he is trying to convince Phaedrus into doing the wrong actions along with putting his own opinion. Lysias resembles the Dark Horse because the Dark Horse possesses the traits having an irrational opinion and a pleasant principle. Lysias is basically Eros, the concept that physical and unemotional love is just. He possesses selfish appetite which further elaborates on the fact that he does things only to his benefit. His limited understanding about the good, the truth, and the beautiful is shown…
The first work of art I chose is the Pair of Winged Deities. The works are of Assyrian origin, and were created circa 874 – 860 B.C.E. out of Gypsum. What drew me to these reliefs, and caused me to choose them, is the organized and rigid nature of them. Every detail, be it on the beards, wings, hair, or clothing, is clearly defined by deep indentations of solid, dark lines and curves. Though the faces and bodies are not particularly true to life in their depiction, their stylized nature gives…
Each love can be mixed and match, added all together, or even be used completely alone. In order from greatest to least it would go: charity, friendship, affection, and eros. Charity and friendship are on the bottom, this signifies that they are the strongest bases and act as the best anchors. Eros and charity are on the top because they are much more flimsy than the other two, or in other words they can and are often used inadequately. One may have little to nothing to worry about…
the Eros and the Thanatos. Eros which is a human instinct helps an individual survive and directs activities such as eating, respiration and eating and that is commonly referred to as life-sustaining. The energies that these life instincts create are known as the libido. Thanatos or the death instincts is the set of destructive forces that are present in one's life. When this kind of energy is directed towards other, it comes out in the form of violence and aggression. He believed that Eros was…
Programs Directorate on October 28, 2009. ICE has evolved from the three early services into a three directorate based organization structure that primarily involves the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) to provide the enforcement and investigative services while the final directorate Management and Administration, provides legal support and professional management for…
A Women's Prison Repression is the string that connects the two stories The Yellow Wallpaper, and The Story Of An Hour, in both stories the main characters are women, and both are in a sense shackled by their spouses, unable to live the lives that they want to live. The women in both stories experience extreme emotion and in both stories the women experience liberation, but are in reality trapped in an illusion that when broken breaks the mind and heart. The Story Of An Hour is a tale of a…
to them is what made up these gods. In the written myth “Greek Creation” The world was nothing but a vast hole, called Chaos. Chaos created Erebus, or Darkness, and Nox, Night. Together they created an egg which hatched into an energy called Eros, or Love. Eros created Gaea, or the formal name we all know her as, Earth, and Uranus, or Heaven. And from then on there were Titans, or Elder Gods. Uranus was a cruel and unjust ruler. So Gaea helped eon of their titan children, Cronus, over power him…
Psychology the study of the human mind and how it functions, Sigmund Freud created psychoanalysis and is considered as the father of modern-day psychology. William Golding utilizes Freud's theory in the novel Lord of the Flies through Freud's beliefs in having three components of personality: the ID, the superego, and the ego. Golding presents a group of civilized British boys stuck on an uninhabited/tropical island competing for control while failing to keep their civilization and innocence…
Socrates and Phaedrus, the two main characters of Plato’s Phaedrus, ruminate on many things, ostensibly love and erotic love, however the dialogue also discusses rhetoric itself and the ways in which it is and should be practiced, as well as subjects such as metempsychosis. The dialogue in Phaedrus does not allow for other interlocutors to introduce the story, or a retelling of events preceding the scene. This is somewhat unusual as it comes as a first-hand unmediated dialogue, and plays out…
The Buck v. Bail court case during 1920's, is concreted to be one of the worst rulings of the Supreme Court in the history of American law. During the 1920’s court case in Virginia, the Supreme Court supported sterilization of so-called mental defectives or imbeciles American’s. The First person who was reported to undergo sterilization was a young poor woman by the name of Carrie Buck. According to the Buck v. Bail video Carrie Buck was confined in the Virginia State colony for the epileptics…