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    You may often get told to wear sunglasses to protect your eyes‚ but you may not know what can happen if you don’t wear them. Many people don’t realize how much damage the sun’s harsh rays really can do to their eyes‚ and sun damage to your eyes can show up immediately and later in life. Next time you plan to leave the house on a sunny day without your sunglasses‚ remember these ways you will be harming your eyes if you skip them. 1. You Can Get Sunburn on Your Corneas Now If someone told you that

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    Oedipus Analysis

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    Honors World Lit 10/11/12 Oedipus Analysis Prologue -(1-181) -Oedipus‚ Priest‚ People‚ Creon * O‚ The True Riddle * Return of the Sphinx * The source of the blood -I choose these titles because they reflect what the audience learns from the Prologue. Although Oedipus is the savior of Thebes by answering the Sphinx’s riddle‚ he has yet truly made the city happy. Even though the Sphinx does not actually arrive again‚ there is a new problem that Oedipus is faced with. The source

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    Psychology Of Hamlet Death is never an easy thing to handle. Imagine losing the person you look up to‚ idolize‚ and has always helped you when you ’ve fallen. After this kind of tragedy‚ it is not easy to move on and act like everything is fine. Now picture what it would feel like to discover it was your own uncle that took that person away; your father‚ his brother. Hamlet expected his family to grieve. He assumed that they would all be as heart broken as he was‚ but they weren ’t. Hamlet ’s expectations

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    oedipus rex

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    In Sophocles’ play‚ Oedipus Rex‚ there are many themes that are woven through the life of King Oedipus‚ and revealed through the key points of the plot. One of the most important themes is the inevitability of ones’ fate. Although fate is considered the usual genre of the Greeks in playwriting there‚ are specifics that Oedipus conducts unusual to our own way of thinking of a king during the Ancient Greek times. For example: Oedipus’s ignorance of believing what is said from his wife‚ Iocaste and

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    Oedipus Flaws

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    Another flaw of Oedipus that leads to his self-destruction is his excessive self-pride. He made it his mission to find the killer of Laius in order to end the misery that the plague in Thebes caused. He was sure of himself that he will save the land‚ ironically not realizing that he is the one at fault. He sees himself as being all mighty since he presumably escaped his fate. He was able to save Thebes from the Sphinx so he thinks history can repeat itself and he can be a hero ones again for his

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    Indian Homemaker Insights

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    2/1/2010 STRATEGIC RETAILING CONSUMER INSIGHTS- HOME MAKER Understanding the Indian Homemaker Gaurav Arora/ Riddhima Chopra February 1‚ 2010 CONSUMER INSIGHTS- HOME MAKER Understanding the Indian Homemaker A homemaker is a man or woman that chooses to stay at home instead of having a career outside the home‚ so they can run their household and raise a family. They often feel exhausted as they do not have a dedicated break time. Along with caring for the children‚ they

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    Grendel's Moral Blindness

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    the Danes reflect their true nature as the story’s monsters. The Danes were extremely apathetic towards Grendel and any other outcast. They looked down on him and dismissed anyone associated with any curse‚ which can represent cultural and moral blindness. To first understand Grendel’s misunderstood actions‚ one must first understand his past to understand his behaviors. Grendel’s actions are the one of a creature abandoned by his own father

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    those around him are not who he believes they are. The issue of vision and insight‚ and the absence of it‚ is a major theme in Lear. This theme is portrayed through the characters of King Lear‚ Gloucester and Edgar. The lack of insight‚ or “blindness”‚ is very symbolic. Blindness is defined as “unable to see; lacking the sense of sight;”(Dictionary). For Lear‚ blindness was not physical; it was his flaw. Lear’s blindness to see who a person really was‚ based on their character and personality‚ was

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    Hamlet

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    The Tragedy of Hamlet‚ Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark‚ the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet‚ Claudius’s brother and Prince Hamlet’s father‚ and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude‚ the old king’s widow and Prince Hamlet’s mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage—and explores themes of treachery

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    INSIGHTS ON GUIDANCE It is said that school is second to home‚ and teachers act as a child’s parent. The role of a teacher therefore is equated to the role of a parent. One of these roles‚ and perhaps the most complicated one is the role of giving guidance. First‚ one cannot guide if he is lost. Meaning‚ inorder for a person to be able to give out guidance to another person‚ he must first examine himself very well. Because guidance is all about leading someone to the right path. Therefore

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