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WOMEN IN THE ODYSSEY Although women in ancient Greece are often portrayed as meek and weak‚ this is not the case in Homer’s epic; The Odyssey. Instead‚ women in the Odyssey are often described as either cunning‚ intelligent‚ sexually alluring‚ or powerful‚ dangerous and fatal. Some of the most typical female characters are Athena‚ Circes and Penelope‚ where Athena is a powerful goddess and a skilled warrior‚ Circes is a cunning witch who tricked Odysseus’ men into drinking her potion and turning
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France was a policy that was known to be horrific. Even though this ideology was violent in nature‚ Robespierre thought that it was completely justified. Robespierre made very clear that the interests of the Republic were of utmost importance. He described how there were both internal and external forces working to dismantle the Republic‚ and that the supporters of the Republic should value reason while the Republic’s enemies should experience terror. He made a point that terror in this case was not
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Communication Fear and Trembling Coming to St. Edward’s was my dream. Who would have guess that the little girl I was at 5 would ever have the opportunity to move there one day. But the truth was that moving from France to Texas hasn’t been an easy task to do especially after all the French cultural background I’ve been use to my whole life. Everything is different when you come from Europe. But the thing I was the more worried about was the first day at school‚ not because I was alone and in a foreign
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followed a formalized legal procedure‚ but that gradually broke down. The accused were denied by lawyers. Conviction based on patriotic "intuition" rather than evidence was allowed. In Paris‚ while some members of the upper classes were acquitted‚ the Tribunal sentenced 2‚750 to death.” ("Document E." The Reign of Terror: Was it Justified?) The revolutionaries were betraying their principles by not providing adequate due process for the accused. This led to the unjust killing of innocent people. Some
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demonstration had been ludicrous.I believe that the actions of the authorities had been justified. This is because‚ the authorities and government had the fear of a communist uprising much like that of Russia in 1917‚ the potential conflict between the two sides with and against the argument‚ and the strikers had been causing many cases of property damage. Firstly‚ the reason the actions of the authorities had been indeed justified‚ is due to the fear of a communist revolution much like that of Russia’s in
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Sociology is everywhere. Even in a television series called‚ “Shameless.” This show is about a household of six children living in a bad neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side‚ growing up with minimum values. The Gallagher children have an alcoholic‚ drug abuser of a father‚ and a mother who split when the last kid was born. The oldest daughter Fiona‚ in her early twenties has raised the other five children since she her mother split years ago‚ and since their father went off the rail soon after. The
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Slavery has been around ever since the early 1600s in America. The very first slaves were shipped to the North American colony to help with plantation. Slavery was entrenched in the southern colonies because of the demand of workers for cultivating crops and it was justified by plantation owners through religion‚ however many African Americans gained their freedom by rebelling. Although slavery had already existed in America‚ it became deeply rooted in the southern economy‚ politics‚ and culture
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Odyssey‚ the women are portrayed in many different ways‚ some are said to be wise while others are cruel‚ but many are treated differently from the opposite gender. One of the women in the story‚ Penelope‚ was portrayed as very wise but because of her gender she was expected to obey many of the men. Similarly to Penelope‚ Arete‚ queen of the Phaeacians‚ was equally wise but was viewed almost as an equal to the men. In contrast to the other two women‚ Melantho was very malicious and was treated similarly
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The number one wish of most women and girls is to loose weight. Media presents images that tell woman and girls that acceptance means being unnaturally thin. The average fashion model‚ whose image we are bombarded with‚ weighs twenty-three percent less than the average American woman. Twenty years ago‚ the average fashion model weighed only eight percent less. Only five percent of all women are born with the ideal fashion model body‚ which of course leaves
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