Outside Reading 1

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/09/18/ultimate.fighting.championship/index.html

Rich Franklin was a high school math teacher before he was introduced into "the ring". He fights people every night in an octagon shaped cage in front of thousands of people. He tells reporters, "I do love teaching and working with the students, but I can't imagine sitting at home on a Friday night grading math tests or sitting in a faculty meeting." This ties in with the Iliad because Rich is like Patroclus. At first he starts out not fighting really, just kind of being Achilles helper and servant type, and then after Achilles did not fight when the Acheans truly needed him, Patroclus went and fought. It's a little different for Rich, he just wanted more excitement in his life, where as Patroclus felt that he was compelled to bring home a victory for the Acheans.

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