The main character in the story is Eddie Carbone‚ an Italian American longshoreman‚ who lives with his wife‚ Beatrice and his orphaned niece‚ Catherine. They live in an insular‚ self-ruled neighborhood known as a polis. As the play begins‚ Eddie is protective and kind toward Catherine‚ although his feelings grow into something more than avuncular as the play develops. His attachment to her is brought into perspective by the arrival from Italy of Beatrice’s two cousins‚ Marco and Rodolpho. They have
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Graceling takes place on a large land mass‚ dubbed "The Seven Kingdoms". It is split into 7 different sections each controlled by a king and/or queen. The kingdoms are (in order from tops to bottom) Nander‚ Wester‚ Middluns‚ Estill‚ Sunder‚ Monsea‚ and Lienid. Kasta‚ the main character‚ comes from Middluns‚ a kingdom ruled by one named Randa. Po‚ a character Katsa later meets‚ derives from Lienid. Katsa is a Graceling‚ one of the rare people in her lad born with an extreme skill in a certain "category"
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Jamie Wilson We Were One We Were One is a book by Patrick K. O’Donnell about the war in Iraq. Specifically it follows 1st Platoon in the Battle of Fallujah. The book talks a lot about the friendships between soldiers‚ and practically every man in the platoon had a best friend that they did everything with. This just made it sadder when soldiers were unfortunately killed in action. The book starts out with the platoon simply training back in the United States. They learn the basic fighting
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01.08 Macbeth Plot Analysis Graphic Organizer Plot Elements Element Definition ACT in the Play Exposition: Rising Action: Climax: Falling Action: Resolution: What you need to know. Background information is presented‚ main characters are introduced‚ and the conflict is established. The conflicts and challenges encountered by the characters. How they respond keeps the story moving forward. The turning point in the conflict. Tension builds until the main character must make a decision
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Oedipus is the King of Thebes‚ he was cursed and abandoned at birth; he meets with the priests of Thebes because of a plague that has fallen upon the city. Oedipus sends Creon to the oracle Delphi for instructions from the gods to see how to end the plague. Creon tells Oedipus and the priests that in order to end the plague the murder of the form king of Thebes Laius must be avenged. Oedipus then goes on to say that anyone who with holds information about the murder will be banished from Thebes
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In the middle chapters of the book‚ “Just Listen‚” the location stays the same in the city of Lakeview in her home and school. However‚ the time moves forward into the school year as well as backwards in the past to further explain future events. Moving forward‚ the mood changes to hesitant and tense. The author intensifies the mood by revealing the drama that began the feud between the main character‚ Annabel‚ and her ex-best friend‚ Sophie. For example‚ Sophie believes that Annabel had relations
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The ’Excel 3D Scatter Plot’ macro – The Manual Copyleft by Gabor Doka‚ Switzerland‚ © 2006 – 2012 reach the author under: scaplo {at} doka {dot} ch A very quick introduction: A first chart 1. Open the workbook "3Dscatterplot.xls" that contains the necessary macros. 2. In a trial workbook enter some data you want to display in three columns (x‚y‚z). 3. Optionally you can enter a header column containing text labels for each point. 4. Leave 10 empty rows above the data range and one empty column
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald follows the story of Gatsby‚ a man whose desire to be one of the elite led him to acquire a great deal of money to create an idealistic dream life for himself of loving Daisy in a perfect world. Author might have written the title "great" ironically‚ meanwhile Gatsby is still great personally in many ways and much better than the society he lived in. Gatsby is one of the wealthiest people in West Egg and any of his parties would qualify as a legendary event
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Scarlet Letter Analysis Form‚ Structure and Plot: The structure that Hawthorne puts the Scarlet Letter is very tight‚ and is in essentially three parts‚ each revolving around the scaffold. The first scaffold scene‚ Hester confesses her sin of adultery to the crowd in the light of day. The second scaffold scene takes place in the middle of the book at night; it is the climax of the plot. Dimmesdale climbs onto the scaffold‚ and asks for Hester and Pearl to join him. This is not a confession‚ as there
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广东外语外贸大学国际商务英语学院 《高级英语写作(一)》2006-2007学年下学期期末考试试卷(A) 考核对象： 2004级全体学生 考试时间： 150分钟 班级： 学号： 姓名： Part I Vocabulary (1%×10= 10%) Directions: Beneath each sentence there are four choices marked A‚ B‚ C and D. Please choose one that best interprets the underlined part. Please write your answers on the answer sheet. 1. There were cottages sprinkled around the shores. A. scattered B. splattered C. splintered D. spread 2. Given falling
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