Ryan Chirumbole Professor Stephen Bess ENGL 102 28 October 2014 Synthesis Essay As of January 2014‚ 74% of online adults were social media users. When social media began in the late 1970s with Bulletin Board System‚ a program designed to allow users to download files‚ games‚ and post messages to other users through telephone lines via a modem‚ not many were prepared for the effect it would have on the world 30 years later. As social media progressed through AOL (1990s)‚ MySpace (2000s)‚ and now
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Oedipus Rex “Fear? What should a man fear? It’s all chance‚ chance rules our lives. Not a man on earth can see a day ahead‚ groping through the dark. Better to live at random‚ best we can.” (lines 1068-1072) The themes of fate and light and darkness are prominent in Oedipus Rex‚ a play written in ancient Greece by the famous poet Sophocles. Oedipus was a powerful Greek king and was notable for his compassion‚ sense of justice and his swiftness of thought and action. Unfortunately for him‚ his life
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Theses four traits include moral goodness‚ propriety‚ realism‚ and consistency. He also says that a tragedy must invoke catharsis‚ the purgation of the emotions pity and fear. A good example of an ancient Greek tragedy is the Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. The story of Oedipus Rex greatly supports Aristotle’s claims about tragedy. It’s obvious that to be a hero one must be good. Aristotle adds that “any speech or action that manifests moral purpose of any kind will be expressive of character: the character
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9840ft of her body is scaly‚ bony‚ and muscular. Her Base Genome: Tyrannosaurus Rex‚ the rest… Classified. The Indominus Rex. She’s a genetically modified hybrid with a tracking implant to know where she is‚ when she’s hungry. She’s still yet to find out what fits in her food chain… And I don’t think you want her to know what’s in that. You may never know where she is‚ her camouflage‚ and her capabilities to hide from heat radiation may make her never visible to the eye‚ but she’s there. She’s Always
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Greek philosopher‚ wrote a radically new play that discussed many philosophical topics. The contrast of fate and free will appears many times and is a key theme in his play Oedipus Rex. In Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles weighs in on his opinions on this topic. Sophocles utilizes fate as a key component of his play Oedipus rex to develop Oedipus and influence the reader to sympathize with him. With the cruel and inevitable fate of Oedipus‚ Sophocles can make Oedipus‚ a ruler and king more relatable to the
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THE KING WEARS A SHADES AS THE SUN SHINES BRIGHT WHICH MAKES HIS DAYS DARKER AND DARKER EVERY SINGLE DAY (with some relations to the Philippine Government and setting as a whole) A POSITION PAPER ON SOPHOCLES’ OEDIPUS REX REGULANO‚ Jean Paula Bermudez 2011-05787 HUM 1 X Oedipus Rex’ knowledge‚ which served as his gut against the others to be the King of Thebes‚ is only limited to the information on his people and his environment‚ excluding the information about himself due to his blindness and innocence
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Table of Contents {text:bookmark-start} Definning e-commerce {text:bookmark-end} There are nearly as many definitions of e-commerce as there are contributions to the literature. (Damanpour‚ 2001) defines e-commerce as “any net business activity that transforms internal and external relationships to create value and exploit market opportunities driven by new rules of connected economy”. E-commerce is a “disruptive” innovation that is radically changing the way organizations do business (Macgregor
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understand that some tattoos are offensive and inappropriate. These days everything is offensive or inappropriate‚ from clothes‚ television‚ internet and social media. There are plenty of people who are far more qualified for jobs than people without tattoos. It’s kind of interesting to think that tattoos would even be a factor in getting a job. Tattoos are a form of art and it allows people to fully express themselves. Most people you run into on the streets will have tattoos themselves and you wouldn’t
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“Why Do People Get Tattoos?” Many people today get tattoos for different reasons‚ some being for their own personal reasons‚ and some being for the cultural and social prospectus around them. Men‚ women‚ and even young people today have different types of tattoos that have many different meanings. Miliann Kang and Katherine Jones write about different people and their tattoos. For young people‚ a general reason for getting a tattoo is because‚ in a sense‚ it is a rite of
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Catholic Church’s Position on Tattoos Before you can understand the Church’s position on tattoos‚ it is important for you to understand a little history of tattoos. Tattoos have existed for thousands of years‚ and has served a variety of purposes of the years. The oldest known example of tattoos comes from the Iceman mummy Otzi‚ who was found in the Alps near the Italy-Austrian border‚ and who is dated to be approximately 5‚200 years old (Lineberry‚ 2007). The first tattoos seem to have been for more
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