Innuendo

The attitudes towards rape that are shown in New Comedy are also male-centric, as many of plots revolve around a rape and many rapists make amends by marrying their victims or, in the case of Menander’s Epitrepontes, returning to their raped wife when they realise that they themselves were the rapist, at the demands of the victim’s kyrios. It is debated how realistic such plots are but Robson argues that “New Comedy is often singled out for its realism by ancient writers… so the same remedy may…

didn’t think I could be successful if I didn’t complete college, and I didn’t know what to do with myself. I kind of lost it for a while. I left Nevada and moved to Arizona for a fresh start. I stopped reading. When I moved away, I didn’t even hunt down the local library. I kept a journal, but that never felt like “real” writing, either. “You’re a Writer” I got an email out of the blue one day. A classmate from high school wanted to know how I was, and to tell me that he’d had a short story…

of Ethics). Following these along with God’s Word in my research has the ability to show that God is in the works. If I were to become a personal trainer, leaning on God and sticking to a trainer’s ethics is very important because trainer-client innuendos are common in the personal training. Personal training I believe holds the most temptation, but if God is in the center of my life I believe that personal training could have a great impact on a client’s life both physically and spiritually. As…

The exploitation of women in mass media is the use or portrayal of women in the mass media (such as television, film and advertising) to increase the appeal of media or a product to the detriment of, or without regard to, the interests of the women portrayed, or women in general. Feminists and other advocates of women's rights have criticized such exploitation. The most often criticized aspect of the use of women in mass media is sexual objectification. According to News 24, dismemberment can be…

The Great Gatsby is a novel written by Francis Scott Fitzgerald that takes place during the time of Prohibition. Prohibition is a time period in American History where alcohol is prohibited from being manufactured, sold, and consumed. Even though this was an amendment to the constitution many people chose freely to go against this law. The effects from this are illegally selling alcohol for profit. Jay Gatsby is a main character in the novel; he illegally sells and manufactures alcohol and also…

William Shakespeare is one of the most significant figures in English literature. To an extreme, he is one of the most significant figures in the English language itself. Shakespeare wrote thirty-seven plays in his lifetime. That does not include The Two Noble Kinsmen, which he collaborated on with John Fletcher, and two lost plays nobody will ever see again. His work was revolutionary for the time. It added significant depth to story telling. Shakespeare also pushed the boundaries of what was…

Ernad Beganovic ENGL 1301 Has The Prevalence of Racism Decreased Because of Rap Music? Rap, as defined in the modern era, began as “Proto-Rap” in the mid-1970s and originated from the east coast of the United States, specifically Manhattan. Its development was heavily influenced by spoken word jazz poetry as well as the Jamaican method of “toasting”, which is a term for talking or chanting over a rhythm or beat. The genre evolved to “Old School Rap”, which was identified by the genre’s simple…

The novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker’s has countless adaptations due to Stoker’s unique construction of the monstrous character Count Dracula. These adaptations include movies, television series, parodies, novels, video games, and comic books. At first impression of the film I thought the director and screen play writer did a satisfactory job alongside keeping the film similar to the original writings, although there are some differences. One of the most prominent character difference was…

There are many categories of stereotypes. There are those that society embraces and facilitates, those that are formed by groups of people with regard to themselves and others, and finally there are your own personal stereotypes that you apply to people in any given situation. They can, in some circumstances, be positive but for the most part they are negative thus giving the wrong impression of who people are and how they truly act. I think on a whole, most people know that it is wrong to use…

Antonio Antonio is a Venetian merchant with an air of melancholy about him. He has many friends and is close with Bassanio. He deeply cares for Bassanio, agreeing to his proposal and allows him to borrow money on his behalf. Antonio is said to hate Jews, showing that he has his prejudices. Although he does not usually lend or borrow money with interest, he is willing to break this habit in order to help Bassanio, showing that he deeply cares for him. Antonio has kicked and spit on Shylock in the…