Sample Rhodes Scholarship Personal Statement—Student #1 Soaked in sweat‚ I sat deep in thought on the small mound of sand and broken rocks in northern Kenya‚ where 1.7 million years ago a desperately ill Homo erectus woman had died. Her death had entranced me for years. KNM-ER 1808 had died of Hypervitaminosis A‚ wherein an overdose of Vitamin A causes extensive hemorrhaging throughout the skeleton and excruciating pain. Yet a thick rind of diseased bone all over her skeleton—ossified blood
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Grandmaster Cervantes realizes what the Inquisitor is about to do and shoots him with his plasma pistol. As Inquisitor Xavier is dying he manages to finish the last ritual required to open the “portal” and the rift opens. The Inquisitor dies and the Tempest Knights and Grey Knights must fight the daemons and the other Chaos forces while trying to reclose the rift. After a long and bloody battle the Space Marines are finally triumphant and save Tartarus from certain destruction. There are many ways
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Broadview: Glossary (A-D) Ancient Comedy Genre Criticism Jan 21: Frogs Broadview: Glossary (E-O) Satire Farce Parody Jan 23: The Tempest Broadview: Glossary (P-W) Renaissance Drama Shakespearean Romance Jan 28: The Tempest Historicism Post-Colonialism Close Reading Assignment Due Jan 30: The Tempest Metadrama Feb 4: Essay Writing Workshop Feb 6: The Importance of Being Earnest Wit Comedy of Manners Feb 11: The Importance of Being Earnest
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Name: Jessiel C. Pal-ing Theme/s: ideal love; faithfulness Introduction: Name of Poem: Sonnet 116 Name of Poet: William Shakespeare Date of Publication: 16th century Other relevant background info: This poem is part of Shakespeare’s famous collection of poems (a sonnet sequence)‚ consisting of 154 poems. They are about topics such as love and time. The structure of the poems has become the popular format for the sonnet‚ also called the Shakespearean sonnet. Form: Form of Poem: Shakespearean
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live a more joyful and content life. When a person finds love their lives are filled with joy and pleasure that bring true happiness into ones life. In sonnet “116”‚ Shakespeare writes that love should be; “an ever fixed mark‚ / That looks on tempests and is never shaken‚” (lines 4-5). Shakespeare is speaking of a building that could never be destroyed. This quote carries a metaphor within it‚ by referring to love as a sturdy building. True love should never collapse; it should always hold fast
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Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 Information about the life of William Shakespeare is often open to doubt. Some even doubt whether he wrote all plays ascribed to him. From the best available sources it seems William Shakespeare was born in Stratford on about April 23rd 1564. His father William was a successful local businessman and his mother Mary was the daughter of a landowner. Relatively prosperous‚ it is likely the family paid for Williams education‚ although there is no evidence he attended university
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William Shakespeare was born on April 26‚ 1564‚ in Stratford-upon-Avon‚ England. Over the course of 20 years‚ Shakespeare wrote plays that capture the complete range of human emotion and conflict. Though no birth records exist‚ church records indicate that a William Shakespeare was baptized at Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 26‚ 1564. William was the third child of John Shakespeare‚ a leather merchant‚ and Mary Arden‚ a local landed heiress. William had two older sisters‚ Joan
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goes unnoticed by the modern reader. For instance‚ it is widely accepted that Shakespeare’s final play‚ The Tempest‚ is a commentary on the morality of colonialism during the rise of the first British Empire‚ with Caliban representing the oppressed and enslaved natives. When rewriting this piece‚ French protégé Aimé Césaire chose to make this metaphor the overriding theme of his play‚ A Tempest‚ however he updated the issue to the more contemporary problem of civil rights in the United States‚ using
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The Tempest "Claiming Caliban" Caliban in "The Tempest" was the son of Sycorax‚ and his character is a symbolic representation of indigenous or "savage" people. His character represents the stereotypes of indigenous or uncivilized people and a direct contradiction of his more "civilized" counterparts‚ most specifically Prospero who is seen as his conqueror or master‚ and how he is below that of Prospero and therefore the indigenous people of the Americas were below that of the European colonists
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it was not apt to endure the arising obstacles in its path‚ this love is thus not comparable to the ’’true love’’ the author makes allusion to‚ ’’love is not love’’. True love is indeed an ’’ever-fixed mark’’‚ an unfailing variable ’that looks on tempest and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark’’. The poet seems to personalize this notion of true love‚ by comparing it to a trusty lighthouse spreading light and hope to every ’’wand’ring bark’’ helping them
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