How to make a diorama of an Island with fake water?
First, papier mache and papier mache pulp clay can be highly realistic...just depends on the abilities of the maker. And just because a material is cheap won't mean the resulting product won't be excellent or amateurish (think of other cheap materials like clay from the ground, paints and colorants of all kinds, pieces of plain white paper,** pieces of wood or bricks, etc, etc, and what they can do in different hands). There are various other materials besides that can be used however for the main volume of the dioramas and/or for the details. Check out all the links I just put in my answer to this question about making an island model/diorama: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;... As for the faux water, epoxy resin will work and you can make it into white rushing water, waterfalls, oceans, still ponds, etc, depending on how it's treated. If you want more info about doing that, check out this page at my site for both the resin ways and other ways: http://glassattic.com/polymer/other_mate... (click on *Faux Water* under Epoxy Resins) These images re Charybdis and Scylla, and Sicily, etc, might give you some other ideas: http://www.google.com/images?q=Charybdis... http://www.google.com/images?q=sicily http://www.google.com/images?q=boot+of+Italy And if you're interested in making any of the scenery, or any figures, symbols, etc, to go in the diorama, you might also want to check out using polymer clay (it can do excellent detail, can be made to look like almost any other material, can be any size/shape/color/pattern, etc): http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100627110615AA3Ud5u&r=w#QZF9XGe8VzHs9ZD7A6b_kUzzaWMnlSsRIhF_3as4ZwzPJyhPlI39 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110507004411AAmELzg ** http://www.google.com/images?q=paper+sculpture
What is the moral or point of the story of Scylla and Charybdis in Homer's Odyssey?
In addition to everything else that was said, I’d like to point out that The strait where Scylla and Charybdis dwelled has been associated with the Strait of Messinia between Itally and Sicily later on in the Eneid. There’s a good chance Homer had the same straight in mind, but there’s also the chance he thought of some other place. It is said to be a difficuly place to sail through because of strong currents and reefs.Either way, it was often the job of myths to explain natural phenomena people didn’t understand; for example explaining lightnigs with Zeus, rainbows with Iris, love with Eros’s arows, etc. So naturally, if you have a dangerous place where people don’t return from, or where ships are disapearing there’s a good oppurtunity to explain that with a monster.Another common explanation for the origin of myths is, that natural phenomena may have at one point been methaphorically described as monsters, but then over time people came to belive them literally.This is especially relevant with cultures like ancient Greece, where literacy is rare so knowledge is often passed down orally and poetry with its rhytm and methaphores is used to make it easier to memorize large amounts of data.The story of Scylla and Carybda seems like it could be of that type: starting out as a straightforward instruction: “Avoid sailing across that straight, it’s really dangerous. If you ever really have to, sail at the middle as much as you can; don’t get close to either coast or horrible things will happen to you.”
Why did Amphitrite turn Scylla into a monster?
Information seems pretty scarce, but it seems that Poisedon wanted to hump Scylla (pre-monster form). Amphitrite, being his wife, became angry at this and decided to punish…The woman he cheated with? Or possibly even just wanted to cheat with, it’s hard to find clear information on this version of her origin story .Vengeance in Greek Mythology always veers sharply to the left of its “rightful” victim, really.As an aside, the more popular version of her origin is that Glaucus (a different Sea god) wanted to hump her, but this made Circe (of porcine fame) jealous and whilst Scylla bathed, she poured a magic potion (possibly in the form of a bath bomb, the myths don’t deny it at least!) into the water, turning her into a hideous monster.Thanks for reading!
"The Odyssey"/Hero's Journey essay-need help with a thesis statement (I have an intro already).?
I need a good, 3-point thesis statement for my essay. Freshman Adv.English. The essay is about the connection of the hero's journey with "The Odyssey". The concept that i'm choosing are The Cyclops/Belly of the Whale The Road of Trials/The Sirens: Scylla and Charybdis The Crossing of the Return Threshold/Death at the Palace Here's what I have so far: As stated by Joseph Campbell, “a hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself”. Odysseus in the Homer’s story of The Odyssey would be categorized as a hero because he follows the basic steps of Joseph Campbell’s outline of The Hero’s Journey and uses his knowledge to make it back home to his faithful wife and his son, while also getting some others home safely. If you think some thing's inaccurate, please feel free to let me know.
Are there any games (besides spec ops: the line) that make you question anything you have to do?
