The Herdsman

National Honors Society. For the last eight years I have been apart of 4-H and have learned a lot of helpful leadership skills as well as being able to give back to the community. I have received many awards but the one I am most proud of is The Herdsman Award. It is given to a 4-Her who shows swine and delivers the best image of what 4-H is all…

This excerpt is from Scene III of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles and begins right after Oedipus finds out he may not be Polybus’ son. Iocaste is trying to convince Oedipus to forget about finding his true lineage. Iocaste is trying to keep Oedipus from knowing the now obvious truth while Oedipus continues to be ignorant of what the facts point to. Iocaste is the heroine of Oedipus Rex because although she knows what Oedipus has done, she decides that she would rather live with the secret than see her…

After much more analysis with Jocasta, the Messenger, and finally the Herdsman, the truth was confirmed to Oedipus, that truth that Oedipus feared so much to hear. Oedipus was indeed “one of the children of Laius” (1236). He was that child who one day Laius and Jocasta abandoned on the mountain to die. It was Oedipus who…

Socrates’ objections to both Euthyphro’s third definition of the holy and his refined version of this third definition relate primarily to the character of interactions between gods and men, which Socrates does not believe Euthyphro’s definitions do justice. Towards the end of the dialogue, Euthyphro provides a definition of holiness that determines it as a service to the gods; Socrates takes immediate issue with this (Plato, Euthyphro, 12E). Socrates’ primary objection to this definition of…

hailed as a miracle drug and a monastery was even built in his honor. Although the first two myths are well known, it is the following legend that is more often considered as the origins of the history of coffee. 850 It is said that an Ethiopian herdsman named Kaldi saw that his goats were skipping merrily around a bush with more energy than usual after eating the red fruit from it. Kaldi consumed the fruit for himself, and of course experienced the same energy boost that we get today from…

Garrett Hardin; Hardin explains that humans will overuse a resource until it is no longer present, for short-term financial gain. Hardin points out many examples of this, however, he chooses to single out the fact that given free range of the land herdsman will almost always exceed the carrying capacity of the land, thus exhausting the land of its fertility. The Tragedy of the Commons is also shown fictionally in Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, as the Once-ler cuts down all the trees in the forest for…

certain crops are given to the female children, while land, homes, and entire herds are passed down to the male children. It is exceedingly common that inheritance among Tuareg children includes some instances of inequality. The Tuareg are esteemed herdsman, in which the day to day tasks are usually handled by the men alongside the planting and irrigating of gardens. As a less strenuous task, the women harvest the crops and are responsible for preparing the meals (Kohl 2009). The introduction of…

Abstract: This paper reveals the birth of mathematics. Representing quantities in some way is considered the first invention of mathematics. We use mathematics every day in one way or another. Sometimes we even use mathematics unconsciously, as in the case of filing a cup of water for cooking. The measure cup is readily available to us and all we have to do is fill it out, but who started this type of measurement? How old is mathematics? Specifically, how old is counting? When was representing…

reached the gas, it would ignite the natural gas, creating a fire (Natural Gas.org). This was puzzling to early civilizations, which lead to myths and superstitions (Natural Gas.org). In ancient Greece on Mount Parnassus around 1000 B.C., a goat herdsman stumbled across a “burning spring” rising from a fissure in a rock (NG.org). The Greek priestesses believed this phenomenon to be divine, so, they built a temple around the flam and called it the Oracle of Delphi (NG.org). These types of springs…

A herdsman unlocks the leash of Oedipus?s questions. Oedipus was a true victim of self inflicted fate. "I who first saw the light bred of a match accursed, and accursed in my living with them, cursed in my killing." Obviously Oedipus feels he had been damned…