...understood him they would surely have built noble temples and altars, and offered solemn sacrifices in his honour; but this is not done, and most certainly ought to be done: since of all the gods he is the best friend of men, the helper and the healer of the ills which are the great impediment to the happiness of the race. I will try to describe his power to you, and you shall teach the rest of the world what I am teaching you. In the first place, let me treat of the nature of man and what has happened to it. The original human nature was not like the present, but different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally three in number; there was man, woman, and the union of the two, of which the name survives but nothing else. Once it was a distinct kind, with a bodily shape and a name of its own, constituted by the union of the male and the female: but now only the word 'androgynous' is preserved, and that as a term of reproach. In the second place, the primeval man was round, his back and sides forming a circle; and he had four hands and the same number of feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite ways, set on a round neck and precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder to correspond. He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards as he pleased, and he could also roll over and over at a great pace, turning on his four hands and four feet, eight in all,...
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...and often attacked the colonists making the natives a problem for the colony. According to J. Fredrick Fausz, "an abundance of bloodshed on both sides: England's First Indian war, 1909-1614, "the Virginia magazine of history and biography, January 1990 during the first year of the colony two people died from attacks at fort James then three more die from ambushes, then kill two more to capture captain John smith,then in 1609-1610 the killed 60 out of 120 stationed near the falls, and of one hundred men arriving they killed about half, finally during a siege they killed 33 more men. During the years of early Jamestown natives were a large threat primarily because of many attacks and sieges including natives killing half of 120 men stationed near the falls and when 100 new men arrived they killed about half of them making natives a large cause of many deaths....
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...hands, four legs, two heads, two sets of genitals, and so on. They could move both forward and backward and would run by spinning themselves around cartwheel-like on all eight limbs. Males were descended from the sun, females from the earth, and those who were androgynous were descended from the moon. They were very powerful and vigorous and made threatening attacks on the gods. The gods did not want to destroy them because they would then forfeit the sacrifices humans made to them, so Zeus decided to cut each person in two. He also suggested that if this didn't settle humans down, he would cut them in two once again and they would have to hop about on one leg. As each person was cut in two, Apollo turned their heads and necks around so that they would be facing toward the gash that had been made, so as to remind them constantly of the punishment they had been dealt. He also pulled their skin tight to cover up this gash, tying it together at the navel. Because they longed for their original nature, people kept trying to find their other half and reunite with it. When they found their other half, they would embrace and stay together, not wanting anything else. Eventually, people started dying of hunger or general inactivity. Zeus took pity on them, and moved their genitals around so that they would be facing frontward. This way, when they embraced, they could have sexual intercourse, and those who were formerly androgynous could reproduce, and even two men who came together...
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...Forms of Love in Plato's Symposium Love, in classical Greek literature, is commonly considered as a prominent theme. Love, in present days, always appears in the categories of books, movies or music, etc. Interpreted differently by different people, Love turns into a multi-faceted being. In Plato’s work Symposium, Phaedrus, Pausania, Eryximachus, Aristophane and Agathon, each of them presents a speech to either praise or definite Love. Phaedrus first points out that Love is the primordial god; Pausanias brings the theme of “virtue” into the discussion and categorizes Love into “good” one or “bad” one; Eryximachus introduces the thought of “moderation’ and thinks that Love governs such fields as medicine and music; Aristophanes draws attention to the origin and purposes of Love; Agathon enunciates that the correct way to present an eulogy is first to praise its nature and gifts. As the last speaker, and the most important one, Socrates connects his ideas with Diotima of Mantinea’s story of Love’s origin, nature and purpose. Different from the earlier five speakers who regard Love as an object and praise different sides of it, Socrates, referring to Diotima’s idea, considers Love as a pursuit of beauty gradually from “physical beauty of people in general” (Symposium, Plato, 55) to the “true beauty” (55). The first five speeches bond with each other. Each of them mentions the opinions of the former one in order to either support or against them. However, just like the elements...
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...Although Satyrs and Centaurs are both half-human, or half-male, and half-animal, they are both different from each other. Powell’s Classical Myth, Buxton’s The Complete World of Greek Mythology, and in Euripides’ The Cyclops, gave us a clear difference between the two. Even though they are both half-human, half-animal, they have a difference in the way they act. The two may be very similar, but act completely different. In Euripides’ The Cyclops, Odysseus asked Silenus to sell him some food because him and his men are hungry. Although they did not have any money, he offers to pay Silenus in wine. Once he mentions the wine Silenus becomes frantic and is curious where the wine is. Once he gets a single drink of wine he becomes care free and starts to become comical. Odysseus asks of some cheese or lamb and Silenus replies, “Right Away, I don’t give a hoot for any master. I would go mad for a cup of wine. I’d give away the herds of all the...
