How have your views been shaped by books you read as a child, or television shows and movies? Do you find these representations ultimately empowering or potentially damaging? How might these standards shape our worlds—exterior and interior—and create longings and despair in their unattainability?

both empowering and damaging

Explanation:

it can be empowering with the type of shows you watch such as educational documentaries and content about life and also how you use and interpret the things you see and watch it would make and empowering impact to your life.

it would be damaging due the type of content as well negative as in the vulgar type of shows and the violent movies we watch and we would think it is okay to behave just as the movies which leads to violence in all different forms

it should be repealed cuase its not fair

gilgamesh is a hero by birth as the epic explains it. in the epic the birth is explained in the way which tells us that gilgamesh’s creation was made perfect by the contribution of various god and that signifies the goal in his life, which was to become a hero and save mankind. an example from the text says. "the glorious sun shamash bestowed upon him glory; adad the terrible god of storms bestowed upon him courage. the great gods perfected his magnificence beyond all others, terrible like the great wild bull. two thirds god they made him; one third man they made him." a man born with superhuman qualities and partly god is destined to be a hero.

the heroic deeds carried by him later in his life also prove the heroic character of gilgamesh. for example hi battle with the ultimate beast humbaba is a proof of his bravery and characteristic heroism. gilgamesh was warned about the beast as the text says about humbaba “whose roar is a flood, whose mouth is fire, whose breath is death". but with the superhuman strength gilgamesh did the job