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Notable Lyrics:''I'd never ask you to change,If perfect's what you're searching for then just stay the same''
Commentary:Ulysses is talking to penelope and how when he wasn't always loyal and how he went through the difficult trials just to get back to his wife he loved.

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Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are [Official Video]

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Nausica demonstrates compassion= Nausicaa gifts Ulysses a ship to get back home, treasure and she even restores him back to health.

Ulysses lands on shore naked and hurt and collapses from hunger.
Nausicaa was told from the gods to go to the river and that she will find what she's looking for. To her surprise she finds Ulysses and helps restore him to full health.Ulysses explains to her that he's a adventurer.Poseidon becomes angered because of how they were helping Ulysses so Poseidon curses the home of Nausicaa.

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Ulysses's crew demonstrate rapacious intent= they want to seize more plunder even though their ships are full with treasure

The voyage was peaceful,with a fair north wind filling the sails blowing along the three ships steadily sailing towards Ithaca.Over the horizon Ulysses and his are see a beautiful little town made with white stone.Deciding that this was a gift from the god they decided to pillage the village.The crew stormed the town and pillaged and raided the town.Reinforcements came from the town,powerful skilled warriors called the Ciconians.Overwelmed by the thousands of warriors, Ulysses's men retreated to the safety of the ships.They were able to board ship and leave but 18 men were killed during the attack.Angered by raiding of the town Poseidon decided to send a northeast gale to the ships to steer them off course as punishment.

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Ino demonstrates trustworthiness=Ino gifts Ulysses a magic veil to help him swim to shore.Ulysses believed that she was a trap from the gods but she was in reality helping him.After he got to shore he thanked her for the kindness she displayed.

Ulysses is gifted a small vessel capable of being sailed with a crew of one man.Ulysses is sailing along when Poseidon notices him and decides to punish him again.Poseidon destroys his ship.Near to death from drowning Ino appears and gives him a veil to help him get to shore.

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Notable Lyrics: ''But then I fooled around and fell in love''
Commentary: Circe falls in love with Ulysses when he outwits her by using the magical herb.Amazed of what happened,circe falls in love with him because Ulysses was the only person capable of withstand the powerful magic.

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Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around & Fell In Love - 1976 -  HD Bubblerock Promo

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Here is a classic Bubblerock video I did - Elvin Bishop's - Fooled Around & Fell In Love - 1976 One of the greatest rock love songs ever !!! I remastered the music and video and added efxs & pics. Enjoy !!!

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Ulysses's crew demonstrate Selfishness =Ulysses's crew lies and kills the sacred cattle, and convince Ulysses to eat the cattle.Even though it would mean death for them.

Ulysses lands on the sun god's island.Upon landing they see plump luxurious cattle with the crew and Ulysses starving they try to use every possible food resource possible except the cattle.After a while the island resources were depleted.Starving and hungry the crew kill and roast the cows.The sun god notices and decides to tell Poseidon to punish them.He sends a lightning bolt to the ships and killed all of the crew except Ulysses.

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Ulysses demonstrates resourcefulness=In front of two dangerous monsters he decided to not try to sacrifice six men and simply sail directly in between them so they didn't have the range to attack them.Though it failed it wasn't a bad idea for the situation.

Ulysses is forced to sail between Scylla and Charybdis to get closer to his home.He tries to sail directly in between so that no crew members would die.Ulysses would have accomplished this feat if it wasn't for the oars on the side of the ship.Scylla grabbed the oars and ate six of the crew members.Ulysses was able to fight her off and continue sailing for Ithaca.

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Ulysses demonstrates perseverance= He forces himself to not cover his ears so he could sail effectively but he gets and earful of beautifull music.His crew ties him to the mast of the ship, in which he sees the ugly creatures the sight of them made Ulysses forget about the music and allowed him to live.

Ulysses travels with his men to the land of the siren sisters.They are described as creatures that make beautiful song forcing them to get closer that when they kill them and make instruments from their bones.Ulysses

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Ulysses demonstrates annoyance=Ulysses doesn't want to follow the will of the gods and he gets flustered that this is his fate.

Ulysses and his men sail away from the land of the dead.They were sailing smoothly but then Ulysses thought he could just avoid the trouble and just sail directly to Ithaca. They sailed through gigantic rocks but at a certain point the rocks started moving and stopped the crew from sailing.They believed it was destiny that Ulysses follow the path the gods have set and decided to just follow the path.

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Ulysses demonstrates persistence=Ulysses does not accept when the ghosts tell him that he will not pass and to just give up, he says that he will persist and reach his home in Ithica.

Ulysses sail to the land of the dead to receive advise.Upon reaching the land of the dead the waves create a dense fog. One of the crew members falls off and the crew and blame him for the death.Ulysses lands and offer a tribute to summon the ghosts.The ghost are summoned and Ulysses receive advise from them.They tell him that he will be challenged by the gods.