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...GIRLS' EDUCATION İN MOROCCO The men and women are two wheels of the society. If one the falls defective, the society cannot make progress. So we need education for the women as we need for the males. Educated females are very important because they become role models, leaders, and most importantly, mothers. If they are educated, their children which can break the cycle of poverty and lift a society. In different countries there are many several perspective about education of girls. It is a well-known fact that generally muslim countries except for countries, which don't become westernized, have lots of biases about females' education. In this essay I shall analyze girls' education in Morocco. First of all the statistics show that around 60% of women in Morocco are illiterate and also in some rural areas more than 90% cannot read. These numbers are incredibly terrible. However many educated women in Morocco also they are spiritual leaders, who are called Morchidats, have a mission to teach “true Islam” to girls and women. They believe that Islam based on compassion tolerence and equality. They are trying to seperate its true teaching from bias, misunderstanding and misinterpretation. Simply their aim is that they are striving to build a better society with gender equality, acsess...
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...sale of commercial products or services”. Old Spice is a prominent American brand of male hygienic products. The first Old Spice product was intended for women, introduced in 1937. Old Spice for men followed in 1938. The first advertisement I chose was published in 1945 the advertisement shows a man’s shaving kit with the logo “FOR THAT AMERICAN FEELING OF WELL BEING”. The second advertisement I chose was published in 2010 this advertisement is for a man’s deodorant with the logo “Residue is Evil STOP IT”. The Old Spice advertisements capture men by reaching out to their needs and giving them the ideal of what they should smell like. The first advertisement is focused mainly on the product, which is the first thing you notice when you look at this advertisement. The top half of the backdrop is black, which allows the product to standout. The products are displayed staggered. In the top left corner you see two bright red boxes with the white bottles of Old Spice Talcum for men and Old Spice After- Shave Lotion in front of them. In the middle is a wood box with the Old Spice Shaving Soap displayed in a mug in front. On the bottom left are two bars of Old Spice Bath Soap displayed in a wooden box. Each product displays the Old Spice trademark sailing ship. The only words on the top half of this advertisement are “EARLY AMERICAN Old Spice SHAVING REQUISITES”. By using...
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...It was a warm day on March 28, 1862 in Glorieta Pass when my brother came running through the door. "The Unions are coming! And the Confederates!" I looked at him with a blank stare. They were supposed to be at Pigeon's Ranch, which, guaranteed, wasn't too far away but still. I had heard about the war between the Confederates and the Union, the Civil War, but why would they be coming here? To our part of the town? Just then, I heard gunshots coming from outside. I looked out our window and saw men in dark blue uniforms , and on the other side, there were some people in gray uniforms and some people with regular farming clothes on. On the side with the dark blue uniforms, I recognized two of the men- Colonel John R. Slough and Major John Chivington....
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...Collateral Murder Morgan Pollock 496751 LM2A Table of content Final draft Page 3 First draft Page 7 Second draft Page 9 Third draft Page 12 Sources Page 16 Collateral Murder By Morgan Pollock On April 4th, 2010, a whistle-blowing website by the name of Wikileaks, released a classified United States military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Bagdad by an Apache helicopter crew (collateralmurder.com). Among the victims killed were two Reuters news reporters, Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh . The video also contains an audio track of the soldiers voices responsible for the attack in which they laugh about the unprovoked slaughter. The following document covers, in detail, the events that unfold during the video, an extract from the U.S Military Rules Of Engagement for Iraq and in what ways they were violated by the soldiers in question and what happened during the days after the attack. It concludes with a brief discussion of the video by Wikileaks and the effects it has had. All the points in this document will provide evidence that proves, that the actions taken by the crew of the Apache helicopter were unwarranted and despicable. At 9:50 am, on the day of July 12th 2007, U.S. armed forces received reports of small arms fire in a Baghdad suburb of New Bagdad. The military claims it was unable to positively identify the...
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...this because racism led to slavery and they did not think that it was right for one race to serve the other. Mostly all of the states up in the north had voted and banned slavery for that state, but the states in the south still liked the idea of it and did not agree to ban it. There were a lot of different times that racism had occurred back then, mostly in the eighteen hundreds, but two of the most known times were the “Scottsboro Boys Trials” and the “Emmett Till Murder”. Also the Tom Robinson case in a very famous book called To Kill A Mockingbird is an excellent example of racism not only from an individual but from a whole town. There are still a lot of times today that racism could be accounted for, one of the major times is the racism that started after the nine eleven incident that had...
