My Final Project Essay for Statistics to complete my Interdisciplinary Studies Associates

Mental health has seldomly become far from the headlines nowadays, with politicians, television presenters, and even members of the royal family raising awareness about illnesses and conditions. But is raising awareness on these topics enough for our communities? With awareness being raised, mental health has become a prevailing problem in communities that do not provide the proper information or help for those in need of medication and therapy. With many fear-based information on the new virus we have faced through the passed two years, families with mentally ill individuals have subsequently become more paranoid, nervous, anxious, and aggressive to their families, the public and to themselves. Those people with cognitive disabilities had the highest rates of total violent crimes (56.6 per 1,000), serious violent crime (24.0 per 1,000), and simple assault (32.6 per 1,000) among the disability types measured. These facts can be found in many crime map applications, especially “Citizen app” we use daily to see near by crimes. 
This specific category of crimes committed are incising to undergo because my own mother suffers from Epilepsy and Schizophrenia. Analyzing and getting feedback from different communities and areas near me, where these crimes are committed, I find that there is not many mental health care centers around urban areas who suffer from this the most. If mental health centers and resources were provided for these suffering families with little to no information about mental health, the number of crimes could lower, due to the information and resources than can help these families. Many mentally ill individuals do not understand or know when they are having an episode of manic or get off their medication, become addicts, violent, incoherent, aggressive, or uncontrollable of their actions. Some families who suffer from mental health or a family member who suffers from this either disown or become careless of these members of their family because they do not know how to handle such illness. Which cause a greater risk for those mentally disabled individuals.
For instance, for those who have just developed a mental illness, have became laid off, addiction, or even have become fearful and paranoid of the new virus that is killing people with and without a vaccine is very triggering to those who suffer mental disabilities. Not many individuals understand or comprehend how to approach or care for these suffering individuals. Commonly, most mentally ill individuals are mistaken or stereotyped to be drug addicts. When some have not even used any type of substance to be that way. Facing the facts of this problem could potentially help families become more aware of mental health. Understanding the concept that mentally ill individuals also need the resources to understand what they individually go through in their own minds as well.
 These resource centers can bring a balance as a collective, if more people new how to approach, understand and help these suffering people. These centers would provide information, referrals, health plans, therapy, rehab, and medication refills. In Los Angeles alone, there are   about “32 acute psychiatric hospitals and 26 county-based psychiatric health facilities. That to me is not enough to say that urban areas do not have the proper resources around them to get the help they need. I surveyed about 25 public individuals; the survey included 4 questions: Do you believe that there are enough mental health awareness/centers in your community? Do you believe mental health is important? If mental health help was provided in your area, would you seek the help? Do you or anyone you know suffer from mental illness? From the results, I can clarify that not many urban areas have the help and would seek the help if these centers were provided, I also figured that many individuals in Los Angeles no not know anything or little about mental health and what they can do for a mentally disabled member in their family or for themselves.
To concluded, we face a big problem in Los Angeles due to mental health. Through out this pandemic, crimes have risen, and most crimes committed were crimes committed by mentally disabled individuals who either have just developed a mental illness, became laid off, stress, hard labor, low pay, high rent, no health care, inflation that is affecting many, misjudgment, addiction, or even the fear of this unknown virus that is leaving many to conform instead of reform. These problems could potentially continue to rise if the resources aren’t being met in urban areas. Families who have no resources to mental health awareness, abandoned their family members due to not knowing what they can do for them, and lives are at risk with individuals who are not seeking the help they need to keep their manic episodes stay intact. If the state of Los Angeles were to provide more mental health awareness centers in urban areas where low-income families or unaware families suffer, the number of crimes would lower, and the awareness of mental health would arise to help those in need. 

