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    Mythology

    starting your research. Some are well-known international companies, others are of a more | |local nature. | |Aegis - Zeus and Athena's protective shield; modern group of insurance companies (The Aegis Group). | |Ajax - Greek warrior in the Trojan War, who "cleaned up" in battle; popular household cleanser.

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    Story Map of Troy

    Rabino, Feona Rebekah January 23, 2013 Story map of troy Setting: Troy was a city encircled by high walls impregnable.The top of the walls had ramparts from where it was easy to thwart invasions.Troy was an island approachable by sea only.The stretch of sand between the wall and sea was the only place where invaders could land which made defending Troy from the ramparts easy. Characters: Iris Daughter of Thaumas who helped both sides during the Trojan war equally. Helped Hector find

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    Illustration of Justice and Vengeance in Aeschylus's Choephori (the Libation- Bearers)

    ILLUSTRATION OF JUSTICE AND VENGENANCE IN CHOEPHORI (THE LIBATION- BEARERS) ‘The Choephori’ (the libation – bearers) is the second of the three linked tragedies which make up “The Oresteia” trilogy written by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, preceded by “Agamemnon” and followed by “The Eumenides”. The trilogy as a whole, originally performed at the annual Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BCE, where it won first prize, is considered to be Aeschylus’ last authenticated, and also his greatest

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    Mobius Slip

    | Name | Email | From | Lives In | 1 | Ahmed Mahmoud Turki Al Darabseh | ahmadturki88@live.com | Jordan | UAE | 2 | Andrew Thompson | at4933@ship.edu | USA | USA | 3 | Xandrea Lancaster | Xandrea.Lancaster11@stjohns.edu | USA | USA | 4 | Fabiana Florenço Gil | fabianaffgil@gmail.com | Brazil | Brazil | 5 | Nurfatin Binti Walid | nurfatin_walid@yahoo.com | Malaysia | Malaysia | The Mobius Social Learning Platform (Mobius SLIP) Professor Djamel Eddine Laouisset Faculty of Business

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    Identity Thief an Old Problem in a Modern Era

    Identity Thief an Old Problem in a Modern Era Your name KNOCK, KNOCK!!! …Who there? It Is I...I who? This is the question everyone must pose nowadays, for we don’t know who actual is behind that door. It could be your friend, family member or you banker but worst yet it can some devious individual posing to be someone you know or impersonating someone else to gain your trust in order to steal from you by stealing your identity. Identity thief has become a common practice in this Age of High

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    Antigone, Authoritarianism, and Religion in Leadership

    basing her moral high ground on preeminent divine will: “Yes, it was not Zeus that made the proclamation;/ nor did Justice” (450-451). Antigone receives widespread backing, even from Creon’s own son based upon this argument founded upon love. However, Creon’s leadership style is so inflexible that he ignores this plea, placing too much impetus upon the preeminence of state authority: “So let her cry if she will on the Zeus of kinship… for he who is in his household a good man/ will be found a just

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    The Odyssey

    to return home; Odysseus had blinded Poseidon’s son Polyphemus, a Cyclops. At the moment Odysseus is living with the sea-nymph Calypso on her violet-fragrant island in the Ionian Sea. But at last Athena, his constant friend among the gods, persuades Zeus, the king of the gods, to allow him to escape. A Telemachus Seeks News Athena goes in disguise to Ithaca, where Penelope and her son Telemachus are being harassed by a horde of 108 suitors who want to compel the queen to marry one of them. The

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    oath-swearing not been the case, then Medea may not have killed her own children, as she may not have had anywhere to go afterwards. The importance of oaths is also important, because Zeus is the sole witness of these oaths, and the protector of them. Thus, it could be suggested that because Jason broke them, Zeus’ punishment to him was everything that happens in the play; the murder of his wife, children, and new father. Oaths are also

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    Medea Dichotomy

    betrayed Medea by marring Creon’s daughter, Medea finally perceived Jason’s true nature, which he had concealed to her, but were revealed by his pursue of power and his oath-breaking deeds. In lines 516-519 Medea asks the heavens the following: “O Zeus, why did you give to men clear signs of gold that

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    The Oppression Of Women In Homer's The Odyssey

    It lurks in society and is present everywhere: from our everyday lives to professional workplaces. It is so threatening, yet we not only ignore, but reject that it is an underlying and fundamental problem in society today. It has existed for so long, that many, including the victims, are almost oblivious of it, almost certain that it does not even exist anymore. What could possibly be this detrimental problem that society faces today? What could possibly have existed for eons yet still be seen as

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