Dissection

Maddie Hunt Humes (8) AP English 11 29 March 2016 Claudius’ Manipulation of the People through the Use of Literary Devices Shakespeare’s Hamlet is an original play set in the ancient kingdom of Denmark and is known today as a backbone to American literature. The play is centered around Hamlet, a young, handsome prince, seeking revenge on his newly found stepfather, who also happens to be his uncle. Hamlet’s real father, King Hamlet, dies unexpectedly, leaving his son grief stricken. Days…

The Tragic Hero of Julius Caesar William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar focuses on Roman general, Gaius Julius Caesar, and the deviating circle that counters him, explicitly consisting of Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, and how they look at their diplomatic rank and the prospect of happiness in Rome. The play takes place in ancient Rome in 44 B.C. Rome is the heart of a domain broadening from Britain to North Africa and from Persia to Spain. Yet even as the kingdom sprouts…

to a reevaluation of the female body and liberation from their bodies being subjugated by male preconceptions of the gender role of women. Also, in the chapter, Legible Bodies: Nineteenth-Century Women Physicians and the Rhetoric of Dissection by Susan Wells in the book Rhetorical Bodies edited by Jack Selzer and Sharon Crowley discusses the differences of the medical education between male and female students. This reveals the male-dominated scientific field in which it perceives…

Cultures within the United States, as well as other countries around the world, possess certain gender normality’s, values, identities, and roles. While growing up, children learn from the people they are surrounded by. This socialized process of enculturation introduces the foundation of certain cultural gender roles, typically associated with biological sex. According to Lisa Gezon and Conrad Kottak in their book Cultural Anthropology (2014), gender roles are defined as the “tasks and…

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp was painted and completed in 1632. It is an oil painting on canvas painted by the artist, Rembrandt. The painting is currently hanging in the Netherlands, in the Mauritshuis museum. Dr. Nicolaes Tulp, which is the man holding the scissors in the giant black hat, is explaining the body parts of an arm to medical professionals. Some of the medical professionals in the painting are doctors who paid so much money to be actually included into this painting.…

well as the destination that love can take one person. In The Moment of Conception Gray manages to capsulate the desire and emotional drive for her characters in the first sentence of the story, "We wanted a child so badly!" (Gray 138). And the dissection of this sentence can not only lay out a schematic for Gray’s writing style, but also acts as a way of immediately implementing characterization into the couple by making…

In today’s business climate, job security is a risky element of any employment deal. No responsible employer can make such a guarantee of lifetime employment (Carrera & Luss, 2014). Organizational needs and events come and go quickly. Many employees also prefer to jump to a new employer when the time is right. This usually occurs when an employee sees an opportunity to advance their career or increase their pay scale (Carrera & Luss, 2014). Employers have attempted to replace the…

The French Revolution led to a shift from an Aristocracy to a Democracy wherein the principles of “freedom,” “equality,” and “free enterprise” were core. This period also led to a shift to a capitalist economy. During the medieval time, power was an important part of a political system and the king was at the top of the hierarchy of aristocrats. By this ruling, it meant if you were born into the position of power you were a part of the Aristocracy. An aristocrat is a term that refers to…

I interviewed two of my co-workers (Dan and Jaclyn) and one person that volunteers in third through fifth grade ministry (Steve). I found it intriguing that none of the people I chose to interview subscribed completely to a literal Biblical Young Earth interpretation. I have summarized their answers below. On the question of length of day, Steve was in the 24 hour camp. His reason was that he believed the text was talking about the amount of light in a given period of time since on the first…

When people think of monsters they think of hideous and frightening creatures that lurk in the darkness. But a monster isn’t someone who looks scary or different. In fact, most monsters look just like everyone else. Because the definition of a monster isn’t a person who looks scary, a monster is a person who does horrible things and feels no remorse. People are fascinated by everyday monsters like Hannibal Lecter or Buffalo Bill. It opens their eyes to what we humans are truly capable of and…