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1. Definition of a myth Myth – (from the Greek mythos – legend – legend), a narrative about gods, spirits, deified heroes and ancestors, originated in primitive society. The myths intertwine the early elements of religion, philosophy, science and art. Myths of different peoples have similar and repetitive themes and motives. The most typical myths about the origin of the […]...
2. Myth and fairy tale The folk art of the word – heroic epic, fairy tales, myths, legends, songs, proverbs, riddles – is called folklore, which means wisdom, knowledge. Indeed, in all these literary genres, the wisdom of the people is simple, concise and clear. Originated in ancient times, works of oral folk art accompany us now, in everyday life. […]...
3. Summary of the “Myth of Osiris” Among the main gods, the Egyptians especially singled out a married couple – Osiris and Isis. Osiris was revered for teaching the Egyptians various crafts, treatment, showing how to build cities and houses, to grow cereals and grapes. Isis was the goddess of fertility. It was addressed to women with the help of the birth […]...
4. A brief summary of the myth “Daedalus and Icarus” The myth tells of the Athenian architect, sculptor, artist and inventor Daedalus and his son Icarus, who forever remained an example for many dreamers. According to legend, Daedalus built the famous Labyrinth on the island of Crete for the Minotaur. He also gave Ariadne, daughter of the Cretan king, a ball of thread, with which […]...
5. Summary “The Myth of Sisyphus” The punishment of the gods or the joy of liberated labor It is difficult to find at least one work by Albert Camus. free from philosophical concepts. This is the analysis of his many critics. At the same time, the writer did not recognize himself as a philosopher in the classical sense of the word. […]...
6. Summary “Ancient Greek Myths” There is not a single nation that does not have its own idea of ​​the universe, the gods that rule life, and also their struggle for power and influence. Myths of Ancient Greece, a brief summary of which we will consider in this article, are also special because they pay much attention to a person. […]...
7. Composition on the topic “Signs” Since ancient times, people have been closely watching the phenomena taking place around. This helped them not only to better understand nature and the surrounding world, but also draw some conclusions, notice regularities, predict weather, harvest. So people appeared and firmly entered into our lives various signs. Since childhood, we all know that if the […]...
8. Russian history: myth or reality In 1927, the famous Soviet poet D. Bedny wrote a poem in which he easily crossed the thousand-year history of Russia, arguing that she “justified her lot by what she gave the world to Lenin!”. The proletarian poet was sure that he was trying to comprehend the history of his country from the heights of […]...
9. The Myth of Pygmalion and the play of B. Shaw “For all that, For all that, Let us be poor with you, Wealth is a stamp on gold, And we are the golden ones. “ R. Burns Famous in the whole world English playwright Bernard Shaw lived a century, probably because he knew how to look at the world and see in him the paradoxes […]...
10. The myth of Demeter and Persephone At the goddess of fertility Demeter and the thunderer of Zeus, Perfona’s beautiful daughter grew up. Mother of the soul in her did not expect and did not suspect that the young girl was promised by the father of the God of the Kingdom of the Dead to Aida as a wife. The insidious Hades […]...
11. Man and nature Since ancient times man and nature are closely interrelated. In ancient times primitive people completely depended on the environment. Not understanding the essence of natural phenomena, people raised them to the rank of gods. So, fire, water, earth, trees, air, and thunder with lightning were deities. To propitiate them, people performed ritual sacrifices. But as […]...
12. Summary “Ancient Myths” The ancient Greeks today are considered teachers of the whole Old World. They laid the foundations of science, sport, democratic state system, art and literature. Many of their knowledge came to us through ancient myths, which explained the universe and the order of things, coincidence of circumstances and other inexplicable facts. Very interesting is the […]...
13. Myths of Scandinavia. Runes The languages ​​of the Germanic tribes of Northern Europe were similar. Often, the languages ​​of neighboring tribes were mixed, so their grammar was simplified. This explains why the current English grammar is simpler than the grammar of other European peoples. The peoples of Northern Europe have a single written language, a single alphabet – the […]...
