Gilgamesh, a modern day hero?

Darshan Patel Mr. O'Brien Pd. 6 English 10, 5.0 November 8, 2008 Gilgamesh, a modern day hero? A modern day hero can be defined as someone who is looked up to by others, and possesses qualities of courage, and physical and mental strength. One who follows integrity, loyalty, and maintains the limits. In the epic of Gilgamesh, the main character, Gilgamesh, is a true hero because of the bravery, loyalty, and godliness that he displays throughout the story. By overcoming monsters and mountains, showing fidelity to his kingdom, and being a powerful and unbeatable warrior, Gilgamesh proves that he possesses the traits that define a true hero. Gilgamesh, one-third mortal and two-thirds God, is portrayed as a strong and powerful leader of Uruk. In the beginning of the story, he fearlessly leads his tribe into battle and defeats everyone they come up against. Even such a mighty beast as Humbaba is no match for Gilgamesh's potent strength. When his friend Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh exhibits true bravery by boldly entering the world of Gods in search of answers about life and death. Without worrying about the consequences of his choices, Gilgamesh always fights for what he believes in. He will do whatever it takes to fix a problem; he goes for the impossible and makes it possible. "No man born of woman has done what you have asked, no mortal man has gone into the mountains; the

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The character of the Cardinal in The Dutchess of Malfi. Though the character of the Cardinal has been vividly sketched out by Webster, but there is one weak point in his characterization. It is that his motivation for his savagely ill-treating his sister

Character and role of the Cardinal The Cardinal is the brother of the Duchess and Ferdinand, as cold and calculating as Ferdinand is excitable. He has been delineated by Webster as a worldly person, a Machiavellian prelate, common in the Italy of Borgias. He is a high-ranking official in the Roman Catholic Church. However he is an iniquitous, icy official who does not live the life of a Christian saint: he has hired a spy to prey upon his sister, and has a mistress, and, he does not seem to have any religious duties or religious thought. He dons a Cardinal's cassock, not because of any piety in him, but because of the power associated with the position. A thorough portrait of the Cardinal can be obtained from what Antonio elucidates to Delio, "Some such flashes superficially hang on him for form but observe his inward character; he is a melancholy churchman; the spring in his face is nothing but the engendering of toads; where he is jealous of any man, he lays worse plots for them than ever was imposed on Hercules, for he strews in his way flatterers, panders, intelligencers, atheists, and a thousand such political monsters. He should have been Pope but instead of coming to it by the primitive decency of the church, he did bestow bribes so largely an so impudently as if he would have carried it away without heaven's knowledge" He is popularly known as a person of high

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Cilvçku uzvedîbasuztverðana un skaidroðana.

Cilveku uzvedibas uztveršana un skaidrošana. Lielakajai dalai cilveku ir svarigi zinat uz saprast citu cilveku uzvedibu, jo šie citi cilveki var ietekmet musu dzives, ikdienu. Un ir cilveki, kas musu dzives ienem tik svarigu lomu, ka šo cilveku uzvedibas uztveršana un saprašana ir loti svariga. Socialaja psihologija ir daudz pieversusies tieši tam, ka cilveki iegust socialas zinašanas un ka tas tiek pielietotas. Piemeram, zinatne uzskata, ka cilveki ne tikai fikse notikumus, bet ari tiem pieškir nozimes. Tadel sociala psihologija pieveršas jautajumiem par to, ka cilveki informaciju kode, ka to uzglaba un ka to atkal pie vajadzibas pielieto. [1;82] Iespaidu veidošanas. Socialas percepcijas petijumiem vienmer bijis aktuali jautajumi par pirma iespaida pareizibu, precizitati, par šada pirma iespaida veidošanos vispar, par galveno, kas veido iespaidu, utt. Petijumos secinats, ka tikai niecigs procents pirmo iespaidu veidojas pareizs. Parsvara gadas, ka informacija, kas guta pirmaja iespaida, mainas. Tomer - diskutejams ir jautajums ari par to, kas ir 'pareizs, precizs' pirmais iespaids, jo, kas vienam pareizs, tas otram nepareizs. Pirma iespaida veidošanas gaita nenoliedzami dažas detalas šo iespaidu ietekme vairak ka citas. Šadas 'ietekmigakas' detalas tika sauktas par centralajam iezimem. [1;83] Socialie psihologi ir attistijuši divus

