The Immortals

which depicts immortal vampires as the central characters. Anne Rice uses the flashback technique in the novel through which novel’s protagonist, the Vampire named Louis tells the story of his past life to a mortal journalist named Daniel during an interview. Louis wants to make the whole world aware of the existence of evil vampires. The story begins in San Francisco where the vampire, Louis describes the chronicle of the last part of his mortal life following 200 years of his immortal life’s…

Exhilarating title for Assignment #4 Power; the single word that describes how the world operates. Divided into two generalized groups, the ‘powerful’ make decisions that influence the ‘powerless’ and your relationship between either of the groups helps in determining how much you are effected by the decision. Throughout this year in the encounters program various texts have exposed us to different viewpoints of how power can be displayed and interacted with. Although a cartoon, Maus I & II…

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot, Award-Winning Science Writer Harland Howell II 11/16/2017 Northeast Mississippi Community College Dr. Tabatha Perrigo (Psychology) Abstract Overall, medicinal research made an intriguing breakthrough over than 50 years ago by obtaining tissue samples and cells from a patient that changed the medical world drastically. Cancer of course was and still is an occurring issue today in society but prior to the past, there was more of an epidemic…

the invisible, the immortal, and the indissoluble, while the body exhibits an affinity to the visible, the mortal, and the dissoluble. Socrates states just that in Phaedo 80B: Consider then…that the soul is most like the divine, deathless, intelligible, uniform, indissoluble, [and] always the same as itself. On the other hand, the body is “human, mortal, multiform, unintelligible, soluble, and never consistently the same”, as Socrates said (Phaedo 80B). Thus, the soul is immortal based upon the…

Enkidu, as a buffer to Gilgamesh’s hubris. When Enkidu dies he is overwhelmed with the fear of death, and sets on a journey to find the key to immortality. In the end of Gilgamesh’s perilous journey, Gilgamesh realizes that he was not made to be immortal and learns to accept his ordained destiny. Through the character…

Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid” can be considered too violent and unhappy. In Anderson’s tale, the Little Mermaid goes to the Sea Witch in hopes of finding a way to make her soul immortal, for mermaids’ souls end with their lives. To receive an immortal soul, the Little Mermaid must have a human fall in love with her. In her quest for human love, the Little Mermaid has her tongue cut off, feels constant pain from the new human legs and feet the sea witch has given…

The Critical Race Theory states “people have intersecting identities.” Two of those identities are gender and race. In Marilyn Frye’s article “Oppression” she said, “the experience of oppressed people is that the living of one’s life is confined and shaped by forces and barriers which are not accidental or occasional” (Frye). Through looking at various resources, we will discuss how the identities of race and gender have led to people living their lives under a blanket of oppression and how…

journey to the cedar forest Gilgamesh would have never realized his own mortality. Gilgamesh travels to find the old man Utanapishtim the only human being to be granted immortality by the gods. Gilgamesh finds the old man and asked how he became immortal. Utanapishtim tells him about the great flood and the ark he built. Similar to how Gilgamesh and Enkidu journeyed to the cedar forest to construct a cedar door, Utanapishtim also constructed a great arc which lead to his immortality this path…

In the play Othello by William Shakespeare, the character Othello thinks reputation is important and he regards it likes a critic, even immortal, part of life; contrary, Iago thinks reputation cannot reflect a person’s real personality. Combine my real life experience, Iago’s opinion is more appropriate, because a lie can be true when it spreads, and the best way to find out how a person really is to get close to him or her. Reputation control people in some ways, because that’s a…

because while she joined under false pretenses, she did so much good while she stayed. Religious conundrums and debates like this one were common in the medieval world, and caused some troubling ambiguity when it came to the absolution of one's immortal soul. Tuchman discusses this vagueness of sin in her text. She raises questions such as is it a sin to be "tempted by another woman" and sleep with your wife to cool off and is it a sin to sleep with a pregnant or menopausal woman because it was…