R. Wier – Gateway College Prep School 1 Summer Reading Assignment: Edith Hamilton’s Mythology Pre-AP English I All students planning to take Pre-AP English I need to read Edith Hamilton’s Mythology in its entirety and complete the following assignment prior to the first day of school. Students should expect to turn in assignments the first day of class for a major grade. Students are responsible for an understanding of the material in the book when school begins as we will have class discussions
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conclusions by limiting or illuminating the amount and nature of the information from which conclusions can be drawn. In "Souls Belated‚" Edith Wharton uses point of view to illuminate the thoughts of each character individually‚ while concealing the thoughts of the other‚ and eventually to highlight the vastly different mindsets of both characters involved. Wharton first does this by revealing Lydia’s thoughts to the readers while hiding Gannett’s. At the exposition‚ the story is told in third person
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Folly of Hubris In Edith Hamilton’s Mythology‚ many mortals make the mistake of thinking themsleves equal or greater than the gods. Thinking "thoughts to dangerous to man" is the crime the gods hate the most. This stunt is called the folly of hubris. The folly of hubirs is will certainly be punnished for their arrogance. Bellerophon‚ Salmoneous‚ and Niobe all commited this crime and were most certainly punnished. Bellerophon lived a heroic and happy life until he angered the gods
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Social Stratification Social stratification is a system by which a society ranks categories of people‚ it is a structure of inequality (a general advantage or power of one group to another)‚ it describes the way in which different groups of people are placed within society. The status of people is determined by how society is stratified for example wealth and income which is the most common basis of stratification‚ social class‚ race and ethnicity‚ gender‚ age and disability and also religion
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Edith Wharton’s Favorite Theme Edith Wharton often wrote about people who were trapped by the moral strictures of society and were thus unhappy: she herself spent more than twenty years in a loveless marriage in which she had become involved in order to please her parents. How does Ethan Frome reflect this favorite theme of the author? How and in what ways would you describe the Protagonist as being trapped by the Society in which he lived? These are the questions I am going to answer for you and
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Case Study: April - Anorexia Nervosa XXXX Pennsylvania State University Case Study: April - Anorexia Nervosa Presenting Concerns April was a 17-year-old high school freshman who presented with severe emaciation due to self-starvation and excessive exercise. Despite being severely underweight‚ April indicated an intense fear of gaining weight. She bragged about how much weight she had recently lost‚ though she indicated that her "butt was still too fat." She also reported that she was constantly
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Humanity in Movie “Life of Pi” —Conflict between human nature and death Introduction Pi whose father operates a zoo in India has his special attitudes towards beliefs and humanity because of his extraordinary environment in which he lived when he was a child. His parents decided to immigrate to Canada when he was only 17 years old while Pi had to break out with his first lover. On the ship to Canada‚ a rainstorm occurred and the ship sank. Nevertheless‚ Pi survived dramatically
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Sex‚ lies and deceit. These three things are what this novel is about. But it is so much more than that. In the book Ethan Frome‚ written by Edith Wharton‚ the author uses symbolism to represent many things such as death. Symbols such as Zeena’s red pickle dish‚ the cold season of winter‚ and the dead cucumber vine all represent important parts that make up this novel. Zeena’s red pickle dish is a dish Zeena treasures most. She received the pickle dish as a wedding present and only uses the dish
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The 1960 psychological thriller‚ Psycho‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ challenge of social‚ film conventions and audience expectations at the time. The scene reveals an underlying uneasiness in the character of Norman Bates. The extract‚ the parlour scene‚ shows how Hitchcock uses cinematography and mise-en-scene to reveal the many layers of meaning to the audience. The film technique contribute to the themes‚ issues of duality of human nature‚ family. The context of the parlour scene is when Marion
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The monolog "The Seven Ages of Man" by Shakespeare and the myth of "Demeter" retold by Edith Hamilton convey many similar themes but the one that sticks out the most is the idea of life. In the "Seven Ages of Man" it tells us that are lives have different stages and in "Demeter" shows the changing of the seasons. The myth of "Demeter" shows us how and why the first winter happened. "The Seven Ages of Man" tell us about are lives and the different stages we go through. The monolog states we have
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