Witcher 3So I wander around and find this abandoned village out in the middle of nowhere. Same shit, different day I think. Until I noticed the villagers aren't missing, they are dead. All of them. Left to rot where they fell. I do some more investigating and find a little girl's doll and then the girl, crying to herself. She talks about another witcher just like me who came and slaughtered her parents and everyone else in her village. Instead of using my magic to make her tell me what I want to know, I consul her. I give her dolly back. Get her to tell me what I need to know.And then I track down the murdering witcher. Thinking I will make him pay for his crimes. Avenge that little girl. But when I find him, I talk with him. I learn that he killed a monster for the village, but they couldn't pay him. So instead they tried to ambush and kill him. So he got outraged at always being looked down upon and treated like scum. A freak. I sympathized since I remember being called a freak by those I have helped. I spare his life.I then find the little girl a new home. With her distant aunt. I tell her aunt that a witcher killed the girl's village, inviting the woman's anger. Then I give her 50 gold in order to feed the little girl. I leave sad, but satisfied. The world is not restored, but it is a little less awful than when I found it.That will always be one of my favorite moments in gaming.
Could someone please describe the obstacles Odysseus encounters in The Odyssey and how he overcomes them?
Lets see.. 1) Lotus Eaters- some of Obysseus' men ate the lotus with the LE and became drugged. O has to drag them back on board the ship 2)cyclops polythemus (one-eyed monster), which captures O and his men when they go in his cave and eat his food. O gives P strong wine, which sedates him. When P asks for his name, he answers, "noman". After P falls asleep, O stabs him in the eye. When he starts screaming, the other cyclops come to his aid and ask who put out his eye, to which he answers, "noman". O and his men sneak out by tying themselves to the bellies of sheep- so P wouldn't feel them as they escaped while he let his sheep out. As he is leaving, O gives his name to P- who asks the gods to punish him. 3)Circe: when O visits her island, she gives his men potients that turn them into pigs. I takes herbs that will prevent himself from turning into a pig and Circe falls in love with him. He convinced her to turn his men back into humans. 4)The Sirens: creatures who drew men in and killed them with their singing. Odysseus escaped the Sirens by having all his sailors plug their ears with beeswax and tie him to the mast. He was curious as to what the Sirens sounded like. When he heard their beautiful song, he ordered the sailors to untie him but they ignored him. When they had passed out of earshot, Odysseus stopped thrashing about and calmed down, and was released 5) Charybdis: She takes form as a monsterous mouth. She swallows huge amounts of water three times a day and then belches them back out again creating whirlpools. She lies on one side of a narrow channel of water. On the other side of the strait was Scylla, another sea-monster. Scylla: a horribly grotesque sea monster, with six long necks equipped with grisly heads, each of which contained three rows of sharp teeth. Her body consisted of twelve canine legs and a fish's tail. Odysseus was given advice by Circe to sail closer to Scylla, for Charybdis could drown his whole ship. Odysseus then successfully sails his ship past Scylla and Charybdis, but Scylla manages to catch six of his men, devouring them alive.
Is Homer's Odyssey similar to the journey that modern veterans undertake psychologically when trying to find their way home?
I am glad you asked this question, it was very astute. Some of the most popular interventions for returning veterans are based upon “the Hero’s Journey” —It is common in mythic tales and it was expounded Psychoanalysts Otto Rank, Freud and the most significantly by Carl Jung.Joseph Campbell wrote of this “monomyth” is the key to ALL epic stories—any story that rings true and compels us, from Star Wars to Game of Thrones, follows this pattern:And I believe another answer in this section mentions, Jonathan Shay tied these thems into two books: Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in AmericaBoth of which I own, and I admit I am having a little trouble getting through, and I apologize to Shay because — Moral Injury is really his idea, his term, and I am reading the contemporary stuff inspired by him back in 1994, and I really want to properly credit him.This is something worth pointing out. We learn this stuff and then forget it and then learn it again with the next war. Shay is talking about Vietnam, but it is happening again now, and:Nothing that Shay noticed from Vietnam was not noted or impliedby Sloan Wilson in 1955 in “The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit” —writing about a world War Two Vet unable to adjust— before we knew of PTSD, or Moral Injury by those names.It wasn't not noted in 1943 by Summerset Maugham writing his recollections of World War One and how it affected his friend in “The Razor’s Edge”The 1984 Movie Version of the Razor’s Edge starred Bill Murray and was excellent.(Both Books I have read.) The Hero's Journey in all of these.So it is not surprising that popular therapies embed this theme:Save A Warrior™Over 700 warriors have passed through this program based on the hero’s journey and emotional catharsis.Most recently Jordan Peterson revived Jung with his Hero’s Journey in 12 Rules for Life:And he is actually the one who made some sense of it all for me because he points out we understand the world as a story—the monomyth is probably in our DNA (what Jung called “the collective unconscious” — a computer guy could think of it as our ROM or EPROM that comes with the basic human operating system. That is why it works so well.Yes, The Hero’s journey is the key.