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    qualities of fair‚ equal‚ courage‚ brave‚ honest and a positive leader. This makes the opposite a villain a person who wishes wrong for someone or a person who creates evil. The event changes dramatically‚ a hero of the past may not be considered a hero in the present and versa. Hernando Cortes a hero for joining two worlds and conquering the most powerful civilization of America or Hernando Cortes a villain for making the Aztec Empire disappear. Hernando Cortez was an important symbol for the explorations

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    Living in the shadows: lesbians in India By Sweta Madhuri Kannan on August 18‚ 2011  Introduction: lesbians in Indian society Lesbians in India are conspicuous by their lack of visibility in mainstream society. If one were to accept the Indian government’s stance concerning sexual minorities‚ lesbians would not exist[1]. Sadly‚ this is an attitude that resonates with large parts of Indian society even today. Lesbian invisibility has become a deep-seated feature of society and has had a deterring

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    Christopher Columbus is a man who is known in society simultaneously as a hero and a villain of his time. What if the world had to pick only one‚ what would it be? Many new studies and scholars believe that Columbus was the villain of his story not a hero as past information would lead us to believe. Past documents were all written from Europe’s point of view‚ this lead to extremely biased documents because Europe was the side to profit unlike the Native Americans. Columbus was the antagonist

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    portrayed to be a villain. She is a married woman who flirts with men and is referred to as a tart. She can also be described as kind of a trouble maker. She has gotten men on the ranch in trouble with her husband‚Curley‚ and doesn’t seem loyal to him.But she can also be labeled as a victim.She is isolated and mistreated by Curley‚who she doesn’t like any ways and is called names by the men on the ranch ‚which she has to stay on. It can be argued that Curley’s Wife is a villain. Its is said that

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    In the year of 1451‚ there was the birth of a man named Christopher Columbus‚ the son of a wool merchant. During Columbus early years he was known for sailing around the continent in hopes of finding the new world‚ but‚ later on he became known as an evil person. At the end of the 14th century‚ Christopher Columbus and the Europeans began their search for a direct route to Asia. The Portuguese main focus was to set sail east and south around Africa‚ however‚ Christopher Columbus believed he could

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    characters can be portrayed as both a hero and a villain. Shakespeare shows this in Macbeth through different themes and techniques. Some techniques include; similes‚ irony‚ metaphors and personification. A hero is a person who is admired for their courage‚ outstanding achievements‚ or noble qualities and a villain is the person or thing responsible for specified problems‚ harm‚ or damage. I will be discussing about Macbeth showing how he is more of a villain than a hero. Macbeth is shown as courageous

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    loathing for the character Shylock‚ which would no longer occur at present times. There are two very different opinions of Shylock that we will be discussing‚ victim or a villain. Both sides of Shylock’s personality are portrayed throughout "˜The Merchant of Venice.’ Many of the characters in the play look upon Shylock as a villain‚ but this indeed might just be a biased opinion because of the love that they have for a fellow friend‚ who’s life has been put at stake due to a bond connecting the two

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    JOSHUA MQABUKO POLITECHNIC ENGLISH SECTION TOPIC: Morphology Introduction Like any other language English has structures. The structures are made up of component parts such as phonemes‚ morphemes‚ words‚ phrases‚ clauses‚ sentences‚ paragraphs‚ texts and discourse. Needless to say‚ parts of speech like nouns‚ pronouns‚ verbs‚ adverbs‚ adjectives‚ prepositions‚ conjunctions forms part of larger grammatical units. Definition Morphology is: a way of studying language(linguistics). about

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    Christopher Columbus was a villain because he promoted slavery and brought new diseases to the Americas. Christopher Columbus promoted the enslavement of the natives. For example‚ He wrote in his diary on October twelfth‚ “…that the people are ingenious‚ and would be good servants…” (Halsall). This shows that Columbus believed that these people would be good slaves‚ so therefore he could take them. This is important because Columbus was only thinking of himself and was encouraging slavery. Furthermore

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    Julius Caesar Was Julius Caesar a hero or a villain? People have been arguing amongst each other about this question‚ here is my opinion. Julius Caesar was not a villain but‚ a hero‚ he made many reforms and accomplishments during his reign. Julius was an excellent military leader‚ made many reforms and was a great political leader. First and foremost‚ he was a great and brilliant general.He took over most of Gaul (Modern day France‚ Belgium‚ southern Holland‚ Germany west of the Rhine River‚ and

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