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    ideologies, Fantomina is not a text about a heroine who is sexually liberated, but is a text about a woman who is asserted to gender and social stereotypes. “A young lady of distinguished Birth, Beauty, Wit, and Spirit,” Haywood capitalizes each word to emphasize who this character is to show that she is from a higher social class. A young woman is at a playhouse and notices men acquainting themselves with a particular woman. “She was young, a Stranger to the World, and consequently to the…

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    Forest, which soon becomes the only place where he is free to think and to do as he pleases. The Uncharted Forest becomes Equality’s home, far more inviting to him than his life among the street sweepers ever was. Just as it is illegal to fall in love with a person, it is illegal to venture into the territory known as the Uncharted Forest. Despite this, Equality 7-2521’s brave ambition urges him to find solace in a place that is extremely lacking in people. He does not live in such solitude…

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    Sonnet 130 Blason Analysis

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    Leander’s hair, thus establishing a male-to-male relationship in which Leander has embodied a more feminine role. Through this distortion of gender identity, Marlowe subverts the conventions of the blason trope. Marlowe continues the same allusions to Greek mythology when describing other parts of Leander’s body. He mentions his neck, shoulder, breast, belly, and back, while referencing gods like Circe and Pelops. When he reaches Leander’s fingers, Marlowe describes them as “immortal” as they…

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    Steven Schutzman Love

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    The Portrayal of Love in Steven Schutzman’s The Bank Robbery Love is arguably one of the most complex feelings in the world. In the Greek language, there are four words for love; agape, storgē, phili and eros. The Japanese language has three words to illustrate love. Both languages use these different words to explain a different type of love and its effects. In modern English, the world love is used for various depths of admiration. In Stephens Schutzman’s “The Bank Robbery”, love is portrayed…

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    valuable ally in asserting moral values, making the integration of humanism into christianity easier though still a slow process. Then suddenly, humanism makes an explosive comeback in the Italian Renaissance inspired by the ancient greek way of life, belief and love of humans and human life. Propelling humanism in the church as well as everywhere…

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    Ekkylemas Analysis

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    the scene, Ajax has planted the sword given to him by Hector away from both Greek encampment and the city of Troy(818-822). Ajax calls out last words to the gods in order to avenge his death and make his death swift (824-855). Ajax cries only towards the gods, showcases desolation implying the stage has been cleared of any other actors and chorus. I.n order to make the Ajax’s suicide realistic, ekkylemas(an ancient Greek practice) may have been used)Cynthia Gardiner proposes the audience will…

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    as holy icon, in the epic poem The Iliad, Homer suggested how the Greek gods are corrupted and prejudiced during the Trojan War. In different books of The Iliad, Athena and Aphrodite failed to hold their justice and interfered in the mortals’ conflicts with prejudice and jealousy. The two goddesses opposed each other when Paris, a mortal, fancied Aphrodite more than Athena. In return, Athena tweaked the war in favor of the Greeks when Aphrodite favored Paris and the Trojans. In book 3, Aphrodite…

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    to adhere to a good life. On that note a part of the job of a Christian counselor is to be aware of what the person is doing in their lives but also to remind them that minor errors in their life is a part of life and that God is forgiving for he loves humankind and as such the counselor needs to project this air of forgiveness to the…

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    Dorothy Day Pacifists

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    Her involvement with the catholic worker movement about views on pacifism were widely known. Society was so impressed with her acts of good works, that some called her a saint. Dorothy Day advocated for remaining true to the words of Christ, and focused on keeping the Sermon on the Mount at the front of her beliefs. “We are still pacifists. Our manifesto is the Sermon on the Mount, which means that we will try to be peacemakers. Speaking for many of our conscientious objectors…

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    Greek Era Analysis

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    insight to the study of the Hellenist Era. I too selected the instructor’s commentary “the Hellenic Era”. I think that as the Greeks were just exhausted from all the warfare and political fighting. This lead to a better understand of the world. This led to self-examination as you stated and led to the world of philosophy. This did, using your words, led to “the rise of Greek science and philosophy. I did not expand in my discussion post on the scientific discovery during this period but…

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