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In Don Sabo’s “Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain” he explores how young athletes are destroying their bodies without awareness. While Naomi Wolf’s “The Beauty Myth” investigates how the media and society as a whole are constantly portraying unrealistic images of beauty for women. The media constantly perpetuates that if females are not beautiful then they will not receive recognition. Sabo’s approach to reach his audience is solely on his experiences from being on the field. Wolf uses many direct…

Humans have tried to control nature since they figured out that they could grow enough crops to feed everyone and have an excess. Creation stories were created by humans to explain how their world came to be. These stories show how different cultures feared different things. Frankenstein and Blade Runner show the fear of a superhuman creation that is devastating to the humans who created it. The creation stories humans create show that humans fear themselves more than anything else. In the…

A Comparison of Native Creation Stories “Turtle Island” and “The One About Coyote Going West” are native creation stories that reflect the culture and beliefs of the people. The stories attempt to explain the unexplainable with aspects of magic and other worldly powers. These stories come from different time periods, use different names for divine creators and have different animals to tell the story. However, the similarities between the two stories’ creation method, setting and portrayal of…

The Great Flood in “Genesis 6-9” vs. “The Epic of Gilgamesh” There are many contradictions about the validity of stories in the Hebrew Bible. For example, “The Epic of Gilgamesh” has a few scenes that are similar to that of the Hebrew Bible. One scene in particular is Utanaphistim’s account of the Great Flood. The contradictions arise because Gilgamesh is dated as being written before the Hebrew bible. Therefore, The Epic of Gilgamesh’s flood has a few similarities to that of Noah’s flood in…

Although creation myths were based on the beliefs of many different tribes, most of these myths share many moral similarities. In particular, the tribes of the Iroquois and the Hopi shared myths about the creation of the world which included many similar and different morals and beliefs. The creation myths “The World on the Turtle’s Back” from the Iroquois tribe and “The Four Creations” from the Hopi people share values such as the view of animals being very intelligent and the patriarchy that…

The main argument of Henry John Drewal's article “Mermaids, Mirrors and Snake Charmers: Igbo Mami Wata Shrines” is that Mami Wata shrines, and the ideas surrounding them, were created from many outside influences, reinterpreted and repurposed. While many of the imagery, beliefs and practices surrounded Mami Wata are borrowed from other cultures and beliefs, they are not merely copies or imitations of those beliefs. Instead, Mami Wata worshippers have created something entirely new and unique by…

2) a,b : This passage is taken from "What is Enlightenment", by Immanuel Kant, from the first page of the essay. Kant is criticizing the over dependence of a grown up individual for nurturing and caretaking and possibly resisting the responsibilities brought to him. He says these deficiencies are caused by laziness and cowardice. Kant states that enlightenment is a man freeing himself from self-imposed nonage. He moves on explaining the reasons why this nonage takes place, and then moves on…

This might have shown how in the Inca’s lived their lives; mostly on land and higher up. This more than likely means that the Inca’s did not have boats or the technology to build them. Maybe they just did not know. Most other Indian and tribal flood myths do not involve a boat or…

“Who created the world?” “When was it created?” “How was it created?” These are a few questions asked by people around the world. There are several beliefs on how the world was created. Some believe the biblical creation, while others believe the Greek creation. Even though they are different creations with different stories, they still have a few similarities. In the biblical creation and the Greek creation, they both believe in a god or gods that created the world, and they believe that the…

“The World on the Turtle’s Back” by the Iroquois Tribe is a creation myth. Joseph Campbell classified the four functions of a myth: metaphysical, to instill awe; sociological, to support customs; cosmological, to explain the world and the unexplained; and pedagogical, to guide people. This story fulfills each of these functions when the woman falls through a hole in the sky world and the earth is created by dirt from the bottom of the ocean. Her descendants each have a part of creating the…