Dante, spokesman in his Christian day, writes a guidebook for Hell and, in doing so, questions his own rocky past and his chances for Hell, for Heaven. ... Original Sin is "the state of sin that according to Christian theology characterizes all human beings as a result of Adam's Fall" (Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1289). ... Original sin is not "chosen" sin. ... In answer to the posed question, what is Dante's sin, I believe his sins are too arbitrary, to indefinite to list. The sin or sins in question seem to be of a universal sort. ...

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Perhaps the most significant thing that can be said of Judas Iscariot was that in feeling sorrow for his crime of betrayal, he did not seek to atone for his sin to Jesus, whom he had wronged, but went to his accomplices in crime. ... Shortly there after, knowing and understanding what he has done, he compounds his sin by committing suicide, the ultimate height of brainlessness Through the course of human history, we have evolved from the ape. ... Stupidity warrants our attention now more than ever, as its costs have increased to the point that we no longer can afford it as we have in t...

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He soon finds himself in a town where he comes upon Mary Magdalene a prostitute who Jesus has shared a past with. ... The film showed a Jesus who sinned just as any other man, one who is subject to anger as well as love, one who wants a family as we all do, and one who questions his mission. ...

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It is then clear why Owen has acted as he has in past sections of the book. ... Owen is a man that has been so molded by the life around him that he forces himself to think that he must sacrifice his own life for in order to repent for what he sees as a sin. ...

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David Leeb wrote a very compelling, unpublished paper titled "Shades of Goodman Brown". In this paper, Leeb discussed a common "yarn" that presented itself in Young Goodman Brown, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyberg, Monster, and The Devil and Daniel Webster. He writes that "It is truly curious that ...

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His play makes clea the facts from the past that sinners and guilty people were mistaken for witches in Salem (Bu*censored* 128 -129). ... If a person sinned they had to confess it, regret it, a perform some act of penance. To avoid being hanged many people in The Crucible confessed to sins they did not commit. ... Adultery was one of the worst sins someone could commit. ... It was an atrocious sin for children to even dance, so to avoid punishment they would pretend to be under the spell of the Dev . ...

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Waiting for Godot qualifies as one of Samuel Beckett's most famous works. Originally written in French in 1948, Beckett personally translated the play into English. The world premiere was held on January 5, 1953, in the Left Bank Theatre of Babylon in Paris. The play's reputation spread slowly throu...

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In the 1st 50 years of the 20th Century, it came to pass that revolutionary turmoil in the name of social progress brought humanity to the gates of destruction. Out of these flames of war arose several huge Political systems that bestrode the globe. One of these, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was founded on the ideals of social equality and sharing. Instead the people of the USSR had a nightmare unleashed on them unrivaled in the archives of human history. Only once in the passing of human fictional literature has the sensitive horror of this regime been displayed once, much l...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School