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article, Stephen explains the effects on social media and Facebook and how compulsive usage of Facebook can cause loneliness. He is also disapproving of Facebook and warns people to use it cautiously. Social media is a blessing, but it can also be a curse. From 2010 to present day, about sixty-million Americans are more solitary than ever before, which is caused by the consistent usage of Facebook and other social media. Americans are so caught up with social media and spend most of their time…

hard work, dedication, and appreciation in being taught and learning how to read shows his determination in improving his literacy and to seek freedom. Although the outcome of his literacy resulted in him believing that “learning to read had been a curse rather than a blessing,” Douglass ultimately became a successful advocate through his social reforms and speeches. Douglass’ end belief of literacy is in contrast to the other two authors, Malcolm X and…

It is often argued whether everyone has the power of free will to handle the events that occur in their lives, or if everything that happens is just fate running its course. Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet help further this argument. According to Webster’s New World dictionary, fate is defined as “something inevitable,” or “destiny.” For even darker definitions, Webster’s New World lists “death,” “destruction,” and “doom.” In Oedipus the King, Oedipus cannot quite seem to…

swiftly across my new tablet to open my reading app, my eyes graze the text of my school assigned book. Suddenly, my bedroom door flings open, revealing my eight year old brother, Graham. He steps in and rocks back and forth on the balls of his feet. “Sam,” he begins. “Mom said to-” “What have I told you about entering my room without knocking?” I demand, cutting him off. My jaw clenches and I stare daggers at him. “Plus, I’m a little busy here.” I thrust up my tablet, waving it like…

The internet is in everyone’s life in one way or another, there is no way to ignore it. People’s livings and ways of life are driven off of phones and computers, some jobs wouldn’t even be available if it weren’t for technology. The real question is, is the internet helping us or is it only numbing our own knowledge and thoughts, and making us reliant on technology. When someone thinks about this question long enough it becomes more clear that yes, technology is ruining parts of our lives: Since…

rediscovered in 1853. It is a large compilation of early heroic tales that was collected and made one around 2000 BC by an unknown Babylonian scribe. It was found written on clay tablets in Akkad. The fullest version of Gilgamesh was said to be about three thousand lines, written on eleven tablets, with a twelfth tablet added later as some sort of appendix. Gilgamesh, the king of Uruk which the epic was written about, reigned somewhere in Sumer around 2600 BC, which is known as the Golden…

The epic tale of Gilgamesh is the first of its kind and has set many modern day themes in storytelling around the world. Word of his great city Uruk as spread far from Mesopotamia. “Gilgamesh who underwent many hardships surpassing all kings” (100) Gilgamesh rules his city harshly and his people are burdened they cry to the gods for help. The gods grant their wish and create Enkidu, but what are the gods design for Gilgamesh’s life? Do they intend to provide Gilgamesh with a lifetime companion…

According to The Odyssey by Homer and Hippolytus by Euripides, women in ancient Greece were “a great evil” (Euripides 2001: 29), deceitful, and liars. Throughout Odysseus’ journey, Odysseus encounters several women who kill men in his army, cause battles and the slaughter of many men and deceive the characters in the epic through disguises. The most destructive women in The Odyssey are Athena, Zeus’ daughter, and Clytemnestra, Agememnon’s wife. Although Athena appears to guide Telemachus in…

years. Despite it being such a great civilization researchers have only recently translating cuneiform when Napoleon found the Rosetta Stone on his conquests. Again war in Iraq and conquest have assisted the discovery of many clay tablets in Iraq. These clay tablets telling the story of Gilgamesh, a story that contains friendship, and great grief, that allows researchers to go back and look at what the people of Mesopotamia were like, what they believed in in addition to get a better…

Psychology 101 taken at universities across the country. In the Epic of Gilgamesh food plays a symbolic role that shows just how important it is to be human and what happens when humanity is lost. The first appearance of food is in the epic’s opening tablet: the man-beast…