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    festival for Artemitis. This festival was called the Brauronia. It was a coming of age ceremony‚ for girls of ages from five to thirteen. They would wear honey colored saffron robes‚ run races‚ dance like bears‚ and make sacrifices to Artemis. A goat was the main choice for sacrifice. Their group was called arktoi‚ or she-bears. The idea of a bear was derived from many local myths that suggested bears were sacred to Artemis. This was a way to leave childhood behind‚ and was why they often left tokens

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    Incident at Vichy Essay

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    lies‚ propaganda and false accusation‚ people easily succumb the manipulation of the upper class. The play “Incident at Vichy”‚ by Arthur Millar‚ illuminates the subject of racism‚ discrimination‚ dehumanization‚ knowledge‚ hatred‚ deception and sacrifice through the use of Marxism theory by presenting how the upper class has power to influence and control the lower class. In the play “Incident at Vichy” by Arthur Miller‚ a certain ethnic group of people are heavily discriminated against. This is

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    Tikal Civilization

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    ruined cities of the Mayan civilization. It emerged as an important site due to its relative altitude in the region. Tikal is estimated to have been home to 85‚000 Mayan people over 120 square kilometers of land. Tikal was the capital of a conquest state that became one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya. It is located in the middle of two river systems in a Central American rain forest of Guatemala. Built on broad limestone terrace‚ Tikal is the largest city of the Mayan civilization classic

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    Heroes In 1982‚ an Air Florida jet crashed into a river killing all but five passengers. The survivors waited for nearly a half hour before being rescued by a helicopter and two different men‚ both bystanders to the crash. The two men today are considered heroes and are praised for their courageous achievement. Today the common conception of a hero is a man who flies over your head in tights fighting evil; yet what does it truly mean to be considered a hero of the real world? Throughout the world

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    for self-sacrifice extremely‚ partly relying upon personal ambitions. The largest contrast can be observed between Hamlet and Claudius‚ but more subtle portrayals are also exhibited through Gertrude and Ophelia. At one end of the spectrum‚ readers take into account Claudius; brother of the former king‚ uncle of Hamlet‚ and now King and newlywed husband to the former king’s widow. Claudius is fully driven by his own ambitions‚ and is unwilling to make any sort of personal sacrifice. Chiefly

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    The Mayan Calendars

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    but two complicated callender systems. The mayan believed a lot in the cosmos and how they impacted the way of life. They used astrological cycles to create these two calendars to help predict when it would be a good time to grow crops.

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    Sonata written by John Mito in conjunction with Weapons Training by Bruce Dawe reveals several truths of which responders were unaware. Some of these are the horrors of war and the brutality and dehumanisation of individuals which force them to make sacrifice in order for them to survive. As well as the friendships that were formed during war to keep a sense of connection and assist each other in the worst of times. The experiences of Australian nurses during WWII reveal the horrific nature of the war

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    Bart Studnicki English 102 Raisin in the Sun Analysis 09-29-2009 The Sacrifice of Walter Lee Younger Throughout the play‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ the Younger family struggles to come together as a family. One of the main impediments in their unity is their differing views on the world. Each character has their own dream and is unwilling to sacrifice that dream for anything. They are afraid of having their dream deferred. Their dreams‚ especially Walter Lee’s‚ break the family apart

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    self-preservation‚ and those who rise above self-preservation and instead choose self-sacrifice. The choice to save others or to save yourself really says what kind of person you are. Although we would like to say we would be the hero and save everyone before we would save ourselves. But when it comes down to it most humans would try to save themselves first. Also to humans it may not seem worth it to sacrifice their own life for a bunch of strangers. Self preservation is displayed in many chapters

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    Cathleen Ni Houlihan: Irish Nationalism In the early 1900s Ireland was conflicted with war. During this time period Yeats and Gregory wrote Cathleen Ni Houlihan‚ to send a message to the Irish people about serving one’s country. In his play Cathleen Ni Houlihan‚ Michael understands through Cathleen‚ a symbol of Ireland‚ the importance of sacrificing worldly needs in order to protect the motherland‚ and rises to become a hero. Yeats also shows that only devout devotion to one’s country

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