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The creation of a hero is only decided through the actions that the character takes. Sophocles’ Creon and Homer’s Telemachus are clearly not worthy of the title “hero”, but they are forced into this hero’s journey so that they can realize what their effect has on others that surround them. It can not be known for sure if either one has completed the hero’s journey because in order to see that change, we would need to see a continuation of the story, however by observing their personalities, it…

with every bit having a deeper meaning. Morrison never actually clarifies who is doing what in the book, but with the context we can best assume what is happening. The distortion in the timeline, the switching of views, and the horrific scenes of human brutality, all play a part in Beloved. Morrison’s characters aren’t just made to play a role, but represent something much more, such as the love and determination that pushed many slaves to live. Beloved is a book with heavy influence of…

Murray discovers the solution to use human waste as a cleanser for fertile industries, such as fish farms, and by these being clean, everyone else’s environment is improved. Dr. Sarah Parcak works to answer unanswered questions by using technology to unearth lost ancient Egyptian tombs and…

Where exactly is the line between what is normal and human and what is considered monstrous? In Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Culture, he explores what it means to be a monster and concludes that a monstrous body is pure culture. He argues that a monster’s purpose is to be read so that the monster can reveal and warn society about something (Cohen 4). Many of his theses focus on the idea of an “us” versus “them” mentality. For instance, he writes that monsters are hybrids who don’t fit in any…

Toni Morrison said that “The past is more infinite than the future… It's avoiding it, deceiving ourselves about it that paralyzed growth. This quote talks about how thinking about the past, pretending things could be different are what causes someone to never escape their own guilt about what they've done. This sentiment is particularly evident in Beloved, it is one of its main themes in the book. Both the characters of Sethe and Paul D had lives filled with suffering and hardship. In order to…

This essay will focus on Susan Wolf’s attack on deontic moral theories. She argues that we cannot accept deontic theories as they prescribe moral sainthood. For Wolf, this is an undesirable model of life that is unrealistic to strive for. I will put pressure on the third premise of her argument. Arguing that she makes an inductive leap from her opinion, that the moral saint’s life is undesirable, to the theory that prescribes it can’t be accepted. For Wolf, deontic moral theories promote a…

My Character Education Philosophy Lauren A. Vader Concordia University Abstract In the first part of this paper, I discuss how one’s image of human persons determines their educational philosophy. As I view human persons as essentially spiritual, my character education philosophy tends toward focusing on the nurturing of the soul through the transcendent ideas of truth, beauty and goodness, with a special emphasis on empathy and perspective taking. Of the three aspects of…

Between “Jon” and Brave New World seem to both point to something essentially human that cannot be replaced by technology. Our human nature that responds to the world in an animalistic way as these texts and their symbolism point out cannot be filled or silenced. The literature clearly asks us to compare ourselves and to redefine what being civilized really is since the citizens of both the World State and the Facility are supposed to be refined and civilized but their actions and words are…

Not Bliss Knowledge is the characteristic people obtained through millennia of trial and error that has allowed humans to become the dominant species and control the Earth. People’s natural curiosity initiated science and technological movements in the early years of humankind's history that have given us new understandings and perspectives of the world. However, before humans had time to move their focus from basic survival to more intellectual endeavors, they were ignorant of what is…

Uprooting the Truth “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul,” said renowned Transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson in his piece title Nature (qtd. in Perkins 591). The vitality of nature’s power is one of the fundamental pillars of Transcendentalism. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter mirrors this concept, nature playing a vital role in the novel from beginning to end. The influence of nature is a common theme throughout the novel. Specifically, the forest, flowers, and sunlight…