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Smite is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena (MOBA) created by Hi-Rez Studios. This game allows players to control gods of different cultures in an all-out battle royale. In the game, Tyr is classified as a Physical Melee warrior (Smite Wiki). The backstory of this version of Tyr is very accurate to the lore and stories associated with him. Smite gives him the title “The Lawgiver” to solidify this ancient legacy (Smite Wiki). He is also one of a few characters that…

Kecia Ali's Sexual Ethics and Islam provides an insightful analysis and commentary on sex and gender under classical Sunni adjudication. Ali’s work sheds a light on the way societies use gender as a cardinal instrument to ensure social organization and establish a hierarchy. I feel that I share many of the same opinions as Ali furthering the ideas that: these classical legal doctrines conflict with constituents, social double standards give way for more harsh, female punishments, the…

Rohingyas will be like the Palestinians, demonised and persecuted with impunity and with twisted morality. In the recent melee, the real loser—morally, that is—seems to be Bangladesh. Unlike Thailand, which has opened its border to Rohingya refugees, Bangladesh has proposed joint military operations with Myanmar army against the Rohingya fighters. Sadly, instead of trying…

Tale of Two Cities takes place in an uncertain period amid volatile events; subsequently the characters often show unsettled, even contradictory traits. Monsieur Defarge often expresses regret and apprehension towards his wife’s schemes; whilst Solomon Pross/John Barsad, having committed his fair share of misdeeds, becomes an essential tool in the protagonists’ arsenal. Both Monsieur Defarge and Barsad are relatively minor characters, but they contribute enormously to the plot and accurately…

Nerve is a movie that asks the audience to think about how social media influences our decision making. I wanted to review it because of the message that is presented to the audience and the question that is asked by the makers. Are the choices that we make individual or collective choices online? If you succeed than you get paid and if you fail or snitch you will lose money. The ethos of the film is that the users and the watchers are always online. The camera establishes the image and ethos…

Trojan hero Aeneas. Aphrodite then goes to assist Aneas, when Diomedes strikes her in the wrist with a spear, spilling her immortal blood (Pride), Aphrodite flees to Olympus for treatment, where Zeus scolds her and tells her not to go back to the mêlée. Diomedes then attacks Apollo. Apollo calls Ares into the war to help the Trojans. With superior leadership, the Trojans start to rule the battle. Zeus then permits Hera and Athena to join the fray. Athen then tells Diomedes to attack Ares,…

order and disorder in Grendel, views the battle between Grendel and Beowulf the culmination of the back and forth between order and disorder seen in the novel. Neither is inherently stronger than the opposition, and whoever emerges victorious from the melee does so purely on a matter of chance. As Murr states, “order threatens disorder as much as disorder unhinges order” (101). When the two meet, they become caught in a stalemate. The pairs, both of Grendel and Beowulf and disorder and order,…

Not long after the trimming began, Lieutenant Pak Chul of the Korean People’s Army of North Korea, surrounded by ten other North Korean soldiers, approached the workmen and soldiers trimming the tree. “If you cut more branches,” Lieutenant Pak warned, “there will be a big problem” (qtd. in Oberdorfer and Carlin 148). Captain Arthur Bonifas, the American leading the trimming, ignored him, and the poplar trimming operation continued. Lieutenant Pak continued to threaten Captain Bonifas. “The…

How does one learn life lessons while on a dare? In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we see Sir Gawain go through just that. While on a journey to keep his word, we witness Gawain be faced with countless trials without his knowing. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was created back in the late 14th century. We witness much of the culture that was featured during that time, in this story such as knights, kings, magic etc. In this story we witness a self-depreciating knight of the round table…

“Spurs” is a short story about a midget circus performer named falling in love with a bareback rider named Jeanne Marie. Jeanne brushes off Jacques at first, but decides to marry him after he inherits a vast estate from his deceased uncle. The short story was adapted into a film titled Freaks which loosely follows the original work. After the wedding between Jeanne and Jacques, a feast is held in a circus tent in a town called Roubaix. The tone in this scene is both jovial and bizarre,…