Isaiah Porter's The Gates Of Hell

The Bible uses a plethora of words that describe Hell. Fire, gnashing of teeth and darkness all are words used repeatedly in accordance with the description of Hell. Fire remains the most prolific descriptive word of Hell. When most people think about Hell, they imagine a fire burning pit. But that may not be the case. As Ed Gungor says, “Fire has been symbolic of judgment all through the Scriptures.” For example, Sodom and Gomorrah received their judgment via fire and Jesus has been described coming

While listening to a story, one can engross his or herself in the action, experiencing the events vicariously. By experiencing the story one can gain an understanding of the purpose that the author is trying to portray. In “A Place Where the Soul Can Rest” by bell hooks and “How to Make a Slave” by Jerald Walker the audience is taken on a journey through the progression of each of the author 's life experiences dealing with racism and sexism. Through use of anecdotes the audience develops a comprehension for both of the authors’ lives, witnessing their hardships of being subordinates in a white, male dominated society. Although both authors bring awareness to the atrocities of racism and sexism, hooks’ story’s purpose stands above

In the Pulitzer Prize winning civil war novel Killer Angels, Michael Shaara covers five days of the historic battle between the Northern and Southern United States at Gettysburg. Both the North and the South fought for freedom, although they did not have equivalent definitions of freedom. The North and the South were unwavering in their beliefs and their hope for a better United States, but what the two butted heads the most on was slavery. The South was a primarily agrarian region which relied heavily on the agriculture of crops like cotton and sugarcane, both of which required intense manual labor, unlike the North who was more so industrialized; however, as William Preston said, it was not cotton that was “the south’s king” but it was slavery that made them so prosperous. The South relied on slavery because having many workers to tend to these cash crops without having to pay them saved farmers and plantation owner’s money that they could use to buy more slaves that put out more work leading to more land for more crops, or to have more money to pay their taxes. Many Southerners like William Preston thought that owning other people was their divine right as white men. The Civil War was started over the North and South’s conflicting views on whether they had the “civil” right to own or not own slaves. The Northern and Southern states developed themselves much differently than one another because of their agrarian versus industrialized economy. As the states developed they

The novel, “Afterlife” by Gary Soto was mostly about how this guy named Chuy who was killed in a Club, Club Estrella to be specific. He was killed in the men’s bathroom for complimenting someone else’s shoes, which were yellow. He got stabbed 3 times, and was left there till dying. He then became a ghost, a ghost who couldn’t be heard, seen or touched. He could see everything that was going on, but couldn’t do anything about it. After the ambulance had taken him away, he was already dead, or i mean the body was already dead. When his parents got the news Chuy went to visit them to say one last goodbye, he also visited his school, and the girl he used to like for a long time. He then found this girl named Crystal, who had killed herself taking

The poem, “Gospel” by Philip Levine gives a vivid description of what the narrator sees around them. The narrator focuses their description on nature. They make many references to types of plants like lupine and thistles. Throughout the poem, nature can be seen as and abstract creature. Nature is giving and lively. The conflict in the poem is between the speaker and nature. The narrator tries to show how nature can give nice outdoor views and how the earth gives people a place to walk on while people give nothing back to nature. Levine’s speaker uses repetition and comparisons to show how nature is constantly pleading for the narrators attention yet they cannot offer anything to the relationship they have with nature. The poem slowly evolves

Loneliness is a complex and usually an unpleasant emotional response to isolation as well as separation; it is a product of the lack of contact experienced with another individual. Moreover, it includes anxious feelings due to the absence of connection or communication with other beings, both in the present and extending into the future. Some describe it as emptiness or hollowness inside of one’s being. In the narrative The Bloody Chamber (1979), Angela Carter’s characters deal with the emotion of loneliness by taking action and intervening through any circumstances. In contrast, in Zadie Smith’s Hanwell in Hell (2004) the main characters Clive and Hanwell deal with loneliness simply through hope. While over twenty years apart, these two narratives explore how an individual deals with the notion of loneliness through the use of the colour red, the symbolism in animals, and the condition of blindness. However, Carter illustrates the refusal of the protagonist to simply accept any circumstances; but the interference in any situation. On the other hand, Smith demonstrates the acceptance and balance of the existing situation at hand through hope.

