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    For a play titled Ajax, the exposition serves as a curious contrast to the rest of the story. By introducing the tragedy in media res with Athena and Odysseus, Sophocles skips past the fuss of the armor debacle and instead delves straight into the aftermath of the event. Athena, who knows of Ajax’s deadly intentions, chooses to redirect his violence towards the innocent livestock. Seeing that this act was Ajax’s definitive moment, not including it in the play raises the question, what role does Athena

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    Shivan Desai, 6802944 AJAX (AIAS) ΑΙΑΣ For information on Ajax’ life and participation in the Trojan War, read the following secondary sources: • Buxton: p. 135-137 (“The Iliad” and “To the fall of Troy” –see also images on the bottom of p. 137) • Greek Mythology Link: http://www.maicar.com/GML/Ajax1.html Type your answers under each question (It is important that you include the questions. Do not omit them!) Ajax is Achilles’ first cousin, a handsome man and formidable warrior, is called the

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    certain characters were inclined to bury the body of Ajax, others were quite on the edge of this decision. Individuals such as Tecmessa believed that this warrior should be held accountable for his mistakes, thus not provided the right for burial as a punishment. After his death, Ajax’s enemies exclaimed that “he clearly did it by himself the sword he fell on is fixed in the ground; that proves it”, accordingly making others believe that Ajax was responsible for his own downfall. (Dutta 64) Consequently

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    classic greek literature, such as the Iliad and Ajax, although different authors have different interpretations about warfare which is shown through their work of literature, with the Iliad having warfare as a glorified battle, while Ajax is about an uncompromising hero who turned mad which driven him to commit suicide. Ajax is a Greek tragedy, written by Sophocles, that follows a greek hero named Ajax, and its follows his fate until his suicide. Ajax has a different take on warfare, because it talked

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    In Greece there was a man named Ajax. He threw his food and other junk on the ground, he invented cigarettes and he smoked a lot, and he was causing tons of pollution. And he was happy. He said that “I’m not doing Greece much harm.” Even though people warned him that Pan (The god of wild things) will punish him for polluting the earth. Meanwhile in mount Olympus Pan was looking down on Ajax. And he was mad. Pan screamed “I will punish Ajax for polluting the earth!” to Zeus. Zeus responded “Maybe

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    For a play titled Ajax, the exposition of the play serves as a curious contrast to the rest of the story. By introducing the tragedy in media res with Athena and Odysseus, Sophocles skips past the fuss of the armor debacle and instead delves straight into the aftermath of the event. Athena, who knows of Ajax’s deadly intentions, chooses to redirect his violence towards the innocent livestock. Seeing that this act was Ajax’s deciding moment, to not include it in the play raises the question, what

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    ABSTRACT Today’s world is about to cloud storage resources and services. Main advantage of cloud service is that they are available 24/7 anywhere. Pocket Drive is also one part of services which cloud storage provides. It is web application which provides 100MB of free storage where you can store your files, images, audio, videos and documents. You can extend this storage limit by paying small amount per month. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Project Summary :- Pocket drive Application is about storing and

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    Homer’s Iliad and Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War ask if death and philotēs can exist simultaneously. In the respective texts, that which Achilles and the Athenians encounter prove they will not exist in harmony for “human nature” is “incapable of controlling passion” and “the enemy of anything superior” (HPW 3.84). When Achilles does not receive his earned honor after battle and death’s toll from the war blurs the Athenians’ identity, their grief causes apathy. Achilles withdraws from

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    SP15-BCS-055-6A-COURSEASSIGNMENT3 1) NODE.Js: It is an open- source framework and a server-side platform. It responds to actions generated by the user so it provides an event-driven environment. Node.js uses asynchronous programming which means that when a task is sent to the system, the server does not wait for API to return data and it does not even block it. Else, it gets ready to handle the request and moves to the next API, and when the file has been read (event) by the system, it responds to

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    characteristics. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) serves as the principal thrust to the development to a profoundly intelligent Web and the occurance of Web 2.0. AJAX, as most misapprehended, is not a programming language, but rather is a combinations of technologies that allows the customer side part of the web application to regularly update the substance of the application by asynchronously interacting with the server. The short Offbeat Javascript and XML is known as AJAX and it’s a tern

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