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    are wearing hood are wandering. This kind of people especially creates panic to women who go alone. Like this case‚ the general public cannot lead to a safe life because of offenders and other discouragements. I found that the prohibition of the hood would be a tentative way to make the society safe. For three reasons which are about crime prevention‚ ostentation‚ and the exact range of the law‚ I totally agree to enact ‘prohibition of hood’. By Legislating the law of “prohibition of hood”‚ crime rates

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    chapters listed: five titled Robin Hood Turns Butcher‚ six titled Little John Goes to Nottingham Fair‚ seven titled How Little John Lived at the Sheriff’s‚ and eight titled Little John and the Tanner of Blyth. The summaries will contain the main events that happen in each chapter. Starting off with chapter five‚ it begins with Robin Hood wanting to get revenge on the Sheriff of Nottingham. The reason for this revenge is the Sheriff has been attempting to arrest Robin Hood for many different things

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    English Essay Angela Carter‚ author of The Werewolf‚ uses the traditional Grimms fairytale Red Riding Hood‚ and recreates it to write her own modern version. But how does she manage it? Although the stories parallel significantly‚ there are also stark differences with the context and content of the two works. Carter uses all of the main iconography from the original text‚ but rewrites it for a more than contemporary tale‚ using the images in an abstract way to fashion her own more heretic piece

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    ‘The Merchant of Venice’ by William Shakespeare is a play in which one of the main characters is portrayed as both a villain and a victim. The audience’s interpretation of Shylock oscillates throughout the play. We must also recognize that Shylock has most likely become a villain as a result of being unfairly victimized for having Jewish heritage. During the sixteenth century‚ when the play was written‚ mistreatment towards Jews was common; especially in Venice as it was an anti-sematic city. Jewish

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    A dynamic antagonist‚ Abigail Williams from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a great example of how a character can be molded by personal desires and a work’s setting to become a villain. Seemingly innocent‚ orphaned adolescent Abigail ultimately causes hysteria in the town of Salem from her frivolity and selfishness. The reasoning and origins of Abigail’s malice demonstrate the setting’s influence on the inhabitants of Salem during the 1962 witch trials. Abigail is introduced as Parris’ niece

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    Johnny Friendly is a stereotypical villain. Despite this‚ in some ways‚ he deserves the viewer’s sympathy’ To what extent do you agree with this view? Johnny Friendly‚ the corrupt leader of the Hoboken Waterfront 1950s‚ New York is mostly depicted as a cliched gangster in the film On the Waterfront. He is larger than life‚ manipulative‚ controlling and a man who is driven by power and greed‚ all aspects clearly linked to the typical portrayal of villains of the 1940s and 50s films in America

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    a two way street. In order for love to work it must be given and returned. If love is left unfulfilled it can lead a person to be spiteful‚ vengeful‚ and at the extreme villainous. In Emily Bronte’s novel‚ Wuthering Heights‚ Heathcliff is the villain because he is frustrated about his unrequited love for Cathy. Heathcliff’s villainy is apparent in how he treats the Earnshaws‚ degrading Hindley and Hareton just as Hindley did him. This is also shown in his actions against the Lintons. Heathcliff

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    Each text shows viewers characters that are both heroes and villains. The protagonists in each text‚ Simba and Hamlet‚ both discover that their fathers have been murdered by the antagonists‚ Scar and Claudius. After the death of Mufasa‚ Simba blamed himself and with the encouragement of Scar‚ he ran away from Pride Rock to escape the fear of what his kingdom would think. As Simba becomes older and reunites with Nala‚ he understands the fulfillments he is destined to do. When he returns to Pride Rock

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    normally came with a lack of background information. They could do anything and everything they pleased without taking orders from anyone‚ not even their Mom. This is perhaps one of the most appealing aspects as to why I would decide to be a villain as opposed to a hero. I am sure that you could psychologically trace this decision back to the authoritative style parenting that I have been raised on. Being on the ‘dark side’ of the spectrum would allow me to exert the rebellious desires that I have been

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    of the role of the man of the house which he was when his father was away. I know this because in the story Thomas states that “…sitting opposite of me‚ in the chair I’d sat in for the past four years.” b) I think that Thomas’s dad was Thomas’s hero because his dad taught him how the jobs are done. He also thought that because he had found the medals when he was cleaning his father’s bag. He was amazed by the number of medals his father had earned over the years he was at war. I know this because

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