...purge wasn’t just going to be a normal day. I don’t think this is right. Should everyone let their anger out? The attacks were interrupted when a meteorite fell from the sky nearby the car, which gave the young women time to escape. As I searched the wreck of the car for valuables, my face was scratched by a pale, hairless, eyeless dog-sized creature. The scratch was infected and I needed first aid as soon as possible but there was no time for that as there were creatures everywhere. These creatures were gorilla size, with spiky fur which is so black it reflects no light. They had huge claws and multiple rows of glowing fangs. These are the type of creature that you would see in your worst nightmares, but for me it was a harsh reality that they were right in front of me. The creatures started to furiously run away as the other humans ran towards them, setting fire works on them, trying to kill them. The creatures started screeching and screaming like the sound of a blender as the fireworks came towards them. I had to think quickly on my feet because it seemed as if the creatures were multiplying rapidly, so I decided to lure all the creatures to one place to ambush and kill them at the same time. The best way to do...
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...bringing about the notion that he is a creature of that extent. Within the text, he is described as a demon or fiend. His physical appearance as well as actions may seem to justify his monstrosity, but it is due to the other factors such as the narrator and the two monsters that justify his connection with evil. Grendel is made evil when the narrator brings about his origin and connection with a Biblical figure, Cain. “Grendel this monster grim was called, march-riever mighty, in moorland living, in fen and fastness; fief of the giants the hapless wight a while had kept since the Creator his exile doomed. On kin of Cain was the killing avenged by Sovran God for slaughtered Abel…” Cain was punished by God because of this evil he commits, and having connected with Cain creates an evil aura around Grendel regardless of whether he could possibly be misunderstood. Adding to that, his killings do not help him. He is depicted as a monster. Shortly after Beowulf’s victory against Grendel, comes his mother. Just as Beowulf kills Grendel as an act of vengeance, Grendel’s mother comes to repay back the favor. Unlike Grendel, his mother has a reason to attack the people: Revenge. The same type of revenge Beowulf wanted against Grendel. Because she has this connection, she seems to be more human-like and less of a monster due to her reasoning capabilities. While Grendel is seen as a monstrous evil that was detrimental to the Danish society. The third creature Beowulf encounters happens to be...
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...divided and that chews the cud. 4 " 'There are some that only chew the cud or only have a split hoof, but you must not eat them. The camel, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is ceremonially unclean for you. 5 The coney, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you. 6 The rabbit, though it chews the cud, does not have a split hoof; it is unclean for you. 7 And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you. 8 You must not eat their meat or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you. 9 " 'Of all the creatures living in the water of the seas and the streams, you may eat any that have fins and scales. 10 But all creatures in the seas or streams that do not have fins and scales--whether among all the swarming things or among all the other living creatures in the water--you are to detest. 11 And since you are to detest them, you must not eat their meat and you must detest their carcasses. 12 Anything living in the water that does not have fins and scales is to be detestable to you. 13 " 'These are the birds you are to detest and not eat because they are detestable: the eagle, the vulture, the black vulture, 14 the red kite, any kind of black kite, 15 any kind of raven, 16 the horned owl, the screech owl, the gull, any kind of hawk, 17 the little owl, the cormorant, the great owl, 18 the white owl, the desert owl, the osprey, 19 the stork, any...
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...forget…which first did give it motion.” | God has created everything from schools to the sun and it should be adored. | “Now this course of…and conclude he could not.” | God is like a skillful geometrician; he has altered his work with the same instrument which may affect some of his designs. | “And thus I call…honour of our writings.” | The effects of nature are the works of God. | “I hold there is…than the principal fabric.” | There is a general beauty in the work of God so therefore no creature is ugly. | “To speak yet more narrowly…by the voice of God.” | There was never anything ugly and there was no deformity from the creations of God. | “Now nature is not at…for the nature is the art of God.” | All things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. | Theme: God created everything on Earth so therefore everyone and everything is beautiful. Support for Theme: 1. “I hold there is a general beauty in the works of God, and therefore no deformity in any kind or species of creature whatsoever.” 2. “To speak yet more narrowly, there never was anything ugly or misshapen, but the chaos; wherein, not withstanding, to speak strictly, there was no deformity, because no form; nor was it yet impregnant by the voice of God.” Vocabulary: New word | Definitions from context | Dictionary definition | Divinity | Religion | Absolute being; divine nature | Contrived | Forced | Overly planned | Prerogative | Knowledge | Right, privilege | Devolve | Give to | Transfer...
