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In 5 pages the leadership concept is examined within the context of these 2 Medieval stories. There are no other sources listed....

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

long before it was ever written down. To use Si!r Philip Sidney phrase pertaining to the oral traditions of epic poetry, it was ...

for protection against the creature that has been terrorizing his subjects, Beowulf can hardly refuse. It is not simply because H...

Mitchells translation, Mark Jarman argues that Gilgamesh enlightens the modern reader as to what the ancient Mesopotamians valued ...

the criminal justice system, some designed to help inmates, others to keep track of them. This paper discusses a program called "E...

In five pages this paper examines how the Green Knight is symbolically portrayed as strong, noble, and just. There are no other s...

view. The ambitious virtues that Beowulf embodies are representative of the earnest attempts required for such characters of this...

series refer to the fact that it took a ton of platinum ore, involving considerable human effort and the resulting blight on the l...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

her sisters husband and how he had cut out her tongue to keep silent and a prisoner (Ovid BkVI:571-619). Those characters who as...

the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...

his murderous attacks upon Hrothgars sleeping warriors. Hrothgar makes it clear that Beowulfs obligation is based not on ties of ...

of them all, the Sumerian Gilgamesh. Its not that Blake copied anyone, but his poem tends to evoke some of the same feelings in a ...

believes, would seal his everlasting fame (Irving 86). The poem championed Beowulfs desire for fame as a badge of honor: "In all ...

Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...

oral tradition, which makes the tales uniquely alive and constantly changing. This paper briefly compares two such epics, the Sund...

original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...

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on "what all human beings should do if they want to be moral: They should always act in their own self-interest" (Thiroux 37). Ad...

In 2007/8 there was the start of a global recession, which has also been referred to as the credit crunch. The writer looks at the...

An analysis of stanzas XIV and XV of this anonymous poem are consider in terms of their significance particularly regarding the re...

incentive for the investor to take the extra risk. The level of the extra return related t the risk is known as the risk premium. ...

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

portrait of Turkish society at that time. Drawing on Hikmets ability as a screenwriter, as well as a poet, his free verse form e...

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...