Beggars Ride

The wagon ride to London is miserably harsh and gruelling for a young girl of fifteen, “ Her back ached, her feet grew icy. She was so weary … that she quickly fell asleep. That night she had a terrible sensation of being pinned … unable to move. The hunger sat like…

The odyssey is one of the oldest and well known myths written by homer. The odyssey is the story of odysseus and his loyal wife penelope. For most of the story odysseus and penelope are not together but when odysseus returns home disguised as a beggar she tests odysseus and the two finally are finally reunited.in the odyssey the suitors try to marry penelope but penelope declines there offer because she is brave. In the painting Penelope and the Suitors, John William Waterhouse uses the myth of…

Trains and Hobos: Behind the Scenes of the Great Depression Walter Ballard once said, “There was so many people on it, it looked like blackbirds,” when he was talking about a train as he was train hopping (Ganzel). Many people who had nothing and wanted to start over became hobos (Ganzel). Throughout the Great Depression, many hobos relied on trains, so they didn’t have to walk to other towns. During the Great Depression, trains were used for transportation and provided jobs to many people, but…

This research essay is to explore the invention of the female mind which involves women, property and gender in Homer’s Odyssey. In this essay we will go into detail about the similarities and differences of the many sources’ interpretation of the qualities that were necessary for a Greek woman to be considered a possible wife. The main sources involved in this research include “Primary sources” by M.B. McLatchey and “The Invention of the female mind” by Deborah Lyons and Raymond Westbrook”.…

My grandmother, Joan Favors, was born Joan Frietas, in Oakland, California on August 16, 1929. Her father worked in the lumber industry, and her mother stayed at home and took care of the family. My great-grandmother was Italian, and her father had come on a ship from Italy to avoid being put into the army. She married my great-grandpa who’s father came to American on a whaling ship from the Portuguese islands, the Azores. My great-grandmother decided that she liked my great-grandfather because…

Value of Life Earth is a very special planet; a planet that supports life. Humans are one of the many species that occupy the floating rock, and humans are obsessed with being alive. While being alive, we develop priceless relationships with people. We find our family, friends, and lovers during our journey of life. Within these relationships, personal limits are tested and we find out more about ourselves due to all the significant people we meet. However, being alive could be overrated in…

Charybdis. Everett escapes from the chain gang group with Pete and Delmar thus assembling his crew while Odysseus has his crew who want to return to Ithaca. When the men escape and try to travel by railroad they meet a man with railroad cart. They hitch a ride from him and he is apparently blind. The blind man is a fortuneteller who predicts the future of the main characters. This man relates to Tiresias from the Underworld predicting the future for Odysseus and his crew. When the the chain gang…

contrast to what some Americans believe about Native Americans and religion. There are many stereotypes about Native Americans that are false and people believe them because of how they are portrayed in movies. In many movies Indians are sought to be beggars, thieves, and savages and that is not how all…

way to have justice served, Kent is getting what he wants in the depth of his hearts. Like Kent, Edgar was loyal throughout the play, yet got banished and pushed to the lowest social status due to Edmunds tricks, but persevered and dressed as a poor beggar to fit his newly acquired roll. He is loyal to his father, for when he comes across him trying to commit suicide while dressed as Poor Tom, he convinces him that he has fallen off a cliff yet somehow survived, so he must be blessed and…

Growing up as the only child, I can vividly recall some of the difficult times my parents and I (mostly my parents) had to endure while living in the Philippines. We lived a modest lifestyle in Manila while both my parents worked as teachers in the public school system. In the Philippines, there is no designated neighborhood park for each community district; rather there is a centralize park where my parents would take me to every two to three weeks. However, that suddenly stopped when our…