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This is my Odyssey menu. Which is a 5-paragraph essay on a topic related to my reading of __The Odyssey.__ **I.** __**Appetizer**__
 * Agamemnon returned from Troy to find that Aegisthus, a base coward who remained behind while the Greeks fought in Troy, had seduced and married his wife, Clytemnestra. With her approval, Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon. He would have then taken over Agamemnon’s kingdom had not Orestes, who was in exile in Athens, returned and killed Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.**

**II.** __**Entree**__
 * We meet telemuchus as a 20-year-old male that has never met his father. Also he has suitors at his house trying to woo his mother.

Telemuchus has a visit from Athena where she told him to take charge of his life, and gave him a plan. Kick out suitors

Go to council for permission to set sail to go to pylos, then to Sparta, to find news of his father.

If he hears news of his father being alive he must continue to find his father. If he hears his father is dead he is to go home, have a funeral for his father and wed his mother off.

Telemuchus tries to take charge by telling his mother to go to her room.

After this plan telemuchus goes to the suitors and states an ultimatum, in limens terms if you don’t leave I’m going to tell Zeus that you’re bothering me.

Then telmuchus goes to pylos to talk to nestor but is afraid, but Mentor gives him the encouragement that he needs to approach Nestor, the city’s king, and ask him about Odysseus. Nestor, however, has no information about his father.**

**III.** __**Desert**__
 * As the man woke up he** __**groped**__ **for his sword, so that he could protect himself.

The young man could not fight for he was extremely** __**inept**__**.

Poseidon clamed his** //__**vengeance**__// **upon Odysseus, after Odysseus killed the Cyclops.

Athena was very** //__**conscientious**__// **to not get caught while she was in disguise.

Odysseus had to be a very** //__**adept**__// **solider by staying alive in troy.

Athena should be the goddess of being** //__**shrewd**__//**, because she is very sharp, and intelligent.

The gods feel that the humans’ were being** //__**insolent**__//**, because they blame everything on the gods.

Agomendmon should have been more** //__**wary**__//**, after winning the war in troy.**

This is a memoir vignette that use and utilize stylistic devices to make your personal piece of non-fiction interesting for a broad audience.

** By Nathan Giello ** media type="file" key="Memoir.m4a" width="300" height="50" So one day, the seventh street kids came around our neighborhood. We didn’t like that. They guys were flirting with some girls that one of my friends liked, this is where I should have left the “gang, I knew what we were about to do and I knew that it was wrong, I didn’t care. We walked up on them, and asked them how old they were they didn’t say, but I figured they were about 11 or 12 and we were 13 so we beat the living crap out of them. As they ran away they said they be back with their “crew” and they would “beat the crap out of us”, and that we would “beg for them to stop” , of course we were like ok “get out of here” , and “they aren’t comin back”. Little did I know
 * Decisions, Decisions**
 * When I look back on the decisions I made, most of the time I’m like** **“I was such a dumie!”** **Well this about one of those moments. It was two years ago and in the middle of the summer, and a few of my friends and I were on a** **“crew”** **kick we named our self’s 7****th** **Street Warriors. We just saw the movie The Warriors a week before, and** **we thought we were tough; we thought we could take down anyone, were we in for a surprise.**
 * So a week passed after seeing the movie, and** **we were being so bad, we were tagging things up, and shoplifting, we even jumped a few people** **. At the time we were at** **“war”** **with this gang from Seventh Street, they were a heftily sized gang, muc**h bigger then ours, they out numbered us ten to one.

So a few hours passed and I wa s at 12th and Oregon. I was all alone walking home, it was raining, when I here some one yell “yo yo yo that’s him” I look up I see almost 40 kids ranging any where from eleven to eighteen, all of them running at me most with bats, pipes, wood, or something to beat me with. Naturally I said, “Holy crap”, now this is the second time I made a horrible decision. Me being the idiot I am, stood there and wait until they got close, then I said in a calm, and sarcastic tone “ Awh man, I would love to stay and chill with yous, but I gotta go” needless to say I ran. __I ran, and ran, and ran__, I was running so fast I had hole in my chucks.

I was a block away from home, I saw it, I saw home, home, I saw my safe haven, there I would be able to hide, or maybe get something to fight them with, but then SMASH I get a punched in the face. They had people looking for my friend, and it just so happened they were at the corner and they heard their “homies” yelling, if that’s not a coinceadince, I don’t know what is. After that I really don’t remember much accept crawling home crying thinking that I was going to die.

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** I made a 5-paragraph essay on a topic related to my reading of **Kindred**. It had to be—unique, insightful, and debatable. **  __  **Slave owners in the book kindred would dulled their slaves by not only harming them physically, but also mentally so that slaves would think that they were submissive, making it easier for slave owners to control their slaves.**


 * In the book Kindred, one way the would physically hurt slaves would have them whipped. One example is from the text as told by Dana p. 107 "I never saw where the whip came from, never even saw the first blow coming. But it came like hot iron across my back" this is a punishment for trying to teach another slave how to read.**


 * In Kindred, female slaves would be dulled mentally by having their children sold or taken away from her. For example when Sarah said, p. 249 "Even if he didn’t put the rope on her, he drove her to it. He sold her babies" in an attempt to make Alice do what he says, Rufus decides to pretend to sell Alice’s children, which in turn Alice commits suicide. It is seen by the slaves as Rufus killing her. In the end you come to realize that there is both physical, and mental abuse that is used to dull slaves.**


 * In the book Kindred, there is also physical and mental abuse at the same time. For example p.109 “got to where he wanted to be more friendly then did” . That is Alice speaking about how Rufus sexually abused her. This is the start of a deadly obsession that leads Rufus to become a monster.**
 * That is how slave owners in the book kindred would dulled their slaves by not only harming them physically, but also mentally so that slaves would think that they were submissive, making it easier for slave owners to control their slaves.** 

** Macbeth Humble to Tyrant http://www.scienceleadership.org/moodle/mod/assignment/view.php?id=51336

Journals

Entry 1 Standing up for what you believe in is one of the most important skills you'll need in life. People in life will always try to knock you down, but as long as you get back up, you're showing them that you can stand for what you believe in. If you believe in aliens, say so. If you believe in religion, shout it proudly. If you believe that the world would be better if we did something differently, proclaim it loudly. Compromise is never an ideal solution, it’s a necessary evil. And its not hard to stand up, if you believe that what ever it is; is important enough you will stand up. People constantly try to make you change what you think, or want you to believe what they do, I tell them to “GO HOME”, i refuse to let people around me; change me.

Entry 2 So I'm not the kind of person who writes when he’s mad, I tend to just let it out. Like this morning I was on the bus and this kid starts talking about how he got stoned the night before. This kid is maybe 14 at the most, so I politely ask him to “pleas stop” his response was “who the f * are you b”. Im then sitting there baffled, like did this kid really just say that. He then continues to carry on about how he could “beat my ass” and that I was a “F*ing P”. So I respond finally with my fist in his face and then continue to cures him out. I obviously kicked off the bus.

Entry 3 A week ago I stole from Arch Gourmet, and I tried to lie my way out and t worked for a while. It was easy to do, I just had to be compelling, which I was, but in the end I told the truth. I felt mad, and I acted out when I was home, I felt stupid and wrong.

Entry 4 **



