Rikki-Tikki-Tavi is a little beast‚ a cobra’s worst nightmare‚ the king of mongooses. Which is why he has every right to be proud of himself. He killed three snakes‚ saved three humans‚ and saved two birds as well as the rest of the garden. If anyone has a right to be proud of themselves‚ then it’s him. Rikki-Tikki killed three snakes. One of the snakes was really hard to kill because it was so small. It was as quick as lighting and Rikki had to bite him right behind the head which would be extremely
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Set in the 1920s in Melbourne‚ Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries TV series is an Australian detective drama centred on the story of Miss Phryne Fisher‚ an heiress who fights crimes by hobby. Helped by her paid companion‚ Dorothy (mainly know as Dot)‚ and some long-suffering members of the Melbourne police force‚ Phryne drives herself around the city‚ chasing criminals with a pearl-handled pistol. Miss Phryne is always impeccably dressed and her outfits reflect her energy and independence simultaneously
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against the causes of evil as they try to make the environment a better place. Hercules (son of Zeus) is one of the many known Gods to Greek mythology. He is supernatural and immortal. The hero has extraordinary strength‚ being the strongest man on earth he is sometimes he is unaware of the power he posses‚ Hercules is invulnerable. Although worshiped as a God‚ he was properly a hero. In his early years‚ Hercules defeated Thebes from the armies of a neighboring city. Since he was young
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Hercules is considered a great hero in Greek myth. This is because he overcame a lot of obstacles in his 12 labors. These labors where tasks made to punish him for murdering his wife in children when he was in a trance bestowed upon him by Hera. Even though he is considered to be a hero‚ Hercules killed multiple people and creatures during his adventures. Most of these beings did not deserve to die. Hercules got carried away in his journey and killed anything that opposed him. Some of the creatures
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What Makes A Great Hero? Due to courage and honorability Theseus‚ Perseus‚ Hercules‚ and Jason are categorized as great heroes. A hero in today’s standards are seen to have different traits than a mythological hero. To come to the status of a hero in Greece you should be courageous and honorable at all times. To be someone’s hero today is a lot easier than in mythological times; today you can just simply be a celebrity and you could be known as someone’s hero. Theseus is categorized as a great
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Sophia Kudej English II Sun Dec 3 2017 Ares: The Brother Hercules Never Wanted. God of war‚ battlelust‚ courage‚ and civil order. Who is this description of? The Greek God‚ Ares. One of the strongest willed Greek Gods to exist. But one of the cruelest Gods to exist as well. He is the known as the God of those traits because of his actions and his battle tactics. Ares has always been a cruel person‚ but he was especially cruel in this statement‚ though he had some reason to be. He had had
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to people. When you mention heroes in mythology‚ there are two distinct names that a majority of people bring up‚ Achilles and Hercules. Each of these heroes has at least one thing that separates them from regular men‚ something that is special about them. For Achilles it is his invulnerability and his incredible courage that make him a great Greek hero. For Hercules it is his god-like strength‚ and his luck of being the son of the king of the gods. Each of these Greek heroes was destined to be
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After slaying the Nemean lion‚ Eurystheus sent Heracles to slay the Hydra‚ which Hera had raised just to slay Heracles. Upon reaching the swamp near Lake Lerna‚ where the Hydra dwelt‚ Heracles covered his mouth and nose with a cloth to protect himself from the poisonous fumes. He fired flaming arrows into the Hydra’s lair‚ the spring of Amymone‚ a deep cave that it only came out of to terrorize neighboring villages.[4] He then confronted the Hydra‚ wielding a harvesting sickle (according to some
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The five tasks which Heracles had to do are as follows‚ the first one was to slay the Nemean Lion and bring back its skin.The second one was to Slay the Lernaean Hydra.The third one was to Capture the Ceryneian Hind.The fourth one was to Capture the Erymanthian Boar and the last but not least was to Clean the Augean stables in one day. He accomplishes first task of blocking one of the doorways of Lions cave and approached the beast through the other‚he than grasped him with his mighty arms and choked
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Written in 1926‚ The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is Agatha Christie’s top selling novel due to its surprising and controversial ending. Like most of Christie’s novels‚ it was quite difficult for the majority of readers to detect who the murderer was‚ and most readers were perplexed to discover that it was the narrator‚ Dr. Sheppard. While some readers were pleasantly surprised by this plot twist‚ many disagreed with Christie’s choice to frame Dr. Sheppard as Roger Ackroyd’s murderer. Pierre Bayard‚ a
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