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    Sophocles - Antigone The Plot Antigone has been immensely popular through ages. It has an irresistible appeal to modern mind. The heroine of the play is the first protestant in world’s history. Antigone is a woman who has prized truth above everything. Creon‚ the King of Thebes has forbidden on pain of death the burial of the dead body of Polynices‚ eldest brother of Antigone. To the Greeks‚ respect for the dead was an article of faith. Oedipus’ daughters Antigone and Ismene are living

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    50 First Dates Plot

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    50 first dates plot Henry Roth‚ a womanising marine-life veterinarian living in Hawaii‚ meets Lucy Whitmore‚ an art teacher‚ in a café one morning. They hit it off and agree to meet in the café the next morning. The following day‚ however‚ Lucy seems not to remember anything about Henry and their meeting. The café owner pulls Henry aside and explains that Lucy suffers from amnesia (called ’Goldfield Syndrome’ in the movie) as a result of a car accident a year earlier. Her condition has left her

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    Venus Fly

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    The venus fly trap is a carnivorous plant. That means that it gets some of its nutrients from eating living things like insects and spiders. If you’ve never seen a venus flytrap before‚ they look like a flower with mouths at the ends of some of the leaves. The “mouths” look like they have teeth all the way around them and they are opened wide until they are ready to eat. The venus fly trap isn’t going to try to eat until its prey lands on it or moves across it two times. It waits because it doesn’t

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    The Tsetse Fly

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    The Tsetse Fly 1. The tsetse fly poses many dangers to the environment and to animals. This fly has been responsible for conveying a disease called African trypoanosomiasis (sleeping sickness). Sleeping sickness can be fatal‚ and in areas of interest it is responsible for 40‚000 deaths per year- just in humans. Considering that there are 23 different species of tsetse flies‚ this could pose a problem. 2. Traditionally‚ scientists would trap the flies using electric blue cloth (this would

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    Operation Valkyrie: The July 20‚ 1944 Attempt on the Life of Adolf Hitler By Katherine Stumpf During the period of Hitler’s rise to power in Germany‚ few people were aware of the opposition to him and his party within Germany. During this period of time the world believed that Hitler had the total support of the German people. This was not entirely true; within Germany there was opposition to Hitler. Between 1921 and his death in 1945‚ there

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    English 1302.003 6 July 2010 “Miss Brill” Discuss In Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill‚” a middle-aged woman is confronted with the reality of being old. The story details her usual Sunday afternoon in the park‚ which she spends walking and sitting in the park‚ wearing an old but beloved fur. She sees the world as if it were a stage‚ and enjoys watching the people around her‚ often judging them condescendingly. However‚ she then overhears a young couple’s cruel remark about herself‚ and the story

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    Lord of the Flies

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    Lord of the Flies William Golding In Between the Modern and the Postmodern Content: 1. Fragments chosen.............................................................................. 2. In Between the Modern and the Postmodern - essey........................ 3. Questions.............................................................................................. 4. Bibliography........................................................................................ "[

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    Plot summary The story begins in the future‚ in which the time machine has been invented but is still very temperamental. A hunter named Eckels pays to go traveling back into the past on a guided safari to kill a Tyrannosaurus Rex. As the party waits to depart they talk about the recent presidential elections in which an apparently fascist candidate‚ Deutscher‚ has just been defeated by the more moderate Keith‚ to the relief of many concerned. When the party arrives in the past‚ Travis (the hunting

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    ‘Lord of the flies’ is an adventure story however it portrays a complicated and detailed storyline. William Golding utilises dialogue‚ in depth description of characters‚ illustrates a relationship between the novel and the bible and highlights the theme of good versus evil. By using a large amount of dialogue‚ Golding has created characteristics about the boys by the way they speak. Piggy uses slang showing that he comes from a low income family background‚ whereas Ralph speaks in a more proper

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    English book William Golding Sir William Golding‚ author of ‘Lord of the Flies’‚ was a British novelist‚ poet and playwright‚ born 19 September 1911 at Cornwall. He grew up with his father Alec Golding‚ a socialist science teacher‚ his mother Mildred and brother Joseph. When he went to Oxford University he first studied Natural Sciences but transferred to English Literature and Philosophy which was much more interesting for Mr Golding. After his studies he was active as an actor‚ a writer and

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