frag- : break
Examples: fragile, fragment, fragmentation and
so on.
op- :
against
Examples: opposition, opposite, opponent and so on.
pro- : in favor of
Examples: proliferation, prolific, proponent and so
on.
para- : protection from
Examples: parachute, parasol, paradox
and so on.
The Devil's Advocate – Trailer
The Vanity of Life
1 The words of the
Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
3 What profit has a man from all his labor
In which he toils under the sun?
4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
But the earth abides forever.
5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down,
And hastens to the place where it arose.
6 The wind goes toward the south,
And turns around to the north;
The wind whirls about continually,
And comes again on its circuit.
7 All the rivers run into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full;
To the place from which the rivers come,
There they return again.
8 All things are full of labor;
Man cannot express it.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor the ear filled with hearing.
In which he toils under the sun?
4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes;
But the earth abides forever.
5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down,
And hastens to the place where it arose.
6 The wind goes toward the south,
And turns around to the north;
The wind whirls about continually,
And comes again on its circuit.
7 All the rivers run into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full;
To the place from which the rivers come,
There they return again.
8 All things are full of labor;
Man cannot express it.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which it may be said,
“See, this is new”?
It has already been in ancient times before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things,
Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come
By those who will come after.
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which it may be said,
“See, this is new”?
It has already been in ancient times before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things,
Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come
By those who will come after.
Hubris
Hubris describes
a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous over-confidence. In
its ancient Greek context, it typically describes behavior that defies the
norms of behavior or challenges the gods, and which in turn brings about the
downfall, or nemesis, of the perpetrator of hubris.
Icarus
In Greek
mythology, Icarus is the son of the master craftsman Daedalus, the creator of the Labyrinth. Often depicted in art, Icarus and his father
attempt to escape from Crete by means of wings that his father constructed from feathers
and wax. Icarus' father warns him first of complacency and then of hubris, asking that he fly neither too low nor too high,
so the sea's dampness would not clog his wings or the sun's heat melt them.
Icarus ignored his father's instructions not to fly too close to the sun, when
the wax in his wings melted and he fell into the sea. This tragic theme of
failure at the hands of hubris contains similarities to that of Phaëthon.
Die Another Day
Daedalus
In Greek mythology, Daedalus was a skillful craftsman and artist. He is the father of Icarus, the uncle of Perdix and possibly also the father of Iapyx, although this is unclear.
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