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    The Odyssey Book Ten: The Grace of the Witch (916-925) 1. Who lives on the island of Aeolus? ___________________________________________ 2. What gifts does Aeolus give Odysseus? _______________________________________ 3. What do Odysseus’ men do that curses their voyage even more? ___________________ _______________________________________________________________________ 4. What happens in the land of the Laestrygones? _________________________________

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    Name: Lascuña‚ April Joy C. Subject: Literature 2 Section: 4E BSAE Date: July 11‚ 2011 REACTION PAPER ABOUT THE MOVIE “THE ODYSSEY” The Odyssey is about the adventures‚ adversaries and journeys of Odysseus‚ King of Ithaca‚ and the greatest hero of Greeks. “Without God‚ man is nothing”. This is what Poseidon‚ God of the Sea‚ said to Odysseus‚ and this is the first thing that came out of my mind after I watched the movie. This is indeed true because God helps us in every day

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    The Odyssey Journal The following quote “Why do we fall? So we can pick ourselves back up‚” means everyone makes mistakes‚ but these mistakes help one grow and learn. At any point in time‚ everyone faces a problem or tragedy‚ because that’s just life. Those are the moments in life you learn a lot from‚ and grow as a person. This quote relates to the epic poem‚ The Odyssey‚ in many ways. Odysseus‚ the main character in this epic‚ faces many struggles on his way back home to Ithica‚ Greece. Odysseus

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    Women in the odyssey

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    In Homer’s The Odyssey‚ women are looked at in two ways; as being the evils in the world and hindering on Odysseus’s homecoming or as being loving and faithful. On his journey home‚ Odysseus weaves his way through many hardships and temptations that are created by the women he meets on his voyage back to Ithaca. Calypso and Nausikaa play a large role in representing temptation while Penelope represents loyalty for she was the only good and loyal woman who waited for Odysseus to return home unlike

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    the destruction left behind from the war and that it was time to rely on the subconscious as a way to analyze the world. These people became known as Surrealists. One of the most famous surrealist artists was Salvador Dalí. Dalí ’s piece The Temptation of Saint Anthony is a prime example of Surrealism. Surrealist paintings are described as dreamlike and fantastical. Much of Dalí ’s paintings were images he had dreamed up. He said that he would paint what almost seem like photographs from

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    Odysseus’s Odyssey Home “He saw the townlands and learned the minds of many distant men‚ and weathered many bitter nights and days in his deep heart at sea‚ while he fought only to save his life‚ to bring his shipmates home” (McDougal p. 1104). Odysseus‚ King of Ithica‚ was determined to get home with all of his men unscathed after the Trojan War; however‚ the voyage did not go as anticipated. Whilst on his journey home to Ithica‚ Odysseus and his men found themselves facing an island of Cannibals

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    Temptations Name: Hussein Date of Submission: January 20‚ 2009 Teacher: Mrs. Kim Course Code: ENG 3U0 Temptations Created by: Hussein Amer Liselotte Vitzliputzli is a brilliant‚ creative woman with many things in mind. Her appearance is manly‚ wearing men’s clothing with huge hands and feet‚ and having a mouth as a “monkey”. The author (Robertson Davis) takes “Vitzliputzli” from one of the devils in the play Faust. Liesl can be considered a devil figure because of the temptation

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    Symbolism In The Odyssey

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    involves the bloody murder of an eye with a sharpened olive tree and the perpetrators escaping on the bellies of sheep be inspiring? Well the answer is yes‚ surprisingly enough‚ when it comes to The Odyssey‚ a timeless epic written by the widely-renowned Homer. Centered around the hero Odysseus‚ The Odyssey is a tale of a man’s struggle to get home despite the odds stacked against him. Odysseus must go through countless trials and tests of courage at the sake of other’s lives in order to reach his long-desired

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    Temptations in the Real World For most college students‚ the transition from living at home to a freer campus environment and the demands of high school compared to college studies engender enormous stress. Heading off to college provides a number of changes for teenagers‚ many of whom are leaving home for the first time in their lives. They are also leaving behind friends‚ romantic interests‚ family‚ and familiar places. Whether living on or off campus‚ many teenagers experience a lack of restraints

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    Noah Sola English I Mrs. Johnson 4/22/2014 The Odyssey Book 1 The poet invokes the Muse to help him tell the story of Odysseus. How original. I learn that Poseidon‚ god of the sea‚ begrudges (though I don’t know exactly why) against Odysseus and is making the guy’s expedition home pretty difficult. This tells me two very important things: (1) Greek gods are temperamental‚ and (2) Poseidon is a powerful guy. So Poseidon isn’t around on Mount Olympus (presumably because he’s full of activity

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