When Prophecy Fails

present throughout the world whenever people interact with one another. Social psychologists look to study the way people act and feel when they are in social situations. The ideas and concepts of social psychology are applicable to many of the interactions that we experience in our life. My interview with JP Morgan Chase for a summer program was an instance when I fell victim to many of the flaws in my thought process. Like all other ambitious high school students, I applied for an internship…

will fail to evolve. This defensiveness and neglect of the drive for knowledge is the most prevalent and persisting wool over that coats the eyes of the people in this world. The only hope for the improvement and encouragement of humans’ ever-present…

When Zeus hears the prophecy of his lover, Metis, being destined to bear a son greater than him, she becomes a threat to him and he immediately swallows her to prevent the outcome of her pregnancy. Hera could have very well ended up with the same fate, except she was…

save his kingdom. Despite Arthur’s efforts to kill Mordred as a baby, he survived the ordeal. Mordred would eventually grow up to become a knight of King Arthurs Round Table. Although Arthur grew to respect and love Mordred, he understood that a prophecy by the great wizard Merlin foretold that he must kill his son to save his kingdom. The Knights Code implies that the good of the kingdom must outweigh the desire of an individual; therefore Arthur did finish what he started and killed Mordred…

When thinking about the mysterious Book of Revelation, the last installment in the New Testament, the first images that might come to mind are those of horsemen, the Antichrist, and a final judgment day. Some do not understand the Book of Revelation, and others have attempted to use Revelation to predict the end of the world. Elaine Pagels, professor of Religion at Princeton University and author of Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation, attempts to demystify the…

When Tiresias foresees that Creon’s actions unless corrected will cause the downfall of Thebes, Creon denies the legitimacy of Tiresias’ prophecy, stating that “‘the whole breed of prophets loves money’” (Ant. 1118). Through this malicious claim, Creon is declaring that Tiresias was bribed into making a “false” claim that…

who is also seen as a savior — a true messenger of God. If the devotee is not strong in other rays, he or she may become the victim of undesirable or cunning persons who may sometimes exploit this tendency of the devotee. This is particularly true when the devotee is weak in self-esteem or clear thinking, succumbing to notions that the world is evil or that goodness is outside of, and not within, him or herself. But to the evolved devotee, the goodness inherent in all things brings an…

individuals up bringing—the positive and negative influences. For example, if the individual with either low or high IQ is brought up in a loving and considerate family that values education, and is willing to teach and learn from one another, even when there is failure involved, the chances of heading towards criminal behavior is limited. Thus, if the sociological component of a negative environment and unsupportive family that looks down upon failure or no failure the chances are that the…

1. Social Cognition is the study of how individuals perceive something or someone based on constructs in the mind in the social reality. As individuals develop, they create self-fulfilling prophecies. They are the most important schemas a person has about the self and others. The self-schemas consist of interconnected knowledge structures of many different sorts based on a wide range of experiences in the course of development. They are different types of constructs such as nouns, adjectives…

as a tragic hero in this play, he believes that he can’t be wrong ever. His stubbornness and hubris make him failing at the end of the play. At first Sophocles explains that Creon is just a leader, who manage laws and punishments very well. But he fails because of he didn’t thought…