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    you agree that we can both pity and condemn Lady Macbeth? Lady Macbeth’s character in the play ‘Macbeth’ has a view‚ which we can either pity her or condemn her. My view of Lady Macbeth is that she is only a woman and we must pity her. And also throughout the play she helps her husband and her relationship doesn’t even go well. She loves her husband but at the same time very ambitious‚ as shown by her immediate determination for Macbeth to be king. Lady Macbeth knows her husband well. She thinks

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    play is about the downfall of a hero. In this play one of the main charactersLady Macbeth‚ is shown as a strong character. Some believe she is even a stronger character than her husband‚ Macbeth. However‚ I do not perceive the characters of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in this way. I view Lady Macbeth as weaker than her husband due to her: lack to admit when she is wrong‚ inability to back up her words‚ and her cowardliness. Lady Macbeth does not easily back down when she believes she is right. She

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    Love is a dangerous thing. In the story “The Lady or the Tiger” by Frank Stockton‚ a princess must make a challenging decision that will determines her lover’s fate. When a man is put on trial for loving the princess‚ he relies on her to decide if he gets to live and get married‚ or get mauled by a tiger. The princess will choose the tiger. Within this story‚ the royal family is given distinguishing traits that explain why the princess would choose death upon her lover. Because she is the daughter of

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    Background The Marine Turtle Sanctuary is a 2-kilometer stretch of white sand peninsula of Punta Dumalag in Matina Aplaya‚ Davao City where endangered Hawksbill turtles (Pawikan) have safely found their home and sanctuary. Also known as the Pawikan Sanctuary‚ the site is part of the 37-hectare Marine Protected Area (MPA) that was established through Council Resolution No. 02504-03 declaring the area as a nesting ground for Hawksbill Turtles. The local government of Davao City created the Marine

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    Sons and Lovers

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    Educational Series‚ 1993). At the time this letter was written Lawrence was fictionalizing his relationship with his mother‚ as well as the rest of his family‚ in the novel Sons and Lovers . In the novel the Lawrences would be named the Morels‚ but though the names are different there are many parallels between Sons and Lovers and Lawrence’s own life. These parallels are what make the novel truly autobiographical. However‚ the strongest evidence of the autobiographical nature of this novel exists in the

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    The Demon Lover

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    The Demon Lover and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen was first published in Britain in 1945. In 1946‚ the collection was published in the United States under the title Ivy Gripped the Steps and Other Stories. Without exception‚ reviewers greeted it enthusiastically‚ praising it for what was described in the New Yorker as ‘‘a completely successful explanation of what war did to the mind and spirit of the English people.’’ Today‚ ’’The Demon Lover’’ is probably the most anthologized of Bowen’s short

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    some change? Because you are black. Actually‚ because your skin is a different color‚ or because you are a different kind of religion. In a way I admire them because they’ve survived for hundreds of years until they were free‚ and now that they’re free‚ the modern white man harasses them and beats them. I mean‚ they even had a world wide organization named for them. The KKK has been around for a while. The KKK‚ or Ku Klux Klan‚ began because of their intense hatred of black and Jewish people. Valerie

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    Characters effect the way any novel or story turns out. They greatly influence the story with decisions being made and the way they may handle them. The main character of any story has the main role and has the greatest effect on outcomes in a novel. In the story “The Demon Lover‚” Mrs. Drovers character is very diverse‚ and not in a very positive way to say the least. Her character seems mostly typical and ordinary at first but you begin to see a different side of herself as the story prolongs.

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    Black Death: A Short Story

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    her I did not feel good so she told me to lay down and rest‚ so I got into bed. I tried to go to sleep‚ but It was hard. I decided to read a book to slowly make me tired. I grabbed a random book of the shelf and went in my bed. The book was called‚ “Black Death”. The first words were‚ “Sailing through the seas made the ship rock back and forth‚ making everyone seasick.” It sounded boring‚ but It made me think about my dad on the plane that could have crashed on the sea. I started to cry‚ slowly getting

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    Porphyria's Lover

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    involving the social paradigm of the context‚ essentially conveying the consequences of challenging strict class structures placed on individuals through portraying the disastrous effect of upper and lower class interaction. The text’s title‚ “Porphyria’s Lover”‚ which alludes to a disease highlights that the persona is being infected by Porphyria to point where it makes him sick‚ suggesting that inter-class relationships are abnormal and unhealthy. Porphyria is implied to be of higher social status than

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