Heart of Darkness: Notes Women: Marlow and Kurtz believe women symbolize decency and purity -Women represent goodness: men need to see this purity to balance with the evil they have seen Marlow believes women are the keepers of illusions (naïve); they live in a dream world -these illusions are needed for the white men to justify colonialism -"It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are! They live in a world of their own and there had never been anything like it and never can be. Some confounded
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"John Proctor: I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem-- vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem‚ but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom‚ and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance! I’ll not give my wife to vengeance! (Miller‚ 379)". This quote by John Proctor was spoken in response to one of the many motives in the Salem witch trails in The Crucible. The witch trials were seen by some as an opportunity to obtain personal gain
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occupied half the width of the aisle of the large temple built to house it. "It seems that if Zeus were to stand up‚" the geographer Strabo said in the 1st century BC‚ "he would sunroof the temple.” The statue was a chryselephantine sculpture‚ made with ivory and gold panels on a wooden substructure. No copy in marble or bronze has lasted this long‚ though that can be recognized by only certain kinds of currency‚ Roman coins and some engraved gems. This was important because he was the king of the gods
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The Other Side of the Hedge After reading the first few paragraphs‚ The Other Side of the Hedge‚ by E. M. Forster‚ seems to be nothing more than a story about a man walking down a long road. The narrator’s decision to go through the hedge transforms the story into an allegory that is full of symbols representing Forster’s view of the journey of life. The author develops the allegory through the use of several different symbols including the long road‚ the hedge and the water. The
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I am in winter holiday and outside is snowing. In one of the day‚ me and my brother Gabriel went outside and looked around where some children were making a snowmen and others were sleighing through the snow. The trees were charged with snow and look like silver trees. I can remember last winter when me and my friends went to the country and made the biggest snow man from our town. The snow was like silk and every time the sun shone it was glittering. The houses were full of this
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and for agriculture. The Swahili coast traded with the Arabs who had already established vast trading networks whereas the Hanseatic league had to grow their own trading network. The merchants of the Swahili coast sold very valuable items such as ivory and gold whereas the Hanseatic league’s most valuable trading items were iron and copper. The Swahili coast was in a very convenient place for trade‚ giving it a geographical advantage over the Hansa. A map of the Swahili coast‚ like the map of the
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scientific‚ and humanitarian propositions‚ they have of late become anything but. Soon after their conception‚ Leopold used these organizations to establish a sphere of influence and eventually Belgian sovereignty in the Congo Basin. The region is rich in ivory and rubber‚ and Leopold made use of those resources and others in expanding trade. Now‚ rubber is the colony’s most profitable industry. However‚ the Congolese people benefit little from this. Soon after the Congress of Berlin in 1885‚ the Congo
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Personality and Understanding consumer behavior • Social Character o Inner Directness - Tend to rely on own inner values or standards in evaluating new products and are likely to be consumer innovators (e.g. early adopters) Like ads with personal benefits o Other-directedness - look to others for guidance for what is appropriate or inappropriate Like ads that feature an approving social environment or social acceptance • Need for Uniqueness (NFU) • Optimum Stimulation Level (OSLs)
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A sense of belonging is an essential part of human experience; it is a desire shared by all. Belonging refers to the ability of an individual to fit in a specified place‚ environment or it may refer to an inner sense of belonging that comes from being true to oneself. This may involve our position in the world‚ fitting in with our community‚ family and self as these connections may influence whether an individual has a positive or negative perspective of belonging. The texts ‘The Crucible’ by Arthur
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home furiously defending the innocence of his wife to John Hale‚ who came to arrest her‚ Proctor proclaims‚ “I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem‚ but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom‚ and common vengeance writes the law! This warrant’s vengeance! I’ll not give my wife to vengeance!” (871-884‚ 173). The content of this quote displays the immense amount of love and passion that John has for his wife. It
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