Know thyself

a gateway to rage. There is statistical proof showing that 10% of animal populations are like this, there is evidence suggesting that it is natural, the bible makes multiple references to treating people equally. “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself” or “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” are both prime examples of biblical text that would accept the so-called problems…

When you are considering marrying someone, thousands of things are swirling around in your head. To make a marriage work the couple has to set boundaries, be considerate, and be committed. Marriage would be super easy if both parties agreed on everything, but marriage was not meant to be easy. A key to a successful marriage is religion, but what happens when a person in the marriage doesn’t believe in the same eternal fate. There are 4,200 religions in the world, so this is bound to occur. Love…

lean and hungry look. He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous”. This quote supports my claim because this shows how Caesar tells Antony that Cassius has a sharp and mind, and he thinks too much. Antony dismisses Caesar concern, but Caesar doesn’t know if Cassius is trustworthy, so Caesar tells Antony to keep an eye on Cassius, this is one reason why Cassius is the strongest leader because he believes that the dignity of Rome oversees Rome for the government of…

While the idea of authentic leadership has been around since the ancient Greek aphorism “know thyself” first appeared, it was not until Bill George started writing about it in 2003, that it became a popular leadership theory (“Authentic Leadership and Social Influence,” n.d.). George described authentic leadership as a style that is consistent…

is a story about two star crossed lovers. Though these two lovers are bound to a tragic end. Through miscommunication the star crossed lover tragically die. Though the question is, was the Friar to blame? The Friar is one of the two only people who know about the love between the Capulet and Montague. He is the one to marry them and the one to end them. The Friar is the cause of the impossible marriage of Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's "death" plan, and both of their deaths. The wedding between…

instrument of their own deconstruction.” - Simon Bolivar In the story of “Oedipus the King,” Oedipus, not knowingly, tried to change his fate. A person’s fate is there to stick with them, it is inevitable and not something to be tampered with. He did not know as much about himself as he thought he did and in the end, his stubbornness leads to a tragic downfall. If Oedipus would have just left things alone, the people would have eventually just moved on. He was set on finding the killer of King…

Thomas Hardy’s “The Convergence of the Twain” is a cautionary tale against Man’s attempt to transgress his myopia. Mirroring the Greek traditions of architecture and tragedy, Hardy impassively elevates the catastrophic accident to an cosmic ‘intelligent design’ - an orchestrated ‘convergence of the twain.’ Hardy presents this tragedy of human “vanity” through a detached, almost reportorial tone, developed from an omniscient point of view. Particularly, he uses sophisticated diction and wordplay…

y, the word revolution is used to describe a sudden or rapid political movement. In “Letters from Birmingham Jail” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau, both authors call upon the reader to engage in a revolution, whether it be internal or external, to change undesirable aspects in society. Both authors address the matter of civil disobedience, or the refusal to comply with laws as a form of peaceful political protest, as a way to achieve social goals. I…

Lorax did not conform to his opinions, instead he trusted himself and remembered what is to be true. The Lorax knew that there was an additional way rather than to cut down all the trees to make the product. Emerson quoted in Self Reliance “Trust thyself: Every heart vibrates to that iron string” (245). Emerson is stating that one does not change his or her opinion just because society thinks differently. Even in the Lorax when the main character, Ted, wanted to do the abnormality and build a…

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate my understanding of how the Biblical text directly and/or indirectly relates to wealth, poverty, and economic justice. Starting with the second creation story found in the book of Genesis to Martin Luther King, Jr’s last sermon titled, The Drum Major Instinct, this paper will explore how the absence of loving self unselfishly fuels social and economic injustices that have plagued humanity since the fall of Adam and Eve. On January 6, 2018, a friend…