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Emulating Homer

Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...

Extended Similes of Violence in “The Odyssey”

rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...

History of Educational Psychology

to recognize the age difference in childrens ability to learn and that children learn best when they are actively involved with ex...

History as Biography: Emerson

what makes history. He states, in the beginning, "Of the works of this mind history is the record...Man is explicable by nothing l...

Furniture/Desk and Chair

For instance, in January of 1976, Herman Miller, Inc. began marketing the first "fully integrated ergonomic chair, The Ergon Chair...

Protests Against Black History Month

abolished. Like Killfile, Cox sees Black History Month as a modern form of segregation, referring to it as the "intellectual equiv...

The Galileo Project

including book sources by Hale, Cochrane and Biagioli, who have published sources on this subject. Though the author of the cite...

Impressions from the Readings

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

British National Cinema in the 1980's

identity in relation to the various products of the national and international film and television industries, and the conditions ...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

The Iliad: What is the Good Life?

as Achilles, this is the good life. He is not a character who seems to desire times of peace or quiet but rather a man who is happ...

Native Americans and Hetch Hetchy Valley

became the first whites to actually see the valley (Ahwahnee, 2007). The Screeches encountered Pah Utes (Paiutes) camping in Hetch...

Cinematography in “Hero”

a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...

Out In The Redwoods/An Oral History

spent the first part of this life trying to conform. At the age of 32, he was still not openly gay. He said, "For me, coming out, ...

Beatrice C. Mosionier/In Search of April Raintree

It has never been out of print since its publication and has been translated into "French, German and Dutch" (Taillon 16). Written...

Economy Of Nigeria

B.C. when it was a sparsely population area (Pearson Education 2008). The Nok culture is known to have resided there between 800 B...

Comprehensive Health History, 65-year-old Male

allergies. He has never been involved in a serious industrial or automobile accident (Physical assessment, 2007). He is not taking...

Civil Rights

as new western states were added to the union. Abolitionist movement: William Lloyd Garrison, a white man, founded the Ame...

Looking Back at the Culture of the 20th Century from the 22nd Century

This 8 page paper gives a cultural history of the 20th century from the perspective of someone living in the 22nd century. The wri...

The Bible - Fact or Fiction?

This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...

Feminism and the Role of Clytemnestra

Agamemnon's actions led to his demise at the hands of his wife, Clytemnestra. While Aeschylus shows her as a strong woman who exac...

History of Blackface Minstrelsy

Black minstrelsy and its role throughouth the history of Black American culture is discussed within the context of Eileen Southern...

Literature and Free Will v. Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

'Omeros' by Derek Walcott and the Poet's Uses of Character and Landscape

In 7 pages this paper discusses the similarities between 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer and Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' in a...

A Review of The Shoemaker and the Tea Party by Alfred Young

In this five page paper the fact that our perception of history changes over time is illustrated with a look back some fifty years...

Historical Achievements of Man and Edward Gibbon

Strategic bombing was an aspect of World War II, and people didnt think much about that aspect" (Feld 961b-feld.html). There is n...

Triumphing in the African Epic Sundiata

In six pages this paper considers the text's description of how to overcome adversity triumphantly. Five sources are listed in th...

Bernard Malamud's The Natural and Classical Allusions

In 5 pages this novel is examined in terms of the classical allusions of the Arthurian Grail cycle, Aristotle, Homer, and Dante it...

Cultural Myths and 'The Aeneid' and 'The Odyssey'

In six pages this paper examines cultural myths and the portrayal of heroes in this comparative analysis of the works by Virgil an...

Literary Classics and Human Nature

In five pages this paper examines how human nature is featured in classic literary works by Homer, Sophocles, Dante Alighieri, and...