In the first circle of hell rests the individuals who never stood up for what was right. When they saw an individual being picked on, their things being tossed to the ground, the “Bystander” walked away rather than helping the victim. They chose fear over courage throughout their high school career. The Punishment- These individuals will spend eternity wandering through the school hallways being tormented the same way as the students they did not stand up for during their lifetime.
In High School, these individuals let their uncontainable desires overpower their moral guidance. These individuals lusted after what they wanted rather than doing what was right.
The punishment-The “Promiscuous” students will spend eternity stuck in the gym locker room showers trying to rid themselves of the filth that covers their tainted bodies which is only visible to them.
Here lie the students who found it entertaining to spread rumors and gossip about their fellow classmates. “The Gossipers” spent their high school careers revealing information that was not their business to share in the first place.
The Punishment- These individuals will spend eternity standing in a crowd full of students, remaining invisible, while rumors are constantly spread about them. Their fellow classmates talk about them as if they are not there while they are forced to watch and listen.
These sinners let their selfishness and recklessness put their fellow classmates in harms way. The lack of self control in their lifetime caused others to overanalyze every move they made through the hallways to avoid “The Fighter” .
The Punishment- These individuals who chose to beat others up for their own sake and enjoyment will spend eternity fighting the last person on ea...
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...d the rest of eternity stuck as a bomb, which will have a ticker that will start at the beginning of the hour, going off after the first five minutes leaving the sinner the rest of the hour to suffer in an incredible amount of pain.
In the last circle of hell lies the individual who makes the entire high school experience painful for everyone: The Whiner. These students complain about everything from school requirements to extra-curricular activities. These individuals complain about anything and everything as long as they have an audience listening.
The Punishment- These whiners will be stuck for all eternity in a dark room with no way out, being forced to listen to their own voice repeating their complaints over and over again. “The Whiners” will not be able to hear their own thoughts because their complaints will be blasting on speakers that surround the room.
According to Hammurabi, the punishment was death. One last felony that has different punishments
This message accurately describes how those souls will experience contrapasso in Hell. They will never be released and will experience suffering for eternity. The first line speaks of a...
A man is standing there with a noose around his neck. When there is a signal, the rope is cut, and the man’s body is dropped through the trap door. He is hanged like that in front of a crowd, which is even including old people and small kids. Is there anybody thinks about how would a child react if he had to witness such a horrible scene? An execution takes one’s life to warn the community with the hope that the crime rates would go down. But it is extremely cruel, and it makes people feel like they are living in the ancient world when there are no human rights. Now the world is evolving in the way of civilizing, so execution should be kicked out of this society because instead of bringing benefits to the community, the execution brings a lot of more destruction.
These people are also forced to stand in an endless line while following a banner. Making them follow a path is a great symbolic punishment for indecisiveness. Following the banner gives them no freedom to make their own choices because they wasted their lives being hesitant. In the neutral zone the banner is their conductor and they must follow it because they did not choose to follow heaven or hell when they were living. God would not accept them and neither would Lucifer. I believe this punishment is appropriate because forcing the souls to follow a banner in hell is the complete opposite of what they did on earth. Since the souls are lost the banner gives them a direction to follow. This punishment is a very one to one ratio for the crime they committed.
High school is one of those milestones in an individual’s life that will be remembered for a long time to come. Whether one’s experiences are positive and allow him to find his purpose in life or whether they are so terrible that his view of education is tainted forever, what happens in high school affects how one’s future will turn out. Leon Botstein, author of “Let Teenagers Try Adulthood,” states that the traditional high school system should be abolished because it is not benefitting teenagers. He states that cliques of popularity and athleticism and teachers who care more about money than education stand in the way of proper learning for teenagers. Botstein further argues that school stifles students creativity and that they really do not want to be in school. His argument that the traditional high school setting should be abolished is somewhat justified on the fact that cliques make schooling experiences difficult; however, his statement that children’s creativity is stifled, they are bored in high school, and that they are ready to be adults at a young age is invalid.
...iterated. Therefore, high standing authorities implement strict laws and punishments for law breaking. The most extreme form of punishment known to any society is the capital punishment. When someone is sentenced capital punishment, they are executed for their crimes. Since this deals with the taking of an individual’s life, it obviously causes much controversy. Some people believe it is inhumane to be able to take away somebody’s right to live, and others think some crimes are deserving of execution. Mary Kate Cary, the author of “The Conservative Case Against the Death Penalty,” believes that the death penalty is too much of a dangerous method to reprimand criminals, and David B. Muhlhausen believes that capital punishment is a worthy method to punish some criminals, however both agree that without a doubt, criminals deserve to be penalized for their infringement.
