more important than having beauty. Another lesson to be learned from this myth is that if you can not say anything nice‚ do not say anything at all. If Medusa would have kept her mouth shut and kept her opinion to herself‚ she would not have been cursed by
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multifaceted connotation. Declarations of a deemed fact are created in the second and third verses where a rhyming scheme is applied to focus the wonder of human character of women and children ironically becoming the ‘first to be hurt’ and ‘the first to be cursed’. In the third verse of ‘Child’ the noun “pool” is moved to the start of the line in order to emphasize the metaphorical contrast with the line ‘your clear eyes’ in the first verse. This correlation with a pool of water highlights the insinuation
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supposedly originated‚ not to mention that there are still tribes and peoples who live by the old traditions. People who strongly believe in witchcraft will explain any negative events saying that witchcraft was at play‚ that someone was bewitched or cursed. Such is the case
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situational irony to show what appears to be true and what actually exists in the poem Richard Cory. The townspeople assume Richard Cory has the perfect lifestyle‚ “richer than a king‚” and nothing to worry about while they “went without meat‚ and cursed the bread.” Little did the townspeople know that Richard Cory was not what they assumed. “On a calm summer night‚ / [Richard Cory] went home and put a bullet through his head.” The poet did not mention the
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GROUPING OF VILLAGES IN MIZORAM Lest we forget For Zoram Ni Background: Mizoram was hard hit by a famine soon after the region was admitted into the Indian Union. The unsatisfactory remedial measures from Assam government resulted in a political disturbance that tormented the hills for about two decades spearheaded by the Mizo Famine Front‚ later transformed into a political unit called Mizo National Front (MNF). In February 1966 the MNF intensified its activities and the party
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In the novel Frankenstein by‚ Marry Shelly there is a unique narrative structure that uses characters telling stories to one another. There are three main narratives used in the novel. These narratives are; Victor telling Walton his tale‚ so that Walton does not make the same mistakes that Victor himself made. The second is the monster telling victor of his acquisition of knowledge and time spent with the cottagers and‚ the third is Walton writing to his sister to inform her of his journeys events
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Everyone loves a good tragedy. The ones that make you cry and give the person next to you a big hug. Jack and Rose in Titanic; ninety percent of the people I know cry every time they watch Titanic. Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind‚ even Borat and Pamela Anderson in the movie Borat! But this paper isn’t about tragedies in recent times; it’s about love stories gone wrong…in Greek mythology. I have researched the stories I think were the saddest and most touching: Apollo
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Antigone’s Suffering Connected with Past Events Have you ever believed that your family was cursed or that fate was lead you to your destiny? In the philosophical play “Antigone” written by Sophocles‚ Antigone‚ the daughter of Oedipus believed she was “destined” to die because of her family’s curse that has proved itself true through many different family deaths. Creon‚ the king of Thebes‚ ordered that Antigone’s brother would not be buried since he was fighting against Thebes in the war. Eventually
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Group 4: Music ( lan‚ vân‚ thảo‚ hoàng‚ chi‚ my‚ hương) Topic: Most famous music curses of all the time The “Gloomy Sunday” Curse "Gloomy Sunday" was a song written by Rezso Seress‚ a Hungarian composer . The break-up with his girlfriend in 1933 left him such depression that he wrote this obsessive sorrowful melody. A few months after Gloomy Sunday’s coming-ouut‚ a record label agreed to buy " the dead song" and published it in many big cites in the world. However‚ Seress turned out to be a very
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“This thing - It’s gonna follow you. Somebody gave it to me‚ and I passed it to you...It could look like someone you know‚ or it could be a stranger in a crowd. Whatever helps it get close to you.” The movie It Follows reveals a terrifying monster like none other in mainstream media‚ providing the audience a threat that will do whatever it takes in order to claim its kill‚ and satiate its sadistic intentions in the process. In the successfully unnerving horror film of It Follows‚ the viewers follow
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