Thunderbolts

the thing with feathers”This means a person with hope can fly like abirdPoem: Dreams by Langston HughesQuote: “Life is a broken-winged bird”Without dreams like is empty and still. A person is not moving.SimilePoem: The EagleQuote: ...and like a thunderbolt he fallsThe eagle drops suddenly…

The quotes are when Odysseus and Salak realize that their quests aren't to reach a certain destination, but to persevere through tough times. “To appease Helios, Zeus sends down a thunderbolt to sink Odysseus’ ship. Odysseus alone survives. He eventually drifts to Ogygia, home of Calypso, who keeps him on her island for 7 years.”(Homer 398). Just like Odysseus, Salak also realises that her quest was not only to reach a certain destination…

According to Edith Hamilton (1999), Greek mythology is mostly learned from historical poets. The poet highly accredited with the written greek myths is Homer. He is generally believed to have lived about a thousand years before Christ. Homer’s work includes the Iliad, which is considered to be the first written record of Greece. The Iliad is the oldest Greek literature and is written in such a way that it provides an indisputable proof of civilization. Greek mythology is not be read like…

White American abolitionist, Wendell Phillips, in his 1861 discourse, shows the force and quality of political pioneer and progressive, Toussaint-Louverture. Phillips' motivation is to remind his group of onlookers that legends have originated from the most improbable individuals, and accordingly, African-Americans ought to be permitted to serve in the military. By embracing a reverent and reflective tone, appealing to pathos and logos, and using historical and mythological allusions throughout…

they'd last parted, and to hear that Zara did as well sent a wave of relief through him. The way her fingers grabbed and gripped his fur almost seemed to ground him in the moment and then she dropped those other words on him. They hit him like a thunderbolt. His breath hitched for a moment and he wanted to wipe her tears away, to tell her it was all going to be alright. Then she was stepping back and bringing his hands to her mouth, her lips... those soft warm lips... caressed his knuckles and…

The story “Phaëthon” as retold by Edith Hamilton is about a boy named Phaëthon, he was being selfish and not listen to his father and faces consequences. Phaëthon is a young man that didn't know who his father was. Phaëthon is half mortal half god. He told all of the boys at school that the Sun-God is his dad, they all laughed at him, so Phaëthon went to find the the Sun-God. When Phaëthon got to the Sun-God's palace, the Sun-God was surrounded a blazing splendor. Phaëthon was forced to stop by…

Ατηενα Today I am choosing Athena for my Greek God report, why? Well, because she is the goddess of wisdom and crafts, and many more reasons one reason that is very weird and I have been trying to find the answer to , is that many believe she sprang fully from Zeus’s head, weird right? Well, there is only one true answer and that is well I am not sure but, I will find out . Athena's Family Chaos, Kronus and Rhea are Athena's Grandparents. Zeus and Metis had Athena. Hades, Poseidon, are…

charger." An anime vein throbbed on the rodent’s forehead, strongly implying that the Electric-type’s patience has finally reached its end. "PIIKKKKA-CHHHHHUUUUUUUUU!" "GYYYYYYAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Cardin didn’t see it coming as Pikachu fires a direct Thunderbolt at him, electrocuting any inch of his sorry-excuse frame as thousands and thousands volts of electricity coursed through his veins. He immediately fell backwards in a rather comical fashion with swirls as his eyes, smoke literally…

Women in the Odyssey are controlled and judged unfairly, but have some power and will use what little power they have intellectually. Take for example Odysseus’s wife, Penelope. As a woman of ancient Greece, she was under the control of the men in her life, however she would use her cunning and wit to her own advantage. Penelope tricks the suitors, the men hoping for her hand in marriage, by saying she will only marry after she has completed weaving a shroud, yet she unweaves the work every…

The psyche or self as depicted in Jane Harrison’s Themis is a ritual self which focuses on the collective identity of a tribe. Opposite of this self, the psyche or self as depicted Homer’s The Odyssey is a self which focuses on the individual. In Themis these collective selves centered around a ritualistic society are demonstrated by the way society connected with their gods through rituals which focused on initiation of young men into the tribe, a collective emotion, and the tribe’s connection…