Machiavelli’s The Prince Throughout The Prince‚ Machiavelli outlines the characteristics needed to be a strong and admirable leader. He explains that personal characteristics such as courage and compassion‚ both being aspects of virtue‚ will earn him praise. However‚ he feels that this expectation is unrealistic and a prince’s first job is to protect the state‚ and having “bad” characteristics is sometimes necessary to reach that goal. That being said‚ in order to protect the state a prince may have to
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complex thinker who displayed his thought through several works. There is strong biographical evidence that suggests that the author worked on The Prince and The Discourses at the same time‚ writing the former’s first draft in 1513 and starting to write the latter during the same year. It is obvious then that in order to understand the essence of The Prince we cannot restrict ourselves only to its lines‚ but we must look beyond into Machiavelli’s other writings‚ such as The Discourses‚ to achieve a
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The Storyteller (Saki) by H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Word Count: 2109 It was a hot afternoon‚ and the railway carriage was correspondingly sultry‚ and the next stop was at Templecombe‚ nearly an hour ahead. The occupants of the carriage were a small girl‚ and a smaller girl‚ and a small boy. An aunt belonging to the children occupied one corner seat‚ and the further corner seat on the opposite side was occupied by a bachelor who was a stranger to their party‚ but the small girls and the small
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LALALALALALLALALALLALA Story-story” is a circle game for all ages. The group of performers sit and a moderator (us) stands in the middle and provides a setting for the story. Then we point to a person in the circle and they begin telling a story (says 2 sentences). After the first storyteller has described the beginning of the story‚ the moderator points to another person‚ the story continues on; the new person picks up from the last word and tries to continue the narrative. Every performer should
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Worksheet 1 A. To summarize‚ the company faces several problems. The last two years have shown that it is not only slow to adapt to changing conditions but also unwilling to look for new markets. Moreover the management structure of the company is unsuitable for this kind of business. Besides the excessive number of managers there is the problem of poorly defined responsibilities. Like the ratio between salary and commission is out of proportion. B. The growth of Formula One over the last
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A Single Story is a Bent Story: Debunking the Glorification of Christopher Columbus Understanding the history of indigenous people in North America is crucial to avoid the falsely attributed‚ close-minded single story that casts Christopher Columbus as a historical hero. Thomas King is an indigenous writer and author of A Coyote Columbus Story‚ a short story that criticizes the glorification of Christopher Columbus and his discovery of North America through a humorous children’s narrative. With his
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the concept of a perfect union‚ and the characteristics of an ideal ruler have taken over the philosophical dialogue. Two leading men in this arena of political thought are Niccolo Machiavelli (author of the practical and quasi-immoral treatise‚ The Prince) and Plato (author of the philosophical and Utopian-like dialogue‚ The Republic.) While both men transformed the nature of political philosophy‚ most readers consider their respective quests for an ideal leader to resurrect the glory and stability
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the parent watches his grip on his child slowly slip. In “A Story”‚ Li-Young Lee uses poetic diction‚ structure‚ and point of view to convey the complex relationship between a father and his son. Frustrated and hopeless a father “rubs his chin‚ scratches his ear‚” in search for the perfect story to appease the demands of his son. Lee uses poetic diction to express the father’s frustration with his inability to “come up with [a story]” and the sons’s eager affection towards this unsuccessful storyteller
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With no detail involved in a murder story one is not aware of how things happened‚ who could be a suspect‚ and the reasoning behind it. In the book it describes Nancy’s death by saying‚ "She’d been shot in the back of the head with a shotgun help maybe two inches away…the wall was covered
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presented to him by the sky god to receive the god’s stories to share with the world. Also imagine a talking Coyote cheating his way through a game of dice with the feared thunder god over the control of fire. These are two different trickster tales of different cultural importances. Trickster tales are stories that are centered around a character of cultural importance that contain anthropomorphism and usually explain a natural happening. ¨How Stories Came to Earth” and ¨Coyote Steals Fire¨ are both
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