1/2/11 Boston Common Ever since my first day at Sutter Middle School I have always looked forward to going on the trip to Boston with Mrs. Cooperman’s class. This is a huge opportunity for an 8th grader like myself to be pushed above their limits and fly across the country with their close friends and with their teacher. Since this trip is coming up I have taken the liberty into researching where I am about to go and what I am about to see. One historical landmark that caught my eye would
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In an essay in 1833‚ William Forster Lloyd outlined a phenomenon called the “tragedy of the commons.” The tragedy of the commons can be defined as individuals acting only for their personal benefit‚ thus depleting a necessary group resource to the point that it cannot recover (“Tragedy”). This issue reared its head in the state of North Carolina recently due to the gas shortage caused by a damaged pipeline. On September 9th‚ Colonial Pipeline Company discovered it had a leak in its southern pipeline
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Grendel Analysis Grendel is seen as a ruthless and coldhearted monster in Burton Raffel’s translation of Beowulf. He is hated by the Danish people and is thought to have an animalistic personality. “He is portrayed as a three sided figure: part monster‚ part devil‚ part human” (Ruud 3). In John Gardner’s novel‚ Grendel is not an animal or a devil‚ but is a creature that is misunderstood with a conscience. “I shake my head‚ muttering darkly on shaded paths‚ holding conversation with the only friend
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Aristotle ’s Rules For Tragedy Laid Down In Poetics As They Apply To Blood Relations By Sharon Pollock Aristotle could be considered the first popular literary critic. Unlike Plato‚ who all but condemned written verse‚ Aristotle breaks it down and analyses it so as to separate the good from the bad. He studies in great detail what components make a decent epic or tragedy. The main sections he comes up with are form‚ means and manner. For most drama and verse‚ Aristotle ’s rules are a fairly
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The quote from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s book The Scarlet Letter‚ “No man‚ for any considerable length of time‚ can wear one face to the multitude and another to himself without finally becoming confused as to which is true” (p.170) can be seen throughout the whole novel. The first example is Arthur Dimmesdale. He has to keep the secret that he is Pearl’s father. To the whole town‚ Dimmesdale is known as being a great minister‚ but in this mind he was really a sinner. By having this battle going on in
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Hamlet’s tragedies comes from a number of things. Hamlet is already upset and angry over his father’s death. Not knowing who killed his father truly has him distraught. When the play starts you can tell Hamlet is in grief‚ to the point he wishes he was dead. Hamlet even thinks about suicide. “Oh‚ that this too‚ too sullied flesh would melt had not fixed his canon against self- slaughter” (Hamlet‚ 1.2‚ 132) The second cause of Hamlet’s tragedy would be his mother Gertrude. The fact that his mother
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optimistic illusion. This deliberation has been the subject and driving force of multiple tragedies‚ perhaps most famously Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex and William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth. These timeless classics placed literary recognition and relevance to the conflict between fate and free will‚ and have inspired countless works of drama‚ especially tragedies‚ since their original creation; Arthur Miller in particular focused on this paradox of destiny in his renowned plays Death of a Salesman
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play that has been made into a movie is “Othello.” The play “Othello” is one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. It is about a black general in the Italian army‚ Othello‚ and what happened between him and his wife‚ Desdemona. The main villain in this play is Iago; who is a soldier under Othello’s command. Iago tells Othello numerous lies about Desdemona and Othello’s friend‚ and former right-hand man‚ Cassio. Shakespeare covers quite a few of the major issues that are still facing society today. These
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Arthur Reed Case Study In this essay‚ I am going to discuss the staff management problem Arthur Reed faces every summer. Arthur Reed‚ a supervisor at the Blue Grocery Stores‚ has an issue with hiring temporary workers in sufficient numbers to cover the sick and vacationing workers for the summer months. As warehouse supervisor in charge of two shifts on the shipping dock‚ Arthur usually manages to run the shifts smoothly every year except in the summer months. During the summer months‚ Arthur
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to its highest. Committing a sin is considered to be unholy. Puritans were one of the most strict groups to obey and follow God’s plan. In the Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorn‚ many characters struggle to carry the burden of sin on their backs. Arthur Dimmesdale‚ a Puritan minister‚ struggled the greatest with his sin which eventually led to his death. Dimmesdale’s sin was the greatest because he sinned against God and the Church but he also sinned against Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth
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