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    Personality decides how others treat an individual. It makes up identity‚ and who someone is. In order to be respected by others‚ a good personality is required. A good person is not always perfect‚ but they do always have perfect intentions. A person like that loves everyone no matter what‚ and extends their care to all people. The main objective of a good person is to make sure the people around them are comfortable with themselves‚ and know someone cares about them. So what makes a good person

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    WORLD HISTORY I EXAM REVIEW CHAPTER 1: THE EARLIEST HUMAN SOCIETIES PALEOLITHIC ERA: ~8000 BC Old Stone Age; earliest people Hunting and gathering food‚ vitamins‚ and minerals Buffalo‚ deer‚ herd animals that could be tracked Stayed next to rivers so they could follow the animas as they migrated (nomadic) Small societies Around 50-150 Support of environment Large enough for biological diversity Communication by sound (ghost communication) Slow development of technology Houses: caves

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    Life of Pi also told a story that explored the happenings of a shipwreck and duality of survival. The next type of storytelling I discovered is the cultural component. This type of story acts as a preserver for time and information. The readings‚ Gilgamesh and Ignorance address this in very different ways. The last type of motivation for stories is to cultivate therapy. Night by Elie Wiesel and Sacred Ground by Eboo Patel are both stories that can be used by the author to address hardships in life

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    The Odyssey all have symbolized water to represent an idea portrayed in the work. Giglamesh symbolizes water in two different meanings‚ as life and death. Giglamesh uses water to represent life is Gilgamesh ’s dreams. When Gilgamesh and Enkidu travel are on their quest to kill Humbaba‚ Gilgamesh has a series of dreams. In the first dream‚ he dreams that he is attacked and he is refreshed with water. He says‚ "It bellowed and beat up the dust till the whole sky was dark‚ my arm was seized and

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    In the epic poem Gilgamesh‚ the main theme is Gilgamesh’s quest to defeat the demon that is in the back of every human’s mind at all times: death. His quest to defeat mankind’s penultimate battle proves futile in the end‚ yet could Gilgamesh be considered to be immortal in a different sense? Immortality can exist on two planes: both a physical and metaphorical world. Gilgamesh did fail is his quest to live tangibly forever‚ and therefore seeks everlasting life in an allegorical sense. If he could

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    not in the case of a epic hero. A epic hero is a protagonist in epics which is larger then life and has a long dangerous adventure in which gods step in assisting the hero through the battles‚ troubles‚ and problems in the adventure. In an epic the story the point of the adventure is to change the epic hero for the better. so know that one can understand what makes a epic hero lets look at why Gilgamesh is a epic hero. To better explain the bases that who is Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh is the king of uruk

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    the respectable Greek citizen. It displays courage and obedience to the Gods in which the Greek world revolved around. Beyond relaying a fantastic journey‚ featuring a glorified hero who embodies to perfection Greek ideals‚ Homer uses the epic books of The Odyssey to explore all the nuances of Greek culture. Each part of The Odyssey possesses a purpose beyond detailing popular mythology. Book Eleven’s Underworld becomes the culmination of all the values and ideals that Homer

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    her.” This passage is a description of the relations between Shamhat and Enkidu from “Gilgamesh.” Enkidu is wild and lives among the beasts while Shamhat is trained in the art of sexual pleasure. By seducing Enkidu‚ Shamhat awakens the humanity which has remained dormant in Enkidu. This has a transformative effect on Enkidu. He goes from resembling a beast to becoming a man who can challenge the great Gilgamesh. 4- “When a young man is killed in war‚/ Even though his body is slashed with bronze

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    The two stories of Gilgamesh and Genesis have many similarities that raise to question whether or not the great flood actually happened. The Epic was written in Cuneiform‚ on twelve tablets in the form of a poem‚ while Genesis was written and later translated in paper manuscript‚ the Bible. In the EpicGilgamesh the King of Uruk‚ who had great wisdom and strength. Gilgamesh’s was a tyrannical leader which lead Uruk to call upon the Gods to create a man worthy of challenging Gilgamesh’s existence

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    issues and lives of the migrant workers and their working conditions. Temelcoff is given the power of language he is able to realise that "he has been sewn into history. Now he will begin to tell stories."  This also directly relates to the Epic of Gilgamesh which is the first recorded myth The book’s title is from a direct quote of the myth. "I will let my hair grow long for your sake‚ and I will wander through the wilderness in the skin of a lion" This emphasises the need of a story teller who

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