Goliath

Arthur comes into contact with an evil giant. Arthur is able to defeat this monster by delivering a “lethal blow by driving the whole length of the blade into his head” (Geoffrey, 240). This story is similar to the biblical story of young David and Goliath in which David delivers a lethal blow to an evil giant in the form of a rock to the head. This similarity is another symbol of Arthur’s link to Christianity. By connecting Arthur to biblical references that the audience is familiar with,…

Compared to the Romantics, Puritans had no connection between their writing and the reader. An abundance of examples can easily be found throughout Irving’s The Devil and Tom Walker, Bonet’s The Devil and Daniel Webster, and Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death. Each of these stories was written to humanize the writing so the readers could connect to it easier. The humanization helped the reader to connect to the characters that were able to defeat evil without God’s help, using the human power…

Gender Roles Mediation has been portraying negative stereotypes about gender since it was created. People may not always notice that the media of TV shows are influencing them, but they are. No one can escape being influenced by media. This has happened to me. I have watched The Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother and loved it; however, I never noticed the many gender stereotypes that it has portrayed. Until I read an article explaining the stereotypical roles assigned. People believe…

Margaret Atwood’s book, The Handmaid 's Tale, takes place in Gilead, a society that is completely controlled to protect the people from freedom and in their opinion the sadness that goes along with it.With the power that the Commander has not all the rules apply to him. The Commander power allows him to not be controlled but is controlling to people who are inferior to him. Offred is a Handmaid; a Handmaid’s job is to conceive a child with the Commander. In Gilead, fertility is a dying ability…

“Daniel in the Den” by Bastille, is a song that references the book of Daniel, specifically chapter six where Daniel is in the lion den (Daniel 6: 10-19), and when Daniel’s friends are thrown into a fiery furnace (Daniel 3:23). In the biblical story, the king has signed a document that says no one was allowed to prey to anyone, human being or divine, for thirty days or else they were thrown into a lion’s den (Daniel 5:7). Daniel, even though he knew this was signed, prayed to God anyway…

My mom always says that life is about choices. She says we can choose to make choices that make us proud, that we regret, and that have consequences. Ultimately though, she says that I get to choose who I want to be. I am passionate about the sports I play. I love everything about them: the hard work, sweat, tears and competitive nature that comes from playing on a team. In the fall, I’m on the football field. In the winter, I lace up my skates to play hockey. In the spring, I take to the…

imperfections as a character allow the readers to relate to him because none of us are perfect. Furthermore, it is easier to relate to a character who feels more vuanable, more human. To put it in more simple terms, people relate more with David than Goliath. A key flaw of Hamlet that people can see in themselves is his inherent selfishness. As the play progresses, there is a clear shift in Hamlet’s intentions for killing Claudius. While it may begin as an attempt at justice, his vengeance…

The Panacea Ideas of Jane Goodall In her essay “I Acknowledge Mine,” Jane Goodall claims the researchers should be knowledgeable about the species they are testing, should have to observe the effects of the testing, and should have to find the balance between benefit and the cost in suffering to the animal. Miss Goodall uses relevant and significant pathos evidence including: anecdotes, loaded language, and the appeal to pity to convince her audience. The author’s purpose for the essay is to…

I Never Stopped Enjoying Stop-Motion Animation: My viewing of anything with stop motion. Imagine this. You are Twelve years old. It is a hot Saturday afternoon. You have just finished mowing the neighbor’s yard. You have just earned yourself Ten dollars. Yes. $10.00. To buy yourself a Corgi toy vehicle based on Space:1999. You sit down for a cold glass of water. Not soda. Soda is a rare drink in this house that you sit. And before you go get on your bicycle to ride and ride almost three miles…

trying to reach those goes. An they get realization about how close they are to being done with school and pretty soon they will have a high school diploma. Also they wont have to get a GED if they desire that route in the future. In “ How David Beats Goliath: When Underdogs Break the Rules” by Malcom Gladwell, he talks about how a basketball game should be played with the coaches two principles. How being underdogs in basketball and if you play harder you are more than likely to end up winning…