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has Oedipus whipped by his driver and driven from the road. Oedipus retaliates and fights back. "With this right hand I struck hi...

whose mothers were helping in the classroom demonstrated some characteristic behaviors that I had not viewed before, including a d...

serve as a compass for the character when facing great and insurmountable odds. Oedipus held staunchly to his moral codes, and whe...

birth was that he would kill his father and marry his mother, a pronouncement so shocking that Laius and Jocasta felt they needed ...

varied types of ritual which characterize her new home and the interrelationships between the various members of her new family. ...

learning, however. It all begins with a question, and there can be no questioning without curiosity driving its origin. Incite to...

many ways Emersons views of self-reliance can be seen in the following excerpt from the work: "There is a time in every mans educa...

we were required the maintain silence in the audience during the proceedings. Individuals in the group of 20 sat on either side o...

pictures earlier, this time she had her picture taken with the class. Reflection The girl caught my attention because of the...

toileting. Marianne was then reminded of the steps for toileting outlined above. One strategy that staff put into place to help...

of tragic flow Aristotle also stipulates that the plot of a tragedy should follow a logical tragic flow. Aristotle writes that "a...

city is in turmoil. The next several lines have a messenger enter and inquire as to Oedipus home and whereabouts. The Chorus info...

(Sophocles). In this she is arguing how she has not followed the laws of "men" or even of the gods in this case, but rather per...

Therefore in righting him I serve myself"(Sophocles, li 223-225). This opening monologue serves several functions and shows quite...

since the first publication of Shakespeares collected plays in 1623, readers and audiences around the globe have, by their seeming...

enough, women have generally not had the political voice that would allow for such demands. In fact, in the United States women ha...

the gods. Oedipus also inflicts the cost of blood on himself, stabbing out his own eyes. While naturally, in modern democracies,...

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

brother in terms of advice and guidelines for her life which is seen in one scene where her brother tells her to watch out and she...

of the lives and social customs of the Marquesas people. The story itself is not just an example of Herman Melvilles fertile imag...

clapped very hard, would she hear it? The concentration--her eyes fixed firmly on the red and white bead--is suggestive of a young...

to convey the importance of unquestioning obedience to the will of the gods; and, secondly, to emphasize the importance of familia...

the very Centaur as he lay dying that the blood, if given to Hercules, would keep him from ever wandering from her side. Of course...

necessarily based within the origins of observation (genes, DNA, etc.), giving considerable pause to the omnipotent credibility of...

devastating plague that has been killing many of his subjects. He speaks as if he is an anguished father: "My children, I am fill...

has heard rumors about the how his new wifes (his mothers) husband was killed and he is investigating it. He slowly finds hints th...

pushes away all the people that she loves, or have loved her, in her stubbornness related to the burial of her brother. She pushes...

surely bless you and make your descendant as numerous as the stars in the sky." Because Abraham never questioned a divine commandm...

way out of his situation at all because no matter what he does to avoid the killing of his father and marrying his mother he has n...

in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...