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  • Trojan War

    Trojan War

    "There is no historical basis for the Trojan War, the location of Troy is debatable and therefore there is little conclusive evidence to support the Iliad" For years the ancient story of Troy and the epic Trojan War has sparked dispute among archaeologists. Did it really happen? Was there a troy like the one Homer describes? What caused it? Historians are today still trying to prove the existence of troy and the Trojan War. Our

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: July
  • Heroes of the Trojan War

    Heroes of the Trojan War

    Heroes of the Trojan War: What is a hero really? Everyone has their own beliefs about what a hero is, but the beliefs greatly vary from each other. In the movie Troy for example, lots of people think that Achilles is a hero because he is such a great warrior. In reality though, someone needs to be a lot more than a great weapon-handler to be a hero. A hero is a man of distinguished

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    Essay Length: 546 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Top
  • The Trojan War

    The Trojan War

    The Trojan War has its roots in the marriage between Peleus and Thetis, a sea-goddess. Peleus and Thetis had not invited Eris, the goddess of discord, to their marriage and the outraged goddess stormed into the wedding banquet and threw a golden apple onto the table. The apple belonged to, Eris said, whomever was the fairest. Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each reached for the apple. Zeus proclaimed that Paris, prince of Troy and thought to

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    Essay Length: 1,215 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: David
  • The Kingdom of Ahhiyawa and the Dispersed Kernels of Truth Which Have Cumulatively Been Recorded by Homer as the Trojan War

    The Kingdom of Ahhiyawa and the Dispersed Kernels of Truth Which Have Cumulatively Been Recorded by Homer as the Trojan War

    The Kingdom of Ahhiyawa and the Dispersed Kernels of Truth Which Have Cumulatively Been Recorded by Homer as the Trojan War Any historical or archaeological investigation of the Trojan War will most likely begin with a close reading of Homer's Iliad which unfortunately only records a few days of the colossal clash said to have lasted for ten years . This conflict involved a coalition of Greek states sailing to Asia Minor to lay siege

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Trojan War

    The Trojan War

    World History 6 October 2004 The Trojan War The city of Troy, now known as Turkey, was believed to had a great war with Greece. Major sources of this war include historical evidence and depictions through the epic poem The Iliad, written by Homer. While visiting Greece to request the return of a Trojan Princess, Prince of Troy Paris falls in love with the Spartan Princess, Helen. Because of their love for each other Paris

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Monika
  • Trojan War by Bernard Evslin

    Trojan War by Bernard Evslin

    In the book The Trojan War, by Bernard Evslin, Ulysses and Agamemnon both contribute to the Greek’s victory. Many considered Ulysses to be the real brains behind the Greek forces. Although Agamemnon was the leader of the Greeks, many would say he was not a good one. Even though Agamemnon did some good deeds during the war, many of his actions caused problems, and Ulysses often had to come to his rescue. With Ulysses

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    Essay Length: 584 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: David
  • Did Trojan War Exist

    Did Trojan War Exist

    Many have speculated about the Trojan War. It's been written about in books like the Iliad and The Odyssey. A person could read in a book about this massive war between King Priam and Agamemnon, but did this massive war ever really happen? We have all heard of the mighty wooden horse in which the Greek forces broke into the mighty walls of Troy. The Trojan War did occur and can proven by skeletons, artifacts,

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Janna
  • A Brief Overview of the Trojan War

    A Brief Overview of the Trojan War

    The City of Troy, depicted in the poem the Iliad, by Greek poet Homer. The city of Troy was involved in one of the greatest wars of all time the Trojan War. The ruler of Troy at that time was King Piram. How long Piram's rule lasted is not exactly know, but they expect he died toward the end of 1240 B. C. Piram lived a some what good life. His palace was two stories

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    Essay Length: 610 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 1, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Trojan War

    The Trojan War

    Granville T. Woods lived from April 23, 1856 until January 30, 1910. Born and raised in Ohio, he attended school off and on until he was 10 years old. After Woods stopped going to school, he furthered his education by working in railroad machine shops, steel mills, and by reading about electricity. He had to get his friends to check out library books for him, since African-Americans were excluded from many libraries at the time.

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Who Caused the Trojan War?

    Who Caused the Trojan War?

    Who Caused the Trojan War? The Trojan war; one of the longest and most remembered war in the history of Greek mythology. Millions of people died, family's were broken and a few people were to blame for this. One of the most significant influences to the Trojan War was the Beautiful Helen. Helen disowned her country and her people, she knew the consequences and she chose love over loyalty. Agamemnon is another cause of the

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Artur
  • Did Homer’s Trojan War Exist?

    Did Homer’s Trojan War Exist?

    The Trojan War, the event depicted in Homer's Iliad, was the most popular subject in Greek drama and told its story elaborately to next generations. According to Homer, the war started because Helen, the most beautiful Greek woman and wife of a Greek king, Menelaus, decided to leave her husband and ran away with a Trojan Prince, Paris. This angered the Greeks so they sailed to Troy and fought for Helen's return. As the war

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    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: Mike
  • War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction

    War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction

    Ariel Ashcraft Alice Eagly Psychology of Gender October 17, 2003 War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction One of the oldest debates in psychology is the nature versus nurture debate. Its roots extend far beyond the nineteenth century psychologists such as Freud and Skinner into the beginnings of scientific thought. Even Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato addressed the issue of how personality is formed. Today, a relative consensus has been reached that nature and

