Monday, December 26, 2011

The Tragic Hero

!: The Tragic Hero

A tragic hero can come in many forms. Whether it be a young female from an ancient Greek play, or an old wise man from modern views, a tragic hero fits many molds of characters. But on the contrary a character can fit many molds of a tragic hero and not fully achieve such a level. Taking a look at two characters, in this example Othello from Shakespeare's Othello and Doctor Stockmann from Ibsen's Enemy of the People, one can see how the different combinations of traits, beliefs and actions lead to a character fulfilling the requirements to be a tragic hero or falling short of such a goal.

What exactly is the tragic hero? For this paper the definition given by the ancient philosopher Aristotle will be used to analyze the two characters mentioned earlier. The definition is not truly simple, for the nature of the tragic hero is a complex being filled with confusion and variety of traits. There seems to be three key aspects to look for in a tragic hero as Aristotle would explain. These four things are goodness, appropriateness, true to life, and consistency. It is clear what is needed for goodness. The character must have a moral stand in life to show he is worthy of being a hero. For appropriateness and true to life, though, there is a vague definition that one can assume means that the character must be based an acceptable and logical form of man and woman. This would be so to help bring the play and character better to life. For the final, consistency, it is again clear that the character must follow in a steady path that is built by his/her traits and beliefs. Above all, the tragic hero must too provoke great empathy and sympathy from the viewer and give a sense of loss and gain in self-worth, analysis and being.

First there is Othello from William Shakespeare's Othello. He is a unique character in Shakespeare's plays in that he does not seem to fully take charge of the main role. While it is clear that his life and being is the key aspect of the play, the character itself is almost distant as if he too is viewing what is happening to him instead of telling the audience. This is one mark against him for being a tragic hero for he does not take charge and really display himself to the audience and world. A tragic hero must have a higher sense of worth, or hubris, and more determination. There isn't a clear feeling of this from Othello.

Othello also does not emphasis the important key traits that a tragic hero should. While Othello is apparently by nature a good character of moral standings, he does not truly express his moral opinion or righteous life to others. He appears more passive, a mere army man following orders and doing things for an unknown cause. He takes no firm action in his deeds and appears to be a puppet for manipulators, such as Iago, to take hold of. Though he does stand firm in defense of his love for Desdemonia, this is not an act of moral good but rather an act of love and loyalty.

His third major downfall or proof of not being a tragic king is his inconsistency. Throughout the play he is shown as a man of undecided thought, one who does not know fully where he stands in society and life nor does he dare make an attempt to find a place. He does not try to pull himself above what he is in an attempt to make himself what he could be. Instead he more or less wallows in his own confusion and pain of seeming as an outsider. Though this does spark pity, empathy and sympathy, from the audience, which is key to a tragic hero, on the contrary it shows that he is a man who has no true "territory" or "ground" to uphold and defend. Therefore, Othello can not lift himself to the status of tragic hero, and with a combination of all his other lacking traits can not clearly be called a tragic hero.

Second, there is Dr. Stockmann from Ibsen's Enemy of the People. He too is a unique character, in ways like and not like Othello. Clearest aspect of the doctor's character that could give proof of him being a tragic hero would probably be his goodness. He has a very clear and definite moral standing in the play. His goals of proving his findings on the bathhouses stay firm and true to his character. Even when offered a plan to gain money from this ordeal he does not falter and keeps firm with his moral standings. He displays both the tragic hero qualities of being moral and good, and being consistent with his actions and beliefs.

But on the contrary, his strong goodness and stance on morals and justice doesn't fit fully into the tragic hero role. While some, or a good amount, is necessary, too much defeats the true goal of the character striving to be something worth pitying or cheering for. Without fault or indecision in his character, the doctor can not truly grow through the play, and though keeps a consistency, he lacks a develop to fully realize his cause and effect on those that surround him. It is because of this, similar to Othello, that the doctor is somewhat withdrawn from the world and therefore doesn't truly tell his story from the viewpoint of a tragic hero.

The character also brings out pity from the audience reading and viewing the play. This is very evident in the ostracism that the town pretty much does to him for not agreeing with the politics and other leadership choices of the town. Through the play audience of the town rejecting him, the real audience is able to accept him comfortably as a true and genuine person. In this he provokes sympathy and empathy in many forms, and creates a status of being a tragic hero.

Though there is cases for both side, that Othello and Dr. Stockmann are both tragic heroes and yet not, there is clear wavering to a more determined path. For all that he possesses and lacks, Othello doesn't quite reach that of tragic hero, though he is a tragic character indeed. On the other hand, while Dr. Stockmann has his own requirements both satisfied and dissatisfied, he does achieve a well enough version of character that he can be perceived as a tragic hero. All in all, both are tragic and heroes in their own right, whether Aristotle would define them as so or not.


