Is Pride to Blame in the Antigone tragedy? The fate of Creon is sealed by his decision to make an example of his niece‚ and quickly becomes tragic in Antigone. Creon shows us his lack of leadership skills by creating situations in which he loses the respect of his advisors‚ and the love of his family. The inability to overcome foolish pride is Creon’s greatest fault and the direct cause of his fall from grace. Initially‚ the author uses foreshadowing to hint at the upcoming turn of events. Choragos
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Loyalty to family‚ community‚ and the gods is an important quality in the lives of ancient Greek citizens. These qualities are clear demonstrated in The Odyssey through Penelope‚ Telemakhos‚ and Odysseus. Penelope shows her loyalty in several ways. She shows loyalty to Odysseus by waiting for his return for twenty long years. She did not choose a suitor until she knew for sure that Odysseus was dead. To delay the decision of choosing a suitor‚ Penelope said she would marry a suitor after she
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For Which We Stand Loyalty‚ does it still exist today? I am of the opinion that it does; after all‚ our loyalty to God‚ family and country is what we stand for. Although‚ loyalty can be described by many other words‚ such as‚ faithfulness‚ commitment‚ obligation‚ devotion and allegiance. Therefore‚ the true meaning of loyalty may be left up the individual. Finding what loyalty means to me began in the summer of 1992. I was offered an employment opportunity by my uncle‚ Richard Graham. In particular
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not always easy. People often have conflicting loyalties‚ and there are no guidelines that help them decide to what or whom they should be loyal. Moreover‚ people are often loyal to something bad. Still‚ loyalty is one of the essential attributes a person must have and must demand of others." is a quote adapted from James Carville‚ Stickin’: The Case of Loyalty. Loyalty is usually thought to be an essential quality within friendship. The word loyalty can have different meanings to different people
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of loyalty.
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Are you loyal? Loyalty is the quality of being loyal to someone or something. Loyalty is being displayed all through act three. There are multiple comparisons that comes to mind when i read this play and when i think about modern day events. Loyalty is a very strong word‚ everyone is not loyal. Most time when we think of loyalty we think of being loyal to your boy or girl friend but that is not that case all the time. Loyalty is standing up and acting on what you believe in no matter the circumstance
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The ancient Greek play of Antigone had many life lessons that can be learned but one of the greatest was listening to good advice. In the time of the ancient Greeks to the modern times of today‚ everyone uses good advice in making everyday and huge decisions. For example in the play Antigone‚ Creon instead of listening to his own son Haimon‚ Choragos‚ or even Teiresias did not change his mind about Antigone’s punishment and was too late when he did. Another example but from outside of the play would
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Sciences (IJFPSS) ISSN:2231-9484 IJFPSS‚ Vol 3‚ No.4‚ pp. 63-70 ‚Dec ‚ 2013 DOI:10.14331/ijfpss.2013.330037 http://dx.doi.org/10.14331/ijfpss.2013.330037 S. Khani The Relationship of Appliance Consumer Personality Trait‚ Brand Personality‚ Brand Loyalty and Brand Equity in the Mobile Phone Industry Sajad Khani*1‚ Seyyed Mahdi Imanikhah2‚ Hamed Gheysari3‚ Seyyed Saadat Kamali4‚ Tahereh Ghorbanzadeh5 1 Faculty of Management‚ Allameh Tabatabaei University‚ Tehran‚ Iran 2 Faculty of Management‚ Payam-e-Noor
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marketers for your company. Win loyalty‚ therefore‚ and profits will follow as night follows day. Certainly that’s what CRM software vendors--and the armies of consultants who help install their systems--are claiming. And it seems that many business executives agree. Corporate expenditures on loyalty initiatives are booming: The top 16 retailers in Europe‚ for example‚ collectively spent more than $1 billion in 2000. Indeed‚ for the last ten years‚ the gospel of customer loyalty has been repeated so often
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Loyalty defined means faithfulness to one’s friends‚ country‚ ideals‚ etc. What should one do when these loyalties conflict with one another? One would have to choose. A choice that can make or break a man‚ which I believe broke many men in the play Julius Caesar. One did not know who was friend or foe. One’s dearest friends actually your foes? Not possible‚ is it? Yes‚ it is. That is the story of Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar‚ a great‚ noble man. A man for his country
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