Disgrace

The Unexamined Life In The Last Days of Socrates by Plato, Crito, an old student of Socrates, comes to visit Socrates in hopes of helping Socrates escape from his impending execution. Crito argues that not escaping from prison and avoiding his execution would be unjust. Socrates’ refusal to escape death relates to the maxim in the “Apology” through Crito’s arguments that if Socrates didn’t escape then he would be aiding in his own demise, allowing his children to be raised without him, and…

Women in Homer’s The Odyssey, Euripides’ Hippolytus, Virgil’s The Aeneid, and Ovid’s Venus and Adonis (And Atalanta) often held positions of power, whether it be a dutiful wife and loving mother, a widowed queen, or a goddess. In these Greco-Roman texts, women hold power by embracing their feminine roles, where a man may “name her as [his] own, that she may spend all of her years with [him], to make [him] father of fair sons” (Virgil: 4). She is expected to be as loyal and motherly as Penelope,…

At first glance, Chrétien de Troyes’ protagonist Lancelot seems to be the exemplar of chivalric perfection: adventurous, brave, physically dominant. He consistently demonstrated his prowess in battle and loyalty to Queen Guinevere. Is being good in battle and obedient to the Queen enough to prove he is the perfect knight he comes across as? If being a perfect knight in the middle ages only had the criterion of being brave and following the expectations associated with courtly love, Lancelot…

In, “The Complexity of Identity”, the author Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, a psychologist and educator at Spelman College, writes about the various types of differences, and how each has a form of oppression associated with it. Specifically, she writes, “There are seven categories of “otherness”: race/ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age and physical/mental ability. Each has a form of oppression associated with it: racism, sexism, religious oppression/…

and take care for me..... Maybe this would make better sense if I started at the beginning. My mother, Jacqueline Clarisse Baudine, was a beautiful french maiden. Her family name meant brave, and they were brave and proud. My mother, however, was a disgrace and a shame to her family. In secret she married young and ran off. Her family soon found them out and ripped the couple apart. Only, in order to keep their daughter’s…

Over 5 million non-Jewish people including gypsies, homosexuals, polish people, and the disabled were all victims of the Holocaust. The Nazis killed 11 million people during the Holocaust. Six million people were jewish people and five million were non-Jewish people. Almost half of the victims of the Holocaust were non-Jewish (Berenbaum). Most victims were killed in gas chambers and then burned in ovens. Some non-Jewish victims were killed not because of their beliefs, but because of…

“The Clerk’s Prologue and Tale” is story about a king named Walter who pushes his wife’s loyalty and tests her with a series of terrible wishes. It is through Walter’s actions that the reader is able to examine sovereignty within the marriage of the king and his wife, Griselda. Sovereignty is the state in of having supreme authority over something or someone. A power that Walter has over defenseless Griselda. Griselda “if one should speak… fostered in dire poverty was she, no lust luxurious in…

fighting to the death. Japan believed that if you surrender you are weak as well as an unworthy opponent. In today’s era of Japan, it is a disgrace to the family if the man of the household loses his job, so instead of going home to face his failure, rather he commits suicide, and the family name isn’t ruined. In America, people see suicide as an action that would disgrace the family because it is morally…

Three Strongest Words I really enjoyed the poem, Three Strongest Words. I liked this poem because though the poem was very short, it also was very deep and left me thinking about each word the author described. For instance, when the author wrote about the word silence, saying as soon as you say the word you destroy it I had to stop, and think what she meant. This poem also made me very confused because of the way the author presented the poem. For example, when she described someone speaking…

If you want others to respect yourself, the first step you must take is learning to respect yourself. You must respect your rights, your duties, your way of life, the way of thinking and feeling etc. You disgrace yourself while not being true to you, trying to copy others, depending on others, and not listening to your inner thoughts. For how long will you depend on others? How long will you ignore your own thoughts? You must realize that you should respect yourself by listening to yourself.…