Destruction

Destruction or Reconstruction A flame that blossoms can either burst in full force and spread like wildfire or diminish as if one were to pinch the flame into nothing. In the heroic epic of The Aeneid, the author Virgil represents that flame as a catalyst for chaos but also intertwines it with another central theme- love. The Aeneid tells a story of Aeneas, the main Trojan hero who embarks on a long journey to Italy, a city where he is destined to findfound; however, various forces impede Aeneas…

Destroying someone else’s property and vandalizing someone’s neighborhood—your neighborhood— for no reason is never acceptable. But the property destruction in Baltimore wasn’t without a just reason. Every couple of years (now it’s more like every couple of months) an incident will happen where an African American is abused, beaten, or killed by a police officer—more specifically by a white officer. The African American population becomes angry and protest the injustice that Blacks go through…

Is our past history of destruction foreshadowing our future? Wright used archeological evidence to predict that our civilization will also end in turmoil. Wright is saying that often the trouble and problems in a society are due to the social structure. When people in a civilization are not working well together and the majority of the people in a society are being ruled by a few people. All the power is being concentrated and not everyone has an equal say. Wright provided the example of Easter…

such segregated groups were exterminated and killed because of the disparity and incongruity in their ideas. Jews were the main victims from these absurd acts by those who tried to hide their sins (Rose 33). The book, The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation, delves into some of the crimes committed in the past, such as the murders of books and people. For instance, “they enslaved and killed Slavs, plundered and destroyed their books, indeed,…

two of his possible fates: prosperity or death. Plays like this usually include either one or more themes, or subjects of talk. Macbeth includes many themes; an example is that while power shows what is genuinely in the soul, greediness leads to destruction, and two motifs support this theme: the killing of babies/children and blood. An example of a theme in this…

feature until the very last line. Both Conacher and Winnington-Ingram wrote scholarly interpretations of the play. Winnington-Ingram first addresses Zeus’ carelessness for his children and credits him with the destruction of his own son. He, as well, mentions Lichas’s stories of Heracles’ destruction of Oechalia. He touches on the fact that the first story attributes much more of the blame to Zeus, while the second hands more blame to lust. He…

One of the biggest threats the world faces is the continuing destruction of our environment. Among the many ways that we as human destroy the environment deforestation by far has the most impact. Deforestation is a process by which forest are cleared in order to use the land for alternative purposes. Many may not think that losing a few trees will hurt anyone, however the fact of the matter is the impact effects all of us in a negative fashion. Trees are essential to life on earth. Trees…

Hitler’s plans of destruction and agonizing pain that he brought to the Jews was not expected by citizens, soldiers, and the nations around the world. In January 30, 1933 Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor of Germany. He began removing all other political parties, and soon the Nazi party was the only party left which enables him to carry out the Final Solution. The Nazi soldiers acted systematically in order to exterminate more than six million Jews. Throughout World War Two the actions…

thoughts rationally. By making their first priority to obtain power, they not only ruin their lives, but also the lives of those around them. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth’s conscious decision to kill King Duncan becomes the root cause of their self-destruction. When Macbeth first hears the prophecy, he already considers killing the king in order to quicken the process. King…

The destruction of the memory of Akhenaten’s reign became law, and later pharaohs attempted to destroy any evidence of the Aten religion and Akhenaten himself. There was already random vandalism at Amarna, and some of the talaat stone had been used for other building projects, but after Tutankhamun’s death a serious, official campaign of destruction began. As described by Cyril Aldred, “Figures of Amarna royalty had been defaced in reliefs and statuary and their names expunged. Their memorials…