...Hope for New Order Declaring a man’s innocence is a form of justice, one that ultimately leads the city of Athens to order. When one commits acts of violence, a fair trial is given to the individual in order to judge whether they are guilty or innocent. Throughout the play, the readers witness Orestes’s discharge after being tried for matricide; his innocence fosters new hope and order for the city of Athens. In Aeschylus’, Oresteia, the acquittal of Orestes provides a just resolution of tragic events through the elimination of violence for violence, the new role of the Furies within the Athenian society and ultimately, the restoration of order through a structured legal system. In the beginning of the play, one is able to recognize the wicked curse that plagues the House of Atreus. The House of Atreus is under a curse that began with a dispute between two brothers, Atreus and Thyestes. Atreus slaughtered Thyestes’s children and served them as a feast. Thyestes unknowingly devoured his own children and in result, condemns a curse within the House of Atreus. One act of violence will foreshadow a continuous cycle of violence and revenge upon the House of Atreus. A sense of fear is evoked through the beginning speech of the watchman as he depicts a clear vision of adversity to arise. In his speech, the watchman portrays his glory in Agamemnon’s return from Troy, however speaks of misfortune that he is not able to express. The watchman describes his fear of future events, “Whenever...
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...social and economic affairs. He ran for president three times but was never elected. Despite this, Ron Paul continues the fight against big government and has helped form a son who can follow in his footprints. Rand Paul was born in his father's home state of Pennsylvania. He is a middle child, having 3 other siblings as well. When his father picked up politics, Rand followed. A member of the Christian church, he spent most of his teenage years assisting his father in his campaigns, and studying Austrian economics. He was an athlete as well as a scholar, playing football and swimming throughout his high school years. He attended Baylor University for his undergraduate, and his father’s alma mater, Duke University. He completed his master’s degree in medicine in 1988. His medicinal career brought him to Kentucky, where he would begin his political career. To this day, he continues his medicinal practices, despite being a politician as well. When it came time for a new senator in Kentucky to take over, Rand was ready. Being the son of a politician helped immensely. Not only did Rand Paul have the endorsement of his well-respected father, but he had plenty of prior political experience as well. He was not only an assistant for his father's campaign but a spokesperson as well, delivering speeches and going door to door campaigning. All of this experience all but ensured his victory. During his campaign, he broke the record for political fundraising in Kentucky within a 24 hour...
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...personality and psychologists cannot agree on a definition of personality. They understand that it is what makes each person unique, but other than that they are baffled. This is not from a lack of trying. Many theorists have been studying personality for years. Sigmund Freud has theorized many things about personality and his work is still being used today. Nature verse nurture is another debate in the personality world. Psychologists cannot come to a conclusion as to whether it is genetics or the environment that gives people their personality. Psychologists have theorized many ways as to how people obtain their personality, whether it is nature or nurture; this paper will discuss that topic. The word personality has no set in stone meaning. The reason for this is because psychologists cannot agree on the meaning. Each branch of psychology will think that the meaning of personality is different, as well as each psychologist within the branch thinking that the meaning is different. Although psychologists do not agree on the same definition they can agree on what it does to a point; this is the generic definition of personality. They agree that personality is the characteristics and traits of a person that attribute to each person’s own behavior. Since psychologists cannot agree on just one definition of personality, many psychologists have come up with theories for what it is and different concepts about it. According to Feist & Feist (2009),” A scientific theory is a set...
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...In The Chosen by Chaim Potok, Danny’s typical day consists of going to his father’s Hasidic Yeshiva, undergoing annual debates on various Jewish topics, and in between he sneaks off to the public library. Danny’s character exhibits intelligence, loneliness, and confliction between two worlds. Danny’s confliction lies between pursuing his dreams or obeying his father’s will. He must choose between replacing his father’s position of rabbi for his closed in community or becoming a psychologist for the outside world. Danny believes that if he accepts the role of rabbi he will feel enclosed in the responsibility resulting in losing his own interests. The burden of others will suppress his independent thought. “Do know what it’s like to be trapped?...
