questions in mind as you work on Lesson 1–4. (8 points) 1. The author spends several pages on the discussion between John and Fanny‚ during which Fanny convinces her husband to forgo his promise to provide for the Dashwood ladies. What does this conversation reveal about these two characters? Why does the author spend so much time on this conversation? Answer: Mrs. John Dashwood (Fanny) had disapprove on what Mr. John Dashwood had intended
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in love with Mary. In 1814‚ Shelley abandoned Harriet‚ who was now pregnant with their son Charles‚ and ran away to Switzerland with Mary. They invited her stepsister Claire Clairmont along because she could speak French. They left the older sister Fanny behind‚ which was unfortunate because she had fallen in love with Shelley as well. The three sailed to Europe and toured the continent. After six weeks they returned to England. When they return Mary was now pregnant. Percy and Mary were forced to
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And she said mabey they got no rite to make me smart because if god wantid me to be smart he would have made me born that way” (Keyes 16). After Charlie’s intelligence increases When Charlie was let go from the bakery‚ one of his colleagues named Fanny reiterates the theme of man playing God by lecturing him about how he shouldn’t have wanted more than God intended of him to be. “If you’d read your Bible‚ Charlie‚ you’d know that it’s not meant for man to know more than was given to him to know by
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When one reads the nonfiction work of Robert Louis Stevenson along with the novels and short stories‚ a more complete portrait emerges of the author than that of the romantic vagabond one usually associates with his best-known fiction. The Stevenson of the nonfiction prose is a writer involved in the issues of his craft‚ his milieu‚ and his soul. Moreover‚ one can see the record of his maturation in critical essays‚ political tracts‚ biographies‚ and letters to family and friends. What Stevenson
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Margaret in North and South Gender Roles & Role Reversal Margaret‚ through her characterization and interactions with the male characters in North and South‚ both represents the gender role of her time‚ as well as subverts‚ and even goes as far as to reverse roles with the opposite gender. Her strong willpower and tendency to be dominant contributes to this. * S - p. 39 ‘Margaret did dislike it‚ did shrink from it more than from anything she had ever had to do in her life before... It
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Omissions essay [50 marks] AO1 The actus reus of a crime is the physical element and normally requires a positive‚ voluntary act. However‚ offences may be brought about by an omission; a failure to act when there is a duty to do so. The normal rule is that an omission cannot make a person guilty of an offence. There are exceptions to this rule; the failure to act can sometimes be the actus reus of a crime. There are 6 ways in which this can exist. A statutory duty: an Act of Parliament can
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Charlotte’s Web was a story about a little girl named Fern who saved a runt pig she named Wilbur from being killed by her dad. Fern told her dad that it was not fair to kill a pig just because it was small and told him that she would take care of him herself. When Wilbur was a month old‚ he had to go live down the road on Mr. Zuckerman’s farm. Wilbur missed Fern‚ but soon he made new friends. His new best friend was a spider named Charlotte. Soon he got bad news from the sheep when they told him
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I. Multiple choice questions Choose the correct answer: 1. Red algae have green chlorophyll a that is like the one present in (i) green algae (ii) cyanobacteria (iii) mosses (iv) higher plants 2. Which one of the following is generally found in cool seas? (i) Red algae (ii) Brown algae (iii) Green algae (iv) Blue green algae 3. Floridean starch is found in (iii) green algae (iv) blue green algae (i) red algae (ii) brown algae 4. Fucoxanthin is found in(i) red algae (ii) brown algae
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Between the late 1940s and early 1950s‚ the United States enjoyed a booming economy‚ loomed as the world’s military hegemon‚ and made technological goods and services available to more people than ever before. However‚ this period was also an era of conflict: the nascent civil rights movements and the crusade against immigration exposed the underlying divisions in society. Blacks‚ Hispanics‚ and Asian Americans suffered as targets of discrimination in both employment and property ownership‚ and a
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Bronte’s Bildungsroman: Jane Eyre From a seed to a flower‚ Spreading itself like a weed Through the world. From a chick-let to a hawk‚ Spreading it’s wings and soaring high Through the heavens. A rose unfolding its petals‚ Showing its beauty to the world. A sponge soaking up water‚ Like a mind with the knowledge Of the world. I am here And I am ready to take on the world. Such are the aspirations of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre who grows up moving from a radical stage to “a more
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