Clan

“A tragic hero is a literary character who makes a judgment error that inevitably leads to his/her own destruction.” The word hero is derived from a Greek word that means, “a person who faces adversity, or demonstrates courage in the face of danger.” But a tragic hero, along with the traits of a hero, also has negative traits as well. According to Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero, the character must possess five characteristics: Hamartia, Hubris, Peripeteia, Anagnorisis, Nemesis, and…

(Interpreting Cultural Symbols of the People from the Shore, Daisy Sewid-Smith 15). This thought is very important because clans have differing opinions in the display of their items and the telling of their tales, which they claim ownership of. When museums display multiple clan relics under a single name or generalized name, it is showing disrespect to those individual clans and their nuanced beliefs. The display of Native Art in museums is a difficult process in itself as “Many believed…

period of several years of disorder, Cleisthenes undertook conditional reforms. He focused on eliminating sectionalism due to Plain, Shore, and Hill divisions that arose from family-clan-tribe allegiance. From early on in Greek history, combinations of families formed clans and clans formed tribes. Cleisthenes thought that clan and tribal loyalty was too powerful and was dangerous to the welfare of the state. To help eradicate this, he divided Attica into three regions: city, cost, and inland.…

many ways, land was the most important connecting factor Australian Aboriginals had with each other, between individuals and different groups alike. The groups were clan-like, composed of extended family members that roamed their set (often traditional) landmass together for food collected by hunters and gatherers. There was inter-clan contact, as well as contact across land borders, but heavy restrictions were placed on such contact and rarely were any children born of these meetings. The…

In light of the discussion on the circumstances surrounding the birth of what would be called Islam, there is much debate between scholars on what factors had driven the creation of the religion and how its characteristics suited the spiritual needs of the time. Scholars such as Armstrong propose that Islam took on a monotheistic format due to the circumstance of how Arabs at the time suffering a form of spiritual malaise and sought to find a new outlet for their spiritual beliefs. Scholars such…

(Tomisaburo) was formally retained the great title as the Shogun’s executioner. After discovering that his family is brutally slain (except his infant son Daigoro) by the retainers of an abolished clan whose leader Itto executed it’s revealed that this is a double cross lead by the dubious and scheming Yagyu Clan hoping to destabilize the Shogunate by framing Itto as a traitor. Banned from his title, and branded a traitor Itto gives his son a choice; follow his mother in the land of the dead, or…

Middle East, and the Islamic incursions into India and Southeast Asia The strong and mighty empires of both Umayyad and Abbasid clans; spreading Islam throughout northern europe to southern asia. Yet how did Islam impact science, art, and literature between these two strong forces? Can we come to a logical conclusion as to whom had the greatest impact? The Umayyad clan was focused on conquering and taking the land they had deemed as theirs. With obtaining mesopotamia, north africa, and persia…

Fall Apart captures these detrimental effects of European colonization through the perspective of the African tribes themselves, specifically the Igbo people of Nigeria. The three-part story follows the life of Okonkwo, a strong and heavily revered clan member, whose village becomes disrupted by the arrival of Christian missionaries, whose teachings begin to radically shift the tribe’s culture into utter chaos. Eventually, the village falls into the hands of British imperialists, and as a…

wives. Women were use to a more humble position than men, often living in fear of their husbands.Women are not to do anything that they are not told, no woman ever saw the men's hut no woman ever asked questions about the most powerful cult in the clan. Men of the Igbo culture striped women of their power. The book was very lenient towards men not really caring whether women had a saying in any of the tribe meeting or any big event in the…

different perspectives of masculinity from Okonkwo and the other igbo people play an important role in “Things Fall Apart”, and end up leading to Okonkwo’s decisive actions. In the book, Okonkwo definitely stands out as a strong believer in a male dominant clan. He felt remorse for being born to a father who “was an ill fated man.”(18) and “when [he] died he had not title at all and he was heavily in debt”(8). But Oknokwo grew up to realize he didn't want to be like his father, “Even as a…