Suffering more than is deserved is the main trait of an Aristotelian Tragic Hero. John Proctor- the main protagonist in Arthur Miller’s The Crucible - is the quintessential Tragic Hero. His error of judgment‚ his pride gets in the way of good choices‚ his weaknesses only serve to engender empathy to the audience‚ his spirituality gets wounded by his experience‚ and he‚ in the end‚ make a decision‚ usually involving life or death. Although a good‚ Christian man‚ Proctor is tempted and gives into
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complex subjects to master‚ and not many people have the ability to do this. Yet‚ many still write with an immense amount of style‚ execution‚ and elegance. It takes a certain skill set to accomplish this. One person who achieved this level of mastery is John Steinbeck. He is mostly known for his classics such as: The Grapes of Wrath‚ Of Mice and Men‚ and East of Eden. Raised in California‚ Steinbeck learned to write at a young age‚ and he started to master the art of writing. Eventually‚ Steinbeck wrote
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Unusual. In the short story “A&P” by John Updike‚ Sammy is a young man working at an A&P in the 1960’s with many other men. One day three girls walk into the store and blow Sammy away. Nothing on but bathing suits. Soon Sammy’s old and rotten manager Lengel yells at the girls. Sammy quits his job after this. But did he really quit just because those girls got yelled at? No. Sammy quit his job because he realized the job was turning him into Lengel. When Lengel yelled at the girls in line 193-261
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Struggling with belly fat? Want to get of your love handles? If so‚ it’s time to try the Flat Belly Diet. With this plan‚ you’ll lose several inches of belly fat and drop up to 15 pounds in one month. Based on the book with the same name‚ this program helped millions of people get in shape while eating delicious foods. What Are the Benefits? The Flat Belly Diet guarantees fast weight loss and high energy. This plan was designed for those struggling to get rid of tummy rolls and bulges. Unlike
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This essay is a sermon delivered by John Winthrop to the Puritans aboard the ship Arbella as it sailed to America in 1630. Winthrop was an early Puritan leader and the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Winthrop writes that God has purposely made some people to be rich and others poor in order to manifest his work in the areas of mercy‚ love‚ gentleness‚ temperance‚ faith‚ patience and obedience. He also speaks of the moral gospel’ that requires man to help one another in every want
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called “It will be hard to deny the earth is flat after you watch this..” from the account Flat Earth Talk‚ a man goes through his carefully thought-out demonstration to prove that the world is flat. He begins by pouring water on a lemon which as you might expect flows right off. He follows this by pouring water onto and ordinary dinner plate which of course pools on its flat surface (Flat Earth Talk‚ 2017). Whether this is legitimate proof that the earth is flat in the eye of the beholder‚ but it does
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dependent upon sense experience‚ and the doubt of everything in effort to gain knowledge. Philosophers have deepened our knowledge as to how we will approach the education of young children‚ whether it will be the rationalism or empiricism approach. John Locke was an empiricist because he believed our knowledge comes to us from experience‚ specifically the faculties of sensation and reflection. On the other hand‚ the rationalists believe that the source of knowledge is reason‚ not experience. The knowledge
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Proof Media Assignment The movie‚ proof‚ directed by the talented John Madden had a much more effective and successful ending than the Pulitzer Prize winning proof written by David Auburn in the year 2000. Little things such as added scenes gave readers and critics a more in depth understanding of the character development of the main characters and gave us a better understanding of their personality. The added scene at the end of the movie that portrayed Hal running like a cheetah chasing after
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The flea by John Donne is a persuasive poem‚ in which the speaker is trying to convince his love interest to have a sexual relationship with him. The speaker’s‚ love interest rejects his request of intimacy because it is hinted that the female lover is a proper lady‚ and does not believe in premarital sex. John Donne represents the sexual union of the speaker and lover‚ with the use of imagery‚ rhythm‚ and the conceit of a flea. The flea is utilized as a metaphor to represent the relationship between
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past decades and we have become more and more reliant on our technology. Agribots and drones is the newest and latest thing in this world that could really boots our crop productivity. Thomas L. Friedman‚ author of The World is Flat‚ argues that‚ “As an individual‚ in a flat world is figuring out how to make yourself as an ‘untouchable’” (280). He then describes ‘untouchables’ as‚ “People whose jobs cannot be outsourced‚ digitized or automated” (280). In order to distinguish ourselves from others and
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