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Song - John Donne

. Donne sees human love as a power that can resist change or decay in the world. How does Donne affirm this power in his love poetry? Base your essay on one of Donne's love poems Song [Go and catch a falling star] is an aged piece of literature written by John Donne. The poet shows his skepticism towards the foundation of true love and the finding of a "pure" woman. He exercises sarcasm through metaphorical terms to convey that attaining love and its power to refute change. The poem is divided into three stanzas and each stanza portrays different stories and perspectives of the poet towards true love and the pure nature of women, and the attainment of love. Donne's Songs does not describe a single unchanging view of love; they express a wide variety of emotions and attitudes (over varying stanzas), as if Donne himself were trying to define his experience of love through his poetry. Love can be an experience of the body, the soul, or both; it can be a religious experience, or merely a sensual one, and it can give rise to emotions ranging from ecstasy to despair. The poet shows his determined perspective regarding discovering true love over time. The first stanza submits a sense of absolute impracticality; as it states states; "Go and catch a falling star," and as it is known by all it is not achievable to "catch a falling star". Falling stars are a cause of great destruction

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The research subject of this diploma paper is European football sport terminology in modern English and translation of these terms into Ukrainian.

MINISTRY OF SCIENCE AND EDUCATION OF RUSSIA SIBERIA POLYTECHNIC NATIONAL UNIVERSITY "The sport terminology translation hardship from English into Ukrainian" Prepared by Ivan Cherezov Prepared for: Mr. Salatov D. Siberia 2011 Table of contents Introduction I. Linguistic background. The sport terminology translation hardship from English into Ukrainian 1. Sport discourse .1 Sport metaphor 2. Language for specific purposes 2.1 Growth of language for specific purposes 2.2 Why sport English is a Language for Specific Purposes 3. Terminology and system of terms 3.1 The way the term appears 3.2 Term definition 3.3 Semantic features of a term 3.4 Morphological structure of sport terms in English 3.5 Ways of terminology translation 3.6 Sport terminology translation hardship 4. The analysis of the Soccer glossary II. Solution of the problem by means of Computational Linguistic. The creation of on-line dictionary of sport terms . The PHP programming language 2. The program product creation Conclusions References Introduction Nowadays a lot of scientists work on the issue of development and setting Ukrainian sport terminology and phraseology. It is obvious that this issue is very important. A lot of people go in for sports, are interested in it and use sport terms in everyday life. The implementation of Ukrainian system of sport terms for everyone to use it

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Comentario de texto. Lopez de Vega "Desmayarse, atreverse, estar furioso".

COMENTARIO DE TEXTO Lope de Vega (1562-1635) Desmayarse, atreverse, estar furioso, áspero, tierno, liberal, esquivo, alentado, mortal, difunto, vivo, leal, traidor, cobarde y animoso; no hallar fuera del bien centro y reposo, mostrarse alegre, triste, humilde, altivo, enojado, valiente, fugitivo, satisfecho, ofendido, receloso; huir el rostro al claro desengaño, beber veneno por licor süave, olvidar el provecho, amar el daño; creer que un cielo en un infierno cabe, dar la vida y el alma a un desengaño; esto es amor, quien lo probó lo sabe. Nos situamos ante una obra literaria de carácter lírico titulada "Desmayarse, atreverse, estar furioso" la cual la podemos datar en el siglo XVII, por tanto, perteneciente a la época del Barroco. El barroco fue un movimiento artístico, literario y cultural español que duró desde finales del siglo XVI hasta finales del siglo XVII. Los principales rasgos barrocos aplicables a este soneto son: * La visión existencialista de la vida, * El amor más allá de la muerte, * El amor como desengaño. El autor, Lope Félix de Vega Carupio (1562-1635) fue uno de los poetas y dramaturgos más importantes del Siglo de Oro español, y en el ámbito de su obra fue uno de los más importantes de la literatura mundial. Fue el máximo exponente, junto a Tirso de Molina y Calderón de la Barca, del Teatro barroco español sus

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А.-М. Сень Науковий керівник – ОСОБЛИВОСТІ КОМУНІКАЦІЇ «АВТОР/ЧИТАЧ» У КНИЗІ «ШИДЕВРИ ВКРАЇНСЬКОЇ ЛІТЕРАТУРИ. ХРЕСТОМАТІЯ ДОКТОРА ПАДЛЮЧЧА» МИХАЙЛА БРИНИХА Постановка проблеми комунікації автор/читач відіграє важливу роль у заохоченні та популяризації української та зарубіжної літератури серед покоління Z, яке стрімко зростає і розвивається в цифровому суспільстві, щоразу потребує більш модернізованого підходу представлення інформації. Саме тому підняття питання популяризації давньої літератури в умовах сьогодення є надзвичайно актуальним, адже сучасна молодь потребує новітні шляхи ознайомлення з творчістю всесвітньовідомих письменників минулих віків, який полягає у адаптації тексту під молодіжний лад. Доведенням факту, що давня

