Literature

In the poems  When the Somber Slaughterhouse Opens Its Caverns of Death  by Andre Chenier and  The Village Bell  by Alphonse De Lamartine, the poets use symbolism to illustrate the human condition and the freedom of death. Cheniers piece uses the imagery of a slaughterhouse to show the dehumanization of human life as a mechanism which frees us from the restraints of death, while de Lamartine uses the image of a village bell as symbolic  of a kind of spiritual death toll...

Muslims believe in submission to Gods will as dictated by the Koran, which contains the Islamic laws. Unlike the Christians who emphasis on the right doctrine, the Muslims emphasis on the right action. As a sign of faith, the Muslims base their belief in one God, his prophet-Mohammed, and the Koran, which acts as the source of Gods revelation. The Quran spells out directives against certain practices such as fornication, female infanticide, murder, exploiting the poor, theft and false contracts...

St. Augustines Confessions provides an account of his spiritual and philosophical development. Divided into different sections, the text provides an in-depth account of Augustines internal struggles not only in defining the terms of his faith and his religion but also in determining the relationship of both the soul and the body in determining an individuals relationship with the divine. His importance in medieval literature can be traced to his inclusion of both classical and medieval topics in...

Allegory was an established feature of Elizabethan life, and was mentioned by a range of contemporary literary commentators. As Sir John Harington emphasized in the introduction to his translation of Orlando Furioso (1591), the honeyed sweetness of the verse is not where the underlying meaning of an Elizabethan text is to be found, and those of stronger stomachs should look beneath the surface to digest the allegory. Traces of allegories being employed on the English Renaissance stage include the...

Thesis Statement The identification process of the true cause of the Lyme disease and the accurate diagnostic tools of the causal organism has significantly increased the knowledge of the disease since 1975. Several treatments are being developed and novel drugs are still in the pipeline. Thanks to the women of Connecticut and the doctors who led to the discovery of the bacterial cause of Lyme infection. Causes of Lyme disease Lyme disease is a bacterial infection caused by bacterium in the genus...

Causes and effect of smoking has been the subjects of various researches as it is a public knowledge that smoking causes a variety of diseases in addition to lung cancer. Coldez and Hunter (2000) affirmed that it is not surprising should smoking be a cause of so many different types of cancer (p. 7). Coldez and Hunter asserts that inhalation is a very effective way of distributing chemicals throughout the body (p. 7) while tobacco smoke is believe to contain some fifty chemicals that are known to...

Reading through William Shakespeares sonnets, one can easily notice how he compared women to nature, and how he looked at love as an eternal thing. In sonnets 18, 20, and 130 for example, Shakespeare likened the beauty of a woman to nature and her character to the elements of it. The beginning line of Sonnet 20 goes like this A womans face, with natures own hand painted. This is just one of the several other lines in the above-mentioned sonnets which describe women. Ultimately, Shakespeare used...