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- 3091: The Journey of Odysseus and Telemachos
- ... planning their ambush on the young prince. Telemachos went back home, only to find out that his father had already arrived before him. This sets Odysseus (disguised as a beggar) and Telemachos up for the big scene against the suitors, where father and son, side by side, rid Ithaca of its cancerous cells, and reunite the "royal" family. Odysseus then appeased and sacrificed to the god Poseidon in the name of ...
- 3092: Review of Ernest Hemingway and Writings
- ... The Lost Generation." (Grolier, 1) His 1938 play and mellodrama of the Spanish Civil War, The Fifth Column, was composed a year earlier during a stay in Madrid. In 1933-34 He went on a big-game safari in Kenya and Tanganyika where he became an avid hunter and picked up the knowledge for his 1935 nonfiction work, Green Hills of Africa. Also derived from his African experiences were two of ...
- 3093: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... the father character may be searching for. Les has rejected his fathers pleas both literally and figuratively. Thus, the opportunity for communication and communion is lost. The story ends, in my opinion, not with a bang but with a whimper, a hasty retreat, a failure to connect. The disjunction can be interpreted to play a major role in Carver's meaning within such a story. The contribution he gives to the ...
- 3094: Beowulf: The Ultimate Hero
- ... what he has done and what he plans to do to Grendel. Here Beowulf "puts on his running shoes" and runs through his battle plan mentally just as any great athlete would do before a big meet. As the Banquet continues, Hrothgar thanks Beowulf, and promises him great treasure if he succeeds in defeating Grendel. As an ultimate hero, Beowulf decides, to be far, he will not use weapons in his ...
- 3095: A Violent Illumination of Salvation
- ... Yet, he will automatically be saved on Judgement Day because "the lame shall enter [heaven] first" (Bain et al. 370). Rufus, malicious as he is, sees through Shepard's projected image and calls him "that big tin Jesus" who makes "immor'l suggestions!" (Bain et al. 391). Rufus's arrest and accusation are the violence necessary to illustrate Shepard's hypocrisy. Walters suggests that although Rufus' actions are destructive, he struggles ...
- 3096: Cheap Labour: Canada
- ... money to be able to decrease his working hours; therefore he couldn't even spend more time with his family. Also, education was not similar when comparing the two stories. For example, education plays a big role according to Antonio; he thinks that it is very important for Mario to go to school. He wants him to attend university and get a incredible job that will make him look good as ...
- 3097: The Trickster
- ... trickster, loves putting the arrogance of humans in it's place. In one episode he does just that. Seeing what he thinks is too much arrogance from the starship Enterprise, Q decides to take the big fish in the little pond (the Enterprise) and put it in a massive pond. Q teleports the ship to the other end of the universe to meet some of the enemies they can look forward ...
- 3098: Short Story/Film Analysis
- ... that the book started with Andy looking back at the past summer, while in the beginning of the film, Burt and Andy are transporting the horses between races. The book physically described Andy as a "big lumbering fellow", while the film showed him as a small skinny kid. The film never said anything about the "little chaps" who could get next to people's sympathies and how Andy wished to injure ...
- 3099: Novelty Never Lasts
- ... 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 ...
- 3100: "How Mosquitoes Came To Be": The Giant Lives On
- ... the gnosis system in the Rasmuson library for several possibilities as to who and when the legend was written, I came up short. This legend was a simple story about a small community with a big problem. A giant who likes to eat people was a menace who needed to be dealt with. One human decided to take matters into his own hands and try to kill the giant himself. This ...
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