Setting . I.A. Time of Action: About 3‚200 years ago in recorded history’s infancy‚ when humankind’s imagination peopled the known world with great heroes and villains and nature reflected the mood of the gods and goddesses. I.B. Place of Action: Troy (Asia Minor)‚ also Ilium (ancient Ilion)‚ famous city of Greek legend‚ on the northwestern corner of Asia Minor‚ in present-day Turkey. Anatolia is west of Greece (across the Aegean Sea) and north of Egypt (across the Mediterranean Sea). II. Characters
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MyTheory Essay Why Me? Caw! Caw! In Evan Hunter’s screenplay‚ “The Birds‚” Melanie Daniels is being attacked by birds because she is a stranger to Bodega Bay. This is because the birds do not start attacking until Melanie gets to Bodega Bay‚ the birds target areas where Melanie is‚ and the birds attack people who Melanie knows. To start with‚ the birds do not start attacking until Melanie gets to Bodega Bay. First of all‚ the birds attack Melanie Daniels because she
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dignity. Troy Maxson’s downfall was caused by his response to the challenge that racism posed to his personal dignity. Although Troy was able to knock a baseball out of the park like it was nothing‚ he constantly "missed the mark" in his personal life. Troy had a tragic flaw‚ which was that he did whatever he thought was right without thinking of the consequences. In an attempt to respond to the indignities he suffers‚ he distorts history‚ denies facts‚ and lies. The circumstances that shaped Troy to the
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In 2009‚ astrophysicist‚ Dr. Satnam Tsurutani in India informed geologist‚ Dr. Adrian Helmsley about the biggest sun eruption that happened very recently which caused significant increase in the Earth core’s temperature. Dr. Helmsley went directly to the White House and showed the report to the President’s Chief of Staff‚ Carl Anheuser. After a year‚ President of the United States‚ Thomas Wilson‚ met with other world leaders to make preparations in order to save humanity by constructing arks at
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Today‚ I would like to introduce a film to all of you. It is called ¡§Seabiscuit¡¨. The story background was the Great Depression in America. In 1937‚ America was in the seventh year of the most catastrophic decade in its history. The economy had come crashing down‚ and millions upon millions of people had been torn loose from their jobs‚ their savings‚ their homes. The most brash of peoples was seized by despair‚ fatalism‚ and fear. This is a story about a country whose dreams had been shattered
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Sophocles fit all of qualifications. Oedipus is a tragic hero since his particular characteristic is king. In another play “Fences” by August Wilson‚ the main character Troy Maxson‚ is different with Oedipus. He is not a tragic hero of Aristotle’s concept‚ but he is a modern tragic. Oedipus was definitely a tragic hero‚ but Troy is not matching it. Following the Aristotle’s definition of tragic hero: “Aristotle observes that the protagonist‚ the hero or chief character of a tragedy‚ is a person
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Peter Travis creates a brand new look on the Movie‚ October Sky directed by Joe Johnston by reviewing the movie for Rolling stones in february 1999 . He discovers the movie to be very unique and refreshing from the movies directed at that period of time. He considers October sky’s optimistic look on life to be way more necessary for common people than those Cynical outlooks of other movies. Traver states that the movie is based on the autobiography “The Rocket boys : A memoir “ written by Homer
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No Second Troy Analysis The poem seems to be divided into two parts: lines 1 through 5 deal more in the empirical realm (from emotional pain to political defiance and out rage)‚ while lines 6 through 12 veer off into the ethereal- and apocalyptic- world of ancient Troy and its Helen. WHY should I blame her that she filled my days / With misery describes the pain of Yeats’ unrequited love. … that she would of late / Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways refers to Irish nationalists
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CHARACTERS MORTALS: AGAMEMNON The leader of the Achaean expedition to Troy‚ he was the King of Mycenae. On his return from Troy he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra‚ and her lover Aegisthus. The lover was the son of Thyestes‚ the brother and enemy of Atreus‚ Agamemnon’s father. When Odysseus voyages to Hades he meets with Agamemnon’s ghost. ALCINOUS The King of the Phaeacians and husband of Arete‚ who had a daughter called Nausicaa. Nausicaa helps Odysseus when he first arrives in their
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historical basis for the Trojan War‚ the location of Troy is debatable and therefore there is little conclusive evidence to support the Iliad" For years the ancient story of Troy and the epic Trojan War has sparked dispute among archaeologists. Did it really happen? Was there a troy like the one Homer describes? What caused it? Historians are today still trying to prove the existence of troy and the Trojan War. Our main source of interest in troy and the Trojan War is the Iliad. It is an account
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