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Fictional Short Story 'Into Her House, With Flowers'

In seven pages this short story which features a woman's fight to freely live her life despite several mental impairment is presen...

Psychology of Characters in The Iliad

(Tracy). He traveled from place to place and although poor and impoverished at many points in his life, he was also warmly receive...

Discussion: Hektor, Antigone, Phaedra and the Melians

could well be said that his acceptance of his brothers actions, despite his berating his brother, may have been the most important...

Homer Hickam/October Sky

of this minister, and "his belief in Gods sense of humor and His fondness for neer-do-wells," inspired Sonny, as this fueled the ...

The Nature of War: The Iliad, Herodotus’ Histories, and Thucydides Peloponnesian War

ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...

Responsibility for Carnage in The Iliad

great deal of loss and death in his wake. But, he is not the power, the real power, behind the war and he really only seems to ser...

Helen and The Iliad

no power and they were possessions. So in that respect with Paris of Troy stealing something from Athens was cause enough for batt...

Similes of Violence

ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...

Women’s Liberation of the 1960s

taking place within and beyond our national borders" (NOW). In this statement one sees that the organizations aim was to fight for...

Hector of Troy

but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...

"The Iliad" of Homer and a Greek Warrior's Characteristics Considered in Hector and Achilles

only by the military might of his chief Trojan rival Hector. Achilles courage was unwavering perhaps due in part to his connectio...

The War Against Troy

Whether or not Helen was the cause of all the uproar is really unknown, but what seems certain, according to archaeologist Manfred...

Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Compared

In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Gayle Gullett's "Women Progressives And Immigrant Women"

every forward progression middle class women had made. So it was to be that the California Daughters of the American Revolution s...

Lerner/Grimke Sisters

is not a phenomenon that emerges overnight. It builds over decades. Angelina and Sarah Grimke argued for womens rights a full ten ...

Article Analysis: Women and Power

the same qualities that society considers intrinsic to, and acceptable in, women. This goes back to something that Freedman says ...

Business Plan for Krista's Clothing

video rental stores. Conventional wisdom says that in starting a new business, it is necessary to find something new that has at ...

The Value of Women's Studies

women as opposed to men. Women it seems are on the whole more interested in legislation involving the family and such issues as e...

Interchangeability of Homer's Heroic Hektor

In six pages this character analysis of Hektor in 'The Iliad' by Homer reveals how he is a hero who also happens to be human and h...

Ajas, Phoinix, and Odysseus' Pleas to Achilles to Return to Battle in Homer's 'The Iliad'

In five pages this paper compares these pleas in an analysis of 'The Iliad' by Homer. There are no other sources listed....

Critique of Homer's 'The Iliad'

quoted as saying: "Achilles, valiant though you be, you shall not thus outwit me. You shall not overreach and you shall not persua...

War in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried

In six pages this paper considers classical and contemporary examples of war literature. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliog...

Analysis of Symbolism Homer's 'The Iliad'

In seven pages with a Roman numeral outline of one page also included this paper analyzes how symbolism is used to thematically po...

Comparing Homer's Heroes in 'The Iliad'

In this paper containing four pages Achilles and Hektor are compared and it is determined that while Hektor's tragedy is synonymou...

Relationship Between Paris and Helen in Homer's 'The Iliad'

a whole. According to Hector, Paris has brought ruin on his people and has allowed his lust for women to drive him to insane actio...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Speeches Delivered by Ajax, Phoenix, and Ulysses in Book IX

states, "Up, then, and late though it be, save the sons of the Achaeans who faint before the fury of the Trojans. You will repent...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Free Will

the conflict in terms of an insult to his personal honor. Homer writes that Achilles responded by telling Agamemnon, "Ah me, cloth...

Gender Portrayals in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Sophocles' Antigone

of Helen of Troy in marriage if she wins. This starts the war. In this we see that the war is being fought over a woman, Helen, c...

Homer's 'The Iliad' and Achilles' Shield

of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...

Leadership Abilities and Inabilities in Homer's Achilles

fatal wrath that consumes Achilles is responsible for pushing him to the edge of sanity, for his very existence hinges upon the le...