Engagement ring

Plato’s “The Ring of Gyges” tells the story of a shepherd named Gyges who came upon a mystical gold ring when an earthquake split up the ground and revealed a dead body wearing that ring. He found out that it could turn him invisible when worn in a certain manner and used it to seduce the queen, kill the king, and take over the kingdom. Then, Plato explains that if a righteous man and an unrighteous one both had such rings, the righteous man would be compelled to also do unrightful things for…

Lilo and Stitch is an American animated science fiction and family movie that was released in 2002. The movie is based on the Hawaii Island of Kauai. The two main characters, Lilo and Nani, experienced a horrible loss of their parents in a car accident. Nani, the older sister, has to be a mother figure for her younger sister Lilo. Cobra Bubbles, a social worker, is concerned that Nani is unable to fully take care of Lilo. He considered taking Lilo into foster care, but Nani does not approve, as…

I wear seven rings on my right hand. Each represents a story, something, or someone who influenced me in a way I never want to forget. These rings represent my past, but I know they will also decorate my future. Some of my most important circlets are on my index finger. That finger holds three rings total. One band has a wave pattern in the middle of it, within the waves were small onyx crystals, but those too have now faded to nothing more than a memory. Surrounding it are two plain silver…

battalion went into action. He survived a number of engagements; but while as a signaling officer it is unclear how much hand-to-hand combat he might have seen up close, there was no avoiding what Tolkien called the ‘animal horror’ of the trenches” Great War. Those experiences clearly affected his worldview about the reality of good and evil and are clearly expressed in the numerous battle scenes both in “The Hobbit” and in “The Lord of the Rings.” Part of what makes “The Hobbit” so engaging…

The film is beautifully shot, in farfetched tones-running from brilliant to sepia to dark, in the feeling of the trench fighting. The essential plot is that Tautou 's character, Mathilde, is looking for reality about her significant other Manech (Gaspard Ulliel), who is supposedly dead, sentenced to death with four others for weakness by the French military, for self-mangling, in a situation much the same as that in Stanley Kubrick 's first incredible film, Ways Of Transcendence. Ulliel gives a…

determine the quality of the work and the readers reception of it, from superficial aspects of interest as well as technical skills and development of a story. The realm of Middle Earth, as described in J. R. R. Tolkien 's pieces of work The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit, exemplify a large host of qualities in terms of writing skill and time poured into the series, as well as a story line filled with intriguing characters and events. Fundamentally a piece of literature, and even a…

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Characterization and Geomyth of Gandalf in The Hobbit Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit protagonist, lives in a community called, Hobbiton in J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel. Before the interruption from a wizard named Gandalf, he led a very dull, quiet life. Baggin’s and Gandalf are faced with a challenging effort as they must retrieve the missing treasure. Not only do they have to retrieve it, but the treasure is protected by a fire-breathing dragon, Samug. Along this journey they meet many different kinds…

As much as a happy ending may seem desirable and promising to a person, a happy ending cannot always be plausible. Ironically, however, a somewhat unhappy ending in a novel is what can oftentimes create truly great and memorable literature. In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a happy ending gets further and further out of reach as the novel progresses. Many of the conflicts that arise reach a point where they can never truly be resolved. Yes, fortunately, the boys who were stranded on…

The American spies of the Revolutionary War, also known as the Culper Spy Ring, changed the course of history, helped save America and shaped the future of military intelligence as it is known today. In the summer of 1776, the future of America’s colonies was unclear, would America continue to be under British rule or gain independence. The first artillery fire was in Boston, but fear and mistrust were spreading throughout all thirteen colonies. After the continental army defeated the Regulars…