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    rule of Sultan Suleiman. The Ottoman Empire was slowly starting to weaken due to the attacks from the Safavid Persians and the failure to conquer Vienna. The Empire had already started disintegrating and the military had started to become corrupt. How could Roxelana improve/save the Ottoman Empire? What is your plan? Roxelana could have saved the Ottoman Empire by not revealing Mustafa’s plans to overthrow Suleiman. That would have made it possible for Mustafa to become the next Sultan‚ and the

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    client‚ named Molly escapes conviction‚ but he hires her as his housekeeper. Jaggers sadistically reminds Molly that he knows that she was guilty by showing her muscular and scraped up wrists to his houseguests. In the case in which he defends Molly‚ he does not have much of a defense for her‚ but he uses her size saying she is much too small to have murdered someone. In the informational book‚ Daily Life in Victorian England the author‚ Christopher Hibbert explains that because the police force was not

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    of the world set apart from the rest of society. The sense of isolation runs like a thread right through the whole book. Hill does this by creating vivid pictures in the reader’s mind. She uses detailed descriptions or imagery with frequent use of metaphor‚ simili and personification techniques. She also uses short and effective phrases with repetition of words to help create the impact of the descriptions on the reader. Hill was a big fan of Dickens who also used this technique. Hill begins the story

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    In Edgar Allan Poe’s story‚ “The Pit and the Pendulum‚” poe uses the elements of suspense‚ madness‚ and plot twist. But the whole story is based on Poe’s life‚ (the guy they talk about) like how he was captured‚ and taken away and almost killed luckily he escapes. The story was clearly thought out. The author states that his life with his parents was rough ¨His dad rejected him¨ ¨his mother died at a very young age¨‚ However‚ when he got kidnapped by the Spanish inquisitions he was put in a dungeon

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    readers how corrupt society can be‚ just as Oscar Wilde stated in the preface “those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope” (Wilde‚ 9). Wilde’s most important points of the book were that one must not influence others to commit tasks of wrongdoing‚ and to be a person who is materialistic and only cares about their appearance rather than how they

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    Live by the sword‚die by the sword is a great portrayal of what happens as Macbeth uses violence to get what he wants‚but eventually violence is used to kill macbeth. in Macbeth In the fiction novel Macbeth by William Shakespeare the reader meets the main protagonist Macbeth Early on in the story he is described as a fearless warrior who always is loyal. The cause of the tragedy that happened to the main protagonist Macbeth was his ambition.His ambition caused the tragedy in three steps. First his

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    Assignment: The works of Shakespeare and Dickens Introduction Julius Caesar takes plays in the ancient Greece‚ and the plot is based on the assassination of Caesar himself. Caesar returned to Rome from war. As the citizens honor him‚ an alliance was formed between the senators Brutus and Cassius. They shared a dread if Caesar would become corrupted from all the power and as a result‚ they plotted the death of him. They stabbed him to death and on his funeral the truth were set free. A man called

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    Revolution through when Mr.Jones was kicked out of his farm and how he was a bad ruler and the animal didn’t like him. Mr.Jones was a horrible farm owner he forgot to feed the animals and didn’t take care of his animals.The animals were fed up with Mr.Jones and how he didn’t care about them anymore so they kicked him out of the farm and celebrated that he was now gone.That is exactly what happened to Czar Nicholas with the people of russia and how he didn’t really care about them so

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    In the play‚ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare‚ the Capulets and Montagues long-standing feud had a greater effect on their children’s behavior‚ rather than the nature of their own growing and developing brains. In the beginning of the play‚ when the first quarrel occurs‚ Tybalt says “As I hate hell‚ all Montagues‚ and thee: Have at thee coward!’ (Shakespeare Mid-1590s). This “hate” that Tybalt and the rest of the characters have‚ have this belief engraved into their minds since they were taught

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    In the short story “The Landlady‚” the author‚ Roald Dahl‚ created suspense through the dialogue‚ character actions‚ and his choice of words when describing scenery or thoughts. The author immediately introduces suspense into the story when he writes in the first paragraph‚ “The air was deadly cold and the wind was like a flat blade of ice on his cheeks.” This choice of words seem very foreboding and signal that death is about and that this story will not be a happy one. Once Billy enters the B&B

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