due to its involvement with money yet he wants to "ransack the ocean for orient pearl." There is also evidence of power struggle in the first two acts as Marlowe introduces Mephostopheles' character...
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...Isaac Hertzog Pd. 2 Ms. Tucci AP English 11/10/11 Throughout Dante’s Inferno, Dante and Virgil trek across nine circles of Hell. These circles are divided into three different levels depending on how serious the sins were. In each circle, Dante displays divine retribution for the punishments, based on the sin committed during the sinner’s life. The three levels of sin are the sins of incontinence, violence, and fraud. In each level, the punishment increase in pain, starting in the first level. The first type of sin is the sin of incontinence. Incontinence is the inability to have control over actions one’s own actions. This level includes the lustful, gluttonous, and the wrathful. The lustful were those who were self-indulgent, therefore denying the light of God. People such as Cleopatra, Achilles, and Helen of Troy are in this level. These souls are constantly blown around uncontrollably by heavy winds and strong rains. This was used as a literal interpretation of the sinner’s emotions. The person was caught in a “whirlwind” of lust and a tempest, or storm, of passion. The next group of sinners is the gluttonous who wasted their money on unnecessary things. Gluttony is considered one of the seven capital sins. They wasted God’s gifts and now they have to suffer for it. They lay, half buried in garbage while more falls on them. Each person “wasted” what they had and now are covered in waste materials. Another group of sinners in the incontinence level is the wrathful. Wrathful...
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...The function of a pardoner in Chaucer’s time was to collect money for charitable purposes and to be the pope’s special agent in dispensing or rewarding contributors with certain pardons as a remission for sins. He could visit churches, receive money in the pope’s name and dispense indulgences. The pardoner’s tale displayed how greed and avarice can only bring treachery and death, the money causes them to behave in ways that lead to their demise. In the prologue, the pardoner admits that he is a fraud and is motivated by greed and avarice and many sins that he himself displays. He preaches that money is the root of all evil but sells relics to others which is supposed to bring them great fortune; he also states that many of his sermons are the product of evil intentions. When asked to tell a tale he agrees only after he has food and wine to eat and drink. He begins his tale about a group of young people who spend most of their time drinking and partying excessively, he names gluttony, drunkenness, gambling and swearing as a few sins they commit. As they drink a coffin passes and they are told its one of their old friends who was killed by the hands of death; the three personified death and decided to search for him and slay him in order to avenge the death of their old buddy. On the search they passed an old man who searched for youth again, he said “death won’t even take him” when he said this the three demanded to be lead to where death resided, the old man told them death...
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...Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus" and "Sin against the Holy Ghost" Author(s): Gerard H. Cox, III Source: Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Feb., 1973), pp. 119-137 Published by: University of California Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3816592 Accessed: 07/11/2010 15:38 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp. JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use provides, in part, that unless you have obtained prior permission, you may not download an entire issue of a journal or multiple copies of articles, and you may use content in the JSTOR archive only for your personal, non-commercial use. Please contact the publisher regarding any further use of this work. Publisher contact information may be obtained at http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ucal. Each copy of any part of a JSTOR transmission must contain the same copyright notice that appears on the screen or printed page of such transmission. JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. University of California Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access...
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...Emily Carlson April 18, 2011 Literature 12 Senior Paper on A Good Man Is Hard to Find Week 29 Day 1 Flannery O’Connor was a Catholic writer who was born in 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, and died in 1964. She was well known for her writings about the darker side of humanity. While O’Connor’s stories were often gritty and disturbing to read, they always embodied aspects of grace. O'Connor often depicted salvation through shocking, and violent experiences of her characters. Flannery O’Connor focuses on man’s fallen nature, but at the same time inspires the reader to consider the moments of grace that are offered to everyone. Some individuals recognize and accept this free gift of grace, while others ignore it. Evidence and analysis of the grace offered to the two main characters will be presented in this study of “A Good Man Is Hard to find”, written in 1953. The story is about an unpleasant family who plans a car trip to Florida from their hometown in Georgia. The reader is introduced to the spiteful and manipulative grandmother, her disconnected son, Bailey, his passive wife and baby, and their two older, hard-to-please children, June Star and John Wesley. The grandmother wants to go to Tennessee instead of Florida, so she tells her family about and escaped convict she read about in the news paper to scare them away from going to Florida. Bailey refuses to switch routes and tells her it is nonsense, and the family settles into the car. While on the trip, the children...
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...I don’t know if this rhetoric will fit to be a good prose, Neither am I sure if it will be laden with any literary devices. Not to talk about poetic quality to adorn it like thorns on a rose; But I pray the questions inherent provokes your thought And set your mind and heart on a soul searching spree. It might even help your spirit soar and set your conscience free. But firstly, show me two things and let’s proceed; a sin and a sinner. And the difference between a righteous and a self-righteous spinner. Yes, I binge drink and you occasionally gulp in a couple of spirits. I wear condoms and aid in abortions while you literally kill people. Just like my liking for the color green and you, purple! You also point fingers at me for smoking while you safely harbor in lust; Avariciousness is what you wake up to yet you call me a thief; You spit on my existence and what I stand for, like a dustbin; While calling me names because I don’t indulge in your kind of sin; You call me a sinner while you live your illusive life as a saint. Forgetting that you cannot see through any object with a taint. How about removing the log in your eyes first – objectivity. Before proceeding to quenching my thirst – positivity. You sex two or more people yet call me a prostitute – subjectivity. We both engage in different and varied degrees of vices – relativity. So just allow your good self to live and let’s live – adaptivity. I want to be free; devoid of your labeling theories...
