Rage

John Broadus Watson was an American psychologist as well as a radical environmental determinist. He believed that humans could be “conditioned” like training animals. Watson promoted a upcoming change in psychology through a behaviourist approach. Based on Pavlov’s observations ,Watson proposed that the process of classical conditioning could explain all aspects of human psychology. Watson whole heartedly denied the existence of the mind and consciousness. According to Watson different…

impactful decisions that our characters have had to make. One decision in particular was Medea’s decision to kill her two children after she has killed the King and Jason’s mistress, the Princess. Medea has been left by her husband Jason, and in a fit of rage she begins to devise a plan to poison both Jason and his new wife. Trying many times to analyze this decision, it becomes difficult to understand Medea’s decision making process. This idea in itself is unethical in any setting of the past…

In the epic poem The Odyssey by Homer, Odysseus and Telemachus have learned many lessons throughout their journeys home. Odysseus and Telemachus both learn about the ways of humanity: they learn to discover their character, learn lessons of truth, and learn to be resilient. Odysseus and Telemachus both discover their true identities in their respective journeys. Odysseus’ returning to Ithaca after many years away from home signifies a returning to himself after many years of trying to find…

wounds. The “Cell Block Tango” was a very prominent scene, because all of the women were also wearing black, which stood for their wrongdoing. At one point, Velma wore a red outfit when singing about why she was in prison. Red is again used to show her rage and anger. Additionally, Hunyak wears white on stage as she completes her “final disappearing act” while in real life she was being hanged although she was innocent. She may have been the only innocent character and the director utilized the…

the people to settle in the area—the Sumerians. Simple and practical farmers, these people set the anchor for Mesopotamian culture—agriculture. Their beliefs situated around abundant concerns of everyday life and the events their gods caused during rage when unsatisfied. These gods were regarded with power and maximum respect. Believing the gods to have the capability of causing catastrophic floods, storms, earthquakes, and raids, Sumerians devoted their lives to…

really grinds my gears. When the person in front of you is coming up on a turn and they start to slow down their speed to make the turn into a new lane or to get onto a new road can cause something bad to happen. If you are a driver with some bad road rage and someone turns or…

ends…” this quotation conveys the illusion of the white man who is able to do as they please. In comparison to the bird who is caged which is described in the next stanza, “But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are…

Euripides 's Medea is an overly dramatized anti-feminist play that borders on portraying prejudices against women as outlandish comedy. To modern readers like the ones in our Gender and Sexuality class at Lick, Medea can come across as comic, but this reaction does not mean that our society is “post-sexist”; there are definitely still many people who agree with the prejudices the play presents. But although Medea can come across as stereotypical in that Medea is the overly-emotional woman and…

too late that they have not lived up to their own potential. Dylan Thomas’s villanelle “Do Not Go Gentle” urges people who are nearing death and feel this regret to fight. Through this villanelle, he directly addresses his father by asking him to “rage against the dying of the light” (3) and “not go gentle into that good night” (1) but, instead, to show that he cares. Thomas challenges his father to use the last moments of life to continue to feel as if he still has more to accomplish and not go…

Although there are a lot of cultural differences between Greek and Mesopotamian mythology, they share a similar commonality regarding the power dynamics between the gods and humankind. In The Iliad and The Epic of Gilgamesh, the discrepancy in terms of power between them is especially evident considering the capabilities of the gods in comparison to the powerless mortals. Human beings do not have free will and are confined under the power and authority over the gods, whether it be directly or…