The Ecstatic

Tears Go Into the Urn Fay Lanser Savage Girl- Sophie Rubenstein In addressing the savage girl I will say in words that are rushed and spilling from my mouth: “Hey you, savage girl; spit in the corners of your tulip lips, your hair is a mess savage girl, did you know?” And the savage girl will respond, words not rushed but kind, “yes I know my hair is a mess, yes I know my savage lips are snarled, my shirt unbottoned and falling off my savage breast.” And I will say, “Where is your mother savage

them involve themselves deeper into the storyline. In Fitzgerald’s novel he uses a great deal of imagery. “Daisy’s face, tipped sideways beneath a three-corned lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.” (85) In this quote, the reader imagines Daisy’s lavender hat and what an ecstatic smile might look like underneath the light purple hat. “Fifty feet from the door a dozen headlights

Introduction: Religion in medieval Japan is what i will be talking about and the subjects I will be covering are worship customs, beliefs and influences. Beliefs Shintoism: Shinto's followers believe that spiritual powers exist in the natural world. They believe that spirits called kami live in animals, plants, stones, mountains, rivers, people and also the dead. so basically kami the spirits can live in anything in the natural world. Christianity: Christians believe in one god a god that lives

The Reclaiming Tradition started in the 1980's in Northern California, specifically in the San Francisco Bay area. Reclaiming is a contemporary American witchcraft tradition that was started by Diane Baker and Starhawk. They both believed in “reclaiming” the word witch because words have power. The Reclaiming Tradition mission statement is this: “Reclaiming is a community of people working to unify spirit and politics. Our vision is rooted in the religion and magic of the Goddess, the Immanent

ways of addressing them. This us usually done via chanting or speaking out loud. The second category of religion is physiological exercise. He states that many religions have ways of entering or inducing an ecstatic spiritual state.

Summer brings a sense of joy with its bright days. In Ray Bradbury's excerpt from his novel "Dandelion Wind". Bradbury utilizes rhetorical devices throughout the excerpt to provide a mysterious atmosphere to his novel. Throughout the beginning of the passage, the author uses an array of different rhetorical devices to give us a glimpse about Douglas Spaulding's feelings towards the beginning of summer.Ray Bradbury utilizes personification in sentences 1 through 5. For example "The town covered

something to her husband, she will be able to live her life the way she wants. She won't be chained to her husband any longer, she will be a free woman pursuing the life she wants to live, not the life her husband wants her to live. Freedom is an ecstatic feeling for Mrs. Mallard but will soon be followed by her death. When her husband walks into that door her heart stops. Some may say it’s out of happiness, some may say its out of shock, or others may say it is because all the of thoughts and the

“There would be no one to live for in those coming years; she would live for herself ” (Chopin 14). Her ecstatic reaction to her new life demonstrates that Mrs. Mallard has never had been able to achieve her own goals in life, but now that her husband was gone, there wasn’t anyone to stop her in her new ambitions. Bernard Koloski states that “Scores of critics

stirs within each person due to the presence of the Holy Spirit. I found it interesting that Wesley categorizes the gifts of the Spirit into extraordinary and ordinary. Then again, it can simply be a continuance of his loathsome sentiment toward ecstatic worship. The tongues bestowed upon the early church were extraordinary yet finite

There is two sides to everything, the good and the evil, the wise will say that it is best to have both. The similarities that both Greek god brothers, Apollo and Dionysus, have with both East of Eden brothers, Aron and Cal are identical in some aspects. An individual can choose to carry themselves with behaviors that are either Apollonian or Dionysian, a mixture of both helps find a healthy balance that will let an individual live a life at its full potential without causing damage to oneself