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    glance read‚ but when you understand the book and comprehend it from a larger perspective you grasp and appreciate the true messages‚ morals‚ and allegories of this profound novel. Lord of the Flies can be interpreted as a political‚ psychological‚ and religious allegory. Lord of the Flies can be exposed as a political allegory to the Second World War‚ as well as a psychological allegory to Sigmund Freud’s theory of the id‚ superego‚ and ego‚ and furthermore the novel is a religious allegory relating

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    Colonial Unity

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    Jayla Reese 1 September 2012 3 Essay 2: Colonial Unity (1755-1774) Beginning in 1754‚ the evolution of colonial unity experienced its jump start with the event of the French and Indian War in America. In entering this war‚ the French were doing fairly well; they’d just ensured the surrendering of George Washington and Virginian troops as well as the Native Americans that were helping them. The French and Indian had also begun attacking the settlements of Pennsylvania‚ North Carolina‚ and South

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    leader of the hunters. Simon‚ one of the other boys‚ is socially awkward but has more of a moral conscience then some of the other boys on the island. The novel Lord of the Flies is an extended metaphor which can be read as a psychological‚ social‚ and religious allegory. A psychological allegory is broken up into three different personality types‚ which focuses

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    Racism in Shakespeare

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    Othello‚ we can see that racism against those of color existed even in the 17th century. “Shakespeares play is the text that will at once unsettle and fill in‚ substantiate and resolve what the audience suspects it already knows about the essence of blackness as the savage and libidinous Other” (Little 305). Shakespeare wields the prejudice that he knows the audience has come with‚ by making Othello the victim of Iago’s malicious plan. “The weight of critical tradition… presents a Shakespeare who finds

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    Shakespeare Is a Fraud

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    SHAKESPEARE IS A FRAUD January 25th 2012 Shakespeare is a Fraud One cannot write thirty-six plays‚ one hundred and fifty-four sonnets and two long narrative poems if they were ordinary. But unbelievably‚ William Shakespeare did just that from 1564 – 1616. People have questioning how Shakespeare achieved writing such great pieces of literature‚ when the behind the scenes story does not add up. There are no records to prove he wrote anything and there is proof

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    writings are in the form of dialogues‚ with Socrates as the principal speaker. In the Allegory of the Cave‚ Plato described symbolically the predicament in which mankind finds itself and proposes a way of salvation. The Allegory presents‚ in brief form‚ most of Plato’s major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it‚ and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually; his idea that knowledge cannot be transferred

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    The 1920’s‚ also known as the roaring twenties was a lot different from the hardships of the 1930’s. First off‚ the 1920’s was an era of optimism with saloons‚ music‚ and full of people crossing the boundaries. Speakeasies became popular because they sold alcohol‚ since the 18th amendment made the consumption of alcohol in public illegal. During the modern age‚ new architectural style entered New York. For the first time‚ more people lived in cities than urban areas. Street names often symbolized

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    What s sikcle cell?

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    What Is Sickle Cell Anemia? Sickle cell anemia (uh-NEE-me-uh) is the most common form of sickle cell disease (SCD). SCD is a serious disorder in which the body makes sickle-shaped red blood cells. “Sickle-shaped” means that the red blood cells are shaped like a crescent. Normal red blood cells are disc-shaped and look like doughnuts without holes in the center. They move easily through your blood vessels. Red blood cells contain an iron-rich protein called hemoglobin (HEE-muh-glow-bin). This protein

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    Who Is the Indian Shakespeare? 1 Who Is the Indian Shakespeare? Appropriation of Authority in a Sanskrit A Midsummer Night’s Dream David V. Mason University of Wisconsin-Madison Published in New Literary History 34:2 (Fall‚ 2003) David Mason 814C Eagle Heights Madison‚ WI 53705 (608) 238-1342 dvmason@facstaff.wisc.edu Who Is the Indian Shakespeare? 2 “Do you know who is the Indian Shakespeare?” Late in 1994‚ I was on my way from Rishikesh to Mussoorie. In India studying Sanskrit‚

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    Shakespeare’s 1601 comedy The Tempest‚ the discoveries of a new world and forgiveness‚ evoked by curiosity and wonder‚ leads to a new understanding of self and the world. Similarly‚ in Jean-Marc Vallee’s biographical drama Wild (2014)‚ a curiosity and wonder of the world and need to overcome personal challenges leads Cheryl Strayed to embark on a 1‚100 mile journey of self-discovery along the Pacific Crest Trails (PCT). In both texts‚ discoveries

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