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    of honour. To begin with‚ Annabeth is a natural born leader‚ and has been leading a large group of people since she was very young. She lead the Heroes of Olympus through their mission to defeat Gaea‚ and has been head counselor of the Athena cabin since she was

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    I. INTRODUCTION Today‚ faith‚ doubt‚ and prayer the afterlife and other religious are topics that is truly significant. How does one find faith? Rediscovering faith after the grieving process so whether starting from background of having practiced a religion and then fallen away‚ or whether pursuing the search for faith for the first time. The question becomes why should a person take time to read and learn about God? Dante’s epic masterpiece‚ The Divine Comedy‚ was probably begun about 1307; it

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    In this tale a young woman by the name of Arachne claims to be a better weaver than Athene. After hearing the girl’s pleas of repent‚ the goddess challenges the mortal girl who a competition in which the people would judge who the better of the two was. Athene wove terrible scenes that the mortals could not bear to see and so therefore could not judge. Arachne was so mortified by these scenes that she had hung herself. Athene’s greed for the ability

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    animals trapped in cages‚ which makes Grover especially angry. They look miserable‚ and Grover promises them they will help them in the morning. Annabeth explains why she freaked out back at the water park: a woman named Arachne got turned into a spider because she challenged Athena to a weaving contest‚ and Arachne’s children have been taking revenge on Athena’s since. Percy also realises who Grover actually is: the satyr who tried to rescue Thalia‚ the daughter of Zeus. The other two half-bloods

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    figure out a way to execute it the most lethal way possible. Although‚ you may be a thousand times bigger than the specimen‚ it’s still able to give you a shiver down your spine. You might have guessed the abomination I was speaking about: they are spiders. What purpose do these abominable creatures serve us? Why have they been brought upon our world? They should cease to exist; moreover‚ they provide us with no assets whatsoever. The only benefit that even comes across my mind is its ability to

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    Unlike normal people‚ Annabeth has to worry about gods and demons destroying her. Therefore‚ Annabeth’s view on what we conceive as normal would be slightly different than the average person. Being the child of Athena or any other god does not come without its challenges. Annabeth had to grow up practically seeing her mother only a couple of times in her 17 years of life. The gods rarely spend time with their children to prevent getting attached to the human world. As a result‚ Annabeth ran away

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    shares the same first name the roman counterpart to Athena (aka Minerva)‚ she also shares very similar traits considering that Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom and war. In the Harry Potter books she is a reputable teacher who demands respect‚ just like how Minerva the goddess demands respect from her peers and mortals through her wisdom and war fear tactics. This can be seen in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book VI when Minerva challenges Arachne to a weaving competition. Minerva weaves a tapestry that

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    her life‚ Annabeth keeps cool and thinks fast‚ using her beauty and cunning with great precision. Being the daughter of the goddess of wisdom‚ Athena‚ Annabeth inherited a love of architecture and an accurate use of strategy. Unluckily‚ she has also been given an overbearing phobia of spiders‚ and a fatal flaw that has cursed many other children of Athena: hubris‚ or‚ deadly pride. Her fellow half-blood campers respect Annabeth and go to her for advice and tips about quests because of her extensive

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    a motif)‚ and the metaphorical (the theme) sense; embroidering their stories. Valentin asks how “If you embroider‚ why can’t I too?” when talking to Molina‚ showing both their apparent tendencies to do so. The title‚ “The Kiss of The Spider Woman” refers to Arachne and Penelope‚ and the story itself even resembles

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    Nhu Nguyen Period 6th Mythology Project PART TWO: Stories of Love and Adventure I. Cupid and Psyche 1. “Psyche excelled her sisters so greatly that beside them she seemed a very goddess consorting with mere mortals” (121). 2. Venus wants Cupid to use his power and make Psyche fall madly in love with the vilest and most despicable creature there is in the whole world (122). 3. Cupid fell in love with Psyche the moment they first met (122). 4. The Zephyr carried Psyche from the

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