Author: OwenPitts

The Struggle of the Orders (also called the Conflict of the Orders), was a struggle between the commoners (people who lived their and they were not very rich) and the aristocrats (very rich people), and was held politically. It was of the ancient Roman Republic and lasted from 494 BC till 287 BC. In this struggle, the commoners sought political equality with the aristocrats. It was a short time until the commoners challenged the aristocrats to have control over Rome. The richer commoners demanded a place in the government while the poorer commoners were unemployed with many in debt. The Roman commoners eventually left Rome looking for a new and better place to live.

Because of this evacuation of the commoners and Rome’s population decreasing, the government eventually accepted some commoners into the government, and ten years later, debt was banned. Thanks to this, the government “calmed down” a bit and became more official, thanks to the government being opened to both social classes.

Hesiod was a Greek poet. He was regularly thought He wrote many poems including The Theogony, in which he tells us he tells of the genealogy of the Greek gods.  Another great poem he wrote was Works and Days, in which he try’s to persuade his brother Perses to share the land which their father had given him after he died. In this poem it has two parts. The first part gives him advice on ethical instruction on the way humans should live their lives. The second part gives him advice on how humans should practically live. In this poem by Hesiod, the purpose of it was to persuade Perses into sharing the land with him. However, Hesiod included his view of “mankind’s past and future” in this poem.

Hesiod tells us through his poem that there were five ages of humankind. First, there was the golden age. It was a perfect world, man stayed young and did not grow up, and man lived like gods. Second, there was the silver age. Man had to work. However, man did not grow up until they were one hundred years old. Third, there was the bronze age. In this age, everything was made of bronze. The animals, the food, the plants, even the people! Fourth, there were the demigods. The demigods were a race of hero men. Not quite gods, yet, not quite man. Fifth, was the iron age. Hesiod tells us that the iron age is the era that we humans live in now. As we can see, the iron age is the lowest out of all the ages. He also tells us that the iron age is doomed. He says that in the future Zeus, the king of the gods, will ultimately destroy us forever.

Despite this tragic event that Hesiod thought would take place, he still said that man should still pray to and rely on Zeus to help them (weird). Hesiod is telling us that, being man, we should live our lives in justice and hard work. However, at death, it is over. The future for mankind has death written all over it.

According to Hesiod, in order to live a good life until death comes, you need to pray and listen to Zeus and live our lives according to how he wants us to live our lives. If a person does not do this, and worse, does not even ask Zeus for how his life shall be lived or something that Zeus really does not like at all, Zeus shall inflict on him terrible sanctions. However, if a person asks Zeus for help, and lives his life accordingly, he shall attain rewards from Zeus. If a man is able to please Zeus and make him happy by doing what he said, then you can attain short term rewards from him on earth. But in the future of mankind, there is only death and darkness for everyone on this earth, and Zeus is basically that darkness and death.

The business opportunity which most intrigued me is rabbit selling. It is basically what I am doing right now, raising rabbits, breeding them, and then selling the babies. It is what I am doing right now. I love working with rabbits. They are very cute and cuddly. They are also not hard to take care of. You just feed and water them every day and your OK. It is a very easy job. It is also a very easy job for beginners just starting a business (If you want to get into rabbit selling, you can buy one of my rabbits. Just call 618-444-8799. Even if you don’t want to do some rabbit selling, than you can still buy one for a pet. They make very good pets.). Everyone loves rabbits.

Right now (the day I wrote this essay: Wednesday, November 3, 2021) my business of rabbit selling is very small. Just two full grown mother rabbits. Here is my idea of how to grow my rabbit business.

I could breed my rabbits with my cousin Theo’s rabbit to make babies (his rabbit he actually bought from me from an earlier breed of rabbits I had). I could post my business on Facebook so that millions of people can see my business and might want to buy some rabbits. The first time I got into rabbit selling I did that. Also the first time I got into rabbit selling I sold female rabbits for thirty dollars and male rabbits for twenty dollars. I hope I can get back into selling my rabbits again.

