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Kind Of Man Odysseus Represents Bob
1,468 wordsOn the surface, Continental Drift and The Odyssey are very different. The two protagonists, Bob Dubois and Odysseus, are as unalike as two men can be. Bob is an average man with an average life. He works for one man so that he can pay bills to others, trying to make what little money is left supply his family with the needs, both real and imagined, that every family has. Odysseus is a mythical figure, the ultimate man. He surpasses his peers in every manly endeavor, Then there was no man who wan...
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Chosen One P 84
1,053 wordsWhile Greek myths and Biblical stories appear to be extremely different, the relationship between Athena and Telemachus (Odyssey) and that between God and Moses (Exodus) are similar in that both Telemachus and Moses were of the chosen family, were reluctant heroes, and were given specific instructions which required travel. Mainly, these two tales differ in that Athena and God chose different ways to speak to Telemachus and Moses, respectively. Both Athena and God had a chosen family in which th...
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Human Cloning March 2000
998 words... ff. How could the rest of us genetically challenged people hope to even land a job? Suppose you graduate with a degree in mathematics, hoping to fulfill your dream of becoming a teacher, only to learn that the schools and colleges are staffed with Einstein clones that possess knowledge far superior to yours. Their knowledge would be born from an implanted genetic inclination whereas yours would come only from hard work. You need not be an Einstein, or an Einstein clone, to identify the loser...
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Family Honor Journey Home
610 wordsIn the intricate and well-developed plot of The Odyssey, Homer harmonized several subjects. One of these subjects was the quest of Telemachos in correlation with the journey of his father. In the beginning of the epic, Odysseus son, Telemachos, is a childish, passive, fearful, and untested boy, but in the end, he has developed into a young man ready to stand by his fathers side and defend his family's loyalty and honor against the suitors. Telemachos path to manhood is directly correlated to the...
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Archaic Greek Bacillus Odysseus And Agamemnon Troy
1,406 words... proper sovereignty. Before announcing his return, Odysseus, with the help of goddess Athena, cunningly disguises himself as a beggar to learn of life in Ithaka during his long absence. His patience pays off as he is able to cleverly plan and carry out the demise of the evil and wasteful in Book 22. However, his lust for revenge does not blind his good judgement. Odysseus, while slaying the suitors, is confronted by Phemios, the minstrel suitor, who pleads for forgiveness. Mercy, mercy on a s...
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Dorothy Parker Husbands Life
459 wordsThe poem Penelope by Dorothy Parker describes the relationship between Odysseus and his wife, Penelope. The manner in which Penelope, the narrator, speaks of her husband and his journey is somewhat sarcastic and resentful. This poem shows her perceptions of Odysseus, and also the role women have played in the past. Penelope describes her life and how she perceives her husbands life to be. The one-worded title gives the impression of a plain, simple woman and prepares the reader for her thoughts....
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Odysseus Journey To Becoming An Epic Hero
616 wordsOdysseus' Journey to becoming an Epic Hero Odysseus, the main character in Homer's Odyssey, is an accurate portrayal of an epic hero. The Odyssey consists of twenty-four books that portray ten years. Throughout these ten years Odysseus kills a god and Cyclops, exudes strength of mammoth proportions, uses his wits to overcome brawn, and saves his wife and son from barbaric noblemen. Odysseus is a man of courage, wisdom, honor, strength, perseverance, and determination. In spite of many setbacks, ...
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Heroic Qualities Ill Fated
1,453 wordsAn epic hero can be described as a legendary figure endowed with great strength or ability that is admired for his achievements and noble qualities. To better explain the true meaning of an epic hero, one might compare this definition to the legendary hero in Homers The Odyssey, the great Odysseus. Through The Odyssey, we, the readers, are taken on a journey of the main character, Odysseus, bearing witness to the many vices and virtues that play a pivotal role on his voyage to his homeland of It...
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Dont Time Work
1,075 wordsMarina said it all made sense in retrospect. Her live-in boyfriend of three years bought her a really expensive bracelet for her birthday and then made plans to go scuba diving in Hawaii with his buddies. When he came back, he moped around for a few days. She pursued him, asking, Whats wrong? He mumbled incoherent explanations. He said he had things on his mind and he didnt want to talk about them yet. Six days later, he told her was moving out. It was the end of the month, but, hey, hed pay his...
