Arcadia

The son of the King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra of Mycenae. After Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War, he was killed by his wife and his cousin Aegisthus. Orestes, a young boy at the time of his father's murder was smuggled to safety by Electra, his sister and taken to stay with their father's old friend King Strophius of Phocis. Strophius raised Orestes with his son Pylades, they became close friends. Upon manhood, Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, since it was the best way to…

progresses that stance seems to change into blaming Callisto for beings raped, this is amplified by both Juno and Diana blaming Callisto for the rape. In the beginning Jove is said to be inspecting the walls of the heavens after a great fire, as he is in Arcadia, Ovid writes the Jove "gets stuck on an Arcadian nymph, Callisto... and passion burns into his deepest marrow" (46; bk. 2, paragraph 5, lines 562-564).…

As a slightly older nontraditional student, my past life experiences have greatly shaped my ambition to want to major in a STEM related field as well as the need for a more global perspective. Last year, I transferred into Arcadia University from a Community College and decided it was time I finish my studies after taking care of a family member. After participating in one of Arcadia’s preview programs abroad, I developed a whole new appreciation for travel and how life experience can…

WINIELYN C. DILOY DEC. 07, 2015 LIT 21B FINAL PAPER Brideshead Revisited -The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder By Evelyn Waugh The novel tells of a story of a middle- aged artist and a Second World War army Captain, Charles Ryder of his involvement with the Flyte family. The story started when Charles Ryder, an undergraduate of Hertford College, University of Oxford was befriended by Sebastian Flyte, the younger son of an aristocratic Lord Marchmain. Having been…

In Jennifer Phang’s 2015 film “Advantageous,” she takes us into the not-so-distant future, in a major American city characterized by unsettling, and in some cases terrifying, dystopian visions. In this visually opulent, but curiously empty city, Phang suggests a future where women are becoming sterile from environmental and psychological stress; children are homeless and prostituted; and everyone ruthlessly calculates how to secure a future for themselves and their children by scrabbling to the…

This case has been popularised as the ADVOCAAT case. It was this case in which the concept of passing off was identified. In Erven Warnink B. V. v. J. Townend & Sons, there were two companies; the first company (Warnink) was from Netherlands and it was into production of a beverage which was the resultant of yolk eggs and brandewijn spirit and it was named as ADVOCAAT. The second company (Townend), which were the defendants was an English company and it was into the production of a drink which…

After the discovery of DNA by the Austrian monk, Gergel Mendel, crossbreeding between the same organisms has been practiced for a long period. The long duration that crossbreeding takes to get the favorable trait encourages scientists to discover a new, and faster method of introducing DNA to an organism. Scientists use the technique called genetic engineering which helps in transferring genes to the targeted organism to get the advantageous characteristics. Genetically modified foods are foods…

guided me to conceive of worlds beyond the scope of what was, to -what might be. Passive diversions, like reading books, and watching television allowed me to experience a reality beyond my conscious perception… Then, one day, I discovered my boyhood Arcadia –the gaming arcade. Suddenly, my imagination and appetite for adventure were piqued by a new medium of fantasy fulfillment, the video game, which ushered in an entirely new facet…

In the narrative, The Histories, Xerxes Invades Greece, Herodotus, also known as the “father of history”, attempted to capture what a free society could achieve when they worked together in the form of the poleis. He did this by showing the differences between the Persian and Greek soldiers and their mindsets during the Persian War. Herodotus wrote this narrative after the Persian War was over and during the early years of the Peloponnesian War which was around 431 B.C.E. Herodotus believed…

Hermes, or Roman Mercury, is the divine messenger, particularly delivering the dictates of Zeus himself. He is the god of travelers and roads, often depicted wearing a travelers hat, sandals, and carrying a heralds wand that has two snakes entwined on it which could be a symbol for Hermes as a god of fertility. He is also the guide of souls to the underworld. Hermes is also depicted as a thief and a trickster and is the patron of youths in their late teens. Statues of Hermes are called Herms,…