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    Clown Punk

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    A man driving home through the rundown (shonky) side of town with his children in the backseat sees a heavily tattooed homeless man. The children wince at the sight of the vagrant when he tries to wash the windscreen of the car in the hope of making a few pence. The father tells the children to remember the ’clown punk’ although his reason is unclear. The philosophical tone of the poem would suggest that the speaker wants his children to look past the decay of the clown punk and see his inner

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    Ocean and Calypso

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    help you go. Come and cut down high timber for a raft so you can ride her on the misty sea. Come I’ll help you.” For all I have endured‚ I couldn’t help but to shudder. Was this a dream of some kind‚ have I gone completely insane or is she really telling me that I am free of this exile‚ to go back to Ithaka and my beloved Family. I could not help but question her‚ “After all these years A helping hand? O goddess‚ what guile is hidden here? A raft you say to cross the Western Ocean Rough waters

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    similarities between the movie and the myth are that in both‚ Perseus is helped to defeat Medusa‚ Perseus threw Medusa’s eye‚ and in both the movie and the myth Andromeda’s mom compares her to someone. The three main differences are Medusa has three sisters in the myth and not in the movie‚ also in the movie the Djjng and warriors help Perseus and in the myth Athena and Hernia help Perseus to defeat Medusa. Also‚ In the movie Perseus threw the witches eye on the ground and in the myth he throws it

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    Poseidon’s child‚ and his quest was to fetch Zeus’ lightning bolt. Some myths state he’s Zeus’ true son‚ and his quest was to kill Medusa‚ the eldest Gorgon for his mother’s wedding gift. People say he was once the king of Macedonia. But which one is really is the original myth? Perseus’ quest to kill Medusa is transformative as he changed the Greek’s lives by killing the evil Medusa. Perseus’ story started when his mother‚ Danae‚ got locked in the tower by her father because of an oracle that predicted

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    Explore the ways the characters are developed in ‘Medusa’‚ ‘The River God’‚ ‘The Ruined Maid’ and ’The Clown Punk’. The Ruined Maid The Ruined Maid was written in 1866 and published in 1902. It similarly revealed the injustices of Victorian morality and women’s insecure social position. By playing on the word ‘ruined’‚ Hardy questions which woman’s reality is the harsher and suggests the irony of class distinctions and moral rectitude. Stanza 1 The speaker of the first three lines is an unnamed

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    Perseus: A True Hero

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    remembered for decapitating the head of Medusa. Medusa was the "bad guy" and because Perseus killed her‚ he is considered a true hero. However‚ Perseus has done many other hero quality things‚ such as saving Andromeda. He was a great man I have been asked‚ "Do you think Perseus deserves to be referred to as a hero?". My response to that is yes! I have few reasons to support this. For one‚ he decapitated the head of the evil Medusa under request of Pollydectes. Medusa was extremely and scary because

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    The Odyssey: Calypso Sing I me‚ Muse‚ and through me tell the story of the lady nymph goddess Calypso. Oh so beautiful and immortal who lives in the sea- hollowed caves on the island Ogygia. She craved the hero of Troy‚ king of Ithaka‚ son of Laertes‚ a mortal and took him as her own. Nine long years they spent on the island together. I‚ Divine Calypso‚ was sitting at home and singing to my wonderful creatures when Dawn came to me until Hermes‚ The Wayfinder‚ found his way to my cave with urgent

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    the characteristics of the reanimated dead in his work “Medusa” in 1597. The gorgon‚ a monstrous female with live‚ venomous snakes in place of her hair‚ is painted at the precise time of her awareness

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    2015 AP AH Images Global Prehistory 30000 BCE-500 BCE 1. Apollo 11 Stones 2. Great Hall of Bulls 3. Camelid Sacrum in the shape of a canine 4. Running Horned Woman 5. Bushel with ibex motifs 6. Anthropomorphic stele 7. Jade cong 8. Stonehenge 9. The Ambum Stone 10. Tlatilco female figurine 11. Terra cotta fragment Ancient Mediterranean 12. White Temple and Ziggurat 13. Palette of King Narmer 14. Statue of votive figures‚ from the Square Temple at Eshnunna 15. Seated Scribe 16. Standard of Ur 17

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    The Adventure of Odysseus

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    [pic] The adventure of Odysseus What is an Epic? A long narrative poem about a legendary hero. Homer • poet • thought to be blind‚ but describes events as a seeing person • lived around 1200 B.C.E Ismarus City • From Troy‚ the ships first made land at Ismarus. • Ismarus – City of Ciconians • Odysseus lost six men from each ship. • Odysseus continued their sailing. • They were overtaken by a storm which drove them for NINE DAYS along the sea till they reached

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