Reflective essay

Wed., Sep. 5: Gilgamesh, tablets V-VII, pp. 39-62

Fri., Sep. 7: Gilgamesh, tablets VIII-X, pp. 62-87

Mon., Sep. 10: Gilgamesh, tablet XI, pp. 88-100

Popol Vuh, part 1, pp. 63-74 — Scheduled Wed., Sep. 12, 12pm

Popol vuh in this part was all about the beginning of the old world in Quiche and how the group of three gods known as the heart of the sky and sovereign plumed serpent decided to create the earth and creatures to praise them afterwards. After pulling the land out of the sea and creating the mountains. They started by creating the animals which didn’t satisfy them as they weren’t able to speak in order to praise the gods, so the gods destined them to be killed. Then they started creating the humans by a process of trial and error. They used the mud at first but as it didn’t work out they tried creating them from the wood after that which led them to be heartless and emotionless and this part shows us how they got wiped out by the flood as result of being useless. Therefore the creation of the earth and the process of creating creatures that are able to praise and worship the gods was the main storyline of this part.

Popol Vuh, parts 4 and 5, pp. 145-198 — Scheduled Fri., Sep. 21, 12pm

The very first humans were created in this part of the book using corn as the main ingredient. They were four in total and are named Jaguar Quitze, Jaguar Night, Not Right Now, and Dark Jaguar. These four new humans were able to do everything they were created for especially praising the gods. Afterwards the gods decided to create four wives for these human who were all men, and these eight people were the fathers and mothers of the Mayan people. These families traveled to a citadel called seven canyons where they distributed the gods between them and the other tribes. While it was freezing cold to the other families Jaguar Quitze and Jaguar Night thanked the god Tohil for the fire he got them as he was the first god to create fire. Which led them to fight over it. Then the dawn came which led the gods to seek a hide place but they ended up turning to stone. When the four first people sacrificed their own blood the gods turned to boys that the tribes seeked to trick by sending two of their daughters to seduce them and asked for a proof of being touched by them. Here it appeared that the gods don’t have any desire towards the girls so they tricked the tribes by pretending so and sending them back with cloaks that turned into punishment. The tribes decided to gather and kill the gods but they couldn’t as the four men kept guarding them. When the men knew they were gonna die they left their will to their sons who did their best to follow their path. They moved few times from place to place. There’ve been a war between the Iloc and Quiche people that ended with Quiche people becoming truly great as they moved to the citadel of Rotten cane.

Popol Vuh

Three opportunities for unscheduled postings:

Fri., Sep. 14: Popol Vuh, part 2, pp. 77-88

Mon., Sep. 17: Popol Vuh, part 3, pp. 91-116

Wed., Sep. 19: Popol Vuh, part 3, pp. 116-142

Shelley, Frankenstein, chaps. IX-XIII, pp. 90-121 — Scheduled Fri., Sep. 28, 12pm

In these chapters, Vector is suffering from knowing that his creation is what led to his brother loss and the unfair punishment of the innocent Justin. He thinks about committing suicide to get rid of his misery but then came of it thinking that it won’t protect his family from what he created. In his alone walking trip he encounter his creation that forced him to listen to the story from the second he became alive. He suffered being rejected from his own creator and traveled around not knowing where to go after realizing that everyone around him in the world is rejecting and fearing him. Then he come to find the fire and how it can be good and bad and run across this poor family that he kept looking after them and learning from them how to read, write, and talk just by observing their life. when he finally decide to get closer to them he got rejected again. All that written about how he get to go around with everyone afraid of him make it seem that he looked like monster in the people’s eyes which makes me wonder if anyone thought about going after him or telling the police or something. It’s kind of strange that he got to go around without being captured or something for what he looked like. The look of him itself is kind of strange as well because why did Vector spend all this time attaching all the different body parts together, wouldn’t it be easier for him to just try to get some dead body alive again! And it would appear a lot more normal than creating that weird looking thing. Another question that come to mind, doesn’t the brain that Vector used in this person’s body have any memories from it’s previous life?!

