The Odyssey Report
.... the men in
to share our feast". This shows that menelaos must be a good guest especially to
give them shelter during a wedding. Menelaos also does not pressure Telemachos
into answering any questions before he eats and enjoys the festivities; nor does
he give any indication that he wants Telemachos to leave. He says "stay here in
my mansion for ten or twelve days and then I will give you a good send off and a
handsome gift, three horses and a chariot: I will give you a fine chalice too,
that when you p .....
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The Odyssey
.... bag of winds that
his men unleash that throw them off course.
Although the gods and goddesses were powerful they were also benificial.
Zeus was beneficial in the way that he helped Odysseus, “Then Zeus thundered/
overhead, one loud crack for a sign.”(p.478, 1032-1033), this sign told Odysseus
to start attacking the suitors. The way Circe helps Odysseus in warning him of
dangers to come, “Circe forsaw for us and shared with me,/ so let me tell her
forcast: then we die/ with out eyes open.”(p.459, 528-530) .....
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The Accounts Of Eros In The "Symposium"
.... is practical, and shows love not as a heavenly creature, but as a
mortal being, where we can interact with him. It also has answers that most of
the other accounts could not even question. This is what stands the speechof
Socrates and Diotima apart from most of the others. But, there were two other
speeches that were also impressive and brought about points that Socrates did
not make. These accounts were given by Aristophanes and Agathon. Through these
three speeches, we can get a good picture of wh .....
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A Critical Appraisal Of: Beowulf And Gilgamesh
.... They journey together and share many adventures. Accounts of their
heroism and bravery in slaying dangerous beasts spread to many lands.
When the two travelers return to Uruk, Ishtar (guardian deity of the
city) proclaims her love for the heroic Gilgamesh. When he rejects her, she
sends the Bull of Heaven to destroy the city. Gilgamesh and Enkidu kill the bull,
and, as punishment for his participation, the gods doom Enkidu to die. After
Enkidu's death, Gilgamesh seeks out the wise man Utnapisht .....
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The Odysseus: The Theme Of Love
.... marriage clearly illustrates the theme of
love. There are also many other bonds formed in life that show great love
and guidance. One of the most emphasized in the Odyssey is the father -
son relationship. These relationships clearly support the issue of love in
the Odyssey.
The father - son relationship between Odysseus and Telemachos is a little
awkward because they both never really got to know each other but they
still care for each other's well being. When Odysseus hears of all the
suitor .....
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Richard Swinburne's "The Problem Of Evil": God's Existence
.... In "The Problem of Evil", Swinburne says that an omniscient, omnipotent,
omnibenevolent Being created the world. If this were true, how can evil exist
in this world? If God consciously knew He was creating a world in which there
is evil, then He would not be omnibenevolent. If God did not know He was
creating a world in which evil exists, then He would not be omniscient. If God
is omnipotent then He would be able to stop any evil from occurring. Either way,
God would not be what Christianity makes .....
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Dreams
.... into play. When you look
at these dreams sometimes they can represent real life events. Often these are
predictions about what could happen in the future or are an interpretation of
things that have passed. These, like almost all other dreams have significance
as a result of bodily rejuvenation processes. This type of dream has a
significance I believe in helping the person have the feeling of a good sleep,
where things have, if not in some bazaar way, been resolved.
The third type of dream is one .....
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Emily Dickinson: Transcendentalist Experience Through Imagination
.... This ironic revisions of ideas is
directed at all male transcendentalists and figures in society.
Both Ralph Emerson and David Thoreau used societies stereotype of the
true male environment, “nature”, to draw their power and write from their
experiences. Experience was the most important factor to these writers. The
ability “to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account in my next
excursion” was the basis of all their writings. “To get the whole and genuine
meanness of it, and pu .....
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Camus' "The Stranger": Choice And Individual Freedom Are Integral Components Of Human Nature
.... as paragons of invalid logic and the quixotic, quasi-passionate pursuit of
hackneyed conformity.
No windmills are slain1 in this simulated existence; absurdity of a
different ilk dominates the popular mentality, one which would alienate a man
based on his perceived indifference towards the mundane, and try, convict, and
execute a man based on his lack of purported empathy towards the irrelevant.
Attention to the trial sequence will reveal that the key elements of the
conviction had little to do with the .....
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Hemingway And "Nada"
.... believe in any religion; her religion is Ketchel. That arises from her place
in society. In society she is ranked very low. A prostitute has nothing to say
in our society. And since she is that low she cant set her goals higher. Her
goals could be the goals Jesus talks about. Her goal in life was and still is to
sleep with more and more guys. Back to nada it means that she has nothing;
nothing to believe in and nothing to live for.
Alice lives in an illusion. It seems that she suppresses the fact th .....
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The Communist Manifesto And Karl Marx And Frederick Engels
.... societies there were many
gradations of social classes. He also states that this class conflict
sometimes leads to "...the common ruin of the contending classes" (Marx 9).
Marx sees the modern age as being distinguished from earlier periods by
the simplification and intensification of the class conflict. He states that
"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile
camps... bourgeoisie and proletariat" (Marx 9). The bourgeoisie, as the
dominant class of capitalists, subju .....
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Novelty Never Lasts
.... fact that I ate pizza almost every time I worked during that year, pizza
just doesn't taste that good anymore. Whenever my family orders a pizza for
dinner, I really don't look forward to it as much as I used to. Instead, I just
shrug it off, "Pizza, big deal, what else do we have to eat?" This same loss of
appreciation has happened with my second job as well. I have been working at
Sony Theater's Palace Nine for about four months now, and I can easily say that
I don't really enjoy an outing to the .....
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Personal Identity
.... body and soul, however, also share this trait. Perry illustrates in his
essay that the body and soul are similar because there is a "link" between one
another, that is they both make up a person and are responsible for the
qualities associated with being an individual (height, weight, character, belief,
etc.). Perry also comes back to challenge this using the analogy of a river.
If one goes to a river, and then the next day goes back to the same river, the
person will not say that it is a different river .....
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Presuppositions Of The Game Theory
.... business you always know how well you are doing.
You just have to put your hand in your pocket." People often think the more
money one has, the happier they are. You often hear people say "if I only had
more money, I would be happy." Frequently the perceived level of success is
compared to the size of one's bank account, the location of their house or the
amount of cars in the driveway. People seem to perceive money as being
happiness.
Soloman says that keeping score, although it is not an essentia .....
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Senseless: A False Sense Of Perception
.... may occur when pressure is applied to different sections,
drawing different reactions from the person being affected, these reactions are
caused by the affected person seeing things which they perceive to be real .
Hallucinations are only one way by which the visual perception of an object can
be altered there are many more ways by which the visual perception of an object
can be altered; for example consider a square envelope, pay very close attention
to what you see when you look at this object. .....
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