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suitors, who grossly outnumber him. Odysseus himself vows that he will fight "while Ive got arrows to defend me", committed to the...

Seger explains why people respond strongly to characters in film when those characters go on a journey that touches the audience. ...

When was the last time I had spoken his name? Those thorny old barbs of guilt bore into me once more, as if speaking his name had...

king also ordered killed. They were subsequently left to die of exposure and were discovered by a she-wolf. Discovered by the king...

honorable combat and murders Ither by throwing a javelin into Ithers eye (Ash). A true knight would never have indulged in such a ...

"behold the beauty of another character....with...vivacity....behold in another the expression of a love so high that it assures i...

boasts of his strength and courage, believing those alone are the lone criteria by which a hero is judged. The gods intervene to ...

(2000) says that Mother Theresa is a good role model. Yet, there are many others who may be considered good role models. Mendelsoh...

Though oil companies will not admit to any extra profit generation, they do concede that many locales require additional treatment...

/ so long as we men of Achaea soldiered on at Troy. / But once wed sacked King Priams craggy city, / boarded ship, and a god dispe...

hero may have incredible moral fiber, but have a tendency to love women he can never have. Tragic flaws, if one looks at any story...

Philosophy "Hero" as used by Campbell (1990) is androgynous, and he underscores this fact by using the pronouns "he" and "s...

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

we have a man who is essentially being tossed with the tides. He is not nearly as determined or as confident as Odysseus. This is ...

The mad hero Before comparing the two heroes of each story, it helps to discuss the background and plot of each work....

killed, Betty gets involved in a con game run by a transvestite named Raulito and takes the Rosalies place as a porno queen. Bert,...

story revolves around an American news correspondent, Jake Barnes, who lives and works in Europe, as well as his assorted friends"...

a transformational leader. According to Burns, Burns, transformational leaders are change agents, they take more risks than others...

and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring" (Hemingway 13). There is little said about Fre...

they are also alike in that there are ties of friendship and devotion between the various characters that threaten the pairings as...

The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...

that would make him a hero. He does not make powerful decisions and he does not truly step outside any realm within himself or soc...

the every day people who live, work and form the community, from stay-at-home moms who mold their families, to fire-fighters, who ...

there are some wars that "must" be fought, they we will probably agree with Clevinger: that everyone is caught up in the war and h...

complaint and denied the plaintiffs cross-motion for leave to reargue. In this case, there were multiple defendants, one of which ...

destroy Sigurd. She says that she has a favor to ask and makes the king promise that he will keep his word. He does, and asks her ...

university-trained expert in his field. And yet he finds that intellectual learning is not very important in this world, whats nee...

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

with such aspects as homework (Patten, 1994; Bryan et al, 2004; Cooper et al, 1994). Reaching the special needs student req...

nails and fangs that are in the middle of his mouth like a rodents, instead of on the sides like on a Halloween mask" (Ebert). For...