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    jury. On the night before her execution‚ she sent her last letter to her sister in law‚ Elisabeth. "I am calm‚" the queen wrote‚ "as people are whose conscience is clear". Then in the moments before her execution‚ the priest told her to have courage and she responded "Courage? The moment when my ills are going to end is not the moment when courage is going to fail me." When and where was Marie Antoinette born? She was born on November 2‚ 1775‚ in Vienna Austria. Family

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    of pride and prejudice can be summed up in the exchange between Darcy and Elizabeth‚ after he proposed. Darcy clearly defines the reasons for his prejudice: "Could you expect me to rejoice in the inferiority of your connections? To congratulate myself on the hope of relations whose condition in life is so decidedly beneath my own?" (Pg.164) Elizabeth’s prejudice

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    Act I is centered around introducing the play and some of its characters. The play opens around a crowd of people waiting for Caesar’s return after his victory over Pompey’s sons. As the parade marches by‚ a soothsayer bids Caesar to "beware the ides of March." Later in Act I‚ Cassius persuades the frightened Casca to join the conspiracy during a violent storm. They both plan to visit Brutus later with fake petitions to help persuade Brutus to join the conspiracy. Act II opens with Brutus

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    	Society in the 1959 was full of racial discrimination. White and blacks were still living in their own "areas"‚ the public as a whole was very slow to accept the concept of mixed neighborhoods – blacks and white living together. This book‚ A Raisin in the Sun‚ by Lorraine Vivian Hansberry‚ tells the story of a lower-class black family’s struggle to gain middle –class acceptance in the Southside of Chicago. The Younger family of five‚ four adults and one child live in a cramped apartment

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    foreign countries around the world. Conrad ’s literature consists of the various styles of techniques he uses to display his well-recognized work as British literature. "His prose style‚ varying from eloquently sensuous to bare and astringent‚ keeps the reader in constant touch with a mature‚ truth-seeking‚ creative mind" (Hutchinson 1). Conrad ’s novels are basically based on having both a psychological and sociological plot within them. This is why Conrad ’s work carries its own uniqueness

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    The Black Cat: A Comparison Between The Movie and The Book There are major differences between the film we saw in class and The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe. The film had added effects to get the viewer’s attention. The film also let out important parts that were in the short story. The short s The Black Cat: Deranged NarratorThe Black Cat: a Comparison Between the Movie and the Book The Black Cat: A Comparison Between The Movie and The Book There are major differences between the film we saw in

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    the forests in order to "soul-search" and discover the answers to sometimes hidden questions. In this particular situation‚ Casey himself states the comparison of Christ’s and his actions while giving a grace at the Joad’s breakfast table‚ "...I been in the hills‚ thinkin’‚ almost you might say like Jesus went into the wilderness to think His way out of a mess of troubles" (Steinbeck ch.8). Casey further goes on during his rather rambling grace‚ "I got tired like Him...I

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    handed down through the generations‚ and Lyuboff has been left to take care of it. Since Lyuboff has grown up wealthy‚ she has not learned to manage her money wisely. She wastefully spends and hands out money: "I haven’t any money‚ my dove…oh‚ very well…give it to him‚ Leonid." She does not know how to work in order to regain the money she has spent. She finds herself going into debt and not being able to pay the mortgage. These problems grow so severe that she is forced to sell it.

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    film‚ we see differences in both the different emphases and implied viewpoints on the various themes that the play touches on and‚ perhaps more importantly‚ the way the characters are portrayed. While the old concept of "whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger" is present in both the play and the film (particularly in the characterisation of Paulina)‚ it is much more prevalent in the movie. We can see Paulina’s strength from the start. As she strides confidently around the house

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