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    Corrupt. The act of dishonesty in personal gain for self reward. When the word “corrupt” comes into mind, one thinks of evil or chaos, selfishness or unloyalty. These acts are taking over logic and reasoning faster than ever before. In the novel, a group of schoolboys are flown out of a war zone and eventually crash into an isolated island. In the first few nights, the boys work together and focus on their teamwork and try their best to keep a signal fire going to get rescued. But as time goes…

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    I know a story of Empress Wu, who was an ambitious woman in the ancient Chinese history. Wu Chao was born in 625, the daughter of a Chinese general. Attracted by her beauty, Emperor Tang Taizong chose her to be his concubine when she was only thirteen years old. After his death in 649, she became concubine to the next emperor, Kao Tsung, and bore him four sons and a daughter. Wu Chao was extremely jealous of the empress and greatly desirous of power. It is said that she strangled her own…

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    She provides divine life, but since she comprises chaos she has the potential to destroy what she has created (Rosenburg 153-158). Next is her husband, Aspu, with whom she bears children Anshar and Kishar. Aspu is the initial ruler of all other gods and the ruler and literal embodiment of fresh/sweet…

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    Beginning of Creation In the beginning of creation there was chaos, Chaos was the chasm that first existed. The Greek word "chaos" (χάος) means emptiness. From the void arose Erebus primordial god of darkness and Nyx primordial goddess of the night. Then Eros primordial god of love appeared. However in some myths Eros is also considered as a son of Aphrodite not Chaos. From love, together Nyx and Erebus gave birth to Aether primordial god of the upper atmosphere, Hemera primordial goddess of…

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    This is the primary rupture that breaks the primordial of Chaos being the first and only of all in the cosmos. After this action, Earth bore the starry heavens. These two events follow the primordial and continue the creation of the world. The story of the 1st Creation from the Bible God is alone and is the only being in the universe, just as Chaos is in Theogony. He creates, establishes, and the primordial of this myth ends there when God creates the…

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    creator. The three most common motifs that I have seen are starting from Chaos, creating humans from organic materials, and multiple attempts to create humans. Motif #1 Chaos First, nearly all cultures used Chaos to start out their Myths. For example, the Egyptian, Yoruban, Hindu, Judeo-Christian, Babylonian, Norse, Chinese, Incan, Mayan, Inuit, and Maori cultures all used chaos to create their myths. Next, the signs of chaos started off as the water and the sky.…

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    Thirteen Hallows, they turn the legend of the thirteen hallows and their keepers into a grisly tale about chaos, good and evil, and lust for power. The hallows represents chaos, Sarah represents a persons will to do good or evil, and Ahriman represents a lust for power. This novel is dark and twisted focusing on the darkness in people rather than the light. The hallows symbolize chaos. This is seen throughout the book when the keepers of the hallows are hunted down for the objects they…

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    For example, in drafts of my first revised essay, a criticism of Lucy Campbell’s film The Pig Child, some paragraphs included multiple fully and partially developed points along with about a dozen pieces of evidence. This kind of chaos was caused by my egocentrism because I did not put extra, or any, effort into organization because I assumed that if a delivery method worked for me, it would work just as easily for anyone…

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    the aftermath of the Hundred Years’ war (Rosenwein, 2014). The chaos of war is not one to take likely, war results in the loss of life of those fighting, destruction to towns and cities as well as hardship on the residents of the towns due to the harassment and pillaging of armies. War can even cause devastation on the crown and powerful lords because of the funds needed to engage in the conflict. The Hundred Years’ war brought chaos and hardship to all levels of society in the Late Middle Ages…

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    a nation- to cause chaos instead of hold order. In Sophocles’ Antigone, this is the case. Creon, king of Thebes, believes that the king’s word is ultimate law, and that it must be carried out regardless of the consequences. Antigone, however, is more intelligent in her thinking that sometimes, a ruler’s law is not a rational one, and that there are times when one must speak out for what is truly ethical. When Creon forces his word to be fulfilled, he ultimately causes the chaos he most fears.…

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