Troy

The Trojan was began because the gods could not settle their own disagreements without the help of a human the gods were having a wedding and did not invite a certain goddess to this event so Eris the god of discord presented an apple to the gods Hera Athena and Aphrodite and said that whomever was fairest could have it so the gods got in to an argument and involved a human man Paris whom as a reward wanted a married woman as his wife and since she was married he had to steal her and in doing so he angered her husband who declared war on Troy the kingdom of which Paris was prince of.
The gods behave like humans because they display many traits of jealousy and pitiful anger there human in materialistic ways and want whatever appeals to them at that moment making them human despite their I feel that the gods were fake kings that just see themselves as gods and this religion is quite warped due to their fickle nature
In the movie troy Achilles is played by brad pit but I feel like he should have been played by Shila buff because 1 he’s is so much hotter and 2 he has more of a bad boy nature and could probably play the bad boy nature so much better.

the story of Joseph and the bible

Although we didn’t have a class on “epic heroes” I think I can still explain how joseph is one. I learned in a class different from humanities that in order to be considered a hero you have to fallow the circle steps and although the circle mainly goes with writing books and stories it works with already made stories. adapted from Voglers the writers journey in order for a “hero” to become a hero they have to go through the cycle which is to state simply separation, decent, initiation, and then return in Josephs case his separation was when his brothers deceived him then his decent was when he was sent into the dungeons to rot for the rest of his life and once he proved his worth by interpreting the pharos dream he moved into the initiation stage and the return stage is when he is reunited with his family and he forgives them for their deceit.
Joseph is unique he is intelligent he has love and for no reason that he can understand his whole life is thrown into chaos and disarray and yet he still has hope and he still loves. Although Joseph has no ambition for success and power he somehow manages to gain a position of power and he does this by mainly just helping people he manages to wait out an entire famine just by planning for it and he saves hundreds of people which makes him a hero in the peoples eyes
As far as I can tell the differences between the KJV and the Koran is the language and the twist where josephs father knows that the brothers were the source of deceit towards Joseph much of the language is ye old English and it is probably meant to make the reader feel a little bit more religious I find little importance in the bland words it doesn’t appeal much to my human nature because it sounds fake unlike the king James version which is designed to appeal to the reader with its details and its story like writing.

Aristotle on friendship

Aristotle’s friendship is about … well friendship he claims that there are three kinds of friendship utility pleasure and goodness
He believes that utility based friendships are about people who are only friends because its useful to their goals he says that these friendships are not permanent that “when the motive of the friendship is done away, the friendship dissolves.”
And pleasure based friendship is based on their interest and enamor in a subject
But above all he believes that the only pure friendship is friendship that is based on goodness. He says that these friendships are rare and it’s a perfect friendship if it is based on the “men who are good and alike in virtue”
I believe that the song Find Out Who Your Friends Are by Tracy Lawrence is a fairly good rendition on how to know who your “true” friends are because it proves that “you find out who your friend are” when you need them most and there not there to give a care about what’s in it for them or how they get there

http://www.cmt.com/videos/tracy-lawrence/160946/find-out-who-your-friends-are.jhtml

Run your car off the side of the road
Get stuck in a ditch way out in the middle of nowhere
Or get yourself in a bind, lose the shirt off your back
Need a floor, need a couch, need a bus fare

This is where the rubber meets the road
This is where the cream is gonna rise
This is what you really didn?t know
This is where the truth don?t lie

You find out who your friends are
Somebody?s gonna drop everything
Run out and crank up their car
Hit the gas, get there fast

Never stop to think, 'What?s in it for me?'
Or 'It?s way too far'
They just show on up with their big ol? heart
You find out who your friends are

And everybody wants to slap your back, wants to shake your hand
When you?re up on top of that mountain
But then one of those rocks give way then you slide back down
Look up and see who?s around then

This ain't where the road comes to an end
This ain't where the band wagon stops
This is just one of those times when
A lotta folks jump off

You find out who your friends are
Somebody?s gonna drop everything
Run out and crank up their car
Hit the gas, get there fast

Never stop to think, 'What?s in it for me?'
Or 'It?s way too far'
They just show on up with that big ol? heart
You find out who your friends are

When the water?s high
When the weather?s not so fair
When the well runs dry
Who?s gonna be there?

You find out who your friends are
Somebody?s gonna drop everything
Run out and crank up their car
Hit the gas, get there fast

Never stop to think, 'What?s in it for me?'
Or 'It?s way too far'
They just show on up with their big ol? heart
You find out who your friends are, yeah yeah
You find out who your friends are

Run your car off the side of the road
Get stuck in a ditch way out in the middle of nowhere, man I been there
Or get yourself in a bind, lose the shirt off your back
Need a floor, need a couch, need a bus fare, man I been there
Man I been there
[ From : http://www.elyrics.net/read/t/tracy-lawrence-lyrics/find-out-who-your-friends-are-lyrics.html ]

Socrates Apology

Socrates Apology was actually written by Plato which was intended to be a speech at a trial against Socrates. Apparently his charges were that he was inventing new gods, did not recognize the gods the state recognized and he corrupted the minds of the youths. And this speech isn’t exactly an apology as modern day believes but a defense speech defending his actions. A gadfly is a horse fly an insect n which Socrates likens himself to in his defense because the citizens have come to see him as an annoying pest that does nothing more than bit horses in there ass he believes that this is his life job because an oracle has claimed him the wisest man on earth and he thinks that she is right because he is aware that his knows nothing about wisdom and that after all is wisdom. The jury sentences him to his death and he says that he is un afraid because he doesn’t believe that one should be afraid of something they do not know about because only the gods know what comes after death

The Merchants tale

Fabliaux as defined by dictionary.com is “A medieval verse tale characterized by comic, ribald treatment of themes drawn from life” and Chaucer uses these throughout his Canterbury tales
The song Lying eyes says “every form of refuge has its price” and I feel like Chaucer is saying the exact same thing only in his own words because in the merchants tale the noble man is looking for a wife in his old age and he asks the gods to help him in his quest but he is to specific in his quest and chooses a madden beautiful in appearance but ugly at heart because she doesn’t love him back and she falls for another man and as her husband gets older he loses his eyesight and she is able to cheat on him even more the gods grant her husband his eye sight back so he may view her cheating on him and the lady twists what he sees into a confusing mass and her husband believes her story despite what he saw. I feel like the underlying meaning in this is that humans only see what they wish to see and I feel like the old noble man wanted to believe his wife and didn’t want to believe that she was cheating on him so when he actually saw it with his own eyes she was able to mold his view to her benefit which makes the old man a fool I feel like this story is didactic because not only is there one hidden meaning I feel like there are many hidden meanings in the story. For example and man is a fool for a beautiful woman he could have chosen a ugly faithful woman but he instead choose a beautiful cheating whore.

canterbury tales

according to Aelfric there are three medieval estates Laboratories, Oratories and,Bellatores. "Laboratories are those who labor for our living; Oratories are those who plead for our peace with god; Bellatores are those who battle to protect our towns and defend our land against an invading army." (course pack)

in the general prologue of the Canterbury tales Chaucer explains the estate of the people in his story he says that none of them knew each other and that they all came together by chance in an inn, and they all banned together to make a pilgrimage for their religion. Chaucer then goes on to give you a brief background of each of the people traveling. he goes in to a brief detail about each person and how they live. there were 25 total people

Estate Satire is a genre which sarcastically attacks the abuses that occur within the three Estates that Aelfric mentions