Was Odysseus a good hero? The generic definition of a hero is “a person who is admired or idealized for courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities.” There is many ways that Odysseus can be considered a hero, but i feel as though there are more ways he can be considered not a hero. Three reasons that will prove that he isn’t a hero is: Odysseus didn’t take advice from people which led to great consequences, and also Odysseus was very self-centered and didn’t care for others lives, and
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The book starts out with the notion that kids these days are taught to be their selves and not care what others think. Parents of the generation me children teach their kids to do whatever makes them happy, and giving them the idea that “your way is the right way”. Also a main focus that parents and teachers both focus on is teaching the children to love themselves for who they are and have a high self-esteem. Generation me kids took these idea and ran with it. Kids these days are more individualistic
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It all began in the affluent neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York, where a wealthy Spanish businessman, John Casanegros and his Danish wife resided with their son, Julius. Placed in a private French school, Julius was always expected to follow in his father's footsteps, maybe even inherit the acting agency he ran one day. When he was eight, his parents got a divorce and his mother remarried an artist and academic named Sam Aduba, who grew up in Ghana and introduced Julius to the music of radical
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from the Japanese by Robert A. Howell and Michiharu Sakurai, the differences and similarities between management accounting in the United States and Japan are compared. There are 10 lessons in the article, which summarize the differences between the way companies in the two different countries operate. The article goes over the different viewpoints each country has, but also the similarities between the two. For instance, some companies in Japan have followed the U.S. lead in making management accounting
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when it shows symptoms of perseverance is somewhere towards the end. It is when Odysseus finally arrives home after being at least gone for twenty years from a ten year war, and also a ten year journey to getting back home. For instance, in book 23, page 573, lines 97-103, Telemachus states, “Mother, cruel mother, do you feel nothing, drawing yourself apart this way from Father? Will you not sit with him and talk and question him? What other woman could remain so cold? Who shuns her lord, and he
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In S.E. Hinton's, The Outsiders, people judged each other by family wealth. All they have to do is forget the wealth and focus on qualities, heroic qualities, of everyone, greaser and Soc. Here are the reasons why three greasers, Darry, Ponyboy, and Johnny should be named heroes as a result of their selfless actions. Darry is a thoughtful young man, and though he never acted like a superhero, he has qualities of a real hero. In the book it mentions that the Curtis parents were killed in an Auto
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three we're all songs that we knew so we all sang along. An hour had gone by & it was silent once again. I was feeling kind of tired so I decide to take a quick nap. I was awoken by loud yells & people arguing about something. I asked my friend who was sitting next to me “What's going on?”& she said that we were lost. We waited about 30 minutes until the one of the other cars came to help us. We followed the other car all the way to the Haunted Corn Maze. We arrived at the corn maze around 9:30pm
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Need Assistance? Click "Chat Now" to chat with a Live Operator. Chat Now No Thanks! The Ragamuffin Mystery CHAPTER ONE Off in the Caravan “This is going to be just about the most exciting holiday we’ve ever had!” said Roger, carrying a suitcase and bag down to the front door. “Diana, bring that pile of books, will you, before we forget them?” Diana picked them up and ran down the stairs after Roger. At the front door stood a caravan. Diana stood and
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“Now Close the Windows”, he includes end rhyme in the entire poem. Now close the windows and hush all the fields: If the trees must, let them silently toss; No bird is singing now, and if there is, Be it my loss. It will be long ere the marshes resume, I will be long ere the earliest bird: So close the windows and not hear the wind, But see all wind-stirred. (1-8) Frost likes using personification in his poems, like “Now close the windows and hush all the fields,” (3). He uses a lot of
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SUMMER SOLSTICE Setting: The main events in the story happened in the Moretas residence and at their townsmini plaza and those happened during the night. Characterization: * Donya Lupeng Moreta- long-married woman with three children * Don Paeng Moreta- the highly moral husband of Donya Lupeng * Guido- young cousin to the Moretas who studied in Spain * Amada- the family cook and Entoy's wife * Entoy- the family driver Plot: The story happened during the St. John's Day, Doña
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