...cleverness and skill over Sherlock Holmes’ perfection in deception. Sherlock Holmes always spoke about her in a way of pride, and of course not jealousy. In Watson’s words, she was one of the few to be as clever as Sherlock Holmes himself. The main part of the story begins in Holmes’ apartment where one day a man with a foreign uniform appeared to see Holmes. In spite of his efforts to prove himself a second person, the king of Bohemia couldn’t hide his identity from the sharp eyes of Holmes. He then, without any redo, asked Holmes’ help on a five year old incident which relates his falling in love with the beautiful American actress, Miss Irene Adler. He just became king, when his family revealed about his relation with Irene Adler and rejected soon after on account of her not being a royal blood. And as a king he had no other option but to show respect to the tradition. But now what seems to bother him is Irene Adler’s apparent love for the king for which she is interfering in the king’s marriage with a princess of a neighboring country of Bohemia. And now she is up to tell the princess about her past relation with the king. It seems that the king still believes in her personality, when Holmes asked the king if it was about money. But it was not as the king explains that she did not want to see the king getting married with someone other than her. And she has the letters written by the king and their photograph taken together. Holmes comes with a quick idea of proving...
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...City in most urban gothics tend to be a labyrinth of mystery, a source of corruption and evil. The role that the city plays in creating evil is not limited to the labyrinth nature of the city which protects the crimes of antagonists and villains. The creation of evil and is association with the city is also influenced by the early Victorian perception of the city and the crimes that occurred in the city. Irene Adler the primary antagonist and villain, in the Arthur Conon Doyle’s “Scandal in Bohemia” (1891), outwits Sherlock Holmes – One of the greatest detectives and brilliant minds in literature to date. The nature in which if she operates, is helped by the nature of the city which encourages, promotes and even hide the criminality and violence....
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...pilgrimages. https://mefrm.revues.org/2732 R: It would be prudent to begin by indicating that life in the late middle ages was not one of globalized interdependence in the way we understand it today. The vast majority of the European population was rooted in land. That is to say that travel across the vast Eurasian lands in this time was something done with intended purpose and to a large extent an expensive commodity for the peasantry and not a form of cavalier travel. After the initial merchant revolutions of the 13th century and the ensuing great schism and the fragile political situation of Europe at the time, we find an interesting account on the means and expanse of medieval travels when looking at the dynastic marriage of Anne of Bohemia to King Richard II and its implications at the end of the 14th century. We will hopefully show how the consolidation of the Bohemian Kingdom under Charles the IV reached its peak and by outlining the forms of aristocratic travels specifically with Prague as a central city in the 14th and 15th centuries we might see a distinction or emancipation from the structural Venetian routs of commercial travel that had been focus of Europe till then and perhaps predated the early reformation to the north. So we can look at aristocratic conditions for travel across social spheres in Europe in categories of cultural contact that reflect the liberties afforded by the Dynastic Marriage of the two as the precondition for: diplomatic relations among...
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...story “A Scandal in Bohemia,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, the author provides a series of descriptions about a mysterious masked man. Through the use of an allusion, evocative imagery, and contrasting diction, Doyle is able to argue that men are inherently an amalgam of both positive and negative traits by highlighting the mysterious man’s impressive physical appearance in the beginning of the passage while at the same time underlining his flaws afterwards. In the first sentence, Doyle implements an allusion to underscore his points in his analysis of the mysterious man. By introducing the man as one “who could have hardly been less than six feet six inches in height, with the chest and limbs of a Hercules,” Doyle is able to portray the powerful physical...
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...someone helps the society rather than the individual, it is an ethical act. In A Scandal in Bohemia, Sherlock Holmes is trying to help the Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein get married, so that he can become the new King of Bohemia. The issue being that Irene Adler has a picture of the Grand Duke having an affair. Adler threatened to send this picture and a note to the Duke’s bride, thus ruining his marriage and his right to the throne. The Duke not becoming king affects all of the citizens in Bohemia, thus, by following Utopian ethics, Sherlock Holmes should help the Duke. That being said, according to Utopian ethics, Sherlock Holmes would be considered an ethical human being by benefitting the masses rather than himself. Sherlock Holmes does perform many actions that we would consider today as unethical. Once Holmes is on the case, his first act of business was “watching the habits, and perhaps the house, of Miss Irene Adler” (Doyle 16). He has spied on Adler for the entire morning to get clues and leads to further continue this case. Utopian ethics would agree with this behavior. Holmes has disguised himself as a “drunken-looking groom, ill-kempt and side whiskered with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes” (Doyle 16) to gather information about Adler’s doings. Holmes has benefitted all the people in Bohemia by performing this act to help the Duke get married, and thus be the King of Bohemia. In another instance, Holmes second and final attempt to figure out where Adler has kept...
