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Agrabah Agrabah. Even the brightest geographer would have great difficulty pin-pointing this mysterious location on a map because, well, it's fictional. Agrabah is the fictitious city in which the well-known Disney classic Aladdin takes place. However, a limited number of people are aware of the idiosyncratic features that this city thrives on; most are only familiar with the story told through an hour and a half movie and a two-hour Broadway musical. So, hop on a magic carpet, and sour…

Almost nothing in this world is created. Most literary works are adaptations of existing ideas or issues. In other words, the main point, or points, behind the story can be found in the real world in some shape or form. However, the way in which they are expressed is when imagination, “the gothic”, and “the ‘Carnivalesque’” play a role and new ways in which the message is told is established. Victor Fleming’s Wizard of Oz is no exception, and his movie represents the American ideal of “America…

In my life I have learned the importance of not giving up and fighting harder when life gets tough. Looking back on my life I now realize that you learn from your mistakes and that you will grow as a person in the difficult times of your life. When something bad comes up in your life you should find the good in it, and you will become happier and more successful in everything you do. In my opinion, this philosophy connects to the areas of Pain, Death, and Good and Evil. The topic of pain…

Throughout the first book of Homer’s The Odyssey, Telemachus faces a variety of dilemmas, including, but not limited to, an identity crisis, a vast assortment of men exhausting his estate, a father on hiatus, a weeping mother, and quite frankly the ability to think independently. All of these adversities culminate into the overarching issue facing Telemachus, in that Telemachus is a bit over zealous to do something, anything really, without truly thinking through all of the possible consequences…

“constant, unalterable and pure” (Rousseau, 1993, p. 275). Although The Social Contract is not as naïve and fantastical as the Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau does not fully grasp a fully representative portrait of human nature as he dwells on the idea that people are willing to unite for the common good in all instances, as opposed as reverting to their self-interested behaviors that dismiss the welfare of…

Irish meadow, sliced into the five-yard increments by crisp, white stripes. A teeming throng of humanity dressed in orange and red and squinting in the unforgiving Florida Sun, filled the stands in the picture’s background” (2). Specifically, Dungy dwells on his former job. Dungy loved every moment of it. Through this vivid imagery, Dungy is able to connect the vast fields of green of a football field to his Garden of Eden. The white increments signifying the yard lines showed the purity of the…

permanent settling place of the Sun Goddess, and finally reached the province of Ise. Amaterasu stated, “The province of Ise, whose divine wind blows, is washed by successive waves from Eternal Land. It is a secluded and beautiful place, and I wish to dwell here,” This further cemented Japan as the center of Shinto life, and made…

7th hour Hammurabi’s Code: Was It Just? Spare the rod and spoil the kingdom! This phrase was taken to the extreme in Ancient Mesopotamia. In 1792 BCE, a man named Hammurabi became the king of Babylon. At this time, Babylon was at war with neighboring city-states. Therefore, Hammurabi created a list of 282 laws to try and protect the people. Theses laws were then carved into a stele. The question is, were these laws just? There are three areas of…

In Flannery O’ Conner’s “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, The Grandmother is not named although she is the protagonist of the story. She is an old southern lady who lives with her son and his family. She rejects the future and dwells on the ideas of the past. Her selfish ways and foolish mistakes are a direct result of the death of her and her family. She is greatly focused on in the story and most of the dialogue comes from her. The grandmother, who does all in her power to avoid evil, hits it head…

Text Question: Describe how people view Siddhartha. Then, explain why he is dissatisfied with his life. Siddhartha was a child with many great qualities: he was “apt to learn and so thirsty after knowledge” and he filled his mother with delight “when she saw him taking long strides, saw him sitting down and standing up, [...] [and] greeted her with impeccable manners.” His parents remarked Siddhartha as a strong and handsome man, who “growing within him a great sage and priest, a prince among…