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This paper first discusses real-life, Ancient Greek marriage rituals and Greek attitudes towards marriage in order to demonstrate how many of the aspects of marriage in Greek myth paralleled aspects of marriage in real life. The paper then discusses three different Greek works and compares each one's depiction of marriage.

From the Paper
"Indeed, many of the things we see in Greek myths happened in real life as well. For example, the Greek girls usually married quite young, around the age of 14, which was meant to ensure that the girl was a virgin and pure in mind and body. "Marriage to a family member was an acceptable alternative and occasionally encouraged in order to consolidate family wealth" - if we look at many of the marriages between gods (taking only this example), we will notice that many of them were affiliated. Remember, for example, that almost all of the Olympian Gods were in some way related, most of them being brothers and sisters, and that many of them were married, like Zeus and Hera, for example."

Tags:homophrosune, union, of, hearts, ideal, relationship, husband, wife, love, friendship

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This paper compares the sexual and mystical depictions of Eros found in "Pygmalion" to the more charitable and affectionate depiction found in "The Four Loves." The paper also discusses the contrast in motivation in the two works. It suggests that Pygmalion's primary motivation for action is platonic and sexual yearning. Lewis' motivation is charity. Finally, the romantic love of today is compared to the romantic love depicted by Ovid and Lewis.

From the Paper
"Eros as Platonic yearning refers to the yearning for beauty. Ovid depicts this in Pygmalion who irrationally remains unmarried because he is critical of the faults he sees in women. He cannot find enough redeeming qualities in any woman to face spending his life with her. He then carves an ivory statue of a woman. This statue is so beautifully and perfectly made that Pygmalion falls in love with it. This is love based purely upon beauty, since the woman is not made of flesh and blood and can offer nothing else."

Tags:statue, beauty, desire, Venus, life, friendship, affection, erotic, love

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This paper shows how war is depicted in somewhat different terms in different time periods, just as war was conducted differently at different times. The connection between the leadership and the front line soldier also differs in different time periods. The paper explains how some of the differences can be seen in depictions of the Battle of Agincourt in the film "Henry V" (1989, Kenneth Branagh), the Battle of Waterloo in the book "The Face of Battle" by John Keegan, and World War I in the film "Paths of Glory" (1957, Stanley Kubrick).

From the Paper
"The Battle of Agincourt was the key battle in the effort of England's King Henry V to consolidate his rule and protect his throne against the French. Shakespeare depicts the king as a benevolent ruler, and King Henry's own words support the view Shakespeare has of him as an inspiring leader, a man able to get the job done by marshaling his forces and attracting loyal followers. Act III Scene 1 finds him urging his troops to greater effort, for instance, and shows him once more to be able as a leader. This scene, along with others, also shows that Henry understands the people around him and so is able to get the best from them. This is an important quality in a leader, and it is one of the most important qualities Shakespeare brings out in his assessment of Henry and his accomplishments. This important speech is central in the play both physically and thematically. It is offered by Henry as a spur to action for his troops. The night before the battle his mood is quite different on the surface as he speaks to various knights and muses on the meaning of the battle to come. Preparations for battle are presented on stage, showing both the French and English camps."

Tags:troops, british, henry, battle, glory, waterloo, agincourt, path

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In this article, the writer discusses Cleopatra and notes that while she is perhaps the first and most famous female celebrity in history, her status as a person is hardly a thing of recorded fact. The writer points out that hers is an image drawn to us by Liz Taylor in celluloid, William Shakespeare in theatricality and stoic ancient sculptures, inanimate features in a British Museum. The writer maintains that on one hand an exemplar of the earliest feminist potential of powerful women and on the other a deceitful temptress who used her womanly charms to exploit the weaknesses of men, these two versions of Cleopatra are the products of two decidedly divergent purposes. The writer discusses that though there are surviving views of Cleopatra, especially in Egyptian history and feminist teaching, as an important and effective leader, with certain aspects of global history affirming such ideas, they are often pushed to the periphery of a characterization which is more consistent with the arguably misogynistic depictions in literature.

From the Paper
"When one then considers the history of a prominent woman, an even greater alertness to an opportunistic subjectivity in historiographical perspective must be employed. Multiple histories on one subject are usually the result of cultural, political and ideological perspective. This is to say that the stories which survive the obscuring of passing time are most often those told by the victor and, moreover, these stories will be reshaped as they age as per the evolving purposes of their maintenance. So with regard to the treatment of women in historiographical review, it is often synonymous with the actual treatment of women throughout history. More often then not, prominent feminine historical icons have been those which exist in our annals in spite of prevailing sociological trends toward a patriarchal order. This standard may either play a substantial role in the notoriety of the figure, with her exploits against the conventional view of women drawn explicitly in her story, or it may exist in subtextual premises which have come to define her legend. The latter of these two cases is that which divides historians on the characterization of Cleopatra."

Tags:Egyptian, leader, woman, temptress, ruler

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This paper compares main themes in Elie Wiesel's "Night" and Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf". It looks at how, although these two books would appear to have nothing more in common than the fact they both speak of the Holocaust, there are common threads tying them inevitably together. It explores how Wiesel is, of course, more justified in his anger; but an understanding of the causes leading Hitler to his anti-Semitism show that these two men were more alike than many would believe.

From the Paper
"The culprit was once an Austrian youth whose mother was doctored by a Jewish man, a money-grubber who would not cure her cancer but sent her home to die, to leave her only son an orphan; the child whose only dream was to be an artist but was rejected from the Academy by a board comprised of French Jews. This young man, whose heart was broken countless times, whose dreams were shattered, whose life became that of an orphan, a destitute vagrant "could he not also look to the ruins of his life, the culprits behind the destruction of his world "a handful of Jews" and feel unadulterated hatred""

Tags:genocide, nazi, jews

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This essay explores how three influential writers, Geoffrey Chaucer, Ian Flemming and Sheri Tepper, from three different eras have depicted women in their writing. The portrayal of females by each writer is explored separately and then contrasted with that of the other writers. Specific examples and characters from these literary masterpieces are used to support the author's argument. The author provides an analysis of the different ways in which women have been depicted throughout the history of literature

From the Paper
"The representation of women in literature has been the focus of much research conducted by both feminists and literature critics, particularly over the last thirty years. Sheri Tepper's Beauty, Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath and Ian Fleming's From Russia with Love, are all examples of escapist fiction in which the attitudes towards women play a key role in the theme of the story. Despite the claim that escapist fiction is isolated from the world in which its author lives, the values of both the author and the society in which he or she lives are reflected in their writing. The Wife of Bath, written in the fourteenth century, represents females as identical member of one group, all possessing the same faults and desires. Fleming, writing in 1957, depicts women differently again, categorizing them into two extreme stereotypes: the dominant, aggressive female and the submissive, naive female."

Tags:bath, beauty, bond, chaucer, depiction, feminisim, feminist, fleming, geoffrey, ian, james, love, russia, sheri, tale, tepper, wife, women

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This paper compares the representations of colonialism as depicted in two English novels, Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" and Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness." The paper begins with a discussion of how colonial practices have contributed to the basis of numerous literary works, with many writings emerging during the Victorian period. This is followed by an analysis of imperialism as seen in the character of Robinson Crusoe. The paper continues with a plot summary of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" and reveals several conflicting feelings relative to colonialism. The paper concludes by stating that both literary works fit the pattern of colonial writing, as they deal with characters indoctrinated in the conquering spirit of the British Empire.

Outline:
Colonialism
Robinson Crusoe
Heart of Darkness
Conclusions

From the Paper
"Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was first published in 1719 and it was inspired from the experience of a Scot, who lived for four years on a deserted island. Robinson Crusoe is the typical son of imperialism; his wealthy parents want him to become a businessman but he chooses a life at sea. His attempts are crushed as he is shipwrecked on a deserted island (he calls it the Island of Despair), where he will live for the next 28 years. He learns how to grow corn, raise goats and make pottery; he reads the Bible and becomes a convinced Christian. His time on the island is mostly used for meditation and teaching Friday the English ways. Here we begin to see the English influence in the novel."

Tags:imperialism, British Empire, Africa, cannibals, primitive peoples

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This paper discusses how the art of the Mexican, Spanish and Aztec people often depicted animals. It further discusses how the cultures of these people were significantly different from modern society, and it was the Florentine Codex that was considered the authority that clarified this contention. The use of animals therefore within the art that existed during the time was a reflection of the cultures that lived in what was considered New Spain. The paper explains that the Florentine Codex is meticulous at providing examples of how animals existed in every day life for the natives of the region.

From the Paper
The art of the Mexican, Spanish and Aztec people often depicted animals. The cultures of these people were significantly different from modern society, and it was the Florentine Codex that was considered the authority that clarified this contention. The use of animals, therefore, within the art that existed during the time was a reflection of the cultures that lived in what was considered "New Spain". The Florentine Codex is meticulous at providing examples of how animals existed in every day life for the natives of the region. It is also concise in its descriptions of the inclusion of animals in the art of the period. Through the Florentine Codex it is possible to realize that the people of "New Spain" created images of animals as a reflection of their cultural beliefs.

Tags:art, mexico, codex

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This paper probes Goodman's theory of depiction which is a form of metaphorical exemplification which the philosopher also calls expression. This well-researched and detailed paper examines Goodman's system of determining the relationship between work and emotion which applies broadly to the arts. This paper also focuses on Goodman's approach to nominalism as an ontological position about the existential status of abstract objects as well as his aesthetic program that advances a belief in the intellectual nature of art.

From the Paper
"For Goodman, the nominalist, there is no chance of inherent essence of a label, and so the only explanation for the interplay in a re-assignment involved in metaphor are rules of association which govern the behavior of labels. A sort of conventional nominalism chalks these rules up to "practice," while a stipulative nominalism would determine that the rules are handed down by an unknown source. In any case, the rules are ordered by the conditions in which the label is applied. For example, when confronted with a painting, a decision is made to apply the predicate "inspiring" to the object in question."

Tags:art, theory, nomial, aesthetics, nature, photography, philosophy

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Very few films attempt to tackle tough issues that we as human beings face. This paper shows that the movie, "Crash" is a thought-provoking look at racial stereotypes in America. Written and directed by Paul Haggis, "Crash" is set in Los Angeles, a city in which strangers never come into contact unless they crash into one another - literally. The paper shows that the makers of the film had the guts to face racism in a way that is tasteful and yet entertaining. Racism and its depiction through film are discussed first. A plot overview is outlined, followed by the conclusion which ties the two together.

From the Paper
"This night, Jack crosses the line when he sexually assaults a woman whose car he pulled over, in full view of Thomas and her terrified husband. Terrence Howard plays black TV director Cameron Thayer, whose wife, Christine (Thandie Newton), endures this humiliation. The incident, combined with his treatment at work, pushes Cameron over the edge. The movie then climaxes with a turn of events that makes Los Angeles look like Redding itself with a bunch of coincidences that would never happen in a big city. All of these people's lives come to one big intersection for the grand finale, which leaves the viewer with subject material for plenty of discussions about racism and how it affects American life."

Tags:Ryan, Phillippe, Matt, Dillon, Thandie, Newton