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Ancient Greek Transportation and The Odyssey Silvia Hwang In The Odyssey, Homer tells the reader only that Odysseus had a fast, black ship; most historians agree that he was on one of the warships he used to travel to Troy. After a victorious war, Odysseus struggles to sail back home to Ithaca. But was sailing the best way to travel? Transportation is an important aspect of any kind of civilization. While the Greeks were very advanced in sailing technologies, they were not as good with other…

gallery should be the last site to visit after cruising around Kg Ayer, as students would already familiar with the present Kg Ayer. Moreover, the gallery is situated near to Kg Ayer Village which the teacher may take students to walk nearer to the galley, where a few houses in the kg Ayer can be seen. However, this may require extensive attention on students behaviour as it could be dangerous for those who cannot…

this journey Shackleton realized that the real danger to his party was morale. Camping on the ice without the proper equipment led to his men enduring devastating conditions. When the men were found to be wishing for death, Shackle would assign them galley duties which was an important role to keeping others alive. Laying this groundwork of trust and morale, Shackle motivated the crew to man 3 life boats and set sail to Elephant Island. Even though they had reached land, Shackle knew they were…

Between Two Galaxies The show opens with Marina in her quarters humming a tune while crafting a self-portrait. Some other drawings are hung up; others lay across her desk or in piles on the floor. None of the other portraits are of her, it’s a healthy variety of artistic musings. Her musings are less than inspirational as her life and surroundings are the epitomai of monotony. Marina's humming picks up in volume as she is seen about her day. Marina is in Sick Bay organizing medical…

In the beginning of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo we see a man once a slave in the galleys. A man broken and beaten, Jean Valjean a sliver of the man he was before. He is forced to beg even for a place to lay his head and find a bite to eat. Trudging house to house, looking for shelter here and there. Until, upon a cold, dark night there forms a light in the doorway, the light of the Bishop. The man who invites Jean Valjean into his church, feeds him and gives him a place to stay and, most…

The Maze Runner, written by James Dashner is introducing a dystopian society. The individual boys have to find out why they all are in a Glade together and why they are in a horrifying environment that is like a prison. The book is about a group of intelligent teenagers trying to escape a seemingly unsolvable Maze, which is a test to see who can survive. The novel Maze Runner by James Dashner is better in comparison to the movie as the book is more descriptive, the ending is better and the book…

Streaked with Red 16th and 17th century Europe was a time of turmoil and change. Revolutions were shaping and transforming the country by means never seen before. Two books, Les Misérables and A Tale of Two Cities, are perfect examples that demonstrate the chaos of that time. One book, Les Misérables, is written by Victor Hugo, who is French, whereas the author of A Tale of Two Cities is Charles Dickens, an Englishman. However, while Les Misérables and A Tale of Two Cities differ in many ways,…

In the high middle ages, Europeans celebrated a number of victories. The increased lay religiousness created a widespread sense of scholasticism. New roads and bridges were being built in Europe to make trade easier. The expansion of the European economy in the 13th and 14th centuries lead to an increased prosperity--- shifting interest and focus on what was becoming a new middle, merchant class. This emphasis on a newly-powerful group of people, though, was a catch-22. The medieval papacy,…

instance Valjean’s crime is a crime of altruism; he steals a loaf of bread to save his starving cousin. From this act of altruism he receives a sentence of hard labor that leads to his transformation as described by Hugo, “ Jan Valjean entered the galleys sobbing and trembling; he left hardened...What had happened within the soul?”. (Les Miserables) With this Hugo builds the image of the unjust criminal justice system in which many lived during the Napoleonic Age. Hugo then contrasts this…

Transcendence Victor Hugo is one of the most celebrated authors of the 19th century. He was known to use tragedy and destruction and change it into something beautiful and good (Weingarter 5). In the book that Hugo is most famous for, Les Miserable, he captures this human transcendence at its best with the character Jean Valjean. (Hugo vii) After nineteen years of human depravity in prison, Valjean is left with a heart full of bitterness and animosity: (Hugo 25). Throughout the book, you can…