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Strength And Courage Herman Melville
1,352 words... original component. According to these editors and compilers the character of Jane Mac Crea, a young woman who was abducted and murdered by the Indians, served as a source of inspiration for the death of Cora Munro. The truth is that Cooper read many captivity narratives and it is logical that he chose relevant aspects of such kind of quasi-mythical American figures in order to enrich a narrative dealing with an important episode of the history of the U. S. A. The most important genre of The...
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Noble Deeds Patiently Suffer Odysseus
531 wordsIn The Odyssey by Homer there are many important themes that are also reflected in many movies of todays time. One of them is that the idea of fate may feel very uncomfortable. The fact that people have no control over their lives can make them very uneasy about life. Another theme is that great heroes are created by the noble deeds that they do. And yet another theme is that patience is something that must be learned over time, usually by some type of suffering. Patience is a virtue that must b...
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Compare And Contrast Proper Burial
1,254 wordsCompare and Contrast Essay Within the scope of this research, we will compare and contrast the novels and characters from the Aeneid, by Virgil, and Moses, Man of the Mountain, by Hurston. In the Aeneid, the author Virgil outlines the significance of authority by reiterating the need for Aeneas to fulfill his destiny in relation to pietas, devotion to family and country, as the central Roman virtue in the underworld. Virgil successfully uses the underworld to capture and dramatize the importance...
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Field Of Science Modern World
555 wordsThe Classical World The Classical World made many contributions to the development of science, literature, and ethics. These contributions have influenced the modern world today. Many mathematicians, astronomers, and scientists contributed to the development of many of the luxuries we enjoy today. Homer, author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, made contributions to the field of literature through his writing. In the field of ethics, many philosophers from the Classical World contributed to the stan...
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Positive Or Negative Negative Consequences
440 wordsThe Odyssey and The Pearl: Loyalty Loyalty to another person or to a cause may be an admirable trait, but it can lead to either positive or negative consequences. In Homers epic The Odyssey and John Steinbecks novel The Pearl there are characters that show great examples of this trait. Penelope in The Odyssey and Juana in The Pearl are the most obvious, although there are many. Penelope stayed loyal to Odysseus while he was on his twenty-year journey and Juana stayed by her husband through his t...
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Harper Perennial Continental Drift
3,077 wordsOn the surface, Continental Drift and The Odyssey are very different. The two protagonists, Bob Dubois and Odysseus, are as unalike as two men can be. Bob is an average man with an average life. He works for one man so that he can pay bills to others, trying to make what little money is left supply his family with the needs, both real and imagined, that every family has. Odysseus is a mythical figure, the ultimate man. He surpasses his peers in every manly endeavor, ? Then there was no man who w...
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City Of Troy Iliad And The Odyssey
467 wordsDavid Kernel 3 / 19, Per. 6 Did the Trojan War really exist? Many have speculated about the Trojan War. It s been written about in books like the Iliad and The Odyssey. A person could read in a book about this massive war between King Priam and Agamemnon, but did this massive war ever really happen? We have all heard of the mighty wooden horse in which the Greek forces broke into the mighty walls of Troy. The Trojan War did occur and can proven by skeletons, artifacts, and other findings from ex...
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World Trouble Battles
227 wordsThe Odyssey is extremely relevant today because stuff like this is still happening, not with swords and magic, of course, but with guns and politics. Odysseus goes through many battles and tests at sea. He isnt even looking for trouble when he stumbles upon the Cyclops who traps him in, and has to be dealt with by force. The Circe is very tempting and deciding, but they have to disregard her and keep going. And if they were to come to close to the Charybdis it wouldve sucked them in. Todays worl...
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Twenty Four Years Pursuit Of Knowledge
1,724 wordsFaustus: the Punishment of Loss For a play that has retained much of its scholarly value over the four hundred and ten years, there is surprisingly little known about Christopher Marlowe? s masterpiece, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus. The date of its first performance is unknown, and is highly obscured by the added facts that there are two texts of Doctor Faustus, one published in 1604; the other in 1616 (Ribner viii). Christopher Marlowe, even in these early times,...
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Vargas Llosa Latin America
2,295 wordsLatin American concern about nationalism goes beyond simply coping with routine affairs of national existence. It is a concern over the legitimacy of that existence and an uncertainty over what it means. It is a question of national identity. It is also a question of regional identity; for no matter the distinctions between states, the many historical, cultural and linguistic ties also provide an ambiance of continental nationalism, a general Latin American nationalism, that is equally as import...
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Van Der Apple Ii
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