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    Titanic: Interesting Film

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    watched a lot of films‚ but the most interesting film‚ in my opinion‚ is Titanic. I watched it when I was 13 years old. Titanic is believed to be the most interesting film for two reasons. Firstly‚ it’s a real story which was then narrated by a shipwreck victim in 1912 though the film was released many years later‚ in 1997. The film is about a young couple. The main male character is a poor artist‚ and the main female character is a noble lady born in a rich family. She was engaged to a rich businessman

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    Agamemnon‚ leader of the Greek forces at Troy‚ was sacrificed by her father and uncle to win the favor of the gods to help them win the battle for Troy. This point is also seen in the Odyssey‚ when Nausicaa‚ a princess‚ rescues Odysseus after a shipwreck and convinces her parents to give him a room to rest and a ship so that he may continue on with his journey. In addition‚ there are categories of good versus evil among these female characters that allow for a better understanding of their impact

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    Olympe De Gouges

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    Olympe de Gouges was a woman who lived in France during the French Revolution. She was a feminist and an abolitionist. She accomplished many things during her life. One of the things she accomplished was writing pieces of literature and plays. She was the first woman to publish books and plays using her own name and not a male pseudonym. Every woman who was a playwright before her had used male pseudonyms to avoid being criticised for it. Her first play was called The Generous Man‚ and it was about

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    Odyssey - Passage

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    well I know --- would seem a shade before your majesty‚ death and old age being unknown to you‚ while she must die. Yet‚ it is true‚ each day I long for home‚ long for the sight of home. If any god has marked me out again for shipwreck‚ my tough heart can undergo it. What hardship have I not long since endured at sea‚ in battle! Let the trial come." (Book V lines 224-233) Odysseus‚ being a thoughtful and effective orator‚ understands the goddess’ hidden threat. He is

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    Jason Prado Analysis The symbolism in Maximus of Turn’s Sermon 37 provides the readers a way to understand how Jesus offers us salvation and his affection for us. Maximus accomplishes this by telling us the famous myth of Odysseus and through this story he symbolizes an essential object and compares them to that of Jesus and salvation. By doing this‚ the readers are able to have a better comprehension of how Jesus was able to provide salvation. The myth of Odysseus is well known‚ and a key part of

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    John Winthrop’s sermon‚ the ideal form of society and government that is to be formed ‚ would a secular government. 3. According to the sermon‚ what is the only way for the Puritans to avoid the “wrath of God?” Winthrop uses the metaphor of a shipwreck. According to the sermon‚ the only way to avoid the “wrath of God’ is to ‘followe the counsell of Micah‚ to doe justly‚ to love mercy‚ to walk humbly with our God” and to live by the “articles” of which God has given them in their every day life

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    until it finally broke apart. The daughter wasn’t able to survive the crash. In the end‚ all that was left was a memory. There are many similarities and differences between The Wreck of the Hesperus and The Perfect Storm. They both focus on a shipwreck and incredible loss of life that could have been avoided had the captain or crew been less confident and more cautious about their deaths to come. The authors

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    The Ethics of Belief

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    assume that the result is everyone alive‚ it’s still wrong to believe that this ship is safe and seaworthy‚ the shipowner still have to take whole response for it. Because wrong belief is wrong event‚ no matter what evidence is‚ this ship didn’t shipwreck at this time but can’t make sure it won’t happen next time. It is always wrong to believe everywhere and for anyone

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    Adrienne Rich was an incredibly talented poet with a knack for metaphors. Her particular writing style uses quite a bit of figurative and descriptive language‚ which for a melodramatic teenager is truly the land of milk and honey. Rich creates vivid pictures with her words‚ and you can actually feel the sentiments expressed in her works. From poems about her exploration of her own sexuality and the deep blue sea‚ this Sapphic woman created groundbreaking literature that still makes a splash today

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    Love In The Odyssey

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    The purity of love appears as pure as the actors that are required to perform it. Donne borrows inspiration from the Homeric epic The Odyssey and patterns of Ovidian lyric to express both disappointment and frustration due to its impurity‚ stemming from the goal accomplished through bodily reality. While Donne is able to attain love through its consummation‚ he expresses conflict in attempting to avoid deviation from the pursuit of love caused by a woman’s features in Love’s Progress‚ which draw

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