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...Cunning：The druggist demonstrated his cunningness in 2 different ways. First of all, he acted serene when Sangstrom pointed the pistol at him. Normally people would be frightened in this situation, but instead, the druggist showed a sly smile. This could mean that something was planned beforehand. He expected or guessed that this is going to happen since he still charged money from Sangstrom. The second point that showed the druggist’s cunningness is when he told Sangstrom that he needed to pay for the antidote. Why didn't he confess earlier? The druggist “gives” the undetectable poison for free, but he still charges for the antidote. That’s what made Sangstrom furious. But Sangstrom, on the other hand, is a totally different character. He’s...
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...Elisabeth of Bohemia was an intellectual figure during the same period as Descartes. The two would consistently write to each other concerning philosophical issues between the years 1643 and 1649. Elisabeth of Bohemia was more Aristotelian, meaning that actions between the body and mind are “accepted as true and in harmony with one another, provided they are interpreted properly” (Correspondence, 22). As a political activist, she believes that the study of philosophy is too abstract to be considered political. Unlike Descartes, Elisabeth believes that the Cartesian mind carries various physical elements. She thinks that the mind causing a physical body to interact is unrealistic. It is a two-way street. The mind can affect the body, just as the body can affect the mind. To her, something that is immaterial cannot make something material move. Descartes’ idea is that the mind holds no physical aspects, Elisabeth of Bohemia falls in between. She believes that there are some material components to the mind. She does not understand how a nonphysical thing can cause the movement or interaction of a physical thing. In a letter, she...
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...2. The women in the stories, “ A Scandal in Bohemia” and “ The Adventures of the Speckled Band” have contrasting personalities. The stories were set in the Victorian Era which was from 1837 to 1901 when Queen Victoria was in power. This period is known for its strong ethics. In the Victorian Era, women were supposed to concentrate their lives on their husband and children. Sherlock Holmes has varying opinions of the two women in the stories. He has more respect for Irene Adler, from “A Scandal in Bohemia,” then he does for Helen Stoner, from “The Adventures of the Speckled Band.” Irene Adler and Helen Stoner are two very different women, and Holmes has unlike opinions of them. In “A Scandal of Bohemia,” Watson says that Holmes always refers...
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...persecution due to her membership in her husband’s family where her husband and her brother and nieces in-law were been kidnapped, shot and trafficked. Whether the alien is likely to be granted withholding of removal due to unwilling to return to Bohemia because of the persecution on account of her membership in her husband’s family. BRIEF ANSWER The alien is likely to be granted asylum because she has a well-founded fear of persecution due to her membership in a cognize social group—her husband’s family and the government in Bohemia is unwilling to protect her. The alien is likely to be granted withholding the removal because she’s unwilling to return to Bohemia due to the persecution on account of her membership in her husband’s family. FACTS The alien Margo Zephra is a native and citizen of Bohemia. She has been married to her husband for 22 years. Mrs. Zephra’s husband, Aldous Zephra was employed as a driver in Bohemia by a criminal Claudio Bellini. The U.S. government recruited Mr. Zephra as a material witness in its persecution of Bellini and granted Mr. Zephra temporary status in the U.S. to serve as a witness. However, Bellini escaped U.S. custody, and so the U.S. government deported Mr. Zephra back to Bohemia. Once back in Bohemia, Bellini announced his plans to target Mr. Zephra because Mr. Zephra had planned to testify against Bellini in the U.S. courts. Bellini sent members of his crime gang to Mr. Zephra’s home, kidnapped Mr. Zephra and his brother, then beat and...
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...ONDERTITEL VOOR EEN ZAKELIJK RAPPORTNederlands ------------------------------------------------- Voorwoord In opdracht van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam is dit adviesrapport samengesteld. Het adviesrapport betreft de winstberekeningsmethode van het onderzoek dat uitgevoerd is voor Bohemia Industries. In dit rapport is een advies beschreven over een effectief C 8 methode dat toegepast kan worden binnen de financiën van Bohemia Industries. Mede dankzij dit onderzoek heb ik me meer kunnen verdiepen in het interne rapportage systeem A 1. Verder hoop ik dat mijn rapportage een bijdrage zal leveren aan Bohemia Industries. (In het eindrapportage zal de voorwoord meer inhoud bevatten, dit betreft een concept) ------------------------------------------------- Inhoudsopgave R 55 Voorwoord 1 1. Inleiding 3 1.1 Achtergrond 3 1.2 Doestelling rapport 3 1.3 Hoofdvraag en deelvragen 3 1.4 Onderzoeksmethode 3 2. Onderzoeksresultaten 4 2.1 Welke methodes zijn er die toegepast kunnen worden bij Bohemia Industries? 4 2.2 Wat zijn de voor- en nadelen van de verschillende methodes? 5 2.3 Bij welke methode zal de omzetstijging een betere beeld over de huidige winst binnen Bohemia Industries weergeven? 5 2.4 Bij welk methode zal het bedrijf een hogere marktwaarde hebben? 6 2.5 Welke analyse moet men toepassen om een betrouwbaar toekomstperspectief te krijgen? 6 n. CONCLUSIE Bronnen 7...
