Cosmo the Cougar is not a normal mascot. Cosmo is best known for his insane dance moves. Cosmo went viral after his dance to the song “Rolex by Ayo and Teo” with the “cougarettes” (Birgham cheerleaders) by his side. The dance has over 1 million views on facebook and he is now known across the internet for his dance moves (Larimer). He is so popular many people believe he could be in the Mascots Hall of Fame. The Mascot Hall of Fame is an organisation, they nominate mascots that do good deeds and
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their are brighter times that will come and that the truth would be revealed on it is own, and that the scarlet letter that used to represent Adultery now meant Angle instead. Although Prynne was a figurehead for helping the poor and aiding the sick she is still marked by the letter A and the Puritans will never forgive her for that, on her tombstone it is written “On A Field, Sable, The Letter A, Gules.” (Hawkthorne 235) this represents the hypocrisy of the Puritans, they think of Hester as their own
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In The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne explored the superficially-Christian ideals of Boston's Puritan society by revealing the sins committed by many individuals in the community. In this novel, Hester Prynne was an obvious sinner, forced by the community to forever harbor the scarlet letter on her chest as a reminder of her sin. Roger Chillingworth could also be considered a sinner for lying about his identity and mentally torturing his patient, Arthur Dimmesdale. However, one would be surprised
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Within Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter, there are elements such as irony and truth that present themselves through deliberate syntactic manipulation. Hawthorne expresses his truth through irony, whether that be with situational, dramatic, and/or verbal. This novel was written with the intentional purpose of analysis. It’s essential to first ascertain the simple truth mentioned in the previous paragraph, and that would be desire. The desire the “godly” Reverend Dimmesdale feels contrasts
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the golden and crimson images across the floor.” (Hawthorne 105-106). This comparison draws the connection between Pearl and the scarlet letter closer due to Wilson’s comment on the extravagantness of her scarlet colored dress. The dress she wears was sew by Hester to be elaborate and finely made like the scarlet letter, which made her representation of the letter extend farther and make her even appear similar to it. Later she is compared to the a bird again by the narrator, stating, “The old minister
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The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is related to American society in 2016 in which “sins” of adultery are still committed, and the idea of individuality are still present but the idea of a church or religion surrounding a society is not still present. Adultery is committed on a daily basis in American society, as it wasn’t too common in the nineteenth century. The Scarlet Letter's’ main theme in the story is about sin and how it was frowned upon in the Puritan society. Although, Puritan
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter are no exception. These wrongdoings contribute to an overall theme of the novel. This theme is sin. There are many symbols in the novel that draw attention to this theme, such as color and the scarlet letter. There is more symbols that are present in the novel and have high importance, however these two stand out significantly. Through instances involving Hester, Dimmesdale, and Chillingworth, color and the mark of the scarlet letter drive the theme of sin within
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“[Hester] bore in her arms a child…its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquaintance only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison” wrote Nathanial Hawthorne in The Scarlet Letter about the child born beneath that letter: Pearl (57). The main character Hester Prynne’s illegitimate daughter substantiates herself in the novel through the persistent questioning of her birth story—“Tell me!”—along with providing an unlikely perception unparalleled to the other
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In the book The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne uses many symbols throughout the book that help give a contrast to the outside world. One of the symbols that he uses is the woods that represent a place of evil but also privacy. When Hester enters into the woods with Pearl, Pearl mentions a story about a Black Man who “ haunts the forest and carries a book with him... this ugly Black Man offers this book and an iron pen to everybody that meets him here among the trees; and they are
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Wisdom in Essences Confucius saies that, “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” Nomatter a revenge successes of no, it harms the person who does it. In a Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fiction book The Scarlet Letter, the character Roger Chillingworth represents someone who twists his purpose of life and tries to ruminate on Dimmesdale when he realizes his wife Hester Prynne commits adultery with Dimmesdale and has an illegitimate daughter, Pearl. When Chillingworth comes back to the
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