Noli Me Tangere

As the plot of “The Cask of Amontillado” and “The Scarlet Ibis” unravel, both authors

This article goes over the heinous crime Gerard and Charlene Gallego committed. How the match made in hell met, became dependent on each other, and started their killing spree. It goes over the complete lack of empathy they had for their victims. It also shows the gendered sentencing as Gerard was sentenced to death. While Charlene was sentenced to only 16 years in prison.

Alva Noe builds an argument against the idea of cell-by-cell brain mapping in the passage “Making A Brain Map That We Can Use.” He uses rhetorical questions, imagery, and refutes the counter argument to build an argument against the idea of cell-by-cell brain mapping.

Conversely, until Elizabeth, Javier ex-wife’s boyfriend shows up, she invited for dessert. Javier becomes angry and begins to insist that he wants his family back; that he walked away from. He begins stonewalling the family at the thanksgiving dinner because his ex-wife had invited her boyfriend for dessert. Javier becomes angry and begins to stipulate that he wants his family back; that he walked away from.

Her whole life the Marquesa “lived alone and she thought alone” (Wilder 14). The Marquesa grew up without love and happiness in her childhood. When she married “a supercilious and ruined nobleman” (Wilder 14) she bore a daughter who she “fastened upon her idolatrous love” (Wilder 14). She chose to bestow upon her daughter all of the love that she didn’t receive. Her daughter Clara was like her father in many ways and regarded her mother “with astonishment and repulsion” (Wilder 14). When time of marriage came she “deliberately chose the one that required her removal to Spain” (Wilder 14). The Marquesa’s whole existence “lay in the burning center of her mind”(Wilder 15) and revolved around writing her daughter letters after she moved to Spain. She chose to become more secluded and to devote her time trying to connect to her daughter who would never return her

Nowra’s play is set in a ‘burnt out theatre’. Discuss the importance of setting and imagery in conveying Nowra’s idea on 'Cosi'.

This confession is not only informative for the reader about the religious community and the effect of religion in Spain within the 15th century, but it also allows the reader to use critical thinking and be observant to the deceiving forms Teresa used for this “confession” to be

Police in Franklin County, North Carolina found a grisly scene when they arrived at a home they received a 911 call from. The call came in from a house that had a mother, an 18-year-old boy, and two children in it.

“I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart.” These eternal words spoken in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather reflect the importance and prevalence of family allegiances. These allegiances transcend many different cultures, societies and environments. Every society has its own “Fredo”: the social outcast whose decisions make him or her the center of attention in society, and whose family allegiances complicate everything. We can see such a prototype for a character in Countess Olenska, the main character in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence. Countess Olenska is the black sheep of her family because she is considered foreign, and the complicated decisions she faces often

Throughout the novel, Patria’s faith is emotionally challenged by God, the government, and her family. Foremost, God tests Patria when her baby is stillborn. Her recovery and gain of courage is evident when after burying her baby, Patria says: “I began slowly coming back from the dead” (53). Patria’s coming to terms with her loss is exemplified by this. Slowly she begins to gain control over her emotions, which is one of the many transformative properties of courage. Subsequently, the SIM imprisons Maria Teresa and Minerva taking a psychological toll on Patria’s health, but with her spiritual bravery, she is able to stand tall despite the pain. Ultimately, Patria’s son, Nelson, and her husband, Pedrito, are fighting with the resistance against Trujillo in the mountains; she fears they will not return alive, however her courageousness keeps her hopeful. This newfound courage will help Patria stay strong during the moments leading up to her and her sisters death. In addition to Patria’s possession of emotional courage, there are other types possessed by her

McIntyre. In this story, Mrs. McIntyre owns a farm and hires people to work for her. One day she receives a new worker, a displaced person, named Mr. Guizac of Poland. Mrs. McIntyre soon learns that Mr. Guizac is a hard worker and is great at what he does. She finds an instant liking of him, until she finds out he plans on bringing his cousin to America from Poland to marry one of Mrs. McIntyre’s black workers. She is appalled by this because she is a racist and would never dream of marrying a white to a black. She finds out that none of the other workers like him either and wish to get rid of him, so they pressure her into firing him. She succumbs to the ‘dragon’ here by giving into the temptation to fire Mr. Guizac. On her way to fire him, a tractor at the top of a hill has a loose break and falls hitting the other tractor Mr. Guizac had been working on and killed him instantly. Mrs. McIntyre,and another worker she had been with both saw the accident coming, but did not bother to say a word. Mrs. McIntyre’s decision to not say anything caused Mr. Guizac to lose his life. The reader can then see a personal change in Mrs. McIntyre because her mental health rapidly declines after this event. Her pride in her race jolted her to fire Mr. Guizac and her giving into temptation by making the decision to fire him after being pressure all show how Mrs. McIntyre became victim to the ‘dragon’ St. Cyril spoke

La Llorona or the Crying woman is a legend that goes back century’s in the Mexican culture. Some of the earliest recorded sightings are legends of The Aztecs, who say that the goddess Cihuacoatl took the form of a woman dressed all in white and spent the nights weeping about the impending doom of the native people by the Spanish conquistidors.

The inability to take responsibility for immoral actions, causes destruction. Cristina Innocente is a controversial character from Nino Ricci’s Lives of the Saints, which tells the story of a young boy whose life drastically changes due to his mother’s infidelity. Although she is a strong woman who exudes tenacious feminist values and self-dignity, she remains as an excessively prideful character. Throughout the novel, Cristina’s attitude toward her adulterous behaviour becomes a prevalent matter as it starts to damage aspects of her and her family’s life.

While young, Defarge witnessed an aristocrat named Evrémonde invade her house, raping her older sister and stabbing her brother. Since then, she has sought revenge against the Evrémonde family and will stop at nothing to exterminate them from the earth. The Madame is even in high favor of killing the innocent Lucie Manette and her daughter because they were married into the Evrémonde family. Though this happened long ago, she responds with ruthlessness and bitter anger consistently. Lucie Manette alike has suffered through many trials such as being the caretaker of her father in her twenties which she felt was degrading - for she was to be courting for marriage at this time, not acting as a housewife to an enfeebled old man. Additionally, her husband was convicted and almost sentenced to death for returning to his home country of France. She responded with prayer and being in a certain area for her husband to see her. When he was finally released, Lucie and her family “reverently bowed their heads and hearts” (292). This exhibits Lucie response to misfortune in a elegant manner and separates her from Madame Defarge.

“Rizal had a burning desire to know exactly the conditions of the Philippines when the Spaniards came ashore to the islands. His theory was the country was economically self-sufficient and prosperous.  Rizal entertained the idea that it had a lively and vigorous community enriched with the collective and sensitive art and culture of the native population. He