David had always heard the stories his parents would tell him about the golden safe.His Grandma would always bore him with banal stories of how his grandpa would spend hours each day trying to open the safe. His house had always been in his family‚ and since his great-great grandpa moved in‚ there had always been a golden safe in the closet of the basement. For years‚ they were adamant about opening it and cracking the code‚ but eventually around the time that david was born‚ they family gave up
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disapproval for the revolution’s more brutal side would tarnish his reputation among progressives‚ he slyly managed to disguise the disapproval he wanted to audience to feel in sympathy for characters and remains an avid supporter of the people’s right to revolt against tyrannical
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After reading the end of Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart‚ I had sympathy for the main character of the story; Okonkwo‚ who represents the vulnerability of a tribe by the coming of the Europeans and their Christianity rules‚ and the abuse of power and violence that the officials in the jail used to dehumanize the leaders of Umofia in the last chapters on the novel. An unexpected ending of the novel took me by surprise‚ I believe Okonkwo is a victim from his own destiny and the circumstances
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”(7) and Dill “ goin’ on seven” (8) Each character viewed courage as something physical. The Radley Place was known to scare the forks of Maycomb. The house had “rain-rotted shingles dropped over the eaves of the veranda: oak trees kept the sun away.”(10) The house appearances wasn’t the only thing keeping the members of the society away but “ inside the house lived a malevolent phantom”(10) always known as Boo. To Jem and Scout “The
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Question 1. Which strategic marketing assumptions and decisions arguably made Boo.com’s failure inevitable? Contrast these with other dot-com era survivors that are still in business‚ for example lastminute.com‚ Egg.com and Firebox. com. Boo.com was started by 3 Swedish entrepreneurs as they wanted to launch a world wide online retail website selling major sports brands clothing like Adidas‚ Nike‚ Fila‚ Lacoste‚ Polo and Ralph Lauren etc. there were major decisions and assumptions were made
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I predict the kids will not meet Boo because I think people are lying when they say he comes out at night. Boo is locked up all day‚ but apparently people have seen him come outside at night‚ that is another reason why I think the kids will not meet Boo as well. Boo is/ might still be a part of a gang. Boo is also locked up because he was a part of a gang‚ and because he had other bad ideas that he did. Boo never really did anything bad in the gang‚ the worst they did was drink whisky and run around
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question 3. Use details from the text to support their argument 4. Show that they understand the context and the values of Shakespeare’s time and can compare them with the time in which the play is being read/viewed Question: ‘I have no sympathy for Macbeth. He is a despicable human being who deserves what he gets.’ Do you agree with this assessment of the character Macbeth? Support your argument with close reference to the context‚ structure and language of the play. Shakespeare’s
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are lured onto an island and mysteriously murdered. Of the characters in the book‚ some can be considered purely evil. This is seen through their lack of empathy and sympathy‚ even after doing awful things. Firstly‚ lack of sympathy is often tied to psychopaths or sociopaths‚ which is a common trait in people that are evil. Sympathy is the act of feeling pity for someone or something. Vera Claythorne‚ the new secretary of “U.N. Owen”‚ has a pretty bad past as she had murdered a child for the chance
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from Christian and Jewish theology; he is known to represent evil and wickedness. The song “Devil’s Dance”‚ written by James Alan Hetfield and Lars Ulrich‚ performed by Metallica‚ presents an ideal version of the devil. On the other hand‚ the song “Sympathy for the Devil” written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards‚ performed by The Rolling Stones‚ introduces its own devil‚ distinct from the norm. Although‚ both songs establish the same point of view‚ they differ in tone and in theme. Apart from having
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Richard Wright introduces Bigger Thomas‚ a liar and a thief. Wright evokes sympathy for this man despite the fact that he commits two murders. Through the reactions of others to his actions and through his own reactions to what he has done‚ the author creates compassion in the reader towards Bigger to help convey the desperate state of Black Americans in the 1930’s. The simplest method Wright uses to produce sympathy is the portrayal of the hatred and intolerance shown toward Thomas as a black
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