Shelley

Five opportunities for unscheduled postings:

Mon., Sep. 24: Shelley, Frankenstein, Introduction (1831), letters I-IV, chaps. I-III, pp. 1-49

The writer writing about Victor Frankenstein, is narrating about his family, his father, Alphonse and his mother, Caroline to Walton in the beginning. Alphonse marries Caroline when her father dies. After that Frankenstein is telling about Elizabeth, in the original version (1818) of Frankenstein, she is his cousin and at his age of four years her mother dies and she is adopted by Frankenstein family. In the revised edition, Elizabeth is a German and daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Caroline finds her in an Italian family during a trip when she discovers that Elizabeth is an orphan and Italian family cannot afford to feed her. Frankenstein and Elizabeth become best friends and spend their childhood happily. During his teen age, Frankenstein chances upon a book by Cornelius Agrippa after that his interest develops in natural sciences. He studies the outdated ideas of alchemists Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus and a modern natural philosopher tells him about the working of electricity making the ideas of alchemists outdated and useless. At the age of seventeen Victor's mother dies and before her death she begs Victor and Elizabeth to marry and after her death Victor goes to the university at Ingolstadt in Geneva. A professor M. Krempe. Krempe tells Victor that he wasted his time on alchemists and then he attends lecture of professor Waldman which helps him to continue his studies in sciences.

Wed., Sep. 26: Shelley, Frankenstein, chaps. IV-VIII, pp. 50-89

Vector studies hard and devote his complete attention to his project and avoid his family and home town. He becomes expert in his field about the secret of life. He starts his work on creating an animated creature. After he created his creature by working day and nights he finds his creature appearance very horrible. He was very depressed by his creation and can't sleep whole night and after that terrifying night he meets his friend Henry who make him feel relaxed. After his hard work he falls ill and his friend Henry makes him fight with his illness. After his recovery he introduces his friend Henry to his professor and waits for his father's letter to go back to his hometown. He receives a letter from his father and gets the news of Elizabeth's brother murder. He reaches Geneva late night and travel around the forest because gate was closed. He reaches the murder spot of her brother and finds that his creation his responsible of his murder and feels very guilty before his family but his family considers it as a murder.

Mon., Oct. 1: Shelley, Frankenstein, chaps. XIV-XVII, pp. 122-149

The old man, De Lacey, his children, Agatha and Felix, were successful and respected members of city. Safie's dad, a Turk, was erroneously blamed for a wrongdoing and condemned to death.Flix fell in love with Safie when he visited Turk in prison. Safie was anxious to wed an European man and along these lines get away from the close subjection that anticipated her in Turkey. Felix effectively planned her dad's break from jail, yet when the plot was found, Felix, Agatha, and De Lacey were banished from France and deprived of their riches. Eager to learn about the world the monster read many books. The monster decided to introduce himself to the villagers to become their friend and he decided meet De Lacey first and to won his heart and after that he would introduce the monster to his friends. When monster met younger brother of Victor he killed him and asked victor to make another creature to accompany him. First Victor refused then agreed to make a female monster for his company.

Wed., Oct. 3: Shelley, Frankenstein, chaps. XVIII-XXI, pp. 149-184

In stress Victor found only way to feel happy is to marry Elizabeth but he refused to marry Elizabeth until he accomplished his promise with monster. Victor devotes his all intentions to his work in a separate laboratory. One night of his work he found that he ia not doing good job and is putting the whole earth in danger he destroys his all work that made the monster anger and monster told him that he will be with Victor on his marriage. Victor went to ocean and put the reaming of second monster into ocean. Victor stays sick for two months. Upon his recuperation, he ends up still in jail. Mr. Kirwin, now humane and substantially more thoughtful than before Victor's disease, visits him in his cell. He reveals to him that he has a guest, and for a minute Victor fears that the beast has come to cause him much more wretchedness.

Fri., Oct. 5: Shelley, Frankenstein, chaps. XXII-XXIV, pp. 184-223

Victor and his dad arrive home and start arranging the wedding. Elizabeth is as yet stressed over Victor, however he guarantees her that all will be well after the wedding. He has an awful mystery, he advises her, that he can just uncover to her after they are hitched. As the big day approaches, Victor develops an ever increasing number of anxious about his looming showdown with the beast. The night of his marriage Victor was worried about Elizabeth and at last he found that the monster killed Elizabeth. In deep stress he told his father and he was given a task to find and kill the monster rest of his life. Family of Victor destroyed and he decided to leave Geneva and he met Walton and agreed him to continue his research after his death.

Zeami, Izutsu — Scheduled Wed., Oct. 10, 12pm

The play’s story is about a monk that was travelling around visiting temples and decided to visit Ariwara-dera Temple where he meet a woman that came offering flowers and water to the the dead. She the start telling the monk a story about two people that grew up together exchanging poetries that express their deep love to each other. This couple who were Ariwara no Narihira and a daughter of Ki no Aritsune got married afterwards and had a daughter. Then the woman told the monk that she is the daughter of the couple in the story and disappears. The monk got confused and got back home to sleep.

