Kate is the maiden daughter of Baptista Minola. She is widely believed to be a “shrew” by many. A “shrew” is a label given to hot-tempered, aggressive women. Shrews tend to have quite the tongue. Early on in this play, the audience witnesses constant insults directed towards the male characters around her. She also performs physical acts of anger against the men who provoke her. Kate does not act like a shrew because that is who she is; she acts like one because she is unhappy and desperate. Her…
POWER STRUGGLE IN LORD OF THE FLIES Power is believed to be the only thing stronger than fear. When Lord of the Flies was published in 1954 the novel is considered to be about humans that are inherently evil and when given power, how they choose to use it. Golding demonstrates this through the use of characterization examining Jack and Ralph as individual characters; symbolism is used to illustrate the power in the novel; and lastly, the conflict/dialogue between Ralph, Jack and its effects on…
Women and Prostitution Right or Wrong Introduction In the articles “ Prostitution Demeans Women and Prostitution Can Benefit Women,” prostitution became the subject of great controversy. One side argues that prostitution is a choice and provides them with money, independence, dignity, and freedom. On the other side of the argument it, states that, prostitution promotes the demeaning of women and the way that women are seen as sex symbols and sexual gratifications. Prostitution has…
The Abundance of Service If there was ever one thing to make someone happy, unconditionally happy, it would be service. While not drinking alcohol, smoking, or doing drugs are very important, service is something that does not just help oneself but also another person. It’s like a double whammy! Large acts of service can sounds hectic, overly ambitious, even scary, but those scary things are not the only possible size of service. ur Lord and Savior, Christ the Redeemer, used active love to help…
Phaedrus believed that Love was the eldest of the Gods, and that made him the mightiest. His viewpoint on love is that when a person falls in love he/she should do anything to make the object of their love happy. I still believe that his theory on love can be applied to the modern day, now more so than before. As Phaedrus explains, Chaos is the only god that is older than Love. That makes sense because after Chaos, Love is needed to get things back on track. The world now is full of…
Annotated bibliographies Hansen C, Hansen R. Rock Music Videos and Antisocial Behavior. Basic & Applied Social Psychology [serial online]. December 1990;11(4):357-369. Available from: Business Source Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed October 22, 2015. In “Rock Music Videos and Antisocial Behavior,” Christine Hall Hansen and Ronald D. Hanson, professors of phycology, discuss the parallels between the effects of rock music. They assert that these antisocial behaviors can be linked toward a younger…
This particular pericope is one that would be considered very controversial and indeed raises a few theological questions for theological scholars. What exactly was Ananias and Sapphira’s wrong course of action? Did they both die as a severe and harsh consequence of God’s punishment of their sin? Aside from these contentious questions, it is suggested by many scholarly interpreters that the themes and purpose of this text that are most prevalent and apparent is the concept of lying, the…
Ethics has a great impact on people whenever they are facing a difficult or biased situation. It depends on what ethical philosophies that people believe in, which would justify their actions towards a specific problem. The goal of this paper is to reflect the different responses of bystanders under two different ethical approaches, which are the utilitarianism or the deontology approach. According to the textbook (Introducing Philosophy through Pop Culture: From Socrates to South Park, Hume to…
The meaning behind Shakespeare’s “To be, or not to be,” soliloquy in III.i.56-90 of Hamlet has been debated by readers since its debut performance. It is because of its fame and history that the “To be, or not to be,” soliloquy has been interpreted to have numerous meanings. Many view the soliloquy to be a testament on the suffering mankind endures throughout life. “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer , Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, To die,” (lines 56-60), in these lines…
There are many reasons for violent acts. Some commit violence because they want to harm others and some because they want to harm themselves, but some because they believe they are helping the world in some way or another. People commit these kinds of acts because they don’t think clearly; causing them to justify their violent actions as caring ones. In Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the characters, Rodion Ramonovitch Raskolnikov, Arkady Ivanovitch Svidrigailov, and Katerina Ivanova…