A Rose for Emily plot "A Rose for Emily‚" written by William Faulkner‚ is a short story about the life and death of Miss Emily Grierson. The structure of this work is broken down into five individual sections‚ which all come together to form a masterpiece. As the story begins‚ the unnamed narrator gives a detailed description of Miss Emily’s funeral. It is stated that the whole town was present for the funeral. The narrator describes the motivation for the town’s attendance: "the men through a
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How will you measure your life? 1. How can I be sure that I’ll be happy in my career? Some people assert that money is the most powerful motivator in their lives‚ and the more money they earn‚ the more happiness they will have. However‚ from my personal perspective‚ I believe that getting more opportunity to learn what I am not familiar with‚ taking responsible for my behavior‚ contributing to others in need in the society‚ and trying my best to achieve my goals in my career are the most
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is more important in your life‚ Money or Your Job? Written by bamboo(Jeong‚ Jong-hyeon) in first class. Hello everybody! I’m here to talk about the question of you what is more important in your life‚ your money or your job. I’m afraid our society is changing rapidly toward money-oriented society. Of course‚ money is important. There are lots of things money can buy‚ including social status and convenience of life. Even when choosing
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The Bard of Avon saturates the pages of the tragedy Macbeth with ugly feelings of ambition - unprincipled ambition which is ready to kill for itself. Let’s thoroughly search out the major instances of ambitious behavior by the husband-wife team. Samuel Johnson in The Plays of Shakespeare explains the place of ambition in this tragedy: The danger of ambition is well described; and I know not whether it may not be said in defence of some parts which now seem improbable‚ that‚ in
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5/13/10 Power Ambition and Honor The fact is power corrupts‚ unless one knows how to use it. Everyone has ambition; it is the desire for achievement and the willingness to strive for its attainment. (1) Ambition can give us great things; strength‚ admiration and respect‚ but ambition as well as power has the ability to corrupt. Finally‚ honor‚ a title given to people who have completed a noble act. But some honorable‚ powerful and ambitious people go too far and forget about their morals‚ overrun
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into eternity. We all have a show that is our life; and in the grand scheme of things it lasts but an hour. All we are is actors. A shadow. We are not real. We spend our lives upon a ‘stage’ and pretend to be who we are. We emote‚ we yell and scream. Yet once our time is done‚ we die. That is all. It’s about as meaningless as a play; a lot of useless noise. Pointless.” This may be the one time people can relate to Macbeth the most. He believes that life is pointless. We are not going to make a mark
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Have you ever had a time in your life when time stops‚ and your world comes to a halt? That happened to me a while ago. It started out as a normal Friday morning. I got up got dressed‚ eat breakfast‚ and went to work. It was quite a busy day. That morning I couldn’t find my work shoes‚ so I had to wear my converse. Which get quite uncomfortable after a few hours of standing. Well when the time came to leave I was dead tired‚ my feet ached and all I wanted to do was go home‚ sit down and relax. Well
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How to change your vehicle oil Informative Speech I. Introduction A. When you’re driving down the road and that mileage reading on your dashboard reaches 3000 what do you? The first thing that pops in your head is there goes another 50 dollars for an oil change. There are about 450 million cars that travel the streets and roads of the world (Automobile). B. Almost everyone that owns a vehicle has had to take their vehicle in to a mechanic to get their oil change on their car. But there’s another
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Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations‚ is no different. One of the major themes in this novel is ambition and self-improvement. Dickens uses this as a universal idea for his novel‚ and from this theme he gets his title of Great Expectations. Another major theme in the novel is social class. Dickens uses the theme of social class to feed into his theme of ambition and self-improvement. With both ambition and self-improvement Pip is able to become a gentleman. Pip‚ from the lower class‚ has the longing
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Life of Pi: Yann Martel Analytical questions for holiday work. 1. Read the book carefully and respond to the following question. 2. Some questions will only make sense to students who have already read the book. Students reading it for the first time should leave spaces in order to develop responses after your reading and during class. 3. Also‚ make sure that you develop a list of question as you read so you can move beyond being the passive reader to the actively involved reader
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