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Notable Lyrics:''You act so innocent now, but you lied so soon''
Commentary: Ulysses is talking to Calypso about how she deceived him. How she poked the log to trigger good memories but to never show Ithaca and his wife Penelope.

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Ulysses demonstrates courage=Ulysses climbs the giants clothing ,selflessly willing to risk his life to protect his crew from the giants.

After landing Ulysses told his men to fix and repair the ships because the powerful winds broke the sail. In the shore they decided to replenish supplies.While they were there they noticed an amazing phenomenon.The sky changed from day to night in the time it takes to eat a meal.Ulysses tells his crew member to climb the tree for a better view.He doesn't return and Ulysses repeats this process.On the third attempt he decided to climb it himself.Upon climbing he realized that it was really a sleeping giant.He alerts the crew to leave but the giant wakes up and throws gigantic boulders to the ship destroys two ships killing two-third of the crew.Ulysses sails away with the remaining crew.

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Aeolus demonstrates hospitableness =Aeolus gifts Ulysses a magic bag filled with air capable of helping them fill the sails of their ships to get to Ithaca faster.

Closing in on home Ulysses and his men with meager supplies and needing to refuel land on Aeolus prison.Ulysses entertains the god and gift him a bag filled with powerful wind to aid them getting back home.Ulysses crew become greedy thinking their is treasure in the bag deciding to open it the powerful winds flow out and push

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Ulysses demonstrated cunning=He tells the cyclops his name is nobody, when Ulysses stabs the cyclops in the eye he yells to inform the other cyclops that nobody did it.Beliving that it was an accident they dismiss the comment from the cyclops.

Exhausted from food and water supplies Ulysses and part of his crew decide to land on shore.Finding a cave filled with sheep they enter, unknowingly the cyclops closes the entrance with a gigantic bolder enclosing them within.Ulysses tricks the cyclops to drink unwatered wine making him fall asleep.Ulysses take this opportunity to stab the cyclops in his eye so they could leave.The cyclops freaks out and destroys the boulder giving Ulysses and his crew time to escape from the cave and to get to the safety of their ships.The cyclops prays to Poseidon to punish Ulysses with horrible curses and sorceresses.

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Ulysses demonstrate loyalty = When the crew collapses from the scent of the lotus,Ulysses using all of his strength saves every last crew member deciding to never leave a man behind intentionally.

As the northeast gale pushes them to open water they come to a new area called Libya.Tired from sailing and hunger the crew collapses,unknowingly the inhabitants are very hospitable people.They decided to gift to them honey scented lotuses so when they wake up they would have something to eat.Upon waking up the powerful scent of the flower made them fall asleep.Ulysses figuring this out forces himself to wake up and take the crew to the ship.Thanks to Ulysses his crew was rescued from this trap.

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After the victory at Troy Ulysses sailed home to Ithaca with three ships holding 50 men each with expensive treasure.The ships were beaked warships with 20 oars on each side.Equipped with sail and mast used only for quartering wind but was useless against headwinds.This design forced the ships to be at the mercy of the weather.Due to lack of cargo space only a few day's of food and water could be carried.

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A Hero's Journey:Destiny,Opportunity and Challenges

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The War started when Peleus a mighty hero married Thetis the most beautiful naiad that swam across the waves. It was a momentous wedding,attended by the gods of Olympus.Unfortunately,however,Thetis forgot to send an invitation to Eris, Goddess of Discord.The goddess was angered and came without an invitation to the wedding.She threw a golden apple inscribed with ''To the Fairest'' onto the banquet table. The apple was claimed by three goddesses,all of high ranking.A feud so terrible no god could interfere.The decision was passed to Paris, the son of King Priam to give the apple to the one of the goddesses.Bribes came from all the goddesses all tempting offers.Finaly,Priam choose Aphrodite.She then said to marry the Helen, the most beautiful mortal resembling herself.He traveled to Helen and convinced her to go with him to troy.Helen was beloved by many Kings and suitors.Ulysses,who was one of the suitors offered an idea.That all of Helen's admirers would swear to an oath to refrain from killing the suitor she chose and would defend her and her husband from any attack.When Paris made off with Helen,hundrends of kings were summoned to protect Helen.They banded together and sailed to troy.
For ten years the Greeks tried to fight their way into the city.But the trojans were strong.A brilliant idea was thought up from Ulysses to defeat them.The greeks stopped their siege and sailed out of sight and left a giant wooden horse.Inside were Ulysses and other soldiers waited till the trojans were asleep to crawl out of it and kill the trojans as they slept.They killed the trojans and loaded the ships with treasure.They then packed up and sailed for Ithaca after ten long years of conflict.