Imagine surviving the Holocaust while millions of other people have perished. Dying people from left to right. You honestly wanted to help them‚ however you could not.Would you feel the guilt that you were alive while the person next to you did not? Even if you had the chance‚ would you even have saved them? Tons of the survivors wanted to forget this historical event‚ although they could not. While many consider the Holocaust in the past‚ for the survivors‚ the horror will never be completely over
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At the end of Act III of Hamlet‚ Claudius has been sent reeling with guilt after seeing his own act of murder carried out on stage. The King begins to pray as his own repentance for his sins all the while he is being spied on by Hamlet who decides that rather than use this opportunity to fulfill his revenge‚ he should postpone it so that Claudius would not be able to enter heaven. This brings him to his mother‚ Gertrude‚ who has just finished talking to Polonius in her room when her son comes barging
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In "Tree At My Window‚" Robert Frost addresses a tree growing outside of his bedroom window with these words: "But tree...You have seen me when I slept‚ ... I was taken and swept / And all but lost. / That day she put our heads together‚ / Fate had her imagination about her‚ / Your head so much concerned with outer‚ / Mine with inner‚ weather." In these lines Frost conveys several emotions and themes that infiltrate many of his works. These common themes include darkness‚ nighttime‚ isolation‚ inner
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Robert Browning is known as the Master of Psychological dramatic monologue. In "My last Duchess" the reader only hears the Duke’s story whose perverse point of view throws false accusations towards his recently deceased wife. What the reader knows about the characters is limited‚ so he must piece together the story on his own. The story the duke thinks he tells‚ of an unfaithful wife who offended his dignity‚ and the story he really tells‚ of jealousy and possessive love that leads to murder‚ engages
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Hall v Poolman: forgive us our commercial errors and deliver us from personal liability‚ amen. Nicholas Phillips Introduction The corporate regulator has lately conceded the attachment of personal liability to company directors to have become excessively arduous and uncommercial.[1] These remarks particularly accord with and underscore recent hints proffered both by law reformers[2] and judges that it is necessary to reassess the policy balance struck by the imposition of personal liability
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English 2323 - Study Questions “My Last Duchess” – Robert Browning 1. What is the setting for this poem? This poem takes place in the palace of Alfonso II who is the Duke of Ferrara in Italy. 2. Who is the Duke speaking to? The Duke is entertaining an ambassador type person who has come to arrange the marriage of the duke and a daughter of a very wealthy and powerful family. What are they both looking at? They are looking at a painting of the Duke’s last “duchess” or wife that
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My Last Duchess When a man cares more about his status and image than his wife‚ he may feel the need to take drastic measures to ensure that he is always the center of attention. Robert Browning’s dramatic monologue “My Last Duchess” paints a picture of a duke who is trying to escape from his past‚ by proving to himself that he has power over his deceased wife.During the poem‚ the duke shows a painting of the last duchess to a representative from the Count‚ who is there making arrangements for the
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Never Forgive What You Can’t Forget While I agree completely with Robert Coles‚ “Only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision”‚ I’ve been asked to state my opinion and while I am unqualified to do so‚ it would be disrespectful to Simon Wiesenthal if I declined the opportunity. As Alan L. Berger stated in his excerpt‚ Judaism has two types of sins: Beyen Adam Le-Makom (human v God) and Beyen Adam Le-Adam (human v human). The Judaism religion believes that Beyen Adam Le-Mankon is an unforgiveable
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The Horrors of Guilt William Shakespeare’s Macbeth is a story of desire‚ betrayal‚ and murder. As the play unfolds it becomes obvious that the guilty conscience of many of the characters in the play has a powerful effect on their personality and actions. In the opening scene of the play readers see Macbeth as a loyal and heroic man. A soldier describes his efforts in protecting Duncan’s throne during the civil war “For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name— Disdaining fortune‚ with his
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Matching Questions Figure 12.1 Using Figure 12.1‚ match the following: 1) Afferent impulses from all senses and all parts of the body converge here and synapse with at least one of its nuclei. Answer: D Diff: 1 Page Ref: 444; Fig. 12.11 2) Putamen. Answer: C Diff: 1 Page Ref: 443; Fig. 12.11 3) Anterior horn of lateral ventricle. Answer: A Diff: 1 Page Ref: 434; Fig. 12.11 4) Inferior horn of lateral ventricle. Answer: E Diff: 1
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