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    can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools‚ Or watch the things you gave your life to‚ broken‚ And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss‚ And lose‚ and start again

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    What need you‚ being come to sense‚ But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer‚ until You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save; Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone‚ It’s with O’Leary in the grave. Yet they were of a different kind‚ The names that stilled your childish play‚ They have gone about the world like wind‚ But little time had they to pray For whom the hangman’s rope was spun‚ And what‚ God help

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    HAMLET ACT 5 RESPONSE

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    suicide. The gravedigger named "Gravedigger" as opposed to "Other" was very clever. He reminded me a bit of like Polonius‚ wise and perceptive. And when Hamlet came in to observe‚ Hamlet almost treated Gravedigger like he had Polonius‚ calling him a knave for treating the dead remains or bones he was digging with no courtesy or respect. A bit later Laertes and the king and queen come in carrying Ophelia’s coffin to bury her. Hamlet is upset at the way Laertes is mourning for her and fights him. I thought

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    For each scene you read (with the exception of the really short ones)‚ you will choose one passage. This passage‚ or quote‚ should be significant to the scene as well as the larger play. Write the passage and identify who is speaking and to whom. Explain the significance of the scene and how it impacts the overall story. - Quote and who’s speaking to whom (5 points) asdlfkjlkfj - Significance to the scene and the rest of the play (5 points) - There are a total of 16 longer scenes @ 10 points

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    Chiarelli 1 Stephen Chiarelli Ms. MacDonell 5/03/2014 ENG4U Passage Master The play‚ Julius Caesar‚ by William Shakespeare‚ exploits the new historicism approach for the era it was written in and the era that it takes place in. The approach concentrates on how places‚ events and culture within a society affect or influence a written work. Therefore‚ using the knowledge of Shakespearean era‚ “1564-1616” (bbc.co.uk) and the Ancient Roman era‚ “100 BC-44 BC” (bbc.co.uk) one can analyze the texts

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    Eamon Shannon Capt Hellmann English 211 – Othello Essay 22 September 2016 Othello: An Air of Racism William Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Othello‚ introduces race early on in the play indicating it will be an important motif throughout the rest of the play. During the course of Act 1‚ multiple discriminatory references to Othello’s skin color as well as his Turkish heritage sets the stage for how other characters as well as Othello himself will treat the “black moor” in the play. He is not seen as a counterpart

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    Aristotelian Ethics & Distributive Justice Concern with material equality as the central form of distributive justice is a very modern idea. Distributive justice for Aristotle and many other writers for millennia after him was a matter of distributing what each ought to get from merit or desert in some sense. The idea of equality was arguably anathema to Aristotle and most other theorists‚ including Catholic philosophers‚ until modern times‚ indeed until the nineteenth century. A common view was

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    deceived by others‚ men talking about one another draws distinctions between the amount of power held by each group. Here‚ men construct power by using words associated first with different classes of people. In act 4‚ Petruccio calls his servants “knaves” (4.1.100) and he himself is compared to a “footboy” when Biondello says “a monster‚ a very monster in apparel‚ and not like a / christian footboy or gentleman’s lackey” (3.2.63-64). In equating a negative appearance with another particular group

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    Jealousy In Othello Essay

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    Jealousy is a strong feeling. It can overpower a person’s good will‚ and ability to make sensible decisions. In Shakespeare’s "Othello‚" Iago deals with the roots of jealousy. He conspires to use Othello’s good nature against him‚ to make Cassio lieutenant. Iago destroys Cassio’s reputation for his own greed. He has a name for jealousy‚ called the “green eyed monster”. He uses anybody he can to carry out his jealous revenge scheme on Othello‚ including his own wife‚ and ex-lieutenant. Iago desires

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    away. He unveils his anger to Kate when he brutally scolds all of his servants for failing to attend to him properly. By saying‚ “You peasant swain‚ you wholesome‚ malthouse drudge‚/ Did I not bid thee meeting me in the park/ And bring these rascal knaves with thee?” (The Taming of the Shrew 4.1.115). This extremely vulgar use of words represents the true evil within

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