During many months these children under the command of Ender fought and won every battle. When Ender woke up one day he was told that the last game, which will be centered on the buggers home planet is ready to go. When he got there, many people were at his room where he commanded everybody. The odds like in his last game at Battle School were totally unfair, but like in Battle School, Ender used the all attack at once in a bullet shaped form. He then deployed the Dr. Device on the bugger's home planet, which caused a chain reaction which destroyed the planet and all the bugger ships around the planet.
After reading select parts of The Odyssey, I found that there is really no way to generalize the women in Homer’s Odyssey because they all have their own distinct traits that make each of them great, strong, and powerful women. A very powerful woman is Arete. She is as powerful as the king, Alcinous. Her daughter Nausicaa displays great intelligence in handling Odysseus despite being so young. These women I speak of above are great women in a good sort of way but there are also some very bad women that still have some amazing qualities.
In the Greek mythology, Rhea was the wife of the Titan Kronos and Queen of heaven. When her husband heard a prophecy that he would be destroyed by one of his children, he took each of his six children (Hestia, Hades, Demeter, Poseidon, Hera and Zeus) and ate them as soon as they were born. What Kronos didn’t know was that the last child wasn’t a child at all. When Rhea bore her youngest, Zeus, in secret and hid him away in a cave. Instead she presented Kronos with a stone wrapped in clothes which he quickly devoured.
Arnaldo Rodriguez Classical Mythology Athena and Martha Stewart Although Martha Stewart isn’t in her 20’s, she’s actually in her late 60’s, how could you not compare her to the Greek goddess Athena? This comparison of two individuals couldn’t be more perfect. Athena is known as the goddess of wisdom, warfare, and weaving which in many ways makes her extremely versatile. This is where Martha Stewart comes in, she is also extremely versatile and is very multitalented, and in some ways is also our modern day goddess of wisdom, warfare, and weaving. All of Martha Stewart’s abilities are as a homemaker and all three W’s fit appropriately.
Pattyn’s Father blames himself for his past and drowns his guilt in liquor, making him an alcoholic. One who beats Pattyn’s mother, who believes women must succumb to their husband’s actions. Her mother believes her duty is to bear as many children as possible, especially a boy to carry on the family name. But so far Pattyn’s mother has only conceived 7 girls named after famous military generals. Pattyn, being unable to take the stress of home, begins to question her role in life, especially through her father’s eyes.
“Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said: you have a great big nose and fat legs” (5-6) altering anything and everything this little girl ever knew to be true about herself. One comment ruined her entire view of herself and other girls, that she had to be like them since they did not like who she was born being. The “Beauty Myth” by Naomi Wolf states things like, “The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us... During the past decade, women breached the power structure; meanwhile, eating disorders rose exponentially and cosmetic surgery became the fastest-growing specialty...” all of this saying that the stress put on
Chi Li Slays the Serpent In the mountains of Chiang Lo County, an atrocious serpent resided, demanding that a young damsel be sacrificed to him “on the appointed day in the eighth month” each year (Rosenberg, 331). Because no man has been able to defeat the monster, the people of Yueh were forced to obey the serpent’s brutal demands. This “tradition” continued for nine years until the tenth, when a courageous maiden volunteered to be the sacrifice: Chi Li, the youngest of six daughters. Determined to bring peace to her people and end the tradition, Chi Li used her wits to outsmart the creature and successfully slayed it. Chi Li was assumed to be “a worthy wife for the king of Yueh...[and] became the queen of Yueh.” (333).
Hercules, the Latin equivalent of Heracles, was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene. His jealous stepmother, Juno, tried to murder the infant Hercules by putting a serpent in his cradle. Luckily for Hercules, he was born with great strength and killed the serpent. By the time Hercules was an adult, he had already killed a lion. Eventually, Juno drove Hercules insane.
On the morning of July 3, 2001 Preston woke up and stormed into his mothers bedroom where he stabbed her to death.” “ Ray McNeil was a prominent body builder along with his wife, Sally McNeil. They were both users of Anabolic steroids. The night of Valentines Day in 1995 Ray came home late. Sally yelled at him and the two got into an argument, which usually led to Ray beating her, but this night was different. Sally then called the police but could not hold her own anger in any longer she took out a 12 gauge shotgun and shot Ray in the stomach and then in the face with her 2 kids watching”(1).
The chronicle of Spartacus and his army is one of the greatest stories in history. Early in 71 B.C., Spartacus organized 70,000 runaway slaves, gladiators and held Rome’s military on halt for nearly four years. Spartacus’ success finally came to an end when they were ultimately destroyed by the states power. In the novel, the Roman general whom finally takes down Spartacus also destroys two monuments, since the slaves had carved them out of Mount Vesuvius’. The main focus throughout the novel are the ladies and gentlemen of the Roman ruling class, and how the declination.