The short story “The Last Leaf” portraits two young women named Sue and Johnsy living together in New York. Pneumonia has hit the area they are living in and Johnsy‚ not being used to the climate - as she is from California‚ is suffering from the disease. Sue takes on the role as the caretaker of Johnsy. Because Johnsy is terminally ill‚ she is therefore in need of medical help. The unnamed doctor‚ who is called in to Johnsys aid‚ is portrayed as a presumptuous and nonchalant man. He seems presumptuous
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RIZAL’S MORAL LEADERSHIP IS COMMENDABLE Rizal never forgot the value of a high sense of honor. He impressed his pupils on the importance of good conduct and upright behavior. He demonstrated obedience‚ self-control and discipline. Many persons pressed Rizal to escape from Dapitan in a baroto or banca‚ but he promised the authorities that he would not escape. He also didn’t want to be called a runaway . RIZAL TRIES TO SERVE SPAIN AS A PHYSICIAN On September 7‚ 1895‚ Blumentritt suggested
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Oscar Wilde’s conversion to Catholicism was a slow—if not incomplete—change of heart. Indeed‚ it seemed to be the “form‚ rather than the content” (Ellman 34) that began the author’s dalliance with the religion‚ as he seemed instinctively drawn to the maryr-happy‚ scarlet-toned atmosphere of piety due to its artistic implications. It was Catholicism’s deviancy from the normative values of Victorian Anglicanism‚ not the specificities of its dogma‚ which attracted Wilde‚ as its contrast with religious
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Although Cordelia appears in Act I‚ Scene I and disappears until Act IV‚ she has an enormous impact on the play as a whole. It is generally acknowledged that the role played by Cordelia in King Lear is a symbolic one. She is a symbol of good amidst the evil characters within the play. Since the play is about values which have been corrupted and must be restored‚ it is not surprising that the figure who directs the action must be embodiment of those values which are in jeopardy – love‚ truth‚ pity
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Without Seeing the Dawn A novel by Steven Javellana (summary) The novel "Without Seeing the Dawn" first published in 1947‚ is set in a small farming village called Manhayang‚ Sta. Barbara‚ somewhere in Negros. Like most rural baranggays‚ the hardworking and closely-knit village folk there had simple needs‚ simple wants‚ and simple dreams. They were living their own simple lives when the violence of war reached their place and brought death to their village‚ their homes and their hearts.
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The word discipline comes from a Latin noun that means “teaching” and an Old French one that means “suffering” or “martyrdom.” The three words live in a mostly harmonious linguistic family‚ but they also occasionally yell at one another. How could they not? Because while discipline is supposed to be about education‚ it’s often more about punishment—a punishment to produce adult catharsis How should you discipline your infuriating devil spawn when conflict arises? NOT BY YELLING….. A study out in
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of a heroic leaders death this lead to countless other artist painting similar scenes. That same year Poussin became in contact with Casino dal Pozzo who was a collector at the time. And a year later Pozzo helped him secure the commission for The Martyrdom of St. Erasmus and the altarpiece for St. Peter’s. This altarpiece didn’t meet the criteria this lead to the end of his public painting career in Rome. Poussin devoted much of his art of the late 1620’s too romantic mythological stories where he
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Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador was a great hero of the struggles for liberation in Latin America during that region’s "long dark night‚" a period lasting from the 1960s through the 1980s. He was an archbishop very briefly‚ a mere three years‚ 1977-1980‚ and he was an unlikely hero. The upper hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America was firmly allied with the economic and political elite. But Archbishop Romero emerged as the "voice of the oppressed" in El Salvador after he
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involved in the battle who perished were described as martyrs through the eulogies and sermons written by religious figures portraying Lazar as “God’s favored servant” (Emmert‚ 62). With that in mind‚ the historical memory aspect of Prince Lazard’s martyrdom paired with the collective memory of avenging Kosovo for the Serbs fuel the present-day political elite agenda of claiming Kosovo as Serbian territory. Without a doubt‚ the use of collective memory and historical memory can defend a nation’s political
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appreciated in favor of the petitioner the privileged mitigating circumstance of minority considering that he was born on 13 August 1963‚ 3 and by reason thereof‚ it lowered the penalty prescribed in Article 335 of the Revised Penal Code‚ i.e.‚ reclusion perpetua‚ by two degrees and applied the Indeterminate Sentence Law. Petitioner appealed the decision to the Court of Appeals‚ which docketed the case as CA-G.R. CR
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