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    Good morning/afternoon Throughout my comparative study of texts and context‚ I have explored various connections shared between William Shakespeare’s ‘Richard the 3rd’ and Al Pacino’s ‘Looking for Richard’. As both of these items are based on the same character‚ King Richard the 3rd‚ they share a lot in common. The connection that I have chosen to concentrate on though is the idea of power‚ and how both texts explore this theme. William Shakespeare is an extremely famous English

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    Richard Branson’s Leadership Holding more than 200 companies in more than 50 countries‚ including the recent Virgin Galactic‚ a space-tourism company‚ the virgin group is a business force like few others (Biography.com‚ 2014). Employing approximately 50‚000 people worldwide this international investment group was originally set up as a mail-order record business the Virgin Group has gone on to grow in various business sectors ranging from mobile communications‚ transportation‚ travel‚ financial

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    Literature > Richard Rodriguez’s Aria Richard Rodriguez’s Aria is a personal memoir about bilingual education. Throughout his essay he represents the power of the individual to defeat the language barrier and he tells how he overcame this particular problem as a child. He is very happy to celebrate his new name because he feels that he is part of the American society as a public individual‚ he is no longer afraid to express himself in public and by loosing the language of home he began to feel

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    Richard III Act questions Act III 1. Compare Hastings’ speech in III‚ iv‚ 48-53 with his speech in III‚ iv‚ 95-100. What has Hastings realized by the end of the scene? Hastings speeches compared show Hastings realizations that of Richards plan. In lines 48-52‚ Hastings believes he can read Richard like a book‚ as he is in a good mood‚ he says “I think there’s never a man in Christendom Can lesser hide his love or hate than he‚ For by his face straight shall you know his heart”. By this we see

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    Richard Branson Richard Branson was born in England in 1950. Since a little kid‚ he was encouraged to be independent accomplishing challenges set by his mother at short age. Branson “saw this as opportunities to overcome weaknesses and conquer a small part of the world”. He was not a good student‚ for he was struggling at school due to dyslexia‚ and ended up dropping from school at age of 16. It was the beginning of an entrepreneurial career. At that time he founded a Magazine called “Student”

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    William Shakespeare’s play ‘King Richard III’ and Al Pacino’s 1996 doco-drama film ‘Looking for Richard’ reveals the explicit relationships between each text and their respective audience. The Elizabethan and twentieth century contexts in each of these texts are important as it demonstrates the value of each text and enables the understanding of how the film enriches the ideas presented in the play. Shakespeare’s ‘King Richard III’ portrays a malicious and corrupted Richard to explore the themes of divine

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    The Richard Kukliski Case

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    Richard Capitan is a husband‚ father‚ grandfather and brother. He is now a retired state trooper and gets called into “work” for some statements and help on cases that happened when he was active. Richard worked as a polygraph examiner for about 30 years and had the privilege to meet some infamous and interesting people. But‚ for this specific topic Richard had the opportunity to interview people for the Richard Kuklinski (The Iceman) case. He had interviewed witnesses‚ people from the

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    With a unique blend of symbolism‚ imagery and setting Mansfield brings us into the world of ”Miss Brill”. The story is narrated in the third person; the narrator primarily acts as the voice of Miss Brill. By telling the story through the eyes of Miss Brill‚ Mansfield is able to convey to the reader the loneliness and the lack of self-awareness of the main character. She gives no explanation as to the Miss Brill’s past‚ leaving it to the readers to draw their own conclusions. At the same time the

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    Ann Richards Biography

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    Remembering the Vibrant Soul of Ann Richards Ann Richards once said‚ “I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead‚ you never look back” (Lewis). The world was born free. As beings‚ we are given the right to choose freedom or simply live by the rules. What good is freedom in the world without the relentless spirit of courage? There comes a time in every man and woman’s life where they must choose how to live and what makes them different from the rest of the world

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    In her debut novel‚ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter‚ Carson McCullers perfectly captures the sense of human isolation. Throughout her book‚ McCullers masterfully maintains the unrelenting motif of loneliness by providing intimate details of the lives of five different characters. However‚ despite being stuck in the stifling‚ soul crushing South‚ Mick Kelly rises above the recurring theme of disillusionment and burns bright with ambition and emotion. With her passion for music‚ her sensitivity towards

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