Spiders

in the future. As their quest continues Bilbo uses the ring a second time in Mirkwood. After Bilbo, himself escaped the giant spider that tied him up, he used the ring to go save the other dwarves (Tolkien, Ch. VIII, 146). At this time is when Bilbo receives a new type of confidence. After killing the giant spider, he decides to name his knife in which he killed the spider with. Bilbo proclaims, “I will give you a name, and I shall call you Sting” (Tolkien, Ch. VIII, 144). In other stories…

Strangest Meals Have you ever eaten something that is really strange? I know a lot of people prefer their food recognizable and delicious. However when I was a child I had the strangest food cravings. I absolutely loved eating strawberry shortcake and washing it down with buttermilk. It was great to me and I wouldn’t have it any other way. You can imagine the faces of the waitresses at the various cafes that my mom went to, to meet her friends with me along. If you’re ready here we go. Fried…

Vader is a villain who truly struggled with his morals and fell to the dark side. Anakin Skywalker was not always a villain. But in several cases, the villain can also be heroes in a different light. Spider Man was casted as the hero of the movie, but was a villain to the police force. On top of that, Spider Man and the police force had a bigger villain over all to deal with. The hero tends to think that their way is always right, and the only way to make the city better is with their help. In…

“Not for money, not for spite; not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience...and those unfortunate lads sit here hated, despised, outcasts, with the community shouting for their blood (“Leopold & Loeb” par 38). Darrow uses the metaphor created between the bloodshed of a spider and the murder of a human being to remind the jury of their once instinctive kill of a spider; he seeks to connect the the jury and the two killers through a shared experience…

In this story, the Martians have tripods and monitors and us in a time when technology was barely showing itself to the world. One of my favorite pieces of technology is the tripod because in the story it says that the tripod was like a spider except that the spider is made of metal. The tripod has a laser, a raygun,…

Humans that have a complete lack of empathy are diagnosed with a mental illness, possibly narcissistic or antisocial personality disorder. They are seen as sick or can even be seen as inhuman. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick attests that a person’s humanity lies in his ability to feel empathetic, and to be without empathy is to be inhuman. Rick Deckard makes his living as a bounty hunter retiring escaped androids. An android’s lack of empathy is the only defining…

The “Macho” Man I couldn 't be happier when my father told me the plan he had in mind for us as soon we wake up the next day. I couldn’t sleep when I saw it for the first time and honestly it was too beautiful. It was green with some metallic colors on it and it has some stripes on the handles and black tires. I am talking about my first bicycle that my father gave to me when I was 5 years old. After we woke up, we went to a close park where we always hang out with family and friends and I was…

For example, In the tale “How Stories Came to Earth” the spider named Kwaku Anansi said, “The rain has come do you see me standing here with a leaf to cover my head?” “fly inside my empty gourd so that the rain will not beat at your wings”. Consequently, the hornets flew inside the gourd and Anansi captures them…

Classical conditioning is a process in which behaviour is modified. It was made famous by Ivan Pavlov and the experiments he carried out by using his dogs. Classical conditioning occurs when an unconditioned stimulus is paired with a conditioned stimulus. When both stimuli have been repeatedly paired, the organism which in Pavlov’s case was his dog shows a conditioned response to the conditioned stimulus. During the 1890’s, Pavlov accidentally discovered classical conditioning when feeding his…

Another aspect of ancient Greek mythology that thrives in modern-day society is the lessons that the myths taught. The word “μύθος” (mythos) translates to “story” in the English language (Green 197). Due to this, the stories of ancient Greece are called myths, although the ancient Greeks themselves did not believe these tales of gods and goddesses were merely stories. The Although the myths are no longer heeded as warnings against the wraths of gods and goddesses, the myths held truths…