Richard Lee's Theory

Lee has made variety of important theoretical contributions, including providing insights that led to the event of the concept of the first affluent society, egalitarianism, work, and therefore the contributions of women to subsistence and decision-making in small-scale societies. Methodologically he was strongly influenced by the neo-Marxist theories of Eleanor Leacock, Eric Wolf and Marshall Sahlins. By the 1980s Lee had become actively involved in global campaigns for the rights of indigenous people facing rapid change, and in southern Africa particularly, the struggle to defeat Apartheid. Lee was an American statesman and Founding Father from Virginia best known for the June 1776 Lee Resolution, the motion within the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies' independence from Great Britain resulting in the US Declaration of Independence. His research interests include human rights and indigenous peoples, ecology and history, the peoples and cultures of Africa, and the critical medical anthropology of HIV/AIDS.

Richard Lee has long advocated that anthropology as a discipline must engage with problems with social justice. Lee was an outspoken advocate of Anti-Federalist opposition to the ratification of the Constitution, fearing that the states were being asked to surrender an excessive amount of power. He graciously accepted his defeat thereon issue and agreed to function one among Virginia’s first senators under the new government. He used that position to support ratifications of the Bill of Rights, the primary 10 amendments to the Constitution, and worked with special dedication for the adoption of Amendment X, which is “the powers not delegated to the us by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” Lee’s theory helped the constitution in some ways thanks to his belief of independency in each state. This also created more laws to pass like slavery ending and ladies who owned property to be ready to vote.

 In contrast to Samuel Huntington's believe that culture would cause war in future societies. Both Lee and Huntington's contributions caused great change in laws like race, culture and political parties. Some events that occurred that support Lees historical change in history is shown in the roman empire. For instance, out of tradition and family honor, romans would go to war with people who didn’t favor the new laws. Like Tiberias who was a politician and farmer. He relied on enslaved labor but began to see the institution as wrong. His change of heart was partly because his farm was losing money due to government policies. He tried to push a land reform law through the senate but was murdered. His brother then tried ten years later and stated if elected counsel he would deal with corruption. He then was also murdered. As Rome expanded the ideas and people it conquered were playing a larger role in society even if people didn’t like it. This was different from alexander the greats vision who embraced other cultures. The civil wars continued, and the senate expanded. Another example of Richards theory in history was the ottoman empire that led to the downfall of the byzantine empire. There were power struggles of the Mongols overthrowing the Turks. The new ottoman empire mirrored Rome in that it relied on mercenaries, slavery, and conquest to attain its needs. Most enslaved people were Christians because Muslims were not supposed to enslave other Muslims.

The Raven Analysis

     "The Raven" a narrative poem written by poet Edgar Allen Poe, first revealed in January 1845. The literary composition is usually known for its sound property, conventionalized language, and supernatural atmosphere. The literary composition makes use of most people’s, mythological, religious, and classical references. Poe claimed to have written the literary work logically and methodically, aiming to produce a literary work that attracted the crucial and common taste, as he explained in his 1846 follow-up essay, "The Philosophy of Composition". The literary work was impressed partially by a talking raven within the novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens. Poe borrows the rhythm of Elizabeth Barrett's poem "Lady Geraldine's Courtship” and makes use of internal rhyme as well as alliteration throughout it. The publication of his poem made Poe popular in his lifetime, although it did not bring him much monetarist achievement. The poem was soon republished, satirized, and illustrated. Critical opinions were divided as to the poem's literary status, but it nevertheless remains one of the most famous poems ever written.

