...The sight of her ex-boyfriend did a measurable blow to the lioness as she'd not ready herself mentally or emotionally for the interaction. She folded her hands behind her back, thumbing the material of her costume to keep her mind sharp. It did little good to settle her nerves upon hearing Benjamin explanation and was quick to distract herself with their hostess. Penny felt odd watching Ben be so casual with the redhead and speak of supernatural rituals as if they were a normal occurrence between the two. The man she knew five years ago would never have divulged in such things. A sting of jealousy caught her off guard as she re-evaluated her emotions and wrote them off. There was no need for that kind of nonsense. His question went...
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...Hannah Garthe Mrs. Dupuis 10/29/15 F-Block Text Analysis 2 “Recounts most horrid sights seen by the watch./ A lioness hath whelped in the streets/ and graves have yawned and yielded up their dead./ Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds/ in ranks and squadrons and right form of war/ which drizzled blood upon the capitol./ The noise of battle hurtled in the air/ horses did neigh, and dying men did groan/ and ghosts did shriek and squeal about the streets./ O Caesar, these things are beyond all we/ and I do fear them.” (II.ii.16-26) Calpurnia is presented as a very anxious lady, deeply concerned about the safety of her husband. She pleads with Caesar to not go to the Senate because there were reports of very bizarre happenings in Rome and she has a terrible dream. Calpurnia saw some people murdering Caesar and the people of Rome washing their hands in Caesar’s blood. In her dream she saw some unnatural things, and she interpreted that something bad was going to happen....
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...SCENE III. The forest. Enter ROSALIND and CELIA ROSALIND How say you now? Is it not past two o'clock? and here much Orlando! CELIA I warrant you, with pure love and troubled brain, he hath ta'en his bow and arrows and is gone forth to sleep. Look, who comes here. Enter SILVIUS SILVIUS My errand is to you, fair youth; My gentle Phebe bid me give you this: I know not the contents; but, as I guess By the stern brow and waspish action Which she did use as she was writing of it, It bears an angry tenor: pardon me: I am but as a guiltless messenger. ROSALIND Patience herself would startle at this letter And play the swaggerer; bear this, bear all: She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were man as rare as phoenix. 'Od's my will! Her love is not the hare that I do hunt: Why writes she so to me? Well, shepherd, well, This is a letter of your own device. SILVIUS No, I protest, I know not the contents: Phebe did write it. ROSALIND Come, come, you are a fool And turn'd into the extremity of love. I saw her hand: she has a leathern hand. A freestone-colour'd hand; I verily did think That her old gloves were on, but 'twas her hands: She has a huswife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter; This is a man's invention and his hand. SILVIUS Sure, it is hers. ROSALIND Why, 'tis a boisterous and a cruel style. A style for-challengers; why,...
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...Lioness: - Clytemnestra. She is compared to a lion because she is the powerful and assertive one. She is in a class status above the Wolf (Aegisthus). Wolf – Aegisthus. I think he’s compared to a wolf because the Lion indirectly owns a wolf in that it is little bit stronger, faster and smarter than wolf and Cassandra thinks of Aegisthus as the guy that is controlled by Clytemnestra, the lioness. Noble Lion: Agamemnon is the wise leader that hasn’t been home to take care of his wife (lioness) while the wife is bedding Aegisthus. 5e. Cassandra wants to kill her because she was brought to Greece by Agamemnon. Line 1263 6. I think Aegisthus is called a woman because of his actions. Aegisthus wanted revenge on Agamemnon, Atreus’s son, but he didn’t bring down Agamemnon himself; instead, he relied on a woman to do his dirty work instead of facing Agamemnon like two men do in Ancient Greece. He is called a woman because he didn’t kill Agamemnon by himself but he relied on woman to do his work...
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...The oldest love story in the world * The Story of Pyramus and Thisbe -is the oldest love story in the world. It's a story we still tell - and it's a tragedy.It's a familiar tale to all of us although we may not instantly recognise the names of the ancient lovers. You know it very well, it's the story of young lovers whose union is thwarted by their opposing parents and whose lives end in double suicide based on a misunderstanding. The story was recorded by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses written sometime in the 1st century. Ovid heard the story from the Greeks, who heard the story (it is said) from Tunisian traders who heard it from Persian travellers. The 14th century saw a revival in its popularity with Petrarch recording the story in 1340, Boccaccio in 1342 and, in 1386, Chaucer wrote The Legend of Thisbe. So Shakespeare used the sorrowful story of Pyramus and Thisbe in Midsummer Night's Dream and enriched the plot in Romeo and Juliet, but he borrowed the story from Ovid, who borrowed it from the Greeks, who borrowed it from the Middle East. It was the basis for West Side Story. Pyramus and Thisbe, the Plot Legend tells us that Pyramus was the handsomest youth, and Thisbe the fairest maiden, in all Babylonia, where Semiramis reigned. The two lived in adjoining houses and contrived somehow to strike up an aquaintance by conversing through a crack in the shared wall. Friendship flourished and blossomed into love as the young couple shared their...
