In the Poem, EPƒÇƒÃ, by Robert Bridges, Eros is referred to as an ¡§¡Kidol of the human race¡K¡¨ with a perfect form and looks, however, he bears no expression on his face. On the other hand, in the poem, EROS, by Anne Stevenson, Eros is portrayed as a ¡§thug¡¨ with a bruised and ¡§patchy¡¨ appearance. I believe that although both authors are trying to convey the same message, they choose different ways to go about it.
In the poem by Anne Stevenson, I believe that she is trying to show that while people, especially the narrator, were constantly asking for help and calling upon the gods, they were not thinking of others, but more so their own personal problems. When Eros first appears to the narrator, she is shocked and in disbelief of his appearance. Eros tells the woman that he has that form due to all of the feelings she and others have directed in his direction. He then tells the girl that since it is the gods that control the fate of man, they are the ones that take all of the blame for things not going well, and that is reflected upon their bodily form. I think that the author was trying to show that from the scorn of man, the gods were receiving these verbal beatings that resulted in physical marks, and to show the selflessness of the gods as well. This is done when Eros tells the girl that it is better for him to be all bruised than for her to not have love.
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He encapsulates the societal mindset that men were dominant and women were there to benefit them. In all the allusions to the Greek myths, Zeus disguises himself in order to trick the women of his desires. The entitlement men felt towards women and their bodies was easily guised as the “social norm”. Embracing a wider meaning to “you” than just as a reference to a single person adds complexity to the poem; it creates a sense of universality. Not all women can identify with an act of violence perpetrated against them by one person, but many more can relate to the dichotomous expectations that they are held to by society.
Police officers with their body cameras: a history and back ground paper to answer the question if should all police officers wear body cameras, it is important to first look at the history and back ground of the topic. According to article of Journal of quantitative criminology, writers Ariel, Farrar, Sutherland, Body cameras have been given a new eye opener to people about the excessive use of force against their community members. Arial, Farrar, and Sutherland in the article state “The effect of police body warn cameras on use of force and citizens’ complaints against the police: A randomize controlled trial” describe their observation as:
There have been lots of modern technologies introduced in the United States of America to assist law enforcement agencies with crime prevention. But the use of body-worn cameras by police personnel brings about many unanswered questions and debate. Rising questions about the use of body cam are from concern citizens and law enforcement personnel. In this present day America, the use body cameras by all law enforcement personnel and agencies are one of the controversial topics being discussed on a daily base. Body worn cameras were adopted due to the alleged police brutality cases: for instance, the case of Michael Brown, an African-American who was shot and killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on August 2014, Eric Garner died as a result of being put in a chokehold by a New York police officer, and John Crawford, shot and killed by a police officer at a Walmart in Beavercreek, Ohio.
Orestes’ revenge is the first important example of the gods’ revenge in the poem. In Book 1, Hermes told Aegisthus, “’Don’t murder the man,’ he said, ‘don’t court his wife. Beware, revenge will come from Orestes…” (Homer 260). King Nestor delivers the story of Orestes’ revenge to Odysseus’ son Telemachus, while Telemachus is visiting Nestor to discover answers about his fathers’ whereabouts. In Book 3 of The Odyssey, King Nestor tells this of Agamemnon, “…Aegisthus hatched the kings’ horrendous death” (Homer, 285). King Nestor continues on telling of the revenge Agamemnon’s son Orestes has on Aegisthus, “Orestes took revenge, he killed that cunning, murderous Aegisthus…”(Homer, 285). This example of Orestes’ revenge shows that the gods should be listened to or they will give horrific revenges to those who disobey.
She wants someone who has a lot of wealth in order for her to live a luxiours life. She begins to have an affair with Tom and it causes harm to her marriage which she has with George. She says to herself when meeting Tom the first time, "You can 't live forever; you can 't live forever" (38). Myrtle realizes Tom is a wealthy individual and having an affair with him will help her climb out of the social class in which she is trapped in. She sees him as the perfect man representing the American Dream. She lives in the Valley of the Ashes with her husband, George, who is the owner of a garage. She married him because she thought he was a gentlemen and he knew something about breeding. But it turned out he was not financially stable and it causes Myrtle not to love him. This shows how Myrtle is acquisitive and she does not appreciate George for who he is. She realizes life is fading away from her along with her youth and in order to live the life she always desires, she must become Tom’s mistress. She wants to live the rich and famous life style which George could not provide. This shows how Myrtle is morally corrupt because she does not see the harm in having an extramarital affair and just looks to pursue wealth. This eventually leads to her own death. The chase for the American Dream causes corruption and destruction within
By law enforcement wearing body cameras can be the first step into taking disciplinary action tour wards police brutality. Body cameras will encourage police officers to be more responsible on handling stressful situation and have more control on themselves, because their actions, he or she are in the public eye. For example study shows, when body cameras where issued police, officers decreased 60 percent of excessive force in the first year initiating of cameras.”(Donovan). The body cameras can control a serious situation
Should police officers be mandated to wear body cameras? That is a question that has grown to be widely discussed in media, politics, and public. The death of Michael Brown due to a fatal shooting by a law enforcement officer inflamed the idea that police officers should wear body cameras (Griggs, Brandon). The opposing sides of such controversial questions both provide a strong reasonable argument that support each side. However, despite the critiques against body cameras, I believe the evidence that support the usage of body cameras to be overwhelmingly positive and the intention is of pure deeds. Police officers should be required to wear body cameras; because it will build a trust between law enforcement and the community, it will decrease