Zeami

Two opportunities for unscheduled postings:

Mon., Oct. 8: Zeami, Atsumori

Fri., Oct. 12: Zeami, The Three Courses

Homer, Iliad, book 9, pp. 160-179 — Scheduled Mon., Oct. 22, 12pm

With the Trojans ready to drive the Achaeans back to their boats, the Achaean troops sit down and out in their camp. Remaining before them, Agamemnon sobs and pronounces the war a disappointment. He proposes coming back to Greece in disfavor. Diomedes rises and demands that he will remain and battle regardless of whether every other person leaves. He floats the officers by advising them that Troy is destined to fall. Achilles offers to take Phoenix, who helped raise him in Phthia, with him, however Phoenix dispatches into his very own long, enthusiastic supplication for Achilles to remain. He utilizes the old story of Meleager, another warrior who, in a scene of wrath, declined to battle, to show the significance of reacting to the requests of defenseless companions. In any case, Achilles stands firm, as yet feeling the sting of Agamemnon's affront. The consulate returns unsuccessful, and the military again sinks into sadness.

Homer, Iliad, books 16-18, pp. 305-373 — Scheduled Mon., Oc. 29, 12pm

Patroclus goes to Achilles' tent and asks to be permitted to wear Achilles' protection if Achilles still declines to rejoin the fight himself. Achilles decays to battle yet consents to the trading of protective layer, with the understanding that Patroclus will battle just sufficiently long to spare the boats. As Patroclus arms himself, the principal deliver goes up on fire. Ajax and Menelaus call more Achaeans to encourage them, and they before long power the Trojans, including relentless Hector, to keep running for the city's dividers. Aeneas, strengthened by Apollo, mobilizes the escaping men to come back to the battle, however after much exertion they stay unfit to take the carcass. Achilles' charioteer, Achilles has men clean Patroclus’s wounds to prepare him for burial, though he vows not to bury him until he has slain Hector. Thetis goes to Hephaestus’s mansion and begs him to make Achilles a new set of armor. Hephaestus forges a breastplate, a helmet, and an extraordinary shield embossed with the images of constellations, pastures, dancing children, and cities of men.

Homer

Seven opportunities for unscheduled postings:

Mon., Oct. 15: Homer, Iliad, books 1-3, pp. 1-64

Apollo sends a plague upon the Greek camp, causing the death of many soldiers. After ten days of suffering, Achilles calls an assembly of the Achaean army and asks for a soothsayer to reveal the cause of the plague. Calchas, a powerful seer, stands up and offers his services. Though he fears retribution from Agamemnon, Calchas reveals the plague as a vengeful and strategic move by Chryses and Apollo. Agamemnon flies into a rage and says that he will return Chryseis only if Achilles gives him Briseis as compensation. To encourage the Trojans, as guaranteed, Zeus sends a false dream to Agamemnon in which a figure as Nestor induces Agamemnon that he can take Troy on the off chance that he dispatches a full-scale strike on the city's dividers Nestor currently urges Agamemnon to organize his troops by city and group so they can battle one next to the other with their companions and family. The writer accepts this open door to go into an index of the military. Subsequent to summoning the dreams to help his memory. Paris and Menelaus arm themselves and start their duel. Nor can fell the other with his lance. Menelaus breaks his sword over Paris' head protector. He at that point gets Paris by the head protector and starts hauling him through the earth, however Aphrodite, a partner of the Trojans, snaps the lash of the cap with the goal that it severs in Menelaus' grasp.

Wed., Oct. 17: Homer, Iliad, books 4-6, pp. 65-127

In the meantime, the divine beings take part in their own duels. Zeus contends that Menelaus has won the duel and that the war should end as the humans had concurred. Be that as it may, Hera, who has put much in the Achaean reason, needs nothing not exactly the entire decimation of Troy. The divine beings additionally turned out to be required, with Athena helping the Achaeans and Apollo helping the Trojans. The endeavors toward a détente have flopped absolutely. As the fight seethes, Pandarus wounds the Achaean saint Diomedes. Diomedes petitions Athena for vengeance, and the goddess supplies him with superhuman quality and the uncommon capacity to perceive divine beings on the field of fight. She cautions him. Andromache, whom he discovers nursing their child Astyanax by the dividers of the city. As she supports the kid, she restlessly watches the battle in the plain underneath. Andromache asks Hector not to return, but rather he demands that he can't get away from his destiny, whatever it might be. He kisses Astyanax, who, albeit at first startled by the peak on Hector's head protector, welcomes his dad cheerfully. Hector at that point leaves. Andromache, persuaded that he will before long pass on, starts to grieve his demise. Hector meets Paris on out of the city, and the siblings plan to rejoin the fight.

