Bo Jackson has always been a larger than life ideal, possessing many characteristics of an epic hero. He played not one, but two professional sports. He was a superstar in both Professional Football and Professional Baseball. Even at a young age he was doing many things out of the ordinary. For example, he jumped over a volkswagon bug and landed the jump. This is just one of the many things that made him better than a normal person. Although he was born in a small poor town in Alabama, Bo is an epic
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Amaya Snyder Philipp English I Honors 16 March 2018 Title There is not a day in ones life where they won't encounter obstacles. It is how one handles these obstacles that defines them. Whether they take the lead, or stay back and follow in the footsteps of a leader. Homer exemplifies this concept throughout his epic, "The Odyssey". Odysseus, the main character, goes on a journey lasting 10 years, as he tries to return home after the Trojan War and reassert his place as the rightful king of Ithaca
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Odysseus, the epic hero in The Odyssey, is a man who is loved by everyone. However, they turn a blind eye to the fact that he is a very egotistical hero. Most of Odysseus’ “heroic” acts are to benefit himself and not for the people that are seeking his heroism. When someone looks at all the benefits that Odysseus got out of these acts, one could see why he kept wanting to be the hero. The hero gets all of fame and attention from everyone about the good deed. All of these good deeds were quickly turning
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In Homer’s the Odyssey, Odysseus goes on a long journey for 20 years away from home. During his journey he encounters many challenges along the way. Odysseus encountered storms and monsters but still kept leading his men. Odysseus had to make many hard decisions on his journey. On my journey to becoming a pro football player, I will have to go through hard decisions and challenges. During Odysseus’ journey, he faced a cyclops that trapped them in a cave. The cyclops ate one of his men and Odysseus
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The Hero’s Quest Past and Present In both The Odyssey translated by Robert Fagles and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship, the hero’s actions are influenced by their cultures and past experiences that thrive them to to stand up for what they believe is right. The Odyssey is about a man named Odysseus who is stuck on an island after being captured by Calypso. After years of being there, he goes on a quest to return home and encounters multiple conflicts. He must return back and prove who he truly
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Throughout the epic poem, The Odyssey, the main character, Odysseus, struggles with maintaining his pride. This fatal flaw impacted his life by making his journey back to Ithaca take even longer. Many people, including myself, have fatal flaws as well. Odysseus's pride impacted his life, and my fatal flaw influences my life as well. Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus has the tendency to let his pride cost him both men and time away from his family. There are many instances in the epic poem that
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The strong and powerful leader, Odysseus, was he really a good leader to his crew? Or did he ultimately lead to all his men's fait of death? Along Odysseus and the crews journey back home to Ithaca, their was many obstacles put fourth ahead of them. But these obstacles would have not been put in place if Odysseus would have not made Poseidon mad in the first place. Due to Odysseus's conflict the crew had to suffer and pay the consequences, because he only cared about himself, and when It came to
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The search for a home is a long one. You can find a home but there is always a chance you will end up losing it. Odysseus set for home as soon as he finished his courageous battle in Troy. Filled with pride he accidentally angered the god Poseidon. He claimed that “He Odysseus had beaten the Trojans without the help of the gods,” but he had forgotten he got help from Poseidon in order for his plan to work. Poseidon enraged had cursed Odysseus to never return to Ithaca, as long as he sailed in Poseidon’s
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In the Epic Poem “The Odyssey”, written by the mysterious Homer, Odysseus is portrayed as a hero, a perfect man, but, like many other things, as time passes, view on Odysseus change, and people realize that not only was he not a hero, but he was not a good leader in the least. “While he fought only to save his life, and bring his shipmates home”(Homer 951). Odysseus’s one goal was to bring all of his men home safely, not only did he fail this, but not a single man of his survived. He continuously
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Odyssey Narrative- A Different Perspective We are drifting in the sea. Our stomachs are as empty as the desert. That is when we see an island known as Aeaea. It is a beautiful island. We go to it and we let Odysseus scout out the land to make sure we are not in danger. He comes back and says “The island is safe and I saw a house.” He decides to send a group to go look at it. “I will do it,” I volunteered. I was going to be one of the people who went. He said that me (Chris) and 21 other people
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