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    Salesman” has unfortunate events written into its plot‚ Willy Loman creates most of his issues‚ himself. For a start‚ is could be argued that Willy is a tragic figure because of the fact that he is in his golden years‚ and does not have the means to rake in the cash to pay his bills because of his poor performance as a business man. This can be shown somewhat early on in the play in a scene when Linda and Willy discuss his gross income for the week‚ along with the debts they owe. At first‚ he greatly

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    Declaring the "Undeclared" War Susan Faludi speaks of war. She speaks of the victims being chained against achieving dreams of freedom. She speaks of a silent war that brews beneath the surface of society; that slowly erodes the will to overcome. In her excerpt "The Undeclared War on Women"‚ Faludi declares the thus far "undeclared"; that women have strived for equality‚ but have only achieved it at a meager level as a result of lacking support. She refers to society’s lack of encouragement‚ and

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    Satan's Inferno

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    Satan is known as one of the most dynamic characters in the history of literature‚ he is sometimes introduced into literature‚ not as the villain‚ but as the seduction factor‚ like in the epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton where the story of Adam and Eve is retold through the words of Satan. The epic Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri gave Satan a kind of helpless and trapped story where he was given the ultimate punishment imaginable from the perspective of God. Though Satan was the original sinner

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    Throughout the years at the turn of the century‚ numerous changes occurred in the United States‚ both positive and negative. These conflicts formed the modern America‚ and were crucial to the advancement of the nation. Without the events that took place in this time period‚ the country would not have advanced so greatly. They essentially shaped the nation into what it is today. With all of these major changes that happened many years ago‚ historians wonder; how did late 19th century and early 20th

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    50 Ways to Save Planet

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    50 ideal/Ways to Save the Planet 1. CHANGE YOUR LIGHT If every household in the United State replaced one regular light bulb with one of those new compact fluorescent bulbs‚ the pollution reduction would be equivalent to removing one million cars from the road. Don’t like the color of light? Use these bulbs for closets‚ laundry rooms and other places where it won’t irk you as much. 2. TURN OFF COMPUTERS AT NIGHT By turning off your computer instead of leaving it in sleep mode‚ you can save 40 watthours

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    In Man and Superman Shaw was not writing a regular play; he only united up dialogue‚ discussion‚ arguments for the purpose of making them appear as plays. Still the incidents of situations in the play do in one way or the other perpetuate the pursuit of man by woman—of Tanner by Ann. The most interesting is the Hell Scene where the traditional Don Giovanni motif is most comically inverted in the spirit of parody to substantiate Shaw’s thesis that it is the woman basically who is boa-constrictor from

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    The Garden of Earthly Delights painted by Hieronymus Bosch‚ depicts many vivid fictional scenes in triptych style. The right wing of the triptych depicts Hell and the causes of man’s downfall‚ which Dante wrote about in the Inferno. Dante tries to convey to all humanity the consequences of human actions and the levels of hell that he believes exist for different levels of sins. Dante divides Hell up into ten different circles‚ and there is an upper and a lower level of Hell. Dante and Bosch have

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    Trial and Error

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    Trial and error is an experimental method of problem solving‚ repair‚ tuning‚ or obtaining knowledge. "Learning doesn’t happen from failure itself but rather from analyzing the failure‚ making a change‚ and then trying again." This approach can be seen as one of the two basic approaches to problem solving and is contrasted with an approach using insight and theory. However‚ there are intermediate methods which for example‚ use theory to guide the method‚ an approach known as guided empiricism.

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    Joseph Andrews

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    possesses many qualities of head and heart also. It is his intelligence which first arouses Adams’s interest in him. In spite of his good looks and intelligence‚ Joseph takes no interest in women even though he can take advantage of it. He is by no means a rake. In fact‚ his chief concern in life is the purity of his moral character. He refuses to be drawn into a sexual relationship with Lady Booby‚ and also Mrs. Slipslop. Joseph does not also fall a prey to any of the other vices of the day. After

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    Dejection: An Ode

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    weather-wise‚ who made The grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence‚ This night‚ so tranquil now‚ will not go hence Unroused by winds‚ that ply a busier trade Than those which mould yon cloud in lazy flakes‚ Or the dull sobbing draft‚ that moans and rakes Upon the strings of this Æolian lute‚ Which better far were mute. For lo! the New-moon winter-bright! And overspread with phantom light‚ (With swimming phantom light o’erspread But rimmed and circled by a silver thread) I see the old Moon in

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