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God gives people a sense of hopefulness and hopelessness. God as the creator of everything, it gives us the feeling of vitality and faith. At the same time, God is also everything's destination which scares people. This essay will explore how beauty of nature and the beginning and terminal of everything illustrate the idea of god with references to Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems. They are The Windhover, Pied Beauty, I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day and No worst, there is none. Pitched…

For this activity, I selected two gods and a hero: Zeus, Hera, and Achilles. Zeus and Hera are principal actors in the Olympian thread of the plot, and inseparable in their entanglements, both with each other and with mortals. I felt that I would understand the Iliad itself better if I understood these supreme gods better. Achilles is, of course, the hero of the Iliad and is the axis of the entire storyline. I will present, in order, the biographies of these three characters. Then I will explain…

Matt Pickford Ms. Brown 11th Lit 15 December 2016 N. Scott Momaday Navarro Scott Mammedaty, was born February 27, 1934, in Lawton, Oklahoma and grew up relatively close to the Navajo and San Carlos Apache communities. Growing up in Arizona enabled Momaday to participate in his father’s Kiowa traditions and some of the Southwest including: Pueblo, Apache, and Navajo traditions. Throughout Momaday 's writing his use of myths and legends from his culture (Kiowa) and his traditions, beliefs,…

The saying “A Picture’s worth a thousand words,” is quite a symbolic phrase. In history and archaeology, these words are seen and used in studying the past. As such, the same phrase can be said about objects. Any historical object or artifact provides a unique story that have been qualified through numerous amounts of research, archaeological digs, among other sources. However, objects provide a very challenging discourse. In the world of Ancient Greece, the application of coins proved to be…

The relationship between identity and France has been one colored by pride, lofty ambitions, and political fragmentation. Perhaps no Frenchmen represents this convoluted arrangement of ideals better than Pierre Poujade. As a simple shopkeeper, Poujade rose from an artisan background to become a French politician whose political views were as obscure as they were sharply worded. A truly polarizing figure, Poujade exploited the true weakness of the failed Fourth Republic, the inability to restore…

The third stanza is centered on the question of what kind of bodily strength and skills could create the Tyger. The first two lines question “what shoulder, & what art, /Could twist the sinews of thy heart?” (9-10), which are simply asking what strength and beauty could twist the tissues of the Tyger’s heart. The next question Blake asks is “when thy heart began to beat, / What dread hand? & what dread feat?” (11-12). Here, Blake wants to know that when the Tyger’s heart began to beat, did its…

Zeus and Hera. He had many siblings including Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen of Troy, and Perseus. His wife is the goddess of beauty, Aphrodite. A few symbols that represent the god are hammers, anvils, and tongs. A known fact about Hephaestus is that he was ugly. And it was because of his ugliness that he was, in myth, cast away from Olympus by his mother,…

What determines a legendary character? Why are they so special? Why are they still talked about to this day? These are the many questions people ask when reading about Arthurian legends in literature. There are many legendary characters that stand out throughout Great Britain 's history; however, King Arthur, Sir Lancelot, Sir Percivale, and Sir Gawain show what it truly means to be a noble knight. All of the legendary characters have different legends and characteristics that stand for…

The Enlightenment may have brought us the ideas of democracy, and the Industrial Revolution may have eventually led to the technological marvel that is the cell phone, but equally important is the movement sparked in their opposition. Through the minds of Locke, Montesquieu, Whitney and Watt, the modern ages of government and technology were born, but not all at the time were completely in favor of these ideas. In fact, there was an artistic movement that began as a response to these glorious…

Over the last five hundred thousand years, Chimpanzees have undergone speciation resulting in four subspecies within Pan troglodytes, the common chimp, a species of the great ape. There are four subspecies related to the Pan troglodytes: the West African Chimp (P. t. verus), the Nigeria-Cameroon Chimp (P. t. ellioti), the Central Chimp (P. t. troglodytes), and the Eastern Chimp (P. t. schweinfurthii). Here is the scientific classification of the Common Chimpanzee: the kingdom is Animalia, the…