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    Fools rush in 1. Summary of the Film Returning from one job site with a large spearfish‚ Alex learns from his close friend Jeff that he doesn’t want to go to Japan for his next assignment‚ but to Las Vegas. The timing will allow them both to return to Manhattan and manage another new site there in the Big Apple. So it’s off to Las Vegas for Alex Whitman‚ and during one of his early sojourns into a Mexican restaurant he meets Isabel. They find themselves in a casual night of passion. Three months

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    Shakespeare’s‚ King Lear‚ the Fool plays three major roles. One of these roles is of an "inner-conscience" of Lear. The Fool provides basic wisdom and reasoning for the King at much needed times. The Fool also works as amusement for Lear in times of sadness and is also one of the only people besides the Duke of Kent and Cordelia who are willing to stand up to the King. The Fool works as the "inner conscience" of Lear throughout the play. The Fool shows Lear the side of reasoning

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    To understand the Fool in this story we need to know what a fool is. "Fool: also called jester‚ a comic entertainer whose madness or imbecility‚ real or pretended‚ made him a source of amusement and gave him license to abuse and poke fun at even the most exalted of his patrons." (Encyclopedia Brittanica‚ 1995 ed.) Although the fool is a funny entertainer‚ he tells the hard truth. He is “allowed” to tell the cold‚ hard truth about someone or something. This is only allowed for him‚ it would be inappropriate

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    Discuss the significance of the fool in Shakespeare’s comedies with specific reference to twelfth night. Oxford English Dictionary defines a fool as " a silly person" or "one who professionally counterfeits folly for the entertainment of others" .The fool is a typical character that Shakespeare employs in many of his comedic plays‚ and feste the fool is not exempt from this. Feste is employed as a licenced fool and adds the tones of farce and humour to the play. In twelfth night feste plays a cardinal

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    Valerie Oliva Dr. Riggs Sociology 1010 November 2‚ 2013 Saints and Roughnecks 1) Some deviant activities the Saints were involved in‚ included heavily drinking in nightclubs‚ driving drunkenly through the streets‚ and committing acts of vandalism and playing pranks. And just like the Saints‚ the Roughnecks usually committed these three types of delinquency: theft‚ drinking‚ and fighting. Both gangs involved seriousness on what they did‚ because all of them put people in danger whether by stealing

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    "Fools" By Neil Simon’s I went and saw the play "Fools" by Neil Simon’s. Here is a summary of the play that I went and watched and enjoyed. The play is set a long time ago in the Russian village. The current people are living under a 200 year-old curse that has rendered generations of townsfolk stupid. Or so they seem to think. They are aware enough to know they’re stupid so just how dumb can they be? And‚ they know enough to realize that the curse can be broken and they know enough to look forward

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    Fools Rush In The director Is Andy Tennant he was born into a family of creative talent. Ever since he has been directing movies they have been about love and conflict as in Fools Rush In. Each movie starts off as a some what normal situation between two people who will almost always end up together but have to go through a lot to solve all of their problems they face in being together. The writer is Katherine Reback And Joan Taylor both known for writing witty romantic movies likes Fools Rush

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    “Drinking makes fools of people‚ and people are such fools to begin with that it’s compounding a felony.” - Robert Benchley‚ explains that people get intoxicated makes them fools‚ but that people are such fools already before they are drunk that when they are intoxicated it is basically a crime to themselves and others. Jay Gatsby‚ one of the main characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby throws extravagant parties for many people which in many instances drunk people make extremely foolish

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    Jonathan Swift lived during the 17th-18th century‚ from 1667 – 1745. He lived in Dublin and Ireland. What was his family’s socioeconomic status? Jonathan Swift’s socioeconomic status was very poverty-stricken. How did he view the English politics‚ specifically as it related to Ireland? The restoration of the Catholic monarchy‚ which was a real threat during his lifetime‚ would‚ he feared‚ result in "Papist" absolutism; in the loss of the liberties‚ privileges‚ and freedoms which

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    Hobbes vs the Fool In Hobbes case‚ justice is characterized supporting a covenant‚ and for those who shatter their covenant will be penalized accordingly.  The fool first expresses his assertion having “said in his heart: ’there is no such thing as justice’” (L p. I ch: xv [4]).  If there are no covenants to be broken‚ this would signify neither just or unjust actions exist.  The fool by rejecting the reality of fairness is rejecting the achievement of covenants in general‚ yet as we currently

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