The Odyssey in 2015 In class‚ we are studying ‘The Odyssey’ by Homer. We are reading the translation of ‘The Odyssey’ by Robert Fitzgerald as well as a different version translated by Samuel Butler. A lot of what happens to Telemachus is relevant to events that families who have a parent/guardian in the military go through today. In ‘The Odyssey’‚ Odysseus has to leave from his home in Ithaca to fight in the Trojan War. Odysseus leaves as soon as his son is born‚ so his son Telemachus grew up without
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An archetype is‚ according to one definition‚ “a typical character‚ action‚ or situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature.” While found in all types of literature‚ archetypes unquestionably seem to populate myths‚ fantasies‚ and fables to a greater degree than other fiction. Archetypes are important to stories because they help the mind to categorize the behavior and‚ by doing so‚ humanize the characters. Archetypes are‚ in essence‚ labels that permit the reader
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The role of women in early Christianity was just recently rediscovered due to the unearthing of unseen texts and the increased amount of women in the field of history. Historians now realize that women played larger roles at the start of Christianity‚ mostly in house churches‚ as deacons in later assemblies‚ and as missionaries‚ which were covered up by predominantly male-written histories several centuries after the birth of Christ. When Christianity first began‚ only a small minority followed
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There has been an ongoing debate in the circle of social and political scientists whether an organized society should be responsible to serve the individual citizen’s true end‚ i.e.‚ his real needs and rights‚ such as freedom‚ growth‚ peace‚ security‚ privacy‚ etc. Or‚ is it the citizen who is to be held responsible for and made subservient to the society’s needs‚ "in the interest of the common good"? Such "either-or" ideological confrontation is created mainly by doctrinaire philosophers‚ if not
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Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner’s article‚ “SuperFreakonomics: What Should You Worry About?” is a piece that explains what we as humans worry about that aren’t as big of a deal as we think. Levitt and Dubner claim that we are terrible at assessing risk and that we focus more on things like shark attacks and lightning strikes versus things like heart disease which has a more likely chance of doing harm to us. Economics is a key term that they use to explain how we can assess the risks that
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| | |Gender Roles in Children’s Literature | | | |Kate Moore | |11/22/2010
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Skills Laboratory (CSL) 3 2. Purpose of Guidelines 3 3. CSL Staff 3 4. Opening Hours 4 5. Access to CSL 4 6. Layout of the CSL 4 6.1 Wards 5 6.2. SimMan 5 6.3. Community Apartment 6 7. Skills Training 6 7.1 Compulsory Skills Sessions 6 7.2 Other Skills Sessions 6 8. Dress Code 7 8.1 Dress for OSCE’s 7 9. General Behaviour 8 10. Health and Safety
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Role-play script Tan Jun Hua as Tan Chong Hui Ying as Chong Gan Zi Qing as Gan Wendy Hing Su Yee as Wendy Tan-Good morning everyone. Thank you for attending the meeting. We are here to discuss what are the problems happens to the product Natural that make the sales drop continuously and we are going to find out the solution for it. What do you guys think about this? Wendy-I think one of the problems is the way of promotion. Through interviewing people on the street‚ we find out that most of
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What role does “failure “playing in learning? According to Roger Von Oech‚ the author of “ToErr IsWrong”‚shows us at least two reasons about failure. The most common aftermath that a human being must face in life is their failure. There are two types of failures‚ errors and mistakes. The most important thing is how we learn and are able to benefit from our previous failures. I agree with Von Oech that having mistakes‚ errors and failures are necessary. If people who can handle failures in a positive
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Assessment plays an important role in the education of children who are English-language learners and bilingual. All the decisions we make about children when teaching and caring for them are important in assessment. Whereas‚ some of the decisions we make may be small and other may not be as small. All of our assessment decisions we make will direct and help alter children’s learning outcomes. All of these assessments have a purpose in hand. My checklist observation purpose is to monitor the student’s
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