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...the stormy forest at night. He is being kept prisoner in the Beast’s castle. Belle offers to take her father’s place in the Beast’s prison – and despite her father’s protests, the Beast accepts the exchange. On-going: The Thinking Film Working Wall: We recommend that space is provided for a ‘Thinking Film’ Working Wall / display where children can add words, images and thoughts. This will help visual learners to consolidate the Literacy themes covered in this unit. Week by week outline Prior Learning: Identify the elements of a myth, legend, fable or traditional tale. Week 1: Deconstruct the clip to identify the ‘traditional tale’ elements. Week 2: Write descriptive paragraphs based on the film clip. Week 3: Develop own mythical character. Storyboard own traditional tale NB: The ‘MUST, SHOULD, COULD’ CATEGORIES REFER TO THE DIFFICULTY OF THE ACTIVITY (e.g. MUST = easy; SHOULD = medium; COULD = hard) |Objectives |Whole class activities |Differentiated independent or group activities |Plenary / focused questions |Success Criteria | | | | | |Children can: | |Week 1 |Watch clip. Ask for initial reactions. |MIND MAPS / FILM HIGH FIVE:...
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...Why Is Teamwork Important? Working effectively as part of a team is incredibly important for output quality, morale, and retention. My professional experience involving teamwork has primarily been within software engineering, but most of the lessons I’ve learnt from working with others are not limited to engineering. From the perspective of efficiency, a traditional argument against staffing large teams comes from ideas referring to the unit of work that one person can accomplish in one month. The basic premise against group tasks relates to the notion that a software project that takes one person a year to complete can have its timeline shortened to a single month simply by staffing the project with a dozen workers. The problem here is that, upon seeing projects falling behind, many managers want to put schedules back on track by adding more workers to the project. The problem with this approach is that each additional engineer added incurs both communication and coordination needs with everyone else on the team, and so the time to complete a project doesn’t necessarily decrease in line with increased staffing. This leads to the scenario that “adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.” (1) Because of this line of reasoning, managers sometimes over-correct and attempt to maximize efficiency by staffing single-person projects, which would effectively reduce the communication time down to zero. Some companieseven emphasize in their promotion processes that a...
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...Dante Little Ms. Porterfield English 12 24 April 2013 The Fantasy Appeal in the Hobbit Fantasy is a type of genre that allows the reader to experience a place or world unlike any they have before. Fantasy lifts all our ideas of reality, and allows us to be a part of experiences that we would otherwise have no chance of taking part in. One of the first genres to be used in literary fiction was romance and this genre embraced fantasy by creating princesses and princes fighting an epic battle and mythical creatures such as dragons, Vampires and Ghost. In this paper I will explain how J.R.R Tolkien “The Hobbit” fits the genre of fantasy. This is important because every writer has there own writing style and there favorite genre. The novel “The Hobbit” by J.R.R Tolkien fits the characteristics of the fantasy genre because it has everything a fantasy book would have such as mythical creatures, wizards and an epic hero. J.R.R Tolkien was a scholar of English language and was a professor at oxford. He Specialized in Anglo Saxon and medieval literature. Tolkien being writing fantasy novels in 1976 and has said “No other Genre can put you in such a magical state expect fantasy”(A Short History of fantasy pg.123). J.R.R Tolkien has explained that his love for fantasy goes back to his childhood and when he would read books and forget about everything and everyone around him. J.R.R Tolkien has used every aspect of fantasy in his book “The Hobbit”. The majority of...
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...In The Odyssey and The Siren Song, both Homer and Margaret Atwood depict women as beautiful yet manipulative creatures. The Sirens are mythical beings that are half human half bird whom are defined as dangerous yet beautiful creatures that no man could resist, except for Odysseus. Odysseus and his men approach the island of the Sirens, and Odysseus, as instructed by Circe, plugs his men's ears with beeswax and has them bind him to the mast of the ship. Although Homer’s The Odyssey connotes the Sirens as vicious and eerie, Margaret Atwood’s Siren Song depicts the creatures as mysterious yet beautiful creatures, which is conveyed through each author’s use of figurative language and diction. In The Odyssey, the Sirens are characterized as irresistible yet evil creatures. No man can resist them, except for Odysseus. He was able to resist the temptation by tying himself down and putting beeswax in his shipmates’ ears, so that they can avoid the women as well. Homer proves how inevitable the Sirens voices are by...
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...Monster of the Sea period 4 Alex Rosales Do you ever wonder what may lay beneath the ocean, where myth and reality come to life? What is the giant squid aka; “THE KRAKEN” as told in tall tales. In ancient myth, sailors told of giant squid attacking the boats. Now movies make them come to reality more feared and scary. Finally a group of scientist called the “squid squad” are looking for the giant creature aka “Kraken” in the big blue ocean. In the beginning ancient sailors told tales of there ships being attacked by a giant squid. They said that some squids would be larger than whales, towering over there ships. Sailors also told tales of the giant squid being stronger than...
