What sacrifices do you make during a normal day for you? We have the comfort and security of living in a free country‚ we can do what we want to do‚ for the most part. But what about the people that provide us with this freedom. The military that sacrifices their time‚ sometimes their life for our freedoms. For all they do for this country they deserve more what they get. Average hourly wage for a military personnel? Eleven to twelve dollars an hour. (“private first class (army) median wage”) private
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Rudia Jung Mielke English 2 HP February 5‚ 2013 Reflection on Gilgamesh Gilgamesh is an epic poem from Mesopotamia about a king who changes his ways through friendship and self-realization. Gilgamesh‚ the Uruk king‚ transforms from a tyrannical despot to a man that appreciates his kingdom while on a journey to find immortality. Gilgamesh returns to his kingdom empty-handed‚ but still satisfied. He had come to the realization that he does not need immortality. He becomes content with what he
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“Sacrifice of Isaac” by Tiziano Vecellio Kimberly Duran About the Work Tiziano Vecellio lived from 1488–1576 and was known as Titian‚ was the greatest Venetian artist of the sixteenth century‚ eventually gaining international fame. Titian contributed to all of the major areas of Renaissance art‚ painting altarpieces‚ portraits‚ mythologies‚ and pastoral landscapes with figures. In the piece titled‚ “The Sacrifice of Isaac‚” Titian demonstrates his style in the use of oil on canvas. This painting
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The Great Floods: Gilgamesh vs. The Genesis The epic story of Gilgamesh talks about a great flood that covered the whole world. Isn’t it strange that this story seems to mirror that of the great flood in the Book of Genesis? These two stories contain general similarities but when comparing the minute details‚ they are very different. The story of Gilgamesh was written around 2000 B.C.‚ many years before the Genesis story in about 400 B.C. The writers of the bible probably knew of the flood in
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Compare and contrast at least two of the epic heroes that we have studied so far: Gilgamesh‚ Rama (or Sita)‚ and Achilles (or another heroic figure from the Iliad). What makes these figures heroic in the eyes of their cultures‚ and what does does their heroic character reveal about the priorities or values of their cultures? There are many stories of heroes out there that exhibit the unique qualities that each one of them possesses . A hero is someone that exposes a behavior controlled by wisdom
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Gilgamesh vs. Noah By It is said that life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it. It is not the circumstances of life that determine a person’s character. Rather‚ it is the way a character responds to those circumstances that provides a display of who he is. "From the Epic of Gilgamesh"‚ as translated by N.K. Sandars‚ and "Noah and the Flood" from the Book of Genesis‚ both Gilgamesh and Noah face similar circumstances‚ but don’t always respond to them the same way. Accepting
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Sacrifice not only a big part of love; it is necessary for love to exist. Sacrifice makes a relationship between people easier. In all relationships at one point a sacrifice is made. Sometimes it is a very small sacrifice such as changing a schedule other times the sacrifice is moving to be with the one you love. Other times sacrifice is so great you must give up your loved one knowing that it will hurt you greatly‚ but in the end make the other person happy. As a 14-year old‚ I have no that to make
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Introduction When you think of the Aztec‚ what comes to mind? Perhaps you think of the Spanish conquistadors or their beautiful capital at Tenochtitlan. What comes to mind for a lot of people is their practice of human sacrifice. In class‚ we learned a lot about the civilizations of the Maya and the Inca but not much about the Maya. Chapter 13 of the assigned readings talks about the Aztec and how they came to power and their collapse. One paragraph in the chapter‚ although morbid and disturbing
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It is told to Gilgamesh by Utnapishtim when Gilgamesh encounters him while on his quest for the plant of everlasting life. Here we have a first hand account of the flood‚ by one of the sole survivors of the flood‚ the tale itself is found in an epic of a great king‚ which wasn’t exactly
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roles by going against the king’s commands and sacrificing herself for her brother. She insists that her extreme family loyalty drives her to sacrifice herself‚ but her dialogue with the other characters reveals that her own selfishness greatly influences her sacrifice as well. Antigone’s dissatisfaction with the traditional woman reveals that her ulterior motive behind her sacrifice is
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