Honour

like wolves, tigers and lions which had been starving for many days, and since forty years they have done nothing else” (Cobbs. 8-9). For example, “Th ey made a gallows just high enough for the feet to nearly touch the ground , and by thirteens. in honour and reverence of our Redeemer and the twelve Apostles, they put wood underneath and , with fire, they burned the Indians alive” (Cobbs. 8-9). I think de Las Casas wrote this to show that how cruel the Spaniards are and how inhumanly they treat…

Undoubtedly, glory propels most individuals to commit many foreign acts specifically in the hopes of attaining its brilliance. “To An Athlete Dying Young,” an A.E. Housmann poem, narrates the short life and long death of an unnamed runner whose race wins thrust him to the reverence and respect of his peers. Throughout the poem, Housmann reverberates the theory of short-lived glory. Specifically, Housmann declares that the the recognized character makes the right decision to die on earth where…

The first Rococo painter admitted to the Royal Academy in France – Jean-Antoine Watteau. Born on October 10, 1684 in the town of Valenciennes, Antoine Watteau has always been interested in painting and was apprenticed to Jacques-Albert Gérin, a local painter. Not long after, he left for Paris and found a job in a workshop at Pont Notre-Dame, where he was making copies of popular Flemish and Dutch tradition genre paintings; before developing his unique sketch-like techniques and revitalizing…

From a sociological perspective, social inequality has been defined in many ways by influential theorists such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim. All theories of social inequality are founded on the basic conceptualisation of inequality as unequal distribution of resources, although each theorists describes various reasons for this. Karl Marx is one of sociology’s most influential theorists and his theory of class conflict has been pivotal in understanding social inequality. Marx believed that the…

Northman or the Northerners, were warriors, settlers and merchants who came down from Scandinavian to Western Europe for a multitude of reasons. They came to raid, colonise, acquire wealth and power and most importantly to many of them, prove their honour and prowess. The Vikings had a similar in essence, yet slightly different social structure from the English. In the early Viking ages, the Vikings did not have a king, but were each individually ruled over by a separate jarl, who governed the…

Start imagining the glorious food as it enters your dining room table on Thanksgiving Day. Full of gravy with a smooth taste. Mouthwatering pumpkin pie filling the room with a warm aroma. Roasted sweet potato casserole and the special smoked turkey! Countless Americans celebrate this national feast with one traditional bird, the turkey. Beginning in the mid-19th century, Sarah Joseph Hale “Godmother of Thanksgiving” celebrated the holiday with a roast turkey. Thus, modeling the turkey tradition…

Immediately prior to the gobbet, Zeus was contemplating saving Hector from his death, and Athena rebuked him for suggesting to intervene with his destiny. Zeus accepted this rebuttal and told Athena to do what she must, so she leaves Olympus to the scene of Hector being cut off by Achilles in their chase from safety. After the gobbet, Athena intervened, encouraging Achilles to rest while she convinces Hector to stop running and engage in combat. The narrator throughout is the Bard, speaking to…

(village, neighbourhood and church congregation) determine the person’s behaviour and responsibilities. Greek culture emphasizes the communal and public rather than the private sphere. Shame and honour are important characteristics of the Greek world view. If a person behaves in a certain manner shame or honour is cast on the entire family. Within the family, the man is the head of the household and make most of the decisions, the women is more subordinate to the man, make babies and take…

Despite the religious women who have carved a story of empowerment for the future generations, females roles in most religions are slim to none. The majority of religious leaders are male. A famous quote states that “[i]f God is male then male is God” (Daly 19). This notion that God is a strictly male figure, which is pointed out in many different religious texts, allows for men to give themselves more power than they give women. There’ll never be a female Preist or a Pope and this masculine…

Aristotle, author of the Nicomachean Ethics and a plethora of other philosophical and scientific works, is widely considered to be the forefather of modern logical techniques (Smith 1). As a result of his logical and scientific prowess his philosophical works often take on a logical form; as this paper will show, Aristotle uses the format of a formal inductive logic proof in Book III, Section 10 of Nicomachean Ethics to conclude, with varying levels of success, that humans who are excessively…