The fire represents hell. No longer is fire used as a tool, it is now used as a weapon to punish innocent people, whether it be emotionally, or even physically. "On the third night, as we were sleeping, some of us sitting, huddled against each other, some of us standing, a piercing cry broke the silence: 'Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!"

Case Study Analysis of The Blast in Centralia No. 5: A Mine Disaster No One Stopped

Activism, culture and value have always had a tremendous influence in society. When it comes to the Appalachian region of the United States, people tend to see our culture and values differently. The individuals of the Appalachian region have been stereotyped for far too long, people forget that West Virginia has played a huge role in building this country. Our coal miners have put their lives in danger time and time again, some losing them, for worker’s rights. The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor rebellion in the history of the United States. This was the foundation of the movement for eight hour work days and minimum wages. The novel Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina is a fictionalized tale of the conflict that took place in these coal fields of West Virginia. The novel brings to light the stereotypes, race and religion of the Appalachian people.

Divided we fall book is about a private first class name Daniel Wright trying to serve his country and do his duty to protect and served his home as an Idaho Guardsmen. The author, Trent Reedy served in the Iowa national guard for 7 years and a tour in Afghanistan. I believed the book was well written by the author by giving us dramatic moments and good postures. The plot of the story was great by giving us details and action to give us an answer. Trent did an excellent telling us a story of a young soldier who’s trying to do good for his country. The story is mostly about a 17-yr. old private in the Idaho Guardsmen who’s going to High school somewhere right by a lake. Daniel was not just a guardsman, he plays for his school football team for

“Over 12,000 people were living in the tent colonies. Many Kentucky miners signed up at an organizing meeting in Justice. By the end of the week, Pond Creek was shut down, and a tent city grew up between Chieftan and Vulcan. Even Davidson miners signed…” as told by the character Carrie, in Storming Heaven. Scenes like this become common place in the character narrated book Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina. Within it, she tells us several compelling and emotional stories of how the land stripped coal miners and the unlawful cruel coal company came to a war-like battle in 1921, on Blair Mountain. This brutal and hard fought conflict lasted almost a week and resulted in the loss of dozens of lives on each side of the battlefield. The battle

Fire becomes a symbol of God’s wrath and hell in this sermon. At one point, Edwards says, “his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else but to be cast into the fire. ”(57) No one wants to burn in hell and be seen as nothing but kindling in God’s eyes because of the sins they have committed. As a sinful person in the audience, it is scary to imagine that they have stirred up God so much so that his wrath burns like fire.

The Fire That Consumes, by Edward William Fudge is a book that deals with the doctrinal dealings of Hell and the debate that has raged for centuries. Fudge engages with the discussion of hell and the theology surrounding. The Fire That Consumes, has been around 30 years, and Fudge makes a point about that the first edition made headlines.

“A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in this world. It knows no law, no pity, it dates all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path,” (Agatha Christie, The Last Seance) embodies the bond between Tony and his mother, Al, who permits Tony to represent himself in an artistic fashion by allowing him to come to work with her at the Kitty Kat Club, a local club where his mother exotically dances at, so he can use her coworkers as models. In Gary Paulsen’s novella, the Glass Cafe or the Stripper and the State; How My Mother Started A War With the System That Made Us Kind of Rich and a Little Bit Famous, Tony, a 12 year old boy, whose illustrations of his mother’s coworkers, who are strippers, are released in

Comparison of short stories “Yong Goodman Brown” and “Carnal Knowledge” with the poem “First Party at Ken Keseyes’s with Hell’s Angels” written by different authors in different period of time will help to identify what symbols create for readers images of hellish place or state. First of all, authors use common location, daytime, way to