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King Priam City Walls
1,280 wordsThe scene opens on the last year of the Trojan war. The war had raged for ten years, with the invading Greeks fighting against Troy. Apollo has sent a plague to the Greeks because Agamemnon, king and leader of the Greeks, dishonored a daughter of Apollo's priest. When the reason for the plague is discovered, Agamemnon becomes angry and defiant, unhappy to give the daughter back to her father to appease Apollo. Achilles, a superior Greek warrior, challenges Agamemnon's arrogance, but Agamemnon tu...
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Sodium Hydroxide Universal Indicator
854 wordsExperiments to Determine the Effect of Acids & Bases on Different Indicators and the pH of Common Cleaning Agents The aim of the first set of experiments is to find out and record the colour changes that are observed after a certain indicator is mixed with acids and bases to form a colour reaction. Once the selected indicator has been mixed with a acid that is both weak and strong and a base / alkali that is both weak and strong we are to record the colour and choose another indicator. The purpo...
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Ajax Patroclus Aeneas And Hector In Iliad
1,433 wordsh 2 >The Lesser Ajax: The son of the king of Locrians Oelius and Eriopis. He was one of the heroes who fought against Troy as commander of the Locrians, bringing forty ships. A different derivation is mostly used for his name: of the earth from aia the poetic form of the word gaia meaning earth. Sophocles related the name to amazon, to wail, cry ah. (1) When the city of Troy is about to be conquered by Achaeans, the daughter of Priam: Cassandra was sheltered in the temple of Athena. She ...
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Oedipus At Colonus 5 Th Century
1,183 words... cles was born about 496 BC in Colonus Hippius (now part of Athens), the son of Sophillus, reportedly a wealthy armor-maker. Sophocles was provided with the best traditional aristocratic education. As a young man, he was chosen to lead the chorus of youths who celebrated the naval victory at Salamis in 480 BC. In 468 BC, at the age of 28, he defeated Aeschylus, whose preeminence as a tragic poet had long been undisputed, in a dramatic competition. The date of the first contest with Euripides ...
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Pauline Breedlove Toni Morrison
6,136 wordsFinding Community and Identity in Works of Toni Morrison Who re you, outsider? Ask me who am I. -Langston Hughes, Visitors to the Black Belt Toni Morrison s The Bluest Eye, Sula, and Tar Baby explore different types of communities. Such communities differ in race, class and gender respectively. They also include different learned biases and prejudices. In each, one or more of Morrison s characters struggle with the sense of there own identity within the community. Throughout this paper I will ex...
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Ajax Polis Army
215 wordsThe relevance that the themes of tragedy could have to issues affecting the city-state even in plays whose plots had ostensibly nothing to do with life in a polis shows up clearly in Sophocles play entitled Ajax, presented in the early 440 s B. C. The play bore the name of the second-best warrior (Achilles had been preeminent) in the Greek army that besieged Troy in the Trojan War. When his fellow Greek soldiers voted to award the armor of the dead Achilles to the wily Odysseus instead of himsel...
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Identity Actions
1,580 wordsA Strong Woman is Outcast Melody Carter Women in 20 th Cen. Lit. Prof. Fiona Paton Paper 2 - Nov 10, 2000 In the novel Sula, by Toni Morrison we follow the life of Sula Peace through out her childhood in the twenties until her death in 1941. The novel surrounds the black community in Medallion, specifically the bottom. By reading the story of Sula? s life, and the life of the community in the bottom, Morrison shows us the important ways in which families and communities can shape a child? s iden...
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Represents Evil Black People
1,535 wordsThe setting of Sula takes place in the rich, fertile hills of Medallion, a small, valley town in Ohio. The residents of this town refer to these hills, where the Blacks resided, as the Bottom. Morrison uses the first four pages of the novel to provide the reader with a general knowledge of the town of Medallion and the history of the Bottom. Its name originated from an old joke in which a white farmer gave a slave a piece of land in the hills and freedom in exchange for performing some difficult...
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Viewed Her As Evil Hatred For Sula Community
1,559 wordsA Strong Woman is Outcast Melody Women in 20 th Cen. Lit. Prof. Paton Paper 2 - Nov 10, 2000 In the novel Sula, by Toni Morrison we follow the life of Sula Peace through out her childhood in the twenties until her death in 1941. The novel surrounds the black community in Medallion, specifically the bottom. By reading the story of Sula's life, and the life of the community in the bottom, Morrison shows us the important ways in which families and communities can shape a childs identity. Sula not o...
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Nel Got Married Friendship That Her And Sula Men
755 wordsConfusing friendships and twisted love triangles is one of the themes in the book Sula by Toni Morrison. Sula and Nel had a very complex relationship, but in the end they both realized how precious friendship was to them and they overcame their differences. Ever since the beginning of their friendship, I felt Nel and Sula were dependent on each other. Sula seemed to try to impress Nel, who was stronger and did not need Sula to stand up for her as often. Sula would do such things as cut the tip o...
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End Of Book Greek Army
1,866 wordsAnalysis of Similes in the Illiad In the Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. When one is confronted with a situation that is familiar, one is more likely to put aside contemplating the topic and simply inject those known feelings. This would definitely be an...
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Labeled With No Chance Chemicals There Is A Potential Ajax
531 wordsHousehold Waste! One morning my mom said Andy, get up and clean the bathroom! It was always an essential and important labor to the family. I got up and gathered all the normal cleaning agents we used; Ajax, ammonia, and this liquid bleach that my mom said worked wonders. The toilet I cleaned using the Ajax the sink I cleaned using the Ajax there seemed to be no need for the other two. Then I saw it- the bath tub, AH! There was a ring around the bath tub that I knew would be difficult to clean o...
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End Of Book Greek Army
1,604 wordsThe essay of Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. From the heroic efforts in the Iliad itself it is clear that the populace of his time were highly emotional creatures, and higher brain activity seems to be in short, and in Odysseus case, valuable, order. In ...
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End Of Book Greek Army
1,865 wordsAnalysis of Similes in the Illiad In the Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. When one is confronted with a situation that is familiar, one is more likely to put aside contemplating the topic and simply inject those known feelings. This would definitely be an...
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End Of Book Greek Army
1,896 wordsIn the Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. When one is confronted with a situation that is familiar, one is more likely to put aside contemplating the topic and simply inject those known feelings. This would definitely be an effective tactic when used upon t...
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Nicknamed Attic Bee Wealthy Armorer Named Sophillus Sophocles
402 wordsSophocles was born in Colonus, near Athens, c. 497 B. C. Sophocles father was a wealthy armorer named Sophillus. When he reached adulthood he was already established as a great tragic playwright, and the citizens of Athens loved him. He was nicknamed Attic-bee by the Athenians because he could take pure honey from words. Sophocles was born in Colonus, near Athens, c. 497 B. C. Sophocles father was a wealthy armorer named Sophillus. Sophocles had a good childhood. Sophocles, at age sixteen, led a...
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Morrisons Sula Hannah Words Sula's
1,130 wordsSula in Tony Morrisons Sula as a Defiant Self-Exile Morrisons Sula, features a protagonist who shares her name with the book who has the decided attitude not to form social bonds in the Bottom, a black district inside, Medallion. Sectioned into two parts, the book divides between Sula Peaces coming-of-age experience before she leaves the Bottom and her return to the Bottom as a mature woman. Sula's unusual exorbitance results from an eccentric upbringing that openly accepts and welcomes transien...
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