Fri., Oct. 19: Homer, Iliad, books 7-8, pp. 128-159

With the arrival of Hector and Paris the fight raises, however Apollo and Athena before long choose to end the fight for the day. They plan a duel to stop the present episode of battling: Hector approaches the Achaean line and offers himself to any individual who will battle him. Just Menelaus has the strength to venture forward, yet Agamemnon talks him out of it, knowing very well indeed that Menelaus is no counterpart for Hector. Zeus and Poseidon watch the Achaeans as they fabricate their strongholds, wanting to tear them down when the men leave. Subsequent to restricting alternate divine beings from meddling throughout the war, Zeus goes to Mount Ida, neglecting the Trojan plain. There he gauges the destinies of Troy and Achaea in his scale, and the Achaean side sinks down. The Trojans, positive about their strength, camp outside their city's dividers, and Hector arranges his men to light many pit fires with the goal that the Greeks can't escape imperceptibly. Dusk has spared the Greeks for the time being, yet Hector intends to complete them off the following day.

Wed., Oct. 24: Homer, Iliad, books 10-12, pp. 180-238

The Greek commandants rest soundly that night, except for Agamemnon and Menelaus. In the long run, they rise and wake the others. They assemble on open ground, on the Trojan side of their strongholds, to design their best course of action. The following morning, Zeus downpours blood upon the Achaean lines, filling them with frenzy; they endure a slaughter amid the initial segment of the day. However, by evening, they have started to gain ground. Agamemnon, amazingly outfitted, chops down man after man and beats the Trojans back to the city's doors. Zeus sends Iris to disclose to Hector that he should hold up until the point when Agamemnon is injured and afterward start his assault. The Trojans Glaucus and Sarpedon presently charge the bulwarks, and Menestheus, supported by Great Ajax and Teucer, battles to keep them down. Sarpedon makes the principal break, and Hector pursues by breaking one of the entryways with a stone. The Trojans pour through the fortresses as the Achaeans, startled, recoil back against the boats.

Fri., Oct. 26: Homer, Iliad, books 13-15, pp. 239-304

Zeus, content with the war's advancement, withdraws of the front line. Poseidon, anxious to encourage the Achaeans and understanding that Zeus has gone, visits Little Ajax and Great Ajax as Calchas and gives them certainty to oppose the Trojan strike. He additionally rouses whatever is left of the Achaeans, who have pulled back in tears to the sides of the boats. Hera spots Zeus on Mount Ida, sitting above Troy, and devises an arrangement to divert him with the goal that she may help the Achaeans in the face of his good faith. She visits Aphrodite and deceives her into giving her a captivated breast band into which the forces of Love and Longing are woven, sufficiently compelling to influence the sanest man to go frantic. She at that point visits the epitome of Sleep, and by promising him one of her little girls in marriage, influences him to calm Zeus to rest. The toxophilite Teucer fells a few Trojans, however Zeus snaps his bowstring when he focuses on Hector. Ajax supports his troops from the decks of the boats, however Hector mobilizes the Trojans, and inch by inch the Trojans advance until the point that Hector is close enough to contact a ship.

Wed., Oct. 31: Homer, Iliad, books 19-21, pp. 374-421

Thetis presents Achilles with the defensive layer that Hephaestus has produced for him. She guarantees to take care of Patroclus' body and shield it from spoiling while Achilles goes to fight. Achilles strolls along the shore, calling his men to a gathering. The two saints meet on the war zone and trade affronts. Achilles is going to cut Aeneas lethally when Poseidon, in a burst of sensitivity for the Trojan—and a lot to the shame of the other, professional Greek divine beings—whisks Aeneas away. Hector at that point approaches, yet Apollo influences him not to strike up a duel before the positions but instead to hold up with alternate troopers until the point that Achilles comes to him. Hector at first complies, yet when he sees Achilles so easily butchering the Trojans, among them one of Hector's siblings, he again challenges Achilles. Achilles seeks after them and practically takes the city, however the Trojan sovereign Agenor moves him to single battle. Achilles' battle with Agenor—and with Apollo camouflaged as Agenor after Agenor himself has been sped to wellbeing—enables the Trojans enough time to run back to Troy.

