Perception of Life After Death in Literature: Dante's "Inferno " Life after death is an interesting and important topic considered by people of different age and religious perceptions. This topic can be found in many forms of literature, one key example is the literary work written by Dante Alighieri named "Inferno ", which is translated from Italian as "hell"." ... With the help of "Inferno,"" Dante wanted to show the principles of virtue for people and the appropriate laws of living in the world. ... Dante's "Divine Comedy"" consists of three parts, such as "Inferno": Purgatorio (...

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Hawthorne writes, One of the ancestors of this family had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno The allusion of Dante refers to The Divine Comedy and the Inferno describes the souls in Hell. ... Hawthorne writes, One of the ancestors of this family had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno The allusion of Dante refers to The Divine Comedy and the Inferno describes the souls in Hell. ...

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1 Let us go then, you and I, 2 When the evening is spread out against the sky 3 Like a patient etherized upon a table; 4 Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, 5 The muttering retreats 6 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels 7 And sawdust restauran...

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Through these themes Bourgois (2002:17) portrays that the people living in El Barrio are known to blame the victim for their misfortune of being the underclass of the United States population and "living in the inferno" due to their inability to compete with the classes above them who are more able of succeeding since they have greater opportunities to do so. ...

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Abstract On May 4, 1988 at the Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada (PEPCON), a large fire of ammonium perchlorate (AP) quickly ensued. Two large explosions occurred during this fire, measuring 3.0 and 3.5 on the Richter scale, and were equivalent to an explosion of hundreds of tons of TNT. This even claimed the lives of two plant workers, injured 372 people, and caused over $70 million in property damage. This paper looks at what caused the fire, and if it could have been prevented. There were dozens of issues with the PEPCON facility, and it's staff. ...

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Questions I and II What are the central concerns illustrated in the article "The Crisis of Belief"?" How does this show symbolically in the poem "Dover Beach,"" by Arnold? Response The central concern is the despair of the modern man who loses the certainty that belief gave him, the inner conflict that this causes and the repercussions on human's stature and dignity after the groundbreaking social changes brought about by Darwin, Freud, Marx and Nietzsche. Man's inquiring mind consigned him to a hell of darkness, anxiety and degradation. The modernist answer to this "hell " has been...

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This hellish atmosphere of the room leads him to relate it to Dante's Inferno as if he is having a "journey through hell."3 Hawthorne's reference to the Inferno may be deliberate; through it he shows the romantic point of view toward culture. ...

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The Christian attachment to Gothic emerged from its connection to Gothic and Gothic Revivalist architecture, though from the nineteenth century the Romantics gave an appraisal of Christianity that differed from its previous depiction. As Minghui said, '...Gothic authors themselves questioned the relevance of religion, foregrounded issues on scientific antitheism by presenting Christianity in a dubious light, present, but altogether powerless...'2 A late Romantic example of this exists in the Gothic novel Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin, a narrative that suggested an ar...

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Upton Sinclair's novel the Jungle illustrates how greed and ruthless competition has made turn of the century America into a brutal jungle.Take or be taken? was the guiding rule, and everyone was someone else's prey. Those at the bottom of the economic ladder - wage earners and their families were at a particular disadvantage in the capitalist jungle.Workers were slaves to the whims of their masters, the capitalist who own and ran private industry. Many of the workers were immigrants ignorant of the language and ways of their new country were the most vulnerable members of this class...

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Three Faces of Aeneas: The Gladiatorial Combat of auctores in Chaucer's House of Fame Dependence on literary tradition established by the textual legacy of prestigious Latin authors characterized the period of the composition of the House of Fame, one of Geoffrey Chaucer's early works. Authoritative Latin writers "auctores "provided the works of medieval writers with invaluable truths', which contributed to the credibility of medieval texts, though robbing them of certain amount of originality. However, in authorizing their works by utilizing the material produ...

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The Green Mile If the walls of Cold Mountain Penitentiary could talk, they could tell you many stories. When you had been around as long as they had, you saw things. They had seen the deaths of many people. In fact, they had been the downfall of most of them. This was the last stop before going t...

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