The Tragic Hero

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Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Breast Cancer The Cure

!: Breast Cancer The Cure

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Breast Cancer The Cure

There is no known cure for breast cancer. More than 1.5 million people will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year worldwide. Scientists don't know why most women get breast cancer, yet breast cancer is the most frequent tumor found in women the world over. A woman who dies of breast cancer is robbed of an average of nearly 20 years of her life. Breast cancer knows no social boundaries. It’s a disease that can affect anyone. Some prominent women who’s lives that have been touched by breast cancer include Jill Eikenberry actress age 52; Peggy Fleming age 49 figure skater; Kate Jackson age 50 (Charlies Angels); Olivia Newton-John age 50 actress singer; Nancy Reagan age 77 former first lady; Melissa Etheridge age 43 singer; and the beautiful Suzanne Summers actress. These high rates of breast cancer are not acceptable to the women of the world and must be met with scientific research that provides results.

Despite over a decade of research, and more than .7 billion spent, hundereds of women worldwide are dying from breast cancer every day. Yet doctors don’t know how breast cancer starts or how to cure it. Doctors are still approaching treatment for breast cancer in the same old fashioned ways: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Barbarick treatments…And scientists keep doing the same old redundant research that’s simply not working. It doesn’t have to be that way. Gen Cells Cures is a scientific biotechnology company that is focused on a cure for breast cancer. The company is dedicated to curing breast cancer before it’s too late for you. We’re not interested in a cure in five, ten, or twenty years from now. We want your cure for breast cancer within a year or two. We don’t want you to have to under go surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or take toxic drugs.

Why Gen Cells Cures? You can search the medical journals; you can search the internet until your blue in the face. You will find the same old news which is no new news about breast cancer research and treatments. Breast cancer research is locked up in a black whole. Gen Cells Cures is approaching the cure for breast cancer from different angles and using tomorrow’s scientific technologies today. Our expertise is in stem cell research and genomics. Malfunctioning stem cells have already been linked to the development of breast cancer. We’re not talking about using generic stem cells from an egg and sperm cell. There is no genetic match for you with the politically controversial generic stem cells that are always in the news. The isolation of cancer stem cells, coupled with our understanding of genetic mutations causing cancer, and our knowledge of genomics will result in ways to eliminate cancer cells while sparing normal breast tissues.

Genetics and Breast Cancer

People will tell you to accept what you can’t change…Your genetics, your genes, the genes your mother and father handed you when you were born that came with their particular genetic make-up. Most inherited cases of breast cancer have been associated with two genes: BRCA1 and BRCA2. The past five years has been a period of unparalleled discovery in the field of genetics, genomics, and stem cell research, but these discoveries are not being applied to breast cancer treatments. A job that Gen Cells Cures definitely wants to get our hands dirty in. Recently researchers have found that by blocking a gene called beta1-integrin the growth of tumor cells can be stopped. When this gene was removed the tumor cells quit growing. You don’t have to accept the genes that you were given at birth. Gen Cells Cures will be able to manipulate your genes to cure your breast cancer.

Our Cancer Stem Cell and Genomics Program will bring together the top scientific minds in the world under one tin roof to maximize the use of diverse approaches to the understanding of cancer genomics fused with stem cell solutions. Gen Cells Cures isn’t looking for a multi-million dollar biomedical research center like the Stowers Institute in Kansas City, which is a medical center to be admired. A rented tin shack will do just fine. Of course, we would accept hand-me down michroscopes from the Stoweres (billionaires who bought their own multi-million dollar biomedical research center) if they would be gracious enough to grant them to us or we would accept a small prime the pump check to move forward with our research. The Stowerses and all the scientists from the Stowers Institute have an open invitation to visit our lab in the Caribbean. What we are looking for is a cure for breast cancer to stop the humiliation, pain and suffering this menace to society causes millions of women and thousands of men worldwide, and not a new biomedical center… Every dollar invested with us goes into pure medical research and equipment. The same offer goes out to all the millionaires and especially the billionaires of the world. People that come to mind are: Paul Allen, Bill and Melinda Gates, Jon Huntsman, William and Alice Goodman, Ann Lurie, Jamie and Karen Moyer, Harold C. Simmons, Alfred Mann, Sumner M. Redstone, Michael Milton and the Palm beach billionaires, there are simply too many to mention. The combined wealth of the three Microsoft billionaires alone is more than ten times the amount spent by the U.S. Federal Government on research to fight cancer and other deadly diseases. We know we’re in the wrong business to become billionaires ourselves. This kind of biotechnology has never produced even one billionaire. It’s the cure for breast cancer that we want.