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Hollywood and Presidential Power in Wag the Dog

Hollywood and Presidential Power in "Wag the Dog" Essay "Wag the Dog" is one of the great American political satires which is a Barry Levinson film released in 1997. It is about a president suddenly buried deep in sex scandal just days before he was almost certain to be re-elected, and the efforts of his staff to divert America's attention away from the scandal with the help of a professional spin doctor and a Hollywood producer. In the film both Hollywood and the President play a significant role, despite the fact that the president is represented by his " staff ". ?h? completely fake war, written and produced by a top Hollywood producer and a presidential Mr. Fix-It does have a serious message to impart - Don't believe everything you see on TV. Parents tell their kids that the man on TV isn't really dead, it's all fake, and we all know that movies and dramas aren't real, they're written and acted. We watch documentaries and biographies and absorb the information as the truth. When we watch the news at 7:00 pm every evening, and read the paper over coffee and breakfast, we believe everything reported. And why shouldn't we? Isn't it our right to know what's going on in the world and to not have the struggle of trying to separate fact from fiction? Unfortunately, we may think this is our right, but we do have to take a more critical look at the information departed from the

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Frida Kahlo

"Kahlo's work is inaccessible and reclusive. Her art does not reflect reality but is merely concerned with internal struggles of acceptance and obsessed with the self". Discuss. "I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality" said Frida Kahlo famously, effectively summing up her art. Kahlo's work, highly focussed on self-portraits depicting her struggles, has been heavily criticised as being self-obsessed and a poor reflection of the world around her. Her, often shocking, paintings include images depicting pain, fertility, love and struggle for self-identification. Her paintings can be seen as an auto-biography of Kahlo's turbulent personal life, filled with anguish. However, the opposing argument lies in the analysis on the state of Mexico in Kahlo's time. The Mexican Revolution broke out three years after Kahlo's birth, Communism was rife and the Chicano movement was in search for Mexican Identity. Once contextualised, Kahlo's work seems to be symbolic of not only her internal struggles but those of her peers and above all, of her nation. Many critics have deemed Kahlo's art as unreflective of reality and self-obsessed. In fact, she herself stated "I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration". Her self-obsession is apparent in both the subject choice and structure of her paintings. The majority of her paintings are self-portraits and she is

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Lojze Spacal. V svoji seminarski nalogi bom predstavila slikarja in grafika Lojzeta Spacala in njegovo stalno razstavo v gradu tanjel.

Univerza v Ljubljani Akademija za likovno umetnost in oblikovanje LOJZE SPACAL Seminarska naloga za predmet Umetnostna zgodovina I Avtor: Lara Žitko, 1. letnik slikarstva Mentor: Jure Mikuž, red. prof., dr., prof. um. zgod. in zgod. Ljubljana, 2012 ________________ KRATKA BIOGRAFIJA UMETNIKA V svoji seminarski nalogi bom predstavila slikarja in grafika Lojzeta Spacala in njegovo stalno razstavo v gradu Štanjel. Lojze Spacal, ki se je rodil v Trstu leta 1907, velja za enega najvidnejših likovnih ustvarjalcev v povojnem slovenskem in italijanskem prostoru. Svoj ustvarjalni vrh je dosegel v grafiki, zlasti v linorezu in lesorezu, posegal pa je tudi po drugih tehnikah; olju, mozaiku, tapiseriji in freski ter po raznih mešanih tehnikah, kot je na primer kombinacija kiparstva - reliefa in slikarstva. Veliko časa je preživel in ustvarjal v svoji hiši v Škrbini na Krasu, kjer so ga na njegovo željo po smrti leta 2000 tudi pokopali. Za svoje delo je prejel vrsto mednarodnih ter slovenskih in italijanskih nacionalnih nagrad. Leta 1974 je prejel Prešernovo nagrado za življenjsko delo. Lojze Spacal SPACALOVO DELO IN UMETNOST Kot sem že omenila, so leta 1988 v njegovem kraju bivanja v gradu Štanjel odprli stalno zbirko njegovih del. Obiskala sem jo nekaj mesecev nazaj. Grad Štanjel stoji v istoimenskem kraju ob cesti Nova Gorica - Sežana, 15 km od Sežane.

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