part in assisting Odysseus to regain power‚ he is a caring man who offers hospitality to Odysseus when he is disguised as a beggar. EURYCLEIA She is a devoted old nurse of Odysseus and Penelope and is first to recognize her master on his return. HELEN Helen was the daughter of Leda and Zeus and she became the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta‚ Agamemnon’s brother. Being the daughter of Zeus‚ she was immortal. Zeus mated with Leda in the guise of a swan and Helen was hatched from and egg and brought
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Ellyday Helen Oyeyemi Ellyday is about two siblings‚ Sophie and Elly. The story takes place in Elly’s bedroom one cold Sunday morning‚ four days before Christmas. Sophie walked into Elly’s bedroom‚ because she was worried about her sister Elly‚ who is really skinny and she wanted to talk with her. While Sophie tried to figure out‚ how to ask Elly to pull her jumper up‚ Elly wanted to listen to a CD. Elly wouldn’t pull her jumper up and said to Sophie that she was only going to get angry. Then
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Mount St. Helens. Mount St Helens is a volcano in a national park in Washington State‚ USA. It had been thought to be dormant for many years‚ until in 1980‚ when it suddenly burst to life. On March 20th‚ the huge volcano suddenly ‘woke up’ when there was a 4.1 Richter scale earthquake‚ and over the next 28 days‚ there were hundreds of other recordable earthquakes. On the 25th March‚ there were 22 significant earthquakes in just 8 hours. On March 27th‚ a huge earthquake ripped a massive crater
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Walking‚ is Helen Prejean. Helen Prejean is a Catholic nun who began a life of social activism in 1981. Sister Helen Prejean is also a writer‚ lecturer‚ and community organizer. Prejean’s work with the poor eventually led her to the criminal justice system‚ where she became a spiritual advisor to not only one‚ but two death row inmates. After Helen Prejean witnessed the executions‚ she decided to dedicate herself to work for the abolishment of the death penalty. Throughout this book Sister Helen Prejean
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Brach and Sons Candy Company‚ Helen Brach ended up as a multimillionaire widow. One day in 1977‚ Helen Brach went to an annual check up appointment in Rochester‚ Minnesota. Afterwards she supposedly got on a flight back to her home in Chicago‚ but she never returned home. The household staff that worked for Helen Brach was questioned. One man in particular‚ named Jack Matlick was important in the police investigation. He
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How Mt. St. Helens eruption affected Washington State’s Economy On Sunday‚ May 18‚ 1980‚ at 8:32am‚ Mt. St. Helen’s erupted. Most people don’t realize how the eruption affected our economy. It affected Washington’s forestry / forest production‚ trade‚ transportation‚ topography‚ fisheries‚ and wildlife. Our Economy lost millions of dollars. Let’s see how it affected our economy. First‚ let’s start with forestry/forest production. This affected companies which had been logging. The companies
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Critical Analysis of “Language” In “Language” of Emerson’s Nature‚ Emerson writes on the language that man uses and talks of how the words that one uses are inaccurate to what one is describing. Emerson believes that the languages used today do not appropriately depict the items that are being described. His belief is that all things in nature have a natural self and language tries to create a true representation of that natural thing via words and phrases‚ but Emerson states that because man
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degree‚ helen adams keller. Helen adams keller was influential because of her accomplishments‚ her success as an american activist‚ and as an american author. hellen keller is influential as an political activist she would follow her beliefs no matter what the obstacle. Throughout the first half of the 20th century‚ Keller tackled social and political issues‚ including women’s suffrage‚ pacifism and birth control. On http://www.biography.com/people/helen-keller-9361967
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A Ruse Born of Love In Helen by Euripides‚ the play begins with Helen explaining how it was not actually herself that Paris took to Troy‚ but a phantom or replica‚ and she had been in Egypt for the duration of the Trojan War. She goes on explaining that she was transported to Egypt by Hermes and given to King Proteus‚ who is judged to be the most virtuous man of all mankind. She is sent there by Hermes so she can preserve her marriage with Menelaus. She says Menelaus is gathering an army to go
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Helen Levitt’s name became associated with photography in the 1930s. She was raised in Brooklyn‚ NY and loved music‚ dance‚ books‚ and foreign films. Though she did start high school‚ she left before graduating and went to work for a commercial photographer in the Bronx. She soon began to take pictures on her own. Inspired by the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson and Walker Evans‚ she worked for a government project that was trying to show and fix the social problems of America. Though many other people
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