Matthew J. Holman Essays

A tempest is typically known as a violent gale that can rival a tornado or hurricane in intensity and raw power. However, most English majors and literature enthusiasts associate the term “tempest” with one of Shakespeare’s final plays: The Tempest. Focusing on a revenge plot for banishment, the play’s main character, Prospero, utilizes his smooth tongue and magical properties to gain revenge on his past king and brother for stealing his dukedom away. Though this plot sounds like a fantastical story

William Shakespeare was a poet and a playwright, generally regarded as one of the world’s most famous playwrights to ever live. Shakespeare lived during the 16th centruy, and during his time, he wrote 37 different plays and 144 sonnets. Those plays included mainly comedies and tragedies. One of Shakespeare’s most orignial plays was a comedy known as The Tempest. The Tempest is one of Shakespeare’s most original plays due to the fact that he had no outside influence or collaboration when creating

The Group of Seven, first known as the Algonquin School, was a group of Canadian artists. Arthur Lismer is credited with naming the group which was founded in 1920 and lasted until 1933. The group’s purpose was to create an art style that broke European art traditions and raised awareness for the Canadian landscape. The original seven members were: They were later joined by A.J. Casson in 1926; Edwin Holgate in 1930; and LeMoine FitzGerald in 1932. When not painting on location, they all lived

This book was written by St. John the apostle, a follower of Jesus. The Gospel of John consists of 21 chapters. The apostle John was also called John the Evangelist, or the Beloved Disciple. He was the son of Zebedee and brother of James the great, who also was an apostle of Jesus. He was called by Jesus to be a disciple of the Lord, in the first year of Jesus’ public ministry. He was the only apostle who didn’t deny Jesus as his teacher during the passion of the Christ (St. John the Apostle

The Gospel of John contains some of the most profound truth which is expressed in the simplest way. It is full of imagery and symbolism which though concise and limited bears deep spiritual meaning. In his book, The Interpretation of the fourth Gospel, C. H. Dodd must have been the first to identify the leading ideas and thus separate in form and function the allegories of the Gospel of John from the synoptic parables and connect them with the Old Testament and the Hellenistic-Jewish symbolic tradition

The poet and artist William Blake spoke about the role of Jewish literature in shaping western civilization he states that "the Old and New Testaments are the Great Code of Art." Northrop Frye, whose Anatomy of Criticism is the third most frequently cited twentieth century work in the humanities and arts, states that in a sense all his critical work, beginning with a study of Blake which was published in 1947, and formulated ten years later in Anatomy of Criticism, has revolved around the Bible

In Matthew 13, Jesus begins to teach with parables because he wants all to understand how to his disciples and that there is a clear division between his disciples and others, the sacrifice of the whole self, and that the disciples will have a universal influence (Mitch and Sri 174). Matthew 13:1 begins with "On that day" to note that Jesus spoke of these parables the same day he came in contact with the Pharisees in chapter 12 (Mitch and Sri 176). Then, Jesus left Peter 's house in Capernaum and

Plato’s short story the Allegory of the Cave, Plato portrays a scene in a cave to the reader that analyzes human actions. The story is about a group of men that are chained for their entire life. The only thing they are exposed to are shadows on the wall of a fire burning by people behind them. The people exposing these men are hiding the truth of the outside world. Plato reveals that humans are easily fooled into believing what they see. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave the people think that their

You may know about slasher films but did you know that it was influenced by the Italian giallo genre? Slasher films typically involve a violent psychopath stalker murdering several youthful people, usually with bladed tools whilst, Italian giallo films are inspired by horror thriller books sold in Italy in the mid-20th century. Viewed separately, as two individual genres, they both are very similar in their use of camera shots. The use of first-person shots from the killer’s point of view gives

Two of the most incredible television shows in the DC Comics universe are Arrow and The Flash. Both are heart-warming, gut-retching action shows that feature superheroes, love-lives and awesome costumes. Despite those similarities both characters and their shows are very different. The Flash is a meta-human with super speed named Barry Allen and The Arrow is just a regular person who never misses a shot with a bow named Oliver Queen. Both The Flash and The Arrow have super smart teams and secondary

