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    Beowulf's Heroic Code

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    mother drags Beowulf along the lake bottom. Beowulf makes an attempt on the monster with his sword but his sword breaks. When he notices a massive sword‚ forged for giants‚ hanging on the wall‚ he seizes it and swings it powerfully. The powerful blade slices through the monster’s neck and she falls‚ dead. Beowulf looks around the lair and spies Grendel’s corpse. He decapitates the corpse with the massive sword then returns to the Danes with Grendel’s severed head. Once again‚ the Danes celebrate

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    whenever he is asked a question he always answers by saying something funny. Jack is dishonest so nobody really knows what he is planning to do. Will Turner is heroic because he threw a sword under Jack’s feet before getting hung so he didn’t die. He was also a very skilled blacksmith because he made swords and axes. The most important thing to him was Elizabeth. Will has been in love with her ever since he met her. Elizabeth Swann is attractive and majestic because she

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    Edgar Wright made short films as a young teenager and directed a no-budget feature film t the age of 20 years old. He continued to work in tv from there mainly in Britain where he directed an array of comedy shows including Merry-Go-Round‚ Is it Bill Bailey‚ Mash and Peas‚ Murder Most Horrid‚ Sir Bernard’s Stately Homes‚ Asylum and French and Saunders. He’s won several awards over the years: 2004‚ Rondo Statuette‚ Shaun of the Dead - Best Movie 2004‚ British Independent Film Award‚ Shaun of the dead

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    Fight In Beowulf

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    This dragon wore armor and had weapons of blowing fire. This is a huge downfall for Beowulf because he cannot compete with such strong thing as fire. Beowulf did not want to use a weapon he proclaims to the people‚ “I’d use no sword‚ no weapon” (630) just to show how powerful he is. Beowulf shows the readers how he is brining out his true strength and not using a weapon but just his hands. As he tries to tear limb-by-limb off he describes‚ “breath will be burning hot‚ poison

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    Lions Arch

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    when he‚ himself‚ not only failed his duty but was also accused of the murder. Confused and wracked with guilt‚ Logan knew that if he were to die here the assassin would go unpunished for their crime. His new duty lay before him‚ Logan raised his sword against the school‚ his family and fought his way free. He knew that this treason would turn all of Lions Arch against him‚ and now for the first time he felt

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    Manchu-ruled Qing Dynasty and to restore the Han Chinese rule in China. In 1955‚ Jin Yong published his first Wuxia novel in Hong Kong; it called “The Book and the Sword”. Which talks about during the rule of Qianlong Emperor‚ a secret society called The Red Flower Society which was trying to overthrow the Dynasty (The Book and the Swords‚ 2010). Jin Yong used a method called cultural nationalism to write this novel; in this story‚ Jin Yong expresses the cultural nationalism in four ways: Martial Arts

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    “Ooze!” the fight began‚ I clashed swords with my opponent. I loosed the match‚ but during the match I got a new idea for a character. I was eager to get home so I could start drawing. When I got home it was time to start a whole new world‚ in a way. So‚ I grabbed my drawing supplies and began to draw. But I had other things to do so I had to postpone it for 30 minutes. Then I returned to my drawing. “Solo‚ I’ll name it Solo” I said. I imagined I was my new character Pysto‚ while I was making his

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    Beowulf, Too Good to Be True

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    Beowulf‚ Too Good To Be True Throughout the poem “Beowulf‚” the narrator paints a picture of the perfect hero in the form of the protagonist‚ Beowulf. Many literary critics have come to the conclusion that “Beowulf” is a stereotypical story of good versus evil. Critics such as Herbert G. Wright present some of their claims that Beowulf is a hero who is greater than man and in someways‚ Christ-like‚ and others such as‚ Robert Stevick and Marie Padgett Hamilton portray the many Christian

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    Odin is giving the Vikings survival advice and from the stories we have read we know how the Vikings have not taken Odin’s guidance seriously which might be thought to be the reason that has caused them to vanish. Odin is warning the Viking about the Stamford bridge battle and that they should always be ready to go into a battle. After their victory at Fulford gate King Harald Sigurdason rushed to go to Stamford Bridge to collect the ransom and tributes from the English and was not wary where he

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    THE KHASIS OF BARAK VALLEY‚ ASSAM Anthropologists have taken the word ‘tribe’ from its ordinary usage‚ which had different meanings. Generally‚ it meant people who were primitive‚ living in a backward area and did not know how to write. Sometimes it was synonymous with the term ‘race’. In fact there was no precise meaning given to the term ‘tribe’.[1] Theoretically‚ a tribe is an ideal State‚ a self contained unit. It is a society in itself‚ i.e. a collection of individuals sharing a common

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