Prince Hector and his young brother Paris negotiate peace between Troy and Sparta. Paris has fallen in love with Helen‚ the wife of king Menelaus‚ and smuggles her to Troy with him. Infuriated‚ Menelaus vows revenge. Menelaus approaches his brother Agamemnon‚ a king of Mycenae who has conquered every army of Greece‚ and now commands them. Agamemnon‚ who has wanted to conquer Troy for years (which would give him control of the Aegean Sea)‚ uses this as a justification to invade Troy. General Nestor
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Angela Adivoso Ayala Museum Reaction Paper On the 9th of February‚ I visited the Ayala Museum with the company of my mother and a friend‚ in the hopes that I could see some extraordinary things from our country’s (and as well as some parts of Asia’s) past – things that we do not see inside the classroom. To get this show on the road‚ I think it would be best to begin by saying that I was not at all disappointed. Starting from the grand lobby of the building‚ we made
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Gabrielle Rae V. Bueser HFH23 June 15‚ 2013 Reaction Paper: Spoliarium As we enter the hall of the National Museum of the Philippines‚ the prominence of "Spoliarium" an oil on poplar completed in 1884 by National Artist‚ Juan Luna‚ is remarkable. The super- sized painting depicts a dark hollow beneath the Roman arena referred to as the Spoliarium where the bodies of slain gladiators are being dragged away for disposal. This is the time in history when the Romans travelled to Europe and collected
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Name:Ashley Waller|Date:10/17/12|Class:|Reaction Paper #:2| Title of the Article:Consumers Unlikely to Rekindle the Recovery| Date of Publication: July 2‚ 2012Author: Casselmen‚ Ben| Summary:In this article‚ it talks about how we should not rely on the consumers for the economic recovery. As Americans returned to work‚ the theory went; they would have more money to spend on everything from clothes to vacations to houses. As demand rose for products and services‚ businesses would be forced to hire
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Reaction Paper about Honor and Excellence The speech of Prof. Monsod‚ a retired professor in college of economics in the University of the Philippines gave her last lecture to her students about the motto of the university. In her lecture‚ she urged her students to place honor and excellence‚ in which I agree that honor‚ was placed first before excellence for a reason. It is interesting that Prof. Monsod pointed out cheating. She added that cheating in small thing would
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SIGNOS Reaction Paper Global warming is one of the most serious hazard that we our facing today. The alarming signs were seen‚ even here in our country. Drought happens during rainy season while typhoons come upon summer months. The abnormal rainfall causes the rise of sea water level and more areas experience flooding. These are only some of the signs of growing global phenomenon. This environmental crisis brings risk to a million lives. Signos is one of a documentary that will awaken our minds
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Reaction Paper — Fiction: Short Story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is a small story written by Katherine Anne Porter‚ the American writer. It was published in 1930 along with other short stories alike‚ as part of story collection called “Flowering Judas”. The reaction to this fiction story from a reader’s point of view I’m going to express in this short essay. The whole setting of this story is drawn around the bed of Ms. Weatherall‚ where she is spending the last moments of
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2012 BS-CoE Reaction Paper: The Pirates of Silicon Valley The film was narrated by Steve Wozniak‚ co-developer of the Apple computer. The movie took off with Steve Jobs talking in a melodramatic way to the audience‚ it seems but as the angle of the scene shifts‚ it was shown that he was actually talking to a director and that they were currently in the middle of shooting a commercial which is for the Apple Computer. The scene then changes showing Steve Jobs talking about some sort of alliance
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My "About Me" speech that I just gave in my public speaking class last Tuesday was decent‚ however I kind of rushed it due to the nervousness I had. I opened up my speech by saying how I didn’t have anything nearly as interesting to say about myself compared to the girl that had gone before me; I guess that was a nervous mechanism‚ since I already started doubting myself from the beginng. I spoke about my family first‚ because that’s the most important thing in my life. I explained how I am
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Reaction Paper 2 In the 4th chapter of “The Land Looks After Us” Martin starts by talking about a weather doctor that the tribe turned to for guidance after a total eclipse blocked out the sun. Though he was ill he helped and went into a trance which allowed his soul to find out what was going on. What he ended up seeing was a vision of god and all that neat stuff. After he became a prophet‚ I think what martin was trying to address with this story was that religion was not only spreading but
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