The Gendered Divide Between Goddesses and Mortal Men: Immortals as Servants in Odyssey
Throughout Homer’s Odyssey, a social hierarchy is present between the immortals and the mortals. The gods’ power and dominance is...
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Beatrice as God: Where Divine Love and Mortal Lust Collide in Dante’s Inferno
In Christian thought, the highest form of love, referred to as agape in the Bible, is the divine love God has towards humans and,...
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Desert
i’ve never had lemon bars and it’s been years since i’ve last seen you but i think they’d be especially good with raspberries and we...
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No one's reality
There are fairies in fuchsia Fighting ogles the color of beans Frankenstein's monster and Dracula are lovers Reciting vows under the pink...
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A Goodbye
I was raised Western I spoke a tongue torn between opposite cultures One that confused my grandparents I sung and read in mixed...
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Dreaming
They talk positively of dreams The future lies waiting for you The clouds of tomorrow at a halt in the west The coffee of next morning...
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Margaret Atwood's Feminist Revisionist Mythology
Greco-Roman mythology, with stories developed around heroic gods or demigods, is full of male dominance. Within these texts are gods...
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The Night
Nothing was holding on to the gloomy sky that night. As the sun took off, no star bothered to come up, no wind at all, and barely any...
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Home
It was a three hours long trip back to her hometown but she’d rather it was longer. She’d rather have time to finish a couple of books,...
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Detritivore
It’s some second day of a month and I haven’t had breakfast yet My food stares up at me for it indeed has eyes .They’re open. When mine...
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Systemic Sexism in Communication and its Effects on Turkey
Last year I went to the ER complaining of a pain in my abdomen, not knowing that I had a kidney stone. The male doctor told me that it...
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LATE- a short story
I: LATE Throughout college I never slept through my alarm. I had places to be and things to get done… always. I’d wake up as early as 6...
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Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on Diary of the Seducer
In this essay I will be primarily looking into Schopenhauer’s views on pessimism, explaining the impossibility of fulfillment (i.e., a...
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Kierkegaard on Love
The human understanding of romantic love has two prominent necessities. We expect love to be a spontaneous infatuation and a never-ending...
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Sartre On Anguish
Sartre claims that fear is borne of our uncertainty about being able/unable to carry out our choices and defines anguish as the...
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A Utopia
A ceaseless field, the home of many. Many tulips that don’t only bloom in spring time but are aglow always. A tulip field that’s a circus...
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A New Land
TW: domestic violence and abuse He came roaring into the kitchen, yelling. Each time he opened his mouth to yell yet another word this...
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Obstacle
A descriptive piece influenced by a street fleuriste I saw on New Year's Eve My mom sells flowers on street corners. Day and night, in...
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