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    Sollux's Short Story

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    Sollux was also a demon; a yellow-eyed demon, to be specific. That always amused the Captor though, due to the fact that his eyes were not yellow; but red and blue. There was an absense of pupils and irises, giving him an almost blind look, but the electricity that ran in his eyeballs gave away the fact that he was a demon. No matter, though. Anyone who would be able to tell that Sollux was a demon would almost immedietly die of internal bleeding. Due to the yellow-eyed demon, of course. Causing

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    Beowulf versus King Arthur Courage, perseverance, and honor are all traits of a hero. Beowulf and King Arthur both share many qualities of a hero. The epic of Beowulf is about a great Geat that defeats the horrid Grendel of Denmark. The story, Once and Future King, is about the great King Arthur and how he became king and his reign in England. Beowulf is a fearless leader that defeats great monsters and deadly giants. Later in his life he defeats Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a dragon. King Arthur

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    The Power of Underestimation On my 7th birthday, my least favorite uncle gave me a book titled Alibaba and the Forty Thieves. I was surprised because he is my least favorite uncle for a reason, he doesn’t just surprise you with a gift for no reason at all. Little did I know, he just succeeded in getting me to do exactly what I said I wasn’t going to do all summer long, READ ANYTHING! He knows how much I love the Arabian night’s stories and he used this knowledge to get me to change my initial decision

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    Battle of the century! Theseus versus Sir Gawain Two great heroes face off and are compared to see who has more heroism in them. Theseus and Sir Gawain have many similarities including the way they fight and the way their childhood was like, but those similarities also have many differences, that's why fighting and what happened in their childhood are being compared. Both Theseus and Sir Gawain fight with honor and strength, but also their brain. Theseus uses his wits to defeat his opponent

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    Sir Gawain: The Ideal Knight Essay

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    Sir Gawain: The Ideal Knight Throughout the Arthurian legends, Sir Gawain seems to be the epitome of a noble knight. He is always putting his king before himself, repeatedly sacrificing his own life in some way for King Arthur. He is an honorable knight that lives up to his word. This is evident in both Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell." In these stories, Gawain lives up to the expectations of a knight

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    Serapis is a Greco-Egyptian deity of the sun first encountered at Memphis, where his cult veneration was sometimes connected to that of the sacred Egyptian deity known as Apis (who was called Osorapis when deceased). Some depictions of Serapis, portrays him with a basket on the head, which indicates a plentiful harvest. Serapis was originally a god of the underworld but was reintroduced as a new deity with many Hellenic aspects, who centered the worship of the deity at Alexandria. Serapis was an

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    taking care of his princely duties, calling Hal “true prince” (2.4.106). Although both these relationships are very different in how relaxed they are, there is a similarity of King Henry and Falstaff acting as fatherly figures in Hal’s life. Both characters are also extremely intelligent in their own right. Falstaff often references mythical beings and makes intelligent metaphors, one of these being when Falstaff says, “thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules” (2.4.106). Along with this reference

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    Outside people relations, Vlad embodied one of the most crucial principle Machiavelli stressed in “The Prince,” Principle 10 - How the Strength of All States Should be Measured. Machiavelli believes that for a prince to maintain his control over the state in times of war, he must be ready to fight for his people. Vlad went beyond that by succeeding his predecessors through weaponizing Wallachia for battle and personally leading the charge against neighboring states. His first hurdle was his confrontation

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    I am a senior at Mooreville High School who is in a contest to win $25,000. I am also a musician who plays at talent shows, festivals, and restaurants. I am not employed, which is a major problem because senior year is very costly, and so is playing gigs. I have been searching for employment all summer, but I have not had any luck. My parents can afford to pay for my senior year, however, I do not think the both of them should pay for the costs when I am able to work and can help them out. I

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    A comparative analysis of the interrelationships involving the ideals of integrity and power presents the deep exploration of the like-minded, inter-textual perspectives between Niccolo Machiavelli’s renaissance proposition, ‘The Prince’ (1513) and William Shakespeare’s, Elizabethan tragedy, ‘Julius Caesar’ (1599). Both texts expose the intricate relationship between attitudes and ambitions to the attainment and retention of power. Machiavelli’s political discourse, influenced by the enduring, authoritarian

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