History 111A (Ancient Near East) Professor Spyridakis Fall 2013 REQUIRED READINGS J. Oates‚ Babylon N. K. Sanders‚ ed.‚ The Epic of Gilgamesh J. A. Wilson‚ The Culture of Ancient Egypt H. M. Orlinsky‚ Ancient Israel Before the midterm‚ read relevant chapters on the main Mesopotamian cultures in Oates ’ Babylon as well as the Sanders and Wilson books. Orlinsky ’s Ancient Israel should be read in the second part of the course‚ along with relevant materials on Persia in Oates ’
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3.3. Atomic H/C and O/C ratio The Atomic H/C and O/C for heavy oil obtained from different HDO solvent is presented in Fig. 2. Conversion and removal of unstable acid‚ aldehyde‚ sugar and water might reduce the O/C ratio. The atomic ratio was calculated by the value of water excluded heavy oil‚ since H/C ratio could also decrease‚ despite hydrogenation. Compared with that of bio-oil (0.9)‚ atomic O/C ratio was effectively reduced via HDO reaction (0.2-0.8)‚ H/C ratio reduced 1.0-2.0 (compared with
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Alice Munro grew up on a small farm which provided her with a firsthand view of the imagery she would come to use in her writing. One story with a small farm family is “Boys and Girls.” It is an initiation story of a young girl at conflict with the gender roles placed upon her. At a time when gender roles were being challenged‚ Munro writes about a fox farmer’s daughter. The girl wants to help her father‚ but that is a man’s work. Munro’s own father was a fox farmer turned foundry worker turned turkey
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"Comfort‚" by Alice Munro‚ is a short story based on life‚ death and dying‚ suicide and religion. With the depth of all four topics‚ controversial issues arise and compromising situations hold the main character‚ Nina‚ at a difficult crossroad. That crossroad is the wants and needs that Nina yearns for. "Comfort" illustrates a ride through what Nina experiences after the passing of her husband and her dire need to get what she wants or at least to obtain comfort. From the beginning of the story
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“Lord of the Flies” is a story about a group of British schoolboys that are on a plane that is shot down over a war zone. The boys crash land on a deserted island and they start their journey of learning how to survive without adults. In order to obtain a better understanding of this novel‚ many readers chose to take a psychoanalytic view when critiquing this. Andra Picus‚ a literary analysist‚ said the psychoanalytic approach can be applied to literature to better understand it the same way dreams
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In his essay “Pornography‚” D.H. Lawrence discuss healthy sex and how people try to make healthy sex dirty with pornography. Lawrence states that nudity is not pornography. Pornography is what people have done with nudity during the years. Pornography has always existed‚ but the actions of perverted people have provoked society to reject nudity. Lawrence provides good ideas about the both sides of pornography‚ but I disagree with one of the ideas. According to Lawrence‚ “if a woman hasn’t got
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Book Review: Friday Night Lights takes place in 1998 when H.G. Bissinger a journalist decided to follow a football team in Texas. He finally chose Permian High which has a population of over 90‚000 people. H.G. Bissinger soon finds out that football for the Panthers wasn’t ordinary. Football was life for the players‚ and reasonably so‚ they had won the past five state championships in a row. In my mind Friday Night Lights focuses on three major keys. It shows the dreams of the players‚ they pressure
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Huck’s Relationship with Pap Huckleberry Finn has relationships with many people and things throughout his travels traversing the river. One of Huck’s main relationships is with his father‚ Pap. Pap is depicted as rather a contemptible character. There are some things about his father that Huck likes; there are many things he hates about him. Because Huck despises the presence of civility in society‚ he respects Pap’s hatred for civility . As well‚ Huck dislikes the
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The extract form the book ‘The Rainbow’ by D. H. Lawrence is taken from chapter 1. In the extract the writer explores the theme of human relationships and particularly the one between a man and a woman. He describes the wavery nature of love and fear of uncertainty through a third person narrative of Brangwen’s experience with a woman. The writer lays great stress on the ambivalent characteristics of such relationships and reflects this in the body of the prose. Lawrence is deeply concerned with
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Tobacco Culture oversees the mental world of farmers in the tidewater area over the eighteenth century. T.H. Breen does not focus on the analysis of the tobacco farmer’s philosophical ideas or political views. (Preface xxv) To be more precise T. H. Breen concentrates on the farmers’ daily planting cycle‚ the psychology of their planting style‚ and a political ideology. The author gives the readers a look on how the tobacco planters observed their agricultural and economic adjustments during the
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