Essays on Symbol

Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.” Lord of the Flies by William Golding tells the story of a group of boys stranded on an abandoned island. The boys start off working well together, though their savagery begins to be apparent later on in the novel. The island soon becomes very war-like, as the boys become less civilized, and it becomes a dog-eat-dog world. The symbols in…...

The State of Israel is not only a symbol of the Holocaust-resurrection nexus; Israel is duty-bound to carry the additional burden of sounding a public alarm when any injustice is committed and it has a unique moral imperative in the conduct of its own affairs. When we deal with the issue of particularism and universalism, it is important to note that Christianity, in its attitude toward secular society, regularly projects a universal normative climate of sorts (at least among the…...

Born and raised in eastern Kentucky, where the summers are as hot as a piece of bacon in a frying pan and the winters as brutal as they come. There are a multiple things that I think symbolize me as a person. Some I think symbolize me physically and others mentally. The things I think that symbolize me are a tree a diamond and a light. First I think a tree represents me because it stands firm and it doesn’t…...