YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Modern World and the Legacy of Antigone
Essays 241 - 270
decreed a heros burial for Eteocles, but that no one, on pain of death, can offer funeral rites for Polynices and that his body sh...
about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...
line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...
Modern Women in such a conversation: "Even many women today are perhaps happy to allow men to take charge, make the money, and pla...
deed in this our present trouble, I care not to prolong the span of life, Thus ill-reputed; for the calumny Hits not a single blot...
very powerful and just individual, putting aside the fact she was a woman. While this speaks of men, and fighting for justice, one...
could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...
in order to insure passage to the underworld. The Underworld in this mythology was not a particularly happy place; it was a gloomy...
is apparent in Hamlet in many ways. First, when Polonius asks Hamlet what hes reading, Hamlet says "Words, words, words" (II.ii.19...
violate the primacy of traditional family morality, which should be considered as overriding state laws that are contradictory to ...
This 3 page paper gives an overview of the two stories Antigone and A Jury of Her Peers and the relationships between the women in...
the fundamental purpose for doing so. While Sumner places governmental involvement with the quest for equality at the bottom of t...
that the CIA covertly engineered a coup in Iran that overthrew a democratically elected president and instituted a dictatorial rul...
past, which is now gone, and his son is the future (the founding of Rome), and he is the transitionary figure destined to bring th...
and a pragmatic one. From its inception, the Constitutional Convention was more concerned with economics than ideals. The majori...
for the era in which Bach had produced these variations (Smith, 1996). The Advent melody is represented in four canonic statement...
power to see to it that Stalin took over after his ultimate demise (Pipes, 1994). Nevertheless, their myriad comrade associations...
were now equal, they put into place a system of support that would forever keep many African Americans in a position of submission...
went to Yale to get his law degree he would coach football, and while many lawyers managed to find a way to stay out of war, Ford ...
historiography of Penn scholarship to-date. However, it would have been enlightening and perhaps made his text more appealing to h...
drive toward free speech and political freedom" (Rath, 1994, p. 530). The unrest became increasingly obvious with no chance to "q...
society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...
whites. Thats why its so disturbing to read that the South African government, as recently as 1968, was passing laws to perpetuat...
the role of the All-American boy so often, Reagan began identify with that persona. When World War II broke out, Reagan narrated ...
to other companies. It is likely that many seeking to upgrade or change their own systems already are using software tools more w...
(Kemerling, 2002). Lacking professional teacher training, Socrates elected to do some "free-wheeling" by partaking of spirited di...
did this come about? In what ways did you help them? How did this make you feel personally? Did you find it to be a rewarding exp...
been so completely dependent on the perception of others. His father left his family when Willy was quite young. Consequently, he ...
back by the love of temporal pleasure" (Augustine 167). In accepting Christianity, Augustine records that he "no longer desired a ...