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Carvings Of The Whare Kai Land And Sea Life
1,026 wordsBrigham Young University -Hawaii Campus Land, to many of us, is a place of growth and development. When the Pakeha, or white man, saw the fertile land of New Zealand, he saw opportunity and investment to make more money. But did the Pakeha really know what land is to those who live as though their land is everything they had? Of course, they must have known that land is precious to them, but did they realize just how precious land was to the Maoris? Land was life to the Maori people, and if it w...
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Grendel Mother Beowulf Hero
1,020 wordsBeowulf is portrayed as the hero of the epic poem Beowulf (c 1200), although he is in reality the villain. Throughout the poem the poet, who is unknown, believes Beowulf to be a hero because of his strength and loyalty to his people. However, his pursuit for heroic status was so dominating that it motivated his jealousy, selfishness and greed. Beowulf is a tale about a boastful soldier whose motive in life is purely self-beneficial; he exploits the vulnerability of Grendel, Grendel's mother and ...
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Sneer Of Cold Command Sneer Of Cold Ozymandias
639 wordsThis sonnet is written to express to the speaker that possessions don't mean immortality - ironically, the king who seemed to think that his kingdom would remain under his statue's egotistical gaze forever teaches us this through his epitaph. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" becomes good advice, though in an opposite meaning than the king intended, for it comes to mean that despite all the power and might one acquires in the course of one's life, material possessions will not last for...
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John Updike Vol 7
1,212 wordsHere's a report on John Updike and some of the things that he has written. If someone wants to use it, be advised that they should change all of the "its" referring to morality and etc... to something else. My extremely anal english teacher marked me off a point for every "it" that I used. Janice Tsai Senior-Munster High School Existence is like a creature that hides and then reveals itself. Existence is defined in Websters New World Dictionary as the state or fact of being. This existence striv...
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Hapless Loki 'i Apples ' Exclaimed Idun
942 wordsIdun was a very important part of the gods life and survival. "The goddess of Spring, or rejuvenation and the wife of Bragi, the god of poetry. She was the keeper of the magic apples of immortality, which the gods must eat to preserve their youth (Evans & Millard). Without the assistance of Idun's golden apples the Aesir's would have grown old and lived in this condition for eternity. "These apples were of course much desired by other creatures, for instance the giant Thiassi, who once managed t...
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Emily Dickinson Love Themes
655 wordsLove Theme's in Emily Dickinson's Poetry In evaluating Emily Dickinson's biography and poems, I surmised that excluding the love of father, brother, and her deceased nephew, Emily's knowledge of romantic love, by first-hand experience, is questionable. The pure-of-mind reader may believe that what familiarity she had about love matters might have been based mainly on her extensive reading of literature. Emily was an avid reader and was particularly fond of, among others, Ralph Waldo Emerson and ...
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Final Say In Our Lives Idea That Death Gilgamesh
780 wordsIn both of these stories, there is a spiritual crisis that awaits being noticed. I think that in both of these stories, there is an underlying theme that death has the final say in our lives, and that there is not really much that we can do about it. In learning that our time will come, we tend to look at things, especially our lives, in different ways. In Ecclesiastes, the major spiritual crisis is that we must admit that death has the final say in our lives. This is something that all people m...
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Life After Death David Hume
613 wordsThe Afterlife is an area of human consciousness we all enter upon leaving the physical world at physical death. Throughout history we " ve questioned if there is a life after death. Along the way, our religions and various philosophers offered beliefs and opinions to answer this commonly asked question. However, many of the answers contradict each other making it hard to figure out. "Belief in life after death is a source of personal security, optimism, and spiritual betterment" (1 John 3: 2). N...
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Gilgamesh Epic Ancient
265 wordsThe Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the greatest pieces of literature from the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia known to modern scholars. It was found among ruins in Nineveh in the form of twelve large tablets, dating from 2, 000 B. C. This heroic poem is named for its hero, Gilgamesh, a tyrannical Babylonian king who ruled the city of Uruk. According to the myth, the gods responded to prayers and sent a wild brutish man, Enkidu, to challenge Gilgamesh to a wrestling match. When the contest ends...
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Potiki Is Toko Maui
1,151 words... is hook and let it down into the deep sea. Down it went into the very bottom and caught the under world Out of the great seas the black, ragged head of a large island was rising like a fish-it seemed to be chasing them, through the boiling surf. In a little while the water became shallow around them, and their canoe finally rested on the black beach (Westervelt 12). This excerpt above comes from the legend of Maui. Theres a lot of correlation with the story of Toko. Maui went fishing with hi...