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...Craziness in Desperation --Reading Ariel Abstract: The American poetess Sylvia Plath with her short, yet brilliant life is a notable figure in the field of twentieth-century American poetry. Ariel is one of her late poems which marks her maturity in poetry and is of great importance to the study of her works. Through interpretation of Ariel, we can learn her psychological struggle which stems from the conflicts of the duality in identity. Key Words: Sylvia Plath, poetess, identity, craziness The poem Ariel is the title poem in the posthumous poem collection of the same name of the American Poetess, Sylvia Plath who plays a remarkable role in mid-twentieth American poetry, especially in the movement of Confessional Poetry. As a woman writer, Plath was always in conflict of her two identity -- a woman as a docile and domestic housewife, mother or daughter and on the other side a writer of independence and free mind. She was forever struggling all her life which she ended at the age of 31. Her suicide, which is often related to her disastrous marriage with English laurel poet Ted Hughes, alongside with her identity as a woman poet drew much public attention right after her death and has remained a contested topic until today. Her poems has been constantly reprinted in the UK and USA as well as in numerous translated versions. She is widely “recognized as one of the leading figures in twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture”.1 Her late poems which are often...
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...A Tale of Three Lions Haggard, Henry Rider Published: 1887 Type(s): Short Fiction, Adventure Source: http://www.gutenberg.org 1 About Haggard: Henry Rider Haggard was born at Bradenham, Norfolk, to Sir William Meybohm Rider Haggard, a barrister, and Ella Doveton, an author and poet. He was the eighth of ten children. He was initially sent to Garsington Rectory in Oxfordshire to study under the Reverend H.J. Graham but, unlike his older brothers who graduated from various Public Schools, he ended up attending Ipswich Grammar School. This was because his father, who regarded him as somebody who was not going to amount to much, could no longer afford to maintain his expensive private education. After failing his army entrance exam he was sent to a private ‘crammer’ in London to prepare for the entrance exam for the British Foreign Office, which in the end he never sat. Instead Haggard’s father sent him to Africa in an unpaid position as assistant to the secretary to the Lieutenant-Governor of Natal, Sir Henry Bulwer. It was in this role that Haggard was present in Pretoria for the official announcement of the British annexation of the Boer Republic of the Transvaal. In fact, Haggard raised the Union Flag and was forced to read out much of the proclamation following the loss of voice of the official originally entrusted with the duty. As a young man, Haggard fell deeply in love with Lilith Jackson, whom he intended to marry once he obtained paid employment in South Africa...
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...She ran away because a lioness scared her, leaving behind her cloak. After the Lioness messed with the cloak a little time later Pyramus found it. He killed himself thinking the girl that he loved is dead. Ovid wrote, "His heart beats faster. As he approached the stream, his fears were confirmed upon seeing Thisbe’s veil torn and bloodstained. Unable to find Thisbe and fearing that she was dead, Pyramus was unable to contain his sorrow. He drew his sword and plunged it deeply into his side." (948) Romeo was stricken with the same fate as Pyramus. He finds the tomb and his love sleeps peacefully, but he is fooled thinking she has met her end. "Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide. Thou desperate pilot, now at once run...
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...Hello Starbucks Robyn Desuza MT459-Consumer Behavior February 17, 2014 Starbuck’s has been established as one of if not currently the most popular coffee house in and out of the United States. A business such as Starbucks needs information in order to introduce its products and services that would create value in their customers’ minds. In order to do this Starbuck’s can use research methods that would give them directions needed on making their marketing decisions. The exploratory design method is used to gather information that would enable firms to see more clearly what problems there may be in their marketing strategy, gather insight on consumer behavior, eliminate unusable ideas or methods, and form new ways to market their products (QuickMBA, 1999-2010). Depth-interviews and focus groups are methods exploratory research. Descriptive Research seeks to gives clarity on the users of specific products, size of population that uses these products, and also to predict the future demand of the products (QuickMBA, 1999-2010). Before surveying consumers, the descriptive research method would first establish who, what, when, and how of the research to be done (QuickMBA, 1999-2010). This method allows for the observation of consumer behavior for things such as brand loyalty. The causal research design method looks for the cause and effect of the correlation between alternatives. This method is used to analyze or experiment on a single market segment by introducing...
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...leaving the young lovers with no option but burn the light of love brightly in their hearts and meet surreptitiously if they can. Over the years, the lovers could only talk through a hole in their wall because their parents refused them to see each other. Finally, Pyramus got fed up with his parents and so did Thisbe. One day while whispering through a crack in the wall, they decided to meet the next night under a mulberry tree near tomb of Ninus. They decided to elope then. So, the next night, just before the crack of dawn, while everyone was asleep, they decided to slip out of their homes and meet in the nearby fields near a mulberry tree. Thisbe reached there first, covered with a cloak. As she waited under the tree, she saw a lioness coming near the spring close by to quench its thirst. Its jaws were bloody, from a previous kill that day. When Thisbe saw this horrifying sight, she panicked and ran to hide in some hollow rocks nearby. As she was running, she dropped her cloak. The lion, on hearing the shriek, came near the tree where Thisbe was initially waiting. The creature picked up the cloak in its bloody jaws. Then it...
