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    In the tragedy Othello‚ Shakespeare creates a mood that challenges the way a person sees his or her self and the world. Subjects like racism‚ sexism‚ love‚ hate‚ jealously‚ pride‚ and trickery are thoroughly developed in the play of Othello to enable the audience to view the characters and also themselves. The Shakespearean tragedy of Othello was written in a time of great racial tensions in England. According to Eldred Jones‚ in 1600 just three years before Othello was written‚ Queen Elizabeth proclaimed

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    Did you know that change can bring great things? Change is unavoidable. Everyone goes through change in their lives. Change doesn’t have to be bad‚ it can be good too. Maybe you’re moving from your hometown and you feel bad but then you meet your very best friend and now you’re going to college and you and your best friend are roommates! In the short story “Flowers for Algernon”‚ Daniel keyes shows change by sending the character Charlie Gordon through a surgery that makes him smarter. He

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    Throughout history‚ we have seen how power can change people. Hitler took millions of innocent lives because he wanted power. Tyrants destroyed their own family to gain power. The Mongols destroyed anyone or anything that came in their path from taking their power away. Siblings poisoned each other to become king if their father dies. What’s common about our history is that when people have power‚ their morality had to be broken. That’s how they have controlled people and have had enemies fear them

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    Steinbeck presents disadvantaged characters in the novel In 1937‚ the American author John Steinbeck published ’Of mice and Men’. Set in the Salinas Valley of California‚ it conveys the story of the struggles of the American people during ’The Great Depression’. The Great Depression was a massive devastation throughout the whole of America where people suffered and the economy was at a huge crisis. The Unemployment rose from 3% to 26% and many people had died‚ showing how hard the citizens coped to

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    1918. It was a modern war with airplanes‚ machine guns‚ and tanks.. They would march their troops across open land into the face of machine guns and often slaughter. As a result of this action‚ a tactic known as trench warfare was implemented. Many viewed trench warfare to be an effective tactic against enemy advancement. In September 1914‚ the German commander‚ General Erich von Falkenhayn ordered his troops to dig trenched that would provide protection from the enemy troops. When the enemy reached

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    the next‚ but what displays true character is what one does when the storm comes. Shakespeare’s King Lear sincerely bears out the statement. This tragedy utilizes the metaphor nothing as a vehicle to further emphasize the story through king Lear’s character development and his changing attitude. The metaphor nothing is defined as no interest‚ value‚ or consequence (Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary‚ n.d). One can conclude‚ this is what Lear had in mind when his most loving daughter Cordelia‚ failed

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    tells the story? How does the storyteller influence the way the story is told? The book is written in third person view and the narrator is omniscient. The storyteller influences the way the story is told by expressing each character’s feelings in a situation. What is the setting(s) of the story? Note both time and place. The setting of the story of the story takes place in the fictional land of Middle Earth towards the end of the Third Age. Who is the protagonist? What force does this character struggle

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    offers a very fitting holiday story for everyone. People commit mistakes but they have the heart to reflect on what they did wrong and this is exactly what will happen to Victor in the upcoming “The Young and the Restless” episode. He will look back on his past deeds and there might be some regrets. Victor’s Path to Change? “The Young and the Restless” spoilers reveal that Victor might be on his way to changing the way he lives his life. Or perhaps‚ just changing his bad ways that negatively affects

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    "The laboratory" (TL) are two dramatic monologues written by Robert Browning. Browning uses a range of techniques to reveal the characters psyche. The characters are both insane and deluded but have big differences‚ such as one of them is sadistic and the other suffering from subconscious guilt. I will be discussing the techniques that Browning uses to reveal his characters in PL and TL. In TL Browning begins to suggest a sense of paranoia in the wife: she seems to feel as if her husbands lover’s

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    How does the writer‚ Charles Dickens‚ show the changes in the character of Ebenezer Scrooge‚ in the novella ‘A Christmas Carol’? Pay special attention to language and social‚ historical and literary context. Focus on Stave 1 and Stave 5. Written for children‚ or as a “pot-boiler”‚ Dickens’ novella “A Christmas Carol” is intended to deliver a message to the readership of the time… The novella’s themes are still relevant today… In the novella ‘A Christmas Carol’‚ Ebenezer Scrooge changes dramatically;

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