Cerberus

Normally I would avoid cliché terms and avoid referencing overly used pop culture references, but this one is very appropriate given the topic. “War” originally written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong was one of the first politically charged Motown songs wrote in protest of the Vietnam War. First sang by the Temptations this song became the first of many Motown songs to declare political protests on the world climate, but for my generation many recognize the song as being soulfully…

pregnant with her first and only child. When Crayen was born it shook the whole world and the underworld. After six days of being an infant, Crayen turned into a preteen. Persephone gave her son a gift on this day, she gave him Paw, the puppy of Cerberus. Paw also has three heads, but unlike his father, he can make them appear as one. Paw can also run seventy miles an hour, roughly the same as a cheetah. Aldo his bite has poisonous venom that could kill up to sixteen mortals with just a bite…

Grief, bereavement and mourning are worldwide phenomenon but they are conceived differently according to the culture and society. The process, that people need to elaborate the loss and to reconcile with it, is related with how they perceive death, their beliefs about immortality, their historical and religious background, and their cultural traditions. In each culture, rituals and customs surround death, helping people mourn and grieve. Rituals help people express their grief and allowed…

Stories of love have been told many different ways. We tell them in ways that are so fascinating that we think it could not have been possible. Some stories of love between couples we know very well are fictional, and some of them happen in the real world. Fiction or not, it is their stories that have an impact on how we choose to believe in love and how we perceive the stories of these well-known couples. It seems that these couples were sometimes not meant to be together due to outside forces…

experienced when he kills his tutor with a lyre. With this one act, and unbeknownst to him, Hercules set in motion what are referred to as “The Labors of Hercules”, which began with him slaying the Nemean Lion, and ended with the capture and return of Cerberus. It is through these twelve labors that we really see the influence of the “Anima”, because these are all guided by Hera, and through this guidance we see Hercules development. With Hera being the reason that Hercules had to go through…

In the Inferno, Dante begins on ground level and then he continues with his direction descending, going completely through the earth and hell. He winds up at the base of the heap of Purgatory on the opposite side. On the highest point of Purgatory there is the terrestrial heaven (the garden of Eden), and after that he works his way through the divine circles. It is the plot of the Divine Comedy and the account of Dante's adventure towards reclamation. The Inferno is for the most part thought to…

1. Introduction (1530) “Culture eats Strategy for breakfast” - Peter Drucker The on-going globalization and the rise of China and India as economic superpowers have led to huge global changes of economic, political, social and cultural nature. These changes call for an increased importance of reciprocal knowledge exchange. The impacts of global collaborations affect virtually everyone in every organisation and on different levels. Individuals that do not travel can still be affected through…

All of the three books that Ms. Emperors class read were about epic heroes. One story in Edith Hamilton’s Mythology was about Hercules, who was an epic hero who lived in ancient Greece. Beowulf by M.A. Roberts was about a man who was very arrogant and fought many scary creatures. In Dante Alighieri Dante’s Inferno, the main character was actually the author traveling through hell. An epic hero is someone who has a flaw, resurrection, and a restitution and influences the story and society. Every…

The divine comedy as a product of medieval literature, it has strong theology and is religious. In a sense, the divine comedy is a symbolic story. The author Dante experienced Hell, Purgatory, and finally Heaven, to meet God. “Before me there was nothing created except the eternal ones, and I endure eternally. Abandon all hope, you who enter (C3, 7-9).” Dante read the lettering at the gates of hell. Inside the Inferno, Dante wrote every sin down, including gluttony, lust, violence, heresy,…

In today’s society, men are often stereotypically generalized to be powerful and strong figures. Men are usually expected to be masculine and seductive as it is evident with Disney’s Hercules action figure and the Dr. Pepper advertisement. Many people in life experience growing up differently and this person’s life is no different. Throughout their life, they start out having a feminine personality and lacked the body structure of a masculine boy when compared to others. So this person was…