MIddlesex+(271-318)

Definitions: Thucydides: Thucydides is a historian and author from Alimos. He has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" because of his standard of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods. He has also been called the father of the school of political realism which views the relations between nations based on might rather than right. Many of his text are stilll studied at advanced military colleges. He showed an interest in developing and understanding of human nature to explain behavior in crises. []

Schliemann: Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in Homer's works. He was an archaeological excavator of Troy, Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events. []

What does the term hemaphrodite mean to you? Do you know the definition? What associations do you have about the word? What about transsexual? A hermaphrodite is a person who possesses both male and female genitalia. I personally don't have any other associations with the word hermaphrodite beyond the definition of the word. A transsexual is a person who identifies with the gender of the opposite sex than their biological sex.

5. Cal is left to her own devices during adolescence, experiencing the changes (or lack thereof) that come with puberty alone. She has noone to turn to as her parents are both very "hush-hush" about her sexuality. She struggles alone as all of the girls around her begin to change, developing breasts and getting their periods. Even when Cal does begin to experience physical changes, they are not necessarily consistent with the bodily changes of most girls her age. Nobody seems to notice the distress she experiences in being different and she feels like she has noone to turn to. I feel like it should be her parents' responsibility to be more open and approachable when it comes to the subject of sexuality; they should not leave her to her own devices to take on these big changes alone.