noise. But her step mother fell to the floor after being hacked with an ax. Who wouldn’t hear that? 4. Lizzie told police that while she was alone in the house with her mother on the morning of the murder‚ a messenger came to the door with a note summoning her mother to visit a sick friend. Lizzie told people that she assumed her mother had left. Despite a thorough search of the Borden home‚ no such alleged note ever was found. 5. At the time of the murder of Andrew Borden‚ Lizzie claimed to have
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important problem of the French ancient regime was poor quality leadership.’ How far do you agree with this judgement? | 12 | O/N 2010/ (11) | Why did the rulers of France from 1789 to 1799 fail to hold on power? | 13 | O/N 2010/ (13) | Why did the summoning of the Estate-General in 1789 not solve the problems of the ancient regime? | 14 | M/J 2011/(11) | Why was Louis XVI executed in 1793? | 15 | M/J 2011/ (13) | Did Robespierre and the Jacobins do more to save or to endanger the French Revolution
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As tall figure stood erect and motionless‚ Poe writes “Then‚ summoning the wild courage of despair‚ a throng of the revellers at once threw themselves into the black apartment‚ and seizing the mummer‚ whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock‚ gasped in unutterable horror at finding
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the happiness of every one of us and those who are connected with us‚ do depend upon knowing the rules of a game infinitely more difficult and complicated than the game of chess. Life is like chess‚ a game which has been played for untold ages‚ everyman and woman is a player of his or her own play. The chessboard is the world‚ the pieces are the incidents or events of the world‚ the rules of the game are what we call the laws of nature. To the man who plays well in the game‚ the highest stakes
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is speaking to himself and realizes that “words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives‚” (2.1.58) meaning that the longer he speaks the cooler his will to act becomes. Also‚ the personification of the “bell invit[ing]” (2.1.59) Macbeth and “summoning [Duncan] to heaven or to hell” (2.1.61) is noteworthy because had the bell not rung Macbeth
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Would you leave someone you loved because a deity told you to?That’s exactly what Aeneas does in Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid.When Aeneas finds himself in Carthage shortly after the Trojan war‚ Queen Dido falls madly in love with him. However the Gods have different plans for Aeneas‚ and when Mercury tells him he must leave Carthage to found Rome‚ he resolves to give Dido the slip.Virgil uses Aeneas’ inclination to leave Carthage to found Rome to show that the will of the Gods is more important than
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Homeland Of the Free In the poem “Let American Be America Again” by Langston Hughes‚ the author portrays America as a place where people try to escape their old life of oppression and struggles to this so called “American Dream”. But‚ what they find is “the same old stupid plan of dog eat dog”. Hughes sees that American is being seen as a ideal utopia while he actually views America as a place where there are too many obstacles in the way to achieve the American Dream. The dream is only stood
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clear as shown by Stephen Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage the men are dehumanized into a drone state forced upon them by war. Evidence of the dehumanizing effects of war is revealed even in the first chapter. Henry‚ a universal symbol of the everyman in the novel‚ questions his courage to be able to go into war. Before he has even experienced war‚ his consciousness alerts him that his will be a demanding challenge. He makes assumptions which change throughout the novel as more and more battles
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Goodman Brown” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is a story of a religious man’s journey through a forest and the inner conflict he faces when encountering a traveler who claims to be the Devil. Brown is an honest‚ hardworking‚ religious everyman that Hawthorne uses to symbolize humanity while the traveller character who appears to be the Devil represents the inheritable evil that lies within mankind. “Young Goodman Brown” is the story of Brown’s internal struggle in which Hawthorne uses
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effects of which will be discussed later)‚ they still serve as talking points on the social interaction of young people‚ and as such‚ they are valuable to the novel. Chbosky argues in favor of realization of trauma as potential for growth; the supposed everyman Charlie was a molestation victim as a child‚ a fact he repressed until urged to enter into a sexual situation he could not deal with. While his breakdown provides the epilogue for the book and places him into a mental hospital‚ he comes out of the
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