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    How Classical School and Positive School relate to current Canadian code provisions. (Sections 462.37 & 810.) Classical School vs. Positive School In this paper I will be discussing the classical school and the positive school and their relations to these current provisions 462.37.‚ 462.39.-462.41 and 810 of the Canadian Criminal Code. After briefly summarizing these provisions‚ I will explain which law best represents the principles of the classical or positive school. Section 462.37 relates

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    Of Mice And Men Allegory

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    Of Mice and Men feels like an allegory‚ with each character possessing a specific trait that represents something or some group in society. So‚ is the book just a heavy-handed lecture about how nasty people are to each other. Are all of these wrongs (racism‚ sexism‚ discrimination) treated as equally evil? Or are the characters real‚ individual people‚ rather than being merely types/symbols? This is not in your own words...what’s up with that??? Of Mice and Men is a realistic fiction novel written

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    Dante’s Inferno “Dante’s Inferno” is a comedy based on his journey through the nine layers of hell. The voyage started in the 1300’s‚ during Easter Week‚ and the descent to hell began on Good Friday. After Dante finds his guide to the Underworld‚ Virgil who is also a poet‚ in a mysterious dark wooded area‚ they begin their journey to hell‚ a treacherous place with the most horrendous tortures. Dante become lost on his journey and he states that he does not remember how he became lost but he wandered

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    The Odyssey Allegory The book The Odyssey by Homer is a way to show how people can face many challenges in their lives. For example‚ the cyclops named Prometheus could be an example of people trying to hurt you‚ or stop you on your journey. Lotus flowers could represent temptations‚ and Aeolus meant to represent fortune and luck in going to be where you want to go‚ and underestimating how fortunate you are at a certain time. It’s easy to mix life with fiction‚ but the Odyssey merges the two beautifully

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    I will do this by telling them that an allegory is a story in which the characters are meant to symbolize something else in the world. We are able to see this in many different pieces of literature‚ and I’ll point out some different books or stories‚ such as C.S. Lewis books or Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan‚ where we can see an allegory at work. I feel that this would be beneficial to the students because it would show them how an allegory can work and how they can identify it. After doing

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    Beowulf’s story is somewhat of an allegory in which he is depicted as the Christ figure. The theme of Beowulf is a contrast of good and evil which is manifest in both Christian and pagan elements; Beowulf represents good‚ while Grendel‚ his mother‚ and the dragon represent evil. The first monster our hero‚ Beowulf‚ faces is Grendel. Grendel is said to be a descendant of Cain. "Unhappy creature (Grendel)‚ he lived for a time in the home of the monsters’ race‚ after God had condemned them as kin of

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    Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White is a children’s novel that tries to instill the values of friendship‚ loyalty and basic characteristics of humans through an adventure of farm animals. This novel was written in the early 1950’s at the time when the world was split by a curtain in two. It is open and direct in topics dealing with traits of certain animals and their role in the society of the "barn"‚ but one cannot disconcert the subtle praise this novel gives to the society that this novel is encompassed

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    Plato’s Cave: Still Current in Mass Media In the “Allegory of the Cave‚” Plato describes a group of stupefied people who have been trapped in a cave their entire lives. These prisoners are chained facing a wall; they cannot see anything except the shadows on that wall‚ which are being cast by men carrying unknown objects in front of a glowing fire. They never see the actual carriers or items‚ and they hear nothing but the echoes of these obscure men‚ yet are still entranced by these illogical sounds

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    Argument Vs Argument

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    chapters four and five to “they say” Three ways to respond to “yes/no/okay‚ but” and Distinguishing what you say from what they say. “And Yet” Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstien and Russel Durst say that “you need to be an expert in a field to have an argument at all” (p‚55). Are they referring to an actual job like a lawyer? where they are good on arguing about a certain topic. You must have some sort of topic to go off of to argue your case‚ and to make it believable for others. As for agreeing or disagreeing

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    shows a story that teaches a lesson on the mind and its deepest desires‚ taking Macbeth an unambitious man and turning him into a power hungry maniac. Through Shakespeare’s use of ghosts‚ apparitions‚ illusions‚ and ambition he is able to build an allegory that shows the folly of hungering for power and plotting against those that are innocent. The hallucinations that macbeth observes show the internal feeling of guilt that Macbeth has about the murder of his cousin and good friend‚ Banquo. The ghost

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