Pauline Pfeiffer

C2C Eric J Holm 10 Dec 2015 Dr. Van Nort Final Essay: “Hills Like White Elephants” Jig’s Abortion through the Historical and Textual Lens “I know you wouldn’t mind it, Jig. It’s really not anything. It’s just to let the air in” (Hemingway 213). In Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants,” an abortion is debated through subtleties, similes, and symbols. The abortion is never explicitly mentioned, but instead Hemingway leaves the reader to conclude what this “simple operation” really is (213)

Hemingway's Personal Life and its Influence on his Short Story "Hills Like White Elephants" "Hills like White Elephants" is not the normal story where you have a beginning, middle and end. Hemingway gave just enough information so that readers could draw their own conclusions. The entire story encompasses a conversation between two lovers and leaves the reader with more questions than answers. Ernest Hemingway was a brilliant writer. People that study Hemingway's works try to gain insight and

events even those that are outside the clerical premises running successfully, it’s of late failing. Henceforth, ethnocentrism of such nature keeps lagging the nation from completing the political metamorphosis it started since independence. The Pauline epistles dwell much on the issue of ethnocentrism in the church, since the vice was present in the early church. In 1st Corinthians chapter 1 - 4, Paul talks about church divisions and says that they are a mark of spiritual immaturity. Thus Christians

Background knowledge of James can help the reader interpret James 4:13-17 and effectively apply it to his or her life. Many scholars have various opinions in regards to who the author of James may be, but evidence as shown that it could have been James who is the Son of Zebedee and brother of John. Or it may have been the other James, the son of Alpheus or Cleophas, mentioned in Matthew 3, Mark 3 and 18, Acts 1:13, and Luke 24:18. It was mentioned that James was the “Lord’s brother.” Regardless

Riptide, by Vance Joy, is filled with metaphors, which tell the tale of someone they love running towards danger. Vance Joy writes indie folk music, a mix between traditional folk, country, and rock music. This song can be used as entertainment and as human expression. The reason I find this song comfortable is due to the memories and feelings that I associate to the song. This piece is comfortable to me by reminding me of a more uncomfortable and nervous time in my life. I spent a semester in

The Book The boy who couldn’t stop washing is written by Judith L. Rapoport it was published in 1981. Dr. Raporport was born in 1933 also a graduate from Harvard Medical School. She is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Rapoport's laboratory investigates the clinical phenomenology, neurobiology and treatment of psychiatric disorders in children, including Childhood Onset Schizophrenia, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Sean Penn plays Sam, in the movie “I am Sam.” Sam is a man with Autism who has a daughter with a homeless woman. Sam’s partner claims that she “only needed a place to stay” for the night. The woman abandoned Sam and their daughter, Lucy soon after giving birth. Lucy was named after a Beetles song. Which, Sam was infatuated with the Beetles. He believed that the songs and the content within the lyrics taught life-lessons. Sam believed that really, all a person did need is ‘love’. Sam has the intellect

2. Tess, a spiritual (ized) woman Neither the narrator nor Angel criticizes her murder of Alec. Although she is no more a virgin than being guilty, those men draw close to her. In this time, masculine point of view does not allow the female character Tess to treat herself like a flesh-and-blood woman. As a result of that, the author fails to describe realistically the heroine. The narrator vindicates Tess, treating the murder case as one by the woman done to the man full of lust. Her mentality

Although it seems that Acts 15 and Galatians 2 record the same event, that is not the case. In the book of Acts, specifically Acts 15, Peter is in Jerusalem at the Jerusalem council. In Galatians 2, Paul speaks about his second journey to Jerusalem. The events that occurred in Galatians also relates to the events in Acts. The main question while analyzing both chapters is: Does it record the same event? There has been speculation that it is the same event told in both chapters, but it is evident

Introduction Romans 12:1-21 is a defining moment and a gateway for leaders who are to become living sacrifices acceptable unto God, which is their reasonable service. “Throughout history, Christian leaders had to decide how to live under a civil state that either was less than ideal or, at times, was downright evil” (Nichols & McCarty, 2011, pg.594). Paul as a great role model of leadership explained about having a relationship with the state and its laws by describing how Christians should live