     On a chilly night, in the dark, the utter narrator is sitting by himself, “weak and weary” reading a book packed with “forgotten lore’s” while drooping off. When he's suddenly woken up by a sound at his door, he assures himself that it’s “nothing more” than a visitant. Poe then explains that he remembers this situation had happened back in December. As the grate slowly perishes, each dying ember like a “ghost” he wishes for the night to pass so that he might escape from his sorrow over Lenore. To distract himself from pondering her, he says, he has been reading, but without success. When the curtains rustle, he then becomes suddenly frightened. Once again, he tells himself that it’s just a visitant, and nothing additional. Finding some measure of courage, he calls out to whoever is knocking at the door of the room and apologizes that he was taking so long to come back to the door as a result that he was unready, he then opens the door, solely to search out that no-one is there. He stands at the doorway to his space, staring into the darkness, equally hopeful and fearful, “dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.” He whispers “Lenore” into the darkness and hears in response only an echo, Lenore! and “nothing additional.” Suddenly, he hears a sound at his window, and he opens it. The Raven flies in, perching atop of a Pallas. At first, Poe explains that he finds the bird’s “grave and stern decorum” amusing and asks it for its name. To his confusion, the bird responds “Nevermore.” The narrator remarks to himself that what the Raven says should be “stock and stored,” words picked up by copying those from a previous master. But, unable to contain his curiosity, he grabs a velvet chair and sits directly before the bird, trying to grasp what this “ominous bird of yore” suggests by “Nevermore.” While he imagines that Lenore might be near, he then perceives that the “air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer” and says it should specify the presence of “Seraphim,” or cherubs, sent from God to help him pass through his grief over losing Lenore. He wonders if he might be able to “quaff this kind nepenthe” to forget about her entirely. The Raven, however, answers “Nevermore.” Growing more anxious, the narrator asks the Raven if there is “balm in Gilead” which he meant that if heaven will give him some hope of seeing Lenore again. The bird, as usual, responded “Nevermore.” The narrator asks again if he and Lenore might meet once more “within the distant Aidenn,” which refers to as the “Garden of Eden”, however yet again the bird responds “Nevermore.” Uncompromising and despairing, the narrator screams at the bird to return to “the Night’s Plutonian shore!” and to never return, but the bird does not depart. As the literary work ends, the narrator is dazed by despair, while the Raven “never flitting, still is sitting” on the bust of Pallas. Poe concludes by voice communication and continues to measure within the bird’s inevitable shadow.

     As Poe became known in his early time for this diverting poem, “The Raven” was a mirror image of his life. While Poe lost both of his parents at the age of 3, it can be very well seen that this poet had a saddening upbringing or fixed. Poe was raised by his foster parents who were John and Frances Allen. Learning that Poe had struggles with money since his foster father did not provide for him during his college journey, Poe then enlisted in the United States Army. During his journey in the Army, Poe was admitted into the United States Military Academy, but was forced to leave because of his delinquent tuition fees. He then resided with his aunt Maria Clemm and her daughter Virginia. During his subsiding in Baltimore Maryland, Poe wrote short stories and married his cousin Virginia. Virginia depressingly passes away due to tuberculosis. This is what made Poe become depressed and turn to alcoholism. Hence, the reasoning for his infamous poem “The Raven”. His stories mark him reciprocally one of the initiators of horror and detective fiction. He was likewise one of the primary critics to focus on the effect of style and structure in a literary work; as such, he has been a portent to the “arts for sake” movement.


Work Cited

Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.” Poetry Foundation, Poetry Foundation, 2018, www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven.

“Percy Bysshe Shelley.” Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, 6 Oct. 2015, www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/edgar-allan-poe.

Sonny's Blues

     In the short story Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, the narrator who is Sonny’s brother eagers us into his life and his brothers. The narrator is an algebra teacher, who lives in Harlem with his wife and her family. During the beginning of the short story, he is on his way to school, while reading the newspaper. He reads a tragic scenario of someone’s imprisonment for using and selling heroin who is his brother Sonny. As we analyze the narrator’s personality to this news, we can imply that he did not want to believe the news, even though deep down he knew it was true. He sympathized for his brother’s reality because he knew his brother was a talented kid, he reminisced about his promise to his mother, that he shall always be his brother’s keeper since he is the oldest and he supported Sonny’s love for jazz music.