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...The Desire for Success in the Family Nearly everyone has something they wish to achieve, whether it is financial surplus, a happy family, good grades, and beyond. This desired end goal creates a personal idea of success. Frequently, authors explore the idea of success through different characters and backgrounds. Throughout E. L. Doctorow’s The Writer in the Family, the main character, Jonathan, uses his recently deceased father’s definition of success to shape his own, even if it results in a bit of family drama. Right at the story’s commencement, the narrator begins to define what success is to him. His father, Jack, has recently died, but his grandmother of ninety is not even aware that Jack has been ill . Thus, Jonathan’s aunt...
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...Rhetoric is commonly used to win debates and prove points. This form of persuasion is commonly found the political fiction in All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren. The majority of the debates in the novel involve a big idea of some sort, such as politics or morality. One example is an argument between Anne Stanton and her brother Adam about whether or not he should accept a job at the new hospital being built by Governor Talos. Their friend, Jack Burden becomes involved as well. Anne Stanton thinks wants her brother to accept the job. For her, this debate is moral. She believes Adam can “do good” by working there, which she calls “his duty” (Warren 344). Here, Anne uses the rhetorical strategy of ethos, which is by definition “argument by character” (Heinrichs 40). She believes it is morally right for Adam to work at the hospital, and she is trying to convince him to believe the same thing....
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...Bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in May of 1957. His father, Mohammed bin Oud bin Laden, had twenty four sons and thirty daughters. Mohammed had a successful contracting business working for the Saudi royal family; therefore, the bin Laden family was very wealthy. Osama was the seventeenth of fifty-four children to his father’s eleventh wife. Since he had so many siblings, psychiatrist Colin Ross believes, “There is no way that Osama bin Laden had a satisfying, intimate, personal relationship with his father. He must have been emotionally starved for his father’s love and affection. He must have been sad, lost, lonely, and resentful. He must have been an emotionally neglected child.” There were two ways young Osama could receive the attention he needed: thoroughly study the Sunni Muslim religion because his father appreciated religious debate, and enjoy the desert camp his father would take them to every year where they would shoot guns and ride...
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...This paper is about abortion, but more importantly it’s about fully understanding the process and results. Many people have opinions on the matter, but they have not looked into the decision completely. If you ever want to start a debate that could go on for quite a while, then bring up the topic of abortion. Even forty years after the Supreme Court decision, Roe versus Wade, people of the United States of America are split down the middle on this issue. There are two very powerful sides to such a provocative topic. On one side, there are the pro-choice supporters and on the other are the pro-life supporters. People may not fully understand everything about abortion, so they will jump on the side that makes the better case. In...
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...parts that tells of Emily Grierson’s death and the stories leading up to and surrounding it. The first section of the story talks about the death of Emily and how everyone had come to her home for her funeral. The inside of her home had not been seen in over a decade. When she was alive she was told by the town mayor, Colonel Sartoris that she would not have to pay taxes due to the large sum her father had lent to the town at one time. When new leaders of the town came along, they tried, though unsuccessfully, to make her pay taxes. She told them that she was not required to pay taxes and that they need to take it up with Colonel Sartoris. However he had been dead at that point for almost a decade. The second part goes on about Emily’s father’s death and how she was still single by the time she turned 30. Everyone in the town thought that the Griersons believed that they were better than everyone and that her dad chased away all potential suitors because no one was good enough for her. This...
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...people tremble upon the subject of death and it even haunts many to think of dying, this is why and how Shakespeare found a way to captivate his audience. This is evident when Hamlet says "while, to my shame, I see the imminent death of twenty thousand men, that for a fantasy and trick of fame, Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, which is not tomb enough and continent to hide the slain?" (IV, iv, 59-65). Here Hamlet expresses the great number of people that are being slaughtered in comparison to the one man who he is destined to kill to avenge his father. The audience analyzes this and now understands what it means to take a life. Shakespeare shows the slaughter that is being done in such mass amounts for useless reason and compares it to if Hamlet were to avenge his father's death with good reason. This makes his thirst for revenge seem less crude and the audience figures they Hamlet would be more justified in avenging his father. Shakespeare also presents the conquest for Poland as an act of worthless sacrifice as viewed in the eye of...
