The Great Journey of Vasilios
Vasilios, courageous king and understanding leader hears the pleas of his people and of his own heart. It has been one month since the maritime pirates had come to his place of rule, Kyrenia on the island of Cyprus, and taken what was most loved by the king and by all the kingdom; Callista, Vasilios’s only daughter. This abduction had stemmed from a failed marriage arrangement with the prince of Smyrna, a distant land on the Aegean Sea. Callista was not happy with the arrangement and begged her father to stop the deal and let her stay unmarried. Vasilios listened to his daughter and declined the generous offer from the king of Smyrna. The king of Smyrna was enraged by the refusal. He sent a band of pirates disguised as sea traders to capture Callista and bring her back to Smyrna. The ruse worked and Callista was taken. The kingdom of Kyrenia entered a period of upset at the loss of the beloved princess. Vasilios took action and put together a group of sixty of his best men that he lead on
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He orders the crew to continue on, wanting to explore this mysterious island, wondering if this was a place they took Callista. They walk for hours from the shore, no one exactly sure what they were looking for, or what they expected to find. At last, they reach the mouth of a great valley. Vasilios, leading his crew stops, and as everyone catches up, they behold the mountainous valley. Then they look closer, and there, down in the valley was something no one expected to find. Down in the valley, they discovered gigantic, hairy, beasts. These enormous beasts had long, shaggy hair, and two sharp, protruding tusks. Hundreds of these mammoth beasts were there at the bottom of this valley on the strange, strange island. The crew became so frightened at the sight of these shaggy monsters, they promptly turned around and hurriedly began the long journey back to
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“Maybe,” Simon said hesitantly, “maybe there is a beast… What I mean is… maybe it’s only us.” In the midst of the second world war, a plane evacuating a group of English adolescents, has crashed on an uninhabited island located in the Pacific Ocean. Lord of the Flies tells the harrowing account. As the boys allot more and more time isolated on the island, they admit to recognizing an unidentifiable figure dwelling within the area, this “beast” however, isn’t the typical lion, tiger, or bear; This mysterious entity is portrayed to have various alternating elements throughout the documents in an attempt to establish a definite identity to this phenomenon conceiving the the question, what is the “beast”?
First, being able to survive was very important to the children since they are alone on the island. Therefore, the beast represents survivalist skills that drew attention away to important things, like missing the ship. In Document F, but outside as in the story note, it says, “Jack and his hunters abandon the signal fire to hunt a pig, and a ship passes.” They were too busy with surviving and focusing on themselves that they didn’t realize that the ship has sailed away and that a member of their group has been missing.
There have been many heroes who have impacted the world around us in many different ways. Some heroes have saved others from burning buildings or from crashes of airplanes or cars. One major hero in our society who had a significant impact was someone who saved twenty individual students’ lives during a large shooting. He was a professor at Virginia Tech at the time of when the shooting took place, and his name was Liviu Librescu. His courageous actions of sacrificing himself to save others have been one of the most heroic and selfless actions.
Odysseus’s wife, Penelope lives back in their town, Ithaka, is being pressured by unwanted suitors. Their son, Telemachos, is visited by the goddess Athene. Athene was quite close with Odysseus, and she tells Telemachos to go looking for his missing father. He travels to Pylos to see the King, Nestor. Nestor takes him in, gives him dinner and then tells him to go see King Menelaos in Sparta. Telemachos does as he’s told and travels to Sparta to see King Menelaos. He tells him that his father Odysseus is alive and is being kept captive on Kalypso’s island. He also tells him that his brother, King Agamemnon, has been murdered by his own wife, Klytamestra, and her lover Aigisthos. But, Agamemnon’s son, Orestes has killed his father’s murderers
Jack: “So this is a meeting to find out what’s what. I’ll tell you what’s what. You littluns started all this, with the fear talk. Beasts! Where from? not only the littluns, but my hunters sometimes—talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal. I’ve heard. You thought not, didn’t you? Now listen. You don’t get big animals on small islands. I’ve been all over this island. By myself. If there were a beast I’d have seen it. Be frightened because you’re like that—but there is no beast in the forest
Queen Penelope cannot rule the kingdom without Odysseus. The group of elders came and told her to choose a husband since they thought Odysseus died during the Trojan war, even Odysseus wanted Telemachus to rule if he didn’t return from the Trojan war. If this were a normal woman of Greece, then she would be under the care of her father or older brother, even a family friend. But, her husband is lost at sea along with her father is most likely dead, and she has no friends. Right now, Telemachus would take care of her and the kingdom of Ithaca. Alas, he is not old enough to rule yet.
