This old commercial presents a cereal called Life and shows three brothers in a traditional family setting debating on whether or not it is worth eating. The cereal presented is made by a tried and true company Quaker which offers heart healthy foods to combat the unhealthy cholesterol in our bodies. The commercial seems to rely heavily on pathos to persuade the audience with a cereal that is supposed to be good for you. The pathos used shows two brothers looking at a potentially repulsive cereal in which they push off to a younger brother named Mikey. As they look at the cereal one brother says “dumb cereal, it’s supposed to be good for you” and then they agree with each other to give it to Mikey who hates everything.
These stories have many similarities, but their differences are what define their respective cultures and values. The Christian belief of Noah and the great flood, the Sumerian flood story in The Epic of Gilgamesh, and the mythological flood can be analyzed for similarities and differences in terms of causes of the flood, the survivors of the flood, and the result of the flood. The causes of the floods in these cultures can be much more heavily contrasted than compared. “Gilgamesh, The Story of the Flood” recounts the belief of the Sumerian gods terminating mankind for no other reason than the people were a nuisance to them. The gods believed that they were so intolerable that they express that, “sleep is no longer possible by reason of babel” (“Gilgamesh, The Flood Story” 23).
George and Lennie ate beans in the campsite in both the novel and the movie. Lennie tried to sneak the dog into the bunk house and George made him put it back. Lennie, in both the novel and the movie, had the same exact characteristics. He was always acting like a child and had very little clue of what was going on around him. Lennie also killed Curley’s Wife in both of them.
In Gilgamesh the gods felt that all of man’s sins needed to be washed away. It was a tragic and unfair punishment. While in Genesis the cause of the flood was man’s wickedness.
The Aztec and Mayan Civilizations in the Americas Ashley M. Carpenter Western Civilization II National University June 2, 2012 Abstract From 250 A.D. to the late 1500’s A.D. the Mayans and the Aztecs controlled Central and South America. Each was unique, but still shared a few of the same traits. Both had their own calendar system, counting system, and Polytheistic religious beliefs along with similar temples built to worship their deities. While the Aztecs were the most prominent users of human sacrifice, the Mayans also participated in such rituals. A few differences between these civilizations were the social structure, natural resources, and differing cultural strengths.
Sometimes the tragic hero suffers from hubris, like know-it-all Oedipus. The goddess Nemesis waits until just the proper moment to tap his arrogance, blind him to the reality around him, and thereby lead him to his own destruction. But note: What separates the tragic hero from the arrogant fool who suffers the same fate is the sheer magnitude of his gifts, and thus the depth of the abyss into which he falls, and the spirit with which he
John Smith said, "...one amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered [i.e., salted] her, and had eaten part of her." ( The starving time pg.2) This shows that the colonists were so daspreat for food that they did anything to obtain it. Not only did the colonists spend most of their time looking for gold but they also had little agricultural experiance. To make things worse, the land of which they setteled on was swampy and desease infested. John Smith said, "The colonists, a group with little agricultural experience and weighted with gentry, instead found a swampy and disease-ridden site."
In Genesis, evil was punished for deceiving Adam and Eve. The serpent manipulated Adam and Eve and changed Gods words. Since there was no good it was an unbalanced world. In Iroquois, there was a balanced world between good and evil. Sapling was the good one, the one that did everything just as should, said what he meant, and meant what he said.
It sank, the stranger told me, on the bank of my island. Disappointed, I grunted, for it seemed he had no more ship to be hunted, no more of his crew to fix for a meal, and no loot that I could steal. So I picked up a few of his crew and, just to show contempt, I didn’t boil them in stew, but rather ate them alive. Their captain’s look was horrified! That’ll teach him,’ I thought to myself.
In 1980 a movie came out that turned popular thought to the damage that globalization imposes on cultural identity. “The Gods Must Be Crazy” highlights a simple way that globalization threatens cultural identity. In this movie, the Sho tribe of the Kalahari Desert believes that it has been gifted with a special treat when an empty glass Pepsi bottle falls from a light aircraft flying overhead. Because the Sho are a resourceful people, they find many uses for this bottle. Unfortunately, the Sho are not accustomed to having a limited resource.