Blasphemy

Judge Channing Bennett and Avery’s Child Support Walking into the courtroom was an experience in itself, preparing for whatever dull or typical case would entertain my sights for the rest of the hour. A young and nimble man in a hoodless sweatshirt stood poised at the defendant’s table with an empty chair beside him. The prosecutor 's table supplied an older man and a young auburn haired woman, seated and watching as the older man shuffled through paperwork. Two women sat in the benches behind…

The hero’s journey is the layout of which a hero’s adventure starts and comes to an end. This is a common template used by writers in their stories. The hero’s journey can be seen in many different historic literature and continues through today’s literature. Homer’s the Odyssey and the Bible’s Gospel of Matthew, are both examples of the Hero’s journey being used in ancient literature. Through the Hero’s journey, the hero will go through twelve steps to complete their adventure. The first step…

Jamie Oliver is a British Chef who gained his broadcasted fame through the airing of his shows The Naked Chef and Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. He has written many indistinguishable cookbooks. Oliver’s Parents owned a restaurant in Clavering, Essex. Jamie lead his first job in London as the head pastry chef and later became the sous-chef at River Café. Because of his immense talent and skill in the kitchen, this sparked his fame on television. The Naked Chef simplifies the art of food…

Autobiography and Tehmina Durrani Ayesha Anwar Warsi Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Awadh University Faizabad One of the most important and ultimately most controversial is the autobiographical writing which has established itself against the dominant patriarchal grain, allowing for, if not insisting on, alternative interpretations, most specifically the Feminist Reading. In some ways, however, the furious intellectual labor necessitated by a history of exclusion and neglect made the new field of…

Karl Marx, more than any other political philosopher, changed the course of human history with his works, and love him or hate him it is impossible to look through history without seeing the mark he left on it (Reiss, 1: 1997). Through the cold war and his influence on Lenin and Stalin, across China and North Korea, close to home in Cuba, the effects of Marx is everywhere. Though many have said that the age of Marx is dead, and that his theories did not or perhaps never held water, this ignores…

Frederick Douglass and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were both very active abolitionists. These two wrote very good, informative speeches that are important in history. Douglass spoke about his experiences, and his thoughts and beliefs on slavery in his speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” In a speech titled, “Declaration of Sentiments” Stanton wrote about how wrong society was on the topic of women’s rights in a very enticing manner, using the Declaration of Independence as a way of…

A large portion of the population base their entire lives and existence around the ideas discovered through science, doubting the supernatural or the possibility of higher life. What about the ideas science cannot prove or attest to? Sure, the Big Bang Theory is probable with the ability to potentially explain how the universe came to be, however it does not disprove a God or much else for that matter. Moreover, many previously widely believed scientific discoveries have proven to be incorrect.…

An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. This is the age old doctrine of lex talionis, which appears in the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi that has been used as a code of retaliation for thousands of years. Ancient Babylon used lex talionis as a rule used to decide the severity of punishments for the type of crime committed. If a life was taken, then the murderer was put to death: a life for a life (Hood 1). Capital punishment, or the death penalty, is the practice of executing…

The Anglo-Saxon epic poem, Beowulf, describes a man with formidable strength and exceptional quality as a leader. As we see Beowulf become the epitome of an idealistic leader, he provided values and morals that most yearned to have in civilization. However, when constructing the idealistic leader in the story of Beowulf, the contrasting relationship between humans and nature plays a pivotal role in the development of Beowulf. Throughout the entirety of this story, we’re presented this binary…

Sophocles’ Antigone is known as one of the greatest pieces of fiction of all time. Before that accolade is brushed off as a relic of an ancient age, one must truly think of what that means. To be one the greatest anything of all time, something must achieve unheralded greatness with its existence. The drama accomplishes this requirement easily through its key themes and the execution of those themes. Divinity opposing authority, the contrasting classical values of the polis and the oikos,…