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    throne. However after the murder Macbeth is unable to sleep properly. Sleep is one of the key images which recur throughout the play. Sleep imagery in Macbeth is used to develop the theme of innocence‚ nature‚ conscience and guilt and reinforces the images of night‚ darkness‚ and evil. Sleep is a symbol of innocence and goodness‚ one of the main themes in the play. Since Macbeth has done a deed of great evil‚ murdering Duncan‚ Macbeth is no longer innocent. And hence he is no longer allowed to sleep

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    to be physical. With freedom you can do what you want and say what you want without having to answer to anyone. The question is‚ is freedom really that simple? If so‚ does that mean we are all free? Reading the stories‚ “The Grand Inquisitor‚” “Oedipus Rex‚” and “The Crying of Lot 49‚” have brought different perspectives on freedom. The three stories all brought into question the definition of freedom. Is freedom just the physical idea of freedom or is there more? Freedom is not just being unshackled

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    In the play “Oedipus the King”‚ fate vs. freewill dilemma of the heart of Oedipus myth is described as a tragic flaw caused by his blindness. In human life‚ there are people governed about whether they choose to do something with their fate vs. freewill. But most people believe that it is not always good to have fate vs. freewill. It is a choice to cause either fate by making something happen or freewill by controlling their behavior in situations. Many people choose to have fate by doing

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    In Sophocles’ Oedipus the King‚ Oedipus is a man who exemplifies the typical tyrannical leader of ancient times. A man blind to the path his questions take him on. Oedipus is a character dominated by strong emotions‚ and it is the way in which he negotiates his feelings and reacts to information uncovered that makes Oedipus a legendary cautionary tale in literature. The famous stoic Seneca wrote his own version of Oedipus a few hundred years after Sophocles’ Oedipus. The tale remains the same

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    fate when Oedipus declares his intent to solve the murder of Laius which is expressed by the metaphor of “expelling the poison in the blood” and righting the wrong. The second part of the quote‚ “for whoso slew the king might have a mind to strike me too with his assassin hand” also shows the intervention of fate when Oedipus denounces the murderer in front of his citizens when he himself is the murderer of Laius. This is a clear example of fate’s intervention in the life of the tragic Oedipus. | Quote:“Oh

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    T. Rex

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    Tyrannosaurus rex have come about between Paleontologist and Ecologists over the past decades; on whether the Tyrannosaurus rex is a Predator or Scavenger. Paul Colinvaux has his own opinions on this argument. An Ecologist that has spent his entire life devoted to how the environment has determined the development of life‚ publishing books and being senior scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Colinvaux points out certain pieces of the Tyrannosaurus rex that has allowed

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    Tyrannosaurus rex means "tyrant lizard king" .It is also called T.Rex abbreviation. The first T. rex was first found by Barnum Brown in 1902. The first T. rex was found in Hell Creek‚ Montana‚ USA‚ North America. Tyrannosaurus rex was a meat-eater about 40 feet (12.4 m) long‚ about 15-20 feet (4.6-6 m) tall‚ and about 5-7 tons in weight. T. rex probably had about 200 bones‚ roughly the same as us (no one knows exactly how many it had‚ since no complete T. Rex Skeletons have been found). About a

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    order to vindicate the innocence of the other. You might think that the guilty are guilty‚ even before we judge them to be so; however‚ guilt does not exist prior to our judgment. Until then‚ there is a presumption of innocence because guilt has not yet been determined. You may have assumed that the process of judgment discovers the truth‚ or that it uncovers the guilty party‚ when in fact‚ it decides guilt and innocence in question. Judgment discerns and determines guilt.

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    Comment on White Guilt 商管1003 20100301345 田新斌 Guilt is an unhappy feeling that you have done something wrong or you think you have done something wrong. Or it also refers to the fact that you’ve done something wrong. It also can be explained as the state of having committed to an offense or the remorse caused by feeling responsible foe some offense. However‚ white guilt is the individual or collective guilt often said to be felt by some people for the racial treatment of people of color

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    T-Rex T-rex name have you wonder where their name came from well wonder no longer. T-Rex came from a Latin word meaning “king” and Tyrannosaurus comes from a Greek word meaning ‘tyrant lizard’(science kids). The person that named the T-rex was Henry Fairfield Osborn(enchanted learning). Tyrannosaurus’ comes from the Greek words meaning ‘tyrant lizard’‚ while the word ‘rex’ means ‘king’ in Latin(science kids). Do you know the year when the T-rex got named was 1905(enchanted learning). Tyrannosaurus

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