A Game of Thrones

nation. However, Cleopatra was headstrong and determined. She wanted to lead her county to the splendour of its prior days. Subsequently, Ptolemy’s advisers drove Cleopatra out of Egypt by the time she was 20 years old. In her resolve to contest her throne, Cleopatra assembled an…

Rape culture is something that has been in the news, online, and in the media pretty regularly lately, but what is rape culture? In order to understand it we first have to define it. When you think of culture, what do you picture in your mind? For most of us it is a group of people or a society. That is not what a culture is. Culture is defined by Merriam-Webster as, “The act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education.” That means that culture is a learned set of…

Television Coverage: Scott O’Brien It is estimated that there are 109.6 million televisions that a child spends an average 4 hours a day watching television (Huston &Wright, University of Kansas). This accounts for children spending more time watching television than any other activities (including sleep). The children in this study were 7 to 17 years of age, which is an impressionable age. Since they are spending so much time watching television, one may infer that they are learning about sex…

The fictional story of Liz’s life and death deserves a place in the magical realism genre. Written by Gabrielle Zevin in her novel “Elsewhere”. The story fulfils all five points of magical realism: lyrical/fantastic writing, an examination of human existence, criticism of society, cultural hybridity, and authorial reticence. Done in two-hundred and seventy-five pages though the viewpoint of Elizabeth Hall. It starts with an examination of human existence early on. Through the mind of their…

He knew if he increased the size of the army the chances of revolts against the government would increase, however, he thought protecting the frontiers from intruders was more of a necessity than protecting his throne. He decided to first expand the army and then find ways to keep them from revolting. He nearly doubled the size of the army and stationed most of the men to the east. Diocletian also expanded the navy’s size by almost 20,000 men. “Since there were…

once-dead-turned-alive-now-dead-again wife pretty quickly, and has clearly had some temporary amnesia to forget that he killed a whole bunch of people and is hated by pretty much everyone, especially Julia. Well, unless this show has suddenly become Game of Thrones (Game of Thrones really needs some domes to make it more interesting). Big Jim let the pair go, and allowed them to take the ladder that they needed, because he’s just that nice of a guy. Or my amnesia theory was accurate. He didn’t…

playing a game of risk, showing an aggressive hand just enough to provoke condemnation, but slight enough to avoid another international arms race- as of yet. Succeeding the Soviet Union as a permanent member of the U.N Security Council, the latter half of our 21st century has seen the Kremlin all but reject the principles of allegiance and armistice the United Nations was fashioned to uphold. Deep-seated into the fifteenth year of Vladimir Putin's ideological campaign for reclaiming a throne…

did kill the innocent person they would have acted immorally. In Game of Thrones, a character named Viserys Targaryen sells his sister Daenerys Targaryen into marriage to Khal Drogo, the leader of the Dothraki tribe. Viserys’s reason for doing so is so that the Dothraki soldiers would be on his side when the time came for him to go back to his homeland, overthrow the current leader and take his (Viserys’s) rightful place on the throne (Martin). According to Deontology, Viserys used his sister as…

Plagiarism; the act of using another person 's words or ideas without giving credit to that person (Merriam-Webster), or in a simpler sense, “Todd I forgot to do the math assignment last night because I was watching Game of Thrones, now let me copy your homework, or else I’m not inviting you to my Halloween Party.” These acts include passing off someone’s work as your own, not citing properly, or turning your own previous work in for another teacher. There is even accidental plagiarism where you…

Most people in the United States have watched TV. The programs that people watch show people doing things that aren’t usually seen in an ordinary day, and because of this Barbara Ehrenreich argues that TV is unrealistic and does not represent real people in the real world. (claim)Ehrenreich is correct in saying that TV is unrealistic, yet while she is trying to show this as a negative quality, this is actually the very purpose of most TV. Most of the best TV shows and movies are very unrealistic…