Penelope

Arête and Metis Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, has been blessed with magnificent abilities, cunning wits and combat superiority. Throughout his journey, he showed many examples of excellence and wits, or what Greeks called Arête and Metis. He battled giant Cyclops and raging sea monsters. He even fought a whole army of suitors with only the help of his son and two loyal herds. Not only did he display amazing skills, or Arête, he also showed great Metis. He tricked a Cyclops into thinking that…

Reading Specialist and Occupational Therapist Everyone goes through a point when they are trying to find their career path. There is so many different careers to choose from, and there is a lot of different things to like and dislike about each career. The careers of a Reading Specialist and an Occupational Therapist are very different careers with many diverse qualities. Although both the careers, reading specialist and occupational therapist, have their own great aspects, the career choice of…

students. Take for an example, a common sophomore named Penelope. Penelope was just assigned an essay on the meaning of happiness. Let the procrastination begin. First, she thinks, “Oh, yeah, I have all week to finish this essay; it’s due on Friday, which is so far away.” Two days later, “Maybe it’s a good idea to start thinking about the topic,” but then she discovers there is a new movie on Netflix that she has been wanting to see. A day later, Penelope receives some homework, so she tells…

While beauty standards have changed throughout time, beauty consistently emerges in literature from the time of the ancient Greeks to now. Often, villains are ugly while heroes are beautiful, showing that the link between a person’s appearance and their character is consistently reinforced not only by a natural humanistic appreciation of aesthetic and symmetry but also by society. In The Odyssey, the timeless and eternally desired human quality of beauty is blatantly wielded as an active tool…

Did you know Odysseus cheated on his wife while on his voyage? There are many similarities and differences between different characters on his journey. Specifically, Penelope, Calipco, and Circe because he cheated on one and was cheating with two. Despite bearing some minor similarities, the differences between the book and the movie are remarkable. Odysseus cheated with multiple women but one was Calipco. Calipco was different in the movie and the book. One difference is not with Calipco…

Why does Junior’s identity as an Indian matter to him? It matters to him because he is an Indian and his been an Indian all his life that’s all he knows how to be, now that Junior has been going to reardan high school rules are different it’s all rare to him, like the time he punched Roger in the face, he was waiting all day till the next morning to get his but kick by Roger but he was surprised he never punched him back and he stared talking to him the next day. Other characters identities…

that particular group which oppresses them. When Arnold goes to an all white school, he ends up falling for Penelope, a white girl, and looks for advice from his best friend Rowdy. Rowdy advises, “The first thing you have to do is change the way you look, the way you talk, and the way you walk”(Alexie 81). Rowdy gives Arnold advice that says he needs to change who he is in order for Penelope to like him back. The white society would never approve of an Indian boy for a white girl unless he can…

argument that can be made is “He was out at sea for twenty years and saw all these beautiful woman, all men would more than likely do the same if they were in his situation”. Wrong, men who loved his family would wait; his wife waited, why couldn’t he? Penelope could have easily run to a new man that is a king of a different island but she waited for him, he screwed her over by cheating on her. Odysseus will a hero, he is basically a reverse version of Robin Hood. He killed his men, had no…

More than three thousand years after its composition, Homer’s Odyssey is still celebrated for having captured two of the innumerable stories and poems that were passed on from generation to generation very much in the same way that amber petrifies a bug, preserving an ephemeral memory, a decision which could not have been any more fortunate in such a pivotal time as when those stories had already began to fade away into obscurity as something of the far, distant past. Homer beggins by assuming…

This is apparent when Junior is talking about how he likes to masterbate. On page 26 it says, “Naked woman + Right hand = happy happy joy joy. Another example of when this trait emerges is when Junior watches Penelope play volleyball. On page 115 it says, “I just wanted to watch her sweat, Penelope sweat was perfect sweat on that sweaty day. In the novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part- Time Indian, Junior can be described as courageous, sensitive, and hormonal. One example of Junior being…