Devil's College Essays Samples For Students

- Explain in your own words what you understand Sternheimer to mean by the term “folk devils”. She suggests, “video games, those who play them, and those who create them have become contemporary folk devils” (paragraph 4). Can you give examples of such “folk devils?”
Sternheimer uses the term “folk devils” to represent the people who involve themselves in the act of introducing bad effects to the society. In this case, the folk devils are the people who create, the video games and those who play them are the “folk devils”. Examples of folk devils include the youth ...

The issue of illegal immigration is one that has plagued this country for decades - in the last twenty years or so, the topic has stirred up a great deal of controversy, particularly given the phenomenon of Mexican immigrants smuggling themselves illegally into the country. However, the issue from the perspective of the illegal immigrant is often not discussed or considered. Far too many people believe that it is far too easy for them to sneak into our country and take jobs or otherwise "leech" off the American Dream; very few people consider the enormous dangers and costs that they ...

Introduction

The World Bewitched (1965) was written by Bekker to outline theological and philosophical viewpoints that challenged the notion that ghosts, devils, and angels had an influence on historical events, as well as nature.The story was written at a time when Christianity was being perfected in England and the rest of Europe. During this time, The World Bewitched (1965) was written, Bekker served as a minister in Amsterdam. Protestants needed a philosophical and theological approach to accentuate the assumption that God was the ruler of the world. The need to project God as the authority while discrediting the influence of ...

The idea of moral panic is one of the many socialist ideologies that have been subject of discussions and critical research by social scholars and scientists over the years. Moral panic has had its fair share of all-inclusive definitions, but perhaps the most revered one by social researchers is Stanley Cohen’s (1972). He indulges us with the idea that moral panic is sort of like an idealized scar in society, an unsettling social occurrence that offsets the socio-cultural balance, often triggered by what he labels as folk devils. In simplistic terms, it is the feat of social unrest ...

Primary source analysis
Chapter 7, which is entitled “Demons and spirits”, centers on two postmortem halves of the person – demons and spirits or yin and yang – and unites three selections of extracts from some written works by the representatives of the Han dynasty proving that these two phenomena can be regarded both as the concepts of different kinds and as the concepts that can be integrated on some basis. The author of the first selection exhibits functions of some social customs based on demons and spirits taking into consideration their social utility. The second selection, written by ...

The Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is a presentation of a moral conflict between evil and good. The beginning of the story sets the environment of conflicting moral will. Goodman bade farewell to his lovely wife Faith, even though she spent a considerable time persuading him to sleep in his bed that night. ‘"Dearest heart," whispered she, softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, "prithee put off your journey until sunrise and sleep in your own bed to-night’ (Hawthorn 81). Goodman’s journey into the woods marked the genesis of his quest for trust in God or ...

Introduction

A hoodie is a form of clothing that resembles t-shirts but is hooded and made of thick cotton. It may or may not have a zip. It can be understood as a sweatshirt with an attached hood. Teenagers wearing a hoodie are commonly known as hoodies. A hoodie is quite prevalent in teenage for two reasons. First, it is apparently considered as a style statement and a display of ‘macho-ism’. Second, it is used as a windbreaker and to keep oneself warm from the cold breeze. There is also a third, and not so social, reason for using hoodies. Criminals may use it for hiding their face ...

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Introduction
The work of history and historians isn’t a simple one. Historians must find sources, analyze them, think about them and decide which stories are worth telling and which ones should be left in the background or completely ignored. This function which can easily be summed up as representation is the hardest part of the historian’s job and something which has changed a lot in the past few decades. History writing in recent years has changed its focus from a top-down perspective where the decisions of the privileged, powerful connected few are explored and analyzed to the ...

Introduction

Love is the most common and the most uncommon thing ever. The first epithet is characteristic for love, as this thing happens (or at least is supposed to happen) in everyone’s life regardless of life, whereas the word “uncommon” is natural for love as well, as it is as unique in every life as possible. Therefore, stories of Kalidasa and Chretien de Troyes are read with lightness; however the times of their creation have been covered with dust for many long years. Such lightness can be explained with the mere fact that authors touch such eternal topics, which ...

The book “Cities of Salt,” written by a Jordanian-born Saudi writer, Abd al-Rahman Munif is one of the ancient literary works, which narrates the transition of human history from one era of civilization to another . The book is a translation from the Arabic by Peter Theroux. It gives a detailed account of the conflicts between the traditions and modernity. The author describes how an unnamed Arab emirate transforms from a traditional nomadic life-style to a modern, oil producing state. The arrival of foreigners with their machines, cars and deserts into the emirate marks the beginning of the confrontations between the traditions of the indigenous ...

Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy”

Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” is a brilliant poem about the relationship of a daughter and a father. It is also a poem of female yieldings and revolt in the world of men who are responsible for sufferings of women and all the disasters in the world. According to Sylvia Plath, masculine priorities subdued and oppressed women in society as she clearly depicted in this poem.
The speaker’s father, her husband, teacher, Gestapo officer, vampire, and the statue are the male characters that she considers as they are created as oppressive and leading. Her father seems as a powerful, restrictive, and strong, god-like figure. ...

Demons co-exist among men on earth to tempt them to do evil. This is the central theme of the short stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer, particularly Alone and The Last Demon. Singer is an immigrant from Poland and he lived in New York City. He writes in Yiddish and his stories are translated into English. According to Singer himself, during an interview in 1968, he absolutely believes in the supernatural because he feels that “we are surrounded by powers, by mysterious powers, which play a great part in everything we are doing” (Flender n.p.). The succeeding sections discuss Alone and ...