Ash Wednesday

Are you theistic? How many Gods do you believe in? According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, theism is the belief in the existence of a god or gods. A survey conducted by Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life in 2010 says that about 70% of the world believes in one or multiple higher beings. There are 2 major categories; monotheism and polytheism. Within those 2 categories are an endless amount of religions that branch off of 3 major religions in both monotheism and polytheism.

Italy shares many holidays with many cultures around the world. Three of those holidays iare La Befana, Carnevale, and Easter. They are among the most important to the Italian people and all tied together. They each have roots in Christianity and Catholicism, but are considered public holidays. La Befana, or Epiphany, always celebrated on January 6th. Considered the end of the Christmas season. A woman carrying a broomstick marks La Befana. She originates from a legend about the three wise men whom

The Golden Age of America, the period post WWII, was taken out behind the proverbial house and beaten by the coming of the Counter Culture Revolution of the 1960s. Everything that the “greatest generation,” built and quite literally defended was thrown to the wind by the next generation without a second thought. They were able to free themselves from the shackles of society so easily for various reasons, including: affluence, leisure time, easy access to literature, and higher education. These

The author of The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald was raised in a Catholic Church, which influenced much of his work. Religion, love, and romance were a few of Fitzgerald’s largest influence in writing. Fitzgerald uses several big symbols and the action of his characters, to express his feelings and thoughts on certain topics. The largest symbol of religion is the Doctor T. J. Eckleburg billboard in The Valley of Ashes. On the billboard Doctor Ecleburg is over looking the people of The Valley of Ashes

T.S Eliot is considered one of the most important modernist poets during his time. In fact, modernism was viewed as "a rejection of traditional 19th-century norms, where artists, architects, poets, and thinkers alike either altered or abandoned earlier conventions in an attempt to re-envision a society in flux" (Britannica). Modernism mainly represented by an orientation towards fragmentation, free verse, contradictory allusions and multiple points of view different from the Victorian and Romantic

Chimmanda ngozi Adichie is the latest Nigerian female writer whose works have largely concentrated on post colonialism, Religious fundamentalism, patriarchy, and traumatic domestic discourse in Nigeria. This paper aspires to explore the religious fanaticism and the destructiveness comrade with it. The central character Eugene’s embracement over religion makes others to be forced to contend with agonizing situation. It reveals the general religious intolerance which created mainly by the failure to

Identification. The Republic of Panama is a former Spanish colony in Central America with a mixed population of Creoles, mestizos, European immigrants, Africans, and indigenous Indians. Location and Geography. The country is a natural land bridge connecting the South American continent with Central America. The isthmus runs east-west in the form of an inverted "S." Low mountains run through most of the country, leaving a gap in the center that is nearly at sea level. The Pacific coastline, with the

it was that night that I had to stay in room 1408 my boss told me to do a report that nobody in the office would EVER do...two days after that day, that night i couldn’t sleep the bed had stiff springs and the thermostat was broken so i got up and called the front desk to send someone up to fix it, the maintenance guy got to the room and knocked on the door i opened the door he said “what seems to be the problem?” “the thermostat is stuck at 80 degrees... the thermostat is right over here if you

Could Voodoo be nothing but evil, black magic, and the work of the devil? Is voodoo really an evil religion that sacrifices humans as well as animals to the demonic Gods? When I first did my paper on Voodoo, the first thing that came to my mind was how Hollywood portrayed Voodoo. When people see something on television or at the movies, they believe it to be reality. Undoubtedly, misconceptions will occur, and unless people are shown evidence against the delusions, it will be taken as fact. I think

He entered the lecture hall scanning the room for a place to sit. Not a single face was familiar. Then he spotted Mario seated near the front and he made his way over. "Hey man, didn't mean to leave you hanging, but I wanted to get the front. I’ve have to get at least a C in every class if I want my old man to keep paying for my car issuance.” Mario was bright-eyed and attentive whereas he felt as if a bus had run him over. "It’s all good," Adrian said, reaching into his backpack to retrieve a