686 ED 098 597 AUTHOR TITLE INSTITUTION Fleming‚ Margaret‚ Ed. Teaching the Epic. National Council of Teachers of English‚ Urbana‚ PUB DATE NOTE AVAILABLE FROM 74 120p. EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS MF-$0.75 HC-$5.40 PLUS POSTAGE American Literature; Bibliographies; Classical Literature; English Instruction; *Epics; German Literature; Greek Literature; High Schools; Legends; *Literary Analysis; Literature; *Literature Appreciation; Medieval Literature; Medieval Romance; Old
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Caitlin Willer Plato Interpreting Historical Fiction 26 June 2014 The book I chose to read was The Voyage on The Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady By: Ellen Emerson White. The young thirteen year old Margaret Brady is an orphan who lives in a girls home in London. Her only family member is her brother‚ William‚ who is in Boston trying to save up enough money to pay for her passage. Margaret sort of lucks out when a rich American woman named Mrs. Carstairs hires Margaret as a
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Running head: SCHOLARSHIP‚ PRACTICE‚ AND LEADERSHIP Scholarship‚ Practice‚ and Leadership Essay Cory A. Muhammad University of Phoenix Education and Information Literacy In a US society where information literacy is considered a luxury and not a human right enables intellectual illiteracy limits to be pushed to the max. It’s a nightmare how some can be deceived and taken advantage of or even locked out of opportunities by those who demonstrate the use of information literacy. The desire
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it’s how much you can endure until you break that makes people’s endurance different and unique. Weather you’re mentally enduring talking politics with your opinionated family on Thanksgiving or you’re enduring the physical pain of a gunshot wound‚ you continue to endure the pain and see the day through. Endurance is the ability or strength to continue‚ especially despite fatigue‚ stress‚ or other adverse conditions. In Ernest Hemingway’s book‚ The Old Man and the Sea‚ an old man named Santiago
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Indian Camp The short story “Indian Camp” is written by Ernest Hemingway. It is written in 1921 and takes place in North America. “Indian Camp” is about a young boy named Nick‚ who travels with his father and Uncle George to an Indian Camp to help an Indian girl‚ who has been in a painful labor for two days. Nick’s father performs a very primitive cesarean‚ and in meantime the woman’s husband commits suicide by cutting his throat. My intention with this essay is first to make a charactersation
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traveled all the way from China to Southeast Asia and then on to India in which to trade with all the of the major trading sites on India’s southwest coast. On his fourth voyage‚ Zheng He traveled to the Persian Gulf to set about a trading relationship with the Arabs. With these routes set up and secured he set out for the three last voyages‚ and Zheng He went even further and ended up on the eastern coast of Africa. This should have been impressive
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Ernest Rutherford Born on August 30th‚ 1871 in New Zealand‚ Ernest Rutherford accomplished to be one of many successful chemists throughout the world in the 19th and the 20th centuries. With his brilliant experiments he explained the puzzling problem of radioactivity and the sudden breakdown of atoms. In addition‚ he determined the structure of the atom and was first to ever split it. Rutherford’s great mind triggered innovations of new technology such as the smoke detector that saves many
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asdasdsin Gulliver’s second voyage‚ he was again traveling on a ship. and because they were desperate for water‚ they went to a land. but somehow Gulliver was left behind; leaving him found by a farmer‚ who’s 72 feet tall. he was then brought home by the farmer‚ and Gulliver was being taken care of by a young girl. the farmer‚ finding Gulliver very unique and interesting‚ presents Gulliver in front of a huge crowd for money. soon‚ the words spread and reaches the Queen of Brobdingnag. she wanted
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and Weaknesses of Rulers In the epic of Gilgamesh‚ Gilgamesh and how he is as a ruler changes drastically from the beginning of the epic to the end. In the beginning of the epic Gilgamesh is almost childlike in his views on his kingdom and the people he rules. As the epic progresses Gilgamesh grows with his reputation and support of his friend Enkidu. By the end of the epic Gilgamesh has matured to the point of selflessness. In the beginning of the epic in the prologue it states that the
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What qualities do you need to have to be an epic hero? An epic hero is human but has some kind of ability that makes them different. Epic hero’s also do things to help other people. They also protect and lead and sometimes can be kings. For the most part epic heroes are usually good guys trying to take out a bad guy because no one but him has the power to. What does it take and what classifies you to be a epic hero. Throughout the entire epic Gilgamesh shows outrageous skill as a warrior and leader
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