Saga

These two authors focused on the sagas of heroes and how they intertwined with everyday greek life. For example, in Homer’s Odyssey, the protagonist, Odysseus’ struggle to return home after the Trojan War’s end. In the prequel The Iliad takes place nine years after the start of the war…

its predecessors, the popular Harry Potter films, it is a part of the Harry Potter franchise—and many Harry Potter fans have been gleefully awaiting the day that the magic would return to the big screen. Some fans had hoped that with this new film saga, Rowling would be able to include a more diverse cast of characters; In the previous 8 films surrounding the “Potter Universe” only “0.47% of (the films) lines (were) spoken by people of color”…

Game of Thrones Review Game of Thrones has been a hit television show for years. Its rise to fame has almost been unprecedented as millions wait anxiously for the sixth season to be released. How did such a successful show come into being? The simple answer is its creator, George R.R. Martin. Spending nearly a decade writing, George has created a beautiful and complex storyline that continues to treat readers with a delight. Now his hit book series has been turned into a success television show…

The Underworld and Prophecy Before all of this, Aeneas’s travels in leaving Troy have produced every kind of upheaval, but by Book 3 he knows that a country to the west holds his destiny. Aeneas continues through all sorts of marine and other miraculous events but loses his father, Anchises. It is not until Book 7 that Aeneas’s idea of a destination to the west is confirmed and made specific in instructions to go to the mouth of the Tiber River and make a pact with King Latinus. Later,…

For decades, scores of African individuals and their families have made the conscious decision –motivated either by cultural ties, economics, war, the environment, or political unrest – to undertake the transnational journey of relocation to France. Such a monumental, intercontinental journey carries with it significant socio-political implications for immigrants, especially with regards to families. For many Africans, France, a nation with strong historical and colonial ties to the continent of…

of time, furiously scribbling down his revelations on the back of an upturned wheelbarrow. This organization reflects the great hopes that Faulkner pinned on the novel—he had recently married his high school sweetheart, Estelle Oldham, and hoped his saga of the Bundren family would finally ensure a steady income for his family and a greater literary reputation for himself. The result is a novel of some daring, one that forgoes the unified perspective of a single narrator and fragments its text…

The anglo-saxon poem ' Beowulf' written during the medieval times is indeed one rich in mythology, folklore and meaning. While the unfeminine poem tells the tales of kings and warriors, the women in it are not to be ignored. Women have been given a particular importance in the poem along with the men. If the poem sings praises of the great Geatish hero Beowulf, it also hums the significance of its women. The Anglo- Saxon society, despite being highly patriarchal with their Kings and Heroes, the…

Vikings raided the island long before the documented exploration of John Cabot of England, who was under the reign of King Henry VII, in 1479. According to Historica Canadiana’s article, “The Vikings in Newfoundland,” Vikings brought back to Europe the Sagas, which were drawings and scribbles of the exploration of the new land. Scholars found direct similarities between the scarce records and Newfoundland’s distinct formation. Based on surrounding raids, the Vikings were cruel during their…

Wallace Nutting was a purveyor of a past that fit his own conservative ideas. A charismatic salesman of history, he constantly sought to challenge the status quo. Thomas Denenberg uses Wallace Nutting’s brand of colonial idealism as a parallel with an American society on the precipice of social change at the turn of the century. Nutting successfully provided the middle class an escape from the adversity of the “machine age”. Using Wallace Nutting as a tool to discuss anti-modernism, Denenberg…

In 1948, the Washington Works plant was established by DuPont in an effort to bring plastic materials to American homes. Some of these items included vinyl, saran wrap and Teflon, which was later discovered to contain toxic chemicals known as C8. Despite the many side effects that C8 had on lab animals during the testing phase, DuPont continued to manufacturer its products using the chemical. In spite of all the concerns raised by both its workers and inhabitants regarding the safety of the…