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    plot revolves around two pairs of young lovers. The necessary outcome of the play is marriage and celebration‚ but there must be a dramatic threat along the way. The character Beatrice brings verbal and humorous wit‚ whereas when Benedick arrives it changes the verbal dexterity into physical wit. In the opening scene of the play‚ the audience gets their first impression of Beatrice. At first‚ in the scene‚ we see that it is Leonato and the messenger

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    No. of Printed Pages : 12 I BSHF-101/FHS-1 I BDP/ BCA/ BTS Term End Examination - 46396 December‚ 2010 BSHF-101 : FOUNDATION COURSE IN HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Time : 3 hours Maximum Marks : 100 (Weightage 70%) Note : All sections are compulsory. choice of questions is indicated at each section. SECTION - I Answer any two questions in about 500 words each : 1. Describe the main features of the post - industrial society. 20 2. Discuss the Renaissance

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    address your satire and why? What tone will be most appropriate for this audience and for your purpose? For Example: The satirical piece “Gambling in Schools” is the most appropriate model for a satirical piece over tardiness‚ because it uses wit irony‚ sarcasm‚ and hyperbole to make its point. We plan to use all of these techniques in our Horatian satirical piece. The most appropriate audience for our satire over tardiness is the student body; many students feel that the tardiness problem

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    After using his wit to get past the Cyclops Polyphemus by using the fake name “Nobody”‚ Odysseus foolishly reveals his plot to the son of Poseidon saying if‚ “any mortal man asks [him] how [he] got [his] eye put out‚ Tell him that Odysseus the marauder did it‚ Son of

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    which is why it is necessary that children be given the best possible start. Familial income is a key determinant of healthy childhood development (Gupta‚ Wit‚ & McKeown‚ 2007). Families with low incomes are likely to lack the resources necessary for children’s health‚ such as: nutritious food; adequate shelter and access to education (Gupta‚ Wit‚ & McKeown‚ 2007). Nearly 1.2 million Canadian children live in a low-income household and experience the effects of poverty (Statistics Canada‚ 2017). Inadequate

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    The Way of the World By William Congreve Play Summary Before the action of the play begins‚ the following events are assumed to have taken place. Mirabell‚ a young man-about-town‚ apparently not a man of great wealth‚ has had an affair with Mrs. Fainall‚ the widowed daughter of Lady Wishfort. To protect her from scandal in the event of pregnancy‚ he has helped engineer her marriage to Mr. Fainall‚ a man whom he feels to be of sufficiently good reputation to constitute a respectable match‚ but

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    Writing about Shakespeare promotes a sympathy with extremes. One such extreme is the impressionism of a critic like A. C. Bradley‚ when he tries to hold together‚ synoptically‚ Feste the fool and Shakespeare himself‚ both as actor and magical author. Bradley notes that the Fool in Lear has a song not dissimilar to the one that concludes Twelfth Night1 and leaves Feste at the finish-line. “But that’s all one‚ our play is done …” After everything has been sorted out‚ and the proper pairings are arranged

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    Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Of Great Place [pic][pic]MEN in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business. So as they have no freedom; neither in their persons‚ nor in their actions‚ nor in their times. It is a strange desire‚ to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others‚ and to lose power over a man’s self. The rising unto place is laborious; and by pains‚ men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base;

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    before Musaeus‚ Homer‚ and Hesiod‚ all three nothing else but poets” 327 “for not only in time they had this priority (although in itself antiquity be venerable)‚ but went before them‚ as causes to draw with their charming sweetness the wild untamed wits to an admiration of knowledge.” 327 Philosophy and poetry “This did so notably show itself‚ that the philosophers of Greece durst not a long time appear to the world but under the masks of poets.” 327 “even Plato‚ whosoever well considereth

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    Like the dedicated owner to her horse‚ Odysseus shows wonderful leadership skills towards his men with his wily intelligence‚ warm compassion‚ and vast bravery. One of Odysseus’ best traits as a leader was his brilliant mind. Without his continuous wits‚ Odysseus would have never gotten his crew as far as he did. A great example of this creativity is when Odysseus and his men were trapped in the Cyclops’ (Polyphemus) cave. It was Odysseus who came up with blinding the drunken monster with a sharpened

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