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Essays 991 - 1020
in those days...Admiration of the manly form at times verged on the cultlike; the more heroic bits of male sculpture, small penis ...
was one of "battle and conquest" (Hooker, 1996). These people are the Mycenaeans; they are named after the "best-preserved of thei...
("Athena"). Clearly, the ancient Greek patriarchs considered Athenas virginity to be a salient and powerful factor in her mytholog...
in membership in many different kinds of social and civil organizations over the last two generations (Putnam, 1995). The decline ...
knowledge has long been purported as the only viable means by which mankind truly knows how and if something exists; without empir...
tragedy" (Cai, 1999, p. 317). For Confucius, the focus was much narrower: when he considered poetry, he was thinking of the Book o...
period of blissful co-existence between gods and humans, when differences were few. A utopian time of eternal springtime, people ...
by public desire. In consequence, new (homosexual) variants of existing myths, and in some cases new (homosexual) myths, were gen...
money gaining the favor of the general public. He had only one true political rival, Nicias, who had secured a treaty of peace fo...
face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...
the novel, the term city is used interchangeably with the term citizen to reinforce this unity: "Our city, my city... Without a ci...
audience" (66). The reversal refers to a reversal in fortune, which Aristotle believed was classically represented in a fall from...
to combine rational and irrational, and accept it in ones life (Epictetus, 2004). Throughout his first published book Discourses, ...
it was as a democracy that Athens "won and lost an empire...built the Parthenon" and produced "Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and...
put to death" (King 4). Here, it seems as if the terms stealing and kidnapping are interchangeable. That is, at the time, stealing...
expert, Henry Higgins, makes a wager with a friend that he can masquerade a lower-class girl, Eliza, as a member of the upper clas...
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...
as Achilles, this is the good life. He is not a character who seems to desire times of peace or quiet but rather a man who is happ...
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...
that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...
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...
a national science fair (Homer Hickam Online, 2006). With help from a supportive teacher and inspired by rocket genius Werner von ...
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...
Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
(Hickham, 2000, p. 1). That one simple opening sentence tells readers what kind of conflicts the book explores: there is the confl...
pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...
societal factors that shape the familial situations in August Strindbergs Miss Julie, George Rygas The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Sh...
to his position, he represents all the virtues and flaws of a man, in spite of the fact that he is only part human. But it is the...
This 10 page paper considers the views of a number of theorists, including Ernest Burgess, Homer Hoyt, Georg Simmel, Louis Wirth a...