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"Ferris Bueller" and Four Ethical Traditions

when Jesus says that "He has not come to abolish the Law but to fulfill it."4 Theologians argue over the correct interpretation ...

Athena, The Virgin Goddess

("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...

Sigurd and Achilles and Their Deaths

destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...

Human Tragedy in Eugene O’Neil’s A Moon for the Misbegotten

special gift or special beauty. Most people have something about them that is not quite pretty or handsome. Most people have clear...

Exploring Textual Sources of “The Arabian Nights”

It appears to be based in part on Arabic, Persian and Indian folklore, and as a "unified collection, dates back at least one thous...

Greek and Roman Culture: Understanding Sex Through Art

in those days...Admiration of the manly form at times verged on the cultlike; the more heroic bits of male sculpture, small penis ...

Could Othello’s Tragedy Be Averted?

gone to her and asked for the truth of the matter, trusting that she would tell him. Or he would have laughed at Iago and dismisse...

Greek, Mycenaean and Minoan Civilization

was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...

Classical civilizations

classes of citizens, permitted behaviors within marriage and so on. Ancient Egyptian civilization also demonstrated a soci...

Cultural Diffusion from the Ancient World

it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...

A Civic Project

in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...

Mortal Women in the Iliad

and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...

Othello as a Tragic Aristotelian Hero

in the audience, because the audience members can see themselves as part of this chain of cause-and-effect (McManus). Lets very b...

A Look at Early Civilizations

put to death" (King 4). Here, it seems as if the terms stealing and kidnapping are interchangeable. That is, at the time, stealing...

Ancient Greek Theatre, Sophrosyne and Hubris

According to Plato, in his dialogue Charmides, the qualities associated with sophrosyne, give rise to the admirable characteristic...

Anne Tyler's Saint Maybe and The Accidental Tourist

ridden. At one point he is in a restaurant and is remembering one time when his son was 2 or 3 years of age. The child had run int...

Comparing the Cinematic Versions of Hamlet by Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh

has come forth with a version that wholly eclipses the standard. What can easily be argued is the fact that Branaghs film version...

Different Types and Regional Museum Pieces

liked to envision men, the primary subject of sculpture, as regal and noble and strong characters. There was nothing more powerful...

Summary and Review of 'A Gift of Hope'

second section called Survival Strategies, contains 5 parts and seems to be the meat of this book. The first part is entitled Pres...

Desdemona's Murder in Othello by William Shakespeare

really be proven wrong, and the only thing that Othello has to go on is really the word of his wife who he ultimately disbelieves....

Virgil's 'Aeneid,' Sophocles' Oedipus the King, Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Divine Intervention

of his father Ulysses" (Homer I). From this excerpt it is quite obvious that divine intervention is a powerful part of the stor...

Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Growth

say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate" (Shakespeare ...

Dying and Death Readings

he defends himself well, Socrates is still found guilty and stoically accepts his fate, indicating that since only the gods are aw...

Burke Litwin Model Used to Assess the Columbia Shuttle Disaster

wide range of potential categories of issues" (2002 LaRC Organizational Performance Survey, 2003; p. A6) such as was the case in t...

Tsakos Energy Navigation 2002 through 2005 Financial Performance

annual accounts. There are a number of ratios we can consider. We will start with profitability. The first ratio is the gross pr...

Perrow's Theories of Normal Accidents and Organizational Deviance

seems to conspire against them achieving a desired goal. However, Perrows main point here is to illustrate that there...

Tragedy Concepts

the audience; and finally, it must be complex (McManus, 1999). Complex here means the plot contains a "reversal of intention (peri...

Jesus & Worship, Romans 12, Etc.

Testament, these words generally refer to "service associated with the work done in the temple."6 In the New Testament, these word...

The Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

Authority in Homer and Sophocles

in war. Helen had no power, and no women in the story had power. Helen was simply a symbol of beauty and purity and hence justifie...