Gauntlet

The myth of Perseus is about a young man trying to free his mother from a king. This king sends him to bring back the head of Medusa, a terrifying gorgon who has killed many men. He is successful in his journey and is able to free his mother, while gaining other treasures along the way. Many of the things that happen in the story align with the concepts of Karl Marx. In fact Perseus is taking a journey to regain an upper class status that he lost while a child. We can see the hints of this plot…

During Olaudah Equiano’s time there was debate on Britain’s involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Being a former slave that came from Eboe, part of the kingdom of Benin, Equiano’s stance on the slave trade was abolishing it, having to experience the atrocities personally. His views and desire to end slavery for his countrymen were supported by many abolitionist writers like himself but there were those who opposed his stance. For example, James Tobin, a onetime West India planter and…

Delights and Torments: An Analysis of Female Beauty in Voltaire’s Candide Voltaire’s satire Candide is one that centers on suffering, the causes thereof, and how mankind learns to endure it. While the story focuses on the pain of the titular character and his friends, most of whom are men, the torments that the women endure, and the cause of those torments, cannot be ignored. Through the story of Candide, Voltaire claims that female beauty is a source of pain for women, and ruination for men…

Centuries later, Earth was forgotten. Its people hadn’t known what their early ancestors had gone through. The Smirx was supposed to stay hidden, but was recovered by local archaeologists mining for ancient artifacts. The archeologist was Brett Herman, a graduate at Harvard University who recovered other ancient artifacts around the Earth. Brett revealed it to the world; everyone was astounded. Since he was so rich, he lived in a huge mansion in Italy that even the president couldn’t afford…

of Shin Megami Tensei IV, the rise of a leader, a hero, a true messiah.. Has become absolutely paramount. Issachar is a hardworking and disciplined casualry resolved to become a samurai and protect his fellow. Had he not been defeated, or had the gauntlet chosen him instead, could he…

Hundreds of miles to the north, a grey overcast obscured Sol's light. An early chill billowed through the craggy gauntlet and into the box canyon. Crows and pickpockets eyed the deceased knights and other soldiers for their armor, weapons and other valuables. For that reason, the surviving knights desperately sought to account for all royal and the highest ranking nobles. Out of due respect and the kingdoms in question's security, possessions and especially royal seals had to be in hand.…

Entitlement. As said previously, in the hour and a half that I work out, I push my body to the brink of failure and work as hard as I can. Objectively speaking, this is just an hour and a half of exercise, but through my biased eyes this is a gauntlet of tests that the simple passing of which should earn me respect and reward. Entitlement, defined by Jackson Katz as “the cultural construction of masculinity,” is exemplified here. When I excel for an hour and a half, I feel I am entitled to the…

and without hesitation--then you are against them” (Miller, 2). An example of how Wallace used polarization in his speech is when he says “In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever” (Wallace, 2). This shows his want to physically put lines…

According to Branston and Stafford (2006, p.12) Semiotics can be defined as the study of signs, or of the social production of meaning by sign systems, of how things come have ``significance´´.) Drawing largely on the work of the linguistics Saussure, Peirce and Barthes, semiotics argues that verbal language is just one of many of meaning. Others systems such as gesture, clothing or architecture can be studied like verbal languages. (Branston and Stafford 2006, p.12) Pretty Hurts video…

of Frankenstein, came from a nightmare that Mary Shelly experienced one night. According to Dale Bechtel and Adam Beaumont from swisinfo.ch, “She read ghost stories that were from the book Fantasmagoriana, and the writer and poets threw down the gauntlet to see who could conceive the most fantastic tale of horror.” Also, she came across a research…