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    Hephaestus: A Short Story

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    It was around eleven-fifteen in the morning. Hephaestus, the god of work and blacksmithing, was fixing a large brass trombone in the band and chorus room. He sat in the far corner at a large wooden desk. He was hard at work that evidently he didn't notice when Peter, the head of a popular group of centaurs, swaggered into the room. After a few moments Peter slammed his left hand on Hephaestus’s table, Hephaestus slowly looked up from his mallet and trombone rolled his eyes and looked back down…

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    were; the slaying of Lernaean Hydra, the slaying of the Nemean Lion, capturing the Erymanthian Boar, the slaying of the Stymphalian Birds. The difference in the movie is that the boar was actually killed and the birds captured. In the myth all twelve of them were presented. The labors in the movie, if presented accurately, may be too much for a movie and they needed to summarize the…

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    Aegean Sea Analysis

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    The Inseption of Tides As Athens stretches her arms around the growing empire, two gods overextend their love for something small but charming. In the Aegean Sea, Poseidon and Aphrodite just welcomed two beautiful twin babies, however they were conjoined. The right side of the baby is name Iris. She is beautiful just like her mother, with her hair blonde like the blazing sun awakening in the early morning, burning with intesity. She also has striking eyes that are greener than grass, and…

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    wants the Gods to turn on each other as they start a war. But after a gruesome battle between Luke and Percy, Percy gets the Lightning Bolt to Zeus just in the nick of time and the war is called off. Good things to say about Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is most of the actors and actresses are acting so well. For example, Pierce Brosnan as Chiron. He has played his role naturally and you will surely not know that he was actually the 007 early series main actors before.…

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    Speech Notes on Jason and the Argonauts (Film as Directed by Don,C,1963).s This movie originates from the Greek mythology of Jason and the Argonauts where there are only a few changes in the occurrences in the myth and the movie. The movie has retained most of the characters and the sequences of the events. In the movie Jason and the Argonauts , we see Jason escaping death by a whisker due to the influence of the god Hermes disguising himself as a soothsayer who uses Aristo's soldiers to take…

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    Hades was one of the original six Olympian gods Hades was the eldest son of the Titans, Cronus and Rhea Born on the island of Crete Poseidon, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, Zeus, Chiron were his siblings He was known as the god of death and the King of the Underworld He was also known as the god of the secret wealth of the earth because of all the wealth that came with cultivating the fertile soil and mining gold, silver and other valuable metals. The word “hades” means invisible in Greek language and…

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    Greek Myth One day in early April, the celestial goddess Persephone was summoned from her flower picking, “Persephone,” Zeus bellowed, “You must come to Mount Olympus! Hurry and make it quick!” Instantly, Persephone knew something was wrong. Her father never spoke to her in that tone. As a goddess she was suppose to be treated with respect. “I’m doomed!” she thought. On the way to Mount Olympus, all Persephone could think about was the horrible things bound to happen after Zeus told her the…

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    has many symbols which consist of Cerberus, a drinking horn, a scepter, Cypress, Narcissus, and a key. His brothers Zeus, god of the sky, and Poseidon, god of the ocean, are also sons of Cronus. Hades was not considered to be death itself, or an Olympian, however was thought to cause death and so the Greeks were not keen in uttering his name. There were also accounts of sacrificial practices made in honour of Hades, carried out at night and where the blood of victims was left to seep down into…

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    The goals of this lab are to observe the constellations in the night sky. We are to us the internet or any other resources of our choice to research the history of the constellations. I decided to do research over Libra, which means the Scales or Balance. It is also one of my favorite constellations because it is also my zodiac sign. Libra has three really bright stars and they are Alpha Librae, Beta Librae, and Gamma Librae. The three stars can be seen at the upper part of the scales that…

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    Zeus married Leto to annoy Hera his main wife.During their marriage Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis,twins. Apollo was the god of unmarried men, music. prophecy and truth, sun and light, healing, plague poetry, and more. Artemis is the god of chastity, virginity, the hunt ,the moon, and the natural environment. They both had god like strength ever since they were 4 days old. They loved their mother with all their heart and respected their father for the fact of him being the ruler of the…

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