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Otherworld and Heroes in 'The Odyssey' and 'Epic of Gilgamesh'

in order to acquire knowledge, and to demonstrate bravery or quick-wittedness while they are dealing with unfamiliar situations or...

Epic Hero Status of Odysseus in Homer’s “The Odyssey”

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

Elie Wiesel's Character as a Hero Analyzed

personal codes (much like Hemingways did) which serve them in good stead when faced with insurmountable dangers. Along their journ...

Willy Loman, Not a Tragic Hero

of Willys character shows him to be a highly flawed man, who makes innumerable mistakes and brings about his own tragic demise by ...

Beatrice and Hero in William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing

love for her. It 8s also worth noting, that despite the clear and eloquent words, t no point in the pay do we see Hero and Claudio...

Much Ado About Nothing: The 'Comedy' of Scapegoats

This paper examines how scapegoats propel the comedy of William Shakespeare's play in the characterizations of Don John, Claudio, ...

The Shape of Heroism

Using examples from literature and from world events, this essay identifies some of the heroes everyone knows and those nobody kno...

Heroism in the Ancient World: Gilgamesh and Achilles

This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...

Louis Riel

national-liberation leader."1 The author then notes a very intriguing point in that while none of these descriptions are entirely ...

Gabriel and Dubliners and Mr. Rochester - Byronic Heroes or Not?

notes that Byron "emphasizes specially the spirit of revolt against society ... But his villain-heroes ... are selfish and unscrup...

Comparing Annie Oakley and Oddysseus

Odysseus,/raider of cities gouged out your eye" (Homer 227). As Polyphemus is the son of Poseidon, Odysseus makes a powerful god h...

Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby

can have genuine depth. Both while their relationship is still comparatively superficial, and later when it becomes truly meaningf...

Henry Fielding's Tom Jones Man of the Hill

he were truly the evil person hes believed to be. In the Man of the Hill we can see glimpses of Tom as he would have been if hed...

Heroes

as his hero. Achilles Achilles is the greatest of the Greek heroes fighting against the Trojans. As the poem begins, the war ha...

Literary Genres Modernism and Postmodernism

it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was" (Hemingway 13). He is a man lost in a world with no dire...

Show Me a Hero by Lisa Belkin

the white classes living in the east side while black citizens were relegated to the west side because that was the only location ...

The Oregon Trail by Parkman

Parkman is not when he begins his adventure. Parkman and his friend and relative Shaw are Eastern bourgeois; they are Harva...

Beowulf's Pride

In five pages this paper examines the pride of Beowulf and its impact upon his actions and outcomes of the epic tale. There are n...

Beowulf's Legendary Status

In five pages this paper examines the legendary status of the Beowulf epic. There are no other sources listed....

Evaluation Of A Web Site For Educators

2005; Kirk, 2004). Kims Web site meet all of these criteria. Since June 1997, more than 451,000 people have accessed this site and...

Evaluating Hamlet

Ophelia: More than Just Friends? A Palace Source Tells All"). Then there is also the almost-incestuous relationship between Haml...

Dollar GEneral's Financial Health

11% 13% -10% Basic Clothing 8% 9% -7% Source: (Dollar General Reports Increased September Sales, 2004) At $8.49, Dollar Ge...

USA Patriot Act Advantages and Disadvantages

federal government to investigate suspected terrorists quickly and without going through time-consuming bureaucratic channels. Th...

Researching a Business Plan

translated into the welsh language due to the high level of Welsh speakers in some of the target areas. 3. Methodology To writhe...

'Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey' Number Three

In four pages this paper examines evaluates the acceptability of the protagonists' actions in these classic literary works by Virg...

Deregulating Public Utilities in Pennsylvania

This 3 page paper evaluates the pros and cons of deregulating Pennsylvania's electric companies, and argues that deregulation woul...

Pros and Cons of Mock Juries

In twelve pages this paper evaluates the system of mock juries in terms of their pros and cons....

Business Leadership Self Evaluation

I hope to have some day. Values I think that everyone has values, even the dweebs. They have their own values, they just may not...

Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, and Colorado River Topography

The topographical features of these regions are evaluated in a paper consisting of five pages....

Overview of Election Campaigns

the emphasis in this paper the student will want to put on the Mayoral race in Houston on November 6, 2001. A comparison of sever...