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    A Hero Journey

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    A Journey That Needs To Be Known A jouenry to the unkown.A journey is an act of traveling from one place to another.A hero is a person‚ who is admired or‚ idealized forcourage ‚ outstanding achievments‚or noble qulites.Now let me introduce you to a Hero Journey. It is a fundemental peradigm of human experince that is frequently the basis for wrtiten stories‚drama‚ and film.This comes from the mythologist Joseph Campbell.The stages and archetypes of the jpourny have been developed and appiled to film

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    Course Hero

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    Course Hero is a self-described social learning network for students to access study resources and study groups. Its educator portal is a micropublishing platform for educators to distribute their educational resources. Course Hero collects study resources like old exams‚ class notes and study guides from users who upload. Users upload documents in order to receive membership and access the other documents that are uploaded on the website.[1] Some liken the resource sharing to a high-tech twist on

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    Byronic Hero

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    A Byronic hero can be conceptualized as an extreme variation of the Romantic hero archetype .However‚ they also bare some similarities with respect to their figure. The character type of the Byronic hero was first developed by Lord Byron a renowned English 19th century poet. He created this archetype because he grew tired of Traditional and Romantic heroic characters and his initial aim was to develop a character that would be more appealing to readers‚ that would be more psychologically realistic

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    Odysseus as a Hero

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    Odysseus’ voice nearby he did his best to wag his tail‚ nose down‚ with flattened ears‚ having no strength to move nearer his master” (1176-1179). Since he was a little pup‚ Odysseus trained him well raising Argus. Training and nurturing his pup represents how Argus obeys and respects Odysseus and Odysseus towers over Argus as his master. Odysseus‚ a true leader‚ embodies the shadow of an epic hero by being in charge and top

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    Is Hitler A Hero

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    considered heroic? Well that must have not been the mindset of Hitler when he killed over 1 million Jews. And yet some people still consider him a hero. So what makes up a hero? Heroes can be viewed as bad or good by their methods of justice‚ put others before themselves‚ and what they did to be considered a hero. Many people in the spotlight are viewed as a hero because of their methods of justice. For example‚ Donald Trump considers building a wall and killing all the illegals good. More specifically

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    Santiago A Hero

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    a frail elderly man who is beginning to lose hope in his capability to even catch fish. As written in Huffington Post a hero‚ “is someone who “we” determine to have demonstrated behaviors and decisions that are ethically and emotionally worthy of our awe.” Santiago is not a hero. How can people call him a hero when all he does is lose fish and lose faith in himself? A hero is successful and admirable and causes people awe. Besides the fact that Santiago was only a fisherman who does not have admirable

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    The Affordable Care Act was signed into a law on March 23‚ 2010‚ by President Barack Obama. The United States‚ after long years of demanding Ever since the enactment of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965‚ this law is considered the most important administrative system of the United States health care system. This law was planned to help avoid terrible health care costs to the people who did not provide health insurance for themselves. The terrible health care costs can destroy the credit scores of the

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    Tragic Hero

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    Tragic Hero Usually when reading‚ tragedy and conflict is the most popular way to catch the readers eye. People are attracted to the suffering of the main character who is most of the time the hero in Greek plays. To begin with‚ the audience develops an emotional attachment to the hero‚ people fear what may occur to the hero and end up feeling sorry for him or her. In the Theban Plays the author Sophocles uses the character of Oedipus to demonstrate the qualities of a tragic hero. The

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    Odysseus is not a Hero

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    A hero is "a man noted for his special achievements" according to the dictionary‚ but if you ask most people what a hero is‚ you will get the same general response. They will probably say "someone who does something for other people out of the goodness of his heart." Odysseus‚ who is the main character of the book "The Odyssey" written by Homer‚ would fit the dictionary¹s definition of a hero; but if you go deeper‚ looking at what people feel a hero is‚ he doesn¹t even come close. In the book‚ Odysseus

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    Hero and Beowulf

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    Haley Rodgers Mrs. Brasel English IV/ Block3 30 January 2013 Beowulf"s Heroism Superman‚ Spiderman‚ and Batman are heroes. They possess the traits that are needed in to be considered a hero. Beowulf shows he is a hero through both his wisdom and fortitude throughout his adventures. Wisdom is one of the traits of hero. Wisdom is the ability to make the right judgment‚ the right decision‚ because the situation is fully understood. A wise person has a complete understanding of the situation and makes

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