of automatic control of breathing.. Some may only have apnea when asleep‚ but in some severe cases they may experience apnea while awake. About 300 children worldwide have this syndrome. History: In a French folktale‚ a nymph named Ondine was a water goddess. Like all nymphs and mermaids‚ if they was to fall in love with a mortal and bears his child‚ then they would age like a mortal. Meaning they would lose their everlasting beauty. Ondine ends falling in love with a mortal‚ and a year into the
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like a great fire. Let us travel back in time when the gods often left their home in Mt. Olympus to dabble about the lives of the mortals. Narrator: Zeus and his queen Hera have decided to have a wedding celebration for the hero Peleus and the sea-nymph Thetis‚ who will soon become the parents of the famous hero‚ Achilles. Before the celebration‚ Zeus sent Hermes to deliver invitations. He invited all of the gods but purposely excluded Eris‚ the goddess of strife and chaos. He “feared” that the presence
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story of a man named Odysseus who travels back to his home after countless years of being separated from his family. Odysseus‚ the main character‚ was very helpful in attacking Troy’s citadel during the Trojan War. After the war ended‚ Kalypso‚ a nymph‚ held Odysseus captive on her island for almost eight years. However‚ he has not been able to escape because there are no ships‚ men‚ or islands nearby and Poseidon‚ the god of the sea‚ despises him. Zeus and the other gods and goddesses assemble to
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* Oedipus complex: Sigmund Freud believed that all men want to kill their fathers so that they can marry their mothers. So today‚ whenever we see a guy who is just a bit too close to his mom‚ we might say that he has an Oedipal complex. The term originated from this Greek story: there was this guy named Oedipus who‚ at birth‚ was destined by fate to kill his father (who also happened to be the King of Thebes) and marry his mother. The people in Thebes thought that this was a pretty big deal
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Nijinsky’s Contribution to Modernism Vaslav Nijinsky was a famous dancer turned choreographer with the Russian ballet company the Ballets Russes during the early 1900’s (Nijinsky). Though he spent only a few short years as a choreographer with the Ballets Russes‚ Nijinksy helped propel ballet into the modern era with a new form of movement that would influence dancers for many‚ many generations to come. Nijinsky’s presentation of new sexual identities held within the choreography of his ballets
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destruction. The excerpts are from written accounts‚ according to ancient Greek poets‚ such as Homer and Euripides. Analytical Background and Cause of the Trojan War At a wedding dinner that the Greek gods and goddesses were attending‚ which was between a nymph (fairy) and a king‚ the goddess Eris‚ who was associated with discord‚ was not invited‚ and decided to instigate conflict because of her own anger. She threw an apple onto the table‚ and on the fruit she had written that it was to be given to the fairest
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messages‚ not alter any events. A man by the name of Iphonious‚ Telemachus’ son‚ instantly falls in love with the sea nymph Ceria who equally fell in love him. Athena placed a curse on Ceria for calling herself as‚ if not more beautiful than the goddess. The beautiful Ceria now finds herself not capable of love‚ for whoever falls for her would end up dead. Iphonious meets the river nymph who informs him of an herb that could keep him from harm. She tells him that f he longs to be with Ceria‚ he can no
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Ephesus still honored artemis for a couple more years after the destruction of the temple. There were many great myths told about Artemis. One of the great myths was about Actaeon. Actaeon was out hunting in the forest. He saw Artemis and her sea nymphs bathing in the river. He tried to rape her but she got very angry. Even though he was hunting a stag‚ Artemis turned hem into a stag. Actaeon (the stag) ran away. Artemis then sent her hounds (a gift from Pan) after him. Not long after she sent the
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The movie Troy written by David Benioff and directed by Wolfgang Petersen was inspired by The Iliad‚ an ancient Greek poem about the time of warrior Achilles argument with King Agamemnon during the Trojan War. Some events the film where taken straight from the Iliad‚ and is at times the two stories are very similar to one another. However there are several major differences between them‚ as Troy the movie was made to appealing to twenty first century audiences‚ where as the Iliad was meant to appeal
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The poems “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe‚ “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh‚ and “Raleigh Was Right” by William Carlos Williams use an overarching story of a shepherd pronouncing his love to a nymph and she rejects this love while “Rules of the Game” is a story about a girl named Waverly skill in chess and how her relationship with her mother is negatively affected by it the Central idea is developed using point of view imagery and other figurative
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