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    Mature Minor Rule Essay

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    insight into: The Mature Minor Rule. • “The Mature Minor Rule was created as a result of a 1967 court case‚ Smith v. Seibly‚ 72 2n.2d 16 and is part of Public Health - Seattle & King County’s Policy and Procedure which allows health care providers to treat youth as adults based upon an assessment and documentation of the young person’s maturity. The Mature Minor Rule enables the provider to ask questions of the young person in order to determine whether or not the minor has the maturity to provide

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    Odyssey Revision Notes

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    The Odyssey: Father-Son Relationships The Odyssey introduces the theme of father-son relationships to exemplify how influential fathers were at the time. Fathers act as role models to their sons and can determine their actions‚ even while being absent from home for long periods of time. Nestor’s son‚ Pisistratus‚ is a respectful and courteous man. His manners could be attributed to King Nestor’s piety. King Nestor offers sacrifices to the gods‚ as seen at the beginning of book IIV‚ when his people

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    Liszt's Sonata in B Minor

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    The Piano Sonata in B minor (German: Klaviersonate h-Moll)‚ S.178‚ is a musical composition for solo piano by Franz Liszt‚ published in 1854 with a dedication to Robert Schumann. It is often considered Liszt’s greatest composition for solo piano. The piece has been oft analyzed‚ particularly regarding issues of form. The sonata is notable for being constructed from five motivic elements that are woven into an enormous musical architecture. The motivic units undergo thematic transformation throughout

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    Summary of the Odyssey

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    name teacher English 14 March 2012 The ( Astonishing / Astounding / Outstanding ) Odyssey In the beginning of the movie‚ Odysseus ’s only son is born‚ Telemachus. Soon after though‚ Greece is at war with Troy‚ and the kings Agamemnon and Menalayes come to Ithica to force him to help fight in the war. He is forced to leave his new born son and wife‚ Penelope. Before he goes though‚ he tells her that she must marry if Telemachus has a beard and Odysseus has not returned. On his way towards

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    Book 11 of Homer’s The Odyssey continues Odysseus’s tale of how he came to arrive in Scheria‚ with him relating his voyage to the underworld. He makes the interesting choice of cutting his narrative choice halfway through his tale in order to incite a reaction from his Phaeacian audience. Odysseus makes this interruption because he is telling his tale not to relate what actually occurred in his travels‚ but because he needed help from the Phaeacians and used the story to obtain that help. Odysseus

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    Alien Minors Act Analysis

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    The Development‚ Relief‚ and Education for Alien Minors Act or best known as the DREAM Act was introduced by Barack Obama in 2015 but rescinded by Donald Trump in 2017. This proposal gave hope to undocumented minors in the United States. This hope‚ however‚ is being stripped away without taking into consideration the catastrophe it will cause in the lives of many people that call America‚ home. Living in the United States undocumented can be a terrifying experience since Immigrants are forced to

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    The Odyssey and Beowulf Comparison Epics are centered on the deeds and triumphs of their heroes. They focus on the feats of warriors who embody the cultural values of a nation. Both The Odyssey written by Homer and Beowulf an Anglo-Saxon epic represent the honor that comes along with fame‚ and hospitality found within a society. The emphasis on the glory of fame stems from the commonly referred terms Kleos and Timè. Both epics have a focus on glory as well as honor. Beowulf even says‚ “I shall

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    In the poem‚ The Odyssey‚ Odysseus and his men go through dangerous adventures. Odysseus must go through Cyclops‚ whirlpools‚ and other types of monsters to make it back home. This goes back about 1200 b.c.‚ after the Trojan War. Odysseus’s journey home took about twenty to thirty years after the war. The author‚ Homer‚ uses archetypes throughout the poem. An archetype is a character‚ action‚ or a situation that is a pattern of human life or patterns. The Odyssey includes about three archetypes throughout

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    Hades In The Odyssey

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    Except for a few sentences‚ minor gods and goddesses are not widely mentioned in Homer’s history. Even though the Trojan War largely began with a minor goddess‚ Eris‚ when she threw the Golden Apple amongst the gods and goddesses‚ minor gods and goddesses do not receive their deserved recognition. We know the loyalties of most major gods and goddesses‚ but people do not know the loyalties of most minor gods and goddesses. Depending on loyalties‚ why do minor deities take these sides? Could it

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    In a fantasized world like The Odyssey‚ women can threaten the power of the patriarchy‚ but in a modernized world like The Catcher in the Rye‚ women cannot threaten men because they do not hold tangible power. In The Odyssey‚ women like Helen‚ have the capability and desire to gain power; Helen exemplifies how women can manipulate men through the use sexulaity to do anything desire‚ even start a war. Her power over these men not only causes death and destruction‚ but it also causes endless nights

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