Plutarch tells about an important episode in Alexander’s life. What characteristics is it intended to show? The story tells of Alexander taking over cities creating a giant empire. However, he did it with compassion and was a great leader. His goal was to unite as much of the known world as possible under his jurisdiction. His characteristics were compassion, care, love, and so much more.

What, in Plutarch’s opinion, makes a “great man”? Is Alexander great? In Plutarch’s opinion, a great man is someone who changes the world forever. Is Alexander great? YES! He united a lot of the world, his military strategies are still used today, he is a good influence on most people, so yes, he is a great man.

The Theogony was written by Hesiod. It is a poem focused on the dumb, Greek gods. It tells of their origin, birth, genealogies, etc. Hesiod was a Greek poet and is called the “father of Greek didactic poetry” very often. Genesis, the very first book of the Bible, is all true, talking about God, how the world came into order, and how man was created. It was written by God, the true god. In this essay, I will be saying the differences between the two books.

In the Theogony, it mentions gods being formed somehow and then them making more gods and it keeps going on and on and on. So, the Theogony has a lot of gods mentioned in it. Where as in Genesis, God was there in the beginning. He was not supernaturally created. He was no created by another. He is also the only god. There is only one god in the Bible. That is a huge difference between the two books.

Another one, is that in the Theogony, there were only human, immortal men to begin with. The gods created them and were done. However, man did something that the gods did not like and as punishment, the gods gave them human, immortal women as a curse. However, in Genesis, God created man, and then as man started to get lonely God created woman as a gift, a blessing. I do not know why the Theogony says that woman is a curse given by the gods to mankind, but who agrees with me that that is just weird? I am going to guess everyone who reads this essay will agree with me.

These two books are both origins of the universe, however, they are from completely different world views. The  Theogony was accepted by the Greeks, and the Bible was accepted by the Hebrews. The Bible, specifically the book of Genesis, tells how the world came into order. On day one God created the heavens and earth. On day two God created the firmament. On day three God created the dry land and vegetation. On day four God created the sun, moon, stars, pretty much everything other than the earth and heavens. On day five God created the birds of the sky and sea creatures. On day six God created land creatures and man. On day seven God rested. In the Theogony Hesiod does not know how the world came into order, but he claims that he got his words from the Muses, which he says are the daughters of the god Zeus. That is so, so not right.

The Theogony and Genesis are both very different, like different gods, different world views, etc. There are too many differences to even fit in this entire paper! However, I gave you some of the main differences between these two books. Basically, the entire books themselves and everything they have in them are different. I am so glad that I believe in the Bible and not Hesiod’s Theogony.

There was a couple businesses that caught my attention. I’ll tell you about them.

First, yard work. Yard work is not that hard. Plus my dad has also been teaching me how to mow lawns, trim branches, rake leaves, shovel snow, etc. Also, it pays good. I can get a lot of money out of it. I can even use the money to improve my business and make more money! Also I get to help people do their yard work when their too old or too sick to do it (or they just can not do it). It makes me feel good about myself when I know that I helped people do the  things which they can not do.

The second thing is babysitting. There are two advantages to babysitting. First, I get to take care of little kids so that the adults can have some private time alone away from the kids, and it makes me feel good about myself when I know that I helped them get that kind of privacy away from the kids. The second  thing is that I get to hang out with kids. Right now, I am not that good with little kids, and if I make this a business then I will get better with little kids and they will like me more. I have a bunch of little siblings and cousins that I am not that good with, and if I do this, than I will get to know them better and they will like me more.

Medea

Posted 3 years ago by OwenPitts

Medea was a Greek play by Euripides. It was a tragic play. I’ll tell you why. It all began when Jason and the Argonauts came to get the golden fleece from this king. The king said that he could have it, but only if he did three nearly impossible tasks. The daughter of the king, Medea, tells Jason that she will help him with these tasks, but only if he takes her with him on his voyage back home. Jason agrees. With Medea’s help, Jason eventually gains the golden fleece and travels back home with Medea. When Jason eventually becomes king he grows tired of Medea and marries another. Medea is greatly enraged at this and tries to get revenge by killing Jason’s new family. Because of this she is banished. This is a very tragic play by Euripides.

