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    ---------- Task 1: Mathilde Loisel is a wholly unsympathetic character who brings about her downfall and deserves her fate. How far do you agree with this assessment of her character? Remember to comment on how language‚ view point and tone convey character and meaning in the story. In‘The Necklace’‚ Guy de Maupassant introduces a character full of faults. Indeed Mathilde Loisel comes across as a wholly unsympathetic protagonist for whom the reader feels nothing but contempt. She accepts neither

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    The idea of the American dream has been around for decades. This intangible notion that America is the land of opportunity and everyone‚ regardless of their social class‚ can achieve success involves sacrifice‚ hard work and risk-taking. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby represents the American Dream gone bad. the characters of Gatsby and Buchanan‚ both‚ in different ways‚ represent the falseness of the American Dream. Some scholars claim that the novel conveys the idea that life is meaningless

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    The original ideal of the American Dream was that all Americans should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity but it has transformed into materialism‚ money‚ and greed. People are still putting in hard work‚ determination‚ and they have initiative to succeed which proves that the American Dream is still alive and well. In the last decade‚ many people have become excessively lustful about homeownership

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    The Life of Joseph Stalin

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    Unfortunately for the world Joseph Stalin was the one child out of the four in his family that survived past his childhood. Joseph Stalin was born on December 21‚ 1879‚ in Gori‚ Russia. Joseph Stalin’s father died when he was just eleven years of age‚ so his mother took complete responsibility of taking care of the boy. Joseph Stalin’s mother was a very religious woman and she also made sure that her son was educated. Joseph Stalin attended an elementary school in which was under the administration

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    Paragraph 1: I believe that Fitzgerald was demonstrating the views and values of the time in regards to the American Dream in the 1920s through characters in particular such as Nick and Gatsby who contrast. Nick and Gatsby are similar in the fact that they both have the desires/goals to live out the perfect life being the American dream. But where they differ is the way in which they live out their aspirations. Nick’s moral sense sets him apart from Gatsby who is consumed in the idea of the perfect

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    “The American Dream– That pursuit of a better existence and a higher quality of life through hard work‚ determination and devotion.” This was said by Benjamin Franklin‚ who coined the phrase American Dream. The Great Gatsby‚ by Scott Fitzgerald‚ is an exploration of the American Dream as it exists in a corrupt period of history. The main themes in the novel – hope‚ success‚ ignorance‚ disillusionment‚ wealth‚ and morals‚ reflect this society. Hope is represented by the light across the bay that

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    Richard III Values

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    Shakespeare’s contextual world and coincide with the values we hold today. The continuing relevance of the play RIII is fuelled by our contemporary societies desire to re-evaluate the role of women‚ characterisation of villains (Richard) and the role of materialism in modern day contexts. This desire is depicted through the 1998

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    alone‚ it can be imagined to exist in the truth likewise‚ which is more noteworthy. Along these lines if that than which a more noteworthy can’t be imagined is in the seeing alone‚ then that than which a more noteworthy can’t be considered is itself that than which a more noteworthy can be imagined. Be that as it may‚ unquestionably this can’t be‚ in this way without uncertainty something than which a more prominent can’t be imagined exist both in the understanding and in all reality." St

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    1) Write about the ways Fitzgerald tells the story in chapter2. Chapter 2 of ‘The Great Gatsby’ sees Nick Carraway and Tom Buchanan travel to ‘the valley of ashes’ to visit Tom’s mistress Myrtle. As the chapter continues the characters find themselves at a party at Myrtle’s sister’s apartment in New York. Chapter 2 follows a chronological structure‚ the events of that day in the summer of 1922 are recalled in the order that they occurred‚ creating the effect of a very realistic story being

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    Individual vs. Social Consciousness in Hobbes‚ Madison‚ Hegel‚ and Marx Hobbes and Madison derive their concept of politics in the liberal tradition of individualism‚ sketching out an ahistorical notion of human nature. By contrast‚ Hegel and Marx view the political as a social construction understood as dialectic. From this dialectic arises a progressive self consciousness. This is a historical process. Hobbes approach towards the nature of man is viewed from a mechanistic and ontological perspective:

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