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    Name ________________________ The Odyssey Study Questions- ANSWERS Book One (p. 77-92): 1. What do you see as the attitude of the Gods’ towards men? They think men are foolish. They bring most pain and suffering upon themselves. 2. What do you see as the attitude of the Greeks towards hospitality? They take the role of hosts seriously. The Greeks had to open their home‚ be gracious‚ and share their food‚ and drink with their guests. 3. How would you characterize Telemachus at this

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    Everything Happens For a Reason Both The Odyssey by Homer and Oedipus Rex by Sophocles‚ were based in the context of ancient Greek culture but each was written during different time periods. The Gods played an enormously influential role in the lives of the Ancient Greeks. The Odyssey was written during the Greek Heroic Age (1500-1100 B.C.E.) and Oedipus Rex was estimated to be written around the 430s B.C.E. during the Age of Pericles when Athens was at its height of political and cultural power

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    Triumphs of Diomede and the Possibility of Epic in Troilus and Criseyde." Medium Aevum 79.1 (2010): 68+. Questia. Web. 6 May 2012. "Virtue." The Columbia Encyclopedia. 6th ed. 2009. Questia. Web. 6 May 2012. Giannopoulou‚ Zina. "Intertextualizing Polyphemus: Politics and Ideology in Walcott ’s Odyssey." Comparative Drama 40.1 (2006): 1+. Questia. Web. 6 May 2012. Janowski‚ Zbigniew. "The Odyssey of the Odyssey." First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life Nov. 2008: 56+. Questia. Web

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    A hero is someone who did something ordinary in an extraordinary way; through thousands of years of reading about heroes in Greek mythology or‚ seeing Oprah donate five hundred million dollars to a school in Africa. Heroes have helped and inspired people to do unbelievable things. Heroes are usually very selfless and always have a lot of humility; however some heroes not till an eye opening event or‚ even death‚ Other heroes show humility through their entire life.Humility is what makes a hero truly

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    The Creative Child . . . he became a writer and he wrote a book. He called it The Book of Lost Things‚ and the book that you are holding is the book that he wrote (Connolly 335). These are the concluding words of John Connolly’s fantasy fiction The Book of Lost Things‚ revealing that the narrator have been the protagonist all along. A writing child is a common phenomenon in fantasy fiction around the world as well‚ sometimes overlapping with the reading child; however‚ the purpose of writing by a

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    Book Review: The Odyssey by Homer Written by a blind man‚ Melesigenes better known as Homer‚ and translated by Alexander Pope‚ the Odyssey of Homer is a poem about the life of the king of Ithaca‚ Ulysses‚ who leaves to fight in the Trojan War‚ but he doesn’t return until 20 years. According to Professor P. Landow‚ Ulysses is a great athlete and great warrior‚ heroic‚ courageous‚ eloquent‚ and masterful‚ and at the same time‚ he I pious (Landow). In those twenty years trying to get back home‚ he

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    Opisthokonta: Metazoa II: Eumetazoa: Bilateria: Protostomia: Ecdysozoa Objectives: • Know the key features of the Phylum Nematoda. Know how they relate to other metazoan phyla. • List the key characteristics of the Phylum Arthropoda. Identify examples. List the four subphyla and their key distinguishing features. Identify examples of the subphyla Chelicerata‚ Crustacea‚ Myriapoda‚ and Hexapoda. • Be able to identify the different structures on these organisms and understand their function. • Understand

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    t is my pleasure to welcome you to the academic year that looms before us like one of the mythical lands on Odysseus’s journey: unknown‚ a little scary‚ and full of promise for the intellectual adventurer. This is the seventh year that convocation has included a lecture on Homer’s Odyssey. For parents who read the text over the summer‚ I hope to provide one focus for your conference discussion tomorrow. And as a quick aside: for those of you who haven’t quite finished‚ jump ahead to book XXII and

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    Name: Major Works Data Sheet This form must be typed. Title of the Work: Odyssey Author: Homer Date of Publication: 1996 Genre: Epic Historical information about the Setting: In Greek mythology‚ “The Odyssey” took place in Troy after the Trojan War was going on. The Achaeans were after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus who is the king of Sparta. It started with Athena and Aphrodite fighting for the golden apple. Paris was chosen to judge the both of them because the

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    PHYSICS PROJECT TO STUDY THE OPTICAL LENS OF A HUMAN EYE Eyes are organs that detect light‚ and convert it to electro-chemical impulses in neurons. The simplest photoreceptors in conscious vision connect light to movement. In higher organisms the eye is a complex optical system which collects light from the surrounding environment; regulates its intensity through a diaphragm; focuses it through an adjustable assembly of lenses to form an image; converts this image into a set of electrical signals;

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