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Choose ONE of the following to complete for the assignment 

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CHOICE 1

Epic of Gilgamesh

They dragged him down, to the Apsu they pulled him.
He took the plant, though it pricked his hand,
and cut the heavy stones from his feet,
letting the waves throw him onto its shores.

Gilgamesh spoke to Urshanabi, the ferryman, saying:
                “Urshanabi, this plant is a plant against decay
                by which a man can attain his survival.
                I will bring it to Uruk-Haven,
                and have an old man eat the plant to test it.
                The plant’s name is `The Old Man Becomes a Young Man’[1]
                Then I will eat it and return to the condition of my youth.”
 

[1]This is probably the meaning of “Gilgamesh” in Sumerian.

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CHOICE 2

"We Are Not Your Monkeys"

The castle of caste privilege
Began to crumble.

No longer could the elite.

Skim the milk
of religious exploitation.

But poverty grew
And diverted the attention of the poor

A new enemy was found

Muslims were targeted
And “taught a lesson”

To destroy Lanka, O Rama,
You turned us into a monkey army,

And today you want us
The working majority

To form a new monkey army
And attack Muslims.

But be warned  

Be warned you purveyors
Of self-serving religion

We will be your monkeys no more 

We will sing songs of humanity 

And we will make you human as well, 

We will make you human. 

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CHOICE 3

Odyssey, Book 1

“First by far to see her was Prince Telemachus,
sitting among the suitors, heart obsessed with grief.
He could almost see his magnificent father, here…
in the mind’s eye—if only he might drop from the clouds
and drive these suitors in a rout throughout the halls
and regain his pride of place and rule his own domains!

Daydreaming so as he sat among the suitors,
he glimpsed Athena now
and straight to the porch he went, mortified
that a guest might still be standing at the doors.

Pausing beside her there, he clasped her right hand
and relieving her at once of her long bronze spear,
met her with wingedwords: “Greeting, stranger!

Here in our house you’ll find a royal welcome.
Have supper first, thentell us what you need.”
He led the way and Pallas Atnena followed.
Once in the high-roofed hall, he took her lance
and fixed it firm in a burnished rack against
a sturdy pillar, there where row on row of spears,
embattled Odysseus’ spears, stood stacked and waiting.

Then he escorted her to a high, elaborate chair of honor
over it draped a cloth,and here he placed his guest
with a stool to rest her feet. But for himself
he drew up a low reclining chair beside her,
richly painted, clear of the press of suitors
concerned his guest,offended by their uproar,
might shrink from foodin the midst of such a mob.

He hoped, what’s more, to ask her about his long-lost father.”

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