The Trojan War: Myth or Reality? “Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle‚ but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter”. This quotation from Homer’s The Iliad comes from Hector‚ the strongest and longest standing trojan fighter‚ as he dies when fighting in the Trojan War. He speaks his desire to be remembered and praised as a hero‚ which Homer eventually made possible. Everyone has heard of the Trojan War‚ but not everyone agrees on whether it truly
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VERMICOMPOSTING Vermicomposting is the practice of using worms to break down food scraps. The resulting material is a mix of worm castings and decomposed food scraps. The word "vermi" is Latin for worm. Worms like to feed on slowly decomposing organic materials like fruit and vegetable scraps. The worms produce castings that are full of beneficial microbes and nutrients‚ which makes a great plant fertilizer. Worms are very efficient at breaking down food scraps and can eat over half their body weight
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during the Trojan War‚ because she was married to King Priam of Troy. The play begins with the ghost of Hecuba’s son‚ Polydorus‚ telling the audience about how the Trojan War was weakening the city of Troy. Hecuba enters the stage telling her Trojan Chorus that she has had a dream with the ghost of Polydorus in it. Two soldiers appear‚ that morning‚ requesting for Polyxena. Polyxena is the last daughter of Hecuba. Polyxena was taking away to be sacrificed to the spirit of Achilles‚ a great Trojan soldiers
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What is Modern Technology Provide to Us? “Technology begins with human nature‚” this is a slogan what I believe. There is one question always appear in my mind‚ what does modern technology bring us? Since development of modern technology‚ more and more inventions appear. Modern technology was designed to meet human needs‚ and for convenience. It cannot be denied that modern technology makes our life more convenient; however‚ modern technologies still bring greater inconvenience than convenience
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especially in the nervous or cardiovascular systems. In this lab‚ we will put blackworms into the Nicotine to look at the differences in pulse rates when compared to a control. The proper name for blackworms is Lumbriculus Variegatus‚ they are freshwater worms most commonly found in North America and Europe. The blood in blackworms circulates from the dorsal blood vessel toward the head through a series of rhythmic contractions. A common pulse rate for the blackworm is 7 to 8 pulse/minute. Hypothesis-
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to have people remember his name. He wants to live and long and easy life but when it comes to battles and saving other people’s lives‚ he has to think which is better‚ his life‚ or the lives of others. Achilles is on of the main characters in the Trojan War. When Achilles was a new born baby‚ his mother wanted to make him immortal so she dipped him in the river Styx. Another version is that Thetis covered Achilles in ambrosia and put him on top of a fire to burn away his
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pedestal and praise because without freedom‚ there is nothing. Freedom is considered intrinsic to life‚ and in the play The Trojan Women written by Euripides and The Joys of Motherhood written by Buchi Emecheta it shows how without freedom it takes a severe negative effect on people’s lives. In the play The trojan Women it captures how tragedy has stuck the lives of the Trojan women Hecuba‚ Cassandra‚ Andromache‚ and Helen. Their city is destroyed‚ their husbands‚ brothers‚ and sons are killed‚ and
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language these authors use in this situation is really amplifying the feelings in which the character is disliking the food that they are eating. In "The Worm"‚ it says in stanza 4‚ "I didn’t like the taste a bit‚ so I didn’t swallow it." Instead of saying‚ I didn’t like the worm so I spit it out‚ or something like that which would sound blander than what the author really used. And in hatchet Gary Paulsen used figure of speech to describe the feeling of eating a turtle egg. On page 95 it states it had
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Integrated Montessori Center SY: 2013-2014 Book Report of The Trojan Wars Submitted by: Natasha Beatriz Ancheta III- Radon Submitted to: Teacher Orlando C. Pascual I. Introduction a. Biography of the Author Edith Hamilton was a well-known educator and author. She is recognized as the “greatest woman Classicist”. She was sixty-two years old when The Greek Way‚ her first book‚ was published in the year 1930. Hamilton had not yet been to Greece and was only writing about Greek mythology through
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protagonists because they are reflective of what is wrong with the community. Therefore‚ they are depicted in a negative light using comedic tactics. Big Worm is a parody of drug dealers. While drug dealers are known to be “tough” looking‚ Big Worm is a fat man either driving a bright colored vehicle with curlers in his hair or driving an ice cream truck with an unusually large perm. There is absolutely nothing threatening when looking at the character of Big Worm yet he is one of the most feared people
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