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    The Decameron: A Feminist or Misogynist text? Giovanni Boccaccio is one of the leading Italian writers in the 1300s and has been considered as the father of Italian writing style through his composition of one hundred novelle. The Decameron continuously pictures women not as the objects of discussion but as the active producers and interpreters of their actions. Women are portrayed as they are or as they should be; they are shown to be as aggressive as men are while at the same time they can be

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    Swot Ryanair

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    Miriam Mennen An Analysis of Ryanair’s Corporate Strategy Essay Document Nr. V145623 http://www.grin.com/ ISBN 978-3-640-56879-6 9 783640 568796 Global Corporate Strategy – A Case Study on Ryan Air An Analysis of Ryanair’s Corporate Strategy Executive Summary Ryanair was founded in 1985 as a family business that originally provided full service conventional scheduled airline services between Ireland and the UK. The airline started to compete within the confines of the existing industry

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    The character of Beatrice is portrayed as interesting because her views and attitudes could be seen as masculine and controversial. An example of this is when her exchange with Benedick after Claudio jilts Hero. Beatrice says that Claudio has ‘slandered‚ scorned‚ dishonoured’ her cousin. The use of the triadic structure highlights Beatrice’s abhorrence for Claudio‚ because these harsh verbs indicate that Claudio’s actions have brought shame and disgrace to Hero and her family. These are the sort

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    The Hairy Ape

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    THE HAIRY APE A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life In Eight Scenes By EUGENE O’NEILL AN ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Hairy Ape: A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life by Eugene O’Neill is a publication of The Electronic Classics Series. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file‚ for any purpose‚ and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim

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    Odyssey 5

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    life‚ revealed in The Odyssey which shows and defines their culture One of the most prominent of the mental characteristics the ancient Greeks valued was the cleverness and the wit of an individual. This can be discerned from The Odyssey because of many instances and events in which Odysseus uses his brain’s wit and other tricks to get himself out of a risky situation. Examples of this are when he tells Polyphemos the Cyclopes that his name is Nobody‚ when he overcomes Circe’s magic

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    Loathe at First Sight

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    Loathe at First Sight By Ellen Conford "You’re dripping on my toes." "I’m sorry. I was admiring you from afar‚ and I wanted to admire you from a-near. From afar you looked terrific." "Oh‚ thanks a lot. Meaning‚ up close I look like a toad." "That’s not what I meant at all! You look good up close too. I love your bathing suit." "Then why do you keep staring at my toes?" "It’s that clear stuff on them. What do you call that?" "Nail polish." "I know‚

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    Living in a multicultural Australian community in the nineties where the enforcement of opposing cultures‚ beliefs and opinions is expected and the pressures of expectations are abundant would not be easy. This is especially obvious if the ‘victim’ is emotionally unhinged (or at least slightly ajar) and looking for stability through constants‚ including their heritage and who they actually are. Josephine Alibrandi has all of these pressures heaped on her adolescent mind but the impact is doubled

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    Achilles and Odysseus

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    Despite the grand scope of Homer ’s epics--which present warfare‚ heroism‚ adventure and divinity as forces that shape human destiny—The Iliad may be seen as an account of the circumstances that irrevocably alter the life of one man: Achilles‚ greatest of warriors. Through the course of the poem‚ Achilles goes through many ordeals that change his character immensely. From the initial callousness and stubborn temper of Achilles to the eventual ‘humanization ’ of Achilles in his interaction with

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    also serves the purpose of making Hamlet seem crazy because he is unable to recognise polonius and thinks he is a fisherman. All of this in just one short quote truly shows why Hamlet deserves to be and is the most famous play because it has it all wit‚ love‚ greed‚ honor‚ drama‚ revenge‚ and right and

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    Stephen Conway 1995 Literature and Virtue in Sidney’s “Apology for Poetry” In "An Apology for Poetry" Sir Philip Sidney attempts to reassert the fundamental importance of literature to society in general as well as to other creative and intellectual endeavors. Though Sidney ’s work does provide a synthesis (and in some cases an aberration) of much Greek and Roman literary theory‚ his argument aspires to go beyond an esoteric academic debate. Literature can "teach and delight" in a manner

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