The Impact of Poetry The legend of Homer‚ considered by most the greatest epic poets of ancient Greece‚ stretches beyond classroom conversations and readings in classics classes at Connecticut College. His legend transforms Homer from being a man of words into a man of impact. Words were just the way of delivering this impact to the masses. We see the importance of poetry to the people and culture of Ancient Greece in more places than just the oral readings of The Iliad and The Odyssey. Festivals
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prepared my coffee lay down on the sofa and planned to catch up on the latest news. The images which appeared on the television screen became indelibly impressed on my memory. The Twin Towers were in flames. People were frantically fleeing from the inferno as Policemen and Firefighters rushed into the buildings to save lives. As the magnitude of the devastation emerged in the week and months that followed‚ my thoughts turned to be own future. My journey began with an investigation of careers
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won nine Emmy Awards‚ including "Best Single Performance by an Actor" and "Most Outstanding Single Program of the Year." Finian’s Rainbow (1968) was his final musical film. In the 1920’s‚ he continued acting. He appeared in the film The Towering Inferno (1974)‚ which he received his only Academy Award nomination in the category of Best Supporting Actor. Fred Astaire died in 1987 from pneumonia at the age of 88. His unparalleled skill as a dancer leads many critics to cite him as the best dancer
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Analogy Life is a box of chocolate. A box of chocolate contains pieces of identical chocolates. But they all have different types of flavor‚ smell and texture. Some taste like sweet heaven‚ some taste like vicious inferno. Nonetheless‚ every time when you reach within to snatch a piece‚ the outcome is unexpected and unpredictable. Similar to what life is all about- It is full of surprises; you never know what you will get. One second you can be in heaven on earth‚ and then a second later be in
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as he goes from pitying sinners to eventually being disgusted and angry at them in later parts of the poem. The human body‚ while fascinating in a scientific sense‚ is down right horrible when taken apart and disfigured as it is throughout the Inferno. The way excrement and disfiguration can be used as a punishment is a horrifying idea that Dante uses and executes well. I can relate to Dante’s admiration of the human body so closely that the images scare me as much as they must have scared Dante
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Title: Boogie Nights: Music‚Youth‚ and Joy in Netflix’s The Get Down While The Get Down second season premieres this Friday via streaming service Netflix. I am ecstatic for it and it was one of my favorite shows of last year. I’m not a person to binge watch shows but The Get Down was one of those shows. A hero’s journey told through the eyes of a love sick boy in the Bronx‚ named Zeke. The Get Down is one part musical drama ‚comic narrative‚ and coming of
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men running up and down catwalks‚ blank faces and dreamy in firelight thrown from a hundred blast furnaces‚” (Kesey 86). The gloomy atmosphere as well as the mechanical and brutal nature of the ward‚ is perhaps an allusion to Hell and Dante’s novel Inferno‚ as the character Virgil guides people through Hell which parallels the role of the Public Relation’s man who guides visitors through the ward. The ward‚ of course‚ is symbolic of Hell itself as it is the center of the machine which attempts
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seems to weigh Rogue down every time he flew over it. One day Rogue was roused from a beautiful dream. There were swords clashing outside‚ and the screams of women and children were a terrible indicator. Rogue peeked out of the window. There were inferno beams shooting everywhere‚ meteors showered from the sky and exploded into hot magma. Children were running while getting pummeled down by spells. Houses were burned down by hell fire not extinguishable by water. War has started with Roke and Nitraria
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were stretching skywards. I stood there helplessly feeling like a burnt child dreads fire. Shock and fear engulfed me. Cries of desperation and wail of sirens of the fire engine could be heard. Civil defence combatted the threatening inferno with jets of water. There was a menagerie of uniformed fire fighters battling the flames and angelic white paramedics rendering first aid to all victims. After which‚ they brought out the evacuees’ bodies which were charred beyond recognition
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The worth of any physical journey can be measured by the value it has to the traveller; by the psychological‚ moral and philosophical insight gained during the course of travel. This is especially valid for a trip of such immense significance as the one undertaken by the narrator in Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness‚ Marlow‚ as he travels along the Congo River in Africa. The symbolic importance of the Congo River is paramount throughout the novella; however‚ it is equally important to consider the
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