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Translated By Robert Greek Mythology
1,593 wordsThere is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth. 1 The poems Iliad and Odyssey by Homer are the greatest works of the Western literature, until today they continue to inspire the readers. Iliad and Odyssey are the most ample narrations of the Greek mythology, showing the deeds of the Gods and the heroes, the influence of the Gods on lives of the mortal people. Divine prosecution is one of the main themes of these poems, but Homer insists, that persona...
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David Henry Hwang Sound Of A Voice Flowers
814 wordsThe idea of silence plays significant role in David Henry Hwang's play "The Sound of a Voice." The theme of visitors, who turned into flowers and the lack of communication were the key-factor that caused womans death. The sound of a voice means the presence of another person. II. The symbol of shakuhachi emphasizes the nothingness of immortality in comparison to humans company. David Henry Hwang's "The Sound of a Voice" at his most minimal play, with short lines of dialogue. The story is told in...
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Epic Of Gilgamesh Middle East
1,326 wordsRepresentation of Women The modern times are marked with many socio-political changes. One of them has to do with reconsidering the role of women in our society. In Western countries they are now given the equal rights with men and it appears to have happened very naturally. Despite the Bible-thumper's effort to keep women in submission, social evolution proceeded its natural course. Women now serve in army and police; they successfully pursue political careers and gain excellence in science. Al...
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Gilgamesh And Enkidu Bull Of Heaven
1,608 wordsThere are many differences and critical comparisons that can be drawn between the epics of Beowulf and Gilgamesh. Both are historical poems which shape their respected culture and both have major social, cultural, and political impacts on the development of western civilization literature and writing. Before any analysis is made, it is vital that some kind of a foundation be established so that a further, in-depth exploration of the complex nature of both narratives can be accomplished. The epic...
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Stanley Kubrick Stephen Kings
2,491 wordsStanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) initially received quite a bit of negative criticism. The film irritated many Stephen King fans (and King himself) because it differed so greatly from the novel. The Shining also disappointed many film goers who expected a conventional slasher film. After all, Kubrick said it would be the scariest horror movie of all time. 1 Kubrick's films, however, never fully conform to their respective genres; they transcend generic expectations. In the same way that 2001...
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State Of Mind Enkidu Death
1,189 wordsIn the narrative gilgamesh the main character gilgamesh, the King of ancient uk, a man who is two thirds god, is forced to deal with a loss of his close freind Enkidu. Instead of trying to cope with the loss in a sane and sensible manner, gilgamesh literally goes the end of the earth to find secret of eternal life to give to its friend Enkidu. During this journey gilgamesh forced into a series of trial that tests is body and mind, while he is might be considered to be the trials of a hero, I per...
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Emily Dickinson Life After Death
1,365 wordsWith the thought of death, many people become terrified as if it were some creature lurking behind a door ready to capture them at any moment. Unlike many, Emily Dickinson was infatuated with death and sought after it only to try and help answer the many questions which she pondered so often. Her poetry best illustrates the answers as to why she wrote about it constantly. She explains her reason for writing poetry, ? I had a terror I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Buryi...
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Mortuary Temple Step Pyramid
1,316 wordsWhen most people mention Ancient Egypt the first thing that comes to mind is the Pyramids. To construct such monuments required a mastery of art, architecture and social organization that few cultures would ever rival. The pyramids are said to have built Egypt by being the force that knit together the kingdoms economy. Their creations were so subeztial, that the sight of these vast pyramids would take your breath away. Today, the valley of the Nile has an open air museum so people can witness th...
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Human Characteristics Perfect Example
676 wordsThe Essence of Humanity What makes us human? What underlying characteristic differentiates humans from animals or Gods? Where does the essence of humanity lie? Initially the answer may seem simple. One might say when comparing animals to humans that they are cruder than humans; they live their life by instinct, they dont love, they dont strive to educate themselves and each other their overriding goal is to survive and make it through the day. Yet, human history and the scientific evidence traci...
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Epic Of Gilgamesh Meaning Of Life
2,952 wordsStories do not need to inform us of anything. They do inform us of things. From The Epic of Gilgamesh, for example, we know something of the people who lived in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the second and third millenniums BCE. We know they celebrated a king named Gilgamesh; we know they believed in many gods; we know they were self-conscious of their own cultivation of the natural world; and we know they were literate. These things we can fix or establish definitely. But ...
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