The Mist

Adrenaline courses through his veins. A godly soldier locks eyes with a bloodlust beast, who has long overstayed his welcome. Yet even as famed and honorable as he is, even he knows that even he, is only just a mortal. In the story of Beowulf, a warrior faces an enemy in new territory, an enemy that has been terrorizing a town for 12 years. Throughout this story, the idea of mortality is constantly presented, and it shows the readers that no one really lives forever, only in the memories of…

and tells Hades to return Persephone back to the world of the living. Unfortunately, through Hades’s trickery, Demeter only got a portion of her desired wants, “[Zeus] consents that your daughter would spend a third part of the year’s cycle in the mist darkness and the two other parts with you and the other gods. He consented with a nod of the head” (159-160). Although, Demeter’s desires were not completely fulfilled, her prowess as the goddess of fertility demonstrated that she is not to be…

Balanced Scorecard The sixth concept that is applicable to Swept Into Place is Balanced Scorecard. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC), according to Blocher, Stout, Juras, and Cokins (2016), is a method of measuring a company’s performance through various internal procedures to achieve external results (p. 11). There are four factors within the BSC method that companies can use to measure their success (benchmarking) against themselves or other companies: financial performance, customer satisfaction,…

Odysseus’ voyage makes mostly a positive impact, easing out some challenges he would have to face. On his way toward the Phaeacian city, Athena disguises herself and helps Odysseus in secret. “Pallas Athena, harboring kindness for the hero, drifted a heavy mist around him, shielding him…” (7.16) Athena is often written as a safe haven for Odysseus. Here, Athena takes a liking to Odysseus, and decides to protect him from anyone who might recognize him as an outsider and harass him. This shortens…

Romanticism Vs. Naturalism I think that Cather’s view that she personally adheres happens as Romanticism because she chose to use Romantic emotions and gestures through the characters in the story. She also added extra descriptions on events from a Romantic point of view. I believe Cather viewed her writing from the Romantic side more than the Naturalistic side for a few reasons. In spite of the Romantic point of view, Cather showed a Naturalistic point of view too. For example, in chapter two…

castle’s gates to the edge of Cadmium, where they soon noticed flickering golden lights speedily approaching. “First Commander-sir!” a voice yells down from the darken sky. Within moments, a cloud formed with glowing amber eyes, peering through its mist. Seeing this, Cipher instantaneously yanks up on his horse’s rein with the rest of his men behind him doing the same. The cloud forms beside him, donning a soggy and wet Wylie’s Kingsman uniform. “Guardsman, what are you doing here?” Cipher…

It is a pleasure to scrutinize the work of both Philip Levine “what work is” and Kim Addonizio “Dead Girl.” In both articles, the theme of youth and despair are explored by the writers as they analyze aspects of the lives of young girls and a young man. They spoke of the struggles that they go through as well as their feelings towards this life and how they handle it. They look into how the authors’ view on relationships or lack of it, and how it affects a young man and young girls in the…

During the period of 1780 and 1850, France went through many changes, some were for good but many of the changes led to much devastation throughout the country. In 1789, after many lost wars under the leadership of Louis XV, France was in the mist of economic failure. Furthermore, the revolution by Louis XV and the support by the United States helped worsen the financial stability of the country. Prior to Louis XV, under the leadership of Louis XIII the financial system in French was working.…

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving portrays many voices. This writing shows the romanticism, complex voice, and the idea of transcendentalism. When one thinks of romanticism, they may think of someone who is romantic. In reality, romanticism is something very different. Romanticism involves nature, emotions are essential to life, and that dreams mean something. The description of nature in this writing is very romantic. The writing states “Not far from this village, perhaps…

described as writing and books, but overall meaning stories. Using the information, we got from this discussion during the lecture we are able to see why in 1991s the historic court case of the Gitxsan’s “people of the Skeena” or “people of the river of mist” Delgamuukw et al v The Queen is a monumental case for indigenous tribes in North America. We also discussed the difference between objective and subjective information/storytelling. Western minded people tend to look at information…