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...adultery”, meaning that no man or woman should look to another with desire, or passion, or they would be committing the sin of adultery. The only person that should be desired or loved with passion is Christ. As it can be read in Matthew 5-7, “Blessed are the pure in heart, because they shall see God”, otherwise the ones not pure in heart would be committing the sin of adultery. Dante Alighieri writes about the Lustful sinners, which means the ones that were sent to hell because they were not pure in heart, in canto V of Inferno. Dante’s journey thru hell shows the types of punishments that the sinners received according to their way to live on earth. As Dante is being lead by Virgil thru Inferno, Dante describes how is the second circle of hell, which contains the lustful sinners, the ones that went against God. Dante show the symbolism that reflects the sermon that Christ gave to the humans at the top of the mount when Christ said that “I tell you that any man who puts away his wife, except for the reason of harlotry, is making her the victim of adultery; and any man who marries a wife who has been divorced is committing adultery.” That goes to man and woman as well, as it can be seen, not only men are put in the Lustful sinners, women as well are send to there to pay for they sin. Dante explain the difference between lust as the sin, and love as being a sin when not pure, Lust being the attraction to the sensual part of the opposite person toward to a possessive desire of the...
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...that every act is motivated only by our own self interest. Even when an act appears on the surface to be totally unselfish it is in all reality a selfish act. Simply feeling good about doing an “unselfish act” makes it selfish. Ethical and Psychological Egoism may seem similar at first glance but they are actually quite different. We will discuss these two theories and their differences, compare the doctrines of motivation for both and discuss selfishness and self interest. Let’s first take a look at the fallacy of Psychological Egoism. The fallacy of Psychological Egoism is the belief that people are only motivated by self interest but as we all know there are many things that can motivate people to do things. Take for instance the seven deadly sins; sloth, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and pride. Any one of these can be a motivating factor. So it is easy to see that the fallacy of Psychological Egoism is the erroneous belief that the only motivating factor is self interest. Furthermore you can never know without doubt that you are acting in your definitive self interest because your actions could have undesired results in the future. Psychological Egoism fails without the ‘method of reinterpreting motives’ (Rachels, 1995). Now that we know the shortcomings of Psychological Egoism let’s discuss the versions of Ethical Egoism. Ethical Egoism...
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...History of the Piñata Today, most people think of piñatas as a party favor that is made of paper mache and clothed in bright colors that is filled with candy and toys. When it is busted with a stick, children scurry about to pick up the candy but, the Piñata has a much more rich history than just being a fun activity enjoyed by many. The foundation of the Piñatas may have originally originated in China, but at that time was not known as such. Not until the late 14th century when an Italian explorer by the name of Marco Polo visited China and was intrigued by the Chinese ritual that was practiced every New Year. He observed the Chinese people fashioning figures of shapes cut out of cows, oxen and buffaloes, they filled the shapes with seeds and then they covered the shapes with colored paper and adorned them with harnesses and trappings. They used a blend of special colors, to bring in the New Year. The figures were then hung high up and then knocked hard with colored sticks, the seeds spilled to the ground and the remains were burned and the people gathered the ashes for good luck for the New Year. This custom passed into Europe around about the 14th century where it was adapted into the celebration of Lent; the first Sunday became known as Piñata Sunday which is the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday. Around the 16th century this custom started to spread into Spain. Within the Spanish culture, the first Sunday that was known as lent became a fiesta, called ‘Dance of the Piñata’...
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...Vices and Virtues 1. What is vice? Vices are your bad or immoral habits. They are the little devil on your shoulder telling you to give into something that is considered to be wrong. Vices are usually represented by Dante Alighieri’s seven deadly sins. These include pride, greed, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth. These seven deadly sins categorize the vices that people are faced with every day. 2. What is virtue? Virtues are the opposite of vices. They are the moral and good habits of people. There are numerous virtues that people show some of which include honesty, responsibility, compassion and many more. Virtues are the driving force behind making the right choice to not only better ourselves but also those around us. 3. How have your virtues changed since coming to Elizabethtown College? I do believe my virtues have changed for the better by coming to Etown. I have become a more compassionate person. In high school I wasn’t really one to get tied up in the issues of others, but here I have changed drastically. I have become more open to others on what issues they are facing and I try to do all that I can to make their situation better. I also believe I have become more self-aware of my life choices more in terms of healthiness. I make a lot of smarter food choices as well as athletic choices and try and get others to do the same. I’ve also become more responsible for my work. I remember in high school I tended to put off my work and studying...
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...Jordan Hendry April 23, 2013 Writing – Mr. Williams In this Paper I am going to explain to you that I am convinced that all the problems you will encounter stem from one primary issue: greedy selfish people. People will always put themselves first. No matter what the coast is or who else they might hurt. There are major ways that selfishness and greed has lead us to the problems we find ourselves in. selfishness and greed are cancer. And sadly it is spreading like wildfire throughout our modern culture at an alarming rate. When you are young you are taught to “look out for yourself” to not let others take care of you. What began as an attempt at teaching kids to healthy self-confidence has become a problem; children and adults think they deserve everything and anything they want. We whine that it is not fair that other people have something they don’t have and live their lives expecting more all the time. Selfishness and Greed leads us to trampling and exploiting others to get what we want; this is not how we want our world to be in the future. In addition, selfishness in our world has resulted in many broken hearts and families. There has been countless numbers of marriages dissolved due to one or both parties wanting more than they give. Putting themselves first and their families last dissolving the most fundamental source of support and love. Looking out for yourself is important but not at the stake of your family. Sacrificing what we want in order to make someone...
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