Space Odyssey series

In the 2017 documentary, The Crest, directed by Mark Covino, the story of two cousins on opposite sides of the United States who are both surfers and both unaware of the other’s existence, and they discover that they are both descendants of An Ri, the last King of the Blasket Islands, a collection of rocky islands off the western-most point of Ireland. The cousins meet for the first time in Ireland on a quest to explore their shared heritage, learn what has been passed down to them from those…

Keesh and Pi both faced many hardships trying to survive in an extreme environment. However, they used many qualities to help them survive such as intelligence and bravery to help them survive this harsh environment. This is shown how Keesh would use his intelligence to help him in their survival situation by using items that his tribe would have never thought of before to help kill the dangerous animals easier. Pi uses his bravery to help him survive without fearing of the outcome of the…

The Will to Survive is Worth the Chance of Life Everyday is a fight for life and with the will to live you are one of the strongest people left on Earth. The book The Road by Cormac McCarthy has many examples of life and death situations about a boy and his father during an apocalypse. They want to make a journey to the ocean where it is safer and warmer, but they have to deal with cannibals, hunger and sickness throughout this journey. They end up making it to the ocean and this was only…

In the movie Chariots of the Gods, based on the novel by Erich von Däniken, it brings up multiple pseudoarchaeological claims. A pseudoarchaeology claim “-involves the misinterpretation and misrepresentation of archaeological data to concoct a past that some feel is more satisfying” (Fader). One of the most interesting claims I heard about was the idea that the Egyptians could not have built the pyramids in Giza by themselves with the technology available at the time. Von Däniken creates this…

The Odyssey, an epic poem by Homer later adapted into a play by Simon Armitage, is a narrative depicting the journey of the greek hero Odysseus back to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War. His voyage spans twenty years, and throughout the course of his trip back home, Odysseus and his men encounter various obstacles that they need to overcome. Since Odysseus is essentially the leader of his crew, it is most often his responsibility to defeat the enemy and solve the problem at hand. At times,…

Empiricism. Depriving of the Greek word, Empeiria, meaning experience. Like many English words honored with deprivation from the language of our ancestors, the greek it was harvested from hints at its meaning. Empiricism is a philosophical theory, the theory of experience. It is the view that all knowledge comes from experience, furthermore sensory experience. The premise being that sensory experience is the most reliable source of knowledge. We can’t imagine the world without the sensory…

“It is a book about all wars, about the people and characters that you find in every war … about their pettiness, their heroism, their adventures, their sacrifices, and their sufferings.” noted author Cheryl Lowe when describing the Synopses of the twenty-four Books of the Iliad. Homer’s epic, The Iliad, covers the finals weeks leading to the end of the ten year Trojan War. Lowe must surely be right considering the intricate books weave countless heroes’ tales together. Consequently, the…

Life is meaningless, humans often search for clarity. Sisyphus was shown as an absurd hero, he was the wisest and most prudent of the mortals. Although he was labeled as such a noble person, Sisyphus often questioned the meaning of his life and existence. “There is only one real philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Deciding whether or not life's worth living to answer the most fundamental questions of philosophy.” It was found that our existence has no true meaning. We look for things…

Between both epic poems by Homer; The Iliad and The Odyssey, the reader is able distinguish a variety of themes that set both stories apart. But there are also multiple instances where the themes of the poems overlap and actually build off of each other. This is where Homer is able to help the reader fully understand both stories by implementing themes through both poems and a multitude of characters and situations to help his message get across. One of the biggest similarities between both…

In the Iliad, and ancient Greek in general, women were alway seen and portrayed as property. In this time there were also different categories of women, the mortals such as Helen, and the gods such as Hera and Aphrodite. My personal intake on the Iliad was that those two goddesses were the most important and most talked about. First I will talk about the role of Helen in the book. Helen's story is very famous as her story was the one that caused the war of Troy. However, some people believe in…