A hero is a person who has super powers or can do things normal people could not do. A hero is strong‚ smart and ladies call them “attractive”. A long time ago‚ a poet named Homer had written an epic poem called “The Odyssey”. In “The Odyssey”‚ there is a person with these traits named Odysseus. Odysseus goes through adventures for a long time trying to get home. Odysseus is an epic hero Odysseus and his men land on a Cyclopes island‚ Polyphemus. Polyphemus gets mad at Odysseus and his men so
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Odysseus is the hero that appears in The Odyssey‚ Homer’s epic about Odysseus’s 10 year struggle to return home after the end of the Trojan War. In this epic‚ Odysseus battles mythical creatures and endures the wrath of the gods. All while being the epic hero of the story. Being the protagonist of this epic‚ Odysseus has many qualities that make him the hero. Odysseus has the standard qualities that make him a hero; strength‚ bravery‚ courage‚ nobility. He is also the embodiment of the standards
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described by Joseph Campbell in “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”. Campbell discovered several basic stages that nearly every Hero goes through no matter what
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Odysseus ’ Journey as an Epic Hero In the epic poem The Odyssey‚ the main character Odysseus displays the epic hero. An epic hero is given certain qualities. These qualities make the person (usually male) seem larger than life‚ he or she embodies the values from their culture‚ he usually goes on a journey that consist of a series of trials‚ has an ego‚ and is able to persuade people with his conversation. This description describes Odysseus exactly‚ but leaves out one major detail‚ which are his
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this strategy prevents his peers from delivering a better argument than he can‚ it also allows Socrates to go quite a while without presenting his own definition of justice. Although this may lead the reader to think the philosopher simply cannot define justice‚ it quickly becomes clear Socrates was just biding his time before launching into the lengthy process of creating an entire hypothetical city‚ despite the fact that his peers have charged him only with defining justice in a man. In deciding
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Temptation in The Odyssey and The Epic of Gilgamesh The Odyssey is both the second story in a two-book trilogy written by Homer some time in 700B.C. and an incredible story of an epic journey filled with sorrow‚ temptation‚ and a hero journeying home. Similarly to Homer’s Odyssey‚ The Epic of Gilgamesh(which was written by an unknown author) is also a story involving gods‚ goddesses‚ temptation‚ and a journey to and from Gilgamesh’s home. These two day old stories share many similarities‚ such as
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characters and their adventures get passed on to future generations and have shown to withstand the test of time. These heroes display courage‚ honor‚ strength‚ and perseverance. The well-known Greek storyteller Homer speaks of one such hero in his epic poem The Odyssey. After fighting victoriously in the Trojan war‚ Homer’s character Odysseus begins a seemingly endless journey‚ with one goal in mind: to make it back to his homeland of Ithaca. Odysseus holds high a heroic ethic- his creative strategies
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Question 3 Piaget defines Constructivism as generating from prior knowledge and meaning from a persons experiences and their ideas. When using constructivism the teacher will use questions that students will be forced to use prior experience and higher order thinking to answer the questions. Constructivism is used to build academics skills and relate content to personal experience. The Cause and Effect Diagram would be use in whole group discussion on a story. First the student my be taught the
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around money. They cannot live without it. In order to survive and/or live a good life one needs money. In the United States wealth classifies people. If one is rich‚ one is high class‚ if one has nothing‚ one is considered lower class. Why does money define the people? I agree with Lewis Lapham’s view of " the American faith in money" because everything he states is factual‚ and I myself have experienced it. People in America idolize money as if it had controlled over them. The vast majority
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Gilgamesh: True Epic Hero? Gilgamesh is an epic that predates the Bible‚ chronicling tales of Gilgamesh‚ King of Uruk. One such story accounts the relationship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. The hero of this epic has long been argued‚ and with the aid of Phillip V. Allingham’s “Characteristics of an Epic Hero” it will be shown that Gilgamesh is not the true hero of this great epic. Based on the characteristics of an epic hero presented by Allingham‚ Gilgamesh does not demonstrate any traits that
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