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    Desiree's Baby Symbolism

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    showed it was factual that this was true; as to relating the wagon to the Trojan horse-during Greek history. That was exactly the time Madame Valmonde seized the baby. Yet the baby was 18 years old when Madame Valmonde met the Armand Aubigny.It was love at first sight.Afterwards, Monsieur Valmonde didn’t care that the girl had no name. He gave her the best name, and later they married.But, don’t forget the Trojan horse was also considered as a…

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    Seabiscuit Book Report

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    *Seabiscuit arrives in California, he receives no attention from the press and others. *Smith witnesses a record breaking kind-of-speed, in Seabiscuit, Smith is shocked and tries to keep it a secret. *In 1936, Seabiscuit and Pollard, wins at Bay Bridge Meadows as well as, breaking its track record, clocking in at 1min:36 seconds. * On December 12th, they go back and win at Bridge Meadows for the World’s Fair Handicap, also breaking their own track record. *Seabiscuit, goes to Santa Anita, for…

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    Crusading Warfare Summary

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    When looking at Peter Burkholder’s secondary source “Popular Misconceptions of Medieval Warfare”, the main argument is clearly outlined, stating that “popular entertainment sometimes reflects medieval and military history, historians dismiss this popular media, however they help to clarify the general public’s misunderstandings about medieval warfare.” The thesis statement of this article is developed through the assertion that other popular media sources such as movies and video games, draw…

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    for letting the horse inside their empire is because of the tale of Sinon. Sinon was a Greek man who delivered the horse to the Trojans. Sinon created a convincing story, making the Trojans believe that the Greeks have betrayed him and that the horse was a simple offering for the goddess Minerva. Virgil explains how the Trojans accept the offering due to their generosity and kindness. As many can tell, Sinon clearly took advantage of the Trojans sympathy is able to sneak the horse inside of…

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    In today’s media, people love vigilante justice, actually we root for vigilante justice. We have movies like Taken, where a man takes the law into his own hands and goes after the men who took his daughter, and in the wake of this he kills over thirty men. In the show Dexter, the main character is a smart and likeable guy who decides who is a bad person and then kills them. We watch these things and don’t think twice about the aspect of the law. In real life, vigilante justice is and incredibly…

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    Throughout the play Philoctetes is unyielding in his principles who does not progress throughout the play. For years Philoctetes has been segregated and isolated from the rest of society. Since he was left on the island of Lemnos his anger built up for the person responsible of leaving him there to suffer: Odysseus. The story begins with Odysseus speaking to Neoptolemus about what he must say and act when they arrive to the Island which Philoctetes was stranded on. Believing that it is best to…

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    and was portrayed in a positive light. Even by today’s standards two-thousand years later, Odysseus is undeniably a hero. Odysseus’ greatest accomplishment is undoubtedly his victory at Troy. He was the person that devised the plan for the Trojan Horse that allowed the Greeks to infiltrate the city of Troy. He was also the man that lead the invasion of the city. Because of this, tales and songs of his successes during the war became very well-known throughout Greece. His fame from the war even…

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    Computer technicians can now gain access to your computer remotely and sabotage your computer. They use a software known as Team Viewer to take control of your computer to plant malicious viruses on your computer’s storage. Once they gain control of your computer they then scare tactics on by showing you harmless computer errors and calling them “serious.” Then they plant viruses in the background of your computer and tell you it will take 299$(or whatever they ask for) to fix it. These are…

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    that Odysseus is a good leader, he shows intelligence which is part of what the Greeks valued. Odysseus is strong willed and he puts his life at risk when trying to save his men from all the dangers throughout the journey. Odysseus uses the Trojan Horse Trick to win the Trojan War and he tricks Polyphemus into thinking that his name was “nohbdy” which is evidence from the Odyssey that shows that Odysseus is intelligent. Also, he takes Circe’s advice on how to avoid the Sirens which makes him…

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    Essay On The Trojan Sofa

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    The Trojan Sofa: Ideology is a luminous halo ‘Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad [of] impressions – trivial, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant show of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday...[but] life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the…

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