Alter ego

The 14th century Arthurian romance “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” opens with a description of the fall of Troy and subsequent founding of Rome and Britain, introducing an idea the author revisits numerous times: the necessity of destruction to growth, death to life. The poem could, itself, be said to follow an overarching life cycle; it begins and ends in matching references to Brutus and is propelled by stanzas that feel cyclic in their rhyming five line closes. To be less abstract, however…

versus evil sides, in one person. People try to control their good and bad personalities, but can evil be controlled. In this classic of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson shows the difference between the gentleman Dr. Jekyll and his alter ego Mr. Hyde. In the year of publication in Victorian England because of crimes many people were frightened after reading the novel. This novel takes readers on a mysterious journey through a case of murder and the transformation of Dr. Jekyll…

He has a real life alter ego by the name of Mike Aponte. Aponte would agree, one of the points the movie got right, was that the M.I.T. teams would carry money on their bodies to get through airport security. Mike said that if they carried chips in their carryon bags, that security…

Rorschach hero or not? “A hero can be anyone even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy’s shoulder to let him know that the world hadn’t ended” (Batman). Alongside batman with one of the first comics with superheroes created, there is a graphic novel called Watchmen where numerous everyday people dress up in costumes and run around the streets fighting crime. In addition, the comic also represents the main events that occurred during the year when…

others because there were both men and woman playing. In the other bands, there were only men. This band was also different from the other jazz concert I attended because they had guitars in this band. The two songs this jazz band played were, “Alter Ego” by James Williams and “Kozo’s Waltz” by Lee Morgan. I liked how during the first song, while someone had a solo, some of the other instruments would lightly play in the background. For example, while one of the men on the guitar had his solo,…

complex. CBT, however, takes a here and now perspective. From a Psychodynamic approach, individuals are seen to be driven by unconscious desires, whereas CBT state that beliefs are learned, not innate, and can be revised. Psychodynamic theory focuses on ego development and an interpersonal focus, while CBT focuses on dysfunctional and maladaptive cognitions. Looking at the differences in the therapeutic interventions between Psychodynamic Approach and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy the key…

Knowledge is information acquired by an individual through experience and education. Knowledge is something to be praised but also to be feared. As an individual’s intentions become tainted during the quest for the thirst for knowledge, the knowledge then acts as a form of self destruction. The theme of destructive knowledge is seen throughout Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, as well as in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by William Coleridge and The Bible. Throughout the novel Frankenstein,…

Waddy’s second classification of characters are the ones who tend to create homes for themselves, and, as they do, they become more fond of what they have created and more defined by it. Their home becomes their alter ego. She calls this category the Promethean pattern, for the characters have left one home and, usually through a good deal of work, created another. This pattern is obvious in literature of physical survival, but is present also in stories of psychic survival. Peter pan belongs to…

not worship the large Parthenon of deities found in Hinduism. Buddhism attempts to help the individual conquer the suffering and mutability of human existence through the elimination of desire and ego and attainment of the state of nirvana. In addition, Taoism is ineffable and beyond our ability to alter or change. Lao Tzu, the founder, emphasized the importance of the effortless non-striving and living in…

Devastating, frightening and incomprehensible, school shootings are hardly new to the United States of America. Statistics gathered from just ten school shootings, account for one hundred and thirty-three dead and one hundred and forty-two injured, representing the work product of America’s ten deadliest school shooters. To qualify as one of the ten deadliest, the shooter must have struck a minimum of ten individuals and caused at least five deaths. Yet, the question remains, what type of person…