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In Herman Melville’s short story Bartleby the Scrivener, Bartleby is the hero. The reasons as to why Bartleby is considered the hero of the story are that first, the character refuses to write in his job in the law office. He even starves himself to death by refusing to eat, but in the end, the spirit of Bartleby still remains alive and haunts the narrator. Throughout his life, the narrator remains haunted by the spiritual pride and continues to struggle with the principles of morality and justice. Bartleby is also a hero because he not only shows his courage towards confronting the society using his will power, but he also shapes the conscience of the

5. When people model themselves after the members of peer groups they would like to join, they are engaging in:

modern culture we are used to the stereotypical, sympathetic hero; the Batmans and Supermans who lose their parents in tragic circumstances and devote their lives to vanquishing evil. That however, is not the way heroes have always been portrayed. When we look at The Epic of Gilgamesh we see the archetype of every hero since, however, we are not overcome with a desire to see Gilgamesh succeed. On the hand, if we fast forward two thousand years and look at a hero from Africa named Sundiata who is very similar to Gilgamesh in many aspects, we do have desire for Sundiata’s success. Why do we root for one hero while casting away the other? It has to do with the way perceive that hero and their values as well as how we perceive the conditions each hero is faced with. If we can picture Sundiata as the evolution of Gilgamesh we see the differences and similarities between the two as culture moves toward embracing the sympathetic hero.

and most details in-between, an image of a person is most likely the image your

Photography plays an important role in reflecting a society. In the article "Looking at discipline, looking at labor", Eric Margolis talks about the representations of the photos of the Indian boarding schools in the US. Photographs are used to demonstrate the civilization of Native America Native American Children. Not only can we see the change of the students after civilization, but also the oppressive system in the Indian School. The photographs are used as the monitoring tool of the government too. The photographs provide us evident to all of these. We can know these by comparing the photos before the Native Indian Kids go to boarding school and after they attend the boarding school. By contrasting the photos from the two periods, we can see that the civilization of the Native American Indian children is actually an oppressive system.

Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street” presents the titular character with a mental impairment that bears many similarities to what is known as depression. Although Bartleby appears to have this disability, it is never confirmed due to the entire view of this character being shaped solely by the perspective of an ignorant narrator. Having only encountered visible, physical disabilities before, the narrator does not know how to respond to a man with an invisible, mental one. Driven mad by Bartleby’s preferred phrase, “I would prefer not to” (Melville 8), the narrator fails to recognize this phrase as what Mitchell and Snyder’s Narrative Prosthesis could label as a subconscious cry for help, and instead tries half-hearted

Some people think of a hero as someone with courage, determination, or someone that have risked their lives for others. Others think of a hero as someone who has outstanding strength and is clever. A hero, not only has physical strength, but also has mental strength as well. Odysseus, ruler of Ithaca, proves he is a hero by having all of these traits. Odysseus fights through hard times and overcomes obstacles, he kept his men together for most of the story, and he avenges himself when returning to his home, Ithaca. All of those are very heroic.

“Who was Cleopatra? Who is Cleopatra? Portrayed as both goddess and monster in her own lifetime, through the ages she has become both saint and sinner, heroine and victim, femme fatale and star-crossed lover, politician and voluptuary, black and white. A protean figure, Cleopatra defies categorization.”1 So began Prudence J. Jones introduction in her edited text, Cleopatra: A Sourcebook. Jones claims Cleopatra was a chameleon in the skin of an Egyptian Pharaoh. As such she molded herself to fit what would best procure her the much needed tactics to strengthen and maximize the power she inherited. As the world changed, so did their perception of Cleopatra; and, in turn every generation construed her differently: from evil seductress, ill-fated star-crossed lover to renewed empowering feminist icon. The Cleopatra painted in this paper will decidedly be more reserved, acutely un-promiscuous, sharp-witted, resilient, and less beautiful than her literary and culturally shambolic counterpart; the Cleopatra history wished to hide.

The story Odysseus is about an greek hero who went away far away to Troyland to fight, It took him over 10 years to return home and a lot of the people believed that Odysseus was dead , they overran his palace , and they were courting his faithfulness through wakening his wife Penelope and going through his stock of food. With the permission from Zeus the goddess athena, Odysseus greatest enshrine appears disguising and urges Odysseus son Telemachus to seek news of his father at Pylos and Sparta, The suitors led by Antinous plan to ambush him upon return. As Telemachus tracks Odysseus trail through stories from his old friends, Athena arranges for the release of Odysseus from the island of the beautiful goddess Calypso. Calypso kept Odysseus

description. Both authors use description to help the reader form an image in their mind. This

C.In both text, profile had given the characters of both texts a reason to judge others.

If a high school curriculum only had one day to talk about Greco-Roman mythology, the story of the Greek hero named Odysseus should be taught. The story of Odysseus relates to human nature and holds a lot of symbolism. The story shows the reader that there are many things human beings face throughout their lifetime; such as growing up and the stages of life, human pride, and how emotions can affect your actions.

Herodotus wrote Histories, from this selection Samuel Shirley translated and formed the book Herodotus on the War for Greek Freedom. Herodotus was a Greek historian that accounts for significant wars that happened in Greece through the years 560-546 B.C.E. This selection is lively and enjoyable. This book argues through colorful stories the rise of the Greek empire which I believe is best stated by Herodotus own words: “Those cities that were formerly great are now diminished, while those that are no great were once small”. Herodotus writings do not simply write one great war but instead the rise of an empire. Herodotus’s purpose is to shine light on the wars that Greece trailed through in order to give insight on the past trials.

At first I wasn’t quite sure how a photograph could tell about one’s character, due to the fact that a picture can say many things and can be quite ambiguous. That was until I further analyzed

III. That is because as human beings we tend to be very visual and observe the look of a person before finding out who they really are.