The Beauty Myth

is the first of the Christian Bible and contains the creation story to compare and contrast with other origin stories from Mesopotamian, Native American, and Greek myths. To begin, the Native American culture is vast and has a variety of subcultures, but the primitive tribes that…

In many of the sacred texts about creation that have been encountered this semester, there is a demonstration of a culture’s changing response to the feminine. Also many of the sacred texts establish an etiological justification for the subordinate position of women. The three creation narratives that I will focus on is the Greek, Iroquois, and Roman creation narratives. In the Greek creation narrative, the society as a whole does not view women in the most positive light. Trickery is most…

Myth of Sisyphus Summary: The more we search and learn about the depths of the human brain, the more we come to see we know less than we think of its intricate information processes and interconnectivity of system pathways. The more we explore the void of galaxy the more we realize we know nothing about its dimensions in space in time. Likewise, when we set out to explain the meaning of life and us, the more we realize we know nothing about it. It’s actually absurd to think that we do because…

In his most recent encyclical Pope Francis addressed the many problems facing our environment and called Christians to take action. He stated, "The idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in technology ... is based on the lie that there is an infinite supply of the earth 's goods, and this leads to the planet being squeezed dry at every limit” (Francis). He continued to outline many excellent points surrounding the crisis. The…

value of an item or individual is a motif that the writers of the poems “Adam’s Task” and “Naming the Animals” employ in response to the creation myths of Genesis. In both of the response poems, John Hollander and Anthony Hecht focus upon the task of naming the animals appointed by God unto Adam. By concentrating on this undisclosed event of the creation myth within their works, they form their own representations of how that affair possibly occurred, and with ironic and anticlimactic language…

always been inferior to men? Is there ever going to be equality between man and woman and why do societies view males and females differently when all human beings should be given the same rights? The way that gender roles are viewed in the creation myths demonstrate the different accepted behavior between men and women. Some cultural stories have equality, while others have male dominance…

There are theories about Genesis being written by two different authors. The two Genesis creation stories help to support this theory. There are many aspects of the stories that show there are two different authors for the two stories. This paper will discuss these aspects of the stories and show the differences that help to support this theory. Both stories show the way God created the world, but each story have hints of different themes and authors. The first creation story is separated by…

The Role of Myths in My Life As long as America has been a country, myths have been told. From the United States to Europe and beyond, many myths are a part of culture everywhere. Myths are the ultimate “gather round’ the campfire” type of stories, the kind a grandfather would grab the attention of his grandson with. Some are good, some are bad, some are scary and some are joyful, but they all have values and principles that bleed out when each one is told. In this essay I will describe my…

Nagel belief is that everything is absurd in life. He believes that life has no tangible meaning and there is no reason why we should think we could make life meaningful at all. But, we continue to live with defiance, despair, or with an ironic smile. Life is not as important as we had once thought, but that is not a reason to hate life or to feel sadness. Nagel does not believe that life is absurd is about life meaning nothing because it will mean nothing in the distant future. He says “In…

In a world of everything chairs, plants, houses, spaceships, abortion, smartphones, love and death there is one word for it all life. Life is the one word that describes everything in just one word. Life is everything. The word life is so complicated that it does not just mean a living organism it means so much more. We are so smart that we question everything and create too many problems for ourselves. What is the creation story; how did we get here, from God or gods, aliens or from nature?…