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- 17991: Odysseus: Metis Is His Most Important Quality
- ... hero is his metis, a Greek word meaning artifice, stratagem, or plan. Homer even associates Odysseus as polymetis, or a man of many turns. Robert Fitzgerald, translator of the Odyssey in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, interprets this word to describe a man who is skilled in all ways of contending (219). Thus, unlike Achilles in the Iliad, Odysseus is not famous for his great strength or courage, but for ...
- 17992: Fairies
- ... others are less than two feet tall. Some have special shapes. Example are mermaids and mermen, human above the waist but with the lower part of their bodies like fish. They live in an underwater world of splendor. Beautiful mermaids often lure sailors to their destruction, or cause shipwrecks. The Scandinavians believed in a river spirit that looked like a man above the water and like a horse below. Most fairies ...
- 17993: Marrying Homosexuals
- ... just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Under the principles set forth in the Declaration ...
- 17994: Augusto Pinochet
- ... Pinochet causes many problems with international justice. The precedent in this case invites any country to launch a prosecution against leaders of any other country, who they feel have committed a crime against humanity. This new system of "justice" also brings about many other important ideas. The precedent in this case also allows for countries to prosecute others whenever it suits their own sense of justice. It also leaves room for ...
- 17995: Mirror of Myself
- ... child. She confided in me once that she had been struggling to overcome a daily drug habit. A sense of power emanated from her as she spoke and I knew she was determined for a new beginning. Having thought back on her history of drug use, she told me she had been an addict since the age of eleven. I questioned her motives concerning why she had such a strong desire ...
- 17996: Martin Luther King Jr. Vs Malc
- ... a smart student and skipped two grades before entering an ivy league college at only the age of 15. He was the class valedictorian with an A average. King paraded his graduation present in a new green Chevrolet before his fellow graduates. He was raised in the perfect environment where dreams and love were generated. King and Xs childhoods are a study in polarity. (pg. 254, Reflecting Black) Whereas, Malcolm ...
- 17997: The Fabliaux
- ... that characterizes the fabliaux. For a defense of such morality, one must turn to such late (fifteenth-century) non-courtly, even anti-courtly works such as The Wright's Chaste Wife, which looks at the world of the fabliau from the standpoint of the working classes.
- 17998: Voltaire's Candide: Satirical Literature
- ... s Candide is a perfect example of how satirical literature can be both humorous and serious. Candide was an Age of Reason book that set out to communicate a message on the wrongs of he world. One issue that Voltaire focused on greatly was religious hypocrisy. For some reason Voltaire was very much against the practices of the Catholic Church. There are many examples of how Voltaire depicts the injustice that ...
- 17999: The Good Earth: Wang Lung's Character
- ... them with. Red is the good luck color of the Chinese. He also buys a little more then a pound of red sugar for his wife to pour into boiling water for her to drink. New Year he hung red paper over his door and around his houses in hopes that it would bring him good luck. Furthermore, he brings another woman into his house as a concubine and uses the ...
- 18000: Character Flaws In "Long Days Journey Into Night" and "Death of A Salesman"
- ... succeeded. This makes the father feel like a failure also, even though he did not know any better than what he was telling his sons. The parents are caught between pushing the sons into the world and keeping them safe in the home. This tension causes strain amount the family members leading to alienation from each other. Favoritism is another characteristic that leads to the families to disunite from one another ...
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