When does a boy become a man? This rite of passage is explored in Robert Fagles ’ translation of Homer ’s epic poem‚ The Odyssey. Odysseus (king of Ithaca) fought in the Trojan War for ten years and after the fall of Troy he spent the next ten years trying to get home. He left behind an infant son‚ Telemachus‚ and a devoted wife‚ Penelope. Although they longed for Odysseus ’ return‚ Penelope and Telemachus were the perfect hosts to wayward strangers - even as their estate became overrun with arrogant
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. The roles of Zeus‚ Athena‚ and Poseidon in the Odyssey either aid or hinder Odysseus’ journey home. First off‚ when Odysseus was held captive from Calypso‚”Hermes explains that he has brought with an order from Zeus that Calypso must not detain Odysseus any longer but send him on his way home.”(Homer 1208). Zeus is considered to be helping Odysseus by agreeing to let him out of the island. Poseidon has been a burden because he heard his son‚ Polyphemus’ curse towards Odysseus‚ “O hear me‚ lord
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Odyssey means trouble: giving and receiving in kind‚ while inferno is symbolic for hell. This paper reviews the two poems‚ written centuries apart. The odyssey and inferno are about the journey of two men. In the two poems‚ the main character is given guidance by another character aiding them in their travel. Athena is the protector of Odysseus on his journey back from the Trojan War to his family in Ithaca. Dante on the other hand was led by vigil through hell in order to save his soul. In Dante’s
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The Duality of Odysseus: an Odyssey of the Mind As William Makepeace Thackeray once said‚ "bravery never goes out of fashion." This theme is evident both in modern day life and ancient literature. As America found out this past August‚ men will go to all ends to prove their masculinity. William Lawson‚ of Louisiana‚ is among the more recent examples of this. Years after leaving the Marine Corps as a grunt‚ without fighting experience‚ he masqueraded as a Marine Corps General. His deception
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Alcohol Lab Data Conclusion Objective: The objective of this lab was to find the concentration of an unknown alcohol solution. Procedure and Data: We found the masses of 10.00 mL of each of the known concentrations of alcohol (minus the beaker mass) by placing the beaker onto the scale‚ zeroing the scale‚ and then pouring alcohol into the beaker‚ repeating for each different concentration solution. Then‚ using the same method‚ we found the mass of 10.00 mL of the unknown concentration. We recorded
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Introduction Nowadays，the insurance industry has become an important part in our daily life.It is reported by Carow(2010) that nearly 70% people have bought certain kinds of insurance. Bancassurance‚as an newly developed branch of insurance‚ is a collaboration between a commercial bank and an insurance company‚ aiming at selling insurance business to the bank’s clients. In recent years‚ Bancassurance has become an indispensable part of the modern life for British people. It is reported that Bancassurance
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CONCLUSIONS Living in a continuously changing world‚ the power is to those who better and faster know to adapt‚ to the entrepreneurs with a great flexibility and fast response reaction to the newest and most sophisticated needs and tastes. Rooting back in the ’86‚ there was given a framework for doing business‚ by the introduction of the Single Market which eased the movement with the Union and gave incentives for new business plans. Meeting these rules and regulations‚ enterprises are free
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Conclusion What is Telemedicine for telehealth care? Telemedicine for telehealth care is Electronic healthcare (E-healthcare) system that uses telecommunication and information technologies to provide clinical health care. The telemedicine for telehealth care system is the machinery for Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) that helps to eliminate distance barriers to improve patients’ access to medical services that often not available in rural communities. Although there were predecessors to
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Critical Lens Essay One might be angered that most of their child hood and lifetime stories are all based on archetypes. A simple skeleton of all tales‚ novels and stories alike. Until Discovering what an archetype was‚ you may have though that The Odyssey and Harry Potter were completely different tales‚ however this assumption would be wrong. Odysseus‚ a true hero destined by society to have the falls and triumphs of a hero‚ as well as “the chosen one” That was Harry. Both chosen by society‚ both
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you’re in control of your fate‚ right? A popular theme in Greek myths is that of predetermination or prophecy. In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ and in Serial‚ people attempt to control their lives while unknowingly conforming to their predetermined fate. Whether or not they were conscious of the acting determinants‚ both situations were actively being pursued. In book 9 of The Odyssey‚ it hardly seems like a coincidence that Odysseus has the godly wine‚ which he uses to disarm the Cyclops‚ however‚ it is his
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