Ovid's Theseus And The Minotaur
Ovid’s Theseus and the Minotaur, since its historical founding, has appeared, and been connected, numerous sources. These sources range from political propaganda, cultural norms, sociological structures, and psychological behaviors. Such sources can, indeed, be connected to the treatment of prisoners of war in either military, civilian, or government, situations. Military regimes has historically been well associated with the torture of inmates or prisoners, with such methods being considered inhumane, cruel, and/or unusual. However, one such method, waterboarding, has become a political highlight of the modern era, due to its legalization. Waterboarding is an act of pseudo-drowning a subject with water, or a water-like substance, in a manner
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The debate of said torture method is: Should waterboarding be ethically authorized or unauthorized for use by the government, military, or individual civilians. Various released records of the use of waterboarding have stated the positive/negative effects, along with the necessity of the use. With these cases, along with other reports, such as medical, therapeutic, and even classified, the use of waterboarding has been proven as an unethical, inconsistent, and unnecessary form of information gathering technique, and should henceforth be banned from practice.
According to Ovid’s Metamorphosis, the myth of the Theseus begins with the factual conflict between Athens and Crete. As portrayed in the myth, Crete is the dominating faction of the known world, and reigns over the subjugated Athens region. King Minos, ruler of Crete, is known as an arrogant, cruel governor. As the story goes, he attempted to trick the Greek god Poseidon by not up his prized bull, which was originally required by the god, but instead a lesser bull. After realizing Minos’s deception, the god persuaded Minos’s wife, Pasiphae, in a spell that warped her mind into being in lust for the prized bull. After being impregnated, a beastly abomination was conceived. This beast is described to have a distorted …show more content…
This gives the illusion of drowning. Captor will, after a few seconds of pouring water, will “rescue” the victim by removing the cloth and allowing air to circulate. During the process for President Bush’s attorney general, Michael Mukasey was interviewed on the topic of waterboarding. He, along with Washington D.C., seemed to not know enough about the method to even claim it as torture. However, its use in history is not necessarily modern. Its use was first documented in the 14th century, according to Ed Peters, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania. It was known variously as "water torture," the "water cure" or tormenta de toca. The use of water to derive a confession for a crime was considered "a normal incident of law," and was compared to cross-examination. The “water cure” was used by professionals that required a doctor's presence during interrogations. Even more unknown is that are, in fact, two types of waterboarding. One type involves pumping water directly into the stomach. According to Darius Rejali, a professor at Reed College in Oregon, this type creates intense pain within the victim. The other technique — the one more widely used today — involves choking the victim by filling their throat with a steady stream of water — a sort of "slow-motion drowning" that was perfected by Dutch traders in the 17th century
The debate of said torture method is: Should waterboarding be ethically authorized or unauthorized for use by the government, military, or individual civilians. Various released records of the use of waterboarding have stated the positive/negative effects, along with the necessity of the use. With these cases, along with other reports, such as medical, therapeutic, and even classified, the use of waterboarding has been proven as an unethical, inconsistent, and unnecessary form of information gathering technique, and should henceforth be banned from practice.
According to Ovid’s Metamorphosis, the myth of the Theseus begins with the factual conflict between Athens and Crete. As portrayed in the myth, Crete is the dominating faction of the known world, and reigns over the subjugated Athens region. King Minos, ruler of Crete, is known as an arrogant, cruel governor. As the story goes, he attempted to trick the Greek god Poseidon by not up his prized bull, which was originally required by the god, but instead a lesser bull. After realizing Minos’s deception, the god persuaded Minos’s wife, Pasiphae, in a spell that warped her mind into being in lust for the prized bull. After being impregnated, a beastly abomination was conceived. This beast is described to have a distorted …show more content…
This gives the illusion of drowning. Captor will, after a few seconds of pouring water, will “rescue” the victim by removing the cloth and allowing air to circulate. During the process for President Bush’s attorney general, Michael Mukasey was interviewed on the topic of waterboarding. He, along with Washington D.C., seemed to not know enough about the method to even claim it as torture. However, its use in history is not necessarily modern. Its use was first documented in the 14th century, according to Ed Peters, a historian at the University of Pennsylvania. It was known variously as "water torture," the "water cure" or tormenta de toca. The use of water to derive a confession for a crime was considered "a normal incident of law," and was compared to cross-examination. The “water cure” was used by professionals that required a doctor's presence during interrogations. Even more unknown is that are, in fact, two types of waterboarding. One type involves pumping water directly into the stomach. According to Darius Rejali, a professor at Reed College in Oregon, this type creates intense pain within the victim. The other technique — the one more widely used today — involves choking the victim by filling their throat with a steady stream of water — a sort of "slow-motion drowning" that was perfected by Dutch traders in the 17th century