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    UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS General Certificate of Education Advanced Level 9706/42 ACCOUNTING Paper 4 Problem Solving (Supplementary Topics) May/June 2013 2 hours Additional Materials: Answer Booklet/Paper *6247536355* READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST If you have been given an Answer Booklet‚ follow the instructions on the front cover of the Booklet. Write your Centre number‚ candidate number and name on all the work you hand in. Write in dark blue

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    1. As mentioned earlier A Midsummer Night’s Dream contains several different kinds of relationships centering on love. Some of these relationships are characterized by jealousy and power struggles. Make a list of the types of relationship and explain how each is resolved as in the example below: Type of Relationship Characters Involved Resolution in Act 4 Friendship Bottom and the Athenian tradesmen Bottom‚ whom they believed lost‚ returns in 4.2 and the friends prepare to perform their play. Marriage

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream Study Questions ACT I‚ SCENE I - Due Date ____________________ 1. How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next four days will pass different from that of Theseus? 2. Why has Egeus brought his daughter and her two suitors to Theseus? What does Egeus expect him to do? 3. What was the proper role for women/daughters in Athenian society according to Egeus and Theseus? 4. What is Theseus’s ruling concerning Hermia? 5. How does Lysander’s comment about Demetrius’s

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    They say that it only takes thirty seconds to make a first impression. One of the four young lovers in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream who gets caught up in fairy magic‚ Demetrius‚ is an Athenian man who is engaged to Hermia. However‚ she does not want anything to do with him. In the play‚ Oberon‚ the fairy king‚ instructs his helper Puck to apply magic love juice to Demetrius’ eyes. This causes him to fall madly in love with Helena‚ whom he eventually marries. The love potion brings out

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    “The course of true love never did run smooth” Lysander said in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. This is a play is about a group of four Athenian lovers and their journey through love along with the ruler of Athens and his soon to be wife‚ and of course the King fairy and his wife. This quote from Lysander‚ one of the Athenian lovers‚ is relevant in this story because of the difficulties in all of the relationships. Lysander and his lover Hermia‚ Theseus‚ the king of Athens‚ and his lover Hippolyta‚ and

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    Young Mr. McCaffery English period 7/8 29 January 2013 Why are homosexuals not bound by typical male/female gender roles? The other day while I was shopping in the mall‚ I saw a very flamboyant gay couple. Being myself‚ I was perplexed‚ because a few days before in my English class‚ we were discussing gender roles‚ and how they are very separated. Usually the men have their own roles‚ as do the females‚ but what I saw at the mall that day was something totally different. Obviously it’s very different

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    Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream “The course of true love never did run smooth.” (Act 1‚ scene 1) In the play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream‚ by William Shakespeare‚ there are several situations which true love has gone astray. Hermia and her true love cannot be wed because of the law of the city. Helena loves Demetrius‚ but he does not love her back. The ghastliest situation of love is between Bottom and Titania. They are in love for numerous awry reasons. The law of Athens states that women cannot

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    it should come to the surprise of no one that William Shakespeare‚ who is often credited as being the greatest writer of the English language‚ would incorporate the world of fairies from British mythos into one of his most beloved plays‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The significance created from Shakespeare’s use of the fairy world comes from the main storyline of the play; the world and workings of the human characters clashes with that of the fairies in such a way that it is clear they work together

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    It appears that Hippolyta and Titania’s main purpose in the play is as a tool to reinforce male superiority and female subservience in order to add comedic strands specifically aimed at the original intended audience‚ in this case‚ the elizabethan royal court. Through an exploration of the themes of love‚ sexuality and marriage Shakespeare shows that the Women in the play are‚ to a certain extent‚ there to be the play toys of the powerful men around them; Whether a daughter is being threatened with

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    In the comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” by William Shakespeare‚ he repeatedly comes back to his many ideas of love and people’s ability to believe in it. He does this with the play put on at Theseus’ wedding and with Robin’s epilogue. Although many people might not understand his interpretation of love‚ Shakespeare uses that to his advantage to say something about the relationship between the real world and his imagination. He wants to give everyone a chance at learning the different meanings of

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