Tower of Babel

Lang and Orwell’s seminal texts both express their concerns of the imbalance of power in totalitarian regimes. In Fritz Lang’s German expressionist film Metropolis (1927) the totalitarian control is from the industry. Whereas, the novel 1984 (1948) by George Orwell focuses on the extremes of political power. The dystopian worlds Lang and Orwell create through a range of literary and film techniques though, differ in response to their respective contexts. Both composers are critical the way…

In Greek mythology, Pandora received a box from Zeus and was told not to open it but then every human’s natural instinct kicked in, curiosity, and she opened the box releasing the all the evils into the world. Ray Bradbury’s book, Fahrenheit 451, explores Guy Montag’s life, who works as a firefighter and destroys all books, even if a person is still living in the house. The society teaches people to do certain tasks and there is no legal way to learn by yourself. Books are forbidden, but some…

in the middle. Nineveh was described as a very prosperous city. The city of Nineveh was built by Nimrod mentioned in the book of Genesis 10:11: “From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh” Nimrod was the hunter who helped build the tower of Babel and escorted the world in a rebellion against God. The roots of that city was build up from a rebellious spirit. God had much anger towards this city because of that. Nineveh build up a reputation as a “ Sin City.” They were known for their…

There have been many debates on creation and our existence. When did life begin and what started it all? After all, we’re here. We breathe air in. We make decisions that spur action. We love vigorously and can be hurt deeply. Human emotions are part of everyday life and yet we live without regard to how we have these emotions in the first place. An unbiased look at Genesis 1-11 clearly shows the reason why. God is a loving God and He created us for relationship. Natural World…

Babylonian empire. He wanted to restore and make the city of Babylon one of the most important and successful at the time, and to do so he adorned the city to make it look more beautiful and impressive than others. He built temples and towers, like the Tower of Babel, and also commissioned the creation of beautiful hidden gardens, but one of the most impressive monuments he appointed was the Ishtar gate. Nebuchadnezzar assigned this monument, and even though there were political, military and…

personality or a human vegetable. It’s too risky to try to make a human artificially. So many potential people will die in the process; it’s unethical. There are some things that God does not want humans to accomplish, such as the tower of Babel. The people who built the tower of Babel were trying to prove how “great” man was, God confused their languages and the project completely failed. Man wants to prove how great they are by defying God. Man was not meant to clone other…

1. In the epic poetry, The Inferno of Dante translation by Robert Pinsky (1320), Dante Alighieri implies that the sinners in Hell are selfish and only care about themselves which is also one of the biggest reasons that they ended up in Hell. Alighieri supports this claim by introducing the ten pouches in the eighth circle as they are all connected through fraud which is basically is deceiving others for financial or personal gain which is very much being selfish. The author purposely emphasizes…

Using 2-4 sentences for each term, define race and ancestry. In my opinion, race is defined based on people colors, gender, marital status, job, languages, community, and life style. Today, people determine the race by separating humans group based on the above things. Race is something that we differentiate group by physical features. Different people has their own prospective to view race by using qualities like skin shading to characterize a man's race, recognition of their intelligence,…

“Racist.” My eyes darted over to my friend—comfortably sprawled out on a chair next to me, his feet propped up on the coffee table. “Racist.” He stated once again a few minutes later, grabbing a handful of chips and crunching on them loudly. I sat on the couch at a youth leader’s house, watching the movie The Blind Side a group of friends. Deandre, whose blunt comments drew my attention, was the only African-American among us. We watched the movie and he continued to point out many racial…

Both movies feature a futuristic city where the architecture is composed of mainly skyscrapers. Both movies have similar openings when the camera shows the tower of babel which is basically the main power in Metropolis putting it at the center before showing the rest of the city, a very similar shot is used in Blade Runner showing the tower which is the office of the company which creates the replicants and centers it also giving the building a sense of the power of the city then shows the…