in the tragedy of Oedipus Rex and Antigone‚ Oedipus and Creon do foolish actions. In a way they had eyes yet were blind to the actions they created. The story of Oedipus was well known to Sophocles’ audience. In Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus was born from Jocasta and the king as a prince‚ but a prophet foretold that he would kill the king and "lay" with his mother. So the king and Jocasta let him bleed out on a mountain. Afterward he was then raised by the people who found him. when he grew up he then
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Taking a deep breath‚ "Aunt Viv‚ I have been having a very difficult time with Amy lately. She has been moody‚ stays by herself‚ and fighting with Jason". Viv couldn’t believe her ears. A picture of Amy popped up in her head. Thinking about the happy‚ sweet‚ loving girl. "Jenna‚ I am so sorry to hear that. The poor baby‚ is there anything I can do to help you? Is that the reason you called?" "Well‚ Aunt Viv‚ I was wondering. Is the offer for us to visit still open‚" she asked. "But of course
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Vietnam was a struggle which‚ in all honesty‚ the United States should never have been involved in. North Vietnam was battling for ownership of South Vietnam‚ so that they would be a unified communist nation. To prevent the domino effect and the further spread of communism‚ the U.S. held on to the Truman Doctrine and stood behind the South Vietnamese leader‚ Diem. Kennedy and Diem were both killed in 1963 and 1964. Johnson took control of the situation by increasing the amount of money and manpower
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A man and woman converse on the porch of their farmhouse. The man is just coming home in the evening; his wife meets him at the door to warn him that Silas‚ the old "ne’r-do-well hired hand"‚ had returned that day. They were afraid of why he had returned and what he would try to do to them. They had never done anything wrong to him but sometimes he would just get those ideas in his head. She found him a tattered‚ dilapidated mess‚ "huddled against the barn door‚ fast asleep‚ a miserable sight‚
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WINTER CHAPTER 1: PP.1-6 Describes the significant role Football plays in the small community. It is only the junior premiership but‚ “The whole town is talking about it‚ it’s the biggest thing to happen here since the second prize in the South Australian Tidy Town’s Competition ( section B). The glory associated with getting your name in the local “Peninsula Gazette.” p.4 Provides an avenue for acknowledgement: “People who had previously barely acknowledged my existence were now asking intimate
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Many people remember President Abraham Lincoln as being a very gifted orator as well as a dignified leader of our country. Through his many speeches and writings‚ Abraham Lincoln captivated American minds and gained millions of followers. In Lincoln’s "Perpetuation speech‚" given before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield‚ Illinois‚ in 1838‚ Lincoln himself stated that our country was in great danger. He speaks of people such as Alexander the Great‚ Julius Caesar and Napoleon and then asks‚
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When I lived with my dad‚ I had a friend named Aubree. We would do everything together‚ people would confuse us for sisters. She would go to vacations with my family and I and I would go on vacations with her family. One day she handed me a letter and started to cry‚ I gave her a hug and asked her what was wrong‚ all she said was “read the letter”. I got home and read the letter‚ she was moving to Chicago. I thought she was messing with me‚ I didn’t believe her till the day her house was empty and
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Hofstadter? When and why did he write the essays in The American Political Tradition? Was he well qualified to do so? Explain. a. Richard started writing The American Political Tradition in 1943‚ finished in 1947‚ and published in 1948. In the essay‚ he “made a number of interpretive and critical comments on certain political figures on whom he had done some special work or who particularly captured his interest.” However‚ the original title of his essay was Men and Ideas in American Politics
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“Money breeds money” ‚ In other words ‚ money creates money. Have you ever heard the expression ‚ “You have to spend money to make money” ? Well ‚ it’s the same approach. Dana Gioia’s poem “Money” appealed to me for this same reason. It seemed so ironic to me that the greatest necessity we need like money is recyclable. In Gioia’s poem ‚ he pretty much summarized what we all do with money. Every stanza describes a different perspective of how we look at and spend money. The poem is basically a
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In the article “A Good Education”‚ the author poses the question of whether a good education is a broad one‚ with traditional subjects‚ or a specialized one‚ providing practical skills. The author states that in the XVIIIth and XIXth century a good education was a broad one‚ which provided men the possibility to pursue any career. However‚ he/she contends that since the latter part of the XIXth century‚ workers were required to have a more specialized training because the world was more complex‚
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