Greek Literature Essays and Term Papers

Antigone and Ismene

Antigone and Ismene In the Greek tragedy "Antigone", by Sophocles; Antigone learns that King Creon has refused to give a proper burial for the slain Polyneices, brother of Ismene and Antigone. Furious by this injustice, Antigone shares the tragic news with Ismene. From her first ...

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Antigone - A True Crime: Pride

Ap Literature & Comprehension 8 March, 2011 A True Crime: Pride – Prompt 2B Hubris is a word that the ancient Greeks used to describe pride, or, more often, the negative effects of possessing too much pride, namely when one has too much of it. When people are too prideful, they can become ...

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The Case Against Affirmative Action

The Case Against Affirmative Action Louis P. Pojman In this essay I set forth nine arguments against Strong Affirmative Action, which I define as preferential treatment, discriminating in favor of members of under-represented groups, which have been treated unjustly in the past, against ...

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Silence of the Lambs

One does not think of popular movies as being full of thematic content, of being full of questions about death, gender, mental illness, and life. Yet when I sit here and try to decide on a singular topic to write about from a movie that is teeming with them, it is an incredibly popular movie about ...

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Waiting For Godot - Characters In Absence Of Plot

Waiting For Godot – Characters In Absence Of A Plot The first word that detains a reader’s thoughts after reading the play is ‘absurd’. Samuel Beckett has been hailed as the pioneer of absurd plays which challenged the conventional norms of representation of plays performed at Paris and across ...

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The Black Swan

My novelist friend Selden really loves Carl Jung. (I got him a Carl Jung action figure once, actually, from Urban Outfitters or some funky little shop in Santa Barbara; I can't remember which.) And Carl Jung, I learned from Selden (and later from reading), has this thing about The Shadow: that part ...

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Sign Language

Perry Harlow Mrs. Payne English IV 2A 14 December 2011 I Can't Hear You Many people do not think about sign language until they encounter a deaf or hard of hearing person or they see another person signing. It is common for a person to be born deaf. According to the National Institute ...

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Alcohol and Its Angels: Comparing the Humor

Alcohol and Its Angels: Comparing the Humor In the Book, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Pap, who is Huck’s father, who is a worn-out alcoholic, knows that his son has money and attempts to collect it for himself. Pap is one of those people who want to transform themselves from wearing ...

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Public Administration

WHAT IS PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION? Public administration is a discipline drawing from political science, economics, sociology, and other fields to enhance understanding of public bureaucracies and administrative behavior. It has broad applicability to non-profit organizations, non-governmental ...

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The Epic Of Gilgamesh

Gender itself, and more specifically the female form, serve to play an important, though sometimes contradictory, role in ancient literature. While women are not particularly well-known for being portrayed as lead characters within a plot of such ancient works, it is worth noting that many ...

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Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology)[1] with the political unification of ...

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Cleopatra as a Hero

Kelya Cruz English 111 prof. Marcus 2/23/2011 Cleopatra as a Hero Cleopatra was and has being the most powerful woman in history. She has a fascinating and mystery life. Many historian, poets and writers have written many stories and have tried to figure out her mysterious life. She was a ...

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Theme of Odyssey In Quiet Odyssey and Talking to High Monks in the Snow

The odyssey is one of the most common themes within literature. In two recent works by Asian-American authors, the odyssey is revealed to have both a spiritual and a literal component. In Mary Piak Lee's autobiography, Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer Korean Woman in America, the author travels to ...

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Art From Rust And Dust

"Art from rust and dust" Art is a talent Art can help to satisfy our unsatisfied emotions. Art is the expression of "Joy of colours". There is purity in art. Contemplation is needed to understand the ...

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Saint Irenaeus of Lyon's work "Against the Heresies"

Introduction This essay concerns Saint Irenaeus of Lyon's work "Against the Heresies" in Book I (chapters 3,8,9,10,19, 20). In these chapters, Irenaeus exposes the false doctrine of Gnostics as a way of refutation. In terms of methodology, this essay will be divided into three parts. The first ...

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