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...The tone in this chapter is hard to understand. I can't really understand how to decode Elie’s thoughts. This tone is now being about mood. I feel that he is very scared from the SS men and how he can evade them and how to get out of the camp. He is scared for his life and for his father's. He has seen the hangings and what the SS can accomplish when they get tired of what the jews are doing. He doesn't want to die and he doesn't feel alive anymore, he wants to be free like all others in the camps worldwide. He just wants to go home and not have to worry about his safety in the camp. And he just doesn't want to go back to Auschwitz. Another is danger. He feels the constant danger of being killed by the SS and he is also in danger of other...
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... such as free will versus determinism and good versus evil. East of Eden concludes with possibly the most important word in the entire book: timshel. Despite the copious amount of pages that were devoted to debate of the true meaning of timshel, the word still possesses a rather ambiguous definition as it can be translated as thou shalt, thou must, or thou mayest. While, at first glance, these definitions seem similar enough to be used interchangeably, the definition the reader chooses to accept will greatly influence their interpretation...
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...Elizabeth Cady Stanton has many titles associated with her name: wife, mother, abolitionist, suffragist, social activist, but mainly a protector, defender, and fighter of women’s rights. From the age of twenty-five up until her death at age eighty-six, Stanton was involved publicly in speaking out in favor of social reforms, especially those that concerned women. Unlike other female activists of her time, she would speak directly in front of state and federal legislative bodies in order to accomplish whatever she set her mind to. As this paper, will suggest, by examining her influences in youth, her work, and her legacy, Stanton was one of the forefront activists during her lifetime, constantly pushing and arguing for what she deemed as necessary and right....
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...Compare the presentation of Abigail in ‘The Jew of Malta’ and with that of Jessica in ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and explain the dramatic purpose they fulfill. ‘Beautiful Abigail and Jessica serve to contrast with the hyperbolic representation of Judaism presented by their fathers.’ Jessica and Abigail both have a variety of different similarities and differences. Both are from wealth obsessed, single parent families that are controlling and manipulative. Their fathers are seen as protagonists throughout both the plays and similarly are both from a Jewish background. This makes the audience prejudge them as inferior characters with possible sinful traits. On the other hand, both are accepted by the remaining characters in which believe in the Christian religion. As well as similar backgrounds and basic character personalities they also portrait the stereotypical Jewish actions towards situations. In Elizabethan times Jews were discriminated and prejudged in the status focused society. They were accused for stealing, adultery and other Christian sins. In the play, both the father-dependent daughters commit the sin of stealing. Abigail steals from the nunnery to retrieve her fathers’ misplaced wealth. ‘Thus father shall I much dissemble…then father here receive thy happiness.” She describes the money as her fathers ‘happiness.’ This indicates that her reason for completing the sin was to fulfill her fathers’ desire. This shows dramatic purpose because it allows the audience...
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...Based on a true story, the plot revolves around the efforts of debate coach Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington) at historically black Wiley College to place his team on equal footing with whites in the American South during the 1930s, when Jim Crow laws were common and lynch mobs were a pervasive fear for blacks. In the movie, the Wiley team eventually succeeds to the point where they are able to debate Harvard University. This was their 47th annual debate team. Released in 2007, Denzel Washington’s The Great Debaters was presented to the world in order to tell the story of Wiley College’s debate triumphs. While certain facts were altered for the sake of creating the film, such as the final debate being between Wiley College and Harvard rather than USC, the story of the Wiley College debate team has been a model of and for the Urban Debate League (UDL) Movement. The movie begins with a scene following Henry Lowe that is simultaneously overlaid with a speech given by Dr. James Farmer. The speech is directed at incoming students and covers topics such as maturity and discipline, preaching that “you must do what you have to do so you can do what you want to do” (4:08) Henry is attending a party at a barn where he finds himself in a fight with another man at the party. He threatens to kill the man when he pins him to the ground. At the last moment, Melvin Tolson, a professor and director of the Wiley College debate team, stops Henry from harming the man further. Sometime...
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