Best Christmas Ever! Every year I have a great Christmas spending valuable time with family and friends. This past Christmas was the best I’ve ever had. I received the best unexpected gift ever! It all started when everyone in my family came to my house early Christmas morning for breakfast. After breakfast we started passing out gifts. First‚ we would usually go in a huge circle and everyone would open one gift at a time. This time was different and very odd to me. My family would let everyone
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Best Week Ever It was the first day of recruitment‚ Sarah and Jessica and I were going to go together. We all got ready in my room and headed over to Blum for the information night. When we got there‚ I had sweat pints as big as softballs and we were the first ones there. While us waiting for all the girls who were rushing to come so the meeting could start. We started talking to all the active girls‚ so we can get to know them all. I was so nervous to meet all of them and felt so little to them
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102-013 December 10‚ 2013 Revenge Essay Revenge If there is one thing that has been prevalent since human interaction began‚ it is the concept of revenge. Everyone has a moment in their life where someone does them wrong‚ and they want nothing more than to get back at the person who is responsible. While this reaction is completely normal‚ the results of actually acting on these feelings usually end badly for everyone involved. One of the main reasons that revenge does not typically end well
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2011 Discuss Hamlet as a revenge tragedy Revenge has caused the downfall of many a person. Its consuming nature causes one to act recklessly through anger rather than reason. Revenge is an emotion easily rationalized; one turn deserves another. However‚ this is a very dangerous theory to live by. Throughout Hamlet‚ revenge is a dominant theme. Fortinbras‚ Laertes‚ and Hamlet all seek to avenge the deaths of their fathers. But in so doing‚ all three rely more on emotion than thought‚ and take
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married to Hamlet’s mother‚ Queen Gertrude. Outraged by this account‚ Hamlet promises to get revenge for his father’s death. Revenge is the whole basis of the play; it is prolonged and postponed until the very end. Though written nearly 400 years ago‚ the theme of revenge depicted in Hamlet still rings true today. The ghost of old King Hamlet set the scene for revenge when he commanded his son to “Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder” (Act I Scene 5). Determined to do just that‚ Hamlet spent
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cheating is ever passable. One definition of cheating is to act unfairly in order to gain an advantage. Another definition of cheating is to avoid something undesirable by luck or skill. I don’t believe that acting unfairly to gain an advantage is ever tolerable‚ but developing your abilities to evade something is typically acceptable. To initiate the conversation‚ I will start with a convenience we use every day‚ a computer. Personal computers are not just desktops anymore and can come in the
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The best journey ever I lowered myself into the sleek‚ red‚ open‚ sedan. I was tired from my journey by plane to Spain‚ but was looking forward to a rather enjoyable road journey with my best friend. So long as she was driving‚ how did it matter how long the journey was. Soon we were moving through a meadow. Dew glistened on the bright green grass and poppies danced to the beat of the breeze. A few miles away‚ a whole carpet of flowers covered the land. A heady‚ sweet scent reached my nose and
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Revenge in all forms usually carries tragic elements‚ the death or plight of one man‚ will naturally cause grievance for another. However the lust with which Hamlet seeks his revenge is one with little equilibrium‚ his thirst for death throws all his other actions into a catastrophic unbalance that ultimately leads to further tragedy within his opposing character throughout the play. Beginning with his soliloquy in Act 4‚ its clear Hamlet knows to what extent his lust for ’eye for an eye’ revenge
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Sweet Revenge Revenge is a natural instinct in the human mind. Humans want to get back at people that have done them wrong and most of the time this is done quickly and rashly‚ without actually doing much harm. Revenge cannot be something done on an impulse. It needs to be planned in order to be successful. In William Shakespeare’s revenge play Hamlet‚ Hamlet delays his revenge because he wants to be able to absolutely prove Claudius’s guilt in killing the King. The first point in the play
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to be the case? Is there an impenetrable border between childhood and adulthood‚ or can certain things carry over? Depending on your age and personal experience‚ fairy tales like Cinderella can be perceived in several drastically different mindsets. As a young child‚ Disney portrayed Cinderella as a magical rags to riches tale where a poor maiden was swept off her feet by her Prince Charming and lived happily ever after. Complete with insightful talking mice‚ extravagant ball gowns and an extremely
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