Where have all the Heroes gone? Modern mythological heroes in print In ancient human cultures, myths were used to systematically explain the things that they did not have the scientific knowledge to understand. Heroes in these myths were used to teach people about right behavior, honor, mo...

" I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character" This ...

"Gulliver's Travels" is a novel by Jonathan Swift, an Irish writer whose writing functions as social criticism. His sarcasm and his habit of blending facts and fiction together made him a great satirist. This particular novel was written in 1726. Swift, born in Dublin, tells a tale of four voya...

The famous novel All Quiet on the Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque relates the terrible experience of the First World War, its disasters and cruelty, from the perspective of a nineteen year old soldier, called Paul Baümer, who fights on the front accompanied by his former schoolmates. ...

The Xenogenesis trilogy is a one-volume novel entitled, "Lilith's Brood," in 2000 written by Octavia Butler (1989). It is composed of "Dawn," published in 1987; "Adulthood Rites," published in 1988; and "Imago," published in 1989. The trilogy is about an ...

In The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, Ray Kurzweil foretells a future where intelligent machines outnumber carbon-based life forms by the year 2099. While some of his claims may seem fantastic, Kruzwiel's credentials are impeccable, and many of his pr...

Seeing is believing, or so the old adage would have us believe. While a person cannot be sure of those things which he is told, or that which he reads, seeing - ah, that is the proof of reality. However, this id not the case for Percy or Berger. These two existential leaning critics chall...

William Faulkner (1897-1962) is known in the world of literature as the "historian of the negative" and narrator of the dark. In other words, Faulkner was obsessed with the dark side of human mind and in his in-depth psychological exploration of such areas; he would produce stories that were oft...

Introduction: This is a special case for studies in management, especially in today's world where the success of manager's is measured by the annual profits they make for the company. Probably it is one of the few cases of paternalistic styles of management that we shall ...

Cloning: The production of genetic copies. & Clones: A group of genetically identical organisms. Ever since the belief that cloning was a possibility, and especially since it has been developed, it has been a major conflict in the ethical world of values. There are many different pros and con...

Blade Runner and Christianity Director Ridley Scott has a chilling story to tell, and there is a complex web of allegory and meaning lurking in the background. We are unmistakably in a future time, yet this future world is one we can easily recognize, as it is not so different from our own. As with...

The poetry of Carlos Williams is some of the most intriguing yet odd works of literature that I have ever encountered. Untraditional in nature, Williams awed me with his unique style and at the same time, left me shaking my head with a smile at some of his pieces. In the video we viewed in class, Wi...

Life, despite all of its intricacies, can make human beings long for the simplest things. There are pleasures in life that seem so simple yet people spend their entire lives searching for these pleasures. Perhaps the greatest pleasure of all is finding out who one really is. The discovery of where ...

Gilgamesh: Out of the Dark and into the Light Without light, we wouldn't know dark. Without cold, we couldn't know hot. These "systematic dualisms of associated polarities" (Honderich 734), or binary oppositions, are used to illustrate meaning in the story of Gilgamesh. The st...

The Origins Of Human Language And It's Relationship to Animal Communication Systems Human language is one of the most important milestones in human history. Much of our species is dependent on the intricacies of language to generate new ideas, converse...

Am I Blue? It is quite simple to see that the story "Am I Blue" is about a fond relationship between a horse and a woman. However, one may wonder if there is much more to the story than what the words say. In "Am I Blue," Alice Walker conveys her high regard towards animal right...

Through the passage of time, one can look back and reflect on the mistakes of the past, filled with misjudgment and pride. Because of these mistakes, man takes an undulated path of untold horrors and tragic flaws such as that of WWII. WWII is a tragedy in a sense that it was caused by man's in...

Guns, Germs, Steel, and controversy: Diamonds unique look at evolution and history. Through out Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond attempts to explain the dominance of certain ethnicities. The backbone to this book and the questions that Diamond asks and answers, stem from a question asked o...

After hearing the other students in the class speak of the infamous John Keats, my curiosity became sparked. I began to ponder how any man could possess such great writing talent that it had a whole spectrum of students perked by it. This spark of curiosity is what has "pushed" me to loo...

I once saw an artist in New York paint the word: Possibility in large, blue letters on a brick wall. At the time, I'm not sure I understood the significance or the meaning of the work. But now, reflecting on what it meant, I think the artist meant to say that he could have painted anything on t...

Commander's Log Entry 0001 November 21, 1456 N.W. The whole of the new world belongs to the vampires in the year of 1456 N.W. (New World). In 5008 P.E. (Past Earth) all was destroyed by the ruling tyrants of that current time. These tyrants pushed the Earth to her limits and beyond. Th...

Human Dimension Establishing an environmental ethic is of utmost concern to the human species to better comprehend our place in the world and our potentials for the future. In doing so, we must extend our thinking of rights and responsibilities. I believe we must incorporate not only a temporal comp...

Throughout history, violence has been a matter of public fascination. Humans were determined to discover when the use of violence is appropriate by looking at the nature of the violence and the context in which it occurs. In the epic poem, Iliad, Homer uses the Achaean warrior, Achilles, to show the...

Every moment of every day art is created. A person can look at anything for a period of time, and eventually find some artistic quality to it. Will that quality that he or she finds be the same as the artist's, or even the same as the person standing right next to them? Of course not. But ...

Religion is defined as "any specific system of belief or practice that constitutes a code of ethics and some sense of philosophy." This code of ethics, which is called religious morality, points out what is considered to be right and wrong for its followers. Individual morality is also based on the ...