oldest forms of Philippine literature that emerged In the Pre-Spanish period. These songs mirrored the early forms of culture. Many of these have 12 syllables FORMS OF PRE-SPANISH POETRY Epigrams‚ Riddles‚ Chants‚ Maxims‚ Proverbs or Sayings Pre-Spanish poetry consists of epigrams‚ riddles‚
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to leave the city so it will be free from the plague. Oedipus saves his city once again. Once from a sphinx that wouldn’t let people neither enter nor leave the city if they couldn’t answer the riddle given to them. No one could answer the riddle until Oedipus came along and was able to answer the riddle and thus ridding the city from the sphinx. And now‚ Oedipus does his last heroic deed of saving his city from himself. Oedipus could’ve just backed out of what he said and continue to let his people
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THE GLENCOE LITERATURE LIBRARY Study Guide for Beowulf A translation by Burton Raffel Meet the Geats‚ Danes‚ and Swedes of Beowulf B y the time that Beowulf was written down‚ Germanic tribes from Scandinavia and elsewhere in northern Europe had been invading England’s shores for centuries. The principal human characters in Beowulf hail from three Scandinavian tribes: the Geats‚ the Danes‚ and the Swedes. The genealogy of these tribes is shown below. THE GEATS Swerting Hrethel Herbald
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ORAL TRADITION OR SPOKEN WORD The oral tradition constitutes the main element of transmission and coverage of the oral literature and history‚ music and dancing. This tradition begins with the internal context of the group and the communication through interaction which brings fourth a folkloric process. The Afro-Caribbean folklore of the Archipelago is a mixture of the African‚ the British‚ and the Creole aspects distributed through a cultural continuum of variations. The members of the elite develop
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During the evolution of humans‚ in every culture certain people are cursed from birth. In ancient Greece‚ these people were known as tragic heroes. The stories of these tragic heroes are known as tragedies‚ some of the earliest known tragedies are Medea and Oedipus the King. As stated in The Vocabulary of Ancient Greek Tragedy in Modern English by Francis Blessington the Greeks believed‚ “a hero must explicitly accept his fate. But in Greek tragedy‚ the hero or heroine or the play itself questions
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to return and fight after Agamemnon almost lost them. He yelled to the troops "Stop! Agamemnon means battle and not retreat‚ you misunderstood his words" (p. 42). Lastly‚ Ulysses showed great smartness when he solved the riddle about the Trojan War. By him solving the riddle‚ the Greeks came to win the long war. Ulysses was also smart enough to think of hollowing out the horse so the Greeks could hide inside them and attack the Trojans while they were sleeping. He showed intelligence too when
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#1 Legend/Myth #2 Opinion piece #3 Fact sheet #4 Letter #5 Wish List #6 Poem #7 Riddle #8 Quiz #9 Summary #10 Announcement Legend/myth The legend or myth is there will be gratitude in the room 34 forever. After we leave 6th grade‚ Mrs.Del Carlo will keep the Gratitude on. This year is the second time when Mrs.Del Carlo do the Gratitude Project. The gratitude Project is one of Del Carflo favorite project in 6th grade but this the second she do the Gratitude Project. We do a lot of write like
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on a socioautobiography is taken directly from: Kanagy‚ C. L.‚ & Kraybill‚ D. B.‚ (1999). The Riddles of Human Society. Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Pine Forge Press. (Pp. 287‚ 288‚289). Socioautobiography “The purpose of the socioautobiography is to use the insights from sociology to better understand your own story; it is a way of using the concepts of sociology to explore our personal riddle. But the socioautobiography is not a diary or a point-by-point account of your life since infancy.
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How far would a person have to go to understand their past and to figure out that he was doomed from the start? A character from Oedipus Rex soon finds out that before he was even born‚ a prophet foretells that he will soon grow up to kill his father‚ sleep with his mother‚ and blind himself. Fate is described as the development of events beyond a person’s control‚ regarded as determined by a supernatural power. In Sophocles’ novel‚ Oedipus Rex‚ Sophocles explains how a king can go from a hero to
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Week 6 1. James A. Tyner‚ “The Geopolitics of Eugenics and the Exclusion of Philippine Immigrants from the United States‚” The Geographical Review‚ 89‚ no. 1 (1999)‚ 54-73. In this article‚ Tyner explains the pseudoscience and logic behind the discrimination against Filipino immigrants during the early 1900’s. Using eugenics as justification‚ the government made it clear that America was to remain a white-dominated country with little tolerance for immigrants. A prime example of this anti-immigration
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