THE ODYSSEY Is a good leader classified as one who personally gains a lot or one who benefits his or her community at large? After fighting in the brutal Trojan War, Odysseus travels the sea in hopes of returning to Ithaca, his homeland, and his wife and son, Penelope and Telemachus. Homer’s The Odyssey reveals the struggles and obstacles Odysseus and his men face traveling home. As prophesized, twenty years later, Odysseus returns to a devastated Ithaca, alone, penniless and unrecognizable
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Levi’s If this is a man, is a book about his personal experience at a concentration camp in poland during the second world war. It is very interesting but at the same time horrific because of what he had gone through. Margaret Atwood’s Handmaids Tale is a fictional novel about a woman living in a distopia in the near future. Their world is in that state because of nuclear war. The women who are able to give birth are called handmaids whose soul job is to give birth to children which aren’t theirs
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The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara was not just a fiction novel, it was a story of a man who actually saw the battlefield of Gettysburg and learned about the battle and its importance. When he returned from the battle sight he decided to write a novel based on his experience there. Instead of creating fictional characters he used the names and experiences he had directly with the main characters of the novel. Not only did Shaara study and review letters, documents and journal enteries of the men
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its effects in his play Macbeth to show the cycle of violence that repeats throughout the play. Shakespeare first introduces the character of Macbeth as a brave hero. In the first act messengers tell Duncan about Macbeth’s bravery in war. The bloody images used in this act show Macbeth as the hero of war who should be rewarded for his bravery. Thoughts of heroism and bravery fade quickly as plans to murder Duncan for Macbeth’s benefit and power gain arise. Blood quickly changes to a motif of guilt
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“Photography is still about the eye behind the lens. It is about being a filter, and it is about recording. It is about leaving one’s home and seeing what is out there, it is about taking a look at the world that surrounds us. It is about reminding us of how things once have looked” (Durrer). I have a passion to be that filter to the rest of the world. To bring to life the reality of our earth and the diverse cultures that makes it up. Not to theorize, but to simply show fact. To capture history as it is
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well as many more, the one condition that we all seem to be looking for in literature is connection. We want to be able to relate to the characters in the works we read. We want to read stories that we can comprehend and identify with; stories that allow us to associate ourselves with the characters, see the story through their eyes, put ourselves in their shoes, feel their pain, and celebrate their victory. Good literature fully explores the depths and aspects of humanity through empathy, morality
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In James Baldwin’s short story, “Sonny’s Blues”, the narrator which is Sonny’s brother, James attempts to understand the life of his younger brother Sonny. Through trials and tribulations both brothers see the light through the darkness that surrounds both of their lives. From childhood to adulthood, both brothers go through experiences, which would have an everlasting effect on their lives. The story is set in Harlem, New York City approximately after the Korean War. The brothers' military
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reader’s head, she instead wrote about real-life, and quite common, scenarios and incorporated her ideas of faith into these stories. Her stories express that we live in a broken world that is in need of hope, faith, and love. In You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead, Flannery O’Connor puts forth her intention, which I believe is trying to spread the message of God through her stories, but subtly. In her prayer journal, O’Connor makes it evident that she wants a better relationship with God. She writes
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One of the things tying camp harmony and farewell to Manzanar is that they are both about Japanese Americans who were taken from their homes to Japanese relocation camps. Americans were afraid of them after the bombing of pearl harbor. In farewell to Manzanar, they are living in a Japanese fishing village while in camp harmony, they are small business owners taken away an American town. In Anne frank, they went into hiding; they had everything taken away from them. The losses of freedom, property
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developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party (NP). Officially should apartheid policy help South Africa's black raise their living standards, but in reality, the apartheid system wanted to make the blacks “disappear” from the white South Africa, but still have them as cheap labor reserve. Apartheid is a big problem, but who decides what people are worth? Is it not their actions, rather than their skin tone that should determine this? In the short story “the Bench” we meet
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