“Stooling is when you rat on your friends‚ the guys you’re with.” (Charley Malloy) ‘Loyalty and betrayal are central to this film.’ Discuss. “I was ratting on myself all them years‚ and I didn’t even know it.” Terry Malloy’s eventual realisation in Elia Kazan’s film‚ On the Waterfront (1954)‚ reveals the philosophical nature of allegiances that the story of an exploited waterfront community’s resistance to an oppressive mob is centred on. Set on the docks of Hoboken‚ New Jersey‚ the film explores
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Web. 13 Dec. 2011. Richardson‚ Anna. "New look for Nora Roberts." The Bookseller 18 Apr. 2008: 16. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. Roberts‚ Nora. True Betrayals. New York: Berkley‚ 2005. Print. Seaman‚ Donna. "True Betrayals." Booklist 1 May 1995: 1531. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. "True Betrayals." Publishers Weekly 22 May 1995: 48+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. "Two new looks for Nora." The Bookseller 3 Nov. 2006: 12. Literature Resources from
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Though children who read the Chronicles of Narnia may not understand the importance and the meaning of the biblical allusions incorporated within the text‚ Lewis incorporated the ideas in hopes that the books would be an imaginative tool to help children and their families become familiar with biblical themes and Christianity without turning them off by using fancy language and theological discussions that people may not have been exposed to before. The Chronicles of Narnia could be seen as an effective
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Betrayal Soon afterwards Tyndale was betrayed by his friend Henry Phillips. Joshua-Second Chronicles also was published after his departure. The Betrayal and Death of William Tyndale Tyndale was betrayed by a friend‚ Philips‚ the agent either of Henry or of English ecclesiastics‚ or possibly of both. When he left England‚ his knowledge of Hebrew‚ if he had any‚ was of the most rudimentary nature; and yet he mastered that painful tongue so as to produce from the fresh an estimable translation of the
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"Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love." (John LeCarre) In William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear‚ characters are betrayed by the closest people to them. The parents betray their children‚ mostly unintentionally. The children deceive their parents because of their greed and power hunger. Their parents were eventually forgiven‚ but the greedy children were not. Parents and their children betray one and other‚ and are only able to do so because they are
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interwoven with betrayal and treachery‚ forcing bonds of trust‚ love‚ and loyalty to get destroyed. The play Othello revolves around two conflicting characters: the scheming‚ manipulative Iago and the honorable moor‚ Othello. Despite the fact that these men are completely opposite in character‚ Iago commands such persuasive powers that he begins to affect Othello’s thinking and his perceptions of those close to him. After examining Shakespeare’s Othello‚ it is clear that many of the acts of betrayal that are
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The Royal Frankish Annals Bishop Burchard of Wurzburg and the chaplain Fulrad approached Pope Zacharias and questioned whether the Frankish kings should possess royal power. Pepin was then commanded by virtue of Pope Zacharias’ apostolic authority to be made king of the Franks in the city of Soissons. This episode in the Royal Frankish Annals is a great example that shows the growing importance of Christianity and religion during the early Medieval Ages. Pope Zacharias appointed Pepin to be king
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The Martian Chronicles is a series of almost unrelated short stories that explore the tenacity of the human race. Four separate expeditions to Mars‚ resulted in four different disasters for the crews‚ yet still the humans kept trying to conquer the frontier that was Mars. Mars as a planet tries to prove itself to be hostile to humanity with thin oxygen yet fails due to the tenacity of the colonists. “No!...I’ll be all right. I’ve got to stay here!” the words of Benjamin Driscoll‚ the Johnny Appleseed
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Macbeth: Betrayal and Violence NOTES BETRAYAL 1. Lady Macbeth and Macbeth plot to kill the king Duncan - The weird sisters tell Macbeth that he will be Thane of Cawdor as well as king. He believes them and sends a letter to Lady Macbeth. She then plots a plan to kill Duncan‚ wanting to be Queen over Scotland "O never shall sun that morrow see." = Duncan will never awaken to see the sun again as Lady Macbeth wants him killed. However‚ Macbeth not so sure. REGICIDE. 2. Macbeth killing his friend
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Todd is book one of the Cedar Cove Chronicles by Cynthia Ulmer. The books take place in 1943 in a small town in North Carolina called Cedar Cove. World War II is ongoing and affects even a small town such as this one. Being such a small town‚ many of the townspeople are farmers‚ and the preacher runs the local store. This book focuses on the Jansan family‚ specifically their son Todd. Todd Jansan is only 10 and doesn’t know much about the war except that his Uncle Clyde is off fighting somewhere
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