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Circe Essays and Term Papers
The Cybernetic Plot Of UlyssesA paper delivered at the CALIFORNIA JOYCE conference (6/30/93)
Good afternoon.
To quote the opening of Norbert Wiener's address on Cybernetics to the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in March of 1950, The word
cybernetics has been taken from the Greek word kubernitiz (ky-ber-NEE-tis)
meaning ...
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Comparison Of The Odessey AndIn our day and age, people strive for independence and a sense of authority. However, at many times this is more easily said than done. Whether it be God, or in the eyes of the Achaeans and Trojans, the immortals, lives and actions are commonly defined by a higher being. Which leads to ...
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Dantes Divine Comedy EssayAmong the various tools Dante Alighieri employs in the Commedia, his grand imaginative interpretation of life after death, scenes involving figures and beasts from classical mythology provide the reader with allegories and exempla effectively linking universal human themes with Christian thought ...
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Cold Mountain: The Civil WarThe Civil War was a four year armed conflict between northern and southern sections of the United States. The Civil War cost more American lives than any other war in history. There were bout 3 million people who fought in the beginning of the Civil War and about 600,000 people’s lives were ...
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The Odyssey - Gender RolesThe Odyssey is the product of a society in which the dominant role was played by men. In ancient Greece, just as in the whole of the ancient world, and in America and Western Europe until the last century, women occupied a subservient position. Society was organized and directed by men, and all of ...
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Virgil The Art Of Imitating Ho“Oprah, Uma. Uma, Oprah.”1 “Homer, Virgil. Virgil, Homer.” The Aeneid, the greatest Latin
epic of the battles and wanderings of the Trojan hero, Aeneas, and his founding of the ruling line
for the Roman Empire was written by the great Latin poet Virgil. Or so it seems. ...
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Greek MythsSection I:"Odysseus the most cunning man in the world."
Odysseus, son of Procris and Cephalus of the Royal House of Athens,
played a major role in the Trojan War. However, the legends of Odysseus do
not begin until after the great war. At the end of the war he was
separated from the rest of the ...
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Themes Of The OdysseyTheme is defined in Perrine’s Literature as “… the controlling idea or the central insight of a piece of literature.” The theme is the unifying generalization about life stated or implied by the story. To get the theme of a poem, the reader must determine what the central purpose is: what view ...
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OdysseyIn Homer's The Odyssey, written down in approximately 700 BCE the story is about a hero named Odysseus who was fighting in the Trojan war. After the war ended Odysseus has to make a long epic journey home to see his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. On his journey he is trapped by an evil ...
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Odysseus' Trip To The UnderworldUnderworld, Hell, Hades ECT
(A comparison of the underworld from The Odyssey and The Aneid.)
Where one goes after death is a mystery. No scientist has proof, no Christian has proof, no ONE has any proof. All this world has is guesses, and what we are told through religious texts; and from ...
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Analysis of Willa Cather's Paul’s Case: A Study In TemperamentWilla Cather - An author of the frontier with a disdain for the 'artistic temperament'
Willa Cather, as an author, might be assumed to show a great deal of compassion to a sensitive young adolescent who yearns for a better, more beautiful life of the arts rather than life hunched in an office ...
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Leadership In The OdysseyFinal Argumentative Essay
Leadership is described as the action of leading a group of people. In the Odyssey, Odysseus has to make a great amount of choices as a leader, but not all of his choices were appropriate. Odysseus should not be considered a powerful leader because Odysseus is ...
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Medea's Representation In Love and HeroismMedea, the protagonist of Euripides' play, represents both love and heroism in the work. The tragic end of the play, as well as the extreme actions prompted by her wounded love, however makes her rather a contrast with characters where the outcome is more positive. Medea in her capacity as hero ...
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Similar Character Traits In The Odyssey and a WWII HeroSimilar Character Traits In The Odyssey and a WWII hero
Odysseus can’t get home, the gods are holding him back. Odysseus is a good leader all the way through the story. Eileen Nearne, a spy that operated a bomb drop a radio from WWII is like Odysseus in many ways. Homer wrote The Odyssey ...
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