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On a hot summer afternoon, the corpse of Salvatore Giuliano is found riddle with bullet wounds and both a handgun and a rifle to his side. The village of Castelvetrano, reporters and villagers stood off to the side shocked and pondering who and what killed the famous Giuliano. At the young age of 27, Giuliano had become Italy's most wanted criminal and most celebrated hero at the same time. Known as the ?Robin Hood of Sicily? for literally stealing from the rich and giving to the poor and for fighting communism to potentially bring state-hood to Sicily, Giuliano built his ...
Where are the Heroes? As we read Homers epic tale of war, death, and enthralling characters, we find great warriors each on a different pathway. Looking closer at three of these characters, Akhilleus, Agamemnon, and Hektor, we find that each of these warriors displays many heroic qualities and deeds, yet none ever achieves becoming a tru...
The American Hero Every child has fantasy?s of being a super hero and leaping tall buildings in a single bound or staring death in the face everyday and somehow finding a way to escape. All of these imaginative thoughts have been derived from the past literary works by the great writers of the early American literary period. These early...
The United States of America is the land of the free, the land of opportunity, the wealthiest country in the world, a country that half the modern world is modeled after. Its President is referred to as the "Leader of the free world". Thousands of people come to this country every year, learning about the country in hopes of becoming citizens....
The following quote 'The sedge is withr'd from the lake, And no birds sing,' (Keats) seems like a very simple sentence with no meaning to it. However, after reading Chapter 6 of , I realized how loaded the comment is with meaning. The quote is describing humans and how humans treat the plants here on earth. The quote describes a scene...
For as long as humanity has existed, or anthropologically speaking Homo Sapien Sapien, it is intuitive to accept male and female must also exist. Anatomically it is apparent the human species is not asexual, and thus the different sexes must necessarily serve some purpose. Strictly speaking that purpose would be procreative, barring all notions of...
