The Odyssey Final Assessment: Three Symbols 1. The Curse (page 161) When Cyclops set a curse on Odysseus‚ it set the course for the rest of the story. Cyclops asked his father‚ Poseidon‚ to make Odysseus’s journey home long and torturous‚ because Odysseus put out the Cyclops’s eye. The Cyclops prayed to his father‚ Poseidon‚ “He shall see his roof again among his family in his father land‚ far be that day‚ and dark the years between. Let him lose all companions‚ and return under strange sail
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Love In J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows‚ Harry‚ one of the main characters‚ was able to notice through multiple events that love is an aspect that is needed in every human being. The book shows that love is when someone cares deeply for someone else‚ and he or she puts that person’s well being before his or her own. As Hermoine‚ another main character‚ and Harry‚ looked on Kendra and Ariana Dumbledore’s grave in Godric’s Hollow‚ there was a quote signifying that wherever your
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January 2013 Religious Figures of Spain Catholicism is the main religion in Spain. There are also some Jews who have settled in Madrid‚ Barcelona‚ Cordoba and Sevilla. There are some Anglicans in Spain. There has been a lot of dispute between the Catholics‚ Muslims Jews and Protestants. Christians were defeated and Christianity was adopted by the masses. Catholic religion was taken as the religion of the state when a Concordant was signed with Vatican. There were many religious figures from Spain
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it‚ because it’s the 21st century and this world has had many advances since the time were a person was told which religion they had to worship. That is not the case. Religious persecution was a problem that began back when the neolithic revolution occurred and has not gone away in today’s world. One of the worst acts of religious persecution in modern day history is the Holocaust‚ and many other acts of hatred towards a person because of their religion have gone on that aren’t as bad as the Holocaust
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In the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut‚ Jr. it takes place in a society that makes everyone equivalent. In the short story‚ Vonnegut suggests that total equality is not an ideal worth striving for‚ which is saying if everyone functions exactly the same‚ then the extraordinary will be the ordinary. Harrison Bergeron tries to be the savior of the society and makes a stand showing how prejudiced this civilization is‚ but he ends up failing in the end. Harrison Bergeron‚ although
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A symbol is a specific word‚ idea or object that may stand for ideas‚ values‚ persons or ways of life. The personal narratives “The Scholarship Jacket" by Marta Salinas‚ "The Jacket" by Gary Soto and "Vinnie ’s Jacket" by Anna Nussbaum all have a jacket as the central symbol. In each of these works‚ however‚ the jacket represents very different things. For Marta Salinas in "The Scholarship Jacket"‚ the jacket symbolizes eight years of hard work and expectation. Throughout the narrator ’s life
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The artifact that we intend to examine is the hit song “King Without a Crown” by the reggae music artist‚ Matisyahu. This music artist interests us because he is a popular performer who we have listened to voluntarily‚ with the particular song “King Without a Crown” ranking in the top 40 songs in America at one point in his career. Additionally‚ choosing a Matisyahu song is of interest to us as students at the University of Maryland because of Matisyahu’s live performance at UMD last year. Music
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Witches: Symbols of Evil or Average People? Throughout the centuries‚ scholars‚ priests‚ and townspeople have changed their opinions of the defining characteristics of a witch. In their pre-modern treatise Malleus Maleficarum‚ Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger argue their definition of a witch (Kramer and Sprenger 12). They emphasize the term “witches” to represent women involved in dark magic using evil spells and temptation to inject misery into the lives of men (Kramer and Sprenger 14). Kramer
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Richard Wilbur argues that the character of Roderick Usher is a symbol. The Fall of the House of Usher’s a comprehensive‚ symbolic account of the madness and dishonesty of an individual’s personality. The death of Madeline and Roderick was the decision that Roderick chose to make. The symbol Wilbur is referring to is an allegorical figure representing the hypnagogic state which‚ the condition of the mind occurring ‘upon the very brink of sleep.’ Roderick Usher‚ standing for the hypnagogic state
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2013 Theme is the idea behind a story. Literary symbols and point of view help us to understand what the theme of a story actually is. The theme of “The gift of Magi” is selflessness. Symbolism and Plot are two literary elements in this story that contribute to the theme. The theme in a story is associated with an idea that lies behind the story (R.W. Clugston‚ 2010) To understand what the theme of the story is we have to figure out what the literary symbols are and what they stand for. “The
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