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    MARYLAND v. GARRISON 480 U.S. 79 (1987) FACTS: The Baltimore City Police department obtained a warrant to search the home of Lawrence McWebb located “third floor of 2036 Park Avenue” for controlled substances and related paraphernalia. The police believed that there was only one apartment on the third floor‚ which in fact there were actually 2; one belonging to Garrison (defendant) and McWebb‚ the person listed on the warrant. Upon entering and searching the apartment‚ officers found drugs and

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    Story ending with the two main characters had a long happy life forever in the heaven with God. This is the arrangement of  Oscar Wilde-a christian writer‚ which we to call a " happy ending". Form the deadlock that the story went as swallow’s death and the condiction of Happy prince’s status melted‚ the religious belief of the writer has been imposed for satisfying the christian readers especially the poor. That’s also the short way-solution for him to end his story and its easy to be agreed by christian

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    FOUR SEASON Business: Four Season Hotels Service: Hospitality‚ Laundry‚ Restaurant‚ Gym Assessment Item 1 1.0 Introduction Recent studies show that the use of technology in almost every activity we daily make has become more important day by day. This also can be applied in business aspects‚ like hospitality‚ where the customer attention is the priority‚ so managers need to find the way to automatize the service the best as possible. 2.0 Analysis of Issue 2.1 Summary of the issue In

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    The Conflict Between Aestheticism and Morality in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde prefaces his novel‚ The Picture of Dorian Gray‚ with a reflection on art‚ the artist‚ and the utility of both. After careful scrutiny‚ he concludes: “All art is quite useless” (Wilde 4). In this one sentence‚ Wilde encapsulates the complete principles of the Aesthetic Movement popular in Victorian England. That is to say‚ real art takes no part in molding the social or moral identities

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    The Importance of Being Earnest By Oscar Wilde In The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Oscar Wilde uses word play in reference to the word “earnest.” Throughout his play‚ Wilde focuses on the matter of who is the most sincere or “earnest” and who is actually the person whose name is Ernest. The two main characters‚ Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing‚ both claim to be Ernest for deceptive reasons. Wilde develops his characters Algernon and Jack in order to portray them as hypocritical to the definition

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    Oscar Wilde in many ways was far ahead of the Victorian society that he found himself in. Wilde’s homosexual lifestyle and focus on sensuality were so frowned upon in the Victorian society that they were actually illegal‚ which led to his eventual imprisonment and downfall (Bastiat 2). It is almost as if Oscar Wilde’s life itself was a satire‚ because these aspects of himself that were illegal and frowned upon were what made his play The Importance of Being Earnest so successful. Wilde’s play was

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    setting of London a recurring theme of hedonism and thorough admiration for beauty and individualism reflect Dorian’s inner motives as well as his long sought self purpose. In this sense the most significant moral of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is that the supreme task of the individual is to realize fully‚ and from within‚ one’s own identity. Dorian exemplifies the drama of his troubles on the rough journey to find his identity from influences of a conceited hedonistic friend‚ and

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    Oscar Wilde comments on the societal values of the Victorian era in his critically acclaimed play The Importance of Being Earnest. Through the use of the literary element of characterization‚ especially of Jack‚ Wilde portrays himself as a strong critic of the society he lived in. Throughout the play‚ Wilde uses characterization to reflect his criticism by emphasizing the major flaws of Jack. Firstly‚ Wilde criticizes the people of the Victorian era as being simple and insincere by embodying these

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    What is Democracy? There seems to be a great confusion what the word Democracy means. In spite of the fact that at least in some parts of the world one can hear it from the media every day. Democracy by definition means the government by people. That means that all the people should be able to have their say in one way another in everything that affects their lives. Dictionaries usually say that this right can either be exercised directly (by every member of a community having the possibility to

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    What was the impact of the Oscar Wilde case on attitudes to crime and punishment? A negative view was held towards homosexuality going as far back as 1553 when ‘The Buggery Act’ came into place instructing that the act of buggery was a capital offence‚ it was thought of as a sin against nature and therefore should be banned from taking place in society. However‚ many people had a tolerant view to homosexuality in the idea that as long as it was behind closed doors then it could be ignore‚ but

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