Spiders (order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs‚ and chelicerae with fangs that inject venom. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species diversity among all other groups of organisms.[1] Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica‚ and have become established in nearly every habitat with the exception of air and sea colonization. As of 2008‚ approximately 40‚000 spider species‚ and 109 families have been recorded by
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necessary to define a tragedy. In Poetics‚ Aristotle asserts that the definition of tragedy can be divided into six parts: plot‚ character‚ diction‚ thought‚ spectacle and song. In Shakespeare’s Othello‚ Aristotle’s notion of tragedy is apparent through the elements of plot‚ character and diction. Othello follows Aristotle’s convention of a tragedy. According to Aristotle‚ plot is most important among the six elements. Plot is the arrangement of events occurring in tragedy (Aristotle 196). Plot
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Tragedy is a genre which is used to represent the misfortune of characters. Shakespeare identifies several aspects of a tragedy and teaches humanity lessons about the consequences related to the hunger of lust and power. One tragic film is Match Point directed by Woody Allen in which the protagonist‚ Chris‚ experiences many aspects of tragedy. Match Point is a Shakespearean tragedy in which the desire of lust and power invokes Chris to make irrational decisions and commit immoral deeds which not
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Modern Cars We ask ourselves every time we see heavy traffic‚ is there no variance anymore amongst car models? In the old days‚ as a matter of fact only five ore ten years ago every single car brand seemed to have it’s own personality‚ today they look more like a cluster of copycats. What went wrong? One reason is that the automotive industry has certain trends it has to follow‚ just like fashion designers and musical composers. In times of recession and decreasing sales there is less room to take
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Modern Mindset Each person develops their own perspective of life and the world based on their own human experience. However‚ no one person is completely separate from his or her society‚ consequently the mindset of a culture tends to reflect the individual’s beliefs. The Western society is no exception. Their perception is mostly consisted of materialistic mindset‚ revealing enormous influence of science and avocation for rational thinking. This modernized materialistic mindset not only
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ThisismyName PS 201 – 03 10/19/2012 The Polis and the “Just City” vs. Modern American Democracy It is common to refer to the Greek city-state as the Greek polis and in order to understand ancient Greece one must have an understanding of what the polis was to the Greeks. First‚ let’s consider the physical characteristics and dimensions of the Greek polis. The single most striking feature of a Greek polis is its small size. It can be easy to overlook this fact because the classical sense
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Mark Strage Prof. Polyne Sports Race and Politics 05/15/13 Modern Gladiators Football is an inherently flawed sport. It calls upon men to sacrifice their bodies and minds by using their heads as battering rams over and over again. In his Offensive Play‚ a 2009 article in the New Yorker‚ Malcolm Gladwell explains “much of the attention in the football world‚ in the past few years‚ has been on concussions—on diagnosing‚ managing‚ and preventing them—and on figuring out how many concussions a
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well with spontaneous‚ no rule moments. I still struggle with that part of the class and I believe it isn’t something that can be taken care of with one course. I also enrolled in a dance of Mexico course and I enjoy noticing the differences between modern dance and cultural dance. Viewing the live performance by Paradigm put many things in perspective. My view
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WHAT ARE BANKS AND W H A T D O T H E Y D O? 1 1.1. Introduction1 The term ‘‘banking’’ can be applied to a large range of financial institutions‚ from savings and loans organisations to the large money-centre commercial banks in the USA‚ or from the smallest mutually owned building society to the ‘‘big four’’ shareholder owned banks in the UK. Many European countries have large regional/cooperative banks in addition to three to five universal banks. In Japan‚ the bank with the largest retail
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Oedipus The King The Greek drama Oedipus is clearly a Aristotle’s tragedy. It definitely meets the five main criteria for a tragedy: a tragic hero of noble birth‚ a tragic flaw‚ a hero‘s downfall‚ a moment of remorse‚ and a catharsis. Aristotle in his Poetics defines Oedipus as being a definite example of the form and purpose of Aristotelian tragedy. In tragedies the Greeks dramatized climactic events in the lives of heroes‚ and Oedipus story is no different. By using many different literary
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