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Emulating Homer

Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...

Extended Similes of Violence in “The Odyssey”

rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...

'The Odyssey,' The Aeneid and the Themes of Star Crossed Lovers

banquet. Aeneas begins to talk to Queen Dido. Dido becomes enamored with Aeneas, something not unprovoked by the gods and goddess...

Sloop, Nassau by Winslow Homer

at more than those two dimensions. This is achieved through limiting his use of shading and only subtly hinting at it, such as see...

Odysseus' Journey Mirrored in a Student's Life Narrative

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

Romantic and Enlightenment Views of Nature

would sweep away the superstitions of the past and replace them with the clear light of reason. Regardless of the discipline in wh...

The Act of Murder in Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily'

her life caring for her mother" (McCarthy 34). She has quite obviously had no life of her own. While we do not necessarily know th...

Quest and the Works of Dante and Homer

journey of humanity through life. Dantes epic charts a journey of the soul, from the depths of degradation to the radiance of rede...

Significance of Telemakhos in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

father. So, by the end of the story what he has done has given him experience and wisdom to deal with a future as a leader. Tel...

Comparing John Keats and William Shakespeare

demesne" (Keats PG). It is here that religion first crops up in Keats explanation. Further, the entire work is about discovery, op...

Heroes Odysseus and Gilgamesh

a hero in strength and abilities, not in actions and deeds. With Enkidu, however, he finds a soul mate. He no longer seeks out the...

HOMER HICKAM JR.: EXAMPLES OF LEADERSHIP

a national science fair (Homer Hickam Online, 2006). With help from a supportive teacher and inspired by rocket genius Werner von ...

US Artist Winslow Homer

and error, in an artistic career that lasted 50 years and produced some 2,000 known works. Such a large body of work leaves admir...

The Odyssey and The Alchemist: Free Will, Determinism, and the Journeys

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

Athena and Juno in Homer and Virgil

that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...

Impressions from the Readings

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

Mary Pipher/Another Country

age that are frequently expressed within Western society evolve, at least partially, from the changes in social status that occur ...

Topographical Approaches to Architectural History

"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...

Actual Innocence

wrongly jailed" (Boyer). The first case they discuss is that of Marion Coakley, who "served more than two years in prison becaus...

Post-WWII Canada/2 books

baby-boomers from their beginning, at wars end, to the end of the sixties" (Owram xii). His then states that his discussion also i...

Makdisi/Beirut Fragments

Maronite Militancy: The Creation and Disintegration of Lebanon," perhaps, offers implications for Makdisis seemingly inexplicable ...

University Of Virginia = Recruitment Process

include both staff and faculty (University of Virginia, Employment, 2008). Types of employees include professional teaching facult...

Leadership and Self-Deception

A 5 page book review on Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box by The Arbinger Institute, which is a brief but prof...

Review of "Making Horses Drink: How to Lead and Succeed in Business"

rider must understand each other so well that they can move as one, which requires that true two-way communication exists between ...

Raboteau & Elkins/2 Views of Slavery

performing these rites for the multitude of abducted Africans who died in transit to the Americas. In the second chapter, Rabote...

Churchill/The Gathering Storm

describes how and why the disastrous ramifications of the Treaty of Versailles set up the conditions that generated continued conf...

Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Compared

In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Epics of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In 8 pages these different literary texts are compared in terms of how they satisfy the epic definition in nation and character po...

Odysseus' Maturation and the Epic 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this paper discusses the maturation Odysseus underwent throughout the course of 'The Odyssey.' Three sources are ci...