...Nightingale and the Rose Whittney Sink Fortis College English 101 March 11, 2014 Have you ever been in true love, a love so deep that you would give your life for someone else to experience it? “The Nightingale and the Rose” by Oscar Wilde tells of just such a love. The short story is set in Europe around the late 1700’s to early 1800’s. Published in 1888, this short story is timeless. It is a tale of true selfless love and love unrequited. This story keeps the reader enthralled with the use of characters, point of view, and theme that are intended to play your heartstrings. The Student is one of the main characters. He is a romantic figure. ‘“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,’ cried the young Student; ‘but in all my garden there is no red rose”’ (Wilde, 1888, para. 1). His heart belongs to a professor’s daughter, who has said she would dance with him if he brought her red roses. ‘“The Prince gives a ball to-morrow night,’ murmured the young Student, and my love will be of the company. If I bring her a red rose she will dance with me till dawn”’ (para. 5). The Nightingale is the other main character. She is in awe of the love the Student feels for a girl. ‘“Here indeed is the true lover,’ said the Nightingale. ‘What I sing of, he suffers- what is joy to me, to him is pain. Surely, Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds and dearer than fine opals”’ (para. 6). The nightingale searches for a red rose in the garden, being...
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...In Sam Mendes’ American Beauty, there is a deliberate use of the color red throughout the film. The color is a clear representation of life and death, as the movie’s main theme is about both and how they go hand in hand. In the first scene, the narrator and main character, Lester, played by Kevin Spacey, is pointing out how his wife’s clogs match the handles on her pruning shears as she works on her garden. We see her cut a red rose close up, and then in the next shot is from far away, showing her gardening, and all of the flowers are red roses. Even before this happens in the movie, Lester tells the audience that in a year, he’ll be dead. So we already know this movie is about Lester, his life, and then his death. With the shot pulled...
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...Termination right to perform Step 1: Identify the legal issue Step 2: Identify the principle of law The right to terminate performance on grounds of breach of contract is a remedy that originated in the common law courts. It consists of rejecting a defaulting party’s flawed performance and/or putting a stop to further performance of the contract. Termination right to perform consists of: -Termination of performance is only available as a remedy for relatively serious breaches of contract or another word is breach of condition. Associated Newspaper Ltd Bancks (1951). It also available for a breach of nominated (intermediate) term, if the breach substantially deprives the plaintiff of an intended benefit of the contract. Koompahtoo Local Aboriginal Land Concil v Sanpine [2007]. - Non-performance or Partial performance of one or more conditions in the contract, or if partial performance give rise to a sufficiently serious breach of innominate term, the non-defaulting party may reject that performance and put a stop to any further performance. Varley v Whipp [1900]. -Hidden defect in goods or services supplied to amount or serious breach of an innomiate term, the non-defaulting party will be entitled to reject what was supplied and put a stop to further performance. Finch Motors Ltd v Quin (No 2) [1980]. -An anticipatory breach of an entire contract, or of a condition in a contract or a repudiation of an innominate term, which would...
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...University in Opava Faculty of Philosophy and Science Pointless sacrifice in The Nightingale and the Rose English Literature 2 Name: Kocurová Michaela Field of study: English + Czech language and literature Class: second Semester: summer Year: 2012/2013 The Nightingale and the Rose is a short story written by Oscar Wilde. The story begins with a young Student crying because the daughter of the Professor told him that if he brought her red roses, she would dance with him at the ball, but there are no red roses in his garden. When a nightingale overhears what is the Student saying, she comes to a conclusion that he´s a true lover and that he knows the true meaning of Love. „‘Here, indeed, is the true lover,‘ said the Nightingale. ‚What I sing of, he suffers: what is joy to me, to him is pain. Surely love is a wonderful thing.‘“ So she makes a decision to find a red rose for him. Even before her search we get to know another characters from nature - a Green Lizard, a Butterfly and a Daisy. They think that the Student´s weeping for a red rose is ridiculous, only the Nightingale understands him and thinks about the mystery of Love. So she finds a white rose tree, a yellow rose tree and finally a red rose tree but it´s damaged after the winter and it shall have no roses at all. There is just one terrible way how to build the rose: „'If you want a red rose,' said the Tree, 'you must build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with your own heart's-blood. You...
