Out if the Dust by Karen Hesse is about a small town girl named Billie Joe, evolving throughout many hardship that take place in this book. This debate is whether or not Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse should or should not remain in the eighth grade curriculum. Out of the Dust should be part of our eighth grade curriculum because it introduces to students a more advance and emotional form of poetry. One reason for it should stay is the use of free verse poems gives the reader more detail than an rhyming poem or even a basic novel would give
Pericles Pericles, name meaning "surrounded by glory" , was a statesman, orator, politician, and general of Athens during the Golden Age who lived between 495 and 429 BCE. He made Athens the political and cultural focus of Greece with the development of the Athenian democracy and empire in the late 5th Century BCE and is well known for the rebuild of the Acropolis which begun in 447BCE. Pericles successfully led a military campaign in Corinth and sponsored the formation of the Athenian province in Thrace and Black Sea coast in 454BCE before being elected one of Athens’ leading generals in 443BCE which he held for the remainder of his life. Pericles was born into one of the leading families in Athens; his father being a military commander for Athens in the battle of Mycale in 479BCE and his mother belonging to the culturally powerful Alcmaeonidae family. His father was Xanthippus who married into the controversial family of the Alcmaeonids before leaving their
The story of Perseus the hero is one that has a lasting impact on Greek mythology. However, there are two different interpretations of the story. There is the actual written version and there is the 2010 movie version directed by Louis Leterrier known as Clash of the Titans. In the movie plot it includes that the kingdom of Argos will be destroyed by Hades. Argos needs a hero and they ask Perseus to save their kingdom.
Again common to most ancient cultures where agriculture was crucial to the community....” (Cartwright p2) This proves that the Greek Goddesses did play a major role in Greek religion/ mythology, but there were very few powerful goddesses represented as the most well known. They represented what women wanted to become in society and not how they were perceived. It was very valuable to women in ancient Greece to have a figure to aspire to be someday and hoping for a shift in power or more
Hades is one of the most well-known gods. He rules over the underworld and all the dead. There are not very many myths about this god, but the ones that do exist are pretty interesting. Hades has interesting myths about creating seasons, punishing the dead, and helping gods on their quests. The most interesting myth of Hades is about how Persephone came to be his wife.
Athena, is revered and respected by all of Greece. The Bright Eyed Goddess (many pages), is looked up to and her word trumps any order a man can give. In Greece she had much more power than any man but, in the Odyssey Athena is a main character bet she rarely has anything to do with any of the accomplishments that Telemachus and Odysseus had in the epic.
Persephone, the sweet daughter of goddess Demeter was kidnapped by Hades and later became the Queen of the Underworld Source. Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of harvest and fertility. She was also called Kore, which means "maiden" and grew up to be a lovely girl attracting the attention of many god's. Demeter had an obsessed love for her only daughter and kept all men away from her. The most persistent suitor of Persephone was Hades, the god of the Underworld.
Greek gods and goddesses: Persephone Throughout history we have learned about many gods and goddesses and how they impacted the world today. When researching I found one that spoke volumes to me. Her name was Persephone. Daughter of Demeter and Zeus, she is the beautiful goddess of spring.
At first, it seemed like a normal day for Persephone, it was her day off work and she decided to take a brisk walk. While walking it came to her attention
The ancient Greeks, like many ancient cultures, believed in multiple gods. The Gods had supernatural powers and strengths. Myths about these Gods helped explain things about Greek life, These myths were important because they explained why the Greeks did things in a certain way and what was important to them. The article Greek Mythology explains that some “…myths arose when men tried to understand the natural world around them” (1). The myth of Persephone and Hades was culturally significant because it helped explained the cycle of the changing seasons and also the importance of one of their religious rituals.
Young children usually don’t comprehend the flawed world they live in for various reasons. For instance, parents tend to shelter their children from traumatic events; however, at some point children are forced to grow up and become involved in real world problems. In her novel, Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi experiences a numerous amount of events that shape and develop her perspective throughout the novel. Her perspective influences her presentation of loss of innocence, social classes, and gender roles. These things all alter the way she acts towards her family, friends, and God.
She was associated with corn and she symbolized the fertility of Earth. Demeter’s myth is interpreted using etiological approach because it explains the origin of natural events. Demeter had a daughter, Persephone, who was goddess of spring and harvest. One day as she was picking flowers, her uncle Hades kidnaps and brings her to the underworld by Zeus’s will. Hades was the god of the dead and was the older brother of Zeus.
Greek Gods & Goddesses, greekgodsandgoddesses.net/goddesses/diana. Grant, Michael. Myths of the Greeks and Romans. Phoenix, 2001. “Wonder Woman.”
Persepolis, published completely in October of 2007, is a graphic memoir which encompasses the childhood and adolescence of Marjane Satrapi in Iran during and following the 1979 Islamic Revolution and her teenage years spent in Austria. Satrapi uses her life experiences from living in these two contrasting societies, as portrayed in the graphic memoir, to break the many stereotypes that those reading from a Western perspective may or may not have by showing them women’s roles, Iranian culture, youth culture, and the everyday action of the average citizen of Iran. Throughout the entire book, we see Satrapi constantly rebelling against the rules put in place by the Islamic regime, starting out when she was only ten. We see Satrapi and many of the other girls are using the veil to jump rope with, use as a monster mask, and basically everything but its intended purpose (3 / 5).
To what extent is the literary devices shown in Persepolis increase the impact of the novel and show the culture of Iran in the 1970s? In the novel Persepolis by Majane Satrapi, she tells the story of her life living in Iran in the 1970s. In this novel she discusses the atrocities committed by both sides of the bloody Iranian revolution and how both sides truly were. In the novel, Satrapi uses several literary devices to enhance the meaning of the novel to a much greater degree than directly telling the reader. Still, these literary devices also allow the reader to peer into the very culture of Iran in the novel and how certain objects can mean certain things both from within the culture and the context of the novel.
