Jephah Judges 11 Analysis

The sins of these cities is so great that the time has come for their destruction. Abraham at this point starts to intercede for these cities. He starts with fifty and asks the Lord that if there were fifty righteous down there would he spare the city and God says yes. The conversation continues until Abraham gets to ten righteous. God once again tells Abraham that for the sake of ten righteous he would not destroy the city. At this point the conversation is ended and the Lord leaves Abraham. The cities are then destroyed with only Lot and his daughters left alive at the end. Lots wife was saved from the city but turned back and was turned into a pillar of

Apart from illegal substance possession, Serena and some of her fellow wives were revealed to have organised secret liaisons between their handmaids and fertile men, hurrying the procreation process. This was often done without the knowledge of their husbands, many of whom were suspected to be sterile in any case. However, despite the unlikelihood of any offspring produced by the husbands, it is not right by Gilead and its ideals, for the wives to be taking steps to defy the laws set down for the good of the people and the nations survival. These wives are acting for their own gains and desires, not for the good of the handmaids. The handmaids are placed in a household with the assurance of protection from the wife. The wives are supposed to act as mentors and guardian angels, shielding and caring for the handmaid under their roof, not throwing her at the closest man with the highest viable sperm count. The wives have a strong desire to have children, even via other women, so as to feel power or superiority over fellow women of equal stature. They ensure the provision of a child by ‘setting up’

Obviously nothing justifies the heinous treatment of Jews in concentration camps, but Levi gives us reasons why he believed the SS were able to treat Jews in this way. He believed that the prisoner’s appearance after a few days, “dirty and repugnant,” could have been a source of the terrible treatment; it is much easier to oppress those who look almost inhuman. Levi also believed the treatment was just another way to prove racial superiority. The ability to completely suppress and

As the world around the authors begins to collapse, they are faced with evil and the uncertainty of whether to face the events with optimism or pessimism. Levi begins his experience on a more negative note as he describes what it's like to be on the bottom. “I have learnt that I am haftling. My number is 174517,” (page 27). Levi has lost hope in his own identity. He isn't optimistic or pessimistic, he is indifferent because he feels he is no longer a man, but a property of the Nazis. Levi also demonstrates negativity during his stay at Ka-Be. As he sits and watches the Jews do their usual morning ritual and march he describes how the Germans

The survivors were so used to living and sleeping with corpses that they too felt that their own soul was no longer with them. It was very difficult for Jews to recuperate from the racial purification attempts of the Holocaust, but those who showed hope and perseverance through theses grueling times were able to regain their life and self worth. Throughout Levi’s reawakening, he met very extraordinary people, many of whom are survivors of the Holocaust just like him. These people can be seen as a symbol in Levi’s reawakening helping him establish new life after liberation. Jews are deeply hated amongst the European nation and Levi encounters three authority figures they guide him with rules that he must abide in order to escape detestation. During a walk along the churches of Cracow, Levi came across the first authority figure, a priest. They carried the most “extravagant and chaotic conversation in Latin.” (Levi, 50) At the end of their encounter the priest advises Levi not to speak German in public. The second authority figure that Levi encountered was a lawyer traveling through Treblinka. He was a Polish man but he could speak German as well. Like the priest, he also advised Levi not to speak German in public. A police officer, the third figure of authority in Levi’s reawakening, showed compassion towards Levi and offered him “a night in warmth, in jail.”

Clarence Earl Gideon, white, middle-aged, previously convicted felon, was either innocent or not. Boiled down, this was the question at stake in both Gideon’s original trial and the second one, and a question which blossomed to an even bigger issue that would be brought to the Supreme Court—that of the question of fairness in a court trial. This paper will examine these three trials at length, comparing the differences between them, and address the validity of the Supreme Court decision to overrule precedent in trial procedure.