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...Pete Rose; a name that is debated upon daily between analysts, sports fans, and anyone who feels the need to argue his situation. To start in the younger years of Rose's eventful life, many controversial actions would ensue. Pete Rose, otherwise known as "Charlie Hustle" for his insane effort always given, was a baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Montreal Expos, extending his career from 1963 to 1986. Rose was truly successful, breaking records with ease and becoming an icon in Major League Baseball. After 24 seasons played with various teams in the MLB, Rose retired and started to manage the Reds organization. Posting a 412-373 record as the manager from 1984 to 1989, Rose is the 5th most successful manager...
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...Rose Petal pH Indicator Strip II – Proponents Jhed Angelo Nemuel Parcon Princess Hope Delos Reyes Jalel Pasbal Maureen Suganob Nel Joshua Turaray Laureen Suganob Reed Elcen Lumbay II – Objective This project aims to produce a pH indicator strip made from rose petals. The researchers want know if the rose flower is an effective acid-base indicator and if it would be precise when used to identify the pH levels of household items. III – Introduction Normally, pH indicator strips such as litmus paper are the ones used in indicating the pH level of a substance. pH is the measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution, numerically equal to 7 for neutral solutions, increasing with increasing alkalinity and decreasing with increasing acidity. Acidic and basic are two extremes that defines chemicals. The pH scale measures how acidic or basic a substance is. It ranges from 0 to 14. A pH of 7 is neutral. A pH less than 7 is acidic, and a pH greater than 7 is basic. Each whole pH value below 7 is ten times more acidic than the next higher value. For example, a pH of 4 is ten times more acidic than a pH of 5 and 100 times (10 times 10) more acidic than a pH of 6. The same holds true for pH values above 7, each of which is ten times more alkaline—another way to say basic—than the next lower whole value. For example, a pH of 10 is ten times more alkaline than a pH of 9. (http://www.epa.gov) Roses are woody perennial shrubs or vines of the genus Rosa, within the family...
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...The North Rose Window at Chartres & Its Intricate Stained Glass Story that Depicts the Importance of Christ’s Heritage from the Old Testament Although it may seem an outdated medium, stained glass is one of the most striking and intricate forms of expression. Stained glass has been one of the most powerful sources of storytelling during its extended history, especially in telling the history of Christianity in churches, cathedrals and similar notable buildings. However stained glass hadn’t been the method of communication in Christianity before the Gothic style. “The elimination of solid mural surfaces and the transformation of the Gothic building into a skeletal frame led to the ascendancy of stained glass during the twelfth century” (Bleiberg.) Not only does stained glass serve to tell remarkable stories, but it is also a significant part of the architecture. It is unlikely to find original stained glass windows that are still intact, and so it is not surprising that Chartres Cathedral, 50 miles southwest of Paris, is renowned for its well-preserved stained glass. Chartres began construction in 1194 and continued to assemble until 1250, and so the Rayonnant style remains somewhat cohesive throughout the cathedral. Chartres has three rose windows, created around 1235, which show some of the most stunning examples of high gothic intricacy and tracery. The north rose window depicts the glorification of the Virgin, and through its incredible complexity and striking painted...
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...September 11, 1985, Pete Rose did what most thought was impossible. With a base hit against the San Diego Padres, Rose broke Ty Cobb’s long-standing hit record to reach 4,192 hits in his career. A several minute long celebration followed Rose’s historic accomplishment. Once Rose hung up his cleats for the final time, he was the holder of several Major League Baseball records, many of which still stand today. Rose, also known as Charlie Hustle, was adored by the American population. He personified what the American dream was, starting “from a humble beginning he raised his stature in life by virtue of hard work and brute determination to succeed.” There was not a doubt in anyone’s mind that he had earned himself a place in Cooperstown,...
