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    ”Shakespeare uses aspirant alliteration to illustrate a sinister Tybalt who wishes death upon all. Also‚ Tybalt repeats the word “hate” to show the intensity of the depth of his loathe for the Montegues‚ hell and peace. Tybalt uses honour and pride as an excuse to cause conflict. This is shown in (Act 1Scene 5) “I will withdraw‚ but this intrusion shall/Now seeming sweet‚ convert bitt’rest gall.”Tybalt’s brimming pride prevents him from seeing reason. This phrase foreshadows the fight to come between him

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    care. I was almost certain for a knighthood.’ He only cares about him and his social status‚ but the audience will be more concerned with the wellbeing of Eva and will be unsympathetic towards him. Mr. Birling even goes as far as saying ‘There’s no excuse for what both your mother and I did.’ This suggests that he still hasn’t learned anything from the inspector and is actually trying to defend himself. Mr. Birling is presented as an unsympathetic character not only because he is self-centered and

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    False | | | | | | Feedback: Reason is not the only thing that affects beliefs‚ attitudes‚ and feelings. Rhetorical devices employ everything but reason to influence someone’s acceptance of a claim. | | 2 INCORRECT | | An appeal to ignorance is an ad hominem attack where the intelligence of the arguer is impugned. | | | A) | True | | | B) | False | | | | | | | | 3 CORRECT | | It is fallacious to conclude that a person’s claim should be dismissed if it is determined

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    Here Victor is warning Walton against following his example. This quote expresses the regrets Victor holds towards the knowledge he grasped and shows that he would have rather been naïve or less knowledgeable. It seems as though Victor believes ignorance is blissful thinking. Walton- (pg. 27) “I spoke of my desire of finding a friend‚ of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen into my lot‚ and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness

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    98)‚ which illustrate the importance of societal status and race. Depending on your race or political affiliation‚ it could decide the way you live in luxury‚ or the way you die in debt. Societal issues have been used as a leverage in the past as an excuse to start war. For example‚ in 1939 during the Great Depression‚ “most families were struggling just to put food on the table and pay the rent‚ retirement saving was an unaffordable luxury”‚ according to John Hardman’s The Great Depression and the

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    INTRODUCTION In moral theory‚ understanding the concept of human action is significant. While contemporary moral philosophers tend to address these subjects as discrete topics of study‚ St. Thomas Aquinas’s treatment of them yields a bracing‚ comprehensive view of the moral life. Though at times it is not necessary for someone to be a trained moralist just to determine whether an act is good or bad‚ in some cases‚ this task can be challenging. Essential to identifying a correct moral action is recognizing

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    In the Lost Daughter of Happiness‚ Fusang is perceived to be nothing more than a worthless‚ stupid‚ and weak prostitute to the public. I believe though‚ that she is actually a very intelligent person and her acts of silence‚ submissiveness‚ and ignorance are her acting strong to get through her situation of being a kidnapped so she can then be with her true love Chris. From the beginning of the story Geling Yan describes Fusang not to be just like all of the other kidnapped Chinese woman who are

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    Emmanuel D. Alcantara BSHRM III-A Reaction Paper to Ethics In chapter 1 we discuss the study of “ETHICS”. Ethics came from the word ethos which means the characteristic way of acting and its Latin word is mos.‚ mores which means the traditional line of conduct or custom. It is form this root word that the word moral or morality is derived. Example of ethos of man as man is revealed that he is able to distinguish between good and evil‚ right or wrong‚ moral and immoral. Ethics is defined as the “practical

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    The same themes often come up in many works‚ not due to plagiarization‚ but because these themes are reflective of human nature. The novel‚ Lord of the Flies‚ by William Golding‚ depicts the regression of innocent‚ little boys into primitive savages when tossed onto an island with no sense of civilization. As each boy slowly transforms into a savage‚ civilization tears away its facade‚ revealing the evil that was always there. Eventually‚ after a couple of deaths‚ a ship of soldiers find the stranded

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    women do their share too. Their casualties are small meaning they rarely fight with each other. Christopher Columbus was so blinded from the rewards of the Spanish king and queen proposed to him that he enslaved and mass murder natives due to his ignorance. As time went by‚ Spaniard made natives work in mines for six to eight months. Mainly men worked in the mines. Women were overworked in the soil fields by farming. Mates did not see each other for eight months. But when they did they were overly

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