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    ENGLISH FINAL TERM ASSAY This essay will address the question that whether dreams have benefitted the main characters and those around them‚ or instead have caused them only harm and unhappiness and do dreams give hope to the characters during difficult situations. Some dreams are manipulated by powerful figures to make weaker characters act according to them or perform certain tasks as per their will. The reaction of characters when their dreams do not come true or when they discover that what

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    Distraught over mounting debt and an inability to pay her bills‚ 18-year-old freshman Mitzi Pool hanged herself to death‚ in her dorm room at the University of Central Oklahoma. She had spread out on her bed‚ her checkbook and the bills for three credit cards she had maxed out to $2‚500. How does a college freshman barely old enough to vote‚ end up with three credit cards and insurmountable debt? Many‚ young people first learn to be fully responsible for their personal expenses in college. Most of

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    Blood doping is the first type of ergogenic aid that an endurance athlete such as a marathon runner may use. Blood doping is re-injecting red blood cells into the bloodstream that have previously been removed from the athlete. Whilst the blood was removed the body created more blood in order to compensate for the loss. This means that when the blood is returned there are a lot more red blood cells in the circulatory system. The effect of blood doping is that due to the increased number of red blood

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    They persauded Macbeth to kill people only because they wanted to be benefited. they were selfish and not worrying that they would soon turn Macbeth into a crazed lunatic The witches delighted in chaos and toil. They did not tell Macbeth what to do but they simply showed him what can happen through their prophecies and the apparitions they showed to Macbeth. Macbeth could’ve been a perfect target for them to bring about this chaos. Macbeth is a strong soldier‚ he has killed enemies in war‚ and perhaps

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    by the sweat of his brow gives him a greater degree of satisfaction than what he gets by a stroke of fortune. Man wishes to have many things in life. Some of‚ them may be bestowed upon him by fortune‚ but to have the others he will have to work and toil; for he cannot have them for mere

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    "Double‚ double toil and trouble‚" (often sensationalized to a point that it loses meaning)‚ communicates the witches’ intent clearly: they seek to only trouble for the mortals around them.[8] While the witches do not directly advise Macbeth to kill King Duncan‚ they use a subtle form of temptation when they inform Macbeth that he is destined to be king. By placing this thought in his mind‚ they effectively guide him on the path to his own destruction. This follows the pattern of temptation many believed

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    “The Lotos-Eaters” “Courage!” he said‚ and pointed toward the land‚ “This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.” In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. All round the coast the languid air did swoon‚ Breathing like one that hath a weary dream. Full-faced above the valley stood the moon; And like a downward smoke‚ the slender stream Along the cliff to fall and pause and fall did seem. A land of streams! some‚ like a downward smoke

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    all knowledge and Jesus when the devil approaches Him on a cliff and offers to give Him all in the world‚ “Then Jesus was lead up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil” (Mt 4:1)‚ the difference is that Adam gives into his temptations‚ while Jesus knows to resist‚ and that He would not give in the the devil’s

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    unconscious temptations to evil. In part‚ the mischief they cause stems from their supernatural powers‚ but mainly it is the result of their understanding of the weaknesses of their specific interlocutors—they play upon Macbeth’s ambition like puppeteers. The witches’ beards‚ bizarre potions‚ and rhymed speech make them seem slightly ridiculous‚ like caricatures of the supernatural. Shakespeare has them speak in rhyming couplets throughout (their most famous line is probably “Double‚ double‚ toil and trouble

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    and evil‚ the moment she ate of the fruit. She later gave the fruit to Adam who ate of it (Gen 3:1-6) Following their willful disobedience to God‚ dire consequences followed. This included death‚ alienation from God‚ a hard life of toil for Adam and increased labour pains for Eve (Gen 3:16-24). Paul also affirms in Rom 5:12 that both death and sin entered the world through one man‚ Adam. Neither Genesis 3 nor Romans 5 seem to teach that Adam passed on his sin to his progeny. On the

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