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...American Literature October 19, 2012 The Many Shades of Red The color red: it is beautiful, rich, and full of meaning. It represents many different things in today’s world such as love, danger, and revenge. Similarly, in the novel, The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the color red is especially prominent. Color is important in this novel because every color has symbolic meaning behind it. This device of symbolism is used well in the novel, especially through the color red. It is the most important color because it is used the most, in the title of the book, and the color of the ‘A’. The color red symbolizes passion, shame and ultimately love. In The Scarlet Letter, it begins with a detailed description of a rose bush which symbolizes Hester and her passion. Roses are obviously red so immediately, red is going to be a very important color. In the following quote, it describes the rose bush and how it represents Hester: “This rose bush by a strange chance, has been kept alive in history; but whether it had merely survived out of the stern old wilderness, so long after the fall of the gigantic pines and oaks that originally overshadowed it, - or whether, as there is fair authority for believing, it had sprung up under the footsteps of the sainted Ann Hutchinson, as she entered the prison-door, - we shall not take upon us to determine” (50). This is the first encounter with red. It is the description of a wild red rosebush growing outside the prison where Hester was imprisoned...
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...ugly, the woman, however is a metaphore for love as a general, however. “My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun”; the dark lady mentioned in the first line is ironic because Shakespeare’s ladies in the stories are rarely thought of as anything less than the most beautiful creatures of the time. He continues on in the next few lines also comparing her to other elements of nature, yet in a negative manner. She has no red in her lips, her skin lacks luster, and generally her physical elements are not pretty to behold. In line four: “I have seen roses damask'd, red and white”, the poem starts to have deeper meaning; though uncertain this line could be an allusion to the rose known as the York and Lancaster variety, which the House of Tudor adopted as its symbol after the War of the Roses. The York and Lancaster rose is red and white streaked, symbolic of the union of the Red Rose of Lancaster and the White Rose of York. For example: compare The Taming of the Shrew: "Such war of white and red within her cheeks!" (4.5.32). Shakespeare mentions the damask rose often in his plays. It also appears in Twelfth Night: She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek (2.4.118). Through the use of rough language in regards to his mistress Shakespeare portrays realistic love, one that is in existence simply because, it makes no sense, it is not pretty, and yet it still is. This element of the...
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...1 Brand guidelines Created July 2011 Minak Theatre, Cornwall Brand guidelines 2 Houses of Parliament, London 3 Welcome to VisitEngland’s brand guidelines Introduction 05_ VisitEngland’s mission 06_ Guidelines and their use 07_ About VisitEngland 4 Elements 09_ The VisitEngland logo 10_ Logo size 11_ Logo don’ts 12_ Logo colourways 13_ Logo exclusion zone 14_ Logo usage 15_ Graphic device 16_ Transparent rose 17_Working with other logos 18_ VisitEngland colours 19_ Subject area colours 20_ Everyday typeface 21_ Printed typeface 22_ Photography 24_ Photography do’s 25_ Photography don’ts 26_ Supporting devices 27_ House style 28_ Corporate responsibility Templates 31_ PowerPoint 35_ Generic cover design 37_ Briefing documents 39_ Letterhead & compliments slip 41_ Certificate 43_ E–Communications 46_ Business cards 48_ Case study/Best Practice Guide 51_ A5 flyer 53_ A4 booklet 55_ Business documents 57_ Layout grid 59_ Banner stands Appendix 61_ VisitEngland brand hierarchy Anthony Gormley sculptures at Crosby beach, Merseyside Contact Details VisitEngland’s mission | Brand guidelines | 05 5 VisitEngland will lead and drive forward the quality, competiveness and sustainable growth of England’s visitor economy by providing strategic direction, intelligence and coordinated marketing for the sector. Through partnership and collaborative activities we will support our partners at national and local levels to deliver excellent visitor...
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...you grew up watching baseball in the Cincinnati, OH area then you know who Charlie Hustle is. Every kid and adult that watched the Cincinnati Reds baseball team between 1963 and 1990 loved him and wanted to be him. Charlie Hustle played the game the right way, the way that we teach our kids to play and with an intensity that was matched by no other player. He played hard every day and never tried to show off or to show up his competitors. If he was hit by a pitch or walked, he would simply drop his bat and run, not walk or jog, to first base. Most people don’t know who Charlie Hustle is they only know him by his given name, Pete Rose. They don’t remember all of the great things that he did on the baseball field they only know that he was arrested for tax evasion and that he is banned from baseball for gambling on it. Charlie Hustle holds more records in baseball than any other player in the history of the game. The one record that he is most notable for is one of baseball’s greatest records of all time. He holds the record for having the most career hits (4,256) of all time. Most experts would even go as far to say that this record will never be broken. Although he holds this record he will never be accepted into the Baseball Hall of Fame because while he was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds he was caught gambling on the Reds. You may say to yourself “what is the big deal about gambling, people do it all of the time.” Gambling on baseball while you have any dealings...
