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    ironical dimension. Taking into account the fact that the author focuses far more on the description of false men, a more appropriate title of the work would be “The Legend of False Men”. Referring to the fiction of gender, legendary women in Chaucer's version, adopted features of legendary men and inversely. Feminist elements, implemented in the legends, are only a surface, while the perceptible irony shows the true antifeminist belief of the narrator. During the comparison authentic and…

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    This shows that Hector’s failure determined the fate of Troy. He did fight Achilles, who technically a supernatural creature as man made weapons cannot hurt him. Their battle did result in the death of Hector showing his weakness. Hector made several speeches, like the one to Achilles pleading for mercy. In this speech he used words like arbiters, which shows higher…

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    “A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”- John C. Maxwell. Every leader has to have particular characteristics to be an effective leader. In addition, the leader has to have loyal supporters to intermix into a powerful group. The hero of Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey demonstrates key traits of effective leadership throughout this epic poem: he is loyal to his crew, he is a fearless commander, and he develops shrewd strategies to get them out of difficult…

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    Louise Antoinette Children

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    The Portrait of Louise Antoinette Scholastique Gueheneuce, Madame la Marechale Lannes, Dechesse de Montebello, with her Children, is a French work of art created in 1814. Measuring approximately a hundred and two inches in height, oil on canvas this portrait portrays the widow and her children in bright colors showing the importance of the family. Mounted on the wall surrounded within a copper frame that has spiraling butterfly figure. Located next to many other European arts within the Museum…

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    Holmes, to find young women to work for him at his hotel. He would later brutally murder them in his torture castle near by. Legendary Chicago gangster, Al Capone, also frequently took up residence on the eighth floor of the north tower. Allegedly his ghost still wanders. The sixth floor is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a young boy who committed suicide alongside his brother…

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    What Are Monsters?

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    Mankind has always had a fascination with monsters. That has lead people around the world to create on their imagination, creatures with strange and abnormal characteristics. The different kinds of monsters that can be found in the world says a lot about which culture created it, and can be seen as a reflection of some characteristics of the culture. Even though the belief in monsters has been lost in the evolution of time and modern monsters are not even similar as how they used to be, it is…

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    only sounds to keep me company are my slow, heavy breaths. However, under further examination, I was rendered disappointed. What had originally seemed to be impressive and colossal, was anaemic and small... Surrounded by a pair of ancient and legendary warriors, who, while they were once great and well…

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    spirals and symmetry. There is also those that are intensely organic. An illustration of an organic Roman mosaic piece is be the submarine fauna in the first century CE. Its is heavily organic in the sense that the images it contains are animals and creatures of the sea. The octopus, fish and serpents are all elements of nature. The use of orange and brown colors draw a connection to dirt and soil which are also very earthy thus making the art work organic…

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    When I think about the meaning of the quote by Mf. Arrupe, many thoughts and questions come to my mind. Firstly, am I the one who lives for others? Or am I the “other” for whom someone should live? At the same time, what can love of self or for god being farce mean? Alternatively, how can education affect love? Analyzing the quote turned out to be challenging, because the message the quote carries is extremely hard to express and even harder to deeply internalize. As one part of the sentence…

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    central reason why Winston is defeated by the novel’s end—is that rebellion exists only in anonymity. Even if the Party did have enemies, says Winston, these opponents “had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos or threes.” Winston, in his solitary rebellion, is…

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