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    and greet them with prophecies. Though Banquo challenges them first‚ they address Macbeth‚ hailing him as "Thane of Glamis‚" "Thane of Cawdor‚" and that he shall "be King hereafter." Macbeth appears to be stunned to silence. When Banquo asks of his own fortunes‚ the witches inform him that he will father a line of kings‚ though

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    War. It depicts the life of a wounded American soldier and other Italy officers who receive therapeutic treatment in Milan after returning from the battlefields‚ demonstrating the war trauma suffered by ordinary soldiers and reflecting Hemingway’s own traumatic experiences brought about by the war. This paper attempts to interpret the story from the perspective of trauma theory‚ aiming at getting a more comprehensive assessment of Hemingway in a new aspect. Trauma theory can be traced in the

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    trade he was a dealer in antique furniture‚ with his own shop and showroom in the King’s Road‚ Chelsea. His premises were not large‚ and generally he didn’t do a great deal of business‚ but because he always bought cheap‚ very very cheap‚ and sold very very dear‚ he managed to make quite a tidy little income every year.” ~ Mr. Boggis used it as a defence to avoid the guilt in fulfilling his greed for money. He deceived others for his own personal satisfaction. * Religion was also potrayed as

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    WHAT IS AMERICAN LITERATURE? AN OVERVIEW When the English preacher and writer Sidney Smith asked in 1820‚ “In the four quarters of the globe‚ who reads an American book?” little did he suspect that less than two hundred years later the answer in literate quarters would be “just about everyone.” Indeed‚ just a few years after Smith posed his inflammatory question‚ the American writer Samuel Knapp would begin to assemble one of the first histories of American literature as part of a lecture series

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    of the Orient: Eden lost to your brood! Gaily go I to present you this hapless hopeless life: Were it more brilliant: had it more freshness‚ more bloom: Still for you would I give it: would give it for your good! Enchantment of my life: my ardent avid obsession: To your health! cries the soul‚ so soon to take the last leap: To your health! O lovely: how lovely: to fall that you may rise! to perish that you may live! to die beneath you skies! and upon your enchanted ground the eternities

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    writing and reading. It is an incredibly huge grace given to humanity by some unknown power. Gregory Currie in his "Does great literature make us better?" article puts under consideration the fact whether great literature can make people morally and socially better.he didn’t deny overall accepted belief‚he just wanted some evidences which would prove it he issue. Then as a continuation or answer to the Currie’s article Annie Murphy Paul with her article called "Reading literature makes us smarter

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    Kazuki Aoyama Elements of Literature 2 C-8 Final Draft New Radio Tower The new radio tower was built in Tokyo last year. It is called Tokyo Skytree‚ and it had to be built for the purpose of adaptation to a new type of television‚ digital terrestrial broadcasting. However‚ there are several reasons because of radio interference‚ the Japanese companies were change their type of television‚ and influence on public opinion‚ why the Tokyo Skytree was built. First of all‚ the Tokyo Skytree had

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    requires an impersonal narrator. The narrator describes the scene‚ and interjects small actions into the dialogue‚ but remains a facilitator for the reader to concentrate on the dialogue and the action of the story. The narrator in this story seems to tell the story as if it were a video clip‚ a nameless railway station somewhere between Barcelona and Madrid‚ ghostly white hills‚ a faceless waitress and an anonymous couple. The use of this narrator makes the reader look much deeper into the dialogue

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    Arabic literature Main article: Arabic literature Main article: Literature of Morocco Ibn Tufail (Abubacer) and Ibn al-Nafis were pioneers of the philosophical novel. Ibn Tufail wrote the first fictional Arabic novel Hayy ibn Yaqdhan (Philosophus Autodidactus) as a response to al-Ghazali ’s The Incoherence of the Philosophers‚ and then Ibn al-Nafis also wrote a novel Theologus Autodidactus as a response to Ibn Tufail ’s Philosophus Autodidactus. Both of these narratives had protagonists(Hayy in Philosophus

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    for the implementation of the rights recognized in the present Convention.” 2 The CRC has been described as “a universal reference point”3 for juvenile justice systems. Indeed‚ the CRC‚ incorporating as it does so many of the international standards and norms of juvenile justice‚ makes it easy for States to measure their performance in the area of juvenile justice by assessing their compliance with the CRC. The relevant international norms and standards are: (1) the 1955 Standard Minimum Rules

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