Monday, August 3, 2015

What was the difference between pagan beliefs and catholic beliefs?

Another part of the answer that might be relevant is the fact
that Catholicism is based on a patriarchal society, with an emphasis on the males. Many of the
pagan societies were based on a matriarchal society, with the Earth being considered the Mother
and giver of life. With this fundamental difference, the attitude of the religion is perceived
verry differently. In historic times, women cared for the children throuh the infancy and young
childhood, teaching them about house and home annd keeping them in their "apron strings."When
boys were old enough, they joined the men and left the women
behind.



The pagan religions believed women were the
bearers of religion and cherished their understanding. Catholic religion, as well as all of the
other monotheistic religions, believe men are the bearers of the religion. It is the difference
between believing the heart of the religion is nuturing and caretaking versus religion as rules
for living, hunting, and ruling as well as what needed to happen to be good soldiers -for your
king or for God. This basic belief changed the way that people interacted. Instead of caretaking
being the focus of religion, following the tenents was vital. The pagans had individually created
rituals and and beliefs whereas the catholic faith was written down and strictly passed from one
person to the next. Beingg a pagan meant a wide range of things you might or might not believe,
but if you were Catholic, there was a specific set of beliefs to which you
ascribed.



There are many other differences, but this is a
basic difference that changed the world.

How can I analyze Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants" using Freud's theories from Letter 52 to answer, referring to the unconscious...

This complex question can get only the briefest answer in
this format but it will guide you to further thought and investigation. Freud's letter
to Wilhelm Fliess, dated Vienna, November 14, 1897, discusses the the
concept of what later came to be translated as
"afterwardness,"
a vague and obscure label for a concept that relates to
Freud's attempt to definitively identify the mechanism of
"repression."


In the original letter
written in German, Freud uses the word "Nachträglichkeit," later translated as either
"afterwardness" or as "deferred action," to define the concepts
discussed.



A
release of sexuality ... comes about ... from memory traces -- therefore also by the
path of deferred action. ... [in which] the preconscious and a sense of consciousness
turn away from the memory.  This is repression. (Nov 14,
1897)



Freud's simply stated
idea in this letter has been enlarged upon by Freud and others to suggest in essence
that an action or event in a person's early years can lie dormant until later more
mature years when that memory might be revived or suggested by later circumstances and
that the generation of that memory might trigger a rejection--a deferred action of
rejection--from the person concerned.


The way this might
apply in analysis to the American man and to Jig, who
omit the overt mention of the topic of Jig's debated
abortion, is that Jig is having a deferred action of
rejection
against the memory of her intimacy with the American man since
he is using that intimacy to compel her to undergo an abortion, an idea that is
apparently abhorrent to her. If the idea of "repression" is
taken out of context of "afterwardness" as discussed in Freud's letter, it might be said
that Jig is willing to "repress" her feelings of repulsion to abortion in order to
placate the American man.


It seems though, that these
analyses might be misapplying the concepts as Freud discussed them in his letter to
Fliess since Freud makes it clear in the letter that his idea applies to two stages of
life: the early physiologically immature years where an incident occurs and the later
physiologically mature years when the deferred reaction/rejection/repression of the
early memory occurs.

Discuss the relative merits of internal versus external recruiting.

Much of the answer to this question is going to be based
on specific circumstances.  There might be instances where one form of recruitment is
more advantageous than another.  These conditions and contexts are vitally important in
being able to determine which one has greater merit.  I will say that internal
recruitment might hold a bit more sway in my mind than external because of its ability
to demonstrate understanding about specific contingencies about an organization.  What
this means is that internal recruitment, employing from within, allows a better chance
to demonstrate knowledge of a specific organization and its culture.  When employers
advance from within or hire from within, they go far in having to eliminate a transition
period of needing to understand the culture of an organization.  This is already known. 
Internal recruitment has merit in this paradigm.

Sunday, August 2, 2015

How does justice work in the Greek tragedy Agamemnon by Aescylus?

The most obvious way in which justice is represented in
Agamemnon is in the victory of Agamemnon's armies over
Ilion.



