intellectuals to be like him for the benefit of humanity. Another example is Bill Gates; he is the co-founder of Microsoft‚ a multi-billion computer company. He made a fortune with his company‚ now retired and a billionaire‚ he created a charity organization‚ with his wife Melinda Gates‚ called Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. With his fortune‚ Bill Gates and his wife have helped many people and communities by giving scholarships to about twenty thousand young people. His foundation also helped install
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Women Characters in The Waste Land Thomas Stearns Eliot’s The Waste land presents a galaxy of characters. Some women characters include a priestess‚ a princess‚ a fortune teller‚ a lady of the upper class‚ a lower middle class girl‚ a typist girl as well as the girls of the river Thames. None of them is happy in the true sense. In the Epigraph we come across the Sybil at Cumae who was hung in a cage. Children threw stones at her and asked‚ “What do you want?” In answer‚ she said‚ ‘I want to die
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Abigail William’s hysteria problems began when some of the afflicted girls were experimenting with fortune telling techniques‚ such as the “Venus-glass” this is where the girls would drop egg whites into glass water and interpret whatever shapes or symbols appeared in hopes that they could learn more about their future‚ the girls became terrified when they
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Writing just a few years after the end of the Great War‚ Fitzgerald takes as his theme the hedonism of a materialistic society in which spiritual values are dead. His eponymous hero throws parties on Sundays (to which ‘the world and its mistress’ flocked) because he hopes that Daisy‚ the object of his faith‚ hope and love‚ will come to him. In her absence‚ he stretches out his arms towards the green light at the end of her dock and‚ as Fitzgerald makes repeated references to it‚ that light
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Ozymandias thought so much of himself that he actually put his status above all other kings that have ruled before and after him. He sets himself on high by telling everyone to look at all the many things that he accomplished. He does not care if you are another king or some hobo on the street. He wants everyone to look to him and see what a mighty man of valor he really is‚ and was. Shelley tells us how conceited
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The God I chose is Apollo because he is a big part of Greek mythology and his storylines are cool. Also he is just like most people today. I will also show you how these epics are cool and entertaining. “Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto. He is also the twin brother of Artemis and they were both born on Delos. Leto was fleeing from Zeus and could not have children on land.”(www.greekmythology.com/Olympians/Apollo/Apollo.html)Leto went to Delos which wasn’t a real island at the time and
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Revenge and Betrayal in Hamlet The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare contains a good deal of symbolism and themes. The play Hamlet utilizes symbolism as well as themes of revenge and betrayal to create the main theme of death. The relation of the fundamentals of themes and symbolism helps capture the essence of the play. Hamlet is acquainted with important characters who somehow also include symbolism and importance of their role in the play as they represent corruption and death. The play unified
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I don’t necessarily empathize with Macbeth‚ but I do feel an iota of pity for him. I pity Macbeth for not what he is‚ but for what he could have become. He turned from a valiant war general to a bloodthirsty and power hungry shell of a man. By the end of the book‚ I felt absolutely no sorrow for him. Every decision he made was his own. Though he was influenced by the likes of the witches and Lady Macbeth early in the book‚ he was by no means forced to do anything by the end. Killing Banquo along
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punishment. As stated in the text‚ "...for the face was reversed on the neck‚ and they came on backwards‚ staring backwards at their loins for to look before them was forbidden." (Ciardi‚ pg. 175) This quote describes the punishment for fortune tellers. In life the fortune tellers foresaw the future. In death they are doomed to exist with their heads on backwards and their eyes overflowing with tears so that not only could they not see what was happening in front of them‚ but they could not see at all
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In Tess of the D’Ubervilles Thomas Hardy creates a sense that fate is guiding each of the characters‚ often for the worst‚ to an inevitable end. From the beginning of the novel Tess shows a thorough understanding of her shortcomings and an acceptance that she is destined to lead a difficult life. Hardy uses societal circumstance and fate to create the powerfully tragic story of Tess‚ her family and her relationships‚ and how she chooses to play to the hand that she is dealt. From the beginning of
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