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...Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Crocodile in Nepali Art What is the thesis statement of the essay? From the time of the existence of the mythical beings, animals and birds in birds have always been common in most of the ancient medieval and ancient arts (Nepali art 71). For instance, the flying dragons, unicorns, phoenix, genies, monsters continued to remain regular features in several architectures and arts in both west and east. However, in most cases, the artifacts has been derived from the native animals and birds that are found around the place where they were created implying that the artist creates some forms of objects on the creatures that they are familiar with and those that are strange were never used. How the thesis statement is supported by the arguments and major points (Bring some evidence and examples) In the Nepali art, the presence of the Graaha or the Makars has a rich content of the mythical creatures. Some of these arts are still available today such as the famous hybrid man where an upper half is a man while the lower half is the serpent which is described as the Nagaraja. This was only found in the selected places. In addition to this, there is also a mythical lion in the hybrid creature. The crocodile is in the upper part while it is repleted by the two bird-like legs having decorative wings. The upper half that is the head of the crocodile retains the character of the aquatic animals. This describes The Makar and Graaha in...
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...time to visit her secret hiding spot at the top of a hill, and uses a unique crystal her father left behind to listen to radio stations. She encounters a strange melody which remains with her, close to her heart. Her life changes when she encounters a bear-like creature and is promptly saved by abishounen named Shun, who has the same kind of crystal Asuna uses. Shun reveals that neither he, nor the bear, were from Earth; instead, they are residents of Agartha, the underworld where mammoth fields bloom and where majestic monsters roam. They spend a short period together before Shun passes on, leading Asuna to feelings of longing. It isn't long before Ryuuji Morisaki, a substitute teacher, discusses the legend of Agartha (Shamballa, Hades etc. in other literary beliefs) in class, picking Asuna's interest. She visits him later that day and comes to learn of his intentions, eventually agreeing to accompany him on his journey to Agartha. Evaluation: Well this movie obviously reflects the other belief of another world, god, and mythical creatures, which proves that this is really related to what we are studying especially in the story of Illiad and Oddysey. In comparison the presence of gods and goddesses, mythical creatures, prophets and heroes are bought seen in Homer’s Illiad and Oddysey and in this movie. I’ve spent almost two...
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...First, my artist is Richard Texier. Richard was born in Niort, France. He was born on June 28, 1955. He is still alive, and he is 61 years old. He lives in, and works in Paris. He is a painter, and a sculptor. He sculpts mythical animals, and even real animals. He paints things from astronomy history. He settled in paris in 1975 where he studied art, and architecture. He has 4 films. He was an artist, and he has his own films how cool is that. He is known as the best living artist of his generation. His current work is based on Pantheo Vortex. Second, what i've noticed that my artist does sculptors of animals. I've also noticed that he does paintings of the past. When i look at his paintings i think of the times when they would draw on the walls. His style seems soft but then again feels bold and heavy. His artwork isn't really satisfying to look at, in my opinion. His art is more realistic than abstract. I wasn't drawn to my artist, i couldn't find any that I really liked...
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...The snow goddess One day a grandpa named Roy was telling his grandchildren the story of the snow goddess and her mythical creature named Articuno. The grandpa said, “Holly the goddess of snow was never as nice as she is right now” he went on “and she was never as white as she is now.” The grandchildren asked, “ why wasn’t she as nice as she is now grandpa,” he answered “let me tell you the story of the snow goddess.” He starts, “one day when me and my friends Ivy, Lucia, and Erica all went on a sailing trip it was all fun and games till a huge snow storm appeared out of the blue.” Grandpa Roy started to cry as he said “ the boat flipped over and I lost one of my friends that day, but all I remember is waking up on an...
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...Baxter. The title Gryphon, that Charles Baxter named this short story suggests how unique Ms. Ferenczi is in her mind set. “Charles Baxter portrays Ms. Ferenczi to be some sort of a gryphon herself, half in this world and half in a world of her own belief “(Baxter). Ms. Ferenczi believes that after the fourth grade children begin to lose their sense of imagination and that the world around them is just cold, and that their “imagination has been smothered by science and data” (Turrentine). She believes that young people should be exposed to the possibility of anything happening (Baxter). Ms. Ferenczi wants to broaden their horizons of wonder by making them think about untrue or mythical possibilities. Through the use of tarot cards, Ms. Ferenczi attempts to expand the children’s thinking to include a mythical world of possibilities they never knew to...
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...all the magic that is used in both these books. Magic and mythical creatures are found throughout both books. Magic is the essential theme of the books and is one of the reasons both these books have been questioned. The books have been questioned because they give children a false sense of what really happens. These books in no way are in touch with reality; the biggest question here is should these books be censored just because they are too fictional? It is the magic and the thought of a whole other type of world that opens up a child’s imagination and allows the imagination to grow. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone; magic is essentially what the story is focused around. Harry is a part of a whole other world where magic is socially accepted. Harry find out he is a wizard and has to decide whether or not he is going to use his powers for good or evil. In the quest to find out who he is he has to first go through the trials of learning his past and facing up with his parents murderer for the first time. Harry lived a life of neglect during his first eleven years with his Aunt and Uncle Dursley. They treasured their son Dudley and neglected Harry. Harry was forced into Dudley’s old clothes, which were always four sizes too big; he was also forced into sleeping in the coat closet. On his twelfth birthday Harry finds out that he belongs to this whole other type of world where mythical creatures and magic is part of everyday life. In this world Harry is...
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