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    Myths, Morals, And Rules

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    Life is a series of life lessons, morals, and rules that we all live by and learn through every decision we make. A way these lessons, morals, and rules are shown and told is through myths. A myth is a traditional story from a certain ethnic, religion, place, or culture, and explains how and why things are the way they are. Myths also incorporate a moral, theme, or life lesson, which becomes clear at the end of the story. As a child I’m sure you’ve heard stories from your family whether a more unknown

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    Summary Of The Centaur

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    the importance of childhood and imagination on the woman identity and how strong and intelligent they could be. In the poem, May uses the Greek mythological creature, the Centaur, as a symbol of the girl pretending to ride the horse and then became the horse himself. A centaur is a half-man half-horse creature. Centaurs are strong creatures they stand for being strong, brave, and they have a hard identity which reflects the girl's identity of having all these characteristics. Swenson makes it seem

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    I. Description The sculpture Legend and Myth by Damien Hirst is a pair of sculptures depicting two mythical creatures. Legend is a sculpture of the legendary creature known as a Pegasus, and its counterpart, named Myth, which is a sculpture of a white unicorn. The medium that was used to create the two sculptures was a combination of painted gold, silver, and also bronze. The sculpture Legend measures to be 4575 x 2590 x 2260 mm or 180.1 x 102 x 89 in and was sculpted in 2010, while its companion

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    It's Just Not Natural Essay

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    why should you be afraid? One reason why this saying came about is because people believe that something non-human exists out there. People believe that witches, shapeshifters, hellhounds, ghosts, angels, demons, jinns, and many more supernatural creatures exist. “Only 21 percent of Americans say they don’t believe in the supernatural at all (“Paranormal Poll: Americans…”).” Although many people may not voice or express their belief in the supernatural; they tend to be curious and question the existence

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    In Don Sabo’s essay “Pigskin, Patriarchy, and Pain”, Sabo’s central claim states that society’s pressure synthesizes males to accept and conform to pain, whether that be external or internal with an underlying message to walk away from conformity. At the beginning of Sabo’s essay, Sabo mainly speaks about the external pain of his back, which started when he went out for football when he was only eight years old in the interest of changing his physical appearance. While beginning at the age of eight

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    Long long ago when the seas were hollow and the land was still plain,there was only one species on earth and he was not only all-knowing but he was all powerful ,and he was called Centaur .No one really knows how he came to be really, legend has it that he was a demi -god that was banished from the palace of the gods by zeus and was sentenced to live in what is now called earth,there are many other legends that over time have spread about how the world was created, When centaur was banished from

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    May Swenson’s Common Denominator Imagine reading a poem and believing it means one thing, but the underlying message is something completely different. Authors like to use different literary techniques to make a valid point, to make the reader feel a certain emotion, or even to share a distinct memory with their reader. Poetry has helped authors focus their readers on their work by achieving themes that may portrayed in several pieces of their work. In May Swenson’s case, she used a variety of techniques

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    Perseus : A Short Story

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    Long ago in a rather small village riddled with demons, monsters, and mythical creatures alike. A war is underway; a war the people of Lansing were forced to fight because the Gods had more important things to take care of. Humans are struggling, nearly losing the war itself. Many humans and monsters alike have perished, but the humans only can lose so many people. Meanwhile in the Heavens, Hercules and Perseus storm into Zeus’s coliseum. “Father!” Hercules calls out full of rage, Zeus perks his

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    the importance of childhood and imagination on the woman's identity and how strong and intelligent they could be. In the poem, May uses the Greek mythological creature, the Centaur, as a symbol of the girl pretending to ride the horse and then became the horse himself. A centaur is a half-man half-horse creature. Centaurs are strong creatures they stand for being strong, brave, and they have a hard identity which reflects the girl's identity of having all these characteristics. Swenson makes it seem

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    Working in pairs: one person completes the RED questions, the second completes BLACK questions Include images and quotes Print and submit a hard copy to your teacher ARTWORK 1. Name the artwork, date and materials used. The Centaur is a mythical creature made up of a human head and a horse. It was first mentioned in 522-443 BC depicted in ancient Greek text. The Centaur image was pressed into many places such as rock crystals and Ancient Greek scarabs and told in some stories. 2.

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