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...Teenagers are on the cusp of adulthood, but still naive and impulsive. Sure, there are several exceptions to this rule, who are intelligent young people with a great head on their shoulders and know what they should be doing. However, as stated, they are the exception. For analogy purposes, let's look at the lioness and her cubs. She brings the cubs with her on hunts, allows them to stalk the prey and sometimes, even allows them to initiate the kill. She expects them to exhibit adult lion behavior, while never letting them take the full responsibility yet. Why? Because they still don't know what they're doing. They only know what they've learned thus far. She still needs to teach them the finer points of being an adult lion, before they are ready to be treated like one. Human teenagers, like the lion cubs, know what they are supposed to do up to a point, but still require more teaching, guidance and object learning, before they can be treated like adult humans. I'm fairly certain that as you've grown, your mother stopped holding your hand when you crossed the street. She stopped cutting your food up for you. She started letting you dress and clean yourself. These are all steps toward adulthood, requiring you to act in an adult capacity, while still acknowledging that you are a child and still in need of teaching before you can act in full adult capacity. The faster you learn and the more responsibility that you show your parents you can handle, the more they will...
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...military’s public reputation by promoting gender equality. A perfect example is the ancient structure of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army which allowed women to serve in combat positions as well and in leadership roles as generals (Xiaolin, 1993). Second, women should be allowed to serve in military combat positions due to their physical ability. Although most women do not have the physical ability that men serving in military combat positions have, some women have the ability to serve in those positions. Such women should be allowed to serve in such positions in order to improve the military’s throughput. A good example of women being allowed to serve in military combat positions was during the war against Iraq where a program known as “Lioness” allowed women to support combat...
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...mother Sarabi and the pride Hindering in his headway were hundreds of hyenas scavenging the sacred stone Furious and flailing with fiery Simba's strides continued “Scar!” Simba spoke firmly “I have returned to redeem my rightful role as king” “Felines I am filled with shame, for not forbidding this feeble fiend from power!” “My uncle I beg of you, take my ultimatum I demand you to abdicate your position as king of the Pride Lands Ascound! Forgo, I forbid you to ever return “Never!” Roared Scar ramming Simba rashly; then softly said “Simba I killed your Father” The brutal battle broke out in flames as the felines fought Not far behind Simba paced the loyal triplex, trio Nala, Pumba, and Timon lead the heated lioness against the lily-livered hyenas Scar stood on the edge of Pride cliff squealing for Simba’s sympathy Simba sanitized his spineless uncle “Run Scar, and never return” Swindling Scar stormed Simba’s back as he turned; claws drawn Simba struck! Stumbling of the cliff, Scar sank to his death Scar’s sadistic society ended with sovereignty Simba and Nala redeem their roles as king and queen of the Pride Land with the friendly...
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...Hamlet returned from England and attended Ophelia's funeral, the fencing match commenced. Hamlet scored the first hit, but declined the drink from Claudius. Instead, Queen Gertrude took the drink and was swiftly killed from the poison. In a series of events, both Hamlet and Laertes were wounded by the poisoned blade. Laertes, just before he died, told Hamlet that the poisoned cup was meant for him and it was Claudius' fault that the queen died. Hamlet then stabbed Claudius with the poisoned sword and forced him to drink from the poisoned goblet. Scar did not know of Simba's survival until he showed up to defeat Scar and claim his throne. However, Simba still believed he was responsible for Mufasa's death. Scar made him admit this to the lioness and cornered him at the tip of Pride Rock. Simba fell and was holding onto the edge when Scar told Simba that he had really killed Mufasa. Simba jumped on top of Scar and forced him to admit the truth. A fight between the lions and the hyenas followed. Simba then found Scar and chased him to the top of Pride Rock, in order to fight him. Scar told Simba that the hyenas had come up with the idea of him being king, which they overheard. Simba told Scar to run away, the same way Scar had told Simba to flee shortly after his father's death. However, Scar starts a fight with him, which ends with Scar tumbling down the cliff, surviving, being surrounded by hyenas and them killing him. Another aspect in which The Lion King and Hamlet were similar...
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...Bast was a goddess in Ancient Egypt. She was worshipped as part of the Ancient Egyptian religion. She was/is a major goddess. She was the patron goddess of cats, protection against contagious diseases and evil spirits, love, and family. She is also closely linked with Sekhmet and they are sometimes considered to be two sides of the same coin, so to speak. Sekhmet was also a major goddess. She was the goddess of fire, war, vengeance and medicine, and she was often depicted as a lioness. Bast is considered a lunar deity, and Sekhmet is a solar deity. They are both said to be the mother of Nefertum and the wife of Ptah. Although Bast was generally thought of as a domestic cat goddess in early times, she is also depicted as lion or desert cat....
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