fiance. She wishes not to overrule the king‚ but to show respect for the dead if they were to be respected while living or not. There should always be someone to show respect and to be respected equally because the people chose to‚ not because they have no other choice. Antigone
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America and Rome‚ on the surface‚ they might not remind you of each other; but they share many underlying qualities great‚ and crummy. Point in case‚ violent entertainment‚ a declining family‚ and a major moral/spiritual decline. If we don’t know the cultural defects that brought other thriving nations to their knees‚ we will repeat them. Here in America‚ our entertainment is dripping with violence‚ from video games to online fail videos. Nevertheless‚ this type of entertainment reminds me of the
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Loving‚ Superficial‚ Intimate Teens "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates catapults its reader into a seductive‚ fifteen-year-old mindset‚ embodied by the main character‚ the rebellious Connie. Connie‚ much like Sammy‚ the main character from "A & P" by John Updike‚ is on the prowl for companionship and sex. Their unsuccessful search for intimacy‚ appreciation for family life‚ and superficial attitudes are what bring them together as similar characters but also what
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films alike. In Joyce Carol Oates’ short story‚ "Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?" Oates depicts Arnold Friend as the Devil; we can see this through his physical description‚ strange seduction‚ and his supernatural knowledge of Connie. The bodily features of Arnold Friend suggest he is the devil in disguise. During the whole event‚ Connie recognizes the way Arnold Friend "wobbled in his high boots" (196). She believed that he may have been a drunken stumbling man until she identifies "one of
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Ibsen deal with the sacrifice women had to make for their families in the 19th century‚ a child obligation to their parent and how appearances can disguise reality. By writing about these issues Ibsen is educating his audience about these issues and how they affect other people. One of the main purposes of literature is to educate and give insight so by using a big issue in the world a larger number of the audience will be able to relate making it successful. In the play the sacrifice of women is one
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between the ritual sacrifice and the ballgame is evident in the Mayan language. According to Stern‚ the Mayan translation for the word ball‚ quiq‚ means sap or blood (35). The sap which flows out of the tree can be seen as the implication of the ritual sacrifice of the ballgame. The notion that the ball‚ of the ballgame‚ is round can be symbolized and interpreted as the human head. Which implies that death is important for the completion of the ritual. The act of human sacrifice in the ballgame can
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Joyce Carol Oates’s short story‚ “Where Are You Going‚ Where Have You Been?” focuses on the seemingly typical life of a teenage girl‚ Connie. The character irony is found in the fact that a teenage girl in the 1960’s struggled with the same issues teenagers battle with in present society. Connie‚ the main character‚ fights with her parents‚ does not want to be like her older sister‚ and thinks very highly of herself. As a teenage girl typically believes‚ Connie imagines she is the center of attention
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One of my most challenging roles at Exxon was as coordinator for an internally resourced improvement program focused on cost‚ throughput and quality. The project had multiple objectives: establishing performance baselines‚ setting stretch targets‚ ensuring robust end products and developing an implementation plan. Yet my greatest challenge was convincing the combined team and their supporting plant personnel to review the current working practices and develop the best‚ unbiased business solutions
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the gods by prayer and sacrifice. Each god had a defined prayer‚ sacrifice or ritual and it was of great importance that the rituals were performed correctly as it was a symbol of your worship and love towards the god. A prayer almost always would have been accompanied with a small offering to the deity. Sacrifices had to be a symbol of life in some form. For example sacrificial symbols included things such as milk‚ cheese‚ fruit and numerous other things. Human sacrifice was extremely rare‚ however
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sees her sacrifice of “Milk! Blood!... the essential liquids plus the docile flesh of the sacrificial victims?” as a means to gain the favor of her ancestors. (139) We find her viewing the sudden appearance of a bird emerging from the “motionless cinders” which rises‚ “straight up into the sun” as a sign of her supplication being answered. (139) Yet Tituba is powerless on her own for even if her sacrifice is answered with the death of a sailor pointing to the spirits demanding further sacrifice. As a
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