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The world’s top 100 billionaires earned enough money to end world poverty four times over in 2012. (Oxfam 2) Indeed, it would seem the wealthy have the potential to make the world a better place, yet all too often they squander it. The list is comprised almost entirely of business men and women from around the globe. Tremendously powerful owners and executives who make decisions each day that affect thousands of people. Business executives and shareholders have a great influence on the…

Sex, gore, murder and lies. If these sound like the themes of a show that will satisfy your needs, then you should tune your receiver to Sophocles’ Oedipus, the King. However, if you want all of the above without the burden of having to feel embarrassed for the main character, then Shakespeare’s Hamlet is the drama for you. Oedipus, the King and Hamlet are both dramas that develop their characters into model tragic heroes. The main characters in each of the plays experience a tragic fall from…

The fear of failure is not a universally positive motivator. In some cases it is neither positive nor a motivator. Failure may be described as the eventual and inevitable by-product of the expenditure of efforts to achieve success. A fear of failure has never been anything but an abstract to me, because I do not embrace failure as an acceptable outcome. Success may be attained by researching methods to achieve an action or by avoiding problems through observing failures of other people. In…

tools added to the population growth, and their expanding further around the world due to their ability to adapt to their environment. The Mesolithic Revolution, was a time of even further evolution of tool making, Man began to make axes, chisels and gouges. He also made bow’s and arrow’s, that help his hunting strategy change from a group, to a single hunter. Man learn to make canoes, fish hooks, and different ways to cook and prepare food that would keep longer. It is also noted to be a time…

There’s Tragedy in Irony Dramatic and situational irony are extremely effective literary strategies that accentuate the drama of a story. If used correctly, situational irony surprises the audience with an unexpected twist, while dramatic irony creates suspense by offering insight as the narrative progresses that the characters are unaware of. Sigmund Freud developed a complex that is apparent when young children fall in love with the parent of the opposite gender, but view the parent of the…

When entering a crime scene, you need to be prepared for anything. Looking for evidence, like a body, is really useful, but so is DNA from hair follicles and bodily fluids to name a few. When a body is found, it is taken to have an autopsy performed. When examining the body, with X-rays and Cat Scans for example, it is possible that you will find antemortem injuries (injuries that happened before the death). Antemortem injuries can range from bone fractures to abrasions, and they are easily…

I started training when I was about nine years old. I was in gymnastics but I was too old to stay in the class I was in but we couldn't afford the price to get into the class for older kids. My dad wanted me to join kung fu so I could learn to defend myself. Like every parent, he wanted me to be safe in this terrifying world. I thought it sounded pretty cool so we talked my mom into looking into a karate school. We looked through the phone book and the first place we found was Belen Goju Ryu…

Edgar Allan Poe: A Literary Activist Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most fascinating figures in all of literature. He was at the forefront of the Romantic Movement creating the horror genre, the literary detective, and was one of the pioneers of science fiction. No matter what one believes, the majority of people who have read his work find the man mysterious since it is difficult to imagine where the inspiration of some of his stories came from. Some view him as a literary genius; where, others…

Life has infinite meaning. As long as humans have existed, there is no one definite answer as to how one should live their lives. In various plays, novels, and passages, the meaning of life has been pondered upon by numerous authors, in a variety of different ways. In Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles, William Shakespeare’s King Lear, Book 4 of Genesis, and John Milton’s Book 9 of Paradise Lost, each of the principal characters undergo a pattern of seeking truth, entrapment, and…

the vagina by the colonial penis. Moreover, the violation of the empress and Gulliver’s subsequent punishment draw similar parallels to that of Oedipus. Having unwittingly violated his mother Jocasta, through incest, Oedipus, on hearing the truth gouges out his own eyes. Gulliver’s punishment for his violation, similarly, involves the act of blinding, albeit, at the behest of the lenient Emperor; much to the chagrin of the…