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    Female Infertility

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    Female infertility is a major consequence every woman should take into understanding. As known around‚ women themselves set aside an amount of purposes which makes a successful marriage and female infertility has become a serious discussion. The argument of the incapability of children making among couples is seldom the topic that risks a marriage and women would be blamed for that as pregnancy is at all times faced by the female gender. Men would pretty much contribute to the factors of infertility

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    Hades In The Odyssey

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    cannot be completed without said hero facing great dangers. The ultimate danger lies within death; the worst failure in a journey is when the hero falls to the fiery grasp of Hell. Much like Odysseus – a Greek hero whose tale can be found in The Odyssey

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    Fidelity in the Odyssey

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    Thesis Statement: The Odyssey implies that men are more naturally fidel than women. Men are not more naturally fidel than women. "Fidelity" is the quality of being faithful or loyal. The text “The Odyssey” is about a man‚ Odysseus‚ whose goal is to return home safely to his homeland‚ Ithaca‚ from his war with the Trojans. Through his journey back home‚ his loyalty to his wife‚ Penelope‚ was tested. Odysseus is not very loyal or fidel with his wife‚ based from the trials he’s been

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    FEMALE FOETICIDE

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    I AM YOUR BABY‚ PLEASE DON’T ABORT‚ LET ME LIVE‚ DON’T CUT ME SHORT!! This is the cry of an unborn girl. Female foeticide means killing an unborn girl. Man has covered a long distance from prehistoric ages to 21stcentury‚ during this long period of time; women had to face different eras. There was a time when worshipping god was considered incomplete without a female presence and there come such a time when she was kept behind” pardah” ‚bounded within the boundaries of her own home‚ many evils

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    Fate In The Odyssey

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    Fate in The Odyssey In Homer?s The Odyssey‚ fate plays an important part in the story development. People who believe in fate or destiny think that their lives are spun out in front of them before they are born‚ and there is nothing they can do to change that. Some characters‚ like Polyphemos‚ find out their fate beforehand but still end up fulfilling prophesies they tried to avoid‚ but most characters acted out their fate without realizing it‚ like Odysseus. He blinded the Cyclops without knowing

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    Free Will In The Odyssey

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    The Odyssey What is the nature of free will? Are gods or humans responsible for what happens? The Odyssey is a poem which is about a man named Odysseus (also known as Ulysses in Roman myths) who is on his way back to Ithaca where his home is with his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus but is said to be dead. Telemachus goes on hunt for Odysseus because he believes his father is still alive. On Odysseus’ way back to Ithaca he goes through many challenges such as defeating the Cyclops‚ Sirens

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    Female Infanticides

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    Madison Barlow Mrs. Burns English 10 Honors April 10‚ 2013 Female Infanticides in China For many decades China has been carrying out brutal actions among female infants which are known to be female infanticides. Female infanticides started in 1957 when China’s Chairman Mao Zedong wanted the country’s population to stay under six million for many years (Jimmerson). Leaders then came to a realization that a long term action would have to take place. Therefore they proposed a law stating that a

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    Analysis of Storytelling: Discovering Ones Identity and Purpose in Life Storytelling plays an important role in characterizing important figures in stories as giving personalities and traits specific to them. It also drives the plot‚ as in Homer’s The Odyssey and Virgil’s The Aeneid the epics are based on the telling of the protagonist’s journey. Another piece of literature‚ Grendel‚ written by John Gardner‚ utilizes storytelling in a different manner. The main character bases his self-understanding off

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    Men In The Odyssey

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    to their family name. This is evident in two famous Greek literatures‚ a Greek poem called “The Odyssey” by Homer and a Greek play called “Oedipus the King” by Sophocles. In these two Greek literatures the men in these stories will be living the life of a Greek man going to through a journey that will seal their fate‚ a fate that would stay with their names forever and make them

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    Flaws In The Odyssey

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    inflicted upon your eye this shameful blinding‚ tell him that you were blinded by Odysseus‚ sacker of cities. Laertes is his father‚ and he makes his home on Ithaca” (Homer 500-505). Homer’s work of historical fiction‚ The Odyssey‚ is the sequel to his earlier story The Iliad. The Odyssey follows Odysseus after the events of the 10 year Trojan war and his long journey home. He clashes with many monsters and it always seems that his pride gets the better of him. The quote above is Odysseus bragging to Polyphemus

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