In The Odyssey, the story is related of the colossal warrior Odysseus attempting to return home to his wife in the wake of battling an extraordinary war. ... The main occurrence in the Odyssey where Odysseus could be said to be looking for radiance is during his experience with the Cyclops, Polyphemus. ... Because of the way of the Odyssey as a "notes" story, a story of homecoming and the tragedies of war, this demonstration of heavenliness looking for is set up as the reason for the greater part of Odysseus' later issues. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the epic story of the Odyssey, Odysseus the main character was subjected to various life threatening situations such as when he and his men were captured by the Cyclops and held captive in his cave. ... On the same note, the epic story of The Ramayana of Valmiki, Rama showed acts of selfless-service by protecting his counterpart in life Sita during the attack of the crow and saving her from the abduction of the evil king Ravana. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Iliad, followed by Odyssey are the examples of epic poetry in the early Greek literature, they "emphasized the ideals of honor and bravery and had an enormous influence on Greek culture- (Myrsiades 1997). ... The lay highlights heroism, where bravery, loyalty responsibility is essential and "heroic note still rings over the centuries" (Burgess 1996:20). ...

• Word Count: 2885
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We see them also in their role as followers, Belinda's army, just as an epic hero would have his faithful servants we see how "To fifty chosen sylphs, of special note, / We trust the important charge, the petticoat" . ...

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Ralph Baer could not possibly have anticipated the cultural phenomenon video games would become when he created "Odyssey" in 1972, the first home video game console. ... When the children finally got a chance to play with the same toy, they overwhelmingly tended to imitate the model they had viewed and the way the model was acting towards the toy (Bandura, et al., 1961) It is important to note this study focused exclusively on children, who are generally thought to be more impressionable in their behavior than adults. ...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

• Word Count: 9971
• Approx Pages: 40
• Grade Level: Undergraduate