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    full of tensions" Explore the ways that Golding achieves these tensions and what they bring to the novel ‘The Spire’ revolves around Jocelin and his quest to have a spire built on the cathedral. Through his blind faith‚ Jocelin accepts the cost that this building is having on the cathedral and the people that inhabit the cathedral. Tension is built throughout this novel in a number of ways‚ most notably in the impact that the building of the spire has on the people around Jocelin. Tension is achieved

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    philosophy focuses on the nature of reality. Metaphysics attempts to find unity across the domains of experience and thought. At the metaphysical level‚ there are four* broad philosophical schools of thought that apply to education today. They are idealism‚ realism‚ pragmatism (sometimes called experientialism)‚ and existentialism. Each will be explained shortly. These four general frameworks provide the root or base from which the various educational philosophies are derived. * A fifth metaphysical

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    Hansberry takes place in the Chicago Southside between World War II and the 1950s. The Younger family is living in a house that is falling apart‚ just like their family is‚ due to the struggles that African Americans faced during this time period. The two characters that have the biggest influence on this plot are Mama and her son‚ Walter. Walter has a big influence on this plot because he is the most upset about the news on the house and adds a lot of tension at the end of the scene. Walter shows that

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    significant imagery to show the isolation and importance of the situation. There is a certain tension in the air when the two old friends reconnect after their falling out. They are alone in the middle of nowhere: “Victor looked around the desert‚ sniffed the air‚ felt the emptiness and loneliness” (159). Alexie uses imagery to encapsulate the situation that the two young men are in. To help the reader feel the tension of the isolated experience‚ imagery is used to describe the spacious and lonely desert

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    Priestley presents tension in various ways withing in the Birling family. At the beginning of the play‚ Priestley creates his tension by changing the colour of the lighting. The start is a ’low and intimate pink’ which could suggest a hidden tension within the family home. After the inspector arrives the lighting changes to a ’bright‚ harsh white light’ which makes the family look like they are in the spotlight of a police interrogation. This shows that there is tension at the heart of the Birling

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    Secondly‚ the strife theme is very powerful in this music as it shows the tension between the two families and its impact on Romeo and Juliet. Tchaikovsky presents the theme of strife with ‘agitation’ and angry rhythms in woodwind along with racing scales in strings. His choice of dynamics such as crescendo reinforces the tension and solemn mood between the families and as a result‚ the audience can feel the feud escalating due to the growing force of chords and the sudden changes in dynamics. Moreover

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    How does Steinbeck create tension in the fight between Lennie and Curley in Chapter 3? Steinbeck cleverly builds up the tension throughout Chapter three to foreshadow the fight. It is important to note how Steinbeck builds up the tension beforehand‚ as he jumps from scene to scene which has conflicting emotions for both the characters and the reader‚ to perhaps manipulate us to believe that Lennie will be in grave danger‚ due to the violent and discriminatory characters present in the early-mid 20th

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    extract‚ that Jekyll has only been experimenting with science produces dramatic tension. Throughout the extract‚ Jekyll confesses that he can only speak ’by theory alone’ regarding his attempts to create the potions to transform himself into Hyde. This represents his constant uncertainty about the results of his experiments. Therefore if even Jekyll‚ the man performing the experiments‚ is uncertain of the results‚ dramatic tension is caused for the reader to discover the results of the experiment. Jekyll

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    when President Thomas Jefferson gained approval for his visionary project. This project was to explore the unknown West with a small expeditionary group. President Jefferson chose Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to head this expedition. Both Lewis and Clark had close ties to Jefferson. Meriwether Lewis was one of Jefferson’s secretaries and William Clark was a close friend. The initial idea of the expedition was to include scientific inquiry‚ geographic mapping‚ and clearing the way for commerce

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    the United States’ history people had to face these problems of segregation and racism. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin‚ authors of the March trilogy‚ write about Lewis’ life and growing up in a segregated and racist country. He grew up in rural Alabama where his parents always taught him not to say or do anything because if you do you will just cause problems and bring danger to yourself and others. However Lewis was far from similar to his parents. He did not just want to sit back and see if the country

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