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    audience upon finishing watching a tragedy Hamlet In Shakespeare’s tragedy‚ Hamlet: Prince of Denmark‚ the peripeteia occurs in Act 3 scene 3 when Hamlet sees King Claudius praying alone. It is the perfect opportunity to avenge his father and kill Claudius. Hamlet draws his sword‚ but then hesitates. He realizes that Claudius is praying‚ and that if he killed Claudius‚ then Claudius would go straight to heaven and Hamlet would not have avenged his father. The irony of the situation is that‚ unbeknownst

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    happened to King Hamlet. When the play got to the murder scene Claudius stopped the play; therefor confirming his suspicion that Claudius murdered his father. Now that Hamlet knows what he must do he has a great opportunity to kill Claudius while he is praying. However Hamlet fails to kill him because he believes it would be hire and salary‚ not revenge. It is ironic that the revenge would have actually been completed because Claudius was not truly

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    school putting our lives in danger‚ to stealing my father’s car‚ to disobeying elders‚ to skipping classes and not performing well in school to smoking cigarettes ruining my health‚ to initially ignoring my religious duties and eventually stopped praying. I was now officially a member of this social circle. I wasted my precious youth years of secondary school indulging in irresponsible negative activities. Secondary school came to an end‚ and it was one fine summer day before embarking my journey

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    Richard Parker while Chuck Nolan survives with a volleyball named Wilson 2. Pi is able to survive emotionally by telling an imaginative story while Chuck Nolan survives by keeping the picture of his wife in a locket 3. Pi survives spiritually by praying every morning while Chuck Nolan decides to keep the one FedEx box with the wings on it Thesis Statement: Topic to be proven + author + book (what are you trying to prove in your essay) In Yann Martels novel‚ Life of Pi and‚ Robert Zemeckis’ movie

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    Devoted‚ pious‚ and selfless are three words that people think of in connection to Mother Teresa. Many people know that Mother Teresa was a charity worker‚ but she was so much more. As a religious woman‚ Mother Teresa showed the world that through prayers‚ devotion‚ and selflessness‚ that even in the worst of times that there is still hope. She left a legacy as a hardworking nun. Mother Teresa changed the world by being a devoted missionary leader‚ and left as a saint‚ religious figure‚ and one of

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    Revenge always leads an individual down a path of destruction. It is a horrible trait for one to posses; it triggers many different emotions‚ which causes one to act blindly. Revenge can reflect on the principle an eye for an eye. In Shakespeare’s playwright Hamlet‚ the play demonstrates revenge according to the self-fulfilling prophecy; seeking revenge can lead to complete tragedy within the following main characters. Hamlet‚ Laertes and Young Fortinbras‚ shared a common goal; this was to avenge

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    Spanish choreographer named Nacho Duato in 1983. It was his first work which when translated‚ means ‘enclosed garden’. This work shows the cyclic lifestyle of the working class‚ Catalonian people who live off the land. Their everyday life consists of praying to God for rain as the are in desperate need of water to grow crops and working on the land using ploughing movements. It also shows the hardships they face through the use of motifs. The spacial elements that Duato uses are dimension and shape‚ and

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    me to make the worse choice in life . It led me to Meth. Do any of you know how I feel? I cried out to God to help me. Please Lord save me from this deep hole I’m in. Deliver me from this evil I have put myself in. It took a long time of praying for help. Praying for an understanding why so much was taken at once from me. I really needed to understand why. Well God showed me that everyone has to die eventually. My grandfather lived a great life‚ and was ready to move on to his final resting place

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    new born child sleeping in a cradle. A storm is raging with great fury outside his residence. A great gloom is on Yeats mind and is consumed with anxiety as to how to protect his child from the tide of hard times ahead. The poet keeps walking and praying for the young child and as he does so he is in a state of reverie. He feels a kind of gloom and worry about the future of his daughter. | | He says “As I walk and pray for my younger daughter I imagine in a state of excitement and reverie” that

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    was that he lost faith in God and himself. He shows it through his actions and from what he says and thinks in the story. In the beginning of the novel it’s shown that Elie is crying while praying "Why do you cry when you pray?" (4). Therefore‚ his family members must also be religious and occasionally praying and relying on god to hear them out. For example‚ when he got sent to the ghettos and in the cattle car he would pray and thanked God. Therefore‚ that was his protection; a sign that he believes

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