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    The Count of Monte Cristo is a very sourceful book with characters creating different and new identities. Fernand changes to Count de Morcerf during the time of Dantes’ imprisonment‚ Mercedes changes to Countess de Morcerf after her marriage to Fernand‚ Cadderouse changes to M. Pilletin‚ Benedetto changes to Andrea Cavalcanti to disguise and murders Cadderouse‚ and last but certaintly not least Edmund Dantes with the various identity changes. Even though these characters names are just being changed

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    Movie Character Analysis How have you related‚ reacted‚ thought about the believability of those characteristics in reinforcing the definitions and connecting the characters to heroic cycle. (Mythic‚ Romantic‚ Tragic‚ Realistic) Movie 1: Apollo 13 Apollo 13 is a movie about a space mission that involved 3 astronauts. The movie is based off a real event and portrays the actual event very well. The Apollo 13 mission was to go on the moon after Neil Armstrong had been on it through the Apollo 11

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    wicked to the virtuous‚ from the proud to the humble‚ from the gruesome to the gleeful‚ the tales thread the whole scope of human experience into one long narrative. Some stories are stretched out and form a sort of mini-series. "The Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor‚" for example‚ are told in seven installments. Others are short anecdotes‚ barely one page long. The stories in The Thousand and One Nights originated in a wide geographical area. Although most relate to medieval Arabic culture and civilization

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    no telling what will happen next. The genre of Percy Jackson and the lighting thief is fantasy‚ but to be more specific‚ you called call it mythic fantasy. Mythic fantasy has more traditional aspects intertwined in with the book‚ Percy Jackson has a lot of ancient Greek mythology in it‚ this is why Percy Jackson and the lightning thief is considered a mythic fantasy genre. The setting of Percy Jackson is not directly centred in one place; however‚ an important setting in the book is camp half-blood

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    Museum Collection Hum 205

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    Axia College University of Phoenix WORLD CULTURE AND THE ARTS (AXIA) HUM/205 Jaynelle Nixon January 27‚ 2008 Museum Collection 2 Classical and Hellenistic Greece One of the most well known piece of this time‚ is the statue called Ludovisi Gaul killing himself and his wife‚ also known as The Galatian Suicide. The original was made by Greek sculptors commissioned by Attalus I after his victories over the Gauls of Galatia. This is a statue of A man about to drive a

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    Due to such a concept‚ Barth disconnects myths from the idea of Jungian concept of "archetype" .moreover‚ he glorifies them to such an over extend that the modern writers" revealing of the preconscious psyche "failed their positive approach‚ becoming the perfectly irrelevant idea. He accomplishes this effect by dismantling his mythological character. In this regard‚ exclusively Bellerophon collapses prey to Barth’s argument with modernism. In Chimera’s last part‚ its Bellerophoniad‚ it arises that

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    “the hero myth is really written about every human being: we are all heroes struggling to accomplish our adventure” (Whomsley‚ 185). From this perspective‚ it seems justified that these patterns continue to appear in so many stories adventure and heroism; we all want our lives to mean something‚ and we can be heroes if we fight for our goals. However‚ it is important to note that not every hero story is a direct replica of the mythic structure. Certainly there are deviations in contemporary examples

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    masterpiece‚ such as the opening with the statement of the theme. This epic takes place in the universe‚ in Heaven‚ Hell and Eden. The main characters‚ God‚ Satan‚ Christ‚ Man and the fallen angels remind the warriors and heroes of the classical epic‚ even though they are more philosophical heroes. Milton knew the Copernican cosmology but he based the universe of Paradise Lost on the traditional Ptolemaic system because he thought that this conception was fixed in the minds of the people and it had limits

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    religion are based upon mythic themes or stories. Noah’s Ark‚ Jonah and the great fish‚ Moby Dick‚ and even the movie Titanic are all stories about man’s struggles with the seas. Myths and mythic symbols are the elementary particles of imagination and creativity. Mythologizing gives people the opportunity to be creative and use their imagination whether it is for pure entertainment or trying to explain something. Even today we are still fascinated by the truths of these mythic stories and by ancient

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    Identifying UCS‚ UCR‚ CS‚ and CR 1. UCS: the original terrifying ride on the roller coaster UCR: terror CS: the sight of the roller coaster CR: cold sweat 2. UCS: the fried oyster UCR: sickness CS: the smell of frying food CR: nausea 3. UCS: the spaniel’s barking and lunging UCR: initial fright CS: the sight of the spaniel’s house CR: fear and trembling 4. UCS: the canned dog food UCR: salivation

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