Lysistrata is a comedy written by Aristophanes revolves around a central main character‚ Lysistrata‚ an ordinary‚ everyday woman leading a group of women to protest against a highly anticipated Peloponnesian war by refusing sexual contact with their partners. Although it was highly implausible‚ especially considering the period of time in which the play was based on‚ the group of women were successful in ending the war. The play suggests that Lysistrata wanted the war to end so that the husbands
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Tavaski Gordon March 7‚ 2014 HS 256 Unit 5 Paper Disaster Response A disaster brings violence‚ terror‚ and trauma‚ to all who experience its wrath and devastation. Destruction and suffering is the entertainment that disasters provide to its audience‚ through a campaign of psychological and physical damage. According to the fields of disaster psychiatry and disaster psychology‚ a disaster is a major ecological and psychosocial destruction that far exceeds the coping ability of a disaster
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This archive file contains EDU 645 Week 1 Assignment Response to Intervention Education - General Education Response to Intervention . What is the purpose of the response-to-intervention (RTI) approach? What are the benefits of this approach? What are the challenges? Can you think of any way to overcome these challenges? Why is it important to intervene early in a student’s learning experience? Your paper should be 4-6 pages (excluding title and reference pages)‚ and formatted to APA standards
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1. Factors affecting response rates in survey development 1.1. Content of web questionnaires Response rate is closely related to who the sponsors are‚ what the topic is‚ and how long the survey takes to complete. First: Official sponsorship of a surveys: sponsored by academic and governmental agencies have higher response rates than those sponsored by commercial Influenced how respondents perceived and answered similar questions about sexual harassment by a neutral research institution and a feminist
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To understand the Fight or Flight response it helps to think about the role of emotions in our lives. Many of us would prefer to focus on our logical‚ thinking nature and ignore our sometimes troublesome emotions‚ but emotions have a purpose. Our most basic emotions like fear‚ anger or disgust are vital messengers: they evolved as signals to help us meet our basic needs for self-preservation and safety. It would be dangerous to be indecisive about a threat to our survival so the brain runs information
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believed that tragedy served a higher purpose than comedy because of its cathartic effect. Therefore‚ comedy is delegitimized. But comedy does serve a social purpose that can be considered cathartic. It can be an outlet for social angst. At the time Lysistrata was written‚ Athens‚ a superpower of their time‚ had just lost a battle with Sparta. This probably shattered the conceptions of Athenians. And as a result‚ Aristophanes used a ribald comedy about the less-than-citizen women of Sparta and Athens
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Kaan Fenercioğlu 19/10/2012 ASL/5 Unity In the play Lysistrata‚ we address a problem in Greek life‚ and the problem is the continuous wars that men have to attend. The men leave their families behind and go to war and that upsets women. Lysistrata offers a solution and although it seems absurd‚ the plan of hers works. But‚ the plan works because of the power they collect. All the women in town help her plan that is the main reason that her plan succeeds. The unificiation of the forces created
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C/LT 320I: Notes on Greek Comedy and Lysistrata Waters/Fall 2011 this play acts as prophecy- war will destroy Pretext for Aristophanes’ Lysistrata (411 BCE) Homeric Epics- the bible for the greeks‚ the Iliad (more concerned with the war-translates as a catastrophe) and the odyssey‚ everybody looses type of thing‚ 1200bce‚ trojan war didn’t happen‚ 1870 AD‚ Phallic Rituals- create something tall and worship it‚ masculine virility‚ ritual celebration‚ center of orgies and animal sacrifice‚
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Catch-22 The Reader’s Response By: John O’dea I have chosen a reader response criticism for Catch-22‚ because I believe it gives me the freedom to interpret‚ and explore the book on the freest and most personal grounds. It gives me the opportunity to look inward and contemplate the thought provoking scenes occurrences in Catch-22 on my own terms‚ and then allows me to relate these findings to fellow peers and readers. A reader response criticism complies with my beliefs of Literature‚ in
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Abstract Can video games cause an adrenaline response? Our group thinks that playing video games will affect your adrenaline response because we think it will increase your breathing rate‚ heart rate‚ and pain tolerance.For this experiment‚ Richard and Matthew played Black Ops 2 and then we tested their reflexes‚ breathing rate‚ and pain tolerance. We compared it to the test we took before playing the game and the results was the breathing rate‚ reflexes‚ and heart attack increases which proves
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