Katelyn Cornett

    Who doesn’t love going out and hanging out on a Friday night with their buddies? A majority of high schoolers will most likely agree that Friday night is their favorite night to go out and have fun whether it’s going to the movies, bowling, a football game, or just hanging out around a campfire. Aristotle has a great deal to say about friendships in his book Nicomachean Ethics and how to determine if the friendships are genuine, utilitarian or based around pleasures. He argues that it is more beneficial for people to be friends because they care about one another than to be friends based merely on the pleasures or the benefits that are available.     Aristotle opens his argument in Book 8 where he states, “Without friends no one would choose to live, even if he possessed all other goods…” (1155a5-6). Aristotle ensures that it’s clear to the reader that having friendships is essential in life like oxygen is for breathing. He stresses the importance ...

We have all heard the tale of the Pied Piper and how he lures away the rats that have infested the city, but when we aren’t given what is owed to him as payment, he causes panic among the city when he leads away all the little children because the parents and king don’t maintain their end of the agreement. The story Euripides'   Bacchae  closely parallels with this story. Dionysus, god of intoxication, is similar to the Piper because the people of Thebes and Pentheus, king of Thebes, don’t conform to the fact that he is a god. He wants to be revered as a god like Zeus and the other gods of Olympus that are honored. So, Dionysus comes to liberate the young women from the grip of Pentheus to demonstrate his powers to him and that he will be respected.      Not all may agree that the women are being liberated, from their husbands and lives at home, but from what one can infer from the text where it states, “[They] sprang upright in close drill—an a...

        "To be, or not to be," is the question according to Shakespeare's  Hamlet . Does someone always have a choice? The simple answer is yes, but that is not always the case depending one a person's situation. In  The Oresteia :  Agamemnon  by Aeschylus, the analogy of humans being yoke like horses is employed to illustrate that the humans are the gods' possessions and that they cannot win against the gods or Fate because there is a hierarchy that cannot be disrupted.       In the text, Agamemnon states, “No one chooses/ the yoke of slavery, not of one’s free will-…” ( Ag. , 950-951). The “yoke” in this instance refers to the power that the gods have over men. Free will is not available to the people in  Agamemnon. If one is yoke, that mean they must obey their commander’s orders whether or not they want to because they are harnessed and can only go where they are led. The chorus sings, “Atreus’ sturdy yoke of sons/ l...

Mommy why can't I go to the sleep over, and why does Joe get new clothes and I can’t have any? We have all gone through times of jealousy, likewise, so did the gods in Virgil’s'  The Aeneid . It is obvious that some of them don't like each other. The Queen of the Gods, Juno, was enraged because she lost a beauty contest with Venus. As a result, the war was wagged against the Trojan's, but why did the queen feel she was more beautiful than Venus? In book one, we are posed with the question, why was there a war and what caused it? Well the short answer is Juno was angry with Venus like two girls would be, if one was liked better by a boy than the other. But, “What could wound the Queen of the Gods with all her power?” (1.10). Thinking about the quote and the question it poses could reveal perhaps that the gods are flawed, but each in their own unique way. Virgil goes on to illustrate that Juno was at first simply jealous and angry at Venus because she was "crown...

     For all the Great Books students who didn’t attend this evenings session in the Bible building, you missed out on a lot of useful tips. However, I would like to share with you one of the tips that stuck with me about essays and papers.      Dr. Fullman gave a majority of the explanation for the information presented, and he had many great points and tips. What stuck with me and I believe will help me the most is what he said about timing of when to be done writing an essay or research paper. The example was, if the paper is due on Saturday, when should you complete your rough draft by? Well, Friday is what I thought. Wrong. It should be completed by Wednesday afternoon or evening. He went on the elaborate not to work on it on Thursday because you need to have a fresh mind to edit and rethink is this a good essay or a great one. So, Friday you should complete the final draft and then reread it and then submit it. That way if there are technical problem...

“Me in a Nutt Shell”      So to be completely honest I didn’t know where to start with this blog, so here it goes. I’m Katelyn Cornett and although I don’t look like it I’m 19. I know right it’s hard to believe.   Since this blog is for class I would have to say my favorite pleasure read would be The Giver. I adore the vivid details and imagery that Lowry employs throughout her work. In addition to The Giver, I enjoy reading C. S. Lewis. His quotes are honest and true. His understanding and interpretations of the world bring a newer and clearer face to the world and people in it.    So if you haven’t gathered it by now, I have started each paragraph with a word beginning with s because I am very OCD when it comes to certain things like pictures being symmetrical and straight. Order is key in my life. That’s one reason I love music and math so much. There are distinct patterns that have to be followed and very few exceptions.     Singing ...