...will attempt to examine some of the theories such as political motive, demon possession, fulfillment of prophecy, necessity for salvation’s plan, unintentional betrayal and greed. However, at the end I hope to convince you the motive is as old as time, “money”. His fellow disciples considered him a greedy thief and I consider their eye witness account to his life and character as good evidence, not to say that the other theories did not contribute in part. Let’s start our quest with the scriptural account: Judas Iscariot, one of Jesus' twelve apostles, betrayed his master to the authorities. This act led to the crucifixion and death of Jesus. What the Bible tells us specifically about Judas: • Judas was one of the 12 disciples closest to Jesus • Judas offered to betray Jesus to the religious authorities • They agreed to pay him 30 pieces of silver for doing so •...
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...impression that they are good friends. After the witches have vanished and Macbeth is proclaimed thane of Cawdor they start hiding things from each other and make this noticeable by starting to stand further apart. At this point Macbeth and Banquo do not trust each other as much anymore.We can tell this because Macbeth starts speaking aside and talking to himself and the audience. 'Glamis and thane of Cawdor: the greatest is behind', This suggests that he does not trust Banquo as much anymore because he is talking to himself, which shows he is going mad, and it sounds like he is plotting to do something. Although Macbeth is starting not to trust Banquo, Banquo still is loyal to Macbeth. 'The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles - to betrays in deepest consequence' Banquo is being a friend and trying to warn Macbeth that the witches were trying to make Macbeth do something bad. But this does not help Macbeth to hold back to kill Duncan. Banquo always knew Macbeth is going to do something stupid, his desires are going to kill his respect and honour for Duncan. Finally, today after the death of Duncan and fleeing of his two sons, Macbeth is announced king. Banquo feels bad about this and quickly rushes to his castle and into his room. BANQUO is standing alone in the room near a window. He is looking quietly outside. He appears worried. He begins to pace the room. BANQUO: The three witch’s prediction has come true. Macbeth has become Thane of Cawdor...
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...Gospel, many themes are prevalent. However, the dominant theme that runs throughout Mark’s accounts is the theme of possibility. Starting off in chapter one of Mark, this theme of possibility already becomes apparent. Mark starts off by telling us about John, who is a Baptist who claims “One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals Mark 1:7.” This quote presents the possibility of anyone, because at this point we do not know who, coming and preaching the message of God. We are not sure whom this mighty and great person is going to be at...
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...same people who become disloyal and betray those whom they love. This event leads to two paths, one in which a person tries anything to redeem themselves and another where selfishness takes over. Likewise, Macbeth by William Shakespeare and The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini use the main characters from their works to demonstrate that sometimes without a second thought, betrayal takes place. They also show how some characters use betrayal to their advantage while others redeem themselves, as well, how even those who stay loyal end up having to pay the same price. At the end however, how people react to the guilt that they encounter in the past is what makes them who they are in the future. Macbeth and The Kite Runner both show how the main characters betray those who respect as well as trust them. Macbeth's eyes are blinded by the power of the throne and he will do anything just to obtain it. Since no one expects Macbeth to betray anyone close to him, he takes this as an advantage and says to himself “a false face must hide what a false heart doth know.”(I, vii, 94-95) With this in mind, it is evident that Macbeth betrays Duncan, Banquo and the whole of Scotland. He uses his innocence and trust that he gained from others to hide what his true intentions are and ends up betraying many people just for the good of himself. Similarly, in The Kite Runner the main character Amir is troubled by the guilt that builds inside of him after he betrays his best friend- Hassan, his father-...
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...friend, Edmond, who is just a commoner, thus leading him to betray his best friend whom he grew up with. There are many different themes in The Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond Dantes is betrayed by the other characters in the story making betrayal one of the main themes. Early on Napoleon prey’s on Edmond’s lack of education, and naivety when he convinces Edmond to deliver a letter in which he lies about its contents using Edmond as a pawn. Danglar, the first mate of the ship, becomes embittered and jealous towards Edmond when he is recognized as being a hero for saving their captain and is promoted above him. Danglar then conspires with Mondego and reports Edmond to Villefort for treason. Mondego is being driven by a deeper envy of his friend’s happiness. He is jealous of Edmond’s ability to be happy with the simple lot he has in life. Also he is jealous of the loving relationship that Edmond has with Mercedes. He feels he is entitled to have more happiness along with the wealth and education he already has. So he is driven to betray Edmond his best friend whom he grew up with by giving Danglar the information to turn Edmond in for treason which Danglar is more than willing to do. Villefort does is not initially motivated to betray Edmond at all, in fact he finds him innocent of the charges. But after learning that Edmond is the only link to prove that Villefort’s own father is actually committing treason he betrays Edmond by having him locked away in Chateau D’If in order to...
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...game unfolds and teams are evaluated for their ability to stay faithful to their team members. Santa’s Secret Purpose of the Secret Santa Game I work in a hospital where we have holiday gatherings and parties