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    Always a Motive

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    In the short story "Always a Motive"‚ Dan Ross depicts Joe Manetti‚ the protagonist‚ as an agonized‚ isolated‚ and heartbroken young man. After returning the missing Miller boy to his father‚ Joe Manetti is interrogated by the Inspector and is perceived as an agonized man. When asked about his occupation‚ he says that he is a musician‚ "but not working at it now". When asked if he was married‚ he says yes‚ "but my wife left me. She’s somewhere on the West Coast". Being alone and unemployed would

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    Establishing the Colonies Name _____ Motives for settling in the New World: Spread Christianity Find a short cut to Asia Better job opportunities Roanoke Island With the permission of Queen Elizabeth‚ Sir Walter Raleigh raised money to establish a colony‚ and in 1585 a small group of men sailed for the Americas. What did Raleigh find when he returned to the Lost Colony of Roanoke in 1589? The people had vanished and they found the word‚ “Croatian” carved in a tree. Jamestown What

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    Brutus' Motives

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    Caesar less‚ but that I loved Rome more.” With this‚ he was saying that although Caesar and he were good friends‚ it was to the best of Rome’s interest that Caesar was killed. Brutus was a man of reason. He would not do anything harmful without a good motive. What he did was pure and incorruptible by looking out for the people he cared for. He had no other way to protect Rome than killing Caesar. He believed‚ "Think him as a serpent’s egg‚ which‚ hatched‚ would‚ as

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    SECONDARY/ LEARNT/ PSYCHOLOGICAL MOTIVES ·Besides the basic biological needs‚ the expression of psychological needs is also of great significance:through society and culture in which one lives. · Non-satisfaction of these motives may lead to mental illness. Main psychological needs are: i. Achievement ii. Curiosity iii. Need for appraisaliv iv. Need for affiliationv v. Need for powervi vi. Work as motive 1.Achievement · Self- actualization or attaining excellence in relevant

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    Hamlet's Motive

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    yet to narrow their thoughts on Hamlet’s overlying motive: why does behave the way he does? More importantly‚ what were Shakespeare’s motives in portraying Hamlet the way he ultimately does? Hamlet’s hesitation is not the most convoluted and interesting of the subjects; his rationale of purpose is what drives the entire work to be the complex enigma that it still is‚ to this day. To begin with‚ many scholars have suggested that Hamlet’s motives directly correlate to Shakespeare’s own life and experiences

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    "discovery" of the New World by Christopher Columbus led to a new chapter in history that no one at the time could have anticipated. For many Europeans‚ it offered a better life than the one they were living‚ which led to the colonization of the Americas. Motives that fueled European colonization were that the New World offered religious freedom‚ a fresh start for those who were impoverished and in debt‚ and better opportunities to acquire large amounts of land and wealth. The Protestant Reformation in the

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    The basic motives for imperialism were political‚ economical‚ and cultural. Imperialists believed it was their duty to govern the colonized nations and develop their economies. They viewed themselves as racially and culturally superior. Larger‚ more modernized nations‚ such as the United States‚ Europe‚ France‚ and Germany‚ felt the need to spread civilization‚ usually by domination smaller‚ weaker nations. Political conquests and economic expansion were powerful motivators for imperialism‚ but the

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    provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience” . So the question is: why do people travel‚ despite all inconveniences‚ which they have to fight with? The aim of this report is to depict motives and reasons of why people travel on the basis of two references: “The Art of Travel” by Alain de Botton and “Homo Turisticus” by Anders Steene and to reveal how people collect information about their destinations. First of all the‚ the main reason to start a journey‚ which

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    always a motive

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    1‚ In the short story "Always a Motive"‚ Dan Ross depicts Joe Manetti‚ the protagonist‚ as an isolated‚ and heartbroken young man. 2. Joe Manetti‚ a confused young man‚ has lost his son in a tragic accident and is dealing with the loss of his wife who has left him. Joe Manetti has experienced a great depth of emotional suffering and severe anguish‚ which has become unbearable. Joe is no longer a father or a husband. The only peace that Joe seems to find is when he is out driving. After Joe is arrested

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    Crucible Motives

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    The Crucible: Try to distinguish as carefully as possible what motives each of the ‘pro-witchcraft’ group: Parris‚ Mr and Mrs Putnam and Hale. How does each contribute to the web of supposition? In what way or ways does each lay claim to the “the clean white hand of moral duty”? Are they justified in doing so? Act one reserves no unknown agenda’s in the sudden hysteria of Satanism plagued by the community of Salem. With this‚ the audience is introduced to certain characters that retain the

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