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...devastated: both the German territory and the life of the German people. It also made foreign participants tired and hurt. As Fletcher indicated, Germany was a miniature of Europe, and the both Europe and Germany were divided into many at the end of the war. And what was worse, the latter was totally devastated: Germany was a rich country when the war began, but she was a desert when the war ended. Here we need to retrospect and ask a question: What was the reason of the war-participants and what did they accomplish? What is the Thirty Years’ War teaching the modern Christian? CAUSE OF THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR At the beginning of the 17th century, the Emperor Rudolph II, was the Archduke of Austria and he was also the King of Bohemia and of Hungary. And the neighboring territories were ruled by his family members. Though Rudolph and his family took all the ruling positions in the Empire, they got some difficulty. Why? For the...
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...Ferdinand, then became the Holy Roman emperor two years later, as Ferdinand II, who was a supporter of the Catholic cause. This had alarmed Bohemian Calvinists, because they feared they were going to lose their religious rights. So on May 1618, the Calvinists threw two Catholic members from the Bohemian royal council out a window. This is known as the Defenestration of Prague, and was how the Calvinist revolt began. On November 8th, 1620, the Catholic army led by Baron Tilly invaded Bohemia. The catholic army had defeated the forces of Frederick V at the battle of White Mountain. After the battle, the more immediate problem that Ferdinand and his allies had faced was how to deal with Frederick V. The temporary king of Bohemia had fled immediately after the battle, but was not prepared to abandon his claim on the Bohemian...
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...of Swabia. Otto had to approve the installation; when Duke Burchard III died in the same year, he denied the Burcharding heritage claims vesting his nephew Otto I with the Duchy of Swabia. This enfeoffment in turn was considered as an affront by Henry the Wrangler. He forged an alliance with Duke Boleslaus II of Bohemia and Mieszko I of Poland but chose to submit before armed conflicts occurred. Temporarily imprisoned in Ingelheim, Duke Henry returned to Bavaria in 976 and continued to plot against Otto, even scheming with Saxon nobles like Margrave Gunther of Merseburg, Egbert the One-Eyed or Dedo I of Wettin. Otto marched against Bavaria and occupied Henry's residence in Regensburg; the duke had to flee to the court of his ally Boleslaus II of Bohemia. In Regenburg, Otto declared Henry deposed and decreed the separation of the Carinthian lands from Bavaria, about a third of the duchy's territory. He enfeoffed his nephew Otto I, Duke of Swabia since 973, with remaining Bavaria and vested the Luitpolding scion Henry the Younger with the newly established Duchy of Carinthia. The next year the conflict escalated: while the emperor's troop invaded the Duchy of Bohemia and enforced the...
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...the time of the 30 years war, it faced four different stages during its time. This four eras of the war where the Bohemian, Danish, Swedish, and Swedish-French .As the war progressed and times changed, so did the focus of the war,as ambitions and desires changed during time to time and religion as a cause of war decreased. The war began when King Ferdinand, a catholic was crowned king of Bohemia ;a protestant land send officials to a castle in Prague and the protestants threw them out of the window, this was called the defenestration of Prague .The reason for this action from the protestants was because the newly crowned king Ferdinand was intolerant of the protestant religious beliefs. This lead to the 30 years war and initiated the Bohemian face period during 1618-1625 where religious differences where the main cause of war. This time can be seen as a civil war between the catholic and the Protestants in Bohemia. King Ferdinand main agenda was to reestablish Catholicism as the main religion of the land he was king of .He believed Catholicism should be the sole religion of Bohemia. When King Ferdinand became the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, protestants became alarmed and fear the loss of their religious rights and persecution for their religious views. In 1618 The Bohemians protestants fearing persecution and punishments from their new catholic King for their anti-Catholics views out crowned Ferdinand of power and reclaimed Frederick V a protestant as the King of...
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...When reading the novel My Antonia I can see that the author has a lot of enthusiasm for Antonia. Readers can see that Antonia is a girl who grows into a very intelligent and determined young woman. Antonia is such a round character that many people seem to be able to relate to her and a lot of her difficulties even though they may vary in outcome. Antonia was born in Bohemia. Poverty was no stranger in this country and unfortunately Antonia new poverty very well. Antonia was a very strong and independent girl especially for her age. She grew up dealing with difficult and stressful things that made it hard to keep going. Living in poverty grew old for her and her family so they decided to move America. Unfortunately, immigration wasn’t...
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