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Achilles From the initial callousness and stub...
... goes beyond the bounds of normal war customs at the time to quite barbaric levels. Achilles, it seems, draws satisfaction from the ... intently to King Priam's plea to return the body of his slain son. The appeal works, and Achilles is actually moved by ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Philosophy of Education
... their hands to answer questions without thinking properly. Hence, according to the educators, it important to give some students adequate time to ... when they gave wrong answers. Rather, the teacher moved on to another student as she searched for a correct ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Chinese Footbinding
... to move, and this was one of the points of footbinding . They had to seem very terrified all the time, week, and they were not to ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
The Lost Boy
... himself to move on until he has made at least ten shots out of thirteen from each location" (26-7). As Bradley pushes himself to ... takes time out of his day, and flies all over the U.S. to speak to F.C.A. groups. Bradley uses his determination to become ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Socrates' Moral Decision
... the good things the city had to offer; and if he didn't like it, he had many years to move away. It says that Socrates ... . His followers have carried on his messages and lessons into later times. Would Socrate's teachings really have been carried on at all ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Which epic has most relevance to a twenty first century reader, Virgil's 'Aeneid' or Homer's 'Odyssey'? Examines themes in both epics (from the english translations) and compares the two.
... never be faced with, the emotions are particularly moving because they are so true to life. The deaths of all Elpenor, ... relevance is not an easy task. To begin with, both epics were written at different times, in different languages, in different countries ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
Public Art in Greece: To what extent and in what ways does the Parthenon perform the function of a gigantic billboard for the late fifth century Athens? For whom is it intended?
... time symbolized their shame with 'Caryatids': stone figures of the heavy-laden women, whose punishment would thus be broadcast to ... to the dissident barbarism of the Persians. But there was also a strong political motivation, a clever political move ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
"I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud": A in depth look at the poem by William Wordsworth.
... take the time to see it and appreciate it, it thrives and lives on. There is no need for us to water the flowers ... them to swing to and fro in an untimely and unchoreographed way. This haphazard dancing allows the daffodils to appear as though, when moving ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies
Homer's "Odysse"y, and what it tells us about greek culture and women
... to come. Then she nonchalantly asks the nurse to move their marital bed angering Odysseus further. He points out that it cannot be moved ... a typical wife's responsibility at that time were to remain eternally devoted to their husband there would not have ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
How successful were Solon's measures in dealing with the problems facing Athens in 594 BC?
... virtually impossible for them to move up more than one group. It worked best for the rich who happened to be wealthy but ... systems that they had in place at the time. His appointment was also intended to alleviate the problems that were threatening Athens ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies