Thirty Tyrants

Sunni and Shia, or Muslims against non-Muslims, it is significant to remember that Christians 600 years ago were in a similar boat. The Protestant Reformation led to all-out war between Catholics and Protestants, and Europe burned for decades in the Thirty Years War. The Catholic Inquisition was, in a similar fashion to fundamentalist Islamic movements, anti-modern to the core, targeting, jailing, and torturing scientists, social progressives, and anyone who questioned Church rulings or…

Many stories that are famous today originated from past legends of greek mythology, so let’s take a closer look at the popular Percy Jackson series. In the book, The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan, the quest plotline, perfect hero archetype, and the good vs. evil theme have been modernized from the myth “Danaüs, Perseus, and the Gorgon” by Edgar Parin D'aulaires. Devising the quest plotline was the heroes protecting their mother, help from gods (and goddesses), they kill the same monster, and…

In her poem “Daddy,” Sylvia Plath illustrates the struggle between a victimized daughter and a towering, menacing father. Written at the end of her life, this work of art shines out among Plath’s other poems while still relating to her previous works. Throughout her life, Plath experienced many life changing events, taking what she learned from them and amplifying the knowledge by writing it down into a beautiful piece of art. The resulting poems and novels reflects the deep wounds embedded…

What Can Happen When Someone Is Given Too Much Power? When you were a kid, you probably played games with your friends or siblings right? Simon Says, for example, is a game pretty that much anyone has played. One person is given the power to make others do whatever movement they want, but only if they say “Simon says” first. What if someone you really didn’t like was standing a bit too close to the left of someone? You could make the person to their right hit them just by saying “Simon says…

Inheritance and Revenge Over the course of time, grudge, revenge, and inheritance have been key elements leading to conflict, and ultimately death. In William Shakespeare’s theatrical play, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Prince Hamlet, Prince Fortinbras, and Laertes have all lost their fathers due to tragic circumstances. Death, sexual promiscuity, and treachery permeate the entire play. Despite the dark plot of this play, it has become known as one of Shakespeare’s most famous literary work.…

The Flaws of Empirical Evidence: A Critical Review of Steven Pinker 's The Better Angles of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Canadian psychologist, Steven Pinker, wrote The Better Angles of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined in order to explore trends in peace and violence throughout history. Pinker’s main argument declares that violence has declined for a variety of reasons. In the fifth and sixth chapters titled “The New Peace” and “The Long Peace,” Pinker continues to argue that…

the theory of self-cultivation even though his entire theory on human nature revolved around the negativity of human nature and necessity of society to correct it (De Bary, 1999). Xunzi uses the example of the legendary king Yao and the legendary tyrant Jie of the Xia Dynasty. He states that people honored Yao because of his ability to “transform [his] nature, to generate conscious activity, and, through this conscious activity, to create ritual and rightness” (De Bary, 1999). He further states…

We have all heard of feminism or at least heard of a feminist. Now what is feminism? Feminism is the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social, and economic equality to men. Women have come a long way from not being able to work and basically being forced to stay home and do housework all day to being able to vote, get an education, and have a job. It was always believed that men were superior to women. In 1895 Susan B. Anthony, a civil rights leader, said “No man is good…

Article 3 presents a very common theme is brought up in many countries after they have been through a vigorous and exhilarating revolution. This is most likely one of the most important out of the 30 that have been stated, ironically due to its vagueness and broad meaning. It indirectly puts all articles into one by stating all of the features that should be granted to one another. Life, Liberty, and justice, stand out specifically towards me as the most important because of it almosts reflects…

limited manpower and parochial outlook, never contemplated more than a loose leadership over the other city-states, and in the event, they even proved incapable of controlling fallen Athens, which soon expelled the Spartan-installed oligarchy, the ‘Thirty Tyrants’ (Harris,…