Wednesday, March 28, 2012

History of Easter Day

          Do you ever wonder why we celebrate Easter or why we have to hide eggs during Easter? Easter is a religious holiday that resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death by some 2,000 years ago. During the holiday, for Christians has the day of religious service and the gathering of the family. In many churches Easter is preceded by a season of prayer, abstinence, and fasting called Lent. On ash Wednesday, its the first day of lent and  putting ashes on the foreheads of the faithful to remind them that "man is but dust." On palm Sunday before one week of Easter,celebrates the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.Holy Week begins on this day. Holy Thursday, or Maundy Thursday, is in memory of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciple sand Good Friday commemorates the crucifixion. In many languages, the words for "Easter" and "Passover" are etymologically related or homonymous. When the early English Christians wanted others to accept Christianity, they decided to use the name Easter for this holiday so that it would match the name of the old spring celebration.But it is pointed out by some that the Easter festival, as celebrated today, is related with the Hebrew tradition, the Jewish Passover.This is being celebrated during Nisan, the first month of the Hebrew lunar year. The Jewish Passover under Moses commemorates Israel's deliverance from about 300 years of bondage in Egypt.It was in during this Passover in 30 AD Christ was crucified under the order of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate as the then Jewish high priests accused Jesus of "blasphemy".  Blasphemy is the act of insulting for a religius deity of the irrevence towards religious or holy persons or things. Christians originally celebrated every sunday with observances such as scripture reading, pslams, the Eucharist and a phohibitian against kneeling in prayer. Common elements found in most Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and Protestant religious Easter celebrations include baptisms, the Eucharist, feasting, and greetings.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Antigone Essay

   Many stories have tragic function as an instrument of the suffering of others. In Sophocles's play called " Antigone", it talks about how the character suffers by a king. Suffering can be cause by a death  of a relative, unfair laws of the government for other people. In " Antigone", many had suffered by a ruler of Thebes, Creon. This play is about a woman named Antigone who wants to bury her brother but she can't by the laws of Creon and she was punish by bury her brother that Creon find out by a guard. In line 20-23, " O fate of man, working both good and evil! when the laws are broken, what of his city stands! when the laws are kept, how proudly his city stands! when the laws are broken, what of his city then? never may the anarchic man find rest at my hearth", it means that everyone has to follow laws and if the laws are broken, the city  will be weak but it also in my opinion is if everyone is following laws, everyone is suffering that they can't do what the want. For example, Antigone is suffering that the laws can't bury her brother but the other brother can bury with a soldier tomb and everything else. But also she's suffering by her punishment of taking her in the tomb : alive or dead but Creon thinks she will learn by that punishment. Its not fair to not bury her brother, Polyneices because Creon said that he is weak and he died for nothing but  Eteocles did die by honor and gave him a tomb of a soldier, flowers and his honor. It also in the movie, I saw that Creon send soldiers to punish every man with a stab because according to the soldier, he said that he saw someone burying in the desert but he couldn't see by  sand wind