Simply put the cancer research organizations are funding the wrong researchers. It’s time to go outside the normal research channels. Do something different. The same story year after year after year and no cure. These unmotivated researchers just aren’t getting results. Let someone else have a shot at it. It’s time to try something new and different. A different approach. There are races for the cure, golf tournaments for the cure, there are walks for the cure, there are foundations for the cure. These foundations have been funding the same ineffective research for more than twenty years now. These foundations have been betting on the wrong horse. Joining the crusade won’t help if the research being done doesn’t take on a twenty-first century scientific approach. It’s been time to move forward scientifically for five years now. But today’s breast cancer researchers are stuck in a twentieth century mind-set. The Excuse is someday we’ll find the cure, but someday doesn’t help today’s victims of breast cancer. We need top notch scientific action today.

The genetics are out of the bottle and stem cell research is moving forward whether the U.S. government likes it or not. Gen Cells Cures has moved off-shore to the Caribbean to avoid the political controversy over stem cell research. I am sure you won’t mind a walk on the beach with me to talk about your cure for your breast cancer. Once we have the cure we can take the cure from the bench to the patient without a long and costly wait for FDA approval. There are many advantages to not having big brother breathing down your neck. The governments of the United States and Western countries have nothing to offer except road blocks, red tape and detours. Our patients don’t have time for political smoke and mirrors. With a little luck we could have your cure before the time comes that you need that dreaded surgery and chemo.

Our gifted world-class researchers are visionary and have been schooled in winning and have courage, creativity, can-do attitudes, burning desires, unfaltering belief and an obsession that they will be there first. By first we mean years ahead of the other biotechnology companies. Like determined, fighting NASCAR drivers our scientists are living to take the chequered flag of biotech and win the coveted race for the cure for breast cancer.

Focused on breakthrough discoveries, Gen Cells Cures nurtures a culture that encourages high standards of excellence, original thinking, hard work and a willingness to take risks. Our world-renowned scientists believe in themselves and its belief that gets us there. The company will seek to develop a work environment that is results focused and team-orientated. We compete against time. Though we compete intensely we maintain high ethical standards and trust and respect for each other. Quality is the cornerstone of all our activities. We seek the highest quality information, decisions and people. Our success depends on superior scientific innovation. We see the scientific method as a multi-step process which includes designing the right experiment, collecting and analyzing data and rational decision making. It is not subjective or emotional but rather a logical, open and rational process.

Our success comes from one simple fact; we are committed to being a science-based, patient-driven company, driven by that one special breast cancer patient…you.

Gen Cells Cures lost most of our one million dollar start-up money in offshore bank scandal and currency devaluation last year. We are now actively pursuing financial support. Unfortunately, the Gen Cells Cures team is made up of great scientific minds and not great marketers, salesmen, or fund raisers. Yes, we are looking for a millionaire or billionaire without a cause to support our work, but if you are not our wealthy saviour, we welcome any help, be it financial or a donation of your time. The scientific team is on stand-by. What we’re lacking is the funding to go forward. We could use motivated salesmen to sell our research, fund raisers, skilled internet marketers or someone just to pass out flyers or mail out promotional material. We could use help from the media with publicity stories, ads and promotions to get the word out. We are particularly interested in looking for assistance from the billionaires of the world; there are approximately 600 in the world. Billionaires like Sergey Brin and Larry Page (Google billionaires), Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, and Oprah Winfrey and others who control the media could get our life-saving message to the world fast. We are also hoping that some of my celebrities friends will come forward and spread their wings to help support our breast cancer research: Steven Seagal, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, Danny Glover, Erik Estrada, Tom Arnold, Dolph Lundgren, Roger Clinton, Bill Clinton, Usher, Hulk Hogan, Ivana Trump, John Secada, Sylvester Stalone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Mike Reno, Richard Branson, Cindy Crawford, Cher, Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, and other stars that I have had the good fortune of meeting in person and others celebrities that I hope to meet in the future. (Photos of Gerald and the stars can be viewed at his promotional group listed below.) I am waiting to get my photo with Suzanne Summers!

Gen Cells Cure offers more than hope. We can do the job. If you’re going to eradicate cancer you have to have the right people doing the right research. One thing is for sure. We couldn’t do any worse than what the scientists before us have done. Which is virtually nothing! Help us alleviate the pain and suffering. Together, with your help, we can cure breast cancer.

Article by Gerald Armstrong- scientist0707@yahoo.com
Gerald is the owner of Gen Cells Cures
Visit his group for information about “The Cure” for incurable diseases and aging.

Group address [http://www.msnusers.com/cures]


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Saturday, December 10, 2011

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Sunday, December 4, 2011

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