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...BIOL 020 Lesson 4 Assignment Name___________________ PSU ID___________________ Questions for Submission (75 pts total) Answer each of the following questions as completely as possible. Your answers should be no longer than a few sentences. (5 pts) 1. Define the terms gene, homologous chromosome and allele. How are they related to each other? (10 pts) 2. What are the evolutionary advancements associated with land plants? (5 pts) 3. In the taxonomic hierarchy there are many ranks. What are the two terms called that make up species name? Who came up with this idea of a binomial name? Give an example. (10 pts) 4. What is taxonomy? What is the three-fold purpose of taxonomy? Briefly explain your answer. (10 pts) 5. What are the main groups of land plants outlined by your text and this commentary? Which of the algal groups is believed to be the progenitor of these groups? (10 pts) 6. What are some of the major groups of algal? Describe one of the groups’ ecological and economic significance. (25 pts) 7. To liven things up a bit, complete the following “Language of Flowers” exercise. Using flowers to send messages was a popular Victorian practice. Use the table in your text along with the table below (taken from www.languageofflowers.com and the Kate Greenway book) to construct a bouquet to send a message to someone you know, knew or would like to know. Write a short essay or letter (one to two pages should do) with the message you wish to send and...
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... The Bird as a Sacrificial Hero in Oscar Wilde’s “The Nightingale and the Rose” and “The Happy Prince” BY ASST. INST. Shaima’ Fadhil Hassan UNIVERSITY OF KOYA/ COLLEGE OF LANGUAGES/ DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Heroism and sacrifice are not new concepts; they can be traced back to the early days of human life. These concepts developed throughout history as a result of the development of human thought. In literature, the idea of heroism appears on a large scale. It has been dealt with by different writers in different periods. As far as terminology is concerned, the terms of heroism and sacrifice are interchangeable. The hero must be a sacrificer and the one who sacrifices himself must be a hero, for this reason these two terms (hero and sacrificer) cannot be separated. Thus, both of them go hand in hand in so many works of literature. Heroism and sacrifice are not confined to human beings only. Some writers present their heroes as gods as in mythology, and some of them present animals as in fables. 809 0202 / مجلة ديالى العدد الرابع و االربعون The idea of having an animal as a sacrificial hero is shown in many of Oscar Wilde’s short stories. He developed this theme as a reaction towards his age which lacked, in his view, moral as well as human values. For this reason, he chooses a bird to be his tragic hero. He epitomizes this idea in such short stories like “The Nightingale and the Rose” and “The Happy Prince”. The heroes in these two short stories are birds: a...
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...Cheaters and the Hall of Fame Geoffrey Barndt COM/170 April 7, 2014 Dr. Hancock Cheaters and the Hall of Fame Should there be a difference in punishment between the use of performance enhancing drugs and gambling in the sport of baseball. In baseballs long and great history there has been two scandals that have given baseball a black eye. One being the story of Pete Rose, and the other being the story of Barry Bonds.” After a Hall of Fame worthy career, rumors began to circulate that Pete Rose manger of the Cincinnati Reds was gambling on baseball”. (Allen 2012) After an investigation Pete Rose was banned from baseball for life. Even though he never admitted to betting on baseball games. In the late 1990s two men Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa captured the nation’s attention when they both surpassed Rodger Maris record for the most home runs in a single season. Not even three years later Barry Bonds surpassed both men when he hit 73 home runs in a season. “The high-octane offense that Major League clubs were delivering, beginning in the late 1990s, made for great sports theater. But as allegations and revelations of performance-enhancing drug use began to surface, the public began to realize it was just that -- theater, fiction, cheating. The record books had been rewritten, but also tainted”. (Allen 2012) The league began a crackdown on drug use. In 2004 the story broke that during the investigation of a nutritional supplement company called BALCO one player admitted...
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