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...Conan Doyle Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece by W.H.D. Rouse General instructions for answers to all journal questions: After reading the books named above, each student is to prepare a journal to be handed to his English teacher on the first day of his English class. The journal must be neatly handwritten in blue or black ink—not typed—on lined loose-leaf paper and on only one side of the paper. All of the questions for each required book are to be answered in this journal. Be sure to answer thoroughly every question not only by providing the answer but also by citing and discussing several quotes and/or examples (a minimum of three) from the book to support each of your answers. Average length of each paragraph should be a minimum of 100 words (approximately one-half page or more). All responses must be written in complete sentences with close attention to all words spelled and capitalized correctly. In addition, students should avoid writing fragments and run-on sentences. When the journal is complete, each student should fasten the entire report into a binder or folder. No typed journals will ever be accepted. Journal Questions for Required Reading Shane 1. In the New Testament, Jesus teaches us to “love our enemies” and to “turn the other cheek” when provoked. However, Shane is viewed as a hero when he is provoked to violence. Using direct references from the text, write a minimum of two paragraphs discussing two different incidents in which...
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...time stamps to manipulate time in a way that emphasizes the immediacy of these actions and alters time as if it were real-time in order to show how Middle Easterners are often “othered” in a post-9/11 world. After the President of the United States has learned of the impending terrorist attack that is to occur in Los Angeles later that day, he says to a colleague that “there is a terrorist with his finger on a trigger, and [they’ve] got to get him.” While he is giving this statement, the episode employs a windowing effect in which the president is speaking in the top half of the screen and a Middle Eastern man, named Reza Naiyeer, is presented on the bottom half while he is driving in a convertible and speaking Arabic on the phone. The use of windowing in this scene helps present time as compressed by placing these two separate events simultaneously in the same screen, thus leading the audience to believe that these two events are related and that the Middle Eastern man is a terrorist involved in the anticipated attack. The placement of the president on top of Reza in this compressed windowing effect also exemplifies a portrayal...
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...ago, men sailed across the vast ocean to this relatively unknown land for a new life. Upon arrival to the island, scouts were sent east and west to map out the land. The people who stayed at the landing point built a small town, and named it Prima Urbium. Then, the leaders of the town named the island Megalosterra. The people waited for ten years before the scouts from the east returned, and twelve years before the scouts from the west returned. Both brought back very different information. To the east, it is very dry and arid, with one enormous lake that stretched miles without end. Also, a major canyon system, which goes down hundreds of feet and makes a flat bottom, lies directly in between the lake and the ocean. At the bottom of the canyon, there is...
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... Pg. 3 2. Evidence Pg. 3-4 3. Counter-Arguments Pg. 4-6 4. Conclusion Pg. 7 5.Citations. Pg. 8 Aristotle’s approach to philosophy is a little different from Plato’s. Aristotle was fascinated by the intellectual challenge of forming categories and breaking down forms of knowledge whether it were in writing or being performed in a play. Plato would elaborate on the central concern of love between men and gods, the proper kind of love that must be maintained to attempt to cure the kind of love that is dead (Plato pg. 880). With the knowledge gained from learning about Plato’s philosophy of love and Aristotle’s thirst to preach about how everything can be broken down into systems, I’m leaning toward Plato’s ways of thinking of human nature, and Love in a way but I want to say my heart is on Aristotle’s abstract systems yet direct dry ways. From poetics, Aristotle would speak of the constituent parts of tragedy (Aristotle pg....
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...Often people don't consider Lincoln and Washington as being comparable, despite the fact that the two men are generally number one and number two among America's most appreciated Presidents. To be sure, there is much difference. Washington lived well for the duration of his life. He was naturally introduced to a well-to-do family and later wound up rich. Lincoln's family was poor. For quite a long time he functioned as an unskilled worker. He didn't turn out to be fortunate until the point that he wound up set up as a legal counselor in Springfield. Washington had great associations with Virginia's nobility; Lincoln's family was dark and undistinguished. Washington had broad involvement in the military, and progressed to the rank of general. Lincoln's military experience was restricted to half a month as the chief of a regiment of volunteers operating at a profit Hawk War. Washington was a good looking man, glorious in his bearing. Hardly any at any point utilized the words "great looking" or "superb" to portray Lincoln. Similitudes Both were tall men for their circumstances: Washington 6'3" and Lincoln 6'4." Both wedded ladies who were short. Mary Todd Lincoln and Martha...
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