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Achilles claimed the queen Briseis as his prize of invasion. Agamemnon claimed the daughter of a priest of Apollo, the sun god, as his prize of invasion. Priest of Apollo asked Agamemnon to release his daughter. Agamemnon refused to release the priest’s daughter. After seeing the cruelness of Agamemnon, angered Apollo threatens the Greek army by spreading the Plague. As a result Agamemnon decides to send all the Trojan Women back to Troy, but, Achilles refused to send queen Briseis back and also…

controversial and well-known series of communities that she’s taken. Opie is an open member of the LGBT community and currently resides in Los Angeles, California with her wife. This series features friends of hers but also transgender women and men, drag queens, cross-dressers, “leather-dykes”, and other folks who don’t fall into their traditional gender roles. Her images of people from these sexual subcultures shine light on communities that aren’t normally examined. In an interview she states…

Gender is a complex spectrum of identity that is much greater than the binary of man or woman. It is the performance of cultural, social, and psychological traits in which people express themselves. These characteristics are gender cues that have been culturally agreed upon to identify the gender or sex of another person. This expression of traits manifests through appearance and behavior and includes hairstyle, clothing, gait, vocal inflection, body shape, and facial hair. Socially, it is…

Picture this: one day you wake up and you’re in a new body. This new body you’re in is the opposite sex. When you walk into the bathroom the reflection you see is something you can’t recognize it. You try and tell people that there something wrong. No one believe you though. They think you’re a little crazy for saying you’re in the wrong body. You’re not happy being forced to become somebody else because this new body just doesn’t feel like home, and everything you do feels like a lie. Though…

As I watch the Riots at Compton California a documentary about transgender women and drag queens. They fought police harassment at Compton's cafeteria in San Francisco tenderloin. Which happened in 1966. Throughout this film the LGBT community faced many violation. To give a better understanding of the violations in this documentary. I will use the several constitutional provisions that was applied to protect the rights of the LGBT community. For one the right to free speech and expression…

I love black women. I love their curves and their flava. I love their attitudes and their intricacies. Black women are the ultimate puzzle. Sometimes you put the pieces together and you may not like the picture. But that is true of everyone. Black women do not hold a patent on being difficult to deal with. Black men, actually, have a huge stock in that area too. With that said, my matter of interest is the image some of our black women portray. I am not referring to them dressing in a skimpy…

so the guy prayed to his god. His god sent bad times for them. So Agamemnon sent his chick back and took Achilles girl. This made Achilles mad and made him want to go back home. In chapter 22 Achilles chase hector around and finally kills him and drags him around troy. Homer: The Odyssey This story starts about 10 years after the war and everyone is home except Odysseus. His wife and his son wonders whether he is dead or alive. He is alive on an island held captive by a nymph. His wife is…

occurred in San Francisco, California in which patrons, many dressed in drag, were resisted police brutality and discrimination. Historian Susan Stryker notes that the Compton’s Cafeteria riot involved militant street action by transgender people, and that this movement did spur “lasting institutional change”. Like the later Stonewall riots, the Compton’s riot took place when police targeted a crowd of mostly “street queens”- the often young, transgender sex workers who inhabited poor urban…

in hopes of creating a thriving economy (Frey 315). The Elizabethan era came to be when the young Queen Elizabeth I rose to power in 1558. Women in this time period had to meet society’s standards by marrying for power and wealth, or they would be frowned upon by peers and exposed to the accusations of witchcraft (“Elizabethan Women”). They were considered property. To set an empowering example, Queen Elizabeth I rose from her family’s past detrimental marriages and “married” England instead of…

The Queen Mab speech, spoken by Mercutio, the man whose actions would never betray his name, has often been heralded as one of the most poetic and beautiful speeches in Romeo and Juliet. This speech, when channeled through a talented actor, shows Mercutio to be a mad, tortured man, or, at the very least, one who has a fond distaste for dreams. Mercutio utters this diatribe at a transitional point in the play. Previous to this scene, Romeo has mourned over the never consummated love of Rosalinde,…