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    Section 1.1 Propositional Logic 1 CHAPTER 1 The Foundations: Logic and Proofs SECTION 1.1 Propositional Logic 2. Propositions must have clearly defined truth values‚ so a proposition must be a declarative sentence with no free variables. a) This is not a proposition; it’s a command. b) This is not a proposition; it’s a question. c) This is a proposition that is false‚ as anyone who has been to Maine knows. d) This is not a proposition; its truth value depends on the value of

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    Shakespeare’s King Lear is a play which shows the consequences of one man’s decisions. The audience follows the main character‚ Lear‚ as he makes decisions that disrupt order in his Kingdom. When Lear surrenders all his power and land to his daughters as a reward for their demonstration of love towards him‚ the breakdown on order in evident. Lear’s first mistake is to divide his Kingdom into three parts. A Kingdom is run best under one ruler as only one decision is made without contradiction. Another

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    A device which Shakespeare often utilized to convey the confusion and chaos within the plot of his plays‚ is the reflection of that confusion and chaos in the natural environment of the setting‚ along with supernatural anomalies and animal imageries. In King Lear‚ these devices are used to communicate the plot‚ which is summarized by Gloucester as: …This villain of mine comes under the prediction: there’s son against father. The King falls from bias of nature: there’s

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    Othello's Jealousy

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    in. Iago appears to be honest in such a way that his words are no longer the key. To Othello‚ even the spaces between the words of his loyal Iago‚ are proof enough‚ " . . . [T]hese stops of thine fright me more;/For such things in a false disloyal knave/Are tricks of custom; but in a man that’s just/They’re close dilations‚ working from the heart/That passion cannot rule." (III.iii.120-4) The character of our patient‚ slow -moving and -thinking hero becomes an accelerated persona whose anger‚ jealousy

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    Pip force him to recognize that he is commoner for the first time in his life‚ and make him self-conscious‚ “...I was a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had fallen into a despicable habit of calling knaves jacks; that I was much more ignorant than I had considered myself last night; and generally that I was in a low-lived bad way” (Dickens 65). This quote shows how Estella plays a large role in forcing Pip to look at himself in a whole new light‚ in

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    A newborn baby is completely oblivious to how the world works. They can pick up on many things. It is their desire to learn. To learn others they watch others‚ and try to do the same. They are influenced by everything. Even people of greater age are influenced by many factors. Many things can influence someone at any given time. People observe others being influenced in movies‚ books‚ and stories everyday. Phillip Pirrip‚ or Pip as he is commonly known is influenced by three women in his life during

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    North High School  Summer Reading  Grade 11  Students who are lifelong readers become more successful in their academic classes as well as in their careers after  graduation.  People who read well also write better‚ have larger vocabularies‚ score higher on tests‚ and communicate more  effectively. In order to help promote a joy of reading‚ each student at North High will choose one book from the following list:  books are organized by genre; ​ we suggest parents and students together select thoughtfully and carefully from the 

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    around him who love him. Soon after meeting Estella and Miss Havisham for the first time‚ Pip begins to see himself as “a common laboring-boy; that my hands were coarse; that my boots were thick; that I had falling into a despicable habit of calling knaves Jacks‚” and he even goes as far as to imply that he is “more ignorant than [he] considered [himself] last night (65).” Pip‚ for the first time sees how different life can really be and he finds that he is on the lowly side‚ and this prompts him to

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    is saying how Iago is angry that Cassio got the promotion and not himself. Now he will try to get revenge by ruining Othello’s life. In the story‚ Iago is also a compulsive liar. “What if I had said I had seen him do you wrong? Or heard him say—as knaves be such abroad‚ who having‚ by their own importunate suit‚ or voluntary dotage of some mistress‚ convincèd or supplied them‚ cannot choose but they must blab—“ (Shakespeare‚ A4/S1/P2) Iago is telling Othello that Cassio was telling him about having

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    There are many types of love that are portrayed in Shakespeare’s play "Romeo & Juliet". One of them being sincere‚ dignified love that both the main characters‚ Romeo and Juliet‚ have for each other. Although it seems that Romeo and Juliet do love each other with true‚ whole-hearted love‚ it does seem that they want to rush things in their relationship‚ for instance they fall in love‚ get married and die together within six days! Then again maybe they want to rush things because they do indeed share

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