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a writing oddysey. My Writing Odyssey As far back as I can remember I have always
been told by educators that I'ma very creative writer. ...
... you compare and contrast hecuba in the illiad and penelope in the oddysey Answer:
You ... Question: I am writing a paper on a charecter in either the Iliad or the ...
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My Writing Odyssey
As far back as I can remember I have always been told by educators that I\\\\\\\'m a very creative writer. My first year of high school was an
interesting time to see where my skills in English would take me. For some reason every semester in High School my progress in English would
fluctuate. Some professors assumed it could be better, some assumed it could be no better. For my first year of High School,l I attended
Jamaica High school. I can remember on the first day of English Class the Teacher handed out a book entitled \\\\\\\"The Odyssey\\\\\\\" by Homer, which
was translated by Samuel Butler. The homework later that day was to make a short story of our own little odyssey, and I did just that.
I wrote a story relating to the amerindians, which were people that were living in South America before the Europeans arrived, and acient
women who were sent to exile for performing certain tabu\\\\\\\'s (since women didn\\\\\\\'t have much say in ancient societies) in the the Amazon rain
forest, I wrote about unusual rituals performed by the women of the amazon, like the brain surgeries, heart surgeries, and wearing the skulls of
Jaguars on their heads as helmets, I described them as having beautiful skin, cat like features, such as their eyes, and postures, and described
them as worshiping anything in the felis genus, describing statues of many kinds. I wrote about the many different healing remedies they beheld,
making them seem like witch doctors, forcing people with illnesses to try and find where in the dangerous forest they would reside in as their only
option to be cured for whatever disease. I also made my self one of the people who set out looking for them, proving an ancient legend to be
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