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    Bibliography: ante Alighieri: Cantica I: Hell. Translated by Dorothy L. Sayers. New York: Penguin Books‚ 1949. What Dreams May Come (1998)

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    History – The First and Second Great Awakenings had several things in common. They were both religious revival movements that was cause by a desire for liberalism in religion. They both appealed to human emotions to create change‚ played roles in expanding women membership in the church‚ developing new religious denominations‚ and addressing social issue such as racism and slavery. The end of World War II also put an end the era of colonialism. There were many new nations popping up that wanted to

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    Nicholas PrevedelMrs. Machado ENG4U1-01 20 October 2014 Robertson Davies: “Fifth Business” Dorothy L. Sayers states “Wherever you find a great man‚ you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him.” Man is a societal construct that is structured and molded by maternal influences and female insight. Typically one is a product of its environment‚ however Robertson Davies in “Fifth Business‚” deliberately uses female roles to display the impact that women have on the psychological

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    Sloth In Guinness Analysis

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    can be subdued‚ sloth must become the first target; it is the vice that robs us of meaning in life‚ and whenever we begin to believe that life is meaningless‚ our actions‚ both good and bad‚ lose all value and it no longer matters what we do. As Dorothy Sayers has said‚ “…the other sins hasten to provide a cloak for Sloth…” (qtd. in Guinness 159). According to Guinness‚ “Sloth is far more than…physical laziness…It is a condition of explicitly spiritual dejection that has given up on the pursuit of God…”

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    Detective A detective is an investigator‚ either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators (P.I.s or "Private I’s"‚ hence the play-on-words‚ "Private Eyes"). Informally‚ and primarily in fiction‚ a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes‚ including historical crimes‚ or looks into records. Overview In some police departments‚ a detective position is appointed‚ rather than a position achieved by passing a written

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    Robin Williams as Dr. Malcolm Sayer as well as Ruth Nelson as Mrs. Lowe‚ Alice Drummond as Lucy‚ and John Heard as Dr. Kaufman. No one knows weather the chemical cure‚ levodopa (L-dopa) was worth making a change in the lives of these people. It is a question waiting to be answered even to today. By uncovering an old article on a Parkinson cure‚ Dr. Sayer applied the research to his patient’s‚ discovering what he thinks will be a cure for his patient’s. Dr. Malcolm Sayer finds an article showing how

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    “Awakenings” written by Oliver Sacks‚ MD. The movie tells the story of a neurologist‚ Dr. Sayer hired by a hospital for the chronically ill‚ whom is caring for a group of survivors of an endemic of encephalitis lethargica that broke out in the twenties. These patients have all progressively reduced to a catatonic or vegetative-Parkinsonian state and have been in this semi-conscious state for decades. Dr. Sayer uses a patient named Leonard Lowe to test a new experimental Parkinson’s drug called Levo-dopa

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    Scientific Studies Dr. Sayer was a very caring doctor who had started working with patients who have been comatose for several decades. He was a very determined human being and when he was told that there was no hope of any cure for his patients‚ he felt let down but that did not cause him to give up. He was a very open minded person and always believed that you can make anything happen if you worked hard enough at it. He was a loving man with a loving heart. Dr. Sayer loved having conversations

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    named Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ and the events of the summer of 1969 at a psychiatric hospital in Brooklyn New York. Dr. Sayer is a research physician he’s never worked with people before; Sayer’s carrier has been dealing with plants and some insects. Dr. Sayer is confronted with a large number of patients once he accepts the job to work at the hospital‚ one could say that Sayer is now trapped in hospital with no freedom like the patients that he’ll be working with. The patients Dr. Sayer is to work with

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    portrays the true story of a doctor named Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ and the events of the summer of 1969 at a psychiatric hospital in New York. Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ who is a research physician‚ is confronted with a number of patients who had each been afflicted with a devastating disease called Encephalitis Lethargica. The illness killed most of the people who contracted it‚ but some were left living statues; speechless‚ motionless‚ and helpless. Dr. Malcolm Sayer‚ when introduced to these patients and their prospective

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