to reach a "life or death" decision with collective states of minds hindered by "personal prejudice". At the conception of the play‚ rose explores the idea that doubt is a harder state of mind than certainty by portraying doubt‚ in the guilt of the boy‚ as a minority view within the courtroom. However‚ as the play progresses a seed of doubt is planted and the importance of self prejudice hindering the verdict is removed‚ making it harder for the jurors to hold their certainty in their guilty verdict
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still considerably common in the society. The depictions of such elements are abundant in the prominent Chinese writer Lu Xun’s short stories finished around 1920‚ as well as in the contemporary U.S. journalist Philip P. Pans’s Out of Mao’s Shadow—a collection of reportages about modern China published in 2008. Both authors described how ordinary‚ low-income‚ mostly uneducated men and women who had no special connections with influential figures were oppressed in these two very different
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In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror‚ Loss‚ and Time in the Shadow of September By: Don DeLillo Summary In this eight section essay DeLillo gives an in depth analysis the events before‚ during‚ and the repercussions after the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. The essay skips around a bit but the main idea of the essay is somewhat clear. DeLillo describes the terrorist ideology of why they attacked us. Their target was not the global economy but‚ “It is America that drew their
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“Doubt is the key to knowledge” (Persian Proverb). To what extent is this true in two areas of knowledge? As a Persian proverb once said to have progress in knowledge it is necessary to doubt. In other words‚ when we begin to doubt what we believed was true‚ we move forward to better knowledge making a further step to Absolute Truth. To what extent is doubt involved into the process of gaining knowledge? What is the function of doubt? To what extent is doubt either an engine or a brake to the progress
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“You Can’t Hide From Your Shadow” Should Natural Born Killers be Banned? In 1994 a film was released that sent religious groups‚ politicians and the sensationalist media into a fever; Natural Born Killers was “a bold new film that takes a look at a country seduced by fame‚ obsessed by crime and consumed by the media.” through the tale of two young murderers. In the years that followed the film was blamed for scores of tragedies in America‚ including but not limited to the case of a boy who
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AN AGENT-BASED INTELLIGENT TUTORING SYSTEM FOR GRADE FOUR ENGLISH PUPILS OF DOANE BAPTIST SCHOOL A Project Presented to the COLLEGE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY Western Leyte College of Ormoc City‚ Inc. A. BonifacioStreet‚ Ormoc City In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree of BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE By: CADUNGOG‚ REINA ROWENA S. TAGALOG‚ AILEEN MAE V. FEBRUARY 2013 ACKNOWLEDGMENT The researchers always expect challenges
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The story of Tridib in ‘Shadow Lines’ remain incomplete without the influence‚ or rather we should say the contribution‚ of the women characters in the novel. Main women characters in the novel namely Ila‚ May and the grandmother of the narrator‚ have a great influence on the coming-of-age of the narrator. It is important to understand their influence on the narrator first before that on Tridib‚ because Tridib is narrator’s mentor here‚ his alter-ego and mirror image. Tridib’s correspondences
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Samantha McLaughlin Mr. Mosmeyer AP English III 10-21-09 Deadly Doubt: Symbolism‚ Tone and foreshadowing in “Where are you going‚ Where Have you been?” A little girl sits home alone‚ relaxed in every way. She doesn’t know the danger she put herself in. It’s sunny. It’s bright‚ but out of the sunshine comes something clever and dark‚ A. Friend. When Connie meets Arnold Friend he is a stranger‚ but ironically his name is name spells a friend. I think this symbolism rests in the glaring
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After reading the article on The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin‚ it gives a lot of things to think about art these days and how it should be‚ whether the thinking of Walter Benjamin is relevant to our age of society these days is a different part of the story but how he interprets art in the article is a totally different thing‚ so let us view a bit about his article. “Our fine arts were developed‚ their types and uses were established‚ in times very different
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‘The shadow of death hangs over all of Auden’s poems’. Do you agree with this assessment of Auden’s poetry. I agree with the assessment that the shadow of death hangs over all of Auden’s poems- this is because although not all of his poems have a dark‚ gloomy feel throughout‚ but they all leave the reader with an impression from their morbid plots. Auden’s poem ‘1st September 1939’ is full of allusions‚ meaning that for the reader to fully understand the message of the poem‚ they should take
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