Essays on Toil

The Best Things In Life: Definitely Not Free

The cherished dream of every human being is surely the life full of happiness, health and success. Everybody strives to obtain these best things, struggling to choose the right path among different life choices. Though these things may seem rather simple at first sight, they are also the most precious in the whole universe. On the one hand, people are never charged for them, so they could be considered absolutely free. On the other hand, they will not unexpectedly drop into the outstretched palms of those who make a wish. Nothing in this world can be achieved without hard ...

Human existence is marred by contradictions and Hesiod’s Pandora myth introduces man to the complexity of male-female relations as well as the futility of hope. This paper seeks to analyze Hesiod’s myth paying particular attention to the depiction of Pandora, the meaning of her name and the role that hope plays in man’s life. The paper further explores the parallels between Pandora and Eve of the Old Testament. The depiction of Pandora and Eve from the Old Testament is full of ambiguities that make it difficult to easily decipher whether they are intended to be good ...

Drapetomania referred to an alleged disease of the mind that only affected black people. Apparently, upon infection, a black person becomes mad and would often act in an unexplainable manner because his or her brains would not have normal function. For that reason, when slaves ran away, they were mentally sick, and the situation was getting out of hand since the doctors were yet to understand the details of drapetomania. If Caucasians failed to exert their God-given authority over the black population, the latter group would become idle because it is in their nature to be so. In other ...