Summary Gates of fire is a story about Xeones‚ a Greek boy who is a survivor of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. After awhile of living in his village it is over ran by Argives ‚ Xeones then wonders the countryside with two friends and spends his early years as an outlaw. Until one day he is captured enslaved by the Spartans ‚ where they keep him with the other slaves called Helots. He is then paired with Alexandros‚ the son of a high ranking Spartan officer‚ who
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Timothy 20140221 Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae In the novel “Gates of Fire”‚ by Steven Pressfield‚ the author describes a battle between 300 Spartans and the Persian Army who threatens to invade and take Sparta. A Greek‚ who goes by the name Xeones‚ gives his story to a scribe who works for the Persian King Xerxes. One main theme that presents itself very well is the act of Patriotism. Something that one would learn from this novel is very similar to the basics of what
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Alejandro Haro 9/19/2011 mangin hist.17A Barbara Jeanne Fields main point seems to be that race could be non existant in our every day life if we all cooperate to eliminate the term from our culture. She claims‚ that "race" is just an ideology that we create and re- create as a society. There are passages where fields mentions that "race" is not biological. By this she means that there is no way that race is in our genes‚ therefore being no way for "race" to be handed down from generation
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Quintavious Jeffery 11-1-12 Gates Essay #1 Discuss the subjects in which you excel or have excelled. To what factors do you attribute your success? Use specific examples to illustrate how you succeeded. My eleventh grade year was arduous. Not only was I concerned about passing five Georgia High School Graduation Tests (GGT)‚ but math III was complex. math III was full of foreign concepts and equations. Overtime‚ I grew excited about learning new concepts in math III. My teacher was a great
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oting the book “Through Gates of Splendor” which tells the story of five missionaries who sacrificed their lives in the jungles of Ecuador‚ this documentary film “Beyond the Gates of Splendor” takes us through that original journey to the events that followed half a century after. A thoroughly informed and accurate story‚ it has some limitations‚ but is well worth the watch. The well-known facts about this story are that five men‚ Jim Elliot‚ Roger Youderian‚ Nate Saint‚ Pete Fleming‚ and Ed McCully
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Theme: Greek Military The themes represented throughout Gates of Fire‚ by Steven Pressfield‚ give us an idea as to how Greek society operated and what they valued. History comes alive when Pressfield discusses the battles and city-states of ancient Greece. With this fictitious account of real events we are able to relate to characters living during a different time‚ in a different place. We can try and understand‚ through history and Pressfield‚ how and why the Greeks fought and died. The Greeks
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Rule 1 : Life is not fair - get used to it! Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. Rule 3: You will NOT make $60‚000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both. Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough‚ wait till you get a boss. Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping:
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"America" by Claude Mckay was a very interesting poem.‚ in my opinion. I wasn’t really getting what it was trying to say at the beginning‚ but after reading over it again and again‚ I started to realize what Mckay was trying to tell the reader. A couple of things that I rather enjoyed about this poem was the rhyme scheme that was used through-out it. I find when poems are written with this kind of rhyming scheme‚ it is a lot easier and more exciting for the reader to read. I also enjoyed the way
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Gates Essay 1 From an early age there have been three classes‚ which I could not wait to go to. These three classes are also the subjects in which I excel in which are English‚ History‚ and Mathematics. The reasons why I excel in these classes are because of my Grandma‚ utilizing my resources‚ and self motivation. Growing up in a house with an educator is a great thing. From an early age my Grandma started preparing me for school. She would make me do all types of activities with pennies‚ having
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