Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Project Chapter 3: Patroclos The Noble Comrade & Warrior








Achilles' Comrade......

I agree that Patroclos is a Noble Comrade & Warrior why?
Partoclos is Noble Comrade because he Show a deep and extremely meaningful friendship, Achilles is tender towards Patroclus, while he is callous and arrogant towards others. 
Partoclos is a Noble Warrior because when Achilles was so angry that Agamemnon took Briseis from him that he refused to fight for the Greeks anymore and just sat in his tent and sulked. Without their best fighter, the Greeks started losing battles...
Patroclos thought of an idea.....Patroclus convinced Achilles to let him done Achilles' armor and lead the Myrmidons into combat. In his lust for combat, Patroclus pursued the Trojans all the way back to the gates of Troy, defying Achilles' order to break off combat once the ships were saved. Patroclus killed many Trojans and allies including the Lycian hero Sarpedon, and Cebriones . Patroclus was stunned by Apollo, wounded by Euphorbos, then finished off by Hector. At the time of his death, Patroclus had killed many enemy soldiers.....
When Achilles heard that Patroclos was dead, he was ashamed of how he had been sulking. He agreed to fight again. Now the Greeks really started to win. So the best Trojan fighter, Prince Hector, came out from Troy to fight Achilles. They fought for a long time, but finally Achilles killed Hector. 

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Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Project Chapter 1: King Agamemnon's Stubbornness of Heart..


The King of Mycenae, the king with great disgrace

A first example would be when Agamemnon not honored Chryses,  Agamemnon wouldn't give back Chryseis when asked. And when he was in a position where he had to give back Chryseis, he said he wanted to take Achilles' prize, Briseis. This shows how gluttonous Agamemnon is because he has no right to take Achilles' prize just because something came up and he had to lose his. Also, Agamemnon is always wanting something and expecting something, thinking that he is the best of the Achaians. Because of this, Apollo started the plague on the Achaians. Many of them died only because of Agamemnon's morally unacceptable ways. 

Another example is his indignity would be that after the plague started, Agamemnon  seemed like he didn't want his fellow Achaians to know why it happened. After he made the mistake of letting the plague happen, he should of have at least let them know, but it had to be said by Kalchas, because Achilles made a deal with him. When Kalchas told everyone the truth, Agamemnon was furious, when he should have been the one telling them first. 


Why Didn't Nazi win in World War 2??


I think, it was the personality of Adolf Hitler,  after the disaster of World War 1, and the failure of the new German democratic republic, he wanted to "get his own back" or take his revenge in Europe as soon as possible. In Mein Kampf, you can see that he wanted re-unification of Germany to include Prussia, Pomerania, the Sudetenland and parts of Austria. Such a re-unification would have been possible in time, in the same way that the original formation of Germany.

Hitler's haste, and his anger, brought about the failure of the third Reich. He is a case study of the perils of leadership based on anger, revenge, hatred and impatience. These Hitler combined appealing to the prejudices, emotions, fears and expectations of the public.