Sublime

The epic's prelude offers a general prologue to Gilgamesh, ruler of Uruk, who was 66% god and 33% man. He assembled radiant ziggurats, or sanctuary towers, encompassed his city with high dividers, and laid out its plantations and fields. He was physically delightful, tremendously solid, and exceptionally insightful. In spite of the fact that Gilgamesh was exceptional in body and brain, he started his authority as a remorseless dictator. He reigned over his subjects, assaulting any lady who…

For the past five years, Europe witnessed the bloodiest and most destructive war in the history of civilization. Every country at the peace conference has suffered damages and must be repaid for their suffering. As well as ensuring that the victors are compensated for their damages, the barbarians that started the war, including the Kaiser of Germany and the leaders of Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and other countries that supported the German cause, must be punished. The victims of the…

For many, questioning their place and value in the natural world is a common thought. Today, we attribute that that philosophic endeavor to environmental theory. This branch of philosophy is centered on defining the true value and aesthetic significance of earthly nature. Beginning in the Romantic era of the early 19th century, this movement developed as a result of environmental concerns of the industrial revolution. This inspired poetically personal contemplations on the human environmental…

social status and monetary wealth; ultimately, what determines if a man is great or not is the way in which he responds to the circumstances around him. As Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said, “Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.” Leaving our footprints in the sand for generations to come is perhaps one of the greatest purposes in the world. Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan both left their…

"I" referring to the poet and expressing a single mood or moment of consciousness).the diction, vocabulary and sentence structure are 1-direct 2-simple. It describes how an experience of natural pretty can enter the mind culminate into something sublime. This idea of reading the poem from include without the need for any extra information is particular to the school of New Criticism. This technique is sometimes criticized because each poem has a context, that of the author and the text and that…

Although societal pressures may influence an individual’s likelihood to conform to social norms, it is important to stay true to who you are by not allowing negative forces to overcome you. It is within the human condition to crave human relationships with others, however balance between being yourself and gaining insight from outer sources is of utmost importance to maintain your authenticity. Both Clive Thompson’s “I 'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You” and Sophocles’ Antigone demonstrate…

I chose to write a compare and contrast for my final on Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” during the period of Venetian Renaissance and Romantic artist Francisco Goya’s “The Nude Maja”. My major is fashion design, so I was drawn to write about these works of art because these two paintings depicted both females’ sensuality which is probably the most popular subject matter in the western art history for centuries. These two works are particularly important because the “Venus of Urbino” is most often…

The film Gun Crazy gives an important example of characters being consumed by several damaging fixations, namely the allure of femme fatales and possessing a dangerous gun fetish. This film is a psychological tale, as film author Foster Hirsch notes in his book The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir, “Gun Crazy makes passing stabs at a variety of meaty subjects: the place of violence in American life; the link between violence and sex; the emasculating obsession with masculinity” (Hirsch 195).…

It is quite exciting getting closer and closer to who God is calling me to be. Although at the same time it is intimidating. What if I do not understand God right, or if the voice I think is God calling me to go and do something actually is not Him and I mess my whole life up. See how that can be a daunting problem? I know that I am excited though to be able to know what God wants me to do with my life. It is pretty scary to think that at my young age I could know what I am going to be doing…

Another profound example of his strength and courage, it must be noted that the issuance of the Bull Sublimis Deus 1537, translated The Sublime God, was done at the same time he was calling for an ecumenical council to reform the Church. This Bull was a clear condemnation of what called, the enslavement of the “Indians of the West and South, and other people of whom We have recent knowledge…