Chapter Two : City Of Sin

I am reading City of Saints and Thieves by Natalie C. Anderson and I am on page 247. This book is about a thief nicknamed Tiny Girl. She is on a mission to get revenge on a man named Mr. Greyhill who she suspected killed her mother. Through five years of thievery she is finally ready to carry out her revenge. When she is carrying it out an unsuspected variable named Michael comes in.

The book The Devil In the White City by Erik Larson re-tells the story of Chicago’s World Fair, while H.H. Holmes, also known as “America’s first serial killer”, emerges as a dark force within the fair. Switching back and forth between the experiences of the head fair administrator, Burnham, and the other directors along with the evils of Holmes, the reader begins to understand the world of tragedy and crime that lies behind the public’s excitement. From a devastating storm to the deaths of multiple builders, suspense builds as tragedy is followed by more tragedy. Through the use of contrasting ideas and ethical clauses highlighted by symbolisms and descriptions within the book, Erik Larson creates an underlying argument that one’s pursuit of pride and success often causes destruction and comes at the price of another’s well-being.

The unredeemed of humanity has jumped on a run-away freight train careening down a slithering track, winding around corners at breakneck speed, and it happens to be hurdling towards a 100’ thick brick wall. This train has no brakes, the engineer just died, and the passengers have a short time to live. However, hope abounds – someone can save them. Salvation reaches out to them, expressing love and compassion and exposing its power so save any of them would have just reach out. However, they must reach out in faith, and accept the salvation freely offered, but will they do it. They know there can be no other way of escaping their eventual death. The Savior knows the emanate danger and can see their calamity and eventual horrible

Minutes to get there, and the whole 30 minutes was boring. I was ready to sleep; I was also super hungry, I was so excited I was about to burst. I had a fear about a few rides, but i didn’t let it overcome me.

Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards Jonathan Edwards grew up in an atmosphere of strict puritan discipline. He became a very religious and devout believer at an early age, and excelled in academics, entering Yale University at the age of thirteen. Many years later he became the pastor of a church that grew with his teachings. His lifestyle reflected his teachings and was a well respected man. His sermons spoke directly at many people and he impacted many lives despite the monotone he used when delivering his sermon.

The Chicago World’s Fair occurred in 1893 to commemorate American history, specifically the landing of Christopher Columbus. This event had such a mass popularity that a book was written to commemorate the fair itself; it was titled, The Devil In The White City by Erik Larson. The portrayal of history in this novel is quite accurate when expressing the time period of the late nineteenth century in an elevated format, which allows the reader to draw comparisons of how the time mirrors the present, as well as differences in the ways it contrasts modern living, and most importantly allows a grasp of a total picture of the time period itself.

The United States of America is characterized in many different ways. Some people may say it is a land of opportunity and success, while others would argue that it is a place of regret. In The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson, the United States is described as a mixture of good and evil. Larson accomplishes this reflection of America by telling a story which follows two different men with opposing motives. The first is Burnham, the architect in charge of building the World’s Fair. He is determined to make America a prideful nation. However, Holmes, the serial killer, has despicable reasons for wanting the fair. These two characters help show who America is and what it stands for. In his book, Erik Larson indicates that the United States is comprised of both good and evil by displaying the motives, conflicts, and resourcefulness of its people.

The novel "The Devil in the White City" is divided into four parts. The first three of the four parts take place in Chicago between 1890-1893. In 1890, Chicago won the bid on the 1893 Columbian Exposition. Daniel Burnham and John Root became the architects to build the fair. Burnham and Root encountered many obstacles that threatened the success of the fair. Root died early on, which left Burnham alone. Burnham wanted to build something that was more amazing than the Eiffel Tower. He faced hurtles but found a new way to outdo the Eiffel Tower. He uses the Ferris Wheel. The fair opens incomplete in 1893. The World's Columbian Exposition was designed for the commemoration of the landing of Columbus in America.

Therapist Dan: “We’ve talked a lot about Xavier and a little about his friends. What about you and your friends. Don’t you think that’s worth talking about?”

The Devil in The White City starts out by naming all the characters. It also talks about a world fair that is going to take place in the United States. They didn’t know what city to host the fair with, so they already had their cities then they had an election. With Chicago being bigger than Philadelphia it came down between New York and Chicago. They had another election day for it, and Chicago upset New York.

What is more fragile, glass or trust? While it is true in the sense that glass is extremely fragile, trust is the clear winner here. It can take months, or even years for some people to earn other people’s trust in them, but only a few seconds to break it. In 14th Deadly Sin by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro, the San Francisco Police Department is on edge after learning that they may or may not be sheltering exactly what they are trying to prevent: a couple of criminals that are hellbent on getting rich in the easiest ways possible. Will the San Francisco police force be able to figure out who the corrupt individuals within the department are, or will they find out that they are up against an evil that is bigger than them? There are three

Everyone has their own beliefs on how God handles sinners, some people believe that He is doing his own version of ‘Karma’ or ‘Payback’ to a wrong choice that we made as humans. Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God, is a story that has some truth and also some exaggeration to it as well. In my opinion, God is teaching us right from wrong like a dad would teach his children not to stick their hand in the cookie jar before dinner. In this story, Jonathon Edwards is portraying what God is thinking when he sees sinners on the world by using: Imagery, Tone and Repetition.

Whenever I glance down from from my computer monitor, my eyes meet an air-tight glass jar that is covered in dust. It’s roughly the size of a palm, a simple jar that I had bought from the dollar store from when I had first discovered that they sold strange trinkets like this. Inside the jar contained a few scrambled feathers, each colored light brown with black spots on it, and the base of the feather transitioned into a milky white. This cheap, dust-covered jar of feathers is the object that I have brought to many show-and-tell speech assignments for school, as it holds a long story, as well as made me the heartless and cynical bastard that I proudly identify as today.

In The City of the Sun, Campanella wrote that its inhabitants admitted two metaphysical principles: supreme existence – God, and nothingness. In a metaphysical plane, the finite existence emerges from nothingness and existence. “Evil and sin,” Campanella continued, “come of the propensity to nothingness; the sin having its cause not efficient, but in deficiency.” Campanella echoes Bacon in respect to idolizing the "Western" ways of establishing society. Various Greek and Roman thinkers are mentioned, and the leaders and magistrates of the society each hold almost a Cabinet position, an area of expertise and authority. It is similar to Plato's Republic when Campanella was talking about childhood education, and how all children should be taken

The Brazilian film City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund provides an insiders look on the lives of inner-city young adults involved in organized crime as they attempt to survive and navigate the slums in which they live. The film, loosely based on real life events, is a commentary on the cyclical nature of violence in the titular City of God, a slum located in Rio de Janeiro. The film chooses to document the rise and fall of crime in Rio de Janeiro that took place from the 1960s to the 1980s and the lives of inner-city kids involved in it. It toys with themes of cyclical and inescapable violence; suffocation; and the inexorable nature of poverty and involvement in a life of organized crime and gang activities through the employment of several editing techniques throughout the length of the film such as split frame simultaneous shots, quick and violent cuts, and POV shots. Notably, these techniques are primarily used when shooting Rocket, the main character of the film and a member of the favela. Rocket’s place in the story is the main vessel for pushing these themes in the story as the film chooses to focus on his emotions regarding the favela. Overall these editing techniques work to provide the representation of the favela as suffocating and small; a representation that is tied intrinsically with themes of poverty and the certainty of violence.