Captain Blood By Rafael Sabatini

“Just mercy” written by Bryan Stevenson is a story about “justice and redemption”(title). Bryan Stevenson tells the story about Walter McMillian a convicted murder. McMillian was unjustly charged for the murder of Ronda Morrison by Ralph Myers even though there was clear evidence that McMillian did not commit this murder. McMillian’s story proves the inequities in the American justice system, and Stevenson proves the faults in the system by telling McMillian’s story. “Proximity has taught me some basic and humbling truths, including this vital lesson: each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done”(17). When we judge people based on their person not the facts innocent people can be charged for crimes that they never committed, and that is where are justice system is unjust.

In 1930s Spain, the ritual of marriage became highly controversial as the 1931 Constitution allowed for divorce to be legal. This caused debate between older and younger generations. The elders of society still had their beliefs deeply rooted in the views of the Catholic Church-, which did not allow for divorce. Nonetheless, the younger generation was more prone to giving into desire and therefore was more open to the idea. The play Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca insinuates the strong importance of ritual in the 1930s. Due to this, in the play, ritual is revered and ironclad while desire is shunned. When Leonardo comes to the wedding of Bride the clash between desire and ritual is made evident. Nonetheless, ritual is made

Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy, is a lawyer from the rural south that advocates for mostly children on death row. He spends most of his time in low income communities with next to no hope. His TED talk was based on his experiences in these communities, his career, and his knowledge regarding minorities while addressing his predominately financially stable, White audience. Trying to persuade an audience that is not effected by what you are trying to speak against is hard, however, Bryan Stevenson is able to do so. Bryan Stevenson’s 2012 TED talk uses ethos to persuade his audience by using his status as a prominent lawyer and an everyday person who many people know and can relate to with strong respectable values in life to prove himself as a trustworthy person in order to argue his point on how the American justice system distorts the truth racial discrimination in the system, as well as the poverty t faces. His use of ethos enables him to establish trust in his audience that can make a major difference in the justice system with most of them being well respected people in society.

The novel, Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson covers many aspects of the legal system, including Stevenson’s quest to get prisoners who were convicted as adolescents out of adult prison. Through Stevenson’s experiences, he sees first hand experience of children that are sent to adult prisons. Specifically he saw how the prisoners who were convicted as children revert to a very low mental state and often have a great deal of trouble readjusting if they are even remotely capable of doing so. One of these experiences that Bryan Stevenson encountered was with a young fourteen year old named Charlie and the impacts of an adult world in a child’s head. Children should never be pushed into adult prisons or receive adult punishments because of their lack of clear understanding of difficult situations.

Gregory Younging defines the concept of “blood memory as: “…the experiences of those that have gone before us are embedded in our physical and psychological being” (296). One does not have to be a “survivor” of the residential schools to be impacted by the institution; rather, “blood memory” is a collective experience that entails responsibility towards the victims and their families, notes Younging (297). Author Bev Sellars, in her memoir They Called Me Number One is an example of this notion. Throughout the memoir, Sellars is constantly surrounded by feelings of guilt, shame and inadequacy, which the residential school instills in her. After leaving the Mission (residential school), she realizes the destructive influence of residential schools in the Indigenous community. The residential schools implanted a sense of inferiority in the Indigenous people. In Sellars memoir, this inferiority complex manifests throughout her life as continuous difficulties with isolation, displacement, and repression, delaying the restoration of her mental and physical health. It is when Sellars reconciles with her experiences through the concept of “blood memory” that she is able to abolish these negative forces and achieve personal agency.

Benito Cereno by Herman Melville centers around a captain by the name of Amasa Delano in the year 1799. Captain Delano’s whaleboat, the Bachelor's Delight, anchors on a small island off the coast of southern Chile when one early morning, a wrecked slave ship appears. On the slave ship, the San Dominick, Delano meets the peculiar Benito Cereno the captain of the ship, and Babo, the servant of Benito Cereno. As Captain Delano begins to ask Benito of the ship's past, Benito begins to have coughing fits where Babo answers the question for him. On one of the instances, Captain Delano sees a large African slave by the name of Atufal, who is the only chained slave, Delano inquires why is that so. Benito answers saying that all he has to do is pardon himself, and so Atufal will be free, but he refuses to do so. Babo then pitches in explaining how Atufal was once a great king while he says how he used to be a slave to a black man.

