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            Euripides’ Medea presents Medea’s vengefulness towards her husband which leads her to murder the king and princess of Corinth as well as her children. The murder of these individuals stands as a result of Medea’s humiliation after she found out that her husband, Jason, whom she aided in the escape from Colchis, intends to…

The beautiful Helen of Troy has been the subject for many poems and artists over the centuries.  Her fabled beauty created a war that collapsed one ancient civilization and renewed the conflicts among the gods of Olympus.  Many writers have attempted to characterize her both physically and mentally, and from all of these the reader…

  Introduction – The collection of poetry that the world has seen is storage of the creations of the different states and stages of a man’s mind, and there are times when the poem captures and freezes the myths and its leading man so that the world has a way of remembering some of the…

            Rudolfo Anaya’s novel Bless me, Ultima falls within the tradition of Chicano literature in America. The hero, Antonio Marez is a child who grows up in a confusing environment, where cultural and religious influences pour on him from various sources. However, Anaya’s novel does not focus on the clash between the American culture and…

Katniss Everdeen grew up in District 12’s Seam in Panem, a country formed from the remnants of North America. District 12 was renowned for its extreme poverty and destitution, largely due to the treacherous coal mines. When Katniss’ father perished in a mining accident alongside others, she assumed the responsibility of shielding and providing for…

            There are those stories that everyone grows up with – the parables, the fables, the fairytales, the myths. Most people hear the stories as children, or in school, and merely shelve them in their heads as a nice story. There  are some people, however, who look back at these classics and think “What if?”…

I’d like to begin by introducing myself, so you can get to know me, and my writing background better. I am in the science field at UMKC hoping to pursue a career in medicine. I am from Portland, OR, where I attended a school that stressed the liberal arts. Although the science field has always…

Define and describe the three viewpoints on the meaning of life presented in our text. Throughout the book there has been three viewpoints presented on the meaning of life. The first meaning of life that was presented in our text is the theistic answer. Philosophers such as Leo Tolstoy, David F. Swenson, Louis P. Pojman,…

Hero’s Joy Rene: Separation: Hiccup (the male protagonist) begins his journey to heroism right from the first scene. In this scene he is seen as a useless child and he is sent away from all the action of hunting dragon to repair the weapons of the other Vikings. Hiccup disobeys his father’s orders and he…

In Greek mythology a hero was originally a demy-god, the offspring of a deity and a mortal. Hero (male) and heroine (female) came in to characters that, in the face of adversity and danger or from a position of Achilles’ heel, display bravery and the spirit for self-sacrifice, what you call heroism, for some greater…