Hero? The characters Roland‚ Aeneas‚ and Gilgamesh are similar in that they possess the principal qualities of an epic hero. What makes an epic hero is an individual who is‚ righteous‚ gallant‚ impressive in war‚ an advocate for his society‚ and has impacted history in some way. In The Song of Roland‚ Roland transpires as a hero as his deeds are motivated by his gallantry and dedication to the ruler. He represents the good in the epic’s theme: good versus evil. The evil is embodied
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DEMOCRACY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE: NIGERIA’S DILEMMA Ilufoye Sarafa Ogundiya Department of Political Science Usmanu Danfodiyo University‚ Sokoto‚ Nigeria E-mail: oisarafa@yahoo.com‚ elegantlv@aol.co.uk Abstract Despite its enormous resources and huge potentialities‚ Nigeria remains grossly undeveloped. Consequently‚ political instability‚ abject poverty‚ acute youth unemployment‚ heightened crime rate‚ poor health prospects and widespread malnourishment have been the main features of Nigeria’s
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Captain America‚ and Wonder Woman all have one thing in common‚ unrealistic powers that they use for good. When a picture of a “hero” is searched‚ images of men flying with capes will be the number one result. So that must be all there is to being a hero. The French epic poem The Song of Roland portrays the ideal hero‚ or knight‚ as Roland‚ one of the twelve peers under King Charlemagne’s rule. Roland is shown as the ideal knight with a tragic flaw‚ his pride and hotheadedness‚ through his heroic actions
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Larry Diamond’s presentation explores the question of why there are no Arab democracies in the Middle East and North Africa. He shows us the relatively stagnant levels of democratic freedoms that have been the norm in the region for the past several decades. Diamond gives us a multitude of potential explanations for the absence of a sustainable democracy. His first explanation implicates that there must be something within the Islam or Arab culture or religion‚ that prevents the formation of a
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Article summary/ review In the journal Medical Anthropology Quarterly‚ I read an article called Serenity: Violence‚ Inequality‚ and Recovery on the edge of Mexico City. The article was published in May of 2015 and was written by Angela Garcia. The article’s main aspect is a treatment centers for addicts known as anexos. Over the last decade‚ there’s been an increase in drug additions in Mexico‚ especially among the urban poor‚ and the treatment center anexos has been rapidly going up in numbers
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colonies govern themselves independently? I believe that they can‚ and they should. But if you are asking me‚ am I willing to go to war with England? Well‚ then the answer is most definitely NO!” – The Patriot The Patriot was directed and produced by Roland Emmerich in 2000 and filmed in Charleston‚ South Carolina where parts of the movie were actually based. The movie stars Mel Gibson‚ Heath Ledger‚ and Joely Richardson. Set during the American Revolution‚ French and Indian war-hero Benjamin Martin
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January 25‚ 2012 Summary # 1 Summary “INTO THE UNKNOWN” “INTO THE UNKNOWN” published by the Economist is a magazine article about the fear that American workers have about future jobs and the replacing of jobs through outsourcing and computers. According to this article‚ white-collar workers around the world are losing their jobs as machines and foreign workers take over. The author’s purpose of this article is to alert the readers that although there are some changes in technology
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Article Summary Kate Donaldson Grand Canyon University: UNV-501: Introduction to Graduate Studies in the College of Education September 7‚ 2013 Article Summary This paper explores a published article that reports on the results from research conducted about student communication in online classes. In this article the author researched students aging from 20-50 year olds. The article exposes the research results from those who performed online classes in both the Generation x and
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Assignment #7: Article Summary (Fluency) Fluency is being able to read a text smoothly and rapidly. If children can read smoothly‚ they place more attention on the meaning of the overall text rather than letter-sound relationships in each word. According to Seitz & Bartholomew (2014)‚ “Fluency bridges the gap from word recognition to comprehension” (p. 22). When children are not fluent readers‚ they concentrate more on decoding and the message of the text tends to get lost. There are different ways
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Madame Roland Facts (http://biography.yourdictionary.com/madame-roland) Marie-Jeanne Roland (1754-1793) was a French writer and political figure‚ who presided over a salon and was influential in her husband’s career during the early years of the French Revolution until she was arrested and executed for treason. Marie-Jeanne "Manon" Philipon‚ better known as Madame Roland‚ was born in Paris sometime in 1754. The only surviving child of a master engraver‚ she was born into an age of reason and wit
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