There are many women in the poem that acquire such extraordinary elements, all of which have been evaluated and considered in to demonstrate their impact against the affairs that delay the foundation of Rome. The ideal woman in ancient Rome is distinguished as someone who is apathetic, honest, and primarily, a women showcases qualities that are of which are the contradictory to men. The dominant ideology of Ancient Rome in the Aeneid, indicates that anything different or contrary to this assumption will cause chaos. Vergil’s work in this epic disputes the binaries of male and female, expressing higher capacity to women and the depths to which their behaviour stimulates warfare in Italy. The Aeneid accommodates many circumstances regarding female roles and what attaining these inhospitable characteristics bears. By intensely analyzing the detrimental and unpleasant characters of Juno and Allecto, it is evident to comprehend how their characters in the epic illustrate women who are anarchic, lethal, and better voluntarily. The goddess Juno seeks to end the Trojan line, simply because of the judgement made in a beauty contest by the Trojan Paris. Not only Juno loath the Trajan race entirely, she takes it upon herself to utterly upset the natural balance by enticing Aeolus, the god of winds, to create a storm so vast that it throws Aeneas and his men off course. Juno upsets Jupiter, the mightiest of all gods, as her wrath reaches the highest peaks of Olympus, yet even after Jupiter speaks her to, Juno continuously attempts to eliminate Aeneas and his crew. The goddess does not stop here; she invites Allecto up from the depths of the underworld with intentions of delivering hell on earth, and astonishingly opens gates of war. The demon Allecto who thirsts for strife and craves destruction, plays a
F. Scott Fitzgerald penned The Great Gatsby in the midst of the Roarin’ Twenties. It was a period of cultural explosion, rags-to-riches histories, and a significant shift in the ideals of the American Dream. Fitzgerald’s characters all aspired to fill an American Dream of sorts, though their dreams weren’t the conventional ones. In the novel, the American Dream did a sort of one-eighty. Instead of looking west, people went east to New York in hopes of achieving wealth. The original principals of the Dream faded away, in their place, amorality and corruption. The fulfillment of one’s own American Dream is often marked by corruption, dishonesty, and hope.
Whether that reason was because they found love in someone else, they want to have a secret affair, or they just love having sex with different women. Yunior is a character that you love and also hated. He represented the reality of people. People have many urges and standards. Ms. Lora was his example of what he wanted in his relationship. Despite his shortcomings, she did not pressure him to do anything but accepted him for who he is. In the end, Yunior never found love despite all of his encounters with many women. The “Ms. Lora” chapter was definitely different from the rest of the story because it focused a lot more on his affair rather than the demise of his current girlfriend. The story really drew me in and the ending was definitely disappointing because he would never see her again. Maybe that signifies that one will never find the purest form of love. One moment it is here and the next day it can walk away from your life forever. The only thing you will have is your memories. “You will type her name into the computer but she never turns up. On one DR trip you drive up to La Vega and put her name out there. You show a picture, too, like a private eye. It is of the two of you, the one time you went to the beach, to Sandy Hook. Both of you are smiling. Both of you blinked.
The first type of madness is that of “[an] seer’s inspiration coming from Apollo” (265b), for whom like “the prophetess at Delphi, no less, and the priestess at Dodona,” are able to guide the cities, like Sibyl, through divine prophecies “[onto] the right track in respect to the future” (244a-b). The second type of divine madness, [the] mystical initiation ascribed to Dionysus,” symbolizes wisdom and retribution, or justice. Plato further emphasizes wisdom and justice in his play Bacchae, in which he represents Dionysus as the personification of retribution, or justice, in, juxtapose to Pentheus, whom personifies traditions. Pentheus, due to his lack of wisdom, failed to not only see the divinity of Dionysus, and distinguish between what is reality and illusionary, but his death also symbolized the act of justice for underrepresented citizens, particularly for women that held no political power or representation in the state. The third classification of divine madness, “a poetic madness coming from the Muses,” depicts how madness can inspire the people it processes by educating them on “[the glorifications of the] myriad deeds of those in the past” (245a). Once processed with madness, Socrates emphasized how their works often eclipse the poetry of the sane, underlining how the poetry of the sane
The idea of gods and goddesses began as far back as the ancient Egyptians, but the ancient Greeks were the first group to form a religion based on gods and goddesses. They believed that the gods and goddesses were not different from humans. Some of the few ways humans were different from gods were that the gods were stronger and lived forever. Since the Greeks believe in many gods, they are Polytheists.
However, after all this time of trying to bring their loved one from the dream world to that of the living, the speaker wakes up and begins to move towards a different stage of the grief process. This waking up is also an allusion to the Greek Titan, Asteria, who was goddess of the nocturnal oracles and shooting stars. By using it to represent a star, this asterisk also symbolizes the time between sleeping and waking. At the unconscious level, the speakers longing for their beloved manifests in their dreams further reflecting the palindrome archetype throughout the poem as the two sides of "Myth" symbolize the readers dream-state and
A Divine Image gives human characteristics to the feelings of cruelty, jealousy, terror, and secrecy. The poem begins, "Cruelty has a human heart...
Body cameras, in essence, have the ability to keep both police and citizens honest. This provides an indubitable opportunity for a judge to actually see and hear what actually happened at an incident, which could be different from what a police officer had transcribed in their report (Lou Ponsi, 2015). Interestingly, playback the video recording could essentially assist officers in more accurately filling out their reports. In fact, “the city of Fullerton, California allows their officers to view their videos to assist them in writing their police reports—except in situations involving in‐custody deaths, officer‐involved shootings, or incidents that involve a significant injury to a member of the public” (Lou Ponsi, 2015). With their reports being more accurate, it would become easier for departments to refute any false claims against