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    The World’s Wife- Carol Ann Duffy Notes Context on CAD -Born in 1955 -Scottish -Lesbian -Studied Philosophy -Appointed Poet Laureate in 2009 -Writes mostly in dramatic monologue -Known for social commentary/serious insights in humorous poems In World’s Wife: -Writes from the POV of female characters‚ usually ones with male counterparts -Purpose is to raise awareness of such understated characters -and to reinvent them opposed to traditionally held views- finding fresh ways of looking

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    One day I got a call to go underground and kill my arch-nemesis. My arch-nemesis’s name was Medusa. He shrunk me with his shrink ray‚ so now I am the size of a cnidarian. I am now in a underground prison with guards guarding. Once I get out of this door‚ there is a voice controlled door with one of Medusa’s men. There is another door that is finger print controlled with one more of Medusa’s men. When you walk out of the second door there is another maze that ends with a door that is finger print

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    Perseus Story Comparison There are many similarities and differences between the original Clash of the Titans movie and the book. One similarity is that he slayed medusa‚ however in the story medusa is sleeping when he killed her and in the movie she is awake. Also‚ in both the movie and the book Perseus goes to Jappa although in the story Hermes helped him and in the movie a man named Amon helped him. In the book Cassiopeia compares Andromeda to the Nereids‚ but in the movie she is compared to

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    is respectable‚ because he kills medusa as man‚ he uses Medusa’s head for good reasons‚ and he does this without a father figure. Although Perseus did not have his father in his life‚ he still made good choices which is why he is respectable. Perseus could have done bad things out of revenge because Zeus wasn’t good to him but he didn’t. It’s because of those reasons why I believe Perseus was a respectable. Notably‚ Perseus has the determination to kill Medusa as a man. To kill such a creature

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    Cnidaria and Nematocysts

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    from jellyfish is that some species have eyes to help navigate. Because these have no hard parts‚ there is no fossil record to give a date of when they originated. Hydrozoa are animals in which during their life cycle they change between polyp and medusa

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    was mostly given to them then rather chosen. Poseidon was also know for seducing nymphs. One of his most famous one was that he seduced medusa under the temple of Athens. This lead to medusa having snake hair and turning anyone who looked at her into stone‚ Athena was responsible for this act‚ she figured out that she was seduced by Poseidon and turned her into medusa we know now‚ so nobody would ever seduce

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    Canova And Rodin Essay

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    Short Paper. Both work are from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. The paper can also be used for Collage. Good‚ But needs to be a little more specific in some areas. Canova Even though both Canova and Rodin were from completely different stylistic periods‚ they both shared somewhat similar views and influences. "Canova and Rodin are probably the only two sculptors of the nineteenth century who escaped the strictures of an epoch that looked on human life as a succession of events whose banality

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    Research paper “Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds‚ so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.” Throughout the history of time there have been many great and powerful nations. Religion has always had a powerful effect on nations‚ even more so than the military or the political system in which the civilization confides in. In ancient Greek society‚ their higher deities were constantly

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    await her fate. Luckily Perseus happened to be flying by. He had winged sandals! He was carrying with him the severed head of the Gorgon‚ Medusa. It had snakes for hair and was so ugly that any creature that gazed directly at it was turned to stone. Perseus saw Andromeda and the dangerous position she was in. With quick thinking he uncovered the head of Medusa‚ pointing it straight at the eyes of the sea monster. Just in the nick of time the sea monster turned to stone. Perseus and Andromeda fell

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    Essay On Heroic Mythology

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    What makes a hero? Saving someone’s life perhaps‚ or is it just being noble and caring for the poor like Robin Hood did. Most people who don’t actually take the time to read about or study mythology believe that a hero in mythology is a god or a supernatural most of the time. But that is not the case. There are some that can be called a demigod‚ these are ones that even though half god are also mostly human. A demigod could have different meaning‚ one being as previously mentioned‚ which is a being

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