Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom‚ trade‚ the arts‚ medicine‚ and war. She most likely originated from the Etruscans‚ to whom she is known as Menvra and eventually was equated with the Greek goddess Athena. According to myths her birth was quite strange and unusual and although there is some speculation about exactly how she was born it is consistently told that she was born well‚ more like sprung out of Jupiter’s head. Jupiter the god the sky and lightning had mated with Metis a Titan goddess
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Ransom Slack By: Veda A The Civil War was gruesome and tough and many people died. The Civil War was a big part of society‚ without the Civil War there could still be slavery or the states could still be not united. With the loss of a lot of young men made it difficult for everyone. Ransom A. Slack enlisted in the Army when he was 20 years old‚ he was a soldier in the Civil War. Almost everyone had at least one family member go to war. Boys as young as thirteen joined the war to be a drummer
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daughter Pocahontas. They go on amazing adventures together and teach each other the ways of their people. John Smith is eventually captured and prepared for execution for the killing of Kocoum‚ even though he attacked first. Just seconds before the chief is about to kill him‚ Pocahontas jumps in the way saving him and confessing her love for him. The bond between the two
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Although the movie and the book are two different formats with the same story‚ these two formats manage to convey the best teaching lesson that is “after much suffering and with effort the Gladiator finally got their freedom”. The story begins with the last battle of a long war between the Roman Army and Germans tribes. Maximus‚ a Roman General of the North is offered by the Emperor to get the power and to help him pass the
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Location: Page 8. Page 21 Signpost: #1 (Contrast and Contradictions) Excerpt from the text: “We Indians really should be better liars‚ considering how often we’ve been lied to”(Alexie 8). “Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No‚ poverty only teaches you how to be poor” (Alexie 11). Anchor Question: Why would the character act (feel) this way? My Notes about It: Page 8: The character (Arnold) feels this way because his mother tried to lie to him that his sick
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Comparison and Contrast: Penelope vs. Penny Though Penny Wharvey McGill is portrayed as a “Southern 1930’s” version of Penelope‚ this heroine has many contrasting characteristics compared to the wife of Odysseus from Ancient Greece. In the Odyssey‚ Penelope stayed loyal to Odysseus while he was gone at sea for 20 years‚ and Penny couldn’t even stay faithful to Ulysses Everett McGill‚ who was only in jail for 2 years. Many pieces of evidence show the lack of allegiance Penny had to Everett. When
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History should be an interesting subject‚ but I dislike it when it comes to the history of Islam or whatever things that are related to Islam. It is not that I am being racist because at my own perspective‚ in order to study well in subjects related to history‚ one has to have the interest to explore it and find out what caused such historical moment to occur‚ and I have the least interest to explore Islam. However‚ things go the other way round when it comes to the history of my motherland‚ Malaysia
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The story of Agamemnon has been told three times throughout our readings‚ twice in the Odyssey and in the play Agamemnon. Each recounting of the tale differs slightly from the last and while the outcome is always the same‚ the characters are portrayed in vastly different lights between the poem and the play. Where the Odyssey portrays Agamemnon as a hero murdered by his lecherous wife Clytemnestra and his cowardly cousin Aegisthus‚ Agamemnon portrays him as cold and arrogant while his wife is a more
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characteristic that separates primates from hominids is bipedalism; means walking in two feet. These characteristics can be seen in the skeletal structures that have different traits that are: the pelvis is vertical‚ the spine is curved in an S shape and the last trait is that the arms are shorter than the legs. HOMINIDS THROUGHOUT TIME Scientists have found many different fossils of ancient hominids and have named 18 types. Fossils are classified as hominids when they share some characteristics of modern
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In these two stories “The Sniper” by Liam o’ Flaberly and “Cranes” by Hwang Sunwon. They have a lot in Common also there’re about war. Soon you’ll find out more about these two stories next. “The Sniper” by Liam O’ Flaberly is about a Republican Sniper fighting for his life and is in a civil war. The Republican Sniper is on a roof facing the other Sniper across the street then a women saw the Sniper and told the turret where the Republican Sniper was at. The Republican Sniper open fired and killed
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