Dealing with Dragons

At one point or another in our lives, almost everyone will begin to question the purpose of our lives, on whether it has a meaning. Some of us manage to string together a meaning through accomplishments, but as we get older the thought of death begins to creep into our mind. The thought of dying one day makes us question whether our accomplishments will mean anything at all. The same troubled Lev Tolstoy, a Russian novelist. In his late middle age, Tolstoy began to question the meaning of his…

Story: How One Young Woman Fought Her Way Back from Meth Addiction to Become a Mom and Help At-Risk Teens.” WebMD Magazine, 28 May 2010, www.wbmd.com/mental-health/addiction/features/ conquering-meth-addiction-carren-clems-story?page=2 Fight the Dragon Michael W. Smith, M.D. wrote an article documenting an interview with Carren Clem and published the article on WebMD. In his article, Carren Clem, recovering Meth addict and contributor to The Montana Meth Project, tells an abbreviated story…

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were considered important at the time. The heroic qualities of Beowulf, such as his bravery and leadership abilities demonstrate the values society deemed essential in leaders and warriors. The villains of the story, Grendel, his mother, and even the dragon, are viewed as outcasts due to their “otherness”, and show how those traits were not accepted in society. Stories and myths that heavily emphasize characters who are strong, brave, and loyal prove that old English society valued those…

In the stories "Breaking through uncertainly-welcoming adversity" and "Neighbor", both of them demonstrate how risks bring benefits to people. According to the texts, they illustrate that risk can be a factor that pull people to recognize self and the situation better. The texts tell us the benefits and such as a chance of trying new and getting experience, being maturer to deal with problems and preventing suffering next time. Firstly, taking risk brings people to try and learn new things that…

A hero is adequately defined as a larger than life hero who embodies the values of a particular society. Commonly, these heroes have superior strength, have strong love for their people and are fearless of death. The epic poem, Beowulf describes a hero who upholds the ethics of their society through heroic journeys to fight off the faces of evil. The Anglo-Saxons admired these epic poems and is known to be the most favored within their time. Beowulf prevails over insurmountable odds, shows…

We see the struggle and pain Beowulf endures while trying to defeat Grendel, but we also see his determination and triumph when he defeats the evil demon. Also in lines 2510-2590 we see war between man and beast. In this instance it was a dragon and this dragon will take Beowulf’s life. War can be a part of someone’s life until there final days as seen in Beowulf. Even though he died in battle he grew to old age and in that time he took part in many battles showing us that war doesn’t go away.…

People throughout life all grow up looking up to a hero. Who was yours? In the Hero’s Journey it explains the life of a hero. It starts with they find their calling then they go through many challenges and in the end meet there match that leaves them remembered as a great hero. In Beowulf the story he hears about a place called Herot which has been under attack for twelve years by a great monster (Grendel) and so he decides that he is going to take on the mighty beast. Whenever Beowulf defeats…

Greek mythology has played an important and lasting role in Greek and later civilizations. Greek mythology deals with the stories of gods and heros. The Greeks used these stories to try to explain and justify why things were in the world that they lived in. These stories were involved and used in the everyday culture of the Greeks. There are many different types of myth and legends although, they are not true they still are useful in understanding ancient Greece and their culture. Myths are…

One part of growing up is to deal with people you don’t like. Now I’m currently reading the sequel, The Lord of Opium, and Matt is still fourteen years old and he’s still experiencing things that a child would and he’s still dealing with people he doesn’t like, but we’re here to talk about The House of the Scorpion so I can’t talk about that. In the book Matt had to deal with Tom, who is a real jerk to just about everyone. And when I say he’s a jerk, I mean that Matt had to deal…