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    Burger King Corporation

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    February 27‚ 1998 Burger King Corporation The first Burger King restaurant in Miami in the mid-1950s featured a walk-up window‚ a limited menu (burgers and shakes for 19¢‚ sodas and fries for 10¢)‚ and "your food ready by the time you ’d paid for it." As one early manager recalled‚ "Our windows faced front so we could see customers driving in. With the limited menu‚ we pretty much knew what they ’d order and we ’d have it ready." In the 1960s and 1970s‚ Burger King developed an assembly-line production

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    King Lear Consequences

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    King Lear: Consequences of One Man’s Decisions Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear is a detailed description of the consequences of one man’s decisions. This fictitious man is Lear‚ King of England‚ who’s decisions greatly alter his life and the lives of those around him. As Lear bears the status of King he is‚ as one expects‚ a man of great power but sinfully he surrenders all of this power to his daughters as a reward for their demonstration of love towards him. This untimely abdication of

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    Identity in King Lear

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    Joshua Mellinger English 3100 10/29/06 Questioned Identity in King Lear "Shakespeare ’s plays are written from a male perspective and depict predominantly conflicts of masculine identity." (Rudnytsky 2) Throughout Shakespeare ’s King Lear‚ the issue of identity is touched on repeatedly with Gloucester ’s fall from power‚ Edmund ’s snatching of it‚ and Lear ’s violent fall from benevolent king to brutish castaway. Lear and Gloucester ’s sanity is crushed‚ their sovereignty completely stripped

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    The subplot of King Lear

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    Role and function the Gloucester subplot in King Lear In King Lear we discover the presence of two parallel plots: Gloucester story intensifies our experience of the central action by supplying sequence of parallel‚ impressed upon us by frequent commentary by the characters themselves. The sub-plot simplifies the central action of Lear and his daughters‚ translating its verbal and visual patterns. it also pictorializes the main action‚ supplying interpreted visual emblems for some of the play’s

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    King Lear Analysis

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    Lear Analysis From the beginning of the book to the point we’ve read to now (Scene 4) our protagonist‚ King Lear‚ has undergone a massive character development. At the start he was a generous and powerful king. His generosity spanned to the point of giving up his throne and kingdom to his daughters. Even though he did not grant Cordelia land it is still a lot to give up after a long reign of kingship. His power and confidence is shown when he is talking with his daughters and Kent stands up to

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    In Sophocoles’‚ Oedipus the King‚ "blindness" is ironically referenced in more than one way. This is the obvious motif of the story. Correspondingly‚ in the story of Oedipus the King‚ “blindness” is used quite ambiguously. As a matter of fact‚ this story displays the classic contrast between the distinction of "seeing" and being "blind‚" and it is intertwined throughout the story. The contradiction between these two are played by Oedipus and Teiresias. This story is the classic tale of what you see

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    King Lear Revision

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    King Lear – Revision Male Potency Goneril’s emasculation of Albany in the first and final Acts‚ “milky gentleness…harmful mildness” [p.212 A1S4]; “[weak]-mannered man!” etc Elizabethan understanding of the word “nothing” which is so much repeated. It’s daughters not sons taking away Lear’s power. Old men‚ Lear and Gloucester. “I am ashamed…” [p209 A2S4]‚ Fool: “horns without a case” [A1S5] Goneril calling Lear’s knights a “rabble”‚ shows Lear to be an impotent leader. Thereafter‚ daughters take

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    King Lear And Cordelear

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    At the heart of King Lear lies the relationship between father and child. Central to this filial theme is the conflict between man’s law and nature’s law. Natural law is synonymous with the moral authority usually associated with divine justice. Those who adhere to the tenets of natural law are those characters in the text who act instinctively for the common good--Kent‚ Albany‚ Edgar‚ and Cordelia. Eventually‚ Gloucester and Lear learn the importance of natural law when they recognize that they

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    Lions King Annotations

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    The Lion King Lens Annotations 1.     Type: Marxist Evidence: Other animals gather to welcome the new baby lion‚ Simba to the world as the Mufasa’s heir. The other animals bow in acceptance to Simba. Analysis: Apparently the strongest rule in the Pride Rock Kingdom and Mufasa is the strongest animal therefore he is the King that protects the balance of life in the safari and Simba is the prince that will inherit his throne after his passing. It may not be too obvious but the hierarchy is shown

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    The Punishment of Oedipus the King At the end of Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex‚ Oedipus‚ king of Thebes‚ ends up banished forever from his kingdom. Additionally‚ Oedipus physically puts out his own eyes‚ for several reasons which will be discussed later. The question is: Did Oedipus deserve his punishments? There are many factors that must be considered in answering this‚ including how Oedipus himself felt about his situation. His blinding was as much symbolic as it was physical pain

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