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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...

Poetry and Time

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

Ancient Greek Justice and the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001

In five pages this report discusses how Homer, Sophocles, and Hesiod would have conceptualized justice regarding the 911 terrorist...

Depiction of Women in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Hippolytus by Euripides

This paper contrasts and compares the depiction of Phaedra by Euripides in Hippolytus and Penelope by Homer in 'The Odyssey' in fi...

Visions and Dialogues of the Dead in Works by Virgil, Plato, and Homer

In six pages this paper examines 'The Aeneid' in terms of the dialogue with the dead featured by Virgil and its difference with 'T...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Sports

Antinoos and Eurymakhos, presided" (IV 654-657). In this way, sports is used as competition for a womans hand in marriage. The c...

Adventures and Protagonists

the long journey is not necessary, but that does not mean that the odyssey as a concept was not necessary years ago. Indeed, in th...

Scholarly Criticism of 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner

to admit for three days that he was dead. The narrator says, "We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. W...

Classical Literature and Women

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

Feminism and the Role of Clytemnestra

Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...

Spiritual Journey and Spiritual Growth

to return to the cave because its familiar and comfortable? The answer to all these questions is "yes." (Allegory of the Cave, 2...

'The Odyssey' and the Underworld Journey of Odysseus

to go home. This particular point in the story is approximately halfway through such dangers and journeys and as such it is halfwa...

Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer on Happiness and Erotic Love

in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...

2 Questions on Great Literature and Its Practical Applications

guiding light for Gilgamesh. It is also important to note that Gilgamesh himself seeks immortality as this is important to the sto...

Odysseus Compared with Genesis' Jacob

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

October Sky Film and Rocket Boys Text Comparison

Creek Missile Agency as an homage to their hero Dr. Werner von Braun of the Army Ballistic Agency and built their first missile ou...

Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" - Southern Society and the Grotesque

pertinent thematic statement about social conditions in the old South; namely, that the reliance upon a superficial standard of mo...

3 Plays and Societal Influence on Family

societal factors that shape the familial situations in August Strindbergs Miss Julie, George Rygas The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, and Sh...

Gender Studies, Their Importance and Significance

rapid social changes are increasingly affecting work patterns and families, as many families feature dual income couple as women e...

Comfort Woman by Nora Okja Keller and the Significance of Water Imagery

This paper examines how water imagery is used in Nora Okja Keller's debut novel in 4 pages. The bibliography cites 1 source....

Crimes By Corporations and Their Relative Significance in the U.S.

one of her many incarcerations, who said he had stolen a loaf of bread, "You should have stolen a railroad. They would have made y...

Demographic Data, Importance and Significance

This paper pertains to a student/researcher's project, which encompassed the implementation of training program for associate mini...

Significance of Language, ELL Instruction

This research paper/essay pertains to the repercussions of what it would be like if all other languages besides English became ext...

Significance of Free Blacks During the Antebellum Period

This research paper describes the role and significance of free blacks in the north and south during the antebellum era. Four page...

Significance of EBP

This research paper offers an overview on evidence based practice, its definition and the steps it encompasses. Five pages in leng...

The Architecture and Political Significance of the Versailles

This paper reviews the architectural and political evolution of the palace. There are two sources in this six page paper. ...

The Significance of Social Networks for the Communities of China

people to make their own destinies - to follow whatever dreams they may have kept harbored deep inside for fear that they would ne...

Foreign Policy of President Bill Clinton and the Significance of the Middle East

death of Jordans (a friend to the U.S.) King Hussein, the unrest in other Middle Eastern nations, and almost countless other examp...

College Campuses and the Social Significance of African American Sororities and Fraternities

on their own. On the other hand, black college students who are part of a collective campus group are fortified with encouragemen...

Wine Significance in the Histories of Herodotus

wine, make up their drunken minds and know that their decision was sound when they still see things the same way when sober" (Hero...