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    Odysseus’s 20-year long Journey When you set out for Ithaca‚ pray that your road’s a long one‚ full of adventure‚ full of discovery. In Homer’s epic poem‚ “The Odyssey”‚ ten years have passed since the fall of Troy‚ and the Greek hero Odysseus still has not returned to his kingdom in Ithaca‚ many believe he is dead. It takes Odysseus 20 years to return home after he left Ithaca for the war. It takes Odysseus 10 years to return home after the 10 year long Trojan war. During these 10 years‚ Odysseus

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    The Idea of Home In the novel‚ “The Namesake” Gogol is trying to search for his identity and who he wants to be but she is also searching for the definition of a home. He has moved so many times that he started not seeing them as homes‚ but just a place they would have been staying at for a while. The definition of a home is a place that you feel happy at because of all the memories you have. A home is a place where you are loved and you know you are safe and not judged. Gogol does not know how

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    Literary Analysis Beowulf

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    D. The ending contains many words that show how Beowulf’s people feel about the death of their leader. The word “sorrow” comes up as they are truly sad about the loss of Beowulf. They also tell stories about his “greatness”‚ “heroic deeds”‚ and “a life as noble as his name”. All of these show that the Geats had great respect for Beowulf as they recognize his characteristics as king. They send their praises up “warm with love” and cry over the stories that they share‚ continuing to show the sorrow

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    In the novel‚ “The Pearl” there was many things symbolizing the pearl its self. The pearl was symbolized to ambition‚ then at the end of the story the pearl was represented as sinful. The character of the pearl changed because the pearl did harmful/hurtful things to Kino and his family. The symbol of the pearl was different from the beginning of the story till the end of the story. The pearl represented as aspiration in the beginning but was known to be dishonorable at the end of the story. As Kino

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    Fences Name: Jondrea Williams Date: 03/12/2012 English 1102 Drama Essay “We black men have a hard enough time in our own struggle for justice‚ and already have enough enemies as it is‚ to make the drastic mistake of attacking each other and adding more weight to an already unbearable load.” (Malcolm X) African American men through time have struggled for a power that is out of their reach because others hold the power. August Wilson’s Fences displays a Psychological/Psychoanalytic

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    The Veldt One problem in the Veldt by Ray Bradbury is that the parents let their kids get out of hand with technology led to their death. According to a website (that I couldn’t find the name of) had a part in the story where I asked how much technology is too much? And an answer was mind blowing. Apparently two 12 year old girls spent so much time on the internet that eventually that they believed that a real internet monster was real called slender man and they needed a sacrifice that they went

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    The parents‚ George and Lydia‚ are to blame for their own deaths because the technology took their parenting role and then weren’t even solicitous. Later this leads to the kids being addicted to technology. In the story "The Veldt" by Ray Bradbury the parents‚ Lydia and George‚ decided to buy a Smart Home that would do everything for them. The house destroyed the parents control over the kids and the relationship between the kids and the parents. This later leads to the kids‚ Peter and Wendy‚ getting

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    The Yellow Wallpaper Literary Analysis The short story by Charlotte Gilman about a woman who has become mentally ill covers many controversial topics that are still very prevalent today. The large issues that are covered are shown by the imagery throughout the story from the woman’s thoughts‚ the interactions with the characters‚ and the social normalcies at the time. A few times in the story‚ the speaker uses deep imagery to portray her extreme mental illness and obsessions with the patterned

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    Odyssey Literary Analysis

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    The Author and his Times The author of the Odyssey‚ to this day‚ remains unknown. Early Greeks have accredited works such as the "Homeric Hyms"‚ The Iliad‚ and The Odyssey to an individual by the name of Homer. However‚ there are some scientists that insist these said works were product of a group of people and not one man. This particular group of scientists claims that the subject matter of the writings is too diverse for them to have been the product of just one person. Despite these differing

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    In Legend‚ Marie Lu uses connotative diction that creates an accusing tone in order to elucidate how individuals within a society automatically resort to class hierarchy. She concludes that humans are willing to submit to ignorance in order to live in a society that benefits them. The Republic is a place of extreme economic polarization. High-ranking characters like June and Thomas enjoy lavish lifestyles and fancy events while the poor live in slums and do not receive adequate medical care. Just

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