Ox

He takes Nina’s hair and “cuts it the way you cut corn with a knife” (163). He also ties both Nina and Lukas to the ox reins and whip them, “he tied him up with the ox reins” (159). “Before the first stroke hit her, she started screaming while trying to get away.” (162). Elias’ violent tendencies is similar to those of the slave masters around the same time the book takes place. “For every…

Eric Minton’s thesis is accurate in his essay “Who is the Misogynist Monster: Petruchio, Shakespeare, or You?” because it mentions Taming of the Shrew as not being misogynist, and Petruchio and Kate having a stable relationship. Minton indicates that the play is not misogynist because of how Kate is able to be assertive and insulting. In Taming of the Shrew, Katherine says, “If I be waspish, best beware my sting” (II.i.208). Katherine is insulting Petruchio in this scene and shows how…

15,371,687. Who knows what this number is? Or 4.85%. This is the latest statistics about unemployed in the United States (ecodb.net). Within 35 years, our economy has been getting better from 7.18 percent to 4.85 percent of unemployed, but still many people have been in hard time to find job (ecodb.net). Even though people have a superior academic background, they have been fired within short time. Why? What do companies and CEOs seek to their employees? Succeeded company have talented people…

The four basic cultural divisions of the Arctic consisted of the Unangan, Yup’ik, and 2 types of Inuit. The Arctic is a very harsh environment, so these tribes had to learn to live with the cold, and have strong self-reliance, cooperation, modesty, self-control, and share with others. The Unangan lived in large, permanent communities located on the Aleutian Islands. This was a relatively warm environment. Their main food resource consisted of sea mammals and fish. They are different from the…

Once upon a time, a little pony need to go across a river, however, he cannot be sure about the depth, then he decided to ask other villagers. Mr. Ox told him the river was shallow and just over his ankle, but tiny squirrel said the river was so deep that one of her friends was drowned in this river. What should little pony do, go across the river or find a bridge? Resembling morality in people’s mind as the river in this story, it is indeed varied between individual members, which indicates…

So the mind must be the site of moral goodness.” Mencius states that Ox Mountain is naturally barren. Human beings by nature have dispositions of benevolence, righteousness, propriety, and wisdom. However, if the environment does not nurture these qualities shall not thrive. There’s not reason to think that humans are naturally…

teeth of his equal, his teeth shall be knocked out (200).” An alternative meaning for this rule, the famously quoted phrase,“an eye for an eye.” When that same man strikes another of a higher ranking than himself, “He shall receive sixty blows with an ox-whip in public(202).”…

Do you know how complex the Mesopotamian Civilization was. They had laws, religion, and social class from the articles I have read. The sources I used to find all of this information are Hammurabi's Code, The Code of Ur-Nammu, The Advice of an Akkadian, and The Sumerian Prayer to Every God. Social Class was very obvious in their society. You can tell from how their laws are set up and the consequences of the laws that depend on your social class. This is how their social class was set up…

According to Geertz, how people deal with suffering in religion isn’t necessarily how to avoid it. Except, it’s how to make suffering sufferable through the use of religious symbols. In the case of Nuer religion, Nuer interpret all misfortunes as from their god, Kwoth. The symbol of cattle, and cattle sacrifice is a way in which they control their suffering. Evidently, in response to new situations and forms of suffering, the interpretation of misfortune and how it is managed evolve. One way…

The Mesopotamian civilization and the Yellow river civilization both had characteristics that showed an advanced society. Mesopotamia had a form of centralized government named Hammurabi's code which is a set of the laws written by King Hammurabi. The Yellow river valley civilization had oracle bones, a form of religion which were shoulder bones of animals that were thrown into fires and read by priests to see what would happen in the future. Mesopotamia achieved greatness because of a written…