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Significance of Telemakhos in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

father. So, by the end of the story what he has done has given him experience and wisdom to deal with a future as a leader. Tel...

Penelope's Suitors and Odysseus in 'The Odyssey' by Homer

He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...

Literature, Identity and Character Revelations

And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...

The Ideal Warrior

in the ideal image of a male hero or warrior. In both cultures the people were founded in a patriarchal way of life, seeing man as...

Ideal Leader

In five pages this paper discusses the characteristics of the ideal leader in a consideration of how Odysseus and Moses embody the...

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...

Kleos in "The Odyssey" of Homer (Book Nine)

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

Galaesus and Odysseus in The Aeneid and The Odyssey

is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...

Analysis of Beowulf

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

Comparative Analysis of Odysseus and Aeneas as Leaders

The son Of crafty Saturn changed the snake to stone... But Calchas thus Instantly spake... All-foreseeing Jupiter Hath sent this ...

Fast Food, Microwaves and Society

metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...

Odysseus and Models of Heroism

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at heroism. Odysseus is put forth as an example of both modern and classical ideals of ...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Argos and Odysseus

lay there / lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears..." (17.317-318). We read that the dog is lying on a dung heap; hes full of tic...

Bless Me, Ultima & The Odyssey

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...

Contrasting Views of Homer's Odysseus

sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...

Same Sex Marriages

of grandparents, aunts or uncles, brothers or sisters, adoptive parents, single parents and almost any sort of family one could im...

Multiple Personality Disorder

hypnotizable and extremely suggestible" (Kantrowitz 66). This particular doctor also believes that Sybils personalities were actua...

Argument for Child Labor

controlling other cultures it does not even begin to understand. America takes its own ideals and puts them on cultures they do ...

Legalizing Marijuana

from pot bootleggers" (ONeill, 2002; NA). The above statement presents many of the arguments in favor of legalizing marijuana. F...

Against the Death Penalty

a moral or an ethic is right for it is a very personal reality. As such one can only persuade another to their side with the under...

Iraq: Collateral Damage

This 3 page paper argues that the Iraqis have been lied to by both Saddam Hussein and the U.S. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

Alcoholism is a Disease

indicates that, "Genetics and family history are increasingly thought to play a significant role in whether a person develops alco...

Argument Against Abortion

be religious or Christian to believe that abortion is wrong, and that abortion is murder. One need not rely on the words in the Bi...

Opinions on Poverty as the Cause of Crime

that he has no good answer for it. The students response to these two essays is also likely to depend on where he or she is on th...

Argumentative Death Penalty Paper

the study results that support their position and ignore other research. Studies that compare homicide trends in states and countr...

In Favor of Zero Tolerance Drug Policy in High School

in which "many public schools have adopted a policy of zero tolerance toward drug use, weapon possession and sexual harassment on ...

Is Society Selfish?

most vulnerable citizens-low income children-the hardest. (The fact that this move will also make it very difficult for any Republ...

Against Same Sex Marriages

is what distinguishes us and allows us to distinguish ourselves from other animals and, in the future, from intelligent machines" ...

In Favor of Same Sex Marriage

In truth, this is an argument that really does not have much of a foundation. It is vague and does not do anything but essentially...