14. Summary “The myth of Perseus” Once it was predicted to the king of Argos Akrisia that his daughter Danai would have a son, from whose hand he was destined to perish. To avoid the fulfillment of the prediction, then King Akrisii locked his daughter in a copper-stone dungeon, but Zeus fell in love with Dana, penetrated there in the image […]...
15. Summary “Song of Oleg Pushkin” Pushkin loved Russia with all his heart. He studied history, reading ancient tales. It inspired him to create amazing literary masterpieces. What are at least such historical works as “Boris Godunov” or “Song of the Wise Oleg”. The latter, in fact, will continue to be discussed, and a short summary will be presented later. “Song […]...
16. Petersburg text of Russian literature The concept of “Petersburg text” was introduced by V. N. Toporov. He wrote that the St. Petersburg text created by the “collection of texts of Russian literature” possesses all those specific features that are characteristic of texts in general and, above all, of semantic coherence, although it was written (and will be written) by many […]...
17. Summary “Autumn of the Patriarch” Marquez The patriarch is the central character of the novel, representing a generalized image of the Latin American dictator. Deprived of specific features, the maximally generalized image of P. turns out to be the embodiment of the very idea of ​​power, its magical effect on human consciousness. The real characteristics of the president are reduced to […]...
18. Summary “Myths of Ancient Greece” The ancient Greeks were an active and energetic people, not afraid to learn the real world. The boundless thirst for knowledge overwhelmed their fear of an unknown danger. The creation of myths was the first step of man to creativity and self-knowledge. Gradually from different stories originated in various areas of the Greek land, there […]...
19. Family tree It has long been our belief that the life of all people on Earth – the past and the modern generations – forms the gigantic Tree of the Kind. We all also know the biblical story of how the Lord created the first people on earth. Our ancestors believed that the tree of the human […]...
20. Questions and answers to G. Longfellow’s poem “The Song of Hiawatha” When the mythology of the Indians of North America developed? What is its peculiarity? The mythology of the Indians of North America reflects the complex processes of tribal migration, the influence of sedentary and nomadic tribes, agricultural and hunting tribes on each other. Among them, the Iroquois tribes were the most important. In myths, all […]...
21. When and why there was a moral Ethics call the science of morality. In this word the meanings of two foreign words are combined – “ethics” and “morality”. In translation, they denote the same thing: the domain of knowledge, which examines the qualities inherent in the perfect person. The word “ethics” in this sense is known for more than twenty-three centuries! Nevertheless, […]...
22. The Painting by Briullov “Bathsheba” Karl Pavlovich Bryullov is a famous Russian artist who, during his lifetime, enjoyed great fame. For some time he worked in Italy and experienced the profound impact of ancient and modern Italian art. The Italian paintings of KP Bryullov, among which “Bathsheba” refers, are permeated with a sensual, unhappy one. In them one can observe […]...
23. Unity of man and nature Appeal to the traditional ideas of the native people helps to understand that the ancient Ukrainian was characterized by organic unity with the natural world. Man was aware of himself as an organic, inseparable part of living nature. To maintain harmony with the world of nature, there were certain laws and rules that the ancient […]...
24. “Why You Need to Know History” essay History – the life of people, it has evolved over many centuries. History must be known, studying history, we learn about where people came from, what were the first representatives of the human race. We learn how the behavior of a person, traditions and customs gradually changed. It helps to see the errors of the […]...
25. Unusual natural phenomena Long ago a man, not understanding the origin of certain phenomena, endowed nature with magical properties. Thunderstorms, hurricanes, rainstorms aroused fear, kindled imagination and caused an irresistible desire to explain their occurrence. A lot of amazing, unexplored and incomprehensible man remains in nature till now. Samogo portal. Net unveiled its version of the ten most […]...
26. The great destiny of the book Ancient Greek myths have long attracted the attention of artists, poets, sculptors. One of the most famous is the myth of the greatest Athenian architect and artist Dedale, who, with the will of King Minos, was locked up on the island of Crete. Many beautiful sculptures and paintings were created by Daedalus, he even built […]...
