Topic 2: The Warrior Hero Actor‚ Christopher Reeve‚ once said‚ “What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power‚ but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” Everyone has his or her own idea of what makes someone a hero. Sometimes this idea has to do with one’s culture or status in society. Homer’s Iliad‚ and Virgil’s Aeneid‚ use epic literature to present
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The Life of a Spartan Warrior Can you imagine being taken away from your family and your home when you were just seven years old? And then spending the rest of your life learning how to fight and then fighting your country’s enemies? In the 5th century B.C.‚ this was the life of a Spartan boy. It was Spartan law that boys must become warriors. And not just good warriors‚ but they had to be the best in the world! What was Sparta and where was it? Ancient Greece‚ or Hellas as it is called
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stemming out from all parts of the world. With these influences come themes tied to each type of work. The Warrior and Transformation Mask are just a couple examples of this. The Warrior was created in between 900-400 BC‚ created by the Olmec‚ it was one of the many giant heads found all over the Olmec area usually brought over land and along rivers. They are thought to be created to honor specific rulers and are a testament to his power. Approximately 134 have been found from 5 to 12 feet and weighing 5
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Once Were Warriors: “Once Were Warriors” by Alan Duff is a harrowing vision of New Zealand’s indigenous people two hundred years after the arrival of Europeans. In prose that is both raw and compelling‚ it tells the story of Beth Heke‚ a Maori woman struggling to keep her family intact‚ despite the filth and violence of her urban neighbourhood in which they live. Conveying rich textures of Maori tradition and the wounds left by its absence‚ Once Were Warriors is an engrossing novel of unblinking
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and during the years women faced a lot of pejorative and Dominance . but women at that time fight and broke all the rols till thy get the freedom . we are grateful for that women who make our life easier . powerful women are Surrounded us all over the world here is some names of the powerful women in the world. 1\ Elizabeth Smith Miller. is often credited as the first woman to wear pants. Miller was a suffragette. Her goal in the 1800s was to help women in the United States win the right to vote
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Purpose: The purpose of this lab was to see how given amounts of sodium bicarbonate reacts with acetic acid and see how it creates different amounts of new compounds. Procedure: In this lab‚ we were going to be reacting 12.5g sodium bicarbonate with 7.4mL acetic acid. Before we began‚ we turned on the hot plate to a medium level‚ allowing it time to heat up. While the plate was heating‚ we gathered 1 1/4g sodium bicarbonate onto the balance. Next‚ we measured 7.4mL acetic acid by pouring it into
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I believe that nuclear weapons are too powerful. The use of nuclear weapons can result in a massive amount of lost lives. Both military and innocent civilians. There are also long lasting effects of nuclear weapons. From the bombing of hiroshima and it was found that half a century later people still suffer from the after effects like cancer and birth defects. Radioactive particles from the explosion can also contaminate the air‚ soil‚ water and the food supply. It can also be carried by wind currents
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Analyse how contrast was used to communicate an important message or idea ‘Once Were Warriors’ Directed by Lee Tamahori and based on the novel by Alan Duff is a powerful‚ hard hitting film‚ seething with raw emotion and pride. It is a film about strength and power of culture and belonging and these ideas are displayed through the contrast of characters‚ setting and music and sound effects. Characters are the heart of this film. Complex and brutally real‚ they are portrayed in daring and passionate
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The Woman Warrior‚ Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts‚ combines myths with autobiography in order to explore Kingston’s identify formation in relation to her mother and female relatives. Kingston uses the first person to narrate five distinct short stories. Each of them contains a central female character. The unique feature of this book is the rearrangement of the traditional Chinese myths‚ legend of Fa Mu Lan and Ts’ai Yen. The combination of fact and fiction and the combination of reality and
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