     When Sonny’s brother is in the subway reading that his brother Sonny was imprisoned, he felt a great block of ice in his stomach that will not go away. For instance, when he explains, “all this was carrying me some place I didn’t want to go. I certainly did not want to know how it felt. It filled everything, the people, the houses, the music, the dark, quicksilver barmaid, with menace; and this menace was their reality.” This signifies the emotions he was dealing with the news of Sonny. He in fact cares for his brother even though they were not a part of each other’s lives after their parents passed. He then rants about how he had a feeling that his brother was “dabbling” with drugs growing up. He wondered how his students might also be dealing with drugs from the way they presented themselves in class. Although, this is where the narrators regard begins with his brother’s imprisonment, other factors let us know that his sympathy for his brother is a reflection of his own problems he deals with. 

     The narrator has a life to maintain and has his own problems to deal with. He and his wife Isabel lose a daughter from Polio disease. Learning this, helps us understand that the narrator has problems of his own. Having lost his daughter makes him feel the need to write to his brother in prison. When Sonny receives the letter, Sonny is amused to have finally heard from his brother in years. “You don’t know how much I needed to hear from you. I wanted to write you many a time but I dug how much I must have hurt you and so I did not write. But now I feel like a man who has been trying to climb up out of deep, real deep and funky hole and just saw the sun up there, outside. I got to get outside.” The narrator explains that he felt like a bastard after receiving the letter from Sonny but he felt more relieved as well as Sonny did. Sonny’s brother describes how he was into jazz music and playing the piano growing up after their parents passed and while in prison he noticed that Sonny still had the urge to be a musician when being released but to not think that being a musician had anything to do with his imprisonment. To sum up, these scenes in the short story take us to how the narrator reminisces about how his mother told him that he should always be his brother’s keeper no matter the circumstances. 

     As we can see that both the brothers are far from being stable in their own lives emotionally, we can say that they both still need each other at this time. Sonny explains to his brother that he never contacted him because of how hurt he has left him by his actions and decisions growing up leaving the family. The brother reminisces about a story his mother told him about how his uncle, who had passed away. This foreshadow is the reason why he felt the need to be back in Sonny’s life for guidance, brotherly love and advice. When Mama says:

     “Oh honey, she said, “there’s a lot that you don’t know. But you are going to find it out…you got to hold on to your brother… and don’t let him fall no matter what it looks like is happening to him and no matter how evil you get with him.” This is a great factor of Sonny’s brother regard progressing throughout the story for Sonny. 

     To conclude, these were some evidence in the short story that the narrator grows regarding his brother Sonny. From him not wanting to care for his brother’s reality to then realizing that his brother needs him as well as he does, they both show regards throughout the story. Their mother was also a great factor for them to come together and be there for each other. 

Work Cited

Baldwin, James. Sonny’s Blues. Harlem: 1957. Print.

The Classical Greek Polis

     The polis was essential to classical Greek civilization, since it allowed the Greeks to achieve Arete, the full and balanced development of an individual helped build our society, communities, leadership and independence we have today. Greek city-states developed completely different kinds of governance with different political structures and strengths. Although, morals and tributes that philosophers from the classical age believed in are not practiced today due to egoistic characteristics and the evolution of technology; Greek colonization led to the banquet of the Greek language and Greek civilizations, but it also resulted in tensions that culminated in the Persian Wars. Therefore, the development of democratic forms of government, the physical development of an individual and the aesthetic development of the population we see today is due to the classical Greek Polis.

     The four most ordinary structures of Greek government were: Democracy, Monarchy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny. Democracies were controlled by the all-inclusive communities, which were generally male occupants who were more than 18 years old. The word democracy derives from the Greek word dēmos which refers to the entire citizen body and although it is Athens which has become associate with the birth of democracy from around 460 B.C, other Greek states did establish a similar political system, prominently, Argos, Syracuse, Rhodes, and Erythrai. Athens is, however, the state we all know most concerning of. Monarchies were overseen by a man who had procured his activity. They were uncommon and were regularly just recognizable from an oppression when the innate ruler was more kindhearted and managed in the certifiable enthusiasm of his kin. The most celebrated monarchies were those within the states of Macedonia and Epeiros, where the ruler shared power with an assembly. Although the city additionally possessed a national assembly, it's most celebrated for its system of 2 kings. Not absolute monarchs, but they held great power when they led the Spartan army in times of war. The most common form of city-state governments occurred when democracy went wrong, which is Oligarchy, ruled by a select gathering of people. Finally, Tyranny were administered by a person who had seized control by unlawful means. A great evidence of tyranny was the demonizing of the Persian kings Darius and Xerxes.

     Arete, the most verbalized an incentive in Greek development, is the Greek expression for magnificence. It is the essential wellspring of the physical advancement of a person in established ages. Aristotle alluded to Arete as an uprightness. Excellence in Aristotle's time, held a tremendously unexpected importance in comparison to it serves today. The English word, virtue, originates from the Latin word Virtus. Virtus, thus, originates from vir, signifying "man" in the manly sense. It is masculinity, the embodiment of all the mortal or mental excellences of man: quality, energy; boldness, bravery; inclination, limit; worth, knowledge, devotion; continuance, restraint, goodness. In its most punctual appearance in Greece, this thought of magnificence was bound up with the satisfaction of direction or capacity; the daily schedule of getting by to one's maximum capacity. A second component of arete is the idea of extraordinary exertion by putting forth a valiant effort. It doesn't call for crushing or beating others. It is basically being and doing one's closest to perfect by getting the best individual one can turn. The ethical magnificence of arete as a man or thing was temperance. "The cause of the word, Arete, is the equivalence as 'Aristos', a term which indicates superlative capacity and predominance.” The significance of the word changes relying upon what it portrays, since everything has its very own perfection; the arete of a man is not the same as the arete of a horse. This bearing of reasoning first originates from Plato and can be gotten in Plato's " Allegory of the Cave ". Despite its beginnings, it was Aristotle who conveyed the idea of arete to its fullest state. Aristotle was a guide in the place of Philip, Ruler of Macedon, and shown Philip's child, Alexander the Great, who was said to epitomize arete in his immovable quest for brilliance. A third element of arete is the possibility that life is an adventure and not a destination. Arete was the Homeric Age's most critical gift to Western human progress. From numerous points of view the Iliad and the Odyssey are tributes to this code of magnificence as well. Arete was related to the individuals who exceeded expectations, battled, survived, and demonstrated their abilities as an officer in war, and as a competitor in harmony. The chance to show arete was the reason numerous Greeks moved to Troy. Achilles was extraordinary compared to other models. In Homer's Iliad, Achilles is referred to as solid, armada, and faithful like; which are displayed in his incredible works "The Great Runner", and "The Best of the Achaeans". Arete resembles a fabric being firmly weaved with goodness, magnificence, love and virtue. Some may expect that arete is a masculine quality. For Homer, in any case, arete isn't sexually orientated. Rather, arete is the drilled use of one's most elevated adequacy. It is a mix of aptitude, learning capacity, shrewdness, mettle, and force levels. For Homer, Penelope, the spouse of Odysseus, was a lady of arete. For sure, Penelope is commended by Agamemnon for her arete creations as it identifies with collaboration, yet it was Penelope's significant other, Odysseus, the Ruler of Ithaca, who is the best case of arete in Greek writing. Odysseus was more of a competitor and warrior. He cruised over all impediments and preliminaries, in creating honor, wonder, and greatness. Having investigated three essential components of arete: it includes us understanding our potential, its impact, its constant enhancement, and that it sees life as an adventure and not a goal.

     The Greeks made vital commitments through theory, mathematics, astronomy, architecture, and medication thus the explanation behind the Polis to have endure and colonize. A few precedents of these points were appeared through writing and theater, an essential part of Greek culture that affected current civilization. We owe our fundamental thoughts regarding geometry and the idea of numerical evidences to old Greek mathematicians, like, Pythagoras, Euclid, and Archimedes. A portion of the primary galactic models were created by Antiquated Greeks attempting to portray planetary development, the World's pivot, and the heliocentric framework, a model that puts the Sun at the focal point of the close planetary system. Hippocrates, the most acclaimed doctor in ancient history set up a therapeutic school, composed numerous restorative treatises, and his deliberate and observational examination of maladies and cures. The Hippocratic oath, a restorative standard for specialists, is named after him. Greek philosophical societies are exemplified in the exchanges of Plato, who transformed the scrutinizing style of Socrates into composed forms. Greek craftsmen achieved a pinnacle of magnificence when they caught the human shape in a way never observed; unadulterated, solid, illuminated warriors framing a more noteworthy development. An example of these Socrates was George Santayana when he states, “Knowledge is virtue, while ignorance is evil” meaning that the progress of civilization would continue through the movement of polis. Greek culture affected the Roman Empire and numerous different human advancements, and it keeps on impacting present day societies today. Amid the polis, they trusted that the general population were of more prominent guidance than to have built dividers or shaping majority roles of governments. The improvement of Polis enabled humanity to decolonize and keep on government changes as well as developing new technology.

Bartleby’s Passive Resistance

     "Bartleby, the Scrivener" (1856) demonstrates a considerable measure of instances of uninvolved opposition. The storyteller is compelled to concede, "Nothing along these lines irritates a sincere individual as a peaceful opposition." Refusing to kowtow to the strain of his supervisor, and managing to his own individual standard, Bartleby speaks to a test to free enterprise. He decreases to attempt and do what's asked of him over and over the basic assignment of rehashing reports he's an unostentatious figure, "pallidly slick, despicably decent, seriously hopeless", who works "quietly, palely, and mechanically", anyway he practices amazing force by declining to fit simple and unexacting solicitations. On the third day of being placed in amid a lawful work environment in Wall Street, he's asked by his manager to take a gander at a paper with him, anyway "without moving from his protection", he answers "I would prefer not to". Towards the tip of the story, he's found involved in the working environment at ends of the week. Bartleby's verbal block winds up physical.

     In their simplicity and politeness, these 5 words - “I would favor not to”- and the use of the verb “prefer” most notably succeeds a self-contradictory significance among the narrative. The statement compares a conditional with a negative sense, and this lends the reply its force. On the one hand, Bartleby refuses in a well-mannered way, exploitation the conditional type “would” suggest that there can be a selection within the matter. On the opposite hand, this selection and so expression of politeness is an illusion, for Bartleby blatantly refuses to try and do something asked of him. What we tend to witness within the story could be a type of resistance supporting the contradiction in terms of showing to yield, whereas not yielding in any respect. Bartleby’s politeness is browbeating powerful, disarming each the reader and the narrator. However, may one fault such a polite reply? Even once challenged “You cannot?” Bartleby counters with a quiet “I like not.” just like the semblance of selection in his response, “prefer” is each illusory and indirect in what it refers to, the word alludes to a selection that it denies. The implicit suggestion that there can be one thing Bartleby would favor to do, to try and do is an illusion. the utilization of the word, “prefer”, then, seems contradictory and strikes an ambiguous note within the story. The narrator declares that he's “More of a person of preferences than assumptions”, however Bartleby effectively turns the expression of preference into a statement that has the force of an assumption. This little verbal contradiction in terms is simply one in every of a full set of tensions that form the narrative. Bartleby’s loss of appetence and his more and more pallid and deathly manner supply valuable clues to our understanding of his character. Bartleby doesn't like amendment. “I would favor to not create any change” he says, and a bit later states “I prefer to be stationary”. In fact, he prefers to not go terribly way in any respect, working, eating, sleeping in a similar place. He's unable to maneuver out of his personal world and create public aspects of himself. He copies documents, however refuses to check them for that might mean operating with somebody, and his aim is to stay autonomous and self-contained. This neurotic behavior is underlined by Bartleby’s anorexic characteristics. Ultimately, he refuses to require in any nourishment, however this is often prefigured within the text by his refusing to require on a lot of work.

     Melville utilizes the analogies of admission and processing more than once. Before Bartleby's landing we were in general informed of the feeding economy of the law work environment. The work propensities for Turkey, whose "garments were well-suited to appear to be slick, and smell of admission houses" supplement those of his associate, Nippers, whose "brandylike manner" rendered him crabby for a morning's work. Despite those quirks, they play out their jobs "like watchmen". This illuminates us that he "never needed to attempt and do with their unconventionalities at only one occasion.... when Nippers' fit was on, Turkey's was off; and contrariwise." Bartleby disturbs this economy. When he touches base at the working environment he is by all accounts breaking some sensibly quick: from the start, Bartleby completed a remarkable measure of composing. As though long famishing for one thing to rehash, he saw to glut himself on my archives. There was no interruption for processing. He sustains himself on work to such a degree, to the point that he winds up known with the archive duplicates, and that we would potentially think about the peculiarity inside the announcement, "I want to be stationary". Bartleby is and isn't what he chows. He benefits from reports and is "stationery", anyway typically he chows practically zero. it's not staggering that the storyteller watches "he ne'er went steadfast supper". Bartleby gets by on bunches of gingernuts that square measure at that point expended alone. The hot bread rolls haven't any outcome on Bartleby's delicate nature and lack of, dislike the Englishman, Turkey, whose feisty, forceful conduct once a fluid lunch remains in refinement to his curbed endeavors inside the morning. 
 

     The distinction between Bartleby’s self-denial and the philosophy of the opposite characters, whose behavior is influenced by what they eat and drink, is formed specific. The “energetic”, “noisy” insolence of Turkey is iatrogenic by his hour tipple, whereas Nippers, afflicted by the “two evil powers” of “ambition and indigestion”, is calmed once a decent lunch. The word play stationery, verbal repetition of gingernut, references to food that can't be devoured while as Turkey, implications of the last word taboo, practice, produce a sort of linguistic dyspepsia at this time within the story, that worsens as Bartleby repeats his refusal, “I would favor not to”. The phrase is, we’d say, regurgitated, repeated, within the text, and this calls to mind the impossibility of digestion and satiation for Bartleby. He refuses, in effect, to be fed, except to that extent as he feeds on himself. During the story Bartleby repeatedly represents “motionless”, “sedate” and “still”. This reliable serenity is represented at one purpose as a beautiful feature, however the narrator becomes solely quickly “reconciled” to Bartleby’s “unalterableness of demeanor”. By refusing to maneuver, strive against a lot of work and absorb a lot of food, Bartleby achieves an ascetic purity, and this is often borne out by important references to his “hermitage”, an area of silence and solitude for him. By the tip of the story, the constant refusals wear everybody down. For instance, when Bartleby is incarcerated he refuses to eat: “I prefer not to dine to-day,” said Bartleby, turning away. “It would disagree with me; I am unused to dinners.” So, saying he slowly moved to the other side of the enclosure, and took up a position fronting the dead-wall. This is portentous, for the person who “lives while not dining”, provides up living. Even in death -the final defense, Bartleby is gentle and courteous. He in a well-mannered way refuses to eat, and easily therefore to measure. Curled up, he becomes known with the item against that his head rests, the jail wall. We tend to square measure ready for this too soon by referencing to his pallid complexion, his withdrawal from social life and refusal to require anything like food, cash and even the supply of human fellow feelings.

      The emptiness of Bartleby’s life is alluded to within the self-contradictory references to Egypt. There can be a royal dignity to Bartleby’s last moments, however not like Egyptian kings, he's buried while not sustenance for the hereafter, however this is often applicable since he's a man without power, appetence or desire. Bartleby’s disengagement from life isn't conferred as disagreeable. Indeed, his exit is quiet and contained. He makes no demands and is consistently within the position of reaction. Bartleby doesn't revolt in terms of a physical attack, however through a continual set of verbal refusals, he achieves the impact of revolt. In anorexic vogue, he's ready to live whereas taking no nourishment, either physical or non-secular. His could be a quiet battle, involved less with attack than defense. He could be a low element within the relentless law machine of Wall Street, however he brings significance and power to his position as a scribe within the workplace. The man in his small means interferes with processes that are repetitive and inventive.

Work sited

 Melville, Herman. Bartleby, The Scrivener. moglen.law.columbia.edu/LCS/bartleby.pdf. Pdf file. LitCharts. “Passive Resistance Theme Analysis.” LitCharts, www.litcharts.com/lit/bartleby-the-scrivener/themes/passive-resistance.

Modern Greek Mythology

        Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends associated to the ancient Greeks, concerning their Gods and heroes, the nature of the world, origins and significance of their own culture and ritual practices, they were a part of religion in modern Greece. Poets and artists from ancient times to the present have derived inspiration from the Greeks and have discovered significance and relevance in the mythology themes. Throughout these themes; love, generosity, faith, fate, strange love and sacrifices are portrayed.

        Greek heroes during this time tend to share uncommon strength, bravery and morality. They also depend on ingenuity to succeed. The limits of average men, heroes act between Gods and mortals, the hierarchy of Greek myths. Their stories are memorable such as: Zeus, Theseus, Hercules and Perseus. Although Hercules had a bad temper that caused him to do terrible things, he in fact, had a kind heart. As of Perseus, he had shown selflessness and intelligence and Theseus who also shows intelligence. These qualities are also seen in today’s heroic situations.

        In the midst of Greek myths, generosity appears to be noble. Occasionally generosity reinforces a story such as when Metaneira takes Demeter and disguise themselves as elderly women, or when Perseus baby is taken by Dictys to wash him up from his shore. Hospitality is the importance of generosity in Greek mythology. For example, in the case of Baucis and Philemon, the theme generosity is more assured. When they travel to their homes and have an idea of Jupiter and Mercury who are tested in their hospitality as well. In these generosity stories, one can see a way in which Greek myths are used as morality is shown; this also reinforced the good quality that was valued in the time.

        Perhaps faith was the most important theme in Greek mythology. One thing, if people knew what myths were and actually believed they were true then that is why they were meaningful. People that are in myths and others who hear these myths go further into believing that those Gods actually exist. The people who disobeyed Gods were punished and those who praised their Gods were rewarded with everlasting lives; at least that’s what they believed. Having faith in something is quite easier than misleading it. Faith also appeared in more inquisitive situations that had to do with beliefs and truth. As an example, Psyche couldn’t bear to not see her husband during daylight; she chose to see Cupid in daylight. Eventually she redeems herself from this betrayal that takes suffering. In the other hand Orpheus who couldn’t find any forgiveness and lost faith into leading Eurydice from the underworld.

        Complex challenges vary in several ways through strange love in Greek mythology. Narcissus who falls in love with his own image cannot leave it alone for one moment. He withers and dies by the pool in which he sees his reflection. Selene falls in love with Endymion who hopes to keep him forever; in order for her to keep him she puts him to sleep forever. Unfortunately, she suffers from loneliness. In these circumstances, a selfish kind of love always results in suffering. Pygmalion is rewarded by Venus with love of his sculpture, only when he decided that it isn’t good for him to show affection to an inanimate object. Venus then turns the piece of stone into a real woman in order to gain that love back. The unifying theme of strange love is the truth and mutual felt of both people but that love is difficult when it involves two natures, such as human, animal, stone or divinity.