A Great and Terrible Beauty

Plato is the philosopher who has more influence on Western culture. At twenty he became a disciple of Socrates whom he considered his teacher and whose shameful death sentence left him marked forever. His ephemeral career in politics and as a founder of the academy led him to reflect on the problems that affect human beings. In this short analysis I will explain my understanding of the allegory of the cave and its different elements applied to today’s society base on my interpretation which is…

leathery-dry, he knew the story he wanted to tell. The artist’s origins lay on Crete. Of all the connections between the artist’s world today and this mysterious land of the past, one story was etched in the young artist’s brain. A terrible beast lived in the palace of the great king of Crete. When placed under a spell, the Cretan queen had fallen in love with a majestic bull and they conceived the Minotaur. The king of Crete trapped the creature, which was half bull and half man, in the center…

Hi readers! I would love to start off by saying I had absolutely no intention of writing about anything truly personal for my first post. But for some reason this was weighing on my heart to share with you. I'm gonna be talking about being broken. Just the other day Sabrina posted a beautiful post titled, Embracing the Broken Pieces, where she shared her brokenness and the love of God that a sweet woman showed her! After reading her piece I knew for sure I was supposed to share this. Because…

monster Frankenstein’s creation would become. The Monster causes most of the problems in this book. If one throws aside the Monster’s motivation the Monster is the true monster. He caused most of the deaths and murdered out of self pity. This is a great example of deconstruction and shows that works are open to endless possibilities of interpretation and are not limited to the binds of language, only by the imagination. Janet Tay breaks down why multiple parties could be considered the true…

Team of Rivals was written by Doris Goodwin in 2005. Although it was written in the past decade, it steps into the world of Abraham Lincoln and political regime. It is an outstanding biography that was great to read. Doris Goodwin, born January 4th, 1943, is an American biographer and historian. She has written numerous books outside of Team of Rivals that have also gained high popularity. Goodwin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for her previous book, No Ordinary Time. Team of Rivals takes an…

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reading’ of the play The Tragedy of Hamlet; Prince of Denmark that Hamlet was simply a man of inaction, which is incorrect in that Hamlet did not act because of his religious stance on the topic of murder at the time the play was written, and this had a great deal of consequences. The Tragedy of Hamlet; Prince of Denmark, is a tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, published in 1603. The religious teachings of the time were against murder, which had a very influential impact on the…

ways. It is important to look at the appropriation acts, because these caused a lot of issues regarding land. Specifically, the Indian Appropriation Act of 1851, which “forced Native Americans in the South to leave their homelands and move to the Great Plains” (Bringing History Home 2005). These American Indians lost their land and “white people were allowed to seize and settle in the former tribal lands” (Bringing History Home 2005). The government showed disrespect to the American Indians…

Robert Crisp gives an example of this by comparing a person P that is a brave person who wrote a great book and made great discoveries regarding science, and a person Q that is connected to an experience machine. Person P would have all the qualities that Nozick said also matters to us in order to live such a wonderful, fulfilling life. The same experiences person…

After a few minutes he returned with an ancient looking box from the 1700s. It was full of pictures, documents, and one garnet necklace. “Our family is cursed.” she said. Without giving him a chance to respond she proceeded to tell him about the terrible past of their family. “The reason the men in this family don’t live to see thirty is because of your ancestor Gibson McConnaughey. He took this necklace from a slave who turned out to be a witch doctor in her tribe.” she said. “Is there any way…