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    Friederich Nietzsche’s first essay in his work “On the Genealogy of Morals” is a piece titled‚ “Good and Evil‚ Good and Bad.” The essay seeks to trace the origin of morals‚ specifically the distinction made between good and bad and the subjective difference separating evil and bad. He elaborates that in the modern world the way we define good and bad is never questioned since we assume those definitions were reasonably created. Over time‚ Nietzsche argues‚ we lost sight of the origin of these words

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    Act one begins at sea with the storm‚ which gives the play its title. The King of Naples Alonso‚ his brother Sebastian‚ the Duke of Milan Antonio and the other mariners begin to fear for their lives. On the island Prospero and Miranda are introduced. Miranda pleads with her father to use his magic powers to calm the storm. He explains to her that he has orchestrated the entire event and assures her that no one will be harmed in the storm. He recounts the story of how they came to live on this

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    Essay in Draft Prospero is a complex character with a variety of emotions and aspects to his personality. These different characteristics are revealed in the language he uses. For example‚ Prospero comes across as violent when he threatens Ariel with a further twelve years of imprisonment‚ this time wedged into an oak tree. Prospero says‚ “If thou more murmur’st‚ I will rend an oak and peg thee in his knotty entrails till thee hast howled away twelve winters.” This shows that Prospero will threaten

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    talks about the unfair dress code policy and the embarrassing punishment that follows. Miranda Larkin‚ 15‚ was wearing a skirt that was past her fingertips and just above her knees. She was told that her skirt was ‘too short’ and was sent to the office to change into a school-provided outfit. This outfit was a big‚ bright yellow t-shirt and red baggy sweatpants that was labeled “Dress Code Violation”. Instantly‚ Miranda started to bawl and broke out into hives all over her neck-she had to walk around

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    Even though Caliban attempted to rape Miranda‚ it could be known that Caliban is not educated for he was isolated and had no exposure to civilization‚ therefore having no understanding on the concept of rape. Additionally‚ Caliban’s plot to kill Prospero was due to the fact that Caliban felt

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    variable is the soil and the pot. Conclusion: He was wrong about his experiment the soil stayed the same way and the bark grew from water only. Flaws of the experiment: Instead of the bark growing by soil it grew by the water. (1) Joseph Priestly- mint jar Joseph Priestly is another scientist who discovered photosynthesis when he does the mint in a jar experiment he soon discovered oxygen her are his measurements: Hypothesis: if I put a candle in a jar with a leaf of mint in it then it will burn

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    The playwright of ’An Inspector Calls’ John Boynton Priestly was alive between 1894 and 1984‚ in this time he served in the First World War where in 1916 he was badly injured. It wasn’t until the end of the Second World War in 1945 that he wrote ’An Inspector Calls’; he chose to set the play thirty years in the past before either wars had happened- in 1912. Priestly was a renowned socialist and highly respected in his time- with his own radio show which around twenty million tuned into each week

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    Introduction The term family has a different meaning to everyone‚ for some‚ family is just your parents‚ sisters and brothers. For others it’s the extended family consisting of grandparents‚ parents‚ brothers‚ sisters‚ cousins‚ uncles‚ aunts‚ nieces and nephews. I chose the movie Mrs. Doubtfire for our Family Assessment assignment because it is a film that symbolizes the position of family in so many different ways from functional to dysfunctional. This movie shows how quickly family dynamics can

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    for survival. I know that because in the story Miranda’s’ family is always struggling to gather food‚ and supplies that they need‚ and they need it for survival. For example‚ at the end of the story Miranda goes outside and she finds a yellow letter. It was talking about the “ City Hall “ and Miranda went and she found out that they were giving away food in bags. She told the mayor that they really needed the food and they believe her so they take her back to her house and all of her family was proud

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    seen as ’the Tempest ’ is set in a completely patriarchal society; where all positions of power are held by males. In fact‚ ’The Tempest ’ has only one visible female character‚ Miranda‚ whilst other women‚ such as Caliban ’s mother Sycorax‚ Miranda ’s mother‚ and Alonso ’s daughter Claribel‚ are only mentioned. Miranda is typically viewed as being completely deprived of freedom by her father‚ her only duty in his eyes being to remain chaste. The less-prominent women of the play are also seen as

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