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    Ch. 1: “The Pay Model” Your Turn… 1. The replacement of highly paid workers with lower-paid workers did not cause Circuit City to perform so poorly. I have come to this conclusion based off of the section‚ Caveat Emptor‚ and am confident in my response. I do feel as though the variables were measured effectively and were useful in their research. However‚ just because it was useful does not mean they were actually related. The replacement of the highly paid workers with the lower paid workers is

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    Shelby Kane Dr. Mulholland College Literature February 21‚ 2012 Life Struggles in The Scarlet Letter and Frankenstein If you read a lot of classic literature‚ you can usually see multiple similarities in them. Whether the plots or themes are alike‚ they convey similar messages. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ there are very similar life struggles that the characters go through. The main characters of each novel; Hester Prynne‚ Arthur Dimmesdale‚ Victor

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    downfalls .The three main characters in Hawthorne’s story "The Scarlet Letter". The three main characters are: Dimmisdale‚ Chillingworth‚ and Hester Prynne. These three main character’s sin are no worse than each other’s. Whose sin was greater? Hawthorne believes chillingworth was not driven by anger at his own sin‚ but by the sin of Hester and Mr. Dimmisdale. An example “as he spoke‚ he laid his long forefinger on the scarlet letter‚ which forwith seemed to scortch into Hester’s breast‚ as if

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    On Calvinism in Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter ZHONGHAO Diao Abstract: Hawthorne is a famous American writer. He wrote many excellent novels‚ which are popular among the readers at home and abroad. He lived in 19th century when Puritanism was still prevailing. And his family members were strict followers of Puritanism‚ who did lots of extreme misdeeds. This kind of family background had influenced Hawthorne a lot. These two factors both contributed to Hawthorne’s writing style and themes. He believed

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    cemetery‚ which contradicts the new life they hoped to create for themselves. I used this word because Hester is given the scarlet as a symbol of sin. As she is criticized by the public and possesses the letter‚ the townspeople think that she will keep acknowledging her sin and shame in order to regret what she did. The narrator‚ later in the chapter‚ emphasizes the letter “A” in scarlet‚ which indicates adultery.

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    J.M.J The Scarlet Letter Interpretive Essay English 11 First Quarter Harley Grace Masoner 1006891.02 December 14‚ 2014 2. How the third scaffold scene frees Dimmesdale‚ Hester‚ and Pearl in different ways. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter‚ is a fantastic piece of symbolism‚ which delves into the society of seventeenth century Puritans‚ in colonial Boston. Centered on Hester Prynne‚ a young woman sent to the colonies by her husband‚ Roger Chillingworth‚ she is first introduced standing

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    The Scarlet Letter. Chillingworth is a man disgraced by his wife’s actions. Throughout the book‚ he chooses to remain in the shadows of the pages to torture Dimmesdale‚ his wife’s lover‚ with his guilt. However‚ before the events of the novel‚ Chillingworth is described as a kind‚ intelligent man. Nathaniel Hawthorne characterizes Rodger Chillingworth as a Lucifer type figure‚ using fierce diction and a good and malevolent binary. Rodger Chillingworth is not a weak man‚ in The Scarlet Letter. The

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    “Such helpfulness was found in her‚ - so much power to do‚ and power to sympathize.” (110) In the novel The Scarlet Letter‚ Nathaniel Hawthorne uses literary elements such as: symbolism‚ irony and conflict to show that the punishment imposed on one by others may not be as destructive as the guilt we impose on ourselves. In the beginning of the novel the community is unwelcoming to Hester Prynne and her newborn Pearl. This creates a conflict against her and the society; while she knows she committed

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    a lifetime. Is it a sin to give in to the desires and feelings we have as humans? In the scarlet letter‚ Hawthorne uses Pearl to symbolize the sin and passion that Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale gave in to when they committed adultery. Through an impulsive act of love and passion‚ Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale create a beautiful‚ intelligent‚ and fierce daughter named Pearl. She is the human form of the scarlet

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    conflict with the necessity of maintaining a stable and controlled society. The Scarlet Letter depicts this conflict in the context of a late 1800s Puritan society. With an emphasis on conformity in Puritan society‚ the introduction of a wild and free force completely threatens that design. This concept of wilderness is conveyed through the characters of the book and reflect how humans want freedom. Nature in The Scarlet Letter represents freedom from the constraints of society; the connections between

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