THE GIRL WITH THE BEAUTIFUL FACE Pedro Pablo Sacristán Once upon a time there was a girl who‚ though of humble origin‚ was so incredibly beautiful that she was famed throughout the region. Knowing how much the young men of the Kingdom liked her‚ she rejected all her suitors‚ waiting for the arrival of some handsome Prince. Well‚ it didn’t take long for a handsome Prince to come by‚ and as soon as he saw the young girl he fell for her and showered her with compliments and gifts. The wedding was
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Heart of Darkness- Indexing Page Summary Notes 1-4 The narrative starts with the Narrator describing the scene from the deck of a ship named Nellie as it rests at anchor at the mouth of the River Thames‚ near London. There are five men on board the ship—the Director of Companies‚ the Lawyer‚ the Accountant‚ the Narrator‚ and Marlow‚ bound by the “bond of the sea”‚ old friends from their seafaring days—settle down to await the changing of the tide. They stare down the mouth of the
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Throughout the novel Heart of Darkness Conrad uses the motif of the heart to thoroughly explain how dark people and places really can be. Conrad uses the heart as a symbol for the entire continent of Africa. The heart is also used to show what the heart of mankind truly is. Another use of the heart is as a representation of the inner station‚ which shows the darkness of exploitations through Kurtz. The different uses of the heart are amplified through such literary devices as irony‚ imagery‚ and
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Light is traditionally interpreted with goodness and innocence‚ while darkness correlates with evil and corruption. In the book of Genesis‚ God created light and saw how the light was good. So He separated light and dark. However‚ in Heart of Darkness‚ light is not associated with goodness‚ but symbolizes the deceptiveness of the Europeans entering Africa. The darkness is associated with the ignorance of the natives. Conrad uses the contrasting symbols of light and dark to convey the theme of imperialism
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Situation: Two patients in their 70s present to the office at different times today‚ each with documented heart failure: one diastolic and the other systolic‚ and both are hypertensive. First‚ discuss the difference between systolic and diastolic heart failure‚ providing appropriate pathophysiology. ACEI/ARBs are the only medications prescribed for CHF that have been found to prolong life and improve the quality of that life. EXPLAIN the mechanism of action of ACEI/ARBs and how they affect morbidity
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Heart of Darkness‚ a novel written by Joseph Conrad‚ tells the story of a character named Marlow‚ who is recalling his journey to Africa down the Congo River to a group of seamen on a boat. The story is being retold by an unknown figure that people refer to as the narrator. Joseph Conrad’s characters are constructed around the ideas that were present in society when the novel was written. Characters such as Kurtz and Marlow are created to be naive and to allows action to be the truest medium to characterize
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The immortality and blindness to a dark continent Joseph Conrad’s s novel “Heart of Darkness” portrays an image of Africa that is dark and inhuman. Not only does he describe the actual‚ physical continent of Africa as “so hopeless and so dark‚ so impenetrable to human thought‚ so pitiless to human weakness”‚ (Conrad 2180) as though the continent could neither breed nor support any true human life. Conrad lived through a time when European colonies were scattered all over the world. This phenomenon
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is a great woman? And in this case‚ the interpretation is more literal – not “behind” in the meaning of “supporting‚” likely in a morally supportive way‚ but rather “behind” in the sense of “not keeping up with” – in a word: “face-ism.” Face-ism is the phenomenon of men’s faces tending to receive more prominence than women’s from depictions in advertising to‚ as recently discussed‚ politicians (Konrath & Schwarz). Cleopatra was depicted on a coin in contrast to the monumental statues of males‚ according
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