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Dante’s Inferno opens with Dante being lost in the woods. Confused, afraid, and alone, he stumbles through the forest, where he encounters the spirit of Virgil, who was sent by the Virgin Mary upon seeing his unfortunate plight. Virgil persuades Dante to go with him through Hell, but Dante is unsure. Virgil cannot make him […]

In his work “Inferno,” Dante, a Renaissance theologian, incorporates the concept of the seven deadly sins and their corresponding punishments from Hammurabi. The severity of each sin determines its sentencing to one of the nine levels of hell, which gradually escalate in horror until reaching Satan’s dwelling place. Dante’s portrayal of “hell” adheres to both […]

Dante Alleghieri lived during the break of Renaissance and wrote “Inferno” in that tumultuous time when paradigm shifts in politics, economics and religious traditions were taking place. Although he lived and died centuries ago, his book remains one of the most successful creative rhetoric generations continue to decipher. This is so due to the work’s […]

When one thinks of the afterlife, they can’t help but think of Dante’s Divine Comedy. In his book, The Inferno, Dante ventures into hell, both as a poet and an epic hero. His story is obviously inspired by Book VI of Virgil’s The Aeneid, which depicts the epic journey, into the underworld, of Virgil’s hero […]

Dante Aligherie’s, name itself endorses the uniqueness of the spirituality that as said by Vico, “Seems to rise suddenly, towering over the land of Italy”. (Croce, pp. 256) Dante was a divine poet but away from his divinity, there is a flow of words that immerses into our soul, the vastness of images of our […]

The first part of Dante Aligheri’s beloved Divine Comedy trilogy, Inferno, provides a vivid depiction of hell and its inhabitants. This widely read book explores the various forms that hell can take and the beings that reside within it. The remaining two books in the trilogy are Purgatorio and Paradiso. In Dante’s Inferno, there are […]

Daniel Tammet is considered as the boy with “incredible brain. ” On the first part of Daniel’s documentary on youtube, it showed how he could do huge calculations mentally. In addition, he stated that he could learn a new language for seven days. The very highlight of the documentary is when Daniel recited the pie […]

Philosopher Daniel Dennett’s intellectual career has been spent trying to extend the Enlightenment project of putting philosophy and morality on a scientific and naturalistic basis. His newest book, Freedom Evolves tries to answer the age-old question: Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Dennett is trying to update David Hume in […]

Daniel Webster and John Greenleaf Whittier were contemporaries, moreover – both were involved into politics as well as social movements, so that Webster’s ‘7th of March Speech’ and Whittier’s ‘Ichabod’ and ‘The Lost Occasion’ are unquestionably close-knit and express the two opposing sides of the same problem – slavery and discrimination. First of all, let’s […]

Thousands of people die in road crashes every year. Speeding is a contributing factor in resulting road accidents. Speeding reduces the amount of available time needed to avoid a crash. It also increases the severity of the crash, which lead to widespread causalities. Exceeding the speed limit is the most common error in fatal crashes. […]

Mining has always been a highly dangerous occupation with a death and injury rate matched by few other occupations, perhaps by none (Scott 1988) (Giebsen, 1995 p. 40). Health and safety is an area of consideration in which mineral industry has advanced dramatically in recent decades. However, improvement in the public image of mining has […]

The notion of exporting dangerous jobs is one that is deeply associated with business and organisational ethics, especially in the contemporary global condition wherein corporate outsourcing on an international and trans-cultural scale is becoming a burgeoning reality. From this perspective, we can see a rationale for businesses exporting such jobs. In terms of the key […]

The education system in America is a mess, and someone needs to fix it. Students find school uninteresting and hate it. They would rather join gangs or sell drugs than study or learn from books or traditional classrooms. Cursing or mocking the teacher is often the norm, and discipline is rarely found in poor neighborhoods. […]

Criminal profiling is defined by Kocsis and Palermo “as a technique whereby the probable characteristics of a criminal offender or offenders are predicted based on the behavior exhibited in the commission of a crime” (1). Commonly, it has been attached to the idea that it is a set of leads and a biological picture that […]

Colombia is country diverse influences attributed to their geographical location, vibrant history, and various ethnic groups (Davis, 1990). Venezuela and Brazil in the east; Ecuador and Peru in the south; Atlantic Ocean in the north; and Panama and the pacific ocean in the west are the borders of Colombia, a Republic in South America(Davis, 1990). […]

I have been watching the FIFA World Cup ever since and I cannot help but be fascinated every time I see the rowdy and festive fans dancing and cheering for Brazil (see fig. 1). I recognized their moves – those hip swinging, feet stomping, very quick body movements – it was samba. I wondered why […]

Proud and warlike – is the essence of Ukrainian dance, a product of a country with an ever changing political environment. Dance is a visual history that reflects the political environment, and the country as a whole. “Man, through dance, communicates to the onlooker his national character, lifestyle, religious beliefs, and the effect that historical […]

The island nation of Jamaica was chosen for this research because it seemed that the country has made a rather large impact on the world with its music despite its relatively small size. People around the world are familiar with the great Bob Marley, and since then Jamaica have not failed to produce top artists […]

Dance is a known form of non-verbal communication. Its first appearance in society was in the prehistoric period leaving artifacts and cave paintings. The use of dance evolved from entertainment, graduating to artistic appeal. Though dance concerns more art than exerting direct influence to political and social spheres of a community, it often speaks of […]

Dancing has become a part of several cultures around the globe and it has evolved into numerous kinds that are made to entertain people. Examples of these are modern dances like hip-hop, interpretative dances like ballet and ballroom dances such as Tango, Waltz, Plena, Cumbia, Mambo and Salsa. In ballroom dancing, Salsa is considered as […]

Dan Brown’s novels The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons are, at the same time, very popular and highly controversial. The author’s main concern in both of the novels is to point to the possibility of an alternative view of history and religion. His claims are very daring as they undermine the fundamental ideas […]

As a mark of development, modern countries particularly those with high interests on hydrological process started the creation of dams. A gigantic structure of almost immeasurable proportions, dams have been known to be one of the largest infrastructures ever built in history. Some experts even attribute the skills and drive to create dams in our […]