From: Eric Castelli Not all illnesses are created equal. Tuberculosis occurs frequently; cholera does not because of the reasons below -It should be picturesque -It should have strong symbolic possibilities -It should be mysterious in origin Tuberculosis- A wasting disease Physical paralysis can mirror moral‚ intellectual‚ political‚ spiritual and social paralysis. Plague: divine wrath Malaria: Literally “bad air” Veneral disease: Reflects immorality or innocence. AIDS:
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Chapter I QUOTE; It was‚ of course‚ a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood‚ and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. As Angela’s Ashes opens‚ Frank describes how his parents meet and marry in New York‚ then eventually move back to Ireland with their four sons. He characterizes his upbringing as a typical “miserable Irish Catholic childhood‚” complete with a drunken father
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Othello – important quotes 1.1 * Roderigo to Iago‚ saying you had my purse / As if the strings were thine * Iago: I know my price‚ I am worth no worse a place * Othello‚ described by Iago as loving his own pride and purposes * Iago describing Cassio’s skills: mere prattle‚ without practise‚ / Is all his soldiership. * Iago tells Roderigo that Othello has seen Iago fight At Rhodes‚ at Cyprus and on other grounds / Christian and heathen * Iago on serving Othello: I follow
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The Quotes Humans are measured not through their words but their deeds. The abstraction of deeds is dance itself. ~ Chinvat – the Ninth Bridge Winner − Special Jury Award‚ Hungarian Pan Art Festival (from the promotional flyer) In life as in dance: Grace glides on blistered feet. ~ Alice Abrams Beside the fire‚ as the wood burns black‚ a laughing dancer in veils of light‚ whose dance transforms the darkness to gold. ~ Adu Abd Allan ben Abi-l-Khisal ben Abi-l-Khisal
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Greetings from Chicago! We miss you so much and we cannot wait for your family to move here! Oh my‚ I have so much to tell! This week has been amazing and I truly wish you could be here with us. As you know‚ when we moved here‚ we moved by an amazing place called Hull House. At this place‚ there are sports teams and there are classes for children! It is so exciting! I have joined the basketball team (despite my mother’s disliking for the sport) and I am taking a sewing class and a drawing class
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4) Chapter 9: "I drew a bead on him (p. 81)." (To draw a bead on someone is to aim at or focus on that person.) 5) Chapter 9: ‘I merely bowed to the inevitable (p. 84).’ (An event or occurrence that is inevitable is one that cannot be stopped from occurring. To bow to the inevitable is to realize this fact and resist fighting it. Atticus realizes that‚ sooner or later‚ Scout and Jem would be given guns and be taught how to shoot‚ so he doesn’t try to fight it.)
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One in the Same The ability to put oneself in someone else’s shoes is fundamental to human characteristics. Through friendship‚ this can be taken to the next level. The University of Virginia put out of study of brain activity. The group scanned twenty-two different people who were warned of receiving a small electrical shock to one of three options: themselves‚ their best friend‚ or a stranger. Through this study‚ scientists have learned that the brain activity of the person in danger‚ versus
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short. I think that Shakespeare purposely made these lines uncut and off rhythm for a reason. This reason is that Feste is a fool and is always being witty never making a direct point. Viola is fooling right back and not being entirely serious as well. From a literary stand point having the fool talk in such a manner makes them both out of the box or “party”. It makes sense that Feste talks in such a manner in the play‚ but I like how Viola’s lines are almost the reiterating the argument that Feste and
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“The unqualified truth is that‚ when I loved Estella with the love a man‚ I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow‚ often and often‚ if not always that I loved her against reason‚ against promise‚ against peace‚ against hope‚ against happiness‚ against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I loved her none the less because I knew it‚ and it had no more influence in restraining me than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.” (29
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“almost Thou persuadest me”: REDEMPTION AND NEW TESTAMENT ROLE REVERSALS IN DOSTOEVSKY’S NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND Dostoevsky makes it clear early on in his Notes from Underground that his main character‚ the Underground Man‚ is quite the scoundrel. He is paradoxical and pathologically indecisive. Though deeply insecure‚ he is arrogant – believing himself to be more intelligent and certainly more perceptive than everyone else. He is a thorough-going misanthrope who despises everyone‚ including himself
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