Cerberus Personal Narrative

In Reader’s Digest’s feature “The Oldest Kid on the Job” by Bob Brody, the author comically reflects on both the positive and negative effects of his age in his workplace. Meanwhile, in another amusing feature, The Oprah Magazine’s “Attack of the Efficient Tomatoes” by Molly Simms, the writer discloses her unsuccessful experiences with multiple time-saving methods. Although both of these articles succeed in their humorous, friendly tones, they often differ in their rhetorical strategies. While Brody

language remains the central force and mystery of this fathomless play. Prospero speaks almost a third of the lines in The Tempest, and controls the amount of speech every other character on the island has through manipulation and magic. Prospero’s narrative of how he came to the island, what he did once there, and what he is owed for this history, goes largely unchallenged in the text. Yet

Those that have read certain comic books, or seen some movies, know that Hulk is a huge creature with immense strength and an incredible healing factor. When inspecting other historic and mythological figures, it could be that the Hulk is very similar to Hercules from Greek mythology, and the Berserkers from Norse history and mythology. To begin with, the Hulk is only half of the equation to the character. Originally, Hulk was a human named Bruce Banner. Banner was an incredible scientist that

such stories. The Star Wars film saga is, according to Campbell, an example of the hero's maturation via the undertaking of a great quest. Though it is a safe assumption that many of today's film makers are unconscious of the extent to which their narratives approach

The myth of Herakles was popular to the Greeks for a number of reasons. Part of the myths attraction was due the many themes and morals in the story such as heroism/pathos, feminism, colonialism. Herakles has been a lasting influence to the cultures across the world, and they have depicted Herakles in three different time periods: 5th Century Greece, 17th Century Baroque and 21st Century New Zealand. Herakles was a multifaceted figure with contradictory characteristics, which enabled later artists

PARADISE FLUBBED: Pynchon & the New World When, in Gravity's Rainbow, "A screaming comes across the sky," it is the sound of a V-2 rocket arcing up and over the English Channel.But the rocket's vapor trail (which Pirate Prentice sees from kneedeep in the primordial mulch of his bananararium) points further on: over the Atlantic, on toward America, the New World, Tyrone Slothrop's "yearned-for, perhaps illusory home." The rocket's path ends a fraction of an inch above the reader's head, the

the myths, in an attempt to throw light on the religious and political institutions of Ancient Greece, its civilization, and to gain understanding of the nature of myth-making itself. And Greek mythology is embodied in a large collection of narratives, and implicitly in Greek representational arts, such as vase-paintings and votive gifts. Greek myth attempts to explain the origins of the

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty Copyright Notice ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. ©2007 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution or information storage

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty Copyright Notice ©1998−2002; ©2002 by Gale. Gale is an imprint of The Gale Group, Inc., a division of Thomson Learning, Inc. Gale and Design® and Thomson Learning are trademarks used herein under license. ©2007 eNotes.com LLC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this work covered by the copyright hereon may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, Web distribution or information storage