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    Flaws in Death of a Salesman “Death of a Salesman” is a book deceptively based on self confidence. This trait is lacking in many of the characters. Ironically‚ the three men of the Loman decent all share the same flaw‚ Harold “Happy” Loman‚ Biff Loman‚ and tragically‚ Mr. Willy Loman. Harold is the young‚ good looking‚ “successful”‚ and attention seeker who really can’t be the independent man his shinning allure may portray. He is the mediator in certain situations‚ but almost instinctively

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    protagonist’s character embodies those characteristics of a Tragic Hero. Due to their flaws‚ a Tragic Hero’s actions are often heinous and cause great internal conflict. In William Shakespeare’s Mactbeth‚ there are many factors that contribute to the decline of Macbeth‚ such as the witches’ prophecies and Lady Macbeth‚ turning him from a noble man to a self conceited and violent individual. Because of Macbeth’s tragic flaws‚ he falls from prominence‚ eventually leading to self ruin. Macbeth is a tragic

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    Macbeth and Tragic Flaw Tragic flaw is defined as a personality flaw that makes the person commit a serious mistake so gravely that it can cause him/her death. A tragic flaw can also refer to a flawed judgment that a character has passed over a course of action‚ which is sadly irrevocable. In “Into the Wild”‚ Chris McCandless can be said to have committed a tragic flaw which has resulted in his death. By stubbornly clinging onto his ideal way to live‚ McCandless boldly leaves everything behind

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    My Tragic Flaw     In literature‚ all protagonists have their own tragic flaw. A tragic flaw is a literary device that is defined as a trait in a character leading to his or her downfall. For example‚ in Antigone‚ Creon’s major tragic flaw was his stubbornness. Till this day‚ I finally established my biggest tragic flaw: perfectionism. My friends say that I am a perfectionist when it comes to school projects and the sports I play. First‚ I have full dedication into my academics for the future. Everyone

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    Iago’s cunning and ingenuity‚ although helpful in his course of destruction‚ in the end do not disguise the fact that he is a malevolent manipulator who‚ throughout the play‚ fails to conceive a legitimate motive for his malicious actions. Iago is a villain. He is the embodiment of evil‚ hatred and spite‚ a vicious sociopath with no moral compunction‚ and therefore while he does initially provide a reason for his wicked intentions‚ his true motive is only the promising destruction of purity and

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    Essay #1: Oedipus the King – Flaws vs. Fate Sophocles intertwines the contrasting ideas of fate and free will throughout Oedipus the King‚ and conclusively leaves it to the audience to determine the reason for the tragedy that occurs in the story. The Oracle informs Oedipus of his destined future‚ which is to eventually shed his own father’s blood and marry‚ as well as conceive children with‚ his mother. As the story plays out‚ Oedipus comes to the realization that he has indeed fulfilled the

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    administration‚ of the activities of the courts‚ judges and prosecutors‚ of penal and correctional treatment‚ of the relation of psychiatry and medicine to crime‚ of the bar and its training‚ and of the relation of the press to crime.” The report highlighted flaws in the original unruly machinery of criminal justice and

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    In Hamlet we see diverse characters who can be seen as having tragic flaws. Polonius‚ the loyal advisor to the king and the father of Laertes and Ophelia has a tragic flaw. This is his loyalty to the state and more specifically the king. Polonius’s characteristic of loyalty warrants a flaw given that it leads to his tragic death. In using Aristotles interpretation of a tragedy‚ Polonius’s loyalty is also tragic. The audience worries that they may have the same fate and are also sympathetic of Polonius

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    Martin P. Sarmiento Assignment Unit 5 Analysis Pentium Flaw PENTIUM FLAW Intel’s company engineers discovered the problem in updates to the chip. However‚ it was not until a mathematician Thomas Nicely (of Lynchburg College in West Virginia) discovered the flaw during the summer/ fall of 1994 that it got in the news. He was computing the sum of the reciprocals of a large collection of prime numbers on his Pentium-based computer. Checking his computation‚ he found the result differed significantly

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    Ashley Walden Professor Amanda Walzer English 100 10 February 2014 Falling Through the Cracks in American Public Schools American novelist and university professor John Gardner once wrote‚ “All too often‚ on the long road up‚ young leaders become servants of what is rather than shapers of what might be.” In my experience with the American public school system‚ I have seen too often that students have become indifferent‚ disenfranchised and stripped of the colorful aspects of their

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