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    My Hero's Journey

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    Part 1: I have always loved superheroes. From Marvel to the DC comics‚ I have always enjoyed the comics and movies. In my private time‚ I obsessed over the classics; Captain America‚ Iron Man and The Flash. Although I had a burning passion for these characters‚ I never felt comfortable showing my interest. I was afraid of being made fun of‚ for believing in superheroes. As I watched the movies over and over‚ I noticed a pattern in all of them. All of them stepped out of their comfort zone‚ they

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    Freud's View of Civilization

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    Freud’s view of civilization emerges from his understanding of the struggle between Eros and Death. Freud expresses the existence of two contrary instincts‚ Eros and Death‚ via starting from the speculations on the beginning of life and biological parallels. While Eros preserves the living substance and joins it into larger units‚ such as societies‚ Death dissolves these units and brings them back to their primeval state. The death drives appear to be regressive‚ striving for a return to a less differentiated

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    returns withShamhat‚ a temple prostitute from the temple of Ishtar‚ the goddess of love and war. They wait for Enkidu to reappear by the watering hole. Enkidu returns and Shamhat reveals herself to him. They copulate for six days and seven nights. When Enkidu is satisfied‚ he finds that the animals no longer accept him. Shamhat tells him to come back with her to Uruk. Upon hearing of Gilgamesh‚ Enkidu decides he wishes to meet him. The two set out for Uruk‚ making a stop at a shepherd’s camp. There

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    Humanity

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    Achilles and Gilgamesh: Epic Heroes‚ Loss‚ and Mortality Recent studies have begun to see the Homeric epics in the light of other epic traditions‚ notably epics from Mesopotamia‚ and have begun to look at striking similarities. There is a supposed lineage that can be seen connecting the Homeric epics most directly with the world of Akkadian epics (Gresseth 2). The connections run from similarities in methods of transmission‚ namely the oral traditions‚ to themes‚ characters and formal structural

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    Characters Gilgamesh- Fifth King of Uruk; arrogant and boastful Enkidu- Close friend to Gilgamesh; uncivilized wild man turned into civilized and sexual human Humbaba- demon who guards the forest; head is taken as a trophy by Gilgamesh and Enkidu Shamhat- Temple prostitute who seduces Enkidu Enlil- god of earth wind and air Ishtar- goddess of love and fertility. and war Ninsun- mother of Gilgamesh. goddess. wife of Lugulbanda Lugulbanda- Third king of Uruk Shamash- sun god‚ brother of Ishtar

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    English Study Notes

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    Remember that you will have to answer a question comparing a convention‚ so do not just list the setting or the characters‚ rather make notes on the significance of the setting‚ or how characters are developed. 5th Business: Narration: * Narration: first person perspective from Dunstan Ramsay. Though reliable‚ observant‚ narrator (opening paragraph) all events are subjective and can’t be verified. Events that occur outside of Dunny’s experience must be relayed to him through third party.

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    Writers and Their Works

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    LITERATURE “Literature is the mirror of the society” The adage above is one of the most commonly used definitions of Literature… cliché as it may sound‚ still‚ it is true. Literature traces the past‚ mimics the present‚ and sometimes‚ it also predicts the future. A piece of literature describes a milieu‚ a collection of it may describe an epoch‚ and the great ones determine what will be. Great as it sounds; literature’s power is still under the control of the human mind. A well written

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