Fri., Nov. 2: Homer, Iliad, books 22-24, pp. 422-492

At the point when Achilles at long last comes back from pursuing Apollo (masked as Agenor), Hector stands up to him. At first, the compelling Trojan thinks about endeavoring to consult with Achilles, however he before long understands the misery of his motivation and escapes. He circles the city multiple times, with Achilles at his foot rear areas. Grand prizes are offered, and both the officers and the fighters contend. The occasions incorporate boxing, wrestling, arrow based weaponry, and a chariot race, which Diomedes wins with some assistance from Athena. A short time later, Achilles thinks about taking the prize from the second-put finisher, Antilochus, to give as relief to the last-put finisher, whom Athena has victimized of triumph so that Diomedes would win. Be that as it may, Antilochus ends up enraged at having his prize taken from him. Priam and Idaeus wake, put Hector in their chariot, and slip out of the camp unnoticed. The majority of the ladies in Troy, from Andromache to Helen, shout out in anguish when they first observe Hector's body. For nine days the Trojans set up Hector's memorial service fire—Achilles has given them a respite from fight. The Trojans light Hector's fire on the tenth day.

Plato, Apology, in Trials of Socrates, pp. 26-61 — Scheduled Wed., Nov. 7, 12pm

Socrates, the savant, in an exceptionally imaginative and philosophical way arranges his insight before a jury with regards to two sworn statements recorded against him. He depicts himself as an insightful man, yet whose "human knowledge" is futile before the lord of the Athens city-the recommendation intended to influence the jury to grasp that the shrewdness against which they have all enraged and surpassingly against isn't esteemed by their god. In the main body of evidence against him, he reacts that his god sent mission of interrogation of individuals to test their intelligence is the one causing shock among the general population who bombs in these tests. He includes that numerous individuals, who he thinks about rash, are the ones spreading unwarranted abhor among masses of Athens since they don't meet the legitimacy and that's it. Socrates claims he was sent by god to train knowledge and that he would preferably pass on for reality he educates. In court, he even challenges the jury to give a negative decision on the off chance that they likewise were sufficiently hasty to recognize his undertakings to the youthful nationals. He demands of legitimate thinking and holding onto of certainties as the main approaches to discover truth and shrewdness. His forswearing of the considerable number of claims is communicated, in a way that makes his informers, Anytus and Meletus, appear not to comprehend reality.

Plato

Three opportunities for unscheduled postings:

Mon., Nov. 5: Plato, Euthyphro, in Trials of Socrates, pp. 3-25

Fri., Nov. 9: Plato, Apology, in Trials of Socrates, pp. 26-61

Mon., Nov. 12: Plato, Crito and Phaedo, in Trials of Socrates, pp. 62-83

Genesis, chaps. 1-5 — Scheduled Wed., Nov. 14, 12pm

The primary section of the principal book of the Bible starts with one of the most principal certainties known to man. All through time, men have wanted to know their source. Evolutionists disclose to us it was billions of a long time back, yet we will see that development is false and its techniques defective. While the Bible itself does not answer the inquiry with mathematical accuracy, yet it characterizes the start intently. By concentrate Bible parentages men have presumed that creation happened around 4000 BC, Some, who take a middle position called “theistic evolution,” would claim that living things all evolved from an original thing, but that God directed the process. however, there are issues in those strategies. The Bible instructs that, from the earliest starting point, individuals trusted in one genuine God, at that point polytheism created as men diverged from the first God. Nonetheless, dissidents regularly guarantee that initially men had confidence in numerous divine beings and after that bit by bit developed to a higher faith in one God. While no question many will keep on holding the liberal view, there is proof to affirm that monotheism was the first idea of God.

Genesis, chap. 22 — Scheduled Fri., Nov. 30, 12pm

Numerous individuals accept it is indistinguishable area from where the sanctuary was later worked in Jerusalem. This would have emblematic essentialness. Be that as it may this was in Jerusalem, and in the event that Melchizedek was the ruler of Jerusalem, this zone would have been possessed. This does not appear to fit the depiction. Different spots have been proposed. God had over and again revealed to Abraham that extraordinary favors would go to his relatives. Abraham held up years, yet had no relatives. At long last, Ishmael was conceived, yet God said the guarantee would not be through him. When it appeared to be all expectation was gone, Isaac was conceived, and now God said to slaughter him. How could God's guarantees be satisfied through Isaac's relatives if Abraham executed him? He maintained a strategic distance from no trouble and squandered no time. They went to the delegated put, Abraham assembled the special stepped area and arranged the wood. At that point he bound Isaac, put him on the special stepped area, and raised the blade to slaughter Isaac.

Genesis

Six opportunities for unscheduled postings:

Fri., Nov. 16: Genesis, chaps. 6-11

Mon., Nov. 26: Genesis, chaps. 12-17

Wed., Nov. 28: Genesis, chaps. 18-21

Mon., Dec. 3: Genesis, chaps. 23-27

Wed., Dec. 5: Genesis, chaps. 28-33

Fri., Dec.7: Genesis, chaps. 34-38