The Odyssey of Homer, perhaps one of the greatest epic poems of all time, portrays Odysseus" journey home. ... "That said, the Cyclops reeled; his hulk collapsed; He fell asleep upon his back, with his thick neck Aslant; sleep, lord of all, now held him fast My men stood round me; into us a god Breathed daring. ... Why do you Disturb the godlike night and spoil our sleep?... In book 5, Odysseus turns down a life of immortality in order to return home to his wife. ... Is it your native land you need, Your dear home? ...

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They end up sleeping together, and Anne is laying awake thinking about what would happen if John were to return home at that moment. ... So she wakes up for a while and then goes back to sleep. ... Their relationship is stressed even further when Ann is left at home alone with nothing to think about but their relationship because John has to go to his father's house. ... Ann is justified in her decision to "sleeps" with Steven, John's friend. ... She also drives John to commit suicide because she "sleeps" with Steven, making John think that she doesn't love him anymore. ...

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He does not love his wife, "he was afraid of her and disliked being at home."" ... Piskaryov is so captivated with her physical qualities that he follows her home, only to discover that she is a prostitute. He has one dream about the beautiful prostitute and will do anything to go back to sleep. ... When Anna does not sleep with him immediately, Gurov becomes annoyed. ... (Chekhov 541) He returns home and realizes that he cannot stop thinking about Anna. ...

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Few Americans have had the experience of being born into a home environment such as the Roosevelt's. ... The Civil War, or War of Northern Aggression, (depending on what side of the Mason-Dixon line you were raised), brought discourse in the Roosevelt home. ... After his father left home, Teddy became mischievous, yearning for his father's discipline in response to having no father around at all. His health also spiraled downward with Theodore Sr. absent from the home. ... This meant Teddy had to sleep propped up or in a chair. ...

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Chekhov writes that Dmitri "secretly considered her unintelligent, narrow, inelegant, was afraid of her, and did not like to be at home- (238). ... Anna continues to ramble on about how wrong she is for sleeping with Dmitri, but he finds her conversation tedious. ... Dmitri got what he wanted from the young woman and Anna was off to see her husband, who had written a letter to her requesting she come home immediately. ... It is when Gurov returns to his home is Moscow that he realizes his true feelings for Anna. ... It is obvious that Dmitri is no longer interested in Anna for the sole pur...

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He goes on leave and comes home to visit his mother. ... "We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. ...

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The oracle told him that he would sleep with his mother and kill his father in the future but never directly told him whether or not the king and queen were his parents. To avoid the possibility of killing his father and being embarrassed about sleeping with his mother, he ran away from home hoping to avoid the outcome that the oracle had predicted. ...

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On March 8, 1965, Philip Caputo was sent to Danang with a battalion of the 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade and was the first U.S. combat unit sent to Indochina. At that time Americans had enormous pride and confidence in going to war. Young men who had never fought in a war possessed an idealis...

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At 11:52 Mike's parents and his brother came home seven minutes too late to save him. ... Teenagers commit suicide because of friends, peers and other teenagers, conflicts at home, stress, and through the use of drugs. ... (Galas, 12) Having conflicts at home with your parents or siblings isn't worth taking your life. ... Change in sleeping or giving away things that they value, 6. ...

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Jesus was the promised Messiah that the Hebrew prophets foretold. The Old Testament was completed in 450BC, hundreds of years before Jesus was born. Many people throughout the Old Testament books made the prophecies in astonishing detail. More than 300 prophecies were made in the Old Testament an...

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The ideas proposed by Wright represent a half century of ingenuity and unrivaled creativity. Wright was unquestionably a architectural genius and was years ahead of his time. The biggest obstacle which held Wright back throughout his career was the lack of technology that was present during his time...

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