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"My Epic Hero" Every hero has had a life changing situation that has well, changed their life and created the type of person they are now. Whether it was a fight they lost, or won or someone they defeated or a journey it turned their whole life around. Their perspective on life was no longer the same. That is exactly what happened to the Greek hero Odysseus. Odysseus was not always a hero. He was just like any other commoner, he lived with his wife Penelope, and son Telemachos. Odysseus was the son of Laertes and Antikleia, Odysseus was the king of the island which was also his home, Ithaca home of the Kephallenians. Homer's epic spoke of Odysseus and his journey home after he fought in the was in Troy alongside the Greek soldiers. This was where he showered everyone his characteristics of being a leader, and a hero. Even though every hero is different and have gone through different things throughout their life, they all possess the same traits. Odysseus did also and that is what made him such a well-known hero, he embodied courage, leadership, and loyalty. The first reason why Odysseus was a hero to the people of Greece was his courage. When Odysseus lived in Ithaca with his wife and child he was not really someone you would think would be a hero. He was just like any other mortal and when the Greek soldiers came to draft him and tell him he had to go fight along their side when they went to fight in Troy he pretended he was mentally sick so they would not take him away…

“There are two types of countries in this world. Those who use the metric system, and those that have been to the moon.” Although I can’t remember where I found this quote, it immediately popped into my head when I thought of the metric system in the US. Like many ideas now a days, this one is highly debated. In fact since the time of Thomas Jefferson in 1789, the use of the metric system in the US has been a very popular idea. The metric system comes with its advantages, and its disadvantages.…

According to business insider America is the world’s 10th most prosperous nation. Consequently, why should America compromise their success by sticking with an unconventional system of measurement? It is for this and many other reasons why the U.S.A should convert to the metric system. The metric system is a multinational unit of measurement in both the real world and the science field. It is not only renowned but also easier to use overall. Ultimately, the time for the metric system has finally…

No two men are exactly alike, not even identical twins. Some attributes, appearance, and ideology may mirror, but no two men are alike. Differences in how the world is perceived will allow these individual to stand together, but appear far apart. The modernist method of writing allows for individuals to do exactly that, stand together but appear to be far. Writers Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot demonstrated such disassociation in living deliberately in time and place of Nick and J. Alfred…

comes to making decisions. For instance, Edward Thomas, who was a poet, had an immediate connection with this poem and was inspired with Frosts work as a poet and wished he would’ve done things differently within his poetry (Voices and Visions). Readers love his poetry for the way he constructs reality within the mix of nature. Frost calls it; the sound of sense, a sentence is a sound in itself in which other sounds called words may be strung. He also says, “I alone of English writers have…

Chiara Dituri Final paper The modern literature “To the Light House” by Virginia Woolf and “The Waste Land” by T.S Eliot directly correlates the perspective of World War I and its effect on both life and death. Both authors use stream of consciousness as a way to show multiple perspectives on thoughts of confusion, trauma and chaos that World War I has impacted on many lives. The loss of loved once during war times, is a painful experience that can bring on psychological and painful events…

Introduction Throughout the twentieth century and beyond there has been a clear correlation between literary theory and scientific philosophical enquiry. Both have become intrinsically linked with each other, with this direct and complicated relationship being most evident in the field of poetry and poetic theory. Within this field there has been a continued but arguably fractured questioning of this enduring relationship. I propose that there have been within the modern age two main lines of…

Translating a contemporary love poem by Fawaz Allaboun turned out to be a challenging task. Allaboun is a Saudi poet and a Professor of Classical Arabic. He earned his PhD degree in Arabic language and literature at Al-Imam University. He published a collection of poems in a book called “Allabouniat.” Another collection of poems is forthcoming. The first problem that I encountered was in the different words that express the various degrees and state of romantic love in Arabic and the…

Evaluating the Intertwining of First Native Culture and Indigenous Literature: Richard Wagamese’s Indian Horse In English literature a formalist movement in the mid 20th century that emphasized the relationship between a text’s idea and its form - known as New Criticism - continues to strongly influence modern academic writing. New Criticism specifies that the object of study ought to be the text itself, not the response or the motivation of its author or readers. Rarely do New Criticism texts…

Is Yeats a good poet? - Angélique Dongo Yeats' excellency is clearly portrayed in his poems. His work is full of vivid, descriptive imagery and deeply analised personal feelings and strong political opinions which are evident in Lake Isle of Innisfree, Wild Swans at Coole, September 1913, Easter 1916 and Sailing to Byzantium. eats believed that art and politics were intrinsically linked and used his writing to express his attitudes toward Irish politics, as well as to educate his readers about…