What is the view of the biblical materials on the role of ethics in the development of history? Well that is what I am going to be talking about in this essay. In the Bible, there are several biblical views that are present in  ethics that are in history to this day. These views are present throughout the entire Bible. For example, If you feel stressed remember this verse: ” Consider it pure joy, my brothers, and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.” – James 1:2-4. Another one is about love: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” – Corinthians 13:4-5. There are many other verses that people use to get them through the day.

A lot of Bible verses all contain one specific theme. According to ethics, sanctions will be given. If the person (the one who the sanctions are being given to) wants good sanctions, he must obey God’s law and do good. This way he gets good sanctions. If he does the opposite of this than he will receive bad sanctions, and nobody likes bad sanctions. Sanctions, good or bad, are determined on what you do, what you think, what you say, etc. People can choose whether they live a good life or a bad one. It is their decision. Nobody can make them change. Not even God can make them change, but he knows the outcome, and it either good or bad. Lets hope that it’s good. It has been a thing that has remained constant throughout all of history.

A life of wisdom and righteousness eventually leads to good sanctions and a life of evil and wickedness eventually leads to bad sanctions. It a life of wisdom and righteousness eventually leads to good sanctions and a life of evil and wickedness eventually leads to bad sanctions, then why do people still do wicked things if it brings them bad sanctions? Well, people delight in wicked things and they do not care about the sanctions. If they do know about the sanctions though then again, why do they still do it? Because, once they have been exposed to a bad thing, and the become addicted to it, they lose sight of the sanctions. They do not care about it any more. They like the bad things that they are exposed to so much, that they lose sight of Godly things.

A good sanction used in the Bible was when God gave Noah the instructions to build the ark because they were good to God and served him. There are many other good and bad sanctions used in the Bible. A bad one was when David took Bathsheba for his wife then killed her husband. Because of this God killed David’s first son. Sanctions can be good or bad. I hope you get a good one.

The main reason for the Persian War was because of King Darius of Persia wanted to expand his empire. The first time Persia invaded Greece, began in 492 BC. That’s when the war started. Late into the war, the Persians suffered a great defeat at the Battle of Salamis and the Battle of Plataea. Before that it seemed like the Persians would win the war, but Greece eventually won the war. Nobody knows what would have happened if the Persians won. The war is significant because the war ended with a Persian defeat in 490 BC.

The Peloponnesian War started with Sparta’s fear of Athens getting strong (because they were already a very strong nation) and overthrowing them. The war started in 431 BC beginning with Sparta starting a war with Athens. Sparta eventually won and then they became the strongest nation. Well, there were a few little wars between different nations competing for the strongest nation, but then they eventually became exhausted and they all gave up.

These subjects, cash and accrual accounting, are very different from each other. In this essay, I will say in what way that they are different. The cash method is a more immediate recognition of revenue and expenses. The accrual method focuses on anticipated revenue and expenses.

The cash method is when you have a notebook or a folder or anything that you keep track of stuff in and you write down when you received cash, how much cash you received, etc. You also write down when you send out cash, how much cash you send out, etc. It’s pretty simple. According to Accounting Made Simple by Mike Piper, “The problem with the cash method, however, is that it doesn’t always reflect the economic reality of a situation.” This method is used mostly by businesses that are small and for personal finances.

“The accrual method records revenue when a product or service is delivered to a customer with the expectation that money will be paid in the future.” according to Investopedia. So the accrual method (with a lot of descriptiveness) records money generated from normal business operations when a system supplying a public need is delivered to the person who needs it with the expectation that money will be paid later on in the future. The problem with this method is that it does not track cash flow.

If you are starting a business than I suggest that you use the cash method. As your business grows than you should change to the accrual method. Maybe you can even use both methods at the same time!