Love is a flame‚ easily snuffed out but just as easily rekindled. Flames are capable of eternally living‚ similar to love. The power of love is sometimes underestimated. In his novel Les Misérables‚ Victor Hugo demonstrates what love can really do for a person. Love is explored throughout the novel in several different ways. Hugo’s theme is that love should be shown to all‚ even if the receiver does not seem worthy‚ as shown through his character’s lives. Love has the power to redeem anyone. When
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has brought about some of the most revolutionary‚ world-altering inventions the world has ever seen. On the other hand‚ it has also been the downfall of great leaders and societies who reached too high. In Mary Shelley’s classic novel Frankenstein‚ Victor Frankenstein is a man who finds that ambition has taken him and those that he cares about down a deadly path‚ yet still refuses to admit defeat. His ultimate end is brought on by unchecked ambition designed to benefit only his own ego. Even
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endured by the main character‚ Vickramadas Gopal who was an Indian immigrant to Malaysia. Vickramadas was known as Victor throughout the short story. He made great efforts to transform himself to be like whites who he thought were the best. “Anything and everything related to the whites was beautiful to Vickramadas.” The author has painted a dramatic picture of sufferings and challenges of Victor in his course to attain a new identity - an Englishman. But‚ his efforts did not help him to be recognised by
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The Victor Poet: C.W. Longenecker If you think you are beaten‚ you are. If you think you dare not‚ you don’t If you like to win but think you can’t‚ It’s almost a cinch you won’t. If you think you’ll lose‚ you’re lost. For out in the world we find Success begins with a fellow’s will It’s all in the state of mind. If you think you are outclassed‚ you are. You’ve got to think high to rise. You’ve got to be sure of yourself before You can ever win the prize. Life’s battles don’t
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5. Victor Jara constantly sung about united people. He sung about a lot of struggles Chileans face living in Chile. For Example in one of his songs “ I Remember Amanda” he sings about a girl name Amanda and losing her loved one to the mountains. Many people did not return to the factory. In Eduardo Galeano and Isabel Allende they discuss Latin America as a region that is placed for others to constantly use to their benefit. In the song El Aparecido‚ it talks about having been crucified. I believe
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“Frankenstein is a story about what happens when a man tries to have a baby without a woman.”—Anne K. Mellor Who is the monster? In my opinion the monster is Victor Frankenstein who neglected his parental duties and neglected his child. Frankenstein’s egotistical desire to create life was only to prove his supreme power over life and death itself. He created life without considering the ramifications of doing so. He had no loving pre-conception feelings for the child he was bringing into this
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Pictures at an Exhibition: A Reminiscence of Victor Hartmann Modest Musorgsky is a famous composer of programmatic music with his best example being Pictures at an Exhibition: a series of short pieces‚ all pertaining to his close friends paintings‚ Viktor Hartman. Musorgsky and Hartman’s relationship was founded in their passion for art and music. Hartman’s paintings were a large source of inspiration for Musorgsky and his compositions‚ where each section of Pictures was written to represent
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Victor Frankl was‚ and is still today‚ an extremely well known therapist from Vienna and is widely respected by other doctors in his field including such names as Freud and Nietzsche. One of the reasons that he is so respected in his field is because he is basing his theories off of his personal experiences in the holocaust where he had been held in an extermination camp where he experienced the most extreme of human conditions and came out of it with his teaching of therapy known as logotherapy
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Victor Burnette spent eight years in a Virginia prison for a rape he didn’t commit and nearly 30 years trying to clear his name. Burnette was convicted in 1979 for breaking into a Richmond woman’s apartment and raping her. Being labeled as a rapist is an embarrassing and horrible thing. Even though he didn`t do it‚ it still going to make him feel embarrassed about it. Technology available at the time could not eliminate Burnette as a suspect. Despite maintaining his innocence‚ Burnette was convicted
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Anne Frank and her family were one of many to go into hiding during the holocaust. One of the people who helped them was Victor Kugler. However he was called Mr. Kraler in the book. Victor Kugler was born in the Czech Republic on June 5‚ 1900. In the book he had an ulcer and was in the hospital‚ but he lived to be 81 years old. After the war he went to Canada to start a new life and lived there for 26 years‚ but died on December 16‚ 1981. Another person who helped the Franks was Miep Gies‚ she worked
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