Demigod

He believes he is a loser, a person who can’t manage to last long in school without getting in trouble. Percy eventually realizes his purpose in life, when he learns he is a half-blood or demigod. And the son of Poseidon, and Sally Jackson, his mother, who is mortal. He travels to Camp Half-Blood in New York, with his mother and best friend, Grover, a satyr disguised as a crippled middle schooler. Before reaching the camp, a Minotaur crushes…

Cesare Pavese, the 20th century poet, once stated, “All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.” Ambition can be a driving force throughout life. However, if one confuses ambition and personal satisfaction with unceasing desire and materialistic pleasures it can often lead to an individual’s downfall. This is true for both Dr. Faustus from Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus and Willy Loman from Miller’s Death of a Salesman. Faustus follows the…

Justice is a term that people use to describe as an act or behavior that represents the good people present to others and themselves. It serves as a moral high ground that people strive to be, although sometimes these thoughts can be twisted into its opposite and cause pain, anger, and other negative emotions and acts arise within people. This pain erupts into what is known as injustice and is the epitome of what people should not strive for due it bringing so much negativity. It is a moral…

When it comes to the topic of Disney and how it represents history and culture in its films, most will agree that Disney’s portrayals are highly inaccurate. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is that Disney is working to better portray non-American cultures and history in their films. Whereas some are convinced that Disney has and still is inaccurately representing the history and culture of many other people such as the Chinese and Native Americans, others believe that Disney is now…

House). Growing up, Moana had a very close relationship with her grandmother, who would tell ancient island stories to her and the children of the island. One of the stories that the grandmother would tell many times was the story of the island demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson)…

skill and cunning are legendary. I personally believe the film does no justice to the actual film for Hercules is honored and admired as someone who constantly fought against and defeated evil during his lifetime, and is revered as the greatest demigod fathered by Zeus himself. Instead of creating a film that shows an alternate ending to the legendary myth the creators should create a film that shows the entire myth and its event’s for…

In a short timespan of 239 years in which America has been independent we have become one of the most leading superpowers. Though there are many other characteristics that define America aside from being influential, perhaps one of the most seductive of them all would have to be opportunity. “The American Dream”, a chance to reinvent oneself, a chance at “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. This quote was taken from the very foundation of The United States, The Declaration of…

know their duties which cause them to be able to complete such a brave task. The Aeneid, a national epic written by the Roman poet Virgil, contains characters who perform much like United States’s veterans. The Aeneid is the story of a strong demigod named Aeneas whose duty is to become the ruler of Italy;however, he is distracted along the way by unfortunate losses in war and later the alluring queen Dido. In both The Aeneid: Book II and The Aeneid Book IV, different characters acquire…

W.H. Auden and Ambrose Bierce lived in times of major military conflict, and, albeit several decades apart, their differing traumatic experiences had a major influence on their writing. In Auden’s Shield of Achilles (1952) and Bierce’s Chickamauga (1891), the two writers express their respective viewpoints on warfare. In these stories, Auden and Bierce articulate that a desire for glory drives nations and individuals to war, demonstrate their pessimistic views of the world, and show that the…

and his constant call for death. He believes life is full of only evil things and wishes to step away from them. Secondly, Hamlet compares the likeness of his uncle to him to the likeness he has to Hercules. Hamlet comparing himself to the Roman demigod through an analogy reveals he is nothing like his uncle even though they are both human. As the play progressed, Hamlet could not see his uncle as nothing more than a verminous rat who needed to exterminated. In the end, they both fall like the…