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    The Quest Archetype starts with a humble beginning‚ where the hero is mocked and teased by others‚ and then he must go on a quest to a place that he is not familiar of and complete a goal or to uncover the truth. The movie ‘Rudy’ starts in Joliet‚ Illinois where Rudy a born Catholic and from a poor class family who absolutely loved Notre Dame Football. After telling his father that he dreams of playing for Notre Dame‚ Rudy gets teased by his brothers and his family saying he can’t do it. Once he

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    GILGAMESH IS FROM ANCIENT SUMER Gilgamesh is one of the oldest recorded stories in the world. It tells the story of an ancient King of Uruk‚ Gilgamesh‚ who may have actually existed‚ and whose name is on the Sumerian King List. The story of Gilgamesh‚ in various Sumerian versions‚ was originally widely known in the third millennium B.C. After a long history of retellings‚ this story was recorded‚ in a standardized Akkadian version‚ in the seventh century B.C.‚ and stored in the famous library

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    Evils In The Odyssey

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    Imagine battling with a giant Cyclops‚ being attacked by a six headed monster or having to navigate around a whirlpool. All of this‚ and more‚ happened to Odysseus the famous hero of Homer’s classic work the Odyssey. His journey home from the Trojan War took twenty years and involved unbelievable hardships. “…Odysseus has had to put away childish things and lives in a world where you can freeze to death‚ as well as be devoured by one-eyed monsters” (Bloom 2). These ordeals might seem far removed

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    Heroism In The Odyssey

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    Heroism Poem A hero can be real or fictional but either way a hero goes through the same stages and has choices to make to help others at whatever cost. Someone may not seem like they could be a hero but by doing what they can‚ could help make a huge difference in someone’s life. Being a hero is not always what movies and comic books make it out to be; a hero can be a regular person being generous. Making the right choices and decisions is what helps shape a person to be a hero; they don’t become

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    Gilgamesh and The Iliad have both impacted a plethora of generations‚ the stories even conforming to today’s dynamic atmosphere and allowing individuals to still relate to heart aching emotions portrayed within both epics. Fragile yet emotional‚ the topic of friendship intertwines these epics into the impassioned worlds they create‚ allowing the reader too thoroughly dissolve the rather enigmatic emotions flared out by both Gilgamesh and Achilles. The account of these characters friendships undermine

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    Gender Role and Gilgamesh

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    Gender Roles of Gilgamesh In the epic of Gilgamesh both genders male and female play significant roles in the success and downfalls of Gilgamesh. Each gender helps shape and evolves him in his journey through this epic. Though Gilgamesh and Enkidu are the main characters and they are both male the females play just as important roles as them. For Enkidu to become a big factor in Gilgamesh’s life a female (Harlot) has to make Enkidu a man and make him civil. The roles of each gender both play

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    The flood in Genesis is not the only story of its kind‚ other mythological versions have a very similar act to tell. The flood in Genesis shows that the one existing God (Yahweh) controls all things‚ and in the mythological story of the Epic of Gilgamesh‚ the god Enlil needed other gods to help control all things. The overall point in the stories come to a similar conclusion -humanity was corrupt or bothersome and needed punishment- but the differences are in how the God (Yahweh) or gods demonstrate

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    Socrates vs Gilgamesh

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    Joe Arce 19 Sept 2011 Socrates Vs. Gilgamesh Socrates’ view of death in the Phaedo‚ Crito‚ and Apology is complex. His argument tries to prove that philosophers‚ of all people‚ are in the best state to die or will be in the best state after life because of the life they lead. Socrates’ views are sharply contrasted in The Epic of Gilgamesh. In fact‚ he would probably say that Gilgamesh had not lived the proper kind of life and his views of life‚ and death would lead to an unsettled existence in the

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    EN – 207 In the epics "Gilgamesh" and "The Tragedy of Sohrab and Rostam"‚ the two heroes‚ Gilgamesh and Rostam‚ both have to deal with a loss of the most precious person in their lives. Gilgamesh loses his friend and companion‚ Enkidu‚ and Rostam loses his son‚ Sohrab. They have different types of relationships with their loved ones and therefore react to the situations in different ways. Gilgamesh loses his best friend and companion‚ Enkidu‚ in his epic. Before Enkidu is created and the

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    “Epic of Gilgamesh”‚ at its core‚ is a story of heroic deeds. The epic details Gilgamesh overcoming several obstacles in his quest to becoming an exceptional leader and warrior. This particular epic has been since 2300 B.C.E. and‚ not surprisingly‚ it has been used as a source of inspiration for many years. Specifically‚ in the 1994 episode of “Batman: The Animated Series” entitled Bane‚ the titular villain is subjected to an invasive experimental procedure that had been dubbed Project Gilgamesh. Whether

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