Compare the Divine Comedy and the Odyssey
This paper compares Dante's Divine Comedy with Homer's The Odyssey. Dante's struggle is fundamentally an interior, poetic quest for spiritual salvation and Christian understanding. Homer's Odysseus is on a quest to find his home. Odysseus does not embody Christian ideals, but is a clever, heroic figure of the kind admired by the ancient Greeks. Dante the character functions as an everyman.
Male and Female Athletes
The paper is an annotated bibliography for a paper examining gender based difference in concussion reporting among athletes. The sources include:
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Community outreach programs and effectiveness
Students with behavioral problems generally have emotional difficulties. The problem is that students with psychical disabilities are given attention and included, but students with emotional disabilities (of which behavioral problems are a result) appear the same as others and are, therefore, excluded. This aggravates their situation. They need an emphatic, listening ear and someone who cares for them. They are usually not given this in the anonymity and largeness of the school setting (Hewitt). My program advocates the matching of the student with emotional difficulties to one or more elderly individuals who will take an interest in them and communicate with them. The interaction will not only benefit both but will provide this student with the social support and social connection that he so much needs potentially leading to diminishment of his behavioral problems.