though the book was uninteresting‚ it was easy to comprehend. Because of the book being uninteresting it took a while to read. The plot is told by its main character‚ Second Lieutenant Frederic Henry. He is an American put in an Italian ambulance unit stationed near the battlefront with the Austrians. His friend Lieutenant Rinaldi‚ an Italian surgeon introduces Frederic to Catherine. She’s Rinaldi’s romantic interest‚ but she starts to focus more on Frederic. Frederic thinks Catherine is very and
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girlfriend‚ Desdemona as his own. Roderigo fears that Iago has not been telling him enough about Desdemona and that this proves Iago’s real loyalty is to Othello not him. Iago explains his hatred of Othello for choosing Cassio as his officer or lieutenant and not him as he expected. To regain Roderigo’s trust‚ Iago and Roderigo inform Brabantio‚ Desdemona’s father of her relationship with Othello‚ the "Moor" which enrages Brabantio into sending parties out at night to apprehend Othello for what
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Harvard. (Politician) Work: Tax-collector; Elected to Massachusetts Assembly; 1765; Delegate to the First Continental Congress‚ 1774; Signed Declaration of Independence; 1776; Member of Massachusetts State constitutional convention‚ 1781; Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts‚ 1789; Elected Governor of Massachusetts. 1794-’97. Died: October 2‚ 1803. Son of a merchant and brewer. He was an excellent politician‚ an unsuccessful brewer‚ and a poor businessman. His early public office as a
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didn’t begin with experienced Corps commanders. After Stonewall Jackson’s death at Chancellorsville‚ the army of Northern Virginia was reorganized from two to three corps. The First Corps was now commanded by Lieutenant General James Longstreet. The Second and third Corps were commanded by Lieutenant Generals‚ Richard Ewell‚ and A.P. Hill respectively. Both Ewell and Hill were new to this level of responsibility and had previously reported to Stonewall Jackson. Their inexperience would be a key at the
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Michael Cassio from Othello Michael Cassio is Othello’s lieutenant and is trusted by Othello for his safety. More than a lieutenant‚ Othello regarded him as his friend. Cassio was the person who approved of Othello and Desdemona’s marriage when no one supported their love. He was the only person trusted by Othello to convey his messages to Desdemona and vice versa. Moreover‚ he was a faithful‚ reliable and capable lieutenant. Michael Cassio was the hinge on which the play turns‚ because he falls
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measure to what extent is he both a hero and villain of Tragedy? In the play Othello by William Shakespeare Iago gets introduced in act 1 scene 1 where he had been complaining to the audience and Roderigo that he had not been chosen to be the lieutenant but Cassio being chosen instead of him by the likes of Othello. Shakespeare from this scene had shown the audience that Iago will be the Stimulus in the play causing the tragedy in the play because we have seen that he has a motive which is to gain
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carry while in combat‚ but also the emotional baggage that also comes along with war. O’ Brien starts out the story by talking about First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross‚ who was the leader of his brigade in the Vietnam war. Cross carried around letters from a girl named Martha who he loved dearly‚ although he didn’t think that the feelings were mutual‚ “but Lieutenant Cross was hoping‚ so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack” (O’ Brien 1132). Cross goes on by listing everything that
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he also condemns the progress away from the roots and traditional values; to Mishima‚ the culture and tradition and its millennial deeper meaning faded away when replaced by Western ideals. This short story tells the lives of a young couple‚ the lieutenant of the Imperial Forces‚ Shinji Takeyama‚ and his wife Reiko‚ as well as their ceremonious and honorable deaths through the seppuku ritual. In this paper I will analyze how Mishima uses and abuses of Japanese culture and rigor of ritualistic ceremonies
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2008 Political Events *Jan 1st - A New Hampshire law legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples comes into effect. May 15th - California becomes the second U.S. state after Massachusetts in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after the state’s own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional. *Feb 24th - Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years. *Mar 17th - New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute
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Othello dramatizes the interaction of good and evil by using different characters to play as evil‚ or innocent characters. Shakespeare uses the difference of morals for each character to exaggerate the goodness of one person and the (corruption) of another. For example‚ Shakespeare introduces the idea of people being born with evil in them‚ but one does not see the evil unless it is triggered by an event. However‚ some believe that a seed of evil is planted in them by others or events that occur
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