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    her. Then the classic (with a few twists) myth of the Trojan War is told. But everyone seems to blame Helen or Paris when there are a lot of other characters to receive part of the blame. For instance: the gods‚ Agamemnon‚ Menelaus‚ and even Odysseus. The reason why most blame Helen and Paris is that Helen isn’t just any Greek woman; she is the most beautiful and desirable woman alive. When Helen ran away with Paris to Troy she abandoned her country and her people. All of Greece was forced to go

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    dirty work. Clytemnestra is killed by her own son‚ Orestes‚ some years later. Menelaus goes home with Helen‚ apparently having won. But in the Odyssey‚ he is a shadow of his former self‚ is ridiculed by his subjects‚ and despised by Helen. No respect. Troy has been sacked and burned. King Priam‚ who has lost both his sons in the war‚ is killed in the mayhem. The Trojans are mostly slaughtered. Helen has lost her lover‚ Paris‚ and is now forced to live with the man she hates .Achilles‚ Paris and Hector

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    he has suffered from smoke inhalation and minor lacerations. The second to enter was Johnny Cade (16). And the third was Dallas Winston (17). Dallas also has suffered from smoke inhalation and second degree burns on his arm. Unfortunately Johnny Cade has smoke inhalation‚ third degree burns all over his body‚ and a broken back. Just five days before the church burned down these ‘heroes’ were wanted for manslaughter. Robert Sheldon was stabbed and killed by Johnny Cade. “Robert was drunk‚ he

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    that a drunk driver had drove through her house‚ landing on top of her sleeping. She and her boyfriend were trapped underneath the car for 41 minutes‚ while fluids poured into their eyes‚ car engines scorched their legs leaving them with third degree burns‚ and the fear of death was racing through their mind. The man was attempting to kill his ex-girlfriends new boyfriend but was too intoxicated to get the right house. After the accident occurred he tried escaping the scene‚ but was luckily caught by

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    be fatal and life threatening. However‚ these characters are often forced by laws‚ cultures‚ morals and gender that stop them from being as free as they would like to be. The main characters that try to express this free-will are Achilles‚ Paris‚ Helen and Hector. They all illustrate this dilemma but it is deciding so that Homer lets the reader decide what is truly right. Achilles is the hero of the Trojan War and a great warrior of Greece. He his faced with many choices that shape who he is.

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    Applied Coding--DRG Assignment Name:______ This assignment will be worth 45 points. Part I Instructions (Part I of II): Review the following cases. Select and code the principal diagnosis and all significant secondary diagnoses‚ as well as the principal procedure and secondary procedures as applicable. Use the computer (encoder and grouper) for this assignment. You may use your coding book to locate the codes if you don’t feel comfortable enough with the encoder yet. Once you obtain

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    Thesis Statement: Women play a major role in the Iliad. Examining the impact of female characters in an epic dominated by war and the men who fought it. Major female characters include Helen‚ Briseis‚ Athena‚ Aphrodite‚ Hera ‚ Thetis and Chrysies. The Iliad is first and foremost an epic poem about a war waged by men. Even though there are no female warriors ‚ apart from the goddesses‚ women play a major role in defining the course of it. The roots of the war can be traced back to the beauty

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    portraying Castor as a skilled horse trainer and Pollux as an expert boxer. Inseparable‚ the brothers always acted together. In one of the earliest myths about the twins‚ Castor and Pollux rescued their sister Helen after she had been kidnapped by Theseus (pronounced THEE-see-uhs)‚ king of Attica. Helen would later gain fame as the queen whose abduction by Paris‚ a Trojan prince‚ launched the Trojan War. The twins also accompanied Jason and the Argonauts on their voyage in search of the Golden Fleece. During

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    name was Helen‚ gone. The king soon QAlearned that she was kidnapped by Paris‚ Prince of Troy. 2After the shock‚ Menelaus promised to get back Helen‚ so he called all the kings of Greece. After recruiting the kings‚ they sailed with Menelaus to Troy. As the kings SVpursued the city‚ they LYdisappointedly discovered that it was surrounded by a great wall. 6Of course‚ Menelaus was unhappy. The kings and soldiers camped along the beach and plotted. The Greeks knew that in order to get Helen back‚ they

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    than what one person loves. To prove her theory‚ she brings forward the decision of the beautiful Helen of Troy‚ one of the most contradictory feminine characters‚ reinterpreting historical facts‚ at least in the way they had been presented in the Iliad. It is‚ as if‚ Sappho would say that the way Helen’s experience generated discussions‚ in the same way any other person is free to make a choice. Helen‚ in Sappho’s view followed her desire against everybody and everything and when she had to make a

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