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Conflicts to Come • Jamie and Cersei can’t help but misuse their positions • Stannis is ruining the Night Watch • Baelish, well he’s being Baelish This episode did not disappoint – sleazy scheming, sibling in-fighting, death by burning, and the ever-present abuse of power. Basically, everything you could ever want from Game of Thrones (we don’t watch this show for the culture). When it comes to Conflicts of Interest, these fine folks are sticking with the classics in this season’s opener:…

In today’s age it is becoming increasingly dangerous for people to travel by air do to the constant threat of terrorism and their attacks. These attacks have prompted the American government to implement security measures one of which is the TSA or Transportation Security Administration. This group is tasked with stopping terrorist from bombing or hijacking aircrafts. The TSA does this through the use of stringent security protocols. But in light of all of this is the TSA still fails to stop…

Regan, Lear’s youngest daughter, betrays her father and lies about how much she loves him just to get his land, then turns on him after getting what she wants. As well, she urges Cornwall’s brutal behaviour by telling him after he gouges one of Gloucester’s eyes out, “One side will mock another—th' other too.” Regan eventually ends up getting killed in an unexpected manner, by someone who she teams up with throughout the whole story. Her sister Goneril poisons her, ending her life…

Every day when I clock into my job at Old Navy, I already know I’m going to be tired. During orientation My boss told me I was never going to get bored because every day was going to be different. My boss lied. Every day is about the same. Sure the people are different but, they all pretty much fit into the molds of their clones from yesterday. Day after day, after day, the customers make my life a living hell. When I first started, I loved my job. I was always happy to be there, at that drab…

The excerpt from Antigone is very valuable because it can be used in our everyday life. If you make a mistake own up to it , don’t act like you don’t realize your fault. In Antigone , Creon was really arrogant and he didn’t want to listen to anyone’s advice , and so him not heeding wise words people ended up dead. Now something like that probably won’t happen if you’re being stubborn , or arrogant but that doesn’t mean something bad might not happen. For example ; My brother left his plate…

People can often be “blinded” to the truth. The image of clear vision is used as a metaphor for knowledge and insight. In Sophocles’ tragic play which takes place in Ancient Greece, Oedipus The King, Tiresias, the blind prophet, although blind, he can see farther than others. Oedipus have been blinded to the truth his whole life and when he does find out the truth, he loses his physical vision. It is quite ironic actually. In addition, Sophocles also conveys the theme of fate vs. free will. The…

In artistic representation, a recovered artifact shows the scene of a wrestler attempting to gouge the eyes of an opponent while also attempting to bite him. An official stands over the man, poised to strike the man with a rod or stick to punish the offense and allow the competition to continue in a fair and equitable fashion. In Greece today, there…

Self alienation is an act of isolating oneself from society, and leaving one 's dignity and honor alongside it. One doesn 't simply wake up with an ambition to be shut away. There is usually a train of thought that eventually pushes individuals to throwing themselves into isolation. It usually lead by a guilty consciousness or an corrupted mind that persuades one into believing that they are the reason behind a tragic event. Some of the literary works that show the idea of self-alienation are _…

The Poisonwood Bible tells follows a missionary family named the Prices. In 1959, the Prices move from their home in Georgia to a village named Kilanga in the Belgian Congo, a colony of Belgium. Their story, is told through multiple female narrators. The narrator's, being female gives the story a feminine curveball as most epics of survival are told through a man’s point of view. The story is told through the Prices female characters. Their names are as follow: Orleanna, wife of the Nathan whom…

given women the right to vote, with New Zealand being the first, having given this right to women in 1893. A big difference is noted between the late 1700s and mid 1800s in the way women were treated in France. In 1791, French activist Olympia de Gouges published “Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen”, in which she argues that women are citizens are much are as men. She went to the guillotine in 1793. By 1871, French women were given full political rights by Paris…