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    Andrew Jackson Flaws

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    supreme court ruling. To tell the truth‚ Andrew Jackson was a great president but his flaws were huge ones. Such as a famous system called the “Spoil System” the spoil system just gave Andrew Jackson’s main supporters (his friends) jobs.By the way of example‚ the only good thing about the spoil system is he took the kindness out of his heart to give his friends jobs.The spoil system was one of the major flaws of Andrew Jackson’s presidency. According to britannica.com “The spoils system involves

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    Tragic Heroes Essay ! ! F. Scott Fitzgerald once said “Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.” The quote is relevant to mankind because it shows that everyone has faults. Aristotle enjoyed writing about people with these faults and created the idea of a tragic hero. The characters must complete four phases to be considered a tragic hero. They must start off in an envied position with wealth or power. These characters are also cursed with a tragic flaw that leads to their downfall

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    King of Scotland. He acknowledges these challenges with immoral actions‚ as advised by his wife‚ Lady Macbeth. Through his responses‚ Macbeth’s character flaws are revealed‚ such as his deteriorating moral judgment‚ corrupted sanity and his most fatal flaw of all‚ ambition. Macbeth’s mental health and moral judgment attribute to his character flaws‚ promoting the concept that human nature consists of both positive and negative aspects. Macbeth’s moral standards deteriorate throughout Macbeth‚ as ambition

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    Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby spent his lifetime following the American Dream in the hopes of winning his one true love and this led to his untimely downfall. Over the years‚ Aristotle’s definition of tragedy has been modified b every great writer in their generation and Fitzgerald is no different. Fitzgerald’s difference of tragedy with Aristotle is that the tragic hero is not of noble status and greatness. Gatsby is not of royal greatness but fulfills all the other criteria of a tragic hero. Like everything

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    Fate's Flaws In Hamlet

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    conveys these two main factors fate and flaw to demonstrate the depiction of Hamlet’s demise. A flaw is an imperfection‚ or defect in someone’s behaviour. Fate is the development of events outside a person’s control‚ regarded as determined by a supernatural power. Hamlet’s flaws is caused by his melancholy of being sad‚ depressive‚ and overly-introspective which contribute to his downfall. For example Hamlet demonstrated one of his flaws when a ghost visited him in the castle

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    Gatsby

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    ISSN 1798-4769 Journal of Language Teaching and Research‚ Vol. 1‚ No. 5‚ pp. 662-667‚ September 2010 © 2010 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/jltr.1.5.662-667 Stylistic Analysis of The Great Gatsby from Lexical and Grammatical Category Xiangqi Liu Qingdao University of Science and Technology‚ Qingdao‚ China Email: shirley780204@yahoo.com.cn Abstract— The thesis tries to adopt the method used by Leech and Short in their book Style in Fiction to make a relatively overall

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    Pentium Micro Flaw

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    Jamai Wilson The Pentium microprocessor flaw was discovered in June‚ 1994. The Pentium microprocessor is the CPU for what was once possibly the widest-selling personal computer. Unlike previous CPUs that Intel put on the market‚ the 486DX and Pentium chips included a floating-point unit (FPU)‚ which is also known as a math coprocessor. Previous Intel CPUs performed arithmetic using integers; programs that used floating-point numbers (non-integers like 2.5 or 3.14) needed to tell the chip how

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    Flaws of human society Lord of the flies is a novel written by William Golding‚ which was later published in 1954. The novel the novel is about a group of boys that are stranded on a deserted island that for a society‚ with a very weak foundation‚ which later falls apart. By this Golding is trying to show the bigger picture of the society during his time and the war that is going on in the real world. Similarly in the poem The Second Coming the picture of chaos and anarchy is clearly painted by

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    Garbo's Ethical Flaw

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    An Ethical Flaw Cullen Ali Carey HRM/THE ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCES Professor Kenneth L Judson May 11‚ 2009 An Ethical Flaw Employees of just about every business‚ in every business‚ will occasionally encounter team members who are taking part in unethical behaviors. Employees should understand that establishing the trust of the boss is essential as well. That responsibility includes living up to the agreement made of being at work on time‚ not stealing company property‚ and always presenting

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    tragic hero

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    1. By the definition a modern tragic hero "must be good but flawed‚ must be artistocratic‚ must be believable‚ and must behave consistantly." (Literature and Ourselves‚ 524). With that being said‚ I think Troy could be seen as a modern tragic hero. I believe that deep down Troy is a good man‚ but he is flawed in many ways Rose explains this when she said‚ "sometimes when he touched he bruised. And sometimes when he took me in his arms he cut." (Literature and outselves‚ 195). This alone explains

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