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The concept of death and the afterlife has always intrigued and perplexed people. Many individuals have tried to depict their own interpretations of what awaits beyond death, whether it is heaven or hell, paradiso or inferno. The inferno is not merely a fictional story about traveling through the universe; it is more like a personal…

Albert Camus was a French philosopher/writer who was born in Algeria (part of North Africa that was owned by the French) in 1913. He wrote this book showing how life is “absurd” because death is final, therefore making life meaningless. This is a very basic look at the philosophy and you shouldn’t assume that what…

In the beginning of Dante’s Inferno, we find the character of Dante poised to climb a hill out of the “savage forest” (Dante 59). The character Dante’s journey up the hill is impeded effectively by three fearsome creatures. It isn’t the creatures that stop Dante but in fear of them stops him. Dante cannot climb…

Introduction Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is introduced by Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Myers which is based on Carl Jung theory of book Psychological Types. MBTI is one of the widely used measuring tools which offers the personality or profile type of individual by measuring their information processing which are dived into four physiological…

In Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio, the reader finds recurrent images of blindness used as the punishment of the contrapasso. Whether it is Calvacante dei Calvacanti struggling to “see” what happened to his son, the diviners in Hell condemned to walk backwards, or the blind Sapia in the second terrace of Purgatorio, the contrapasso of these…

“The Man with the Heavy Leg” is a story set in Luxumberg gardens, where a man has fallen over. Despite being seen by others, he is not offered any meaningful assistance. This man is a sick war veteran whose medication is running out. Eventually, he is helped into an ambulance, which drives away. Absurdism originated…

García, M. (2015). Building for the moratorium. The chicano generation: testimonies of the movement. (262-271). Oakland, California: University of California Press García is a professor at University of California, Santa Barbara and teaches Chicano Studies and History. He’s knowledged in the field Chicano history, race, ethnicity, and religion. His research and activism is presented in…

Rationale The main purpose for this annotated bibliography is to research the controversies relating to exercise and its effects on the mental health of humans. With multiple companies lately adopting and encouraging a work-exercise balanced lifestyle and others simply stressing more work-time, my goal is to answer with the use of reliable sources whether if…

I still remember, vividly, as it was just yesterday when my mom suddenly woke me up in the middle of the night with a smile so big that I almost thought I saw a ray of sunshine shimmering through her face. My confused, yet curious eyes, stared back at her cheerful face as my tired…

Annotated Bibliography and Essay: Joy Harjo Carnes, Jeremy M. “Reinventing the Enemy’s Intentions: Native Identity and the City in the Poetry of Joy Harjo.” Studies in the Humanities, vol. 42, no. 1–2, Dec. 2015, pp. 36–59. EBSCOhost, augie.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=mzh&AN=2017305739&site=ehost-live&scope=site. In “Reinventing the Enemy’s Intentions: Native Identity and the City in the Poetry of Joy Harjo,” Jeremy…