… answers and ten long answers) Who is Scyld? Where does he come from? Where does he go? What does he do? Why does the poem begin here, rather than with Hrothgar and Grendel? What is Grendel’s lineage? What do the characters in the poem…

… Giltzer, Hollywood has “turned to history to create inspired moments of action, drama, and patriotism.” It has “provided the movies with some of the most climatic moments and colorful characters imaginable,” while making complicated issues of the…

… gods, goddesses, heroes, war, honor, and glory. However, for just a short while near the very conclusion, Homer avoids all of those epic qualities. The banquet scene in Book XXIV is the most touching, the most "human" scene in the entire poem.…

… written. The "Enlightenment of the Buddha" is yet another example of truth turning into fiction through subsequent retelling and embellishment. Although it is difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction, a story that has survived for over…

… the tragic hero should be the leader of the conspiracy that causes Caesar to die because he is the one that causes the conflict of the story. One reason that Brutus is the tragic hero of the play is he leads the conspiracy. Another reason…

… since the mediums were invented. Westerns and Police shows have kept us inundated with gun play and car chases. However many feel that entertainment companies have gone too far. Politicians, like Al Gore and Bill Clinton, have officially asked the…

… too many friends and he kept to himself. Jimmy was not very outgoing and was always ridiculed because of his skinny small-framed body. He went to school each day only because his mother cared greatly for him. She wanted him to have the education…

… mouthed, bewildered teen with uncanny wisdom that grabbed people in a way that didn’t seem right? Here is an introduction to that distressed teen, Holden Caulfied. Being the protagonist of “The Catcher in the Rye”, Holden has intrigued lovers and even…

… a body, and a will, and without it, there is no Farm, the character of Napoleon orders a resistance. In George Orwell’s novella, Animal windmill built for several reasons, perhaps it is to help the farm succeed and taking credit for it himself, or…

… along very well. We would fight about anything. What to watch on TV, who got to use the computer, bathroom time—basically you name it and we fought about it. Usually the fights didn’t get too out of hand, but there were the occasional instances when…