grandmaster. At the age of fifteen when most girls were busy playing with toys‚ Koneru kept herself busy with strategy on a chessboard. In 2001‚ she won the World Junior Girls Chess Championship. She has also received many prestigious awards such as the Arjuna Award and the Padma Shri. 9. Saba Anjum — The Hockey Star Saba Anjum is a former India hockey captain and a member of the gold-winning 2010 Commonwealth Games team. She received the Padma Shri for her contribution to hockey. She represented India
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movie was the absence of the Gods in the movie. In Homer’s Iliad‚ the Gods played a very major part in the Trojan War. Although we‚ as viewers were aware that the characters believed in the Gods‚ the only God we actually saw in the movie was Thetis‚ Achilles’ mother. I understand that the omission of the Gods from the movie might have been due to the reason that the director and writer wanted to give the audience the feeling that the characters are believable‚ however‚ in my opinion by omitting the Gods
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What are the ideal characteristics of a Greek warrior in The Iliad? Compare and contrast the characters of Hector and Achilles. How are they alike and different? Do you favor one more than the other? Why? As an ideal‚ the Greek warrior combined superhuman and human qualities. The ideal characteristics included such factors as bravery‚ honor‚ and glory. The aim of every hero is to achieve kleos‚ the “glory” or “renown” that one wins in the eyes of others by performing great deeds. Honor is
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Untouchable Rage Force carries the story‚ always the center of the plot. Force “enslaves” both people and the gods. However it enslaves them in a productive way. Force is rage. It results from an external cause‚ which causes an uncontrollable inner drive. Force is not a physical action as many people would think. It is not the act of killing or death but it is an emotional response to an external cause. It is the “the true subject‚ the center of the Iliad” because force always passes from one person
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what is right because the lives of people he cares about hangs in the balance. In Homer’s The Iliad‚ Hector and Achilles are both great warriors and great men but differ in many ways. They are heroes of their time‚ but fight for completely several reasons. Achilles‚ who fights for the Greeks‚ and Hector‚ who fights for the Trojans. But who is more considered as the Homeric hero? Achilles was certainly the better fighter‚ but Hector is more of a hero for me. According to Encyclopedia‚
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Book 22‚ King Priam and Queen Hecuba try to dissuade their son Hector from fighting against Achilles. In Homer’s words‚ “So they wept‚ the two of them crying out to their dear son‚ both pleading time and again but they could not shake the fixed resolve of Hector” (22. 1-3). I think this is courageous on Hector’s part. He is so set on saving his city that he is willing to die a brutal death by battling Achilles. Later in the book‚ Hector holds a mental argument with himself. He contemplates taking refuge
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after he is fairly compensated by taking the girl previously given to Achilles. Achilles‚ the greatest Achaean warrior‚ is dishonored and insulted by the unfair exchange‚ and resorts to withdrawing from the war in order to punish the Achaeans. To further hinder the Achaeans in battle‚ Achilles also attempts to seek out help from Zeus‚ by asking his own mother‚ the goddess named Thetis‚ to persuade him. Without support from Achilles or Zeus‚ the Achaeans face difficult challenges against the powerful
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Gilgamesh and Enkidu in the Epic of Gilgamesh‚ Achilles and Patroclus in the Iliad‚ and Batman and Robin in the graphic novel Death in the Family. This essay will explore the similarities and differences between these important pieces of literature. The three mythologies are quite different in relation to the three pairs’ relationships with each other. The Iliad takes place during the Heroic age on the Peloponnese and the kingdom of Troy. Achilles knew Patroclus since they were children. They
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notion of heroism through the characterization of King Priam‚ directly battling the contextual hero of the time‚ Achilles. Through descriptive language and stylistic conventions‚ Malouf showcases that it is the emotional and physical struggle that a man must face to ultimately attain glory‚ thus becoming a hero. This statement is epitomized through the contrasting protagonists Priam and Achilles‚ who are both sequentially transformed through their metaphysical journey. Malouf has deliberately structured
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thrived there. In Homer’s day‚ circa 800 BCE‚ the great walls were still visible. During the start of the Trojan War Agamemnon‚ the commander of the Greek forces‚ sent soldiers to recruit Achilles into the Greek army. Agamemnon the commander of the Greek forces sent soldiers to recruit Achilles to the Greek army. Thetis feared her d son‚ who was just approaching manhood‚ would be killed in battle. She sent him‚ disguised in women’s clothing to live with King Lycomedes on
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