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The Punishment Suits the CrimeIn the Inferno, Dante takes us on a journey through Hell. Dante describes the sins and the punishment in great detail. He puts the severity of the sins in a particular order, where the further one goes down, the more severe the sin. The order that Dante puts the sins in…

Within the “The Story of an Eyewitness” by Jack London he uses vivid language to describe the San Francisco Earthquake. As he tells the report about the earthquake, he uses descriptive words to explain the damages to the city. For example the smoke was able to be seen from hundred miles away. London also describes…

Powers Shared by National and State Government, setting up courts, creating ND collecting taxes, building highways, borrowing money, making and enforcing laws, chartering banks and corporations, spending money for the betterment of the general welfare and taking (condemning) private property with Just compensation. How federalism was found you may ask? The founders of federalism attempted…

A fast rise issue today in America is whether pistols should be allowed on the streets or non. Some believe that all guns should be banned and they do no good but destroy human lives. Others believe that from the beginning of clip guns have been legal and should ever remain that manner. Some major…

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language — so the argument runs — must inevitably share in the general collapse….

“We have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not combined. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.”  Winston Churchill’s famous quote aptly describes Britain’s intentions towards European integration. In this essay I shall attempt to show that Britain’s relationship towards European…

The short story “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather introduces us to a young man who fears becoming ordinary and unremarkable like the people and things around him. Paul is driven to escape his dull life due to how others perceive him. He feels stifled by his mundane surroundings and finds comfort in the theater, which…

Californians know exactly what they were doing when the historicalwere read that acquitted the four LAPD officers, and sparked the civil unrest inLos Angeles. Anna Deavere Smith does an excellent job representing Los Angelescitizens in her theatrical piece entitled Twilight: Los Angeles 1992. Smithwrites, “Every person I include in the book, and who I perform,…

Achilles, Martin Luther King Jr., and their views on justice and honor. Achilles and Martin Luther King Jr. are two characters that, upon hearing their names, seem strikingly different and positively contrasting. One of them is a more modern figure in society, while the other is more of a Greek mythological persona. However, there is…

What did John Winthrop mean when he spoke of his “city upon a hill”? To what extent were the Puritans successful at building this city? During a time period of religious intolerance in England many people sought acceptance of their beliefs. In the early 1600’s a group of English emigrants, led by John Winthrop set…