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    their imprisonment upon the leviathan itself. basch truly doubted she’d have been able to purely go about her own resolve with the dawn shard‚ anyway. no‚ not DOUBTED‚ assumed. strong she was both in body and heart but rueful she could be. such ill-fated beliefs would could drive

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    O’Connor was ill-fated because he came to lead the Chartist movement after it had already started to not succeed. The failure of Chartism after 1842 is therefore perceived to be O’Connor’s doing by the historian Gammage purely because he was the primary Chartist leader at the time. However‚ the middle class Chartist leaders who had dictated Chartism between 1836 and 1842 were more accountable for the failure of Chartism to obtain its six point because they sanctioned the physical force Chartists

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    Most of the events that happen in Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet‚ lead up to the final conclusion of the couple dying. Many‚ if not all of the major characters play an ultimate role in the tragic deaths of the “star crossed lovers”. The character that causes the most dramatic effect upon Romeo and Juliet’s deaths if Friar Lawrence. He is the one character who played a role in every aspect of the tragedy‚ from the marriage‚ to his plan to rescue Romeo from banishment to the plan to save Juliet

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    Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe shows and explains the african culture during the time period that had much change in the community. Many stories and textbooks are made by the winning side. This story however is explained from the opposite point of view. The character Okonkwo from Things Fall Apart meets Aristotle’s definition of the tragic hero to an extent because only some of his characteristics lead to a downfall in the story. The characteristics he fits by the definition of tragic hero are

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    explains the situation‚ and tells us that we are in Verona." Two households‚ both alike in dignity" this tells us that the two families are both well-off and of high importance. "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life‚" this tells us that the ill-fated lovers (Romeo and Juliet) will in the end die. The prologue tells the audience that

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    for the audience to know of this information for them to follow plot development. In both situations‚ these groups are the elders of the culture. A member of the Egwugwu tells Okonkwo to not take part in the killing of Ikemefuna‚ but Okonkwo disobeys the order and slays Ikemefuna himself. Just as the chorus of a Greek Tragedy relays the messages of the gods to the citizens of the town‚ during certain rituals‚ the Egwugwu convey the teachings of important spirits. Their influence is displayed when

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    Throughout the whole novel‚ Okonkwo struggles with the changes taking place in his tribe. Okonkwo cannot bear the weakness of his son‚ like he saw his father was weak. By the ending of this novel‚ Okonkwo has tried to remain strong against the white man. He kills the colonial official in the end. For him‚ it is one last attempt to “save” his tribe from the weakness and the “negative” influence of the white man. Instead of being courageous against the threat‚ he chooses the coward way to avoid

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    up as a pain and death story. Romeo is in love with a woman named Rosaline at the beginning of the play. Juliet has never thought about getting married before her mother brings up the idea of marrying Paris. Shakespeare has to set their tale as ill-fated at the beginning (as “two star-crossed lovers” ) not only because their families hate each other‚ but because they do not know anything about what true love really is or even what life is like in the real adult world. When Romeo first lays his

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    way she feels about school drop outs in a short‚ yet forceful poem. 4) "We Real Cool" is very unique definitely has a powerful message behind it. Gwendolyn Brooks illustrates the essence of troubled teenagers who will eventually suffer the ill-fated possibility that life will render a human being if they continue the lifestyle of the streets — “Die soon”. The poem was written in 1950 (685) during the struggle for African-American civil rights messages and‚ to appeal to young African Americans

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    Since the early days of the video game industry‚ there have been many controversies related to violence‚ addiction‚ explicit graphics‚ and sexual themes. The misrepresentation of women being one of the many. The Damsel in Distress has become one of the most widely used gender clichés and misrepresentations of women in the history of gaming. As a trope the Damsel in Distress is a plot device in which a female character is placed in a perilous situation from which she cannot escape on her own and

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