Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Cask of Amontillado‚ Montresor gets insulted once again by Fortunato and seeks revenge. Throughout the story Montresor convinces Fortunato to come down into his catacombs and taste the Amantillado he had just received. When they get down there Montresor chains Fortunato to the granite wall and begins to build a brick wall in the doorway‚ essentially burying him alive. Montresor achieves his goal of killing Fortunato because he is very cunning‚ organized‚ and intelligent
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When is the best time to trust God? When things are difficult‚ or when everything goes well? In these past few days‚ I have been too busy working or studying for our upcoming examinations. But before that‚ we had a lot of time we did not know that would just passed by us‚ without even informing us that it would quickly fly and then be gone. During those times‚ I was just enjoying myself using those free times playing my gadgets‚ sometimes doing the assignments and most of the
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concerned with bolstering his own image and nursing his ideas of his own self-importance. He believes that his status as sub-chief is an inherited and fixed position and therefore unable to be challenged by anyone he considers inferior. Therefore‚ when he is threatened by Makhaya and Gilbert‚ he acts arrogantly and without consideration for the potential they offer to the community he is supposed to lead. Matenge is ultimately undone because of his despotism and ruthless disregard for his villagers
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however that is not the worst things. We are the society‚ we are all those people who judge‚ who label and sentences different races of people just because of their culture. Yes‚ labels can be also good but as Eleva Longoria mentioned‚ What happens when they are used in a negative way? Labels should be a way to make you feel proud of who you are‚ but instead‚ we are using them as a way to hurt people‚ even to stop them to do important stuff. We live in a world where all people no matter who
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Hawaiian time‚ the first wave of Japanese aircrafts began the attack- ships in Pearl Harbor‚ the air station at Hickam‚ Wheeler‚ and Ford Island‚ Kaneohe‚ Ewa field were also attacked. The Japanese bombardment lasted for two hours and twenty minutes. When finished‚ more than‚ 2‚400 Americans were dead‚ 1‚200 wounded‚ Eighteen ships sunk or damaged‚ and more than 300 aircraft were damaged or destroyed. There was bucket load of evidence in which displayed that the Japanese military was going strike. It
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To what extent were the Romans justified in calling the Huns barbaric? The Huns were a fearsome society‚ conquering land and allying with and fighting against the Romans at separate times in their history. They were successful in defeating the Romans in numerous battles and Attila is one of the most recognisable names from history. Despite this‚ they are still considered to be a barbaric society by many in the modern era and most in the ancient era. The criteria to judge whether a society can be
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Were the Americans justified in dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945? The dropping of the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945 by the Americans is a very controversial issue with no definite answer. Both sides of the issue have very justifiable arguments. Reasons for dropping the bomb include the fact that Truman’s options were limited at this point in the war‚ that the bomb did have the desired outcome of Japans surrender and that the majority of reasons
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up elegantly by the chorus of old men when they say to Clytaemnestra‚ “…And You‚ innocent of his murder? And who could swear to that? and how?...” (A‚ 1534-35). One reads very early on in the book of Agamemnon that “Ten years gone‚ ten to the day our great avenger went for Priam…” (A‚ 44-45). This references when the ‘great avenger’ or Agamemnon went to defeat Priam in Troy. It had clearly been ten years‚ quite a long time‚ since the death of Iphigenia when Agamemnon returns home and is murdered
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often focused on his family‚ affecting the respect he received from officers and advisors. His duty was to the empire‚ and his family distracted him. Despite being a family man who disliked and avoided conflict‚ Franz Ferdinand’s assassination was justified. He was an unpopular leader whose policies and ideas would have altered the Austro-Hungarian empire. He would have weakened and endangered the empire had he lived to put his ideas in
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a Salesman The American Dream is defined as the traditional social ideals of the United States‚ such as equality‚ democracy‚ and material prosperity. The American Dream is at work within each character’s life. Positively when it can be achieved and negatively when the expectations are unrealistically high. In the story the author‚ Arthur Miller‚ compares successful businessmen to a non-successful delusional salesman. The successful businessmen are Ben‚ Charlie and Howard. Willy is the main
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