THESIS: In “The Strongest Blood,” Van Camp shows the reader that closing to the nature is indispensable for young people because it can make Leo who is the character knows the importance of the experience and has a more clear understanding for his future.

Wise Blood, by Flannery O’Connor, is an fascinating yet disturbing novel. Wise Blood is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old soldier who comes home from World War Two and gets trapped in a fight between faith and disbelief. He becomes captivated by a preacher named Asa Hawks and his bastard fifteen-year-old daughter, Lily Sabbath. In a way to prove how much of a pessimist Motes is, he founds The Church of God Without Christ, but is still frustrated that he is unable to lose his faith in a higher power. He later meets Enoch Emery, a young man who shows him a mummified “holy child”, and is greatly influenced by Hazel's struggles, later becoming Hazel’s companion in his endeavors. This story is about redemption, vengeance, greed,

The University of Mary Washington hosted John Sedgwick, a historian, journalist, and memoirist, on February 2nd, 2017. Educated at Harvard College, Sedgwick is well-known for his brilliant skill of story-telling, as he has published twelve books. These twelve books may be broken down into several categories. He published three works of nonfiction, including an analysis of the Philadelphia Zoo, entitled, The Peaceable Kingdom, which provided the basis for a dramatic television series aired on CBS. His two psychological novels, The Dark House and The Education of Mrs. Bemis, are both critically acclaimed. In My Blood, a family memoir, involved investigating six generations of his family as a component of research. Sedgwick has also collaborated

“Codex Alera” is a fantasy series written by Jim Butcher, and there are only six books to the series. Unlike Butcher 's “Dresden Files”, “Alera” is swords and horse fantasy that is set in the realm of Alera, a place that is a lot like Rome. It focuses on Tavi, a boy in the first book, as he grows up and becomes a man.

Akira Kurasawa’s film, Throne of Blood, is often viewed as an interpretation of William Shakespeare’s play, Macbeth. Both works follow a similar story line and address themes that are relevant to a modern audience. One major theme in both works is the idea that absolute power corrupts mankind. William Shakespeare and Akira Kurasawa both address this theme of power corruption through the use of symbolism and emotion.

Proteins make up about 42% of the dry weight of our bodies. The protein collagen—which holds our skin, tendons, muscles, and bones together—makes up about a quarter of the body's total protein.

The review written by Allen Divers praises Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, the sequel of the 1985 film Vampire Hunter D, for combining the best of horror, western, romance, and samurai action genres into a sequel, which reaches the viewers on a range of levels. Though the movie also added parts of other popular genres, such as fantasy and science fiction, as it takes place in a future where vampires reign supreme and depictions of cybernetic horses and magic are seen, Divers’ depiction of the genres is mostly spot on.

In the novel Captain Blood written by Rafael Sabatini, he tells us a real-life experience of a slave escaping, becoming a pirate and eventually the governor of the Jamaica. The novel is kind of like the modern-day film Django Unchained. The novel includes some fictionalized plot to keep it interesting but for the most part it happened to someone, somewhere. Captain Blood, also known as Peter Blood, seeks justice throughout the whole story even when he isn’t supposed to. From an escaped slave to a pirate and eventually a governor, Peter Blood seeks nothing more than justice throughout his whole journey when most people would seek revenge.

Samsara is a film that takes you on a visual tour of countless extravagant places in the world. Samsara is an extremely unique film, because it showcases a plethora of different cultures, people, and landscapes, and seasons. Ron Fricke the director of the film wants us to be aware of all the things that are going around us. Fricke wants to emphasize avoiding all political correctness and views. I think that is the overall theme of this film is to show the viewers that we do not need the hustle bustle of everyday life to function. Instead we can focus on the wonderful things that are around us. We can connect through meditation but meditation does not have to be positive or optimistic. We can find way to connect and meditate through anything that has meaning to us in our