While holding the high office of a minister he commits a grievous sin, the act of adultery. ... This is a great example of sin displayed in a selfish way. ... People still want to make sin attractive to justify their failures. ... When they sinned Hester's view of God was that of Hester's view of Dimmesdale. ... Although Jesus did not sin, He was willing to take the humiliation and penalty for our sin. ...

• Word Count: 2000
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

On the other hand, Pearl was considered to be born evil because she was the product of her mother's sin. ... The townspeople idolized him and did not suspect him at all for committing the same sin as Hester. ... Love is the act of caring for someone and continuously supporting them while looking past all their flaws. ... Dimmesdale never forgot her after her ignominy, even when he had a chance to move on and distance himself from his sin. ... Pearl is the living embodiment of Hester's sin and why her life is terribl...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Ellen is Devil Bug's past and, it seems, his only lover. ... Drawing from these opposing characteristics, Lippard is showing that the trials of the past can turn people into what they are supposed to become, and also reveal the ugliness that people contain. ... Who shall find most mercy at the bar of Avenging Justice "you, with your prostituted talents, gathering round your guilty souls, so many witnesses of your utter degradation, or Devil-Bug, the doorkeeper of Monk-Hall, in all his monstrous deformity of body and intellect, yet with one redeeming memory, gleaming like a star, from...

• Word Count: 1860
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Donne goes on to tie in how this proves that sex between the two will not be a big deal by saying, "Thou know'st that this cannot be said a sin, or shame, or loss of maidenhead" (lines 5-6). ... In a way Donne is asking for tough love because the kindness and generosity shown to him in the past has failed to make him faithful. ...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Canto V of Dante's Divine Comedy Inferno, takes the reader to the first compartment of true hell, residence for those whose sins have earned them eternal damnation. ... Dante often references mythical or ancient stories of tragic lovers, as if to reinforce the message that they who don't remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. ... To him, the notion of romance that embodies women, leads not only to her sin and damnation, but that of the powerful man that she drags down with her. ...

• Word Count: 2427
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The old arguments of "Homosexuality being an abomination against God" and "Homosexuality is a sin" are still believed by many "so called" devout Christians, but can not be effectively backed up with any proof. ... That's what the Bible is, an interpretation of what someone else has saw full of stories thru someone else's eyes and several other translation that have come about over the past hundreds of years. ...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6

In turn, Danny is now being affected by the "sins of the father" so to say, since he is now idolizing Derek. ... It just so happened that the boy was African American and had ties to others that Derek had angered in the past. ...

• Word Count: 1484
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

(Baumeister 1999, p.30) The reason Medea chose revenge over forgiveness was not only decided upon because of the isolated state she was left in, but was also elected due to past emotions and a consciousness that spoke only of revenge.... (Emders, 2002, p.3) The most troubling aspect about the sin of cruelty is that some desire it, extracting pleasure from torturing another.... Jason used Medea in the past and began to manipulate the royal family of Corinth for his own interests. ...

• Word Count: 2228
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Despite the seemingly impossible task of living up to traditional standards of masculinity "ideals such as honor, duty, and heterosexuality' "Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, and Sui Sin Far's "The Story of One White Woman who Married a Chinese,"" suggest that failed masculinity often results from being corrupted by society. ... Thus, because Minnie not only looks past Liu's ethnicity and accepts him as a person, but holds Liu in a similar esteem to her father, Minnie's statement further elevates Liu's masculinity. ...

• Word Count: 2224
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate