Charon

Mexico is infamous for its vast mining system. With almost 10 billion ounces of silver mined, Mexico is one of the largest exporters of silver. ( Brown 1). Some of the earliest activity dating back as far as the sixteenth century.To date there over 200 mining companies who have projects in mexico. Historically conditions in these mines were have been below the safety standards. In Most cases miners would enter a tunnel not knowing whether they would make it back out. Francisco Mora’s “Mine…

In the English language, there is such a thing as a homonym, that is the instance when words both look and sound alike but have different meanings. This is the case for the poems "Dream-Land" and "Dream Land," written by Edgar Allen Poe and Christina Rossetti respectively, in regards to the title; both of these poems use this term to refer to a certain life after death, although each interpretation is influenced by entirely different mythologies. The similarities of the poems extend to the use…

In the beginning of The Inferno, Dante walked in a dark forest lamenting the loss of his beloved Beatrice. When Dante started his journey he was not sure that he would be able to write about the epic he needed to undertake. He wrote about traveling thought hell, purgatory, and heaven. Dante and Virgil’s relationship is a complicated one. At the start of the story Dante respects and looks up to Virgil, whereas Virgil sees Dante as a pupil more than an equal. However towards the end of the epic…

America has been a country constantly driven by change and evolution ever since the writing of the Declaration of Independence. This of course may be a good or bad thing, depending on who you ask. Nonetheless, this constant change has mostly been the virtue of America’s success as a nation. These changes are brought by the ebbing culture of our country, and the America that Walt Whitman claims to write for does not resonate with the America that we live in today. Allen Ginsberg calls out Walt on…

golden bough in order to gain enterance into the underworld. After Venus leads them to the golden bough he and Sibyl enter the underworld. In the underworld the two pass by many horrifying things, including the ghost of Dido herself. The ferryman Charon sees that Aeneas carries the golden bough and takes them across the river. In order to reduce the rage of Cerberus, the three-headed dog, Aeneas feeds him cake. Finally the two find Anchises, his father. Anchises tells Aeneas about the souls…

crossing the border between heaven and hell, the “saved” and those who have fallen from grace. The fact that they are crossing without a captain shows that they do not have God to guide them and a ferry could be an allusion to the Ancient Greek myth of Charon who ferried the undead into the underworld. Finally, the last line of the poem, “Cross we shall, believe you me,” has very interesting diction and syntax with the phrase “believe you me.” It seems that the reasoning for the nonsensical word…

Disney’s Hercules is a cute representation of the Greek Hero Heracles however it is not an accurate representation of the myth. Although there are many references to other myths that are correct the plot Disney creates of Hercules is not right. To start off, Disney has the initial scene of Hercules as a baby very wrong. According to the movie, Hera is Hercules’ mother. To be accurate with the myth, I would change Hercules’ family because he is actually the son of the princess Alcmene and…

Burial of the dead can be explained as the act of placing the corpse of an individual in a tomb constructed for that purpose or in a grave dug into the earth. Ancient Greece had many thoughts concerning death and dying. The people of ancient Greece contracted burial under the earth and continued the tradition of the after-life existing underground. Ancient Greeks had beliefs in an afterlife and were fascinated with the human soul's roles, actions, and location after death. For the ancient Greeks…

where his whole body was put into the river except for his heel the part that he was held by. He had no vulnerabilities at all until he was shot by an arrow in his heel, and died, the term Achilles heel was coined from the situation in this novel. Charon, an old ferry man takes all the dead into the underworld via the River Styx, and there was a dog with a dragon tail named Cerberus that allowed the souls to only enter and never escae, he was the protector of the River…

A narrative offers the full story or at least the part of the story needed to treat that patient. Who is better to give the narrative of your life than you? One cannot deny that the narrative of the individual is important, however, it offers rooms for error. This could result from patients simply being insincere to their physicians or not remembering clearly. However, physicians have to rely heavily on the narrative of their patients as it is the best way to fully understand the illness, the…