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was my cousin sarah. my aunt thought it would be better for sarah to move in with her sister amanda. sarah had been kicked out of her private school in new york so her mom sent her to live with her sister in pensylvannia. Amanda was married and had 2 beautiful children. four year old micheal and 2 year old ashley. so sarah moving in was a bit of a handful for amanda. but little did she know that her other sister amy would be meeting her father again in about a year. sarah was a straight A student
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Lindsey Aranda English‚ period 2 Hamlett June 6‚ 2011 Journal of Macbeth Act 1 I was very confused at the beginning of the play. I thought it was weird with the witches‚ and I was still getting used to the old English language. I thought it started to get interesting when the witches had told Macbeth that he would become the Thane of Cawdor and then he actually did! I think this is what starts Macbeth’s ambition towards the series of events that will happen in the play. I think that the
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References: Picoult‚ J. (2004). My Sister ’s Keeper. New York: Atria Books. Volbrecht‚ First Initial. (Date of Publishing). Title of Book in Italics. City of Publication: Publisher.
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At the end of the play‚ Malcolm describes Macbeth as a butcher. Do you think Macbeth is merely presented as a butcher? I somewhat disagree with Malcom’s view that Macbeth is ‘merely’ portrayed as a butcher‚ but rather has an excessive ambition influenced by other characters enabling him to endure ‘butcher’ tendencies. It seems unjust for Malcolm to describe Macbeth as a “dead butcher” because at the beginning of the play he is a Scottish nobleman and shows courage and bravery in battle. He killed
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1 ”The Fabulous Button Sisters” is a short story from 2006 written by Sarah Salway‚ it’s about a girl named Karen and her best friend Michelle. Michelle is living with her aunt‚ while her mother is in Hollywood trying to become a star‚ Michelle is waiting for her mother to become a star so she can come live with her and become one too. Michelle and Karen have a plan to go together‚ so they both can become stars. Karen and Michelle is going to a party and they have agreed to dress up like chocolate
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Critical Analysis: Soliloquies in Macbeth A soliloquy is a monologue‚ delivered by a character alone on stage. o Soliloquies are central to the play because in them there is only truth. There is no deception as there might be when speaking to other characters. o o Soliloquies contain the most powerful emotion and imagery in the play. Soliloquies are extremely important in revealing character‚ and are only spoken by the most important characters in the play There are several soliloquies in the first
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wills not exploit its power as opposed to corrupt leader who will pursue his self-interests by misusing his power. Such assumptions can be made with the ruthless and mass murderer dictator‚ Joseph Stalin and the cruel tyrant from Shakespeare play Macbeth. Joseph Stalin is known as the most merciless and murderous dictator in history. While ruling the soviet USSR for quarter of the century his regime caused many deaths of innocent people and prominent political members. From 1924 onwards‚ he executed
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Formal Discussion 1. The very first thing which influenced my decision of what I was going to research came from a music video called “Foil” by Weird Al Yancovic. It begins talking about the usefulness of aluminium foil but then very suddenly turns into a lot of conspiracy nonsense at that he was protected by it all because of his aluminium foil hat. This is what caused me to choose my research project. I had always liked reading conspiracy theories because I found them funny however I never made
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Virginia Woolf initiations this Essay: What if Shakespeare Had Had a Sister? By being very dismayed about not being able to acquire an explanation on why men are richer than women or why women are poorer than men. She wants to make sure that she gets facts and not opinion. Thus she decided to visit the time of Elizabeth and discover why women did not write‚ but men were writing non-stop and achieving literary excellence. Shakespeare comes up and Woolf compares his writings to “enchanted spider webs
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