The Battle of the Labyrinth

immense, immeasurable amount of knowledge that exists. Melville tries to help people understand that it is next to impossible to grasp all of the knowledge that exists in the world, and that if one were to try to do so, they would be fighting an up-hill battle and their entire life would only end…

Banquo’s descendants become king. Macbeth learns that the Thane of Fife, Macduff, has also left to recruit more men for an army against Macbeth. Enraged Macbeth sends murderers to kill Macduff 's wife and kids.Later on as Macbeth is preparing for battle, he hears a scream. Macbeth proclaims “I have almost forgot the taste of fear”(Shakespeare 177). This means that he thinks he is fearless and that nothing can touch him. He then finds out that the screaming was Lady Macbeth dying. He states that…

Growing up in Chicago has provided numerous opportunities to engage with multiple ethnic cultures and customs through food, music and numerous social interactions. Those various ethnic cultures have also coalesced into a cultural kaleidoscope that has fundamentally shaped the culture of the metropolis and the way that I digest the sociocultural norms of my hometown. Therefore, when someone [myself included] identifies ‘Chicago culture,’ we are essentially referencing a geographical culture and…

Sunsetter gazed at the stars fading and gleaming on her space-like skin. She was waiting in a large dip with the other people who Starwave had summoned to her castle. Engysi had his feet up on the coffee table in the center, and played around with the blue rings surrounding him. Helix was floating above the couches with Galexi, blinking with his ‘X’-shaped eyes and talking to each other. Sephied was hunched over in deep thought, while Neklardia was humming softly to himself. Soon enough,…

Throughout the Bronze Age, the cultures of the Aegean civilizations showed influences in trade, religion and economic administration. The iconography of these civilizations not only revealed their culture but also how they functioned throughout Greece. Weapons and animal representations like bulls and griffins, are all characteristic of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations. But the settings in which they are presented offer deeper implications into their values and identity. Excavated frescos,…

Hollywood’s Commercial Aesthetic: Commercial aesthetic can be thought of in the context of turning pleasure into a product we can buy-this includes films. Maltby and Craven (1995) argue that films are made up of many different elements, such as a script, story, director and so on. They say these elements are then intertwined together by producers and production companies to satisfy the current needs and wishes of consumers at a given point in time. Storytelling style is an important part of…

This island has to be saved for its trees, it has to be saved for its animals it is a part of a reserve forest, it belongs to a project to save tigers, which is paid for by people from all around the world….who love animals so much that they are willing to kill us for them…this whole world has become a place for animals, and our fault, our crime was that we were just human beings, trying to live as human beings always have, from the water and the soil. No human being…

Jackson, son of Poseidon, must triumph in to prevent the titan of time, Lord Kronos, from taking over the world and throwing it into utter chaos. All the books in this series (The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan’s Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Last Olympian) were characterized as appropriate for those readers in the 9+ age groups. The two movies that sprouted from this series (The Lightning Thief and The Sea of Monsters) were indicated to be acceptable for viewing…

Suzanne Collins was born in 1969 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was the daughter of an air force pilot and therefore she spent her childhood moving around the United States. While she was young her father left for a year in order to fight in Vietnam, a fact that marked her life. When her father returned, he spent a lot of time talking about his military experience and he taught Collins and her siblings about war and its consequences. Collins herself visited battlefields and war monuments (Anon,…

When we think of the ancient classical civilization of the Romans, what comes to mind? Perhaps it’s the amazing architectural feats, or rather the advanced forms of government that we still use to this very day? I submit that neither is as spectacular as the ancient underground catacombs that hold the mass graves of around 2000 skeletons. After watching the NOVA program (titled Roman Catacomb Mystery) on this specific catacomb, I found several interesting aspects of the graves that include, the…