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    |Relationships of Reality | |[An analysis of marriages present in Jane Austen’s Pride and | |Prejudice] | | | | | |

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    human of emotions‚ sometimes given names such as “pride”‚ “hubris”‚ “elitism”‚ and “pretentiousness”‚ has appeared as a force of undoing‚ evil‚ and destruction in drama‚ mythology‚ scripture‚ poetry‚ art‚ and literature. Historical examples abound‚ from the view of hubris as the principal crime one could commit in ancient Greece (and therefore its use as the principal flaw by which the protagonist is undone in Greek tragedy) to the mention of Pride as one of the Seven Deadly Sins in Christianity.

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    \ Subtle Destruction: A Story of Racism and Naïveté “The United States of America is a nation where people are not united because of those three glaring frailties: racism‚ injustices and inequities.” -Yuri Kochiyama Like the Japanese American Human Activist Yuri has clearly stated‚ The United States is but a fake name for a country that is

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    Dystopia‚ Anarchy‚ Destruction: “The Annihilation of Man” Many cataclysmic and apocalyptic waves of destruction hit the human race fast. The first wave was an EMP that shut down everything using electricity after being detonated and which left the whole world in chaos. Next‚ large weather problems started to occur. Then disease hit huge parts of the world further decreasing the number of remaining people. Who will survive the destruction? What special personality traits do these few individuals possess

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    Thought out history there has been different rulers who were power hungry and consumed by their pride. The Tragedy of Macbeth is no different. The story is set in 16th century Scotland. The story is centered around a Nobleman Macbeth who name Thane of Cawdor after kicking some serious butt on the battlefield. The story start with three creepy witches giving Macbeth his prophecy about about the future. These witches really get into Macbeth’s head and he attempts to control the future and bury the

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    the three symbolic letters. This pride affects not only our nation on a nation level with stereotypes but also influences every citizen to their very core. Pride is not something new added into todays society- although social media has showcased it- but rather has existed from the second Christopher Columbus believe he was superior to the Native Americans and greedily took over their land with pride in his “exceptional” achievements. And this grievous fault of pride has continued to separate this

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    Mutually Assured Destruction‚ or MAD‚ was originally based on the premise that two countries would agree not to use nuclear weapons upon each other as the result would be catastrophic. That has now expanded to the world of cyber as nation-states are transitioning to means of cyberweapons as opposed to kinetic attacks. This transition is taking place for a number of reasons: it is cheaper to obtain‚ easier to deploy‚ and the perpetrator is harder to detect by way of IP spoofing‚ masking and other

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    Pride and Prejudice is nowadays regarded as Jane Austen’s most enduringly popular novel. It was first published in 1813 and is a rewritten version of her earlier work First Impressions which had been refused for publication in 1797.1 Jane Austen worked on this novel during her most productive time‚ the first two decades of the nineteenth century. The setting of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ falls also to the time she lived and therefore delivers a detailed depiction of the existing society. The novel

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    What attitudes to love and marriage does Jane Austen explore in Pride and Prejudice? Can you identify Jane Austen’s own view? Jane Austen’s novel of Pride and Prejudice is set in the early 19th century and the central theme of the novel is love and marriage. Marriage was viewed very differently in those days and each character in her novel has different views of marriage. Marriage to women gave status and independence as women could not acquire money on their own without inheriting

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    http://www.pemberley.com http://voices.yahoo.com http://www.bookrags.com www.spartacus.schoolnet.co Marriage :- Marriage(also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people called spouses that establishes rights and obligations between the spouses‚ between the spouses and their children‚ and between the spouses and their in-laws.The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures. It takes a considerable leap of the imagination for a woman

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