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- 201: Demeter and Persephone: Relationship Between Parent and Child
- ... around them. Demeter is the beautiful goddess who is sister to Zeus. Persephone also visually stunning and lovely, is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Already from this relationship we can see that in Greek mythology there was a lot of marrying within the family. This practice might have been reflective of Greek society at that time. In order to please his brother Hades, Zeus tells him that he can go ...
- 202: The Positive Influence of Gods in the Odyssey
- The Positive Influence of Gods in the Odyssey The almighty, powerful, feared beings in Greek mythology are the gods! They have many powers and the ability to take the life of anyone in an instant. But many of them also have another side. What many people don't know is that ...
- 203: Oedipus: King Of Riddles?
- Oedipus: King Of Riddles? In Greek mythology the oracles or gods are rarely wrong in their predictions of the future. Yet the characters still try to fight the predictions. Do their personalities and traits decide their future, or does fate take its ...
- 204: Lewis' "Surprise by Joy": Analysis
- ... land of Narnia--Lewis's magical land of children's adventures that retell the story of the creation, fall, and redemption of humankind. Later Lewis embraces what he referred to as "northernness," or the Norse mythology that represented for him the embodiment of otherness and an escape from the mundane realities of boarding school. Before his eventual return to orthodox Christianity, however, Lewis would experiment with adolescent atheism, various Eastern beliefs ...
- 205: Electronic Commerce
- ... transactions. The venerable answer to securing sensitive information, like credit-card numbers, is to encrypt the data before you send it out. MIT's Kerberos, which is named after the three-headed watchdog of Greek mythology, is one of the best-known- private-key encryption technologies. It creates an encrypted data packet, called a ticket, which securely identifies the user. To make a purchase, you generate the ticket during a series ...
- 206: Roosevelt
- ... of Santa Claus. But in this day and age, where anyone can record anything he or she wants to, will any of the present day lords and prophets shine as brightly through the shroud of mythology and time as the ones of old? In 500 years - providing anyone is still alive to care - a few men and women will stand out against the haze of time and represent the twentieth century ...
- 207: Lightning
- Lightning, the thunderbolt from mythology, has long been feared as an atmospheric flash of supernatural origins. In the East, early statues of Buddha show him carrying a thunderbolt with arrows at each end. Indian tribes in North America believed that ...
- 208: Lasers -
- Lightning, the thunderbolt from mythology, has long been feared as an atmospheric flash of supernatural origins. In the East, early statues of Buddha show him carrying a thunderbolt with arrows at each end. Indian tribes in North America believed that ...
- 209: Fasle Memory
- ... members of a culture or universally by all humans. Under certain conditions these manifest themselves as archetype: images, patterns and symbols, that are often seen in dreams or fantasies and that appear as themes in mythology, religion and fairy tales. The Archetype of the Archetype Model can be traced back to Plato's various beliefs about the eidos. (Forms of reality which were variously described by Plato but always were held ...
- 210: Evolution And Creation
- ... and as soon as we saw the game and the fish we knew they were made for us. We grew and multiplied as a people. (Taylor Ph.D.) Another creation story is from the Iroquoian mythology. They thought sky women gave birth to twins. Their names were Iouskeha and Tawiscaron. Iouskeha was the good- minded twin, he was born normal and he made plants, animals, birds and mankind. Tawiscaron the evil ...
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