To Sir with love Author – E. R. Braithwaite 1. About the book - To Sir‚ With Love is a 1959 autobiographical novel by E. R. Braithwaite set in the East End of London. The novel is based on true events concerned with Braithwaite taking up a teaching post in a school there. The novel was made into a British film by James Clavell in 1967. In the novel‚ "To Sir with Love"‚ various human characteristics are portrayed. Throughout the story‚ the idea that humans are able to adapt and change their
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Women‚ Courtly Love and the Creation Myth in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 	Sir Gawain and the Green Knight‚ a great epic written in fourteenth century Europe by the Pearl poet‚ emphasizes the opposition of Christian love to Courtly love in the 13th century through the dilemma of Sir Gawain‚ one of the great knights of the Arthurian round table. By examining the women in the poem‚ Gawain’s dilemma becomes a metaphor for the contrast of these two distinct types of love. The poem looks
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Sir Francis Drake‚ an English sea captain‚ navigator‚ slaver‚ privateer and politician. He was second in command of and English fleet against the Spanish Armada. He also accomplished the second circumvolution of the world. A hero to some and a pirate to others let us peek into the life of Sir Francis Drake. In Tavistock‚ Devon year 1544‚ Francis Drake was born. Drake’s birth is not formally recorded‚ but since he received command of the Judith in 1566 when he was twenty-two years old‚ his birth
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Edmund Gettier’s finest work‚ “Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?” explains the concerns he has with the way we have formed our conditions for knowing something to be true. Many philosophers had attempted to explain the necessary conditions for someone to know a given proposition to be true‚ which led to Chisholm and Ayer constructing the necessary and sufficient conditions for a justified true belief‚ knowledge. These attempts were stated in the following form: (a) S knows that P is true‚ if and
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Edmund Burke‚ who is often regarded as a spokesman for modern conservatism‚ believed that human rights were based on tradition and could only be inherited. Burke strongly opposed the French Revolution‚ which in his view‚ attempted to break from the traditions of France and destroy their contemporary society. On the other hand‚ Jean-Jacque Rousseau believed that general will would always be correct and that it would unshackle humans from their chains‚ allowing them to become free. Burke and Rousseau
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Trump Vs. Clinton: Who do you believe should have won ? Why Hillary Clinton should have won the election: I believe Hillary Clinton should have won the presidential election for a variety of reasons. One reason Hillary Clinton should have been elected is because she got a more popular votes by the citizens than Donald J. Trump. It is important to realize that Hillary Clinton won 76’682 more popular votes than Trump‚ according to CNN news. In my opinion our votes don’t matter because of the Electoral
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English 1303 Date: 18 October‚ 2011 Title: Best Manager or Local champion? Once again the immortal coach and Manager Sir Alex Ferguson will be celebrating his 25th anniversary as Manchester United’s Manager in November. As a United football fan‚ I can’t be short of words to say about a man who has been winning trophies for my club 6 years before I was born till date.
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Sir Francis Drake was an English navigator and explorer‚ born near Tavistock. He served an apprenticeship as a mariner‚ and in 1567 he was given his first command. His ship‚ the Judith‚ was one of a squadron of vessels led by a kinsman of Drake‚ the English navigator Sir John Hawkins‚ on a slave-trading voyage in the Gulf of Mexico. All but two ships of the expedition were lost when attacked by a Spanish squadron. In 1570 and 1571 Drake made two profitable trading voyages to the West Indies. In 1572
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Laura Dickens A Critical Analysis of Sir Patrick Spens ‘Sir Patrick Spens’ is‚ for the most part‚ an archetypal early ballad being composed in quatrains‚ with the typical alternating four-stress and three-stress lines and the second and fourth line of each stanza rhyming. The poem is set in medias res‚ telling certainly of a tragedy‚ possibly based on two voyages in the thirteenth-century on which Scottish noblemen transported princesses to royal marriages‚ with many members of Alexander III’s
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Hillary Clinton is an incredible woman who wishes to give every child an opportunity to go to college and study. She also fights for Women’s rights; I think one of the reasons is that Clinton came from a generation that discriminated against women and treated them badly. In her generation‚ a woman didn’t have the right to speak. They couldn’t speak their own mind because they were afraid of the punishment and consequences that came with it‚ even if they did speak they weren’t heard. After many years
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