04 December 2020 Achilles gives a speech in the Iliad, book nine, about how he chose to remain fighting and die with honor, rather than go home and his “name will die”. This sentiment goes along with what many of the Greeks believed to be a great honor or kleos…

28 October 2020 The succession crisis started with Gaia and Ouranos, Ouranous feared that his children would succeed him and overthrow him. This was the start of the succession crisis. This continued with Kronos and his fear of his children doing the same thing he did to his father, so…

24 July 2020 Black Mirror is the Twilight Zone for the modern world. The show examines aspects of current life and its connections to technology. Each episode tackles a different aspect of technology and the grim consequences it has on our lives. A 2016…

22 August 2020 Communication between people happens in more ways than just through talking. Communication involves people exchanging symbols that have a shared meaning, receive feedback, and are shared through various channels (Mullin, 2020a). This includes the use of verbal and nonverbal aspects. In…

03 September 2020 Advertisers use many tactics to convince consumers to buy products or pay for services. Some companies try to get you to buy their product by giving statistics about their product or testimonies from professionals, like toothpaste ads that say “9 out of 10 dentists recommend”. Other advertisers…

02 November 2020 The idea of hubris is a very popular theme among Greek mythological works. Oftentimes, people believe that they are better than the gods, which leads to their destruction or demise. In many Greek myths, there is a consistent relationship between the gods and mortals. Where the gods…

02 November 2020 Starting with the myth of Pandora, women were shown to be inferior to men. The myth of Pandora explains the creation of the first mortal woman, Pandora. She was created to punish men. The gods created her as a response to Prometheus tricking Zeus and stealing fire…

02 December 2020 The Homeric hymn to Demeter gives yet another example of the gods meddling with mortals’ lives. Demeter, without the knowledge or consent of the mother, Queen Metaneria, attempts to turn Demophon into a god. Because his mother did not know what Demeter (in disguise as a nurse)…

A fictional Story 02 December 2019 “Go, go, go” a protester screamed as they loaded up a make-shift slingshot with another molotov cocktail to be fired at the police. “Ollin, we need to leave” I heard my mother’s soft yet anxious voice say as she tapped me on the shoulder…