I set to
mark
When shall stream up the glow of signal-flame,
The bale-fire bright, and
tell its Trojan tale-
Troy town is
ta'en:



It was Paris of Troy who took
Helen of Sparta from her husband Menelaus, a Greek along with Agamemnon and Achilles. Paris took
her because they had been promised to each other by the goddess Aphrodite as a reward for his
praise of Aphrodite's beauty. It can therefore be argued that justice was served when the Danaans
(Greeks) won the ten-year Trojan War and Helen was returned to her husband Menelaus and their
daughter Hermione.


The concept of justice in
Agamemnon is a dubious one by our standards for each act of justice involves
personal revenge, violence, and death as when Clytemnestra exacts justice by slaying Agamemnon.
Clytemnestra seeks justice for Agamemnon's intentional sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia to
appease the goddess Artemis, whom he insulted. At the end of the tragedy, Clytemnestra cries out
to the gods who spoke in the oracle governing "O'er all the race of [Agamemnon] Pleisthenes,"
saying, "I pray thee let thine anger cease!" She claims that by her deed of murder a curse is
lifted:



The bloody lust
and murderous,
The inborn frenzy of our house,
Is ended, by my
deed!



Clytemnestra clearly believes
her acts of murder are the administration of justice because, as the Chorus
says:



The children of
the curse abide within
These halls of high estate--
And none [could] wrench
from off the home of sin
The clinging grasp of
fate.


What is meant by energy?

Energy is described as the amount of work that can be done
by a force. There are various forms of energy such as kinetic energy which is the energy
of motion, potential energy which is stored energy like that in a battery or a tank of
gas, thermal energy, electromagnetic energy, sound energy and light energy. There is
also gravitational and elastic energy. Energy cannot be created or destroyed, however,
it can change forms. For example, when a firecracker is ignited, potential energy is
changed to light, heat and sound energy. If a piece of wood which contains potential
energy is burned by combustion, light energy is released as well as heat energy. Because
the heat energy is dissipated into the atmosphere, it can no longer do work. The total
energy in a system remains the same, although it may be transformed from one type to
another. This is explained by the Law of Conservation of Energy.

How is Holden received by Harris Ackley in "The Catcher in the Rye" ?

In Chapter 7, of Catcher in the Rye, Holden
goes into Ackley's room. Holden has just had a fight with Stradlater over the essay that Holden
wrote for him. Stradlater tore up the essay; Holden was very upset about this given the essay was
about his deceased brother's baseball mitt. Stradlater began hitting Holden and eventually pinned
him to the ground only promising to let Holden up if he kept his mouth shut (Holden had
repeatedly called him a moron). After the fight, Holden decides to go into Ackley's room because
he had certainly heard the fight and was awake. Holden also wanted to see what Ackley was doing
given that Ackley had very bad "personal habits".


Holden is not
received very well by Ackley, initially. Ackley was awake when Holden entered the room after the
fight with Stradlater. The fight had woken him up. Holden refuses to tell Ackley what the fight
was about and then asks him if he can sleep in Ely's (Ackley's roommate) bed. Ackley refuses to
say it is okay for Holden to sleep in Ely bed, given the bed is not his to give. After repeated
inquires about the fight, Holden tells Ackley that the fight was about him and that Holden was
"defending his ...honor". Holden tells Ackely that he is kidding and lies down in Ely's bed.
After Ackley falls asleep, Holden decides to leave.


All in all,
Ackley seems to be concerned about why Holden is in his room. Regardless, Ackley does not truly
seem to care if Holden stays or leaves. He, in fact, seems to careless about Holden. Therefore,
he receives Holden with indifference.

Introduce the mythological hero Jason in Medea.

To understand the Jason of "Medea", one must study him in
the myth of "Jason and the Golden Fleece". In this story we learn how Jason was only
allowed to take his throne after he had passed several tests of valor to prove himself.
The final one was to rescue the golden fleece from Colchis. However, Medea (the daughter
of the King of Colchis) is the one who actually accomplished all the tasks asked of
Jason, and he took the credit for her help. Then, he moved Medea from her homeland,
ditched her, and married the daughter of another King.


This
allows us to see that essentially Jason is a weak man who allows others to do his work,
and seeks to satisfy his own desires before those of others.

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