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Greek Values In "The Odyssey"
<view this essay>.... respect the gods are shown is when Odysseus begs food from the suitors. One man, Antinous, berates him and refuses so much as a crust. He even hurls his footstool at Odysseus, hitting him in the back. This makes even the other suitors nervous, for sometimes the Gods masquerade as mortals to test their righteousness. The suitors fright showed they respected the Gods because they were afraid of the punishment they would receive for not being hospitable.
This leads to the next value of the Greeks. Hospitality is very important such that you serve a stranger before you know his name. An example of this was when Eumaeus the swineherd welcomes Odysseus disguis .....
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Ordeal By Hunger
<view this essay>.... McCutchen and Stanton took the Wahsatch route to Fort Sumter, because they needed to buy food and other supplies for the Donner Party and themselves. At Fort Sutter McCutchen got a little ill and had to stay while Stanton went back to the Donner Party with supplies and two Indian guides. When Reed arrived at Fort Sutter McCutchen and him heard that the Donner Party was stuck at foot of the Sierra Nevada’s mountains. Therefore, they try to save the Donner Party by traveling to Truckee Lake with supplies. Unfortunately they were unsuccessful and had to turn back, do to heavy snow.
McCutchen was not the only hero in the Donner Party; Eddie William played a big r .....
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Conventions Of Drama
<view this essay>.... of the World” and “A Doll’s House”.
The early origins of drama came from the Greek. Drama in Greece,450BC was not readily available to the society. Plays were only put on twice a year during great religious celebrations. At these festivals, where the plays were performed competitively, the main focus of theme was about the Gods. These Gods were superior to everyone and represented wealth and power. The fact that they were immortal signified their importance and dominance. Greek drama was also based on the aspects of tragedy and dramatic irony. The tragedy meant that the play often ended with a noble person being destroyed by the God .....
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The Story Of An Hour The Story
<view this essay>.... America was still rural and women were needed to do certain task on the farm. When industrialization came along though, things became simpler, cities grew, and there were more choices for people to do. Women were not tied down on the farm any more. Her story shows one woman’s chance to be what she wanted to be and not be looked down upon in her society. Chopin gives light on women having more freedom to do what they wanted to do in regards to marriage.
The story begins with the news of the death of Mrs. Mallard’s husband. She takes the news hard at first, but when she is alone in her room, the setting of the room does not convey a scene of sor .....
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Jane Eyre 8
<view this essay>.... for him and what better way to test this than with jealousy? This feminine competitive jealousy can only be achieved by bringing in the stereotypical, perfect woman of the epoch. This woman is Blanche Ingram. Blanche produces enough tumult to spark Jane to get over her reticence and speak out to Rochester of the love she feels for him.
A second scenario: Jane loves Mr. Rochester in her heart. She only needs something, some happenstance, where she can break through her reserve and coyness to express her feelings. Mr. Rochester brings to Thornfield a party of guests; all elegantly appareled and socially sophisticated. Hesitantly, Jane reaches the drawing .....
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Lord Of The Flies - Civilized Vs. Savage
<view this essay>.... and expecting immediate results. The result for savage behaviour is that it leads to distractions from what is important (in this novels case, getting rescued) and disregard of others. When the characters in "Lord Of The Flies" begin acting savage they go so far that it results in the destruction of their environment as well as the destruction of their civilized minds. On the other hand, civilization is the partial suppression of a human's natural thoughts and movements. Civilization is the ability to take all force associated with savagery and to use it to create and maintain a certain order.
At the beginning of this novel, the boys make an .....
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By Means Of Power
<view this essay>.... of putting your child before yourself. This is a metaphor for putting the needs of what is truly important before the needs of oneself. It is not only stated simply and bluntly, but the way the lines are broken up accent the idea. "Ready to kill"(3) is on its own line, while "yourself"(4) is on the next. This is the theme that is running throughout the entire poem.
In the next section of Lordes poem she describes a dreamlike situation. This is where her son has been shot, probably in the face. Although "blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders/is the only liquid for miles"(9-10), "my mouth splits into dry lips"(12). With the death of her boy s .....
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Ways Of Handling A Situation
<view this essay>.... to need companionship and are often too weak to stand alone. As a result, they stand together in what ever group they are best suited to.
It is a point of interest to many of the people who have stopped to think about this fact. The idea that people live according to how others will perceive then has been established as the rule, not the exception. The real question now lies in the reasons for this way of life. It was hypothesized by C.S. Lewis that this desire to belong and to fit in is a natural human characteristic. He believed that people have an instinctive drive to belong, in the same sort of way species reproduce. It is possible that his theory of in .....
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