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The most important benefit of pharmaceutical drugs is the fact that it helps enhance one’s health. There have been great health outcomes from using the drugs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2012), the pharmaceutical industry has helped to develop and produce products that help treat a variety of diseases in which saving millions of lives and helping people suffering from diseases and illnesses to recover and lead more productive lives. In order to get these drugs to be sold to…

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” This quote by Ernest Hemingway demonstrates the essentiality of humility. The epic poem, The Odyssey, written by Homer, also makes evident the importance of this same concept. Odysseus leaves the Battle of Troy, and his great pride is evident through his actions. He barely survives after withstanding the wrath of Poseidon at the many islands he visits. The main character of The…

“Oedipus Rex”, is an interesting piece of literature that links to the views and behaviors of modern society. Sophocles wrote the play as a method of providing morals to readers by demonstrating how our choices come with consequences. The major theme of Oedipus Rex is that humans are blind to the truth because we are afraid of facing and dealing with reality. While the truth can have a positive effect on our lives, it can just as easily have a negative effect. Some people are so used to having a…

Antigone by Sophocles Antigone is a Greek tragedy written by Sophocles. It is a tale about the conflict between a girl trying to honor her brother and a king who uses his power to forbid it. This Greek play symbolically demonstrates the inner conflict between power and one’s conscience. (Haigh) Antigone was the third and final installment of Sophocles popular trilogy after Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus (Sayre). Sophocles, who lived from 496-406 BCE was a treasurer for Athenian polis…

During the years between 1770s and 1820s, a series of revolutions occurred in the west of hemisphere, which includes American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions. All of these revolutions correspond to the same series which is known as the Atlantic revolutions. Enlightenment ideas was the most incentive theme to the revolutions, as all of them were inspired by the ideas like equality, free trade, and religious tolerance and became conscious of the current situation that was filled…

In the Athenian tragedy, Oedipus the King by Sophocles, Oedipus, the King of Thebes, unintentionally fulfills a horrid prophecy as he searches for a killer in his kingdom. Only the readers know the truth behind the true killer in this game of cat and mouse. Oedipus searches for the truth only to find out the person he was looking for the whole time was himself. As a result of his unspeakable crime, Oedipus blinds himself and relinquishes his title of King. Although a brief event in a long…

Sacrifice is the relinquishment of entity for the interest of something or someone else. Many sacrifices are made every day by people throughout their lives for something greater that they believe in. These losses however, are either made with false ideals or with true noble convictions. Sacrifices are generally made to achieve something more worthy, but sometimes others can have misconceptions and undertake losses for the worse. In the plays Oedipus the King, written by Sophocles, and Death of…

The Ancient Greek Tragedies were a way for poets to tell a story with a twist. A way for others to see that life isn’t perfect for anyone. People get the feeling that if someone is from money, or they have the best house, that their lives must be perfect. With trag edies the authors made sure it was the heroes that suffered the downfalls and heartaches. The tragic hero’s in the following stories are destined for suffering after fighting as a hero would. In the Ancient Greek Tragedies, Oedipus…

During the French Revolution, the people who overthrew the French government crafted a document that was entitled “The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen.” Shortly after this document was written, Olympe de Gouges wrote a document entitled “The Declaration of the Rights of women.” She wrote this because she thought that the revolution wasn't revolutionary until women received rights of their own. Both of these declarations were written with a similar purpose and that is to give all…

the murderer of the former King Lauis must be punished. Teiresias, a blind fortune teller informs Oedipus that the prophecy that he was running away from became true. Once Jacasta learned that she married her son she committed suicide while Oedipus “gouges his eyes out and exiles himself from…