"The Bet" is an 1889 short story by Anton Chekhov about a banker and a young lawyer who make a bet with each other about whether the death penalty is better or worse than life in prison. The story has a twist ending. As the story opens‚ the banker is recalling the occasion of the bet fifteen years before. Guests at a party that he was hosting that day fell into a discussion of capital punishment; the banker argued that capital punishment is more humane than life imprisonment‚ while the young lawyer
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The Seagull/Ang Tagak The Seagull/ Ang Tagak is the second offering of Dulaang Up 37th Season which portrays art‚ love‚ and life. This is directed by Tony Mabesa‚ written by Anton Chekhov‚ and translated in tagalog by Rolando Tinio. The main characters are Konstantin Gavrilovich‚ Nina Zarechnaya‚ Irina Arkadina‚ and Trigorin. Other members include Polina‚ Shmaraev‚ and Medvedenko. Konstantin‚ a young writer‚ is in love with a beautiful and wealthy neighbor Nina
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The main character of the short story‚ “The Eighty Yard Run” is Christian Darling. Everything in life cannot be handed to anyone on a silver platter and Christian finds this out the hard way. He is a man who thinks he is a famous football player but soon finds out he is not as good as he thinks. He was an athlete but not a gifted one‚ he spent the most of his career blocking for someone else better. Louise is Christian’s wife and she treats him like gold and spoils him with many gifts. Christian
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woman. This stage in her development is reflected not only in her maternal feelings toward her younger brothers‚ but even more so in her semi-romantic/sexual fantasies about Peter Pan. As we delved deeper into the character and journey of Wendy Darling‚ we were struck by the parallels between this story and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll‚ 1865). In both cases‚ prepubescent girls set out on an adventurous quest in a world that
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Writer in a white gown Today‚ Leon Agulansky - playwright and writer‚ the author of the novels "Non-Russian Roulette" and "The reservist"‚ Chekhov prize winner of for the collection of stories "The visit in Wonderland" and "Parallel Curves‚" a member of writers’ Union of Russia and Israel‚ also known in Israel urologist is our guest. On the 20th of November the Smolensk Drama Theater hosted a premiere of Conductor on the play Agulanskogo. The author dedicated the play to his friend‚ the brilliant
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children are and are not allowed to do‚ and these children are not allowed the time or space to express their feelings about the given limits (Santrock‚ 2011). These parents are high in their demandingness‚ but low in their responsiveness to children (Darling & Steinberg‚ 1993). Growing up‚ I can remember a friend ’s parents who‚ when she asked why they insisted on a certain rule responded‚ “Because we ’re the parents. That ’s why!” Children raised by authoritarian parents tend to be unhappy‚ and often
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"Poetic Realism" or "Bourgeois Realism‚" and major figures include Theodor Fontane‚ Gustav Freytag‚ Gottfried Keller‚ Wilhelm Raabe‚ Adalbert Stifter‚ and Theodor Storm.[6] Later "realist" writers included Benito Pérez Galdós‚ Guy de Maupassant‚ Anton Chekhov‚ José Maria de Eça de Queiroz‚ Machado de Assis‚ Bolesław Prus and‚ in a sense‚ Émile Zola‚ whose
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great position today because she not only is equipped with these conditions but also she has an excellent leadership style. According to Darling and Leffel’s (2001) framework‚ this paper will evaluate how Indra Nooyi develops her leadership style of Analyzer and Director and become a successful as well as effective leader. Kreitner and Kinicki (as cited in Darling & Leffel‚ 2001‚ p356) state leadership is a process where on individual guide and assist a group to achieve a common goal. Being a successful
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high-end products. The business had its main consumer base‚ but did not focus and allocate enough resources to further reach its niche market. Once it began to lack differentiation and saw its profit decrease‚ the company had recruited Hoby Darling as CEO. Darling began to develop new function-level strategies. These functional level strategies would allow the business to improve on the effectiveness of a company’s operation. There were no formal functional-level strategies established prior and this
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Review: GENDER INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION: HOW WIDE IS THE GAP? Cooray‚ A.‚ Potrafke‚ N. (2011) ‘Gender Inequality in Education: Political Institutions or Culture & Religion?’ European Journal of Political Economy Vol. 27(2)‚ 268-280. Darling‚ J.‚ Glendinning‚ A. (1996) Gender Matters in Schools. London: Cassell. Quicke‚ J. (1998) ‘Gender and Underachievement: Democratic educational Reform through Discourse Evaluation’. in Gender in the Secondary Curriculum. ed. by Clark‚ A.‚ Millard‚ E. London:
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