The day has almost come, John Davenport and his team were going to begin their ascent up the forbidden peaks in the Himalayas. The urn was valuable, easily twice as valuable as Hitunka Utarano, the cursed idol. Six short months ago was when Davenport’s companion, Henry Toweridge, had disappeared along with the cursed idol. Since the mysterious disappearance the Adventure and Explore society, commonly known as the AES or simply the society, had been operating quietly, and was about to be shut down unless Davenport could get enough money from the urn to save the society. The urn was the first recorded thing to depict the mythical beast, Yeti, and it was supposedly the most realistic of the depictions, and the best part of the urn was, perhaps, the fact that there was no curse.
The rest of Davenport’s team consisted of Hector Banner, the guide, Homer Grem, the historian and the person who knew the most about the treasure, and a college aged man, Walt Smith, who needed the money so he was there for the more difficult climbs. The four man team was small for an exploration of this size, however like every other member of the society, he wasn’t going to pay for a full sized team.
Jack Davenport was the youngest of the AES and one of the only two whose hair isn’t completely white, but rather a light brown color, and worn in a harvard clip style. He is tall and stays fit, although he is normally dressed in a plain suit, but due to the cold on the mountain, he is wearing the standard mountaineering gear, topped with a wool coat and pantaloons. As for his face, he has a miniscule pencil mustache, a large chinstrap beard, and average eyebrows.
Davenport, Grem, Banner, and Smith were staying in a diminutive insignificant unknown cabin at...
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... mountain guide, I take people to mountain peaks, not rivers.”
Smith said, “I’m headed off to Harvard, to study psychology. I thought this trip would help, you know money and such, but instead I feel idiotic compared to you two and,” he paused, “and Grem. I’m good at the human mind though.
Davenport concluded the conversation by saying, “Oh, well, I saved the society, I made a shiny profit, I need a rest for now. Thank you, I’d be dead without you two. Grem 10% cut will be split between your 5%, so you each get 10%. Let’s rest then head down, I need to deliver the good news to the society.”
The three companions slept overnight then head down. Never before has anyone except for the four men and the crafters of the urn seen the yeti, and never again will anyone see the beast that guarded the mountains, whether malicious or a benevolent guard no one will ever know.
In 1785, a Christ Child was said to have appeared. A shepherd boy from the village of Tayankani played with the child, but the child disappeared. The child was believed to have disappeared into a rock that was left with his imprint. This is the story behind the pilgrimage to the rock, but those of our community don’t pay much attention to it. Their purpose in the event is to ‘honor’ their supernatural beings. They pay homage to Rit’i (the snow), Taytakuna (Fathers), and the great Apus (Lord Mountains).
When Jack first arrives on the island he is excited to have rules for their new settlement. Jack exclaims," We'll have rules!' he cried excitedly. 'Lots of rules" (33)! Jack Merridew is a young boy, probably the same age as Ralph, possibly older. Golding describes Jack as "tall, thin and bony; and his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two light blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger" (20). Jack's eyes are always used in the novel to depict his emotions, as they are in the quote above. When the boys land on the island they are all wearing their school uniforms, but Jack and his choir are wearing cloaks and caps. Oddly enough, Jack is one of the only boys whose last name ...
At the beginning of the novel, Golding describes Jack's physical appearance as "inside the floating cloak he was tall, thin and bony; his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled and ugly without silliness" (20). Jack's original intentions were to keep an organized group on the island. Jack agrees with Ralph when he brings the group together, saying, "I agree with Ralph. We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are the best at everything. So we've got to do the right things" (42). Although originally portrayed as a pretty normal boy, evidence of his hostility begins to emerge. While Piggy is talking, Jack exclaims, "you're talking to much. Shut up fatty" (21).
Iron Towers. Terrible flames. Inhuman music, rising and falling. Grim depths and abysses, where only night holds sway and gruesome creatures crawl before their awesome Master. Through these disturbing images, and a masterful adaptation of the sonnet structure, Archibald Lampman summons forth The City of the End of Things.