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction

    The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction

    The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction American history is a collaboration of all of the wonderful events and the not so successful ones that make up this great country that we call the United States. Records of this fabulous nation date back all the way to dates way before our original founding fathers. However, few episodes of American history have aroused such intense and continuing interest ad the trials and executions for the witchcraft

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    Submitted: March 23, 2009 By: Top
  • King Arthur: Fact or Fiction

    King Arthur: Fact or Fiction

    King Arthur is a legend that is known the throughout the world. It is loaded with chivalry and romance. To most people it is just a romantic story of a king and his adventures involving magic, where good conquered evil. If there were no historical basis for the legend, there would be no arguement that he existed. This legend however is thought to have been based on an actual person. Certain historical items show that

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jack
  • Spellbound ( Fact More Compelling Than Fiction)

    Spellbound ( Fact More Compelling Than Fiction)

    The documentary spellbound is good proof that fact can be more compelling than fiction. The director Jeffrey Blitz has created a fascinating documentary by using many different film techniques and ideas on an unusual but compelling event, the national spelling bee. Spellbound shows that something like a spelling bee can be just as exciting and rewarding as any sport, as the real life journeys of each contestant reals the viewer in. The way that Blitz

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: regina
  • Hitler, Fact or Fiction; Effects of Labels

    Hitler, Fact or Fiction; Effects of Labels

    Many historical events and “facts” are given by the media, through texts, such as articles, movies and documentaries. Whilst the media claims they are representing media the best they can, every time history is retold, it discloses more and more discrepancies. To a point where it is not longer history being told, but rather a story; one such story, is the story of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was a powerful German leader and commander of

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Fiction Is Now Fact

    Fahrenheit 451 - Fiction Is Now Fact

    Fahrenheit 451 - Fiction is now fact... Imagine this: The world no longer reads. Instead, they sit around for hours and watch giant screens at home, viewing mind-numbing programming with no real intellectual value. Then, they get in the car and drive 90+ mph, not even for a second thinking about the danger that they put themselves in. People no longer care about anything really. They no longer think for themselves. They have no ideas

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Gladiator: Fact or Fiction

    Gladiator: Fact or Fiction

    Gladiator: Fact or Fiction The story of Gladiator takes place in Ancient Rome and contains intense action, great acting, and fantastic storytelling. Although most of this action drama is mostly fictitious, some certain events and characters appear in the history books. The movie starts out with an opening battle between the well-equipped Roman army and a Germanic tribe defending their lands. Russell Crowe is the main character in the movie and he plays a

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Creatine: The Facts and The Fiction

    Creatine: The Facts and The Fiction

    Creatine: The Facts and the Fiction There are many different opinions people have when a conversation about creatine comes up. If one doesn’t know what creatine is, it is a popular dietary supplement taken mostly by many athletes around the world. The main problem people have with creatine is its safety. Some people say that it is very harmful to the body, while others will say that it is completely stable. The truth is that

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Fact, Not Science Fiction

    Fact, Not Science Fiction

    What the world needs is fact, not science fiction. we have enough problems of our own to deal with, we don’t need to worrry about different worlds, aleins and disasters that may not even happen. science fiction is a waste of time. Science fiction is something we hear about day in day out. But do we really need it? In this essay I will be answering just that question. The definition of Science Fiction is:

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Steve
  • On Euripides and War: An Historical Analysis of Hecuba, Trojan Women, and Iphegenia at Aulis

    On Euripides and War: An Historical Analysis of Hecuba, Trojan Women, and Iphegenia at Aulis

    On Euripides and War: An Historical Analysis of Hecuba, Trojan Women, and Iphegenia at Aulis History is written. It did not happen. What did happen can only be described and recorded. Of the records that exist today society judges which are "fact," which are and which are "fictional." One striking feature that all records share is a preoccupation with war. This is not surprising, however, since a convolution of all records during a specific time

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Anna
  • Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction

    Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction

    Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction Loch Ness is the most mythical and imaginable creature in story books and scientific papers today. It is common in Scotland, to hear a story from an eye witness and hear the feat of their encounter with the beast. The beast included in uncountable claims and the beast of the story books. The most famous mythical creature; is it a dinosaur from the past, or another imagination the public

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Weight Loss Industry: Fact or Fiction

    The Weight Loss Industry: Fact or Fiction

    The Weight Loss Industry: Fact or Fiction Through the years, we have watched and even ridden the waves that the weight loss industry has created in our lifestyles. However, as it continues to explode with growth, we are left in the wake wondering if we experienced any benefits from what it was offering in the first place. Instead of reducing obesity and improving health and fitness, the industry perpetuates the image associated with popular culture,

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    Essay Length: 1,602 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Ufo - Fact or Fiction

    Ufo - Fact or Fiction

    UFO Fact Or Fiction Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, as they're fondly called, are one of the century's most intriguing and controversial mysteries. Since ancient times, UFOs of all types have been accounted for. More today than ever, hundreds of thinkers, theologians, and scientists have tried to answer why there are or whether there aren't UFOs. According to some, the speculation that UFOs are alien spacecrafts from another world is an absurd and foolish proposal.

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Max
  • Criminals and Crimes: Fact Vs. Fiction

    Criminals and Crimes: Fact Vs. Fiction

    Criminals and Crimes: Fact vs. Fiction Trends or fads come and go; some even take the world by storm. The latest storm is blowing toward the criminal justice field. It is a well known fact, no matter what the age; people will believe EVERYTHING and ANYTHING they see on television. Just like when we were little, we believed we could fly like Superman or solve crimes like Batman, now it’s all about being a CSI.

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    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Tommy

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