... den" rather than a human dwelling. Although Philoctetes' cave is rugged, it also contains some traces of civilization; a carved wooden cup; "a wooden bowl, the work of some rude hand3" a bed made of leaves; material for making a fire and especially Philoctetes' bow. However, even this bow, which is a ... poison words. Odysseus is willing to bend his morals, to get things done "we are the Greeks with a job to do, and we did it17". In the opening of Homer's the Odyssey, the very first adjective Homer applies to Odysseus is "polytropos18". Literally it means "much- ... and beast, savagery ...

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... the immediate and long-term effects of therapy. It cannot be assumed that even significant improvements in the diagnosed child will ameliorate the parent and family distress already present, especially as the time and expense of intervention can add further family disruption. Thus, this paper will probe into these parents' and siblings' extraordinary difficult odyssey ... of learning and transformation. As one prominent researcher in the field put it, "I think sometimes the parents hurt more than the kids" (Lovaas, 1991, p.3). Introduction Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) represent a sp...

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... single hallucination, we ride alongside the permanently bewildered Willard from one surreal set piece to another, most notably the surf-obsessed Lieutenant Kilgore ("If I say it's safe enough to surf this beach then it's safe enough to surf this f---ing beach!"). The derangement is progressive, as Willard's command fall into stoned indolence on their odyssey into the darkness. With a degree of ... authenticity that borders on the voyeuristic (Ferdinand Marcos agreed to supply the helicopters and pilots, on loan from fighting a civil war, the animal sacrifice is genuine footage of Ifuago...

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... life for Emerson is a process of nature's writing, an ongoing form of natural biography anticipating the organic agency of the writer or scholar, then metonymy is life's biocentric figure. Emerson's rescaling of man to a grasshopper may not reach the extent of biocentric revisioning of the sort found in Aldo Leopold's "Odyssey" of atoms X and Y in Sand County Almanac (1970), a parable in his vision of biotic ... community. (39) But this shift to organic metonymy surely detranscendentalizes the implications of "organic metaphor" most thoroughly associated with Emersonian correspondence a...

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... trimmer than the traditional entities, such as 'the novel' or 'poetry'" (264). Using the methods of structural linguistics, it treats fictions not as instances of a historically ratified convention but rather as stories, narratives of events, which can be analyzed structurally as elaborate sentences: "I walk, Pierre has come, are . . . minimal forms of narrative, and inversely the Odyssey or the Recherche is only ... , in a certain way, an amplification (in the rhetorical sense) of statements such as Ulysses comes home to Ithaca or Marcel becomes a writer" (Genette 30). "A narrative is a...

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... Jokinen 1996). It is in the early Greek literature that we find the earliest heroic epic. One of the examples is Iliad, which is extremely important from the European literary standpoint because it constitutes the beginning stages of the development of European literature (Hanczakowski 2001:23). The Iliad, followed by Odyssey are the examples of epic poetry in the early Greek literature, they "emphasized the ideals of honor and bravery and ... to be developed while on "the journey-initiation quest". The heroic tradition originated in the antique mythologies where the superhuman, almost ...

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... , China, Pakistan, Brazil, New Zealand, and Argentina just to name a few. Honda pursues the diversification strategy to help them stay competitive in the global market. This strategy allows Honda to keep track the efficiency during development and manufacturing. They have a line of global models including the Civic, Accord, CR-V, and the Odyssey minivan, which caters to all demographics, gaining their competitive advantage (Hyundai 2013). With a line ... of Acura luxury cars, Honda provides the needs of all customers, which is an important ... ...

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... video games would become when he created "Odyssey" in 1972, the first home video game console. It was Baer, working for Magnavox, who first released video games to the public, beginning what is a multi-billion dollar industry thirty-five years later.With technological advancement, games have become increasingly intricate, requiring greater mental dexterity of the player. Contrary to many parents' expectations, ... aggression" by an individual against another in media, including television, movies, music, and video games (Huesmann &Taylor;, 2006). Countless studies have been performed t...

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... drama genre to a presentation of an objective reality, trying to portray real social problems with a critical perspective as it challenges the values of a conservative established system. A Doll's House traces the physical, mental and emotional odyssey individuals of this society undertake in order to define and establish themselves within a society that is constantly changing and reshaped by a series of social and ... political revolutions. Ibsen was an advocate of equal rights and liberties of the individual within an oppressive society. His dramas centred on ... "old certainties". I...

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