A student is given two allusions to include in a brief writing piece about being brave. The allusions are Hercules and Einstein.
After looking up the references, the student writes a paragraph about being brave and includes references to Hercules and Einstein. Write a paragraph of 3-5 sentences about being brave and include allusions to Hercules and Einstein
If you think of a brave person, you might think of different people. For example, Hercules was brave and he showed this by his impressive feats of strength and daring. Einstein, however, wasn't the strongest and he wasn't a demigod, but he was brave do tell his ideas and to persevere through hardships. Bravery can look very different from person to person.
Hercules was gifted with amazing strength and it caused problems that he had to deal with. He had to overcome the obstacles and the chance that he may hurt someone and be punished because he couldn't control his strength. Allusions to Hercules: In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince Hamelt compares himself to Hercules.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), a German-born American mathematician, serves as a literary allusion to intelligence. Einstein formulated the theory of relativity, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921. He is often considered the greatest scientist of the 20th century. Many movie producers over the years have taken advantage of the literary allusion that comes out of the name Einstein. For example, in the movie The Observer (1998), they say, “It’s a neat theory, but you don’t have to be Einstein to spot some serious flaws” (qtd. in Delahunty, Dignen, and Stock 216). What this movie line is implying is that a person does not have to be a comprehensive genius like Einstein to realize that there is something wrong with their theory. A lot of people compare their intelligence to Einstein’s, Einstein’s being the most intelligent.
The leaders that supported freedom in American revolutionary times used the Enlightenment as a foundation. When the Second Continental Congress met on July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. In the Declaration, Jefferson made references to the beliefs of the Enlightenment philosopher John Locke.
