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God Of The Skies Research Paper

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Josh Vazquez
Ms. windish
English II
3 December 2017

The God of the Skies
A lightning bolt, god of the skies, and lots of different women. These are three good ways to describe Zeus the god of the skies and the controller of lightning. Zeus is fond of the humans, he likes to be with a lot of different women, and he can control lightning.
Zeus is fond of the humans. Zeus is fond of the humans an example of this is during the Titan and Roman war zeus didn’t pick sides. This shows that he likes the humans because he didn't want to pick sides because he liked both the Titans and the Romans and didn't want to offend either group even though his wife was on the Roman side.
Zeus likes to be with different women. Zeus has relationships with

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