The act of studying mythology can be an extremely unifying thing. For humans as a species, myths connect us with our collective history by allowing us to see through the eyes of our ancestors. Potentially much more than in novels, myths allow us to enter into the ancient world on a deeper level; through them we are exposed to the popular worldview and superstitions of the day. The inner workings of ancient human beings are visible, and it becomes strikingly clear that they were not all that different than we are. They experienced similar hopes and fears, they felt the rapturous beauty of falling in love, and cursed the crushing pangs of loss. They missed loved ones when they were away, anxiously counting the days and watching the horizons for their return. Seeing, breathing, speaking creatures, they were living, emotional beings. Their hearts vigorously pumped lifeblood through their capillaries until the day of their death. (Ellwood, 9)
At first glance, it seems that the abhorrent destiny of the main character is at the mercy of mischievous and cruel gods.
“Thoth.” The Hutchinson Dictionary of World Mythology. Abingdon: Helicon Pub, 2005. EBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 12 Feb. 2014.
“They imagined me going to the best schools in the land, even though they weren't rich,
Humans and animals have always coexisted together for as long as man could remember and exist. They would hunt each other for survival, sometimes man would come out as the victor, and sometimes it was the animal. Mankind would feast on them like they would feast on us. With time, this relationship would change. The animals would become our companions as well as being our food. They would become our hunting tools, such as in tracking prey. They would later be used as our means of transport and also as labor tools, such as when humans would need help working on their farmland. Let’s not forget that they also provide us with entertainment, such as in a zoo or as a circus attraction. Although only some cultures still consider some animals as sacred, most of us look down on them, consider them inferior to us. There was however a time when we worshipped them more and even admired them. We will explore this worship and admiration of animals in this essay as we compare and contrast the depictions of animals in the Upper Paleolithic period in cave arts and in Ancient Egypt in order to identify the presence of a shift, if there was one, in our reverence of animals in between both periods.
In his ancestor’s world, communal and mythical values prevail over individualism and materialism. When he is in Danville, Milkman learns that place is significant because it “makes the past real”(231). When he arrives in the South he wears a “beige three – piece suit, button down light–blue shirt and black string tie (and) beautiful Florsheim shoes”(227). But stripped of his three piece suit and dressed in worn hunting clothes he enters the woods outside Shalimar and immediately stumbles upon his uncharted self. For the first time he considers his behaviour in relation to the others: “Under the moon, on ground alone… the cocoon that was ‘personality’ – gave way…..there was nothing here to help him - not his money, his car, his father’s reputation, his suit or his shoes… His watch and his two hundred dollars would be of no help out here, where all a man had was what he was born with, or had learned to use. An endurance”(276-277). Reduced to the essentials for the first time in his life, Milkman begins to question his surroundings and as he listens, noise becomes language or “what there was before language”(278). Milkman here comprehends a mythic dimension as he reaches back toward a time when humans and animals shared
...hful and benevolent man, following his return from Old Hell Shaft, serves to exhibit the grave flaws of industrialism that are embodied by the ubiquitous serpents of smoke that hang over the factories.
Edward Lee Thorndike was born in Massachusetts on August 31, 1874. He earned his education and degrees at Wesleyan University, Harvard, and Columbia University. In his lifetime, Thorndike had multiple honors and awards bestowed upon him for his contributions to science. Remarkably, while he has majorly influenced educational methods in the United States, Thorndike’s choice to follow a career in psychology drove from the opportunities presented more than his desires.
Damrosch, David, and David Pike. The Longman Anthology of World Literature. The Ancient World. Volume A. Second Edition. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2009. Pgs. .656-691. Print.
The speech commences with his assertion of dropping away from the university before students graduating one of the very most prestigious universities in us. The irony makes that the conversation has a greater impact on students even though some would question if education mattered if Steve Careers dropped away and became so successful. However, in the next lines, he points out how so when education is the main facet of someone 's life.
I accepted an offer from the American School of Professional Psychology at Argosy University with a Dean’s Scholarship into their Psy.D program. Throughout my first year in graduate school, the classes that contributed to my growth in the field are clinical interviewing, child psychopathology, adult psychopathology courses, interventions, and lifespan development. During my first year I was enrolled assessment classes where I was trained in multiple cognitive and personality assessments. These courses introduced me to the major approaches and techniques for intellectual assessments and objective personality testing. I developed competency in administration, scoring, and integrated interpretation of various