Jack had tried to lead the inhabitants of the island by terror and savagery instead of by order and civilization when he had declared himself chief of his hunter-driven tribe. Both his lust for blood and lust for power had aided him in becoming the savage tyrant and an antagonist of the book. Jack’s widespread fear would not have been substantial enough to build his stature in the hierarchy if the “beast” was not included in the story. The beast has been portrayed to the readers as a dead parachuter from the world war happening beside them. The characters, however, had no clue about the outside world or the parachuter who fell on the island. Therefore, the beast became a part of their fear on the island. The beast was the main antagonist in the middle of the story. It caused the most discord in the already terror-ridden state of the boys. The internal fears of the characters, the feeling of terror towards the other characters, and the nightmarish imagination of the youth, had all shown the dominating abilities of fear taking over the vulnerable sense of
Darth Vader struggled for breath, drawing upon the Force to protect his lungs and his flesh from the searing heat of the lava behind him. Born in the arid wastes of Tatooine, he'd never believed that anything could ever feel hot to him. When he finally left, he'd believed the rest of the galaxy to be like a glacier - beautiful, but cold.
“‘Eurylochus, ready half of our men! We shall go search this blasted island to find water!’ And so we set out. As we reached the end of this small island, a small town stood abandoned. I searched
Giorgio Vasari is known for being the first Art Historian. He wrote the seminal work The Lives of the Artists. But why did he write it? Of course every book is written for a purpose but I don’t think Vasari was writing just to inform people of art and artists. At the beginning of the 14th Century the value of artists and their craft began to rise. They had been a member of the guild system along with other valued members of the medieval economic system certainly but suddenly wealthy people not just the clergy saw buying art and dedicating it to God as a way to pay for past sins and show their esteemed colleagues that they were actually doing something to ensure passage to heaven. This rise of humanism is continuing theme into the next two centuries when it reaches Vasari. If Art has reached its zenith in realism and can go no higher. How then can Vasari increase his worth and that of his fellow artists in the world’s estimation? Write a book detailing the lives of great artists and explain how they received their genius from God and made startling contributions to the many great religious and civic efforts of Italy and Florence in particular. This was going to help him increase his own power if he could connect his talent to the greatness of God and those who needed God’s Grace more than most; the rich and powerful.
One of the main problems that the boys had on the island was the beast. In their minds the beast was a terrible creature that was out to kill them. Their fear of the beast ruined
The creation of a “beast” is the main talking point for almost half the book. The children claim to see this “beast” and it freaks them out because they don’t know exactly what it is. One person named Simon is greatly intrigued by this idea of a beast lurking around the island. So he goes and follows it and finds this cave. This all happened not as fast as I made it seem, but this helps Simon find out that the beast is actually a figment of their imaginations. He runs to go tell all the children of the discovery. An event occurred, but we will get to that later in the analysis.
In chapter 8 the author refers to the characters Simon about his dream in the glades and how he thinks of the boys is being the beast which is in chapter 5. Due to Simons thoughts to route the chapter you can also assume that Simon considers himself to be a beast. Now the author is not referring to the beast is some 7 feet tall furry beast in movies, but the beast that is within ourselves they can come out as horrid. The island itself plays a big role in this chapter 2 pieces that island brings out that inner beast within them all.
Constantin Brancusi was born into a family of poor peasants Peștișani, Romaniaon Feb. 21, 1876. He taught himself to read and write and at the age of 18 entered the School of Arts and Crafts in Craiova and graduated in 1898. He then studied sculpture at the Bucharest Art School until 1902. His Ecorché, or flayed nude, executed in 1902, is such an accurate study of the male anatomy that it is still used at the medical school in Bucharest.