Touching Spirit Bear By Cameron Gillis Touching Spirit Bear is an intriguing and breathtaking novel by US author, Ben Mikaelsen . The genre of this book is adventure and coming of age because we, as the reader, understand the difficult journey the protagonist, Cole, goes through as he matures and changes. The book is carefully written from the first and third person point of view to help see and understand the events from different perspectives. The other main characters are Edwin, Garvey, Cole’s

Community, love, service and forgiveness are all major aspects in the CJ community, the community in which we live in, and every community in which people live. All of these aspects are practiced throughout our everyday lives and are worked on to better shape our community in the future. Service is an act people use to better themselves and the others around them that need help. Throughout my sophomore year, both my contribution in my service to my community and my sodality time, have helped me

My Journey to Literacy As kids we are taught literacy without knowing it. Our parents or teachers have sat down with us and helped us write out our letters, sound out words, and form sentences. We were all given crayons at restaurants and a piece of paper that had fun games, cartoons, and tic tac toe. There are few people who have not learned to read and write, or have learned in a different way or at an older age. All of our experiences are different, and my experience has left me with my own literacy

Emerson, while endorsing a similar type of philosophy of nature, seems more stringent in his ideas of nature and less stringent in his actual communion with nature. Of course, this could be false. It might be his writing style and authoritative tone that seem to preach more than practice. Emerson gives few personal examples, so readers really don't know if he lives in the way that he suggests readers or listeners live. Emerson seems to focus a great deal on the ties between nature and the spirit

Love is very similar to the ocean. It can be ugly, painful and scary but it can also be peaceful, beautiful and wonderful. In A. S. Byatt’s short story “Sea Story” the protagonist experience all of these different feelings. In “Sea Story”, the story is written in a chronological order, starting from when Harold is born and his upbringing. The story then sets its focus on Harold’s meeting and time with Laura. Then, the story is set off track when it shifts from Harold’s story, to follow the travel

of these men to the apostleship (Not the Melchizedek Priesthood) reduces the time of their ordination to the period between the 15th of May, 1829, and April 6, 1830. But the time within which the ordination took place may be still further reduced. In a revelation bearing the date of June, 1829, making known the calling of the Twelve Apostles in these last days, and addressed to Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer, the Lord said: "I speak unto you, even as unto Paul mine Apostle, for you are called

deserving of such title? Helen Bond conveys in her book, Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation, that there is evidence that suggests that Pilate, as cruel as he was, did not want to give Jesus a death sentence. "This is shown in the gospel of Matthew 27 verse thirteen through twenty. He repeatedly tried to find other ways to avoid it. For example when he was reminded that it was s custom to free

The film adaptation of the religious musical Godspell composed Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebleak attempts to revitalize Christianity by expressing the teachings of Christ as expressed in the Gospel of Matthew in contemporary terms. Structured through parables primarily sung but also enacted through puppetry, storytelling, and skits; the main point of the film is to translate complex philosophical ideas into terms easily understood by a modern-day audience. In the Bible, Jesus illustrates

Mad Men Mad Men, a television drama from Matthew Weiner, takes place in the world of advertising during a time where smoking is natural and where segregation defines African-Americans as ‘the help’. While these social issues are used to locate the show within this specific time, the 1960s was a strange and foreign time when the environment in which social interaction was defined by an entirely different set of rules. This television show takes place at Sterling Cooper agency and the main characters

There are numerous apparent discrepancies in the Bible specifically in regards to the Gospels: Matthew, Mark and Luke’s relation to John. One key discrepancy is the inclusion material not found in the synoptics by the author John. John “includes a considerable amount of material not found in the synoptics” (Prompt) including three complete chapters, accounts of “Jesus’ early Galilean ministry”, prior visits of Jesus to Jerusalem, “the seventh sign-miracle”, “the resurrection of Lazarus” (John 11)