The most severe of all sentences: death. Also known as capital punishment, this is the
Dante’s The Divine Comedy illustrates one man’s quest for the knowledge of how to avoid the repercussions of his actions in life so that he may seek salvation in the afterlife. The Divine Comedy establishes a set of moral principles that one must live by in order to reach paradiso. Dante presents these principles in Inferno where each level of Hell has people suffering for the sins they committed during their life. As Dante gets deeper into Hell the degrees of sin get progressively worse as do the severity of punishment. With that in mind, one can look at Inferno as a handbook on what not to do during a lifetime in order to avoid Hell. In the book, Dante creates a moral lifestyle that one must follow in order to live a morally good, Catholic
In Dante’s Inferno, Dante is taken on a journey through hell. On this journey, Dane sees the many different forms of sins, and each with its own unique contrapasso, or counter-suffering. Each of these punishments reflects the sin of a person, usually offering some ironic way of suffering as a sort of revenge for breaking God’s law. As Dante wrote this work and developed the contrapassos, he allows himself to play God, deciding who is in hell and why they are there. He uses this opportunity to strike at his foes, placing them in the bowels of hell, saying that they have nothing to look forward to but the agony of suffering and the separation from God.
Ethos is integrated well with Clayton’s personal feelings by stating, “[P]ervasive change in societal values [can make] students easily be snared if they lack a strong moral compass.” (20) However, Clayton goes right back to his quotes after having only one de...
Many arguments have been made that Dante’s Inferno glimmers through here and there in Milton’s Paradise Lost. While at first glance the two poems seem quite drastically different in their portrayal of Hell, but scholars have made arguments that influence from Dante shines through Milton’s work as well as arguments refuting these claims. All of these arguments have their own merit and while there are instances where a Dantean influence can be seen throughout Paradise Lost, Milton’s progression of evil and Satan are quite different from Dante. Dante’s influence on Milton is noted by many scholars and is very apparent in several instances throughout Paradise Lost, however, Milton shows a progression of evil through his own vision of Satan and creates a Hell that is less meticulously constructed than Dante’s and more open to interpretation.
Dante’s work Inferno is a vivid walkthrough the depths of hell and invokes much imagery, contemplation and feeling. Dante’s work beautifully constructs a full sensory depiction of hell and the souls he encounters along the journey. In many instances within the work the reader arrives at a crossroads for interpretation and discussion. Canto XI offers one such crux in which Dante asks the question of why there is a separation between the upper levels of hell and the lower levels of hell. By discussing the text, examining its implications and interpretations, conclusions can be drawn about why there is delineation between the upper and lower levels and the rationale behind the separation.
In his first article of The Inferno, Dante Alighieri starts to present a vivid view of Hell by taking a journey through many levels of it with his master Virgil. This voyage constitutes the main plot of the poem. The opening Canto mainly shows that, on halfway through his life, the poet Dante finds himself lost in a dark forest by wandering into a tangled valley. Being totally scared and disoriented, Dante sees the sunshine coming down from a hilltop, so he attempts to climb toward the light. However, he encounters three wild beasts on the way up to the mountain—a leopard, a lion, and a she-wolf—which force him to turn back. Then Dante sees a human figure, which is soon revealed to be the great Roman poet Virgil. He shows a different path to reach the hill and volunteers to be Dante’s guide, leading Dante to the journey towards Hell but also the journey seeking for light and virtue.
Are the new standards and expectations the world has for teenagers really creating monsters? The amount of stress that is put on students these days between trying to balance school, homework, extra curricular activities, social lives, sleep and a healthy lifestyle is being considered a health epidemic (Palmer, 2005). Students are obsessing over getting the grades that are expected of them to please those that push them, and in return, lose sleep and give up other aspects of their lives that are important to them, such as time with friends and family, as well as activities that they enjoy. The stress that they endure from the pressures of parents, teachers, colleges, and peers has many physical as well as mental effects on every student, some more harmful than others. The extreme pressure on students to get perfect grades so that they will be accepted into a college has diminished the concept of actually learning and has left the art of “financing the system” in order to succeed in its place (Palmer, 2005).
She was, like the article states, the “outcast of a group, an easy target” (“Bullying At School” 5). Another source states that, “Traditional bullying offending and victimization have also been linked to loneliness, peer rejection, low-self esteem, poor mental health, and other psychological and physiological ailments among youthful populations”(“Bullying, cyberbullying” 209). She was rejected by her peers, and her low self-esteem was one of the reasons she couldn’t stand up for herself. So I stepped in. I picked up her books that had just been slammed to the floor. Like so many people in high school, this girl was lonely. She didn’t have a good family life and didn’t have many, if any, friends. The article states it perfectly by saying that people like this have an “overwhelming feeling of helplessness and hopelessness”, and having been humiliated in front of this crowd, ultimately put her put to shame (“Bullying At School” 3). From what we are told in the article, “Bullying At School”, we can see that on the inside, bullies’ actions are tearing the victims apart and