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The epic of Gilgamesh is a heroic poem originating from Mesopotamia. It exists in twelve tablets that have since been translated into different languages including English. Gilgamesh ruled Uruk around 2700 B.C.E. and his fame, according to history, survived because of the major building projects that took place during his reign and his reports on the teachings of Utnapishtim (Sandars). The story revolves around the lives of King Gilgamesh and Enkidu the wild man. The two are great friends until Enkidu dies and Gilgamesh decides to seek immortality in a bid to escape ...

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Emily Dickinson is an American poet, who is probably the most recognizable name in American poetry. Not much is known of her motivation regarding her poems as only 12 of the 1800 she had written were published during her life time and she left little in the way of explaining her thoughts regarding what she had written. What is known is that she did not think the majority of her poems were worth public consumption and had told her sister Lavinia (Vinnie) to dispose of them after her death. This was probably due to her poems being heavily altered ...

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In thinking about death one is likely to come up with two inescapably true and mutually excluding conclusions: certainty and unknowing (Orbach, 1999, p.9). On the one hand, each of us seems to be convinced that death is inevitable and inescapable, while, on the other hand, nobody of the living is able to confidently predict the time of his/her death and provide a clear vision of what is going to happen to what can be called a soul after the body is dead. Since ages lots of people have been dreaming to invent a way to either escape or at least postpone ...

In literature, fame and suffering often go hand in hand. Hubris is the unseen hand, the subtle lever that sets in motion events that move the hero along the path to some cathartic moment. In The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Odyssey, Gilgamesh and Odysseus are kings and great leaders of men, secure in their positions and supremely confident in their skill, strength and courage. In seeking to place themselves on par with the gods, Odysseus and Gilgamesh exhibit arrogance and a lack of reverence for those beings who can determine the course of their destinies. Through suffering and loss, ...

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Vampires are mythical creatures that appear in ancient folklores. Most cultures have their own version of the vampire although they share a common characteristic; that is, the lust for human blood. There is no particular gender to the vampire character. Male and female vampires do exists even in ancient literatures, making the vampire one of the most gender neutral characters. The depiction of the female vampire in human culture, however, is an interesting way of looking into the development of women, particularly on how society views women and their social status over the course of time. ...

The Old Testament and the Epic of Gilgamesh both share stories about floods. However, the emphasis and morals derived from the stories tend to contradict each other. In the epic of Gilgamesh, the floods occur as a punishment to the people for the noise they made (Jason Colavito). However, instead of letting humankind to be wiped off by the flood, one of the god’s Ea reveals to Utnapishtim what to do to survive the flood. He is granted the opportunity to start over without the knowledge of the other gods. This depicts the need to do what is ...

The Epic of Gilgamesh is usually an epic poem from Mesopotamia written within 2000 BCE. This poetry is one of the ancient literature works in the history of human. According to the scholars, epic of Gilgamesh originated from Sumerian poetry collected in the Akkadian epic in 18th century BCE. The poems were translated by George Smith and then first published in 1870. George Smith was a British Assyriology. Epic of Gilgamesh consists of eleven sections or tablets which are made up the main body. Later, a 12th tablet was added but it is not that recognized although it is not sequential.
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The Old Testament discipline studies with its supporting archaeological, philological, literary technicians and historical are composed on the edge of new times which contains both threats and promises. It states that biblical texts were given fair opportunities to talk as a witness to the reality the bible was acknowledged to describe. This text was imperiled to appropriate scrutiny obtained from the textual criticism science, syntax, morphology, criticism form, and lexicography.
The advantages obtained from these researchers were not without the significant benefits garnered from external control multitudes. Archaeology was good in the vanguard setting the Old Testament scholars pace ...

The two poems, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas deal with the theme of death. Each poem looks at death in different ways. Thomas does not accept death readily, but implores his father to hold on to life. On the other hand, Dickinson accepts death calmly. Both poets make use of figurative devices such as metaphors, personification and alliteration as they explore their opposing views of the concept of death.

Dickinson creates the feeling that death has compassion and creates a contrast in how ...

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Summary: Henrietta Lacks, known by scientists as Hela was a poor southern tobacco farmer. The cells from this farmer were taken without her knowledge and became the most essential tool in medicine. These were the first ‘immortal’ cells known in mankind and are still alive today though Henrietta has been dead for more than 60 years. These cells have been very important in developing vaccine for polio and have also led to fertilization, cloning and gene mapping which have been bought and sold by billions. All this happens while Henrietta is buried in an unmarked grave her family did not ...

Death has been a recurrent theme in Emily Dickinson’s poems. In the poem, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, too the poet weaves the words to portray the somber inevitability of human life. She uses symbolism throughout her work to create the ambience. The poet utilizes the character of Death in this poem as an extended metaphor. The poem goes on to delve deep into the nature of real death—the greatest truth of human nature. In this poem, the poet describes death as the final destination of life and explores symbolically how death caressingly guides one through ...

Richard Wagner’s adoption of Schopenhauerian philosophy was in evidence in his work before he ever conceived of the Tristan und Isolde legend as opera. Many of the central figures in Wagner’s earlier works are actors in a dark universe, where heroism and a striving for happiness run up against the inevitable misery and hopelessness that Schopenhauer ascribed to the temporal world. Wagner came to realize that Schopenhauer’s concept of renunciation actually formed “a long-standing, if unconscious, Wagnerian conviction” (Vandenabeele, 349). As such, “the main characters of those operas he wrote before coming under the spell of Schopenhauer – The Flying ...