A Life that Forever Dies
About a month after 9/11, president Bush signed the U.S. Patriots act. The Patriot Act takes limitations away from government agencies to help them gather intelligence easier. This allows government agencies to wiretap phones without warrants, read text messages and e-mails without permission, and invade anyone's privacy that is suspect of being a terrorist. Every person's text goes through a database where it is judged as an innocent message or a message that resembles a threat. The database searches for keywords, for example the word "bomb." Now if a person texted "That sandwich you made me was the bomb!", it would be seen as innocent. If person texted "I am done making the nuclear bomb," it would be flagged and further investigated. An article titled "10 reasons why the United States is no long the land of the free," states that "The president may now order warrantless surveillance, including a new capability to force companies and organizations to turn over information on citizens’ finances, communications and associations." Not only are citizens' communications being watched but now citizens' bank accounts are being surveilled as well. This act gives the President and government agencies such as Homeland Security and the Central Intelligence Agency much surveillance power. Ex-CIA director David Patraeus was investigated by the FBI and evidence was found that proved David to be in an extramarital affair. A New York Times article elaborates by
A Rose for Emily is a short story about a woman who goes through many difficult things in her life. She endures death, change, and power. All of these can completely alter a person for the rest of their life. Through the mysterious figure of Emily Grierson, the author conveys the change that Emily overcomes in the course of her life. "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris…
27) All our life is a preparation for that moment when we leave it and go before God to hear the verdict that will decide the life that we are going to live forever after we have left this world. The most certain thing in life is that one day we must die. The most uncertain thing is when we shall die. There is no orderly queue. Sometimes we are expecting a person to die who is seriously ill and yet that person recovers and somebody else we know who was in perfectly good health dies quite unexpectedly…
only feel pity for her. The towns people feel sorry for her because her father dies and leaves her only the house where she stays. They do not suppose she is crazy, but they understand she is going through a tough situation. No one seems to like the man Miss Emily loves, so they find ways to end their relationship. Homer, the man she is seeing, disapears without leaving a trace to the towns people. Miss Emily soon dies and every one is surprised to be in the house where not a soul entered. As they…
described with several recognizable complex character traits. Emily is introduced as a southern in her thirties who lives with her father, Mr. Grierson in the south in an old lonely house. Her father controls Emily’s life as he obstructs her attempts on getting married. Mr. Grierson dies and Emily starts to become sick in the head when she refuses to accept her father’s death for three days straight. Emily then starts to exclude herself from society and becomes extremely lonely. Emily is also a dynamic…
seeing her from a distance How much do they contribute to the isolation They exert control over her, so by killing Homer she is fighting back and showing that she has no control over here – act of rebellion – only thing she has control of in her life They let her get away with stuff such as buying the poison They unknowingly support her power moves and superiority over them -> the looks, the statements Pastor was traumatized They control her identity, because although she can vanquish them…
The brief nature of life Life is short. This is a well known fact, and the poem, “Out, Out-” by Robert Frost poignantly highlights this issue with its vivid depiction of the death of a boy. The boy, operating a buzz saw and working to slice trees, suffers a tragic accident in front of his sister, who is telling him “[s]upper,” in which his hand is severed; he later dies from blood loss. Then life resumes as normal. From this poem, it can be seen that life is but a fleeting moment, a summary of…
cut down a tree with the help of the sun god. After this conquest, the gods make Enkidu very sick. Enkidu has dreams of the underworld and explains his visions to Gilgamesh. Enkidu dies not long after him becoming sick. Furious with his friends death, Gilgamesh sets out to find somebody who can grant eternal life upon himself. He finds the man who is similar to Noah, in the bible, but this man will not tell him the secret. However, this man’s wife tells him where to find a plant that will restore…
their cries. They decided to punish Gilgamesh, and created a friend for him named Enkidu. He was amazing like Gilgamesh, and they developed a great friendship over time. However, Gilgamesh was greatly saddened when the gods decided to end Enkidu’s life. Consequently, Gilgamesh develops a fear of death, and goes off on a journey to answer all of his questions. The story starts with the character Enkidu. He resides with many different animals, acting as they do. One day, a hunter is surprised to…
poisoning her almost lover to keep him forever in her bed. Years later after Miss Emily dies, the townspeople hold a funeral at her house which then leads to the discovery of her lover’s rotting corpse and a long strand of iron-gray hair resting on an indented pillow beside him. Faulkner uses this strand of iron gray hair to symbolize how Miss Emily cannot let go of those she loves and how she will go to extreme lengths to make sure her almost lover stays with her forever. The small strand of hair demonstrates…
Edna has lost her identity to Leonce in the early part of the book. In her life, she felt like it had no meaning and she felt nothing. However, her “awakening” occurs when she realizes this and takes action. She did not want to live a life of lies and really finds herself by leaving Leonce and going out on her own. Even though she dies in the ocean, she no longer lived according to her husband and be defined by him. For The First Time in Forever by the creators of Frozen The song is sung in the movie w…