1-5. there was a great cry of the people. . . against their brethren--Such a crisis in the condition of the Jews in Jerusalem--fatigued with hard labor and harassed by the machinations of restless enemies, the majority of them poor, and the bright visions which hope had painted of pure happiness on their return to the land of their fathers being unrealized--must have been very trying to their faith and patience. But, in addition to these vexatious oppressions, many began to sink under a new and more grievous evil. The poor made loud complaints against the rich for taking advantage of their necessities, and grinding them by usurious exactions. Many of them had, in consequence of these oppressions, been driven to such extremities that they had to mortgage their lands and houses to enable them to pay the

Circe is so incensed when milkman offers to give her money so that she can leave the Butlers house because lack of money isn’t what’s keeping her there. Circe said. “you think I don’t know how to walk when I want to walk ?Put your money back in your pocket”(246).Milkman also mistakes her staying as a sign of loyalty to white people. Circe explains that it isn’t loyalty either, she is sick to her stomach about Mrs. Butler killing herself because she couldn’t bare the thought about having to do the work that Circe had done her whole life. Circe wants to stay in the house so that she can see it all go; making sure that nobody fixes it up. “And I want to see it all go, make sure it does go, and that nobody fixes it up”(247). Circe wants to see

Depending on the class in society, the women have certain freedoms towards sex. The Handmaids are only allowed to have sex with the Commanders. Not only are the Commanders the only ones with whom they are allowed to have sex with, but they also have to have sex with them because it is their job. The Handmaids are forced to have sex with the Commanders solely for the purpose of reproducing. If the Handmaids do not reproduce, it means failure. “Each month I watch for blood, fearfully, for when it comes it means failure”(84). It is not stated if the Marthas are able to have sex or not. The Marthas fall into their place because they are unable to reproduce; therefore they are not forced to have sex like the Handmaids. The Wives are allowed to have sex with their husbands. The wives have no restrictions placed on them saying they can have sex with their husbands. The wives can do this because they have a significant amount more power than the other women in the society. The wives have this

The story of Jephthah left a strong impression in me. Despite his circumstances, he remained faithful. He was thrown out by his own family, he became on outlaws, he lived in the wilderness. He should have been filled with anger, and refused to help them out when the asked him for it. However, what Jephthah truly wanted was acceptance. Ed Hinson stated: “Some people are so hungry for love and acceptance that they will pay any price to get it.” Indeed, even though rejection hurts, people still long for love. While some chose rejection as a way to drive their anger and commit the unthinkable, Jephthah placed his faith in God and even fulfilled his promised after the war. I had face rejection before. My father left me and my mother; when I was

When the Handmaids become pregnant things become very dangerous for them. The wives in the caste do not have the power that the Handmaids do and they see that as threatening. They become jealous at such a degree they begin to believe things about the Handmaids. They make the Handmaids out to be the least important and view them as disgusting and vile. They are seen by the wives as encroachers onto their territories, stealing their husbands and their possible pregnancies. They are seen by the Martha’s as despicable, that they chose life as a Handmaid. In their eyes the Handmaid wants to be a Handmaid. The Martha’s believe that a Handmaid loves their life, being able to lust around with other women’s husbands.

Levi’s survival tactics, which are revealed in one of his passages, are assumed to be true through the portrayal of his story as a memoir, and proves this paradox: how his rejection of humanity ultimately leads him to maintaining it. In other terms, his humanity is inadvertently saved by the way in which he tries to reject it. In the chapter, “The Work,” Levi creates a plan to conserve his energy by saying, “...he seems a good worker and being taller will support the greater part of the weight… then I will ask to go to the latrine and I will remain there as long as possible… anything is better than this work”(Levi, 46). Levi shows readers his rejection of humanity through his selfish plan. Levi leaves no room for compassion when reflecting on the effect his plan will have on Resnyk, a larger man in the camp.

Wealth and property feature heavily in the wife’s portrayal of marriage and along with the issue of her independence is responsible for many of her marital conflicts. The first three husbands "riche and olde" were married each for "hir land and hir tresoor" then discarded as the Wife looks for other prospects. When one of these husbands tries to restrict the Wife’s spending she refuses to let him be both "maister of my body and of my good" so refuses sexual favours in return for her freedom as she will not become a mere possession. She generalizes that women "love no man that taketh or keepth charge" suggesting an element of independence and individualism in 14th century marriage. The wife resents being controlled; she

Unlike memoirs that adorn their writing with emotion, most of Levi’s writing uses an impartial tone. This can be seen in several instances, such as, “With the last gasp of his life, he had thrown himself to the ground: I heard the thud of his knees, of his hips,

There were at least 3 views of how the Old Testament was composed which include the critical view, the compositional view, and the common view. Each view was somewhat similar and different in the aspects that gave it it's own characteristics. The main point of this discussion is to focus on the similarities and differences of each view which are but not limited to how the bible was created, the process, and design.