27. The role of the book in human life It is difficult for us even to imagine a world in which there is no book. We have become accustomed to it since childhood, she revealed to us the wonderful secrets of life and gave useful advice in a difficult moment, she taught us to understand ourselves. The most important purpose of the book is […]...
28. The work “Nature is our home” I believe that nature is really our common home – and because we are all part of nature, to a certain extent its children, and because we live in the midst of nature. Evidence of this can be a man’s eternal craving for nature. Someone can not imagine resting other than working near the land, […]...
29. What is emotion? A person can not remain indifferent to the world around him. The objects that he uses, events, the witness or participant of which he becomes, cause in the person different Emotions. Joy, sadness, indignation, anger – all these are different emotions. Some things cause pleasure and joy in us, others – pain, fear, disgust… The […]...
30. What is a fairy tale? “In the far-away kingdom, in the thirtieth state.” Probably, each of us as a child fell asleep under the quiet voice of parents who read or told tales of beautiful princesses, brave princes and evil monsters. And in the same way, each of us will read such tales to his children. And what is a […]...
31. Relief and minerals of North America 1. Explain the location of large relief forms on the mainland. Why are the Cordilleras located in the west of the mainland? Map the physical map of North America with a map of the structure of the earth’s crust. The North American platform is expressed in relief by the Central and Great Plains, and the […]...
32. What is meant by freedom of will, action and creativity Throughout life a person, being free, chooses: how to dress and which store to go, where and how to study, where and how to work. Choosing the path or the way to achieve some goal, we often do not think about why we act in one way or another, but simply imitate the behavior of […]...
33. Ancestors of the Slavs The cult of ancestors in the life of the ancient Slavs was of great importance. Under the names “Rod” and “Childbirth” from a deep antiquity, they meant the founders of the family, who were prayed and sacrificed constantly. From time immemorial, the souls of ancestors were beguiled by the people, they were called upon to […]...
34. Listopad – the phenomenon of nature The phenomena of nature that are associated with the changing seasons are called seasonal. Listopad just belongs to such seasonal phenomena that occur independently of a person. Trees are living organisms, which means that leaf decay refers to the phenomena of living nature. In the autumn it gradually becomes colder and the foliage of the […]...
35. Composition on the theme of the Gods of Ancient Egypt Osiris is the sun god, Isis is his sister and wife, and Horus is their son. About these gods, mythological legends, re-written to us by Greek writers, were formed, and these myths seem to be symbols of the struggle of the sun and darkness, light and darkness. The details of these legends, or, better to […]...
36. Is man a part of nature Nature can not be understood only as the world of animals and plants. Nature is everything that has been around us since birth. Every part of nature is important. Man and nature are in constant and complex relationships. Nature gives a person the opportunity to live, satisfying his physical needs, enriches his inner world with […]...
37. Description of S. Gerasimov’s paintings “The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl” and S. Baulin “The Temple…” The Church of the Intercession on the Nerl is an amazing building that has come down to us from the depths of centuries, the greatest monument of world architecture. Many artists portrayed this temple on their canvases. The Church of the Intercession is located on the banks of the Nerl River, not far from Bogolyubov, […]...
38. Love is a cosmic feeling The most sublime of human feelings is sometimes heard: the call of love is the call of nature itself. Thus, it seems as if it is asserted that one should simply trust such a feeling. After all, by nature there is and can not be immoral love. This is a situation where it is not […]...
39. Culture essay Culture. How often do we hear this word, what is its meaning and what does it mean? The culture of speech, the cultural man, the culture of nutrition, etc. There are many definitions of this concept, for example: “Culture is human activity in its most diverse manifestations, including all forms and ways of human self-expression […]...
40. An essay on the theme “Conservation of nature” Nature is the natural habitat of man. And it is natural that he needs to take care of her, constantly maintain it, cherish and store it. In ancient times, people were more anxious and careful about what surrounded them. Many cults, rituals and rituals of olden times contributed to the fact that man was in […]...