of Greece. Leonidas consulted the Oracle before he went into battle. The Persian Empire was very large and strong.Persian soldiers were paid by the government to be full-time soldiers. The royal Persian bodyguards‚ the Immortals‚ were very highly skilled and were called immortals because if any member fell sick or died‚ he was immediately replaced. The number was always at exactly 10‚000. The Persians also faced many internal problems. As the empire grew larger‚ it became difficult to manage.
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Irony is the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning Comic irony: irony that is humorous (whereas much irony is not) Dramatic irony: When the audience (or reader) knows a fictional character is making a mistake‚ because the audience has more information than the character. Dramatic irony is used when an incident occurs whose significance the audience understands but the characters do not. Tragic irony: In tragic irony‚ a character’s actions lead to consequences
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interpretation of 2BRO2B Imagine if you could live in a perfect world. A world where there was no crime‚ no diseases‚ no evil and where people could live eternally. What if you could live in utopia? In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story‚ 2BRO2B‚ people are immortal‚ and the people in this society cannot have all the children they want because of the population control. Is living in this utopia a good thing‚ and is immortality a curse or a blessing? These are just a couple of the questions that are hypothetically
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After many years held prisoner on Calypso’s Island‚ she allows him to leave. However she also offers him an option to stay with her and become immortal. He cleverly answered ‚ “Gracious goddess‚ don’t be cross with me! I know all that as well as you do. My wife is nothing compared to you for beauty. I can see that for myself. She is mortal‚ you are immortal‚ and never grow old. But even so I long for the day of my homecoming” (5).This shows that Odysseus is clever because he knew he must think carefully
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Nobody knows the feeling of death; therefore there is no need to fear of death. And we cannot say death is bad. In addition‚ the writer talks about the relationship between mortal and immortal. It will be boring if a person is mortal and never die. This is called the deprivation of death. If people do not want to live immortal‚ it is not necessary to fear of death. The third reason is people are worried about dying in a young age. Another possible answer is people are fear of dying in the near future.
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Hercules is one of the most famous and recognizable Greek Legends that people have knowledge about. Hercules is known for his strength and the adventurous mind that he had. Hercules is the son of Zeus‚ the God of the sky. Hercules’ mother was a mortal named Alcmene. However‚ most people do not know of the dark side of Hercules’ past. Hercules had constant conflict with Zeus’s wife Hera‚ the Queen of the gods. Hera didn’t like the amount of attention Zeus would give to Hercules‚ compared to how much
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fear the most. Most of us are waiting for a supernatural pill that will cure all of these things and become immortal. Immortality is something most humans yearn for due to their fear of death. What if we are given an option to copy our consciousness into a machine body‚ called a Mindscan? This new body will be durable and it will be immune to sickness and aging‚ in other words it will be immortal. Mindscan would be able to think‚ remember‚ and make conversation‚ just as a normal human being. However
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Suffering has been described as‚ to undergo or to feel pain or to sustain injury or loss. When the lives of Gilgamesh‚ Enkidu and Job are placed one a comparative level‚ clearly on can see that they all suffered some loss or pain. When one examines further their loss or pain‚ evidently their suffering is placed on different levels as they differ in their intensity even though their suffering share some of the same characteristics. Therefore it can be argued that Gilgamesh‚ Enkidu and Job all suffered
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Blake ’s dialectic is to be found everywhere in the Songs of Innocence and Experience - night and day‚ winter and spring‚ wilderness and Eden‚ etc. As Mitchell writes (1989:46)‚ ‘dialogue and dialectic of contraries constitute the master code of Blake ’s text’. Bass (1970:209) adds‚ ‘The total effect of Innocence and Experience is one of balanced opposites‚ each fulfilling and completing the other’. Moreover‚ according to John Beer‚ the ‘contrary states’ of the human soul are dialectic in themselves
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imperfect world". He attempts to make Georgiana the perfect object in a world where nothing is perfect. Aylmer sees Georgiana as an object that can withstand Nature ’s grasp and become immortal when he says‚ "You are fit for heaven without tasting death!"(Hawthorne 178). Objects do not taste death and can be immortal. Aylmer wants Georgiana ’s beauty to withstand time to tell the
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