Vicente De Leon M. Frederick ENC 1145 11 Feb. 2015 A Critique of Wendell Berry’s “Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer” Since the beginning of time, mankid have been telling stories. Wether they are myths, legends or epic narrative, stories were orally told from generations to generations. Around 3500 BCE, the first writing system was invented in Mesopotamia and Egypt. At first, no real alphabet was developed, but figures or drawings which told stories. From this source of telling stories, the Phoenicians developed the oldest alphabet on the history.
There is no consensus among ancient rabbis or modern scholars about the date of Job . Moreover, the author of Job is also unknown. LaSor, Hubbard and Bush, eloquently write “Rarely has history left such a literary genius unnamed and unknown as to his circumstances or motive for composing such magnificent work.” For many years the book of Job has been critically acclaimed by both Christian and secular scholars alike. The French poet and novelist Victor Hugo once wrote: "Tomorrow, if all literature was to be destroyed and it was left to me to retain one work only, I should save Job." The story depicts the unjustifiable suffering experienced by Job who was considered a man of virtue.
During Hammurabi's time as king, he would oversee a great expansion of his kingdom from a city-state to an empire. The Ancient times, Babylonians have lived under the assumption that the gods could do and would do anything they wanted to the humans. That is why Hammarabi's codes were classified as the most important because he was the first person to ever to write down a set number of laws.At this time many citizens were illiterate, which made it difficult for them to understand Hammurabi's codes, which was carved upon a black stone monument, eight feet high, and clearly intended to be reared in public view. It was said that Hammurabi's attempt was to cover all possible legal situations, yet this statement was false. In its epilogue, Hammurabi describes the code as the "laws of Justice" which intended to clarify the rights of any "oppressed man."
For example, monotheism, the belief that there is only one God, spread from Judaism to the Western world. Western literature includes and often alludes to the Hebrew Bible and the Ten Commandments, sacred texts that originated in Judaism. Even the modern weekend has Jewish roots in the idea of a weekly day of rest. The oldest teachings in Judaism are recorded in the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. The books of the Hebrew Bible were written at various times; the most recent predate the 2nd century B.C.E.
While many believe there was only one creation account, evidence suggests that the historical context of the two is quite different. For example, the date of writing of Genesis 1 is believed to have been second to Genesis 2, around 500BC after the Babylonian Exile, however Genesis 2 has been said to have been written first, in approximately 1000BC during the time of King David. The audience of both accounts also differs, with the first account being produced for Jewish people newly out of slavery and to be distributed throughout Judea and Babylon as they were surrounded by non-Jewish people with different ideas, in contrast to the second account which targeted the Jewish people at the height of their powers who were living and settled in the heterogeneous Promised land. Arguably the biggest comparison is the origin of the stories, with two fundamental views, the JEDP theory and the more historically accepted view, that of Moses being the only writer. The JEDP theory states that the first exposition was recorded by the Priestly
For hundreds of years colonist in the U.S could not seem to break away from the basic effortless writing that is plain style. To the Puritans plain style was an effective way of revealing God’s wisdom and truth, but as the 17th century came to an end various writing styles of early colonial authors adapted as America changed. Towards the end of the 17th century and the 18th century, a new style of writing arrived, captivity narratives. Few writers of the pre-revolutionary age have embodied this style of writing more than Mary Rowlandson and Olaudah Equiano during the late 1600s and 1700s. Rowlandson and Equiano share many similar characteristics even though they were of different race and whose writings were decades apart.
While Of Mice and Men is not exactly the most conventionally structured book ever published, The House on Mango Street features a very unique vignette format, with short, seemingly inconsequential chapters that don’t directly connect to each other. Of Mice and Men follows a more orthodox approach to novel writing, with linear plot development. Building on this is another obvious difference. Of Mice and Men is regarded as classic literature, although, originally published in 1937, it is not a very old classic. Similarly, The House on Mango Street, with its highly unconventional structure and lack of clear resolution, is very modern in style, and was first published in 1984.
William Thomas Oliver 11 September 2011 History 101 Mr. Alexander The early Ancient Mesopotamian civilizations wrote laws that have evolved somewhat into what we use today in our modern laws. What I observed in this topic is that in Ancient Middle East laws were written by kings, not by a group of people known as a governing body. The legal code of Hammurabi from Ancient Middle Eastern time were the most famous laws made after the Hebrew Torah. These laws are interesting to most readers because it tells us how the attitudes of ancient Babylonians. There attitudes were a little barbaric in a sense of the punishments, death, breaking of bones, gouging out of the eyes tied up and cast into the water, I guess its what we call now a days, “ an eye for eye, tooth for a tooth”.
Originally Jr book has no religion in it. It has Pre-Columbia America and the project of translating of Jr dictating and Emma writing it down. However, his original story becomes greatly enriched. From Sept 1827 to Jan 1828 Jr and Emma work at the translation and nothing else. There is one copy out; Jr has never seen any plates.
He wrote in the 5th Century BC, some 200 years after Lycurgus is alleged to have lived. Such a large time span between the life of Lycurgus and Herodotus writing about him castes further doubt as the Spartan did not record history and everything was passed down orally. Herodotus' writings of Lycurgus are based around Greek writings of the figure and oral accounts from Spartans who retold the legend, yet Herodotus did not write what people said verbatim and everything he wrote about Lycurgus was mainly from his perspective. Also many modern historians’ especially historians such as A. Andrews who wrote The Greek Tyrant said “The very existence of Lycurgus is open to doubt" and H. Michael who wrote Dimensions of military History wrote "If there is a real Lycurgus, we know nothing of him". Many believe instead that he was just a fictional character made to fuel thoughts and strength of the Great Rhetra that is attributed to his name or that he is in fact was just a prominent figure in the forming of the Great Rhetra and other personalities have been merged to form the person that was written