The Way of a Pilgrim

decided to join Britain in the war. The Iroquois nation had a unique custom whereby they raided their enemies and adopted the captives. It was their way of replacing those they lost during a war or enemy attack. They taught the captives their language and culture. Most of the captives were young men and women which made it easier for them to assimilate. Way before the advent of scientific research, their custom proved that young minds adapted and assimilated easily.…

of appreciation. In William Bradford’s short story, “Of Plymouth Plantation,” Bradford details the arrival and settlement of the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Traveling to the new land, the Pilgrims set out to be a figure the rest of the world could look up to because of their religious freedom and strong community. In order to become that figure, the Pilgrims had to work hard and deal with many harsh factors such as “being infected with the scurvy and other diseases,”…

the Pilgrim, who is led by Virgil and Beatrice, through every aspect of the Christian afterlife according to Catholic tradition. The Pilgrim is Dante himself, who was chosen to bear witness the evils of hell and wonders of heaven and, by doing so, change the hearts of his readers. Additionally, the pilgrim was chosen because some secret sin, of which he need only to repent, that would have sent him to hell. This sin is never named, but his journey in the Inferno quickly causes the Pilgrim to…

narrator is on an excursion to Canterbury. The narrator meets up with numerous pilgrims along the way. Each one shares their own personal story based upon their experience of being from a different class. These personal stories give us an insight of their personalities, which connect with Chaucer’s descriptive words to piece together each pilgrims inner nature. The Wife of Bath, The Merchant, and The Miller are three of many pilgrims whose inner natures are revealed through Chaucer’s master…

example, Pilgrim writes the laws made sure the Whites were always above Blacks. White people thought God thought segregation was good and that there was danger in bringing together the two races and making them equal (Pilgrim). Whites also thought if it was necessary they could use violence (Pilgrim). Evidence of the Jim Crow laws can be seen in To Kill a Mockingbird in many ways. One Jim Crow law is that Blacks can never say a white person is lying or might not be telling the truth (Pilgrim).…

Wampanoag wanted to put a curse on the pilgrim, so they would die off. However, Massasoit needed allies, and saw the pilgrim as a way of obtaining items and control of them, he also saw the pilgrim as no threat because they were with children and women, and struck with sickness and diseases. In spring of 1621, Massasoit and his tribe confronted the pilgrim and struck a deal, where both party agree to help each other and protect each other. In summer of 1621, the pilgrim hosted their…

It is found that in this chapter Billy discovers two small miracle working lumps and also experiences his own death that has yet to happen, but has also already happened. The seventh chapter’s beginning line is: “Billy Pilgrim got onto a chartered airplane in Ilium twenty-five years after that.” This sentence made me think of the prior chapter and link it directly to this line, the narrator will write of Billy’s post-war experiences. The chapter contains a description of…

in comic books. As a response to these demands, comic book creators are beginning to accurately depict members of the gay community without relying on generalizations, “particular behaviors,” or the use of other stereotypes. One such comic "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” by Bryan Lee O’Malley has effectively dispelled social taboos regarding gay interactions, thus normalizing gay relationships in his storylines. O’Malley’s use of humor combined with his real-life experiences have delivered…

In 1607, a group of radical Christian, the so-called Puritans, illegally broke from the Church of England, the established church of the kingdom at that time. They formed the English Separatist Church and settled down in the Netherlands, as they didn’t have full religious freedom in their homeland. This solution was provisional at best, and so one hundred women, men and children of the Separatists decided to head for the New World and pursue a simple life in which they could follow the bible and…

preposterous novel Slaughterhouse-Five was peculiar in the sense that it was evoked by misleading ideas, abstract humor, and visual imagery to display post- modernistic style- in it of itself reflecting the fractured psyche of the protagonist, Billy Pilgrim. It was a combination of a unique blend of being fiction and nonfiction. Vonnegut 's novel engrossed postmodernism because it had no limits, it is free and associates with dissonance. He is living his act, never knowing which will come up…