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    Throughout the whole plot of Les Miserables‚ Hugo develops a variety of themes: love‚ redemption‚ good and evil‚ charity‚ suffering‚ societal inequality‚ justice… All of them are tied together‚ and every theme has its significance for the novel. However‚ in my opinion‚ the theme of justice is central in the book. It covers the development of every single character and fully reflects the whole point of the book called "Misérables" – rejected‚ the bottom of society; moreover‚ justice is also the primary

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    Hena Alyssa Marie L. Capati Mrs. Ma. Victoria Bacani IV-BSED LES MISERABLES (Reaction paper) The movie‚ Les Miserables is based on the novel of Victor Hugo‚ though the book is 100 of times better than the movie and there is a different final‚ they only talk about the same thing. Les Miserables is all about an illiterate boy who stole bread and convicted for 19 years. When he was discharged on his parole‚ he again committed same offense for the last time; stealing. In the movie‚

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    The Wife of Bath’s Faithfulness In The Canterbury Tales‚ Geoffrey Chaucer reveals the characteristics of the Wife of Bath through her tale and background. Chaucer portrays the Wife of Bath as a woman of faith through her religious actions and beliefs despite her human faults. Chaucer states in the General Prologue that “not a dame dared stir/ [t]owards the altar steps in front of her‚” meaning that no one stepped in front of her to receive communion (GP ll. 459-460). If one did go ahead of

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    Les Demoiselles D Avignon

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    Les Demoiselles d’Avignon was created during the 20th century and was a great contributor to the Cubist period. During the cubist period artists such as Picasso and Georges Braque created art that took an angular form. Characteristics of cubism would be flat‚ angular‚ fragmentation‚ nontraditional‚ and geometric. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon perfectly represents the cubist period because the forms the prostitutes portrayed in the painting are depicted with sharp angles as well as given geometric

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    Character Analysis of Hugo’s Javert Hugo’s character Javert sees anyone who may have commit a crime as simple as the theft of a loaf of bread as a social malefactor‚ a blight on all of society‚ a prime evil who needs to be eliminated‚ removed from the general population‚ and a devil that can be neither reformed nor tamed. Javert is the true rationalist. Like Medieval philosophers‚ he believes that people will naturally resort to evil‚ and that these people can never be saved or reformed. Javert

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    Les Planteurs Case Study

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    4.3. Les Planteurs from Population Growth to Socio-Economic Diversity 4.3.1. The Population Movement and Origin The population of Les Planteurs is being very dynamic. (Fig.37) shows the different population dynamic between 1948 and 1997. Based on the figure‚ between 1894 and 1961 the population has shifted from 10‚000 to 40‚000 inhabitants‚ followed by a population drop to 18‚062 inhabitants over the period from 1961 to 1966. Since 1966‚ the population has steadily grown to 100‚000 inhabitants

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    SWOT analysis The strengths and weaknesses of a SWOT analysis focus on the current market position of a business in relation to its: • Customers – is the business meeting the needs of its target markets • Competitors- is the business offering a better way of meeting customer needs compared with its competitors • Internal resources- is the business making effective use of its internal resources to meet customer needs and deal with competition The opportunities and threats

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    Jeffery Chaucer’s The Wife of Bath’s Tale revolves around the issue of feminine desire. A knight of King Arthur’s court rapes a maiden‚ which in the story is an offence punishable by death‚ but the queen grants him mercy. If in a year he could return to the court with the correct answer for her and her ladies to the question ‘What thyng is it that wommen moost desiren’ (Chaucer‚ l. 905) he could keep his head. This is not a straightforward question to answer yet the knight succeeds‚ stating that

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    Brady’s I want a wife In Judy Brady’s essay‚ “I Want a Wife”‚ she explores why she would like to have a wife. Brady’s style and structure contribute to her theme of female repression. Various style techniques‚ such as repetition and irony‚ are used along with the structural technique of using levels of intimacy. One of Brady’s main style techniques is the use of repetition. She is constantly describing what she wants in a wife and the duties that the wife should take care of: “I want a wife who will not

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    The doctor and the doctor’s wife ‘’The doctor and the doctor’s wife’’ is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. It got published in 1925 and is a part of a short story collection called ‘’In Our Time’’. Hemingway is well-known for his style of written and for using the iceberg-principle which lets the readers guess the truth behind the stories. Nick’s father has hired three Indians to remove some logs that have been dumped on his property. Nick’s father Henry gets in a discussion with

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