PARIS. A weekend trip was spent in the great city of Paris touring‚ eating French food and experiencing a new culture. Our first night in Paris we went out to eat at a restaurant where every student tried something new. Ranging from eating raw meat‚ also known as Tartare in France‚ to eating a rocket salad‚ we all enjoyed sharing and taste testing the unfamiliar supper creations. The next day we went on a walking tour. The tour guide was great and full of historical information which hearing the
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Paris is the most important town in France. It’s got a famous cathedral and an important famous tower called Eiffel. It also has a lot of palaces‚ avenues and squares. In my opinion‚ this place is very beautiful to live because all things that it has are fantastic and great. Paris has a famous river called Sena‚ too. You can sail along the river with a ship. There are some interesting centres to go and spend the time like Centre Pompidou. However‚ there are some things about Paris that I don’t
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TROY Film Analysis by: Dianne Lim Federis Wolfgang Peterson tackles the job of bringing the epic of Homer’s The Iliad to the big screen in his film Troy. Iliad being a lengthy text‚ it is impossible to include every detail in a movie. Therefore‚ there are obvious deviations from the book such as the length of the Trojan War‚ and the absence of celestial participation in the war. There is also an absence of mortal female characters such as Chryseis‚ Hecuba‚ and Cassandra in the movie. In contrast
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is what I call a hero ‚ and through the movie we saw allot of courageous powerful warriors that were dying in the sake of their country like ; Paris ‚ Patroclus. Achilles‚ Odysseus‚ these are the people that we would really call heroes. but among these heroic people there is one particular one that would rise above them all‚ and that would be ‘hector’’ the oldest son of’’ priam ‘’ husband of Andromache‚ and father of Astyanax‚ and he is the hero of troy because ; hector led the Trojan through
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cannot see any good portion of character development. The larger story is literally involved with the rise and fall of people around her. She even displayed very little emotions and was sort of unaffected by the war outcome. Still I like her Helen of Troy‚ or Helen or Sparta‚ one of the most controversial female characters in literature‚ has been the literary and mythic symbol of beauty and illicit love. She was the most beautiful woman in Greece best known for being the cause of the Trojan War. A wholewar
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The movie Troy and the epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ reveal distinct differences and similarities in several scenes such as when Achilles learns of his fate but still decides to go to war; which is a similarity‚ and two other scenes which are differences that concern the length of the war and the other is the role of the gods in the story. In both the movie and the book Thetis‚ Achilles’ mother tells him of his fate which is that if he sails for Troy he will earn glory and fame but his life will be cut
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Paris Paris is the capital and largest city of France. It is situated on the river Seine‚ in northern France‚ at the heart of the Ile-de-France region. Paris has a population of about 2‚230‚000. Its metropolitan area is one of the largest population centers in Europe‚ with more than 12 million inhabitants. Paris is the most elegant capital of the world so different from the rest of France‚ that it is sometimes called a "city-state." City of all time‚ Paris has preserved signs of the past‚ and the
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Helen of Troy has always been looked upon as the classic beauty in Greek mythology. She is “the face that launched a thousand ships”( Roman and Greek Mythology A to Z ). Helen is the daughter of Zeus and Leda ‚ Zeus came to Leda and mated with her disguised as a swan and Helen was born from an egg. She was the sister of Castor‚ Polydeuces and Clytemnestra; Wife of Menelaus; lover to Paris and the reason of the Trojan War. It is noted that Helen is the daughter of Tyndareus and Zeus because
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HELEN OF TROY In Greek mythology‚ Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman in the world. A daughter of the god Zeus*‚ she is best known for the part she played in causing the Trojan War*‚ a story told by Homer in the Iliad] and the Odyssey]. Some scholars suggest that Helen was also a very ancient goddess associated with trees and birds. Birth and Early Life. Some myths say that Helen’s mother was Leda‚ the wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta*. Others name Nemesis‚ the goddess of revenge‚ as her
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people. heart of a lion (one scene pulls sword out of leg etc etc.) doesn’t die without a huge fight. Prince Hector older brother type‚ protecting‚ but wise. strong and brave. fearless. respectful‚ wishes nothing but peace and happiness Prince Paris - younger brother‚ ignorant and arrogant. blinded by love‚ Helen - a beautiful woman‚ that only wants to be accepted for HER‚ not her looks. a lover. also ignorant. Agamennom - jerk‚ cares only for himself‚ blinded by power. head strong
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