Demigod

mythology and religions. Believing in many gods with each city-state having its own patron god or goddess to worship. There were 4-Primary Gods, 4-Secondary Gods, 22- Anunnaki's or children of the god Anu and various patron gods, 3-Underworld Gods and 7-Demigods included with mortal heroes and monsters. According to several Sumerian stories the Primary Gods created human beings from clay for the purpose of doing the mundane labor work that the gods did not want to…

When Aristophanes composed his comedy play Clouds, his goal was to portray philosophy, at the very least Socratic philosophy, as a threat to the city, and society. If Philosophy’s principles were followed, the city would crumble around its foundations, because philosophy and politics were two opposing forces that could not be reconciled together. While Aristophanes approached this idea in a humorous way, he was deadly serious that Socrates posed a tangible threat to society. He believed that…

Are you overcome with sadness? Do you feel the need to fit in? Are you experiencing tough times and do not know how to cope? Are you looking to fill a void? Are you bored in your suburban town? Do you just like to get high? Are you avoiding the pain of withdrawal? These are all thoughts that run through an addict’s mind. Drug addiction has severe consequences affecting every aspect of and individual’s life. Heroin, in particular, has turn into an epidemic concerning many young Americans.…

This is an observation report on an educational lecture program for adults based on classroom teacher performance. The lecture was delivered by a very skillful teacher. The teacher effectively stimulated the class, by respecting the diversity of the learning environment, the diversity of the class, stayed focused on the lecture, contexts and class objectives. The heart and soul of the lecture was the teacher’s rapport with the students, delivery, audio-visual, video, diversity and interaction…

Title: Epic of Arkadia Genre: Role-Playing, Adventure Theme: Betrayal and Redemption Historical Context: The context of the game is based during the time the Epic of Gilgamesh took place. Ancient Mesopotamia around 2100 – 1400 BC. Setting: A fictional land called Arkadia that is based upon ancient Mesopotamia and Greece. Environment: Ancient times in a fictional land based off of Mesopotamia and Greece. There are seven main cities that are roughly based on the ancient cities of…

Callieus the slayer Under the shining and beaming light of the full bloomed colorful sky surrounded by tall gigantic green trees that radiated calmness and joy, stood the only skilled and handsome warrior of Tera. Gleaming with bright golden hair, parallelizing icy blue eyes and a perfectly sculpted body was Callieus. After piercing his long keen spear through the heart of a scaly beast, ripping its insides into shreds, returned home to his only companion. His father. Living in a deserted and…

People who live in solitude seldom interact with others, which breed some psychological thought processes that lock out the entire world, leaving one with only a minimal space for daily interaction or none at all in extreme cases. Solitude has inspired a new genre of horror films and videos that are focused on only one place starring individuals pitted against each other or against some supernatural powers with little or no room for escape. Isolation, in medical psychology, is defined as the…

all guests and suppliants: / strangers are sacred—Zeus will avenge their rights!” (the Odyssey 9.300-305). Odysseus invokes Zeus in an attempt to strike the fear of divine punishment into Polyphemus that has permeated the thoughts of every other demigod and mortal that Odysseus has come across. This reaffirms the idea that the gods played a large role in preserving hospitality through divine intervention, not only through Zeus in the Odyssey, but also through the Hebrew God in the Bible.…

Sir Philip Sidney’s The Defence of Poesie has been described as ‘instinct with and informed by a desire to reply to what any lover of poetry must consider a perverse and wrong-headed attack.’ Sidney identifies several charges which make up this ‘wrong-headed attack’; that there are ‘many other more fruitful knowledges’ than poetry, that poetry ‘is the mother of lies,’ and that poetry ‘is the nurse of abuse.’ These perceptions confronting literature were legitimate beliefs in Elizabethan England…

The monster grabbed Hazel, ripping her in two, Nico tried to scream but no words came out of his mouth. He saw Frank, yelling, charging at him, bowing in his hand. Tears streamed down his face, yet a voice whispered that he deserved this, that he needed to suffer. He saw Bianca leading into battle under the lead of Thalia Grace, he was frozen. She shot an arrow at his shoulder, Nico fell to the ground with the sudden burst of pain. He tried to run, run from his problems like he always did, he…