‘The Odyssey’ and ‘Big Fish’ In what ways has Homer’s Odyssey influenced your chosen epic? Homer’s Odyssey is full of themes and ideas‚ many that have influenced the modern world today. The ideas have been portrayed in various books‚ movies or epics. The epic i chose is ‘Big Fish’. It is a movie directed by Tim burton and it features a lot of themes and ideas that were in the odyssey‚ and i believe it was highly influenced by it. There are many similarities between Odysseus and Edward’s wives. They both have great love
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LECTURETTE - IS THERE GOD ? 1. ‘O God‚ help us to keep ourselves physically strong‚ mentally awake and morally straight‚ that in doing our duty to Thee and our country we may keep the honour of the Services untarnished’ …..it is the way we started our life everyday for three very important years of our life‚ I am just reciting it so as to refresh your memory….and to seek out the first line….”Oh God‚ help us to”……GOD…who is GOD….what is GOD….is it something that justifies our existence‚ something
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The play “An Inspector calls” is written by the author J.B Priestley‚ all three acts are taken place in the dining-room of the Birlings’ house in Brumply‚ an industrial city in the North Midlands. The time it was set was an evening in spring‚ 1912. The play was first produced at the New Theatre in October‚ 1946. The story contains the characters: Arthur Birling‚ Sybil Birling‚ Eric Birling‚ Gerald Croft‚ Edna and INSPECTOR GOOLE. The detective thriller really gets the audience’s attention‚ from the
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problematic‚ in that there is not one universal meaning. It is a debate among the critics and scholars of language and literature what‚ and who‚ gives a poem meaning. Stanley Fish claims that meaning comes from the interpretive community. A prominent literary theorist‚ he compared the act of interpretation to following a recipe. Fish claims that readers are instructed to look at texts in ways that will produce what they expect to see. This analysis does not support the suggestion that the individual reader
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“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king‚ and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.” This quote is spoken by Hamlet in act 4 scene 3. This quote explains the circle of life of what Hamlet believes. He claims that people are eaten when they die by worms and the worms are eaten by fish which are fished away and eaten by people. Showing how one organism’s life is used to preserve another. Hamlet uses this quote to show how even a high and mighty king will one day be fed to worms
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The days flew by one-by-one‚ and winter was slowly coming. They had plentiful food supplies to last them for six-to-eight weeks and a creek nearby for water. The cornmeal wasn’t cutting it for their stomachs‚ so Will decided to learn how to spear fish. Spearing was a difficult and patient job for Will‚ but he managed to catch
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PRESERVING FISH SPECIMENS Specimens from any field collection should be deposited in a reference collection in an institutional for the long-term maintenance and access for the future. The animals should therefore be preserved in the best possible condition and where possible‚ ensure that the natural colour is retained‚ their external appendages (e.g. fins) are erected and stomach contents intact. Care should be taken to ensure that specimens are undamaged. Features important in the taxonomic
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1. What are the four big ideas in the book? (Explain each idea) The fish book explains the four successful elements to get energy‚ passion‚ and creativity. The first notable element in the book is Chooseing attitude‚ so that means you are very responsible for making your attitude to work. If you take the negative attitude make‚ then you will have a bad day or you will get a positive day when you come with a convinced day. The second element is finding the best way to play and having fun at work
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Priestley presents Inspector Goole as someone who will contradict the views of Mr. Birling- he does this through his timing of Goole’s entrance in Act I. Goole’s entrance interrupts Mr Birling speech‚ in which he discusses his selfish views on how ”a man has to mind his own business and look after himself”. This not only characterises Mr Birling as selfish but also illustrates to the audience that these views are false as a “sharp ring of a front doorbell” interrupts them. The “sharp” sound of the
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Fish Paste/Bagoong BAGOONG IN CUBES -packed in aluminum foil and carton. -more stable‚ handy‚ and appealing as compared to traditional bagoong. -was an offshoot of a study titled “Preparation of Dried Products from Fish Paste (Bagoong Cubes)” -the product has a longer shelf-life -the technology eliminates the problem of toxin production by Clostridium botulinum due to anaerobic and watercontent of the traditional bagoong. -the absence of anaerobic bacteria makes it a safer food additive. -to
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