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    American lawyer and political leader‚ Robert Green Ingersoll‚ once said that “kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” In book one‚ “Fantine‚” in the novel Les Miserables‚ author Victor Hugo uses the helpless and beast-like character of Jean Valjean to demonstrate that when an individual‚ at his lowest point of being‚ is exposed to kindness‚ he may rise up and become virtuous‚ so that he may help others achieve this virtue in return. A helpless individual in the midst of a radically unequal

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    In The Hours‚ by Michael Cunningham‚ the different behavioral and suggestive manifestations of depression are found mainly in the personal biography and setting of the characters. In Richmond 1923‚ Virginia Woolf lives in an old house‚ out skirted from the city. Mrs. Laura Brown lives in the suburbs of Los Angeles‚ in a house with a loving husband and innocent son. Clarissa Vaughn is set in in modern- day New York City‚ with busy streets and noisy people. Richard‚ on the other hand‚ grew from a young

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    Iago’s uses deception‚ gossip and jealousy to negatively influence Othello in Othello Reference Shakespeare‚ William. (2003). Othello. New York‚ N.Y; Spark Publishing All future references are to this edition and will be cited parenthetically. The Law of Environment states that the people around us affect our lives‚ for better or worse. Some unfortunate elements of the relationships that people have are jealousy

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    George Orwell portrays that rhetoric and language have the capability to control the population; “For one thing‚ Orwell’s entire story is predicated on a bleak and soulless view of humanity” (Scaliger 1). This is basically telling people to stay where they are living due to the nation that are growing less confident for what they believe in and for what feels right; both in real life and in the novel‚ suppose that a tragedy can occur that would appear on the news‚ which illustrates for the people

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    Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp uses a strong composition‚ and focal point‚ and variation in figures. The composition is tight and dramatic thanks to Rembrandt’s use of a pyramidal form. Five of the members of the guild and the corpse make up the base of the pyramid‚ two members above them make up the middle‚ and a single member completes

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    Dead Without a Trace: The Joann Curley Case Joann Curley was a middle aged woman who appeared to have fallen in love instantly when she met her future husband‚ Robert Curley. After they married in the summer of 1990‚ the couple‚ including her young daughter Angela‚ moved into her home in Wilkes-Barre‚ Pennsylvania. By all outward appearances they seemed to be the picture perfect family. Robert received a promotion at his job as a foreman for the chemistry laboratory he worked for. As a family it

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    How is Curley’s Wife presented in’ Of mice and men’? On the ranch there is only one woman who is referred to as Curley’s wife throughout the book and her lack of identity implies she is a possession of Curley’s and the fact she is never given a name suggests she’s seen more as a possession than a person. The first time she is seen the reader can instantly see she doesn’t fit in as she is wearing ‘red mules with ostrich feathers’ which is incongruous in the setting of the ranch. The colour red

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    In the story‚ the diction from the author’s dialect was colloquial‚ especially using profanity and misspelled words. This identified that African Americans at that Dialect shows a lot of things in the story. In “The Lesson” we could distinguish the feeling of the characters. Moreover‚ the  “And she was always planning these boring- a** things for us to do‚ us being my cousin‚ mostly‚ who lived on the block cause we all moved North the same time and to the same apartment then spread out gradual

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    Plainly speaking‚ satire is by far one of my personal favorite genres of a play or production. Satire is defined as‚ “the use of humor‚ irony‚ exaggeration‚ or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices‚ particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.” Shakespeare was one of the best writers when it came to using satire in his plays. For example‚ Romeo and Juliet contains several satirical jokes and references at the romantic culture of Elizabethan

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    century AD overtime Literary works have been develop such as novel‚ poems‚ and short stories. Short Stories are described has miniature versions of books or novels‚ where an author takes a tale and crams it into a ten to twenty page story. John Steinbeck is not only a well-known novelist‚ but also writes short stories like “The Chrysanthemums” and “Flight”. In Steinbeck’s “The Chrysthemums” Elisa Allen is married to a negligent ranch owner. While her husband works on the ranch‚ Elisa tends to her

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