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    is often not true‚ only a misunderstanding. This dispute between police officers and the black lives matter movement is cultural and social problem with the intended audience of the average day observers in attempt to attract a bigger audience and create a bigger voice to combat this

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    Of Mice and Men- Characters “Old Candy watched him go. He looked helplessly back at Curley’s wife‚ and gradually his sorrow and his anger turned into words. ‘You God damn tramp‚’ he said viciously. You done it di’n’t you? I s’pose you’re glad.’” Curley’s wife is a key character to ‘Of Mice and Men’ because she plays such a vital role in the story. She is the only woman on the ranch‚ and it is her presence and her behaviour that bring about Lennie’s final downfall. Although her behaviour may be

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    John Steinbeck shows that discrimination can lead to aggression in the novel‚ Of Mice and Men‚ through the character Lennie. Lennie tries to explain to George that he doesn’t try to kill the mice‚ but he ends up killing them anyway; “I’d pet ‘em and pretty soon they bit my fingers and I pinched their heads a little and then they was dead-because they was so little” (Steinbeck 10). Lennie wants the comfort of having something to take care of even if it is just a mouse. George doesn’t understand why

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    Within the lines of tragedy and it’s effects‚ the tragic hero must receive sympathy in order to create the full tragic effect. In Shakespeare’s play‚ Hamlet‚ it is easy to sympathize for the main character who’s name happens to be the same as the title‚ Hamlet. Hamlet clearly struggles with depression‚ which is a beginning building block for sympathy. Off and on‚ Hamlet contemplates suicide. The struggle of ending his life‚ or enduring more hardships constantly weighed on his troubled mind. On

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    How does Alagiah create emotion in this extract? In the extract‚ ‘A Passage to Africa‚’ George Alagiah appeals to the readers emotions through his sensitive writing style and insightful presentation of facts. He takes us on a roller coaster of emotions and allowing us to empathize with the difficulties faced by the Somalians.He uses effective language that creates an impact on the reader‚ which portrays the harsh conditions and reality of the ‘famine of quiet suffering and lonely death.’ The title

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    Introduction: In of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Curley’s wife sparks much debate and controversy‚ being an extremely important character in the book as she symbolises the gender inequality and discrimination of the period. At the start of the novella‚ we assume she is just a plot device‚ but later on find out that there is much more about her and she has a very important role in the book as being the only woman. During the 1930’s women were treated unequally to men‚ and weren’t treated with

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    Soren Kierkegaard‚ stresses the existence of the individual person creates his or her life through the choices he or she makes. As the plot of The Stranger develops‚ Camus skillfully presents an existential perspective on life

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    evil himself. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leader of the Civil rights movement in the United States from 1950’s to his death in 1968. Martin got his Ph.D and was awarded with his degree when he was only twenty five-years old! He had many tactics to fight against segregation. His first Boycott was on segregation with public transportation which was currently a law in Montgomery‚ Alabama. It started when a fifteen year old girl (Colvin) refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and got arrested

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    audience are drawn to the last scene because of the dramatic irony‚ the audience are aware that Juliet isn’t dead whereas the characters all believe she is dead. ‘To Juliet’s grave‚’ this shows that Romeo believes she is dead and is going to visit the tomb. The audience are drawn into it because the words he uses in that line suggest he is going to do something when he gets to Juliet. The scene is set in the Capulet tomb‚ also where Tybalt is buried. This adds tension because the time the play is

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    emergence of a new‚ secular and individualistic way of thinking. Such ideation perpetuated the talented intellectuals of the time to formulate new ideas‚ and in Niccolo Machiavelli’s case‚ a new way to govern. In his book‚ The Prince‚ Machiavelli uses his “how to guide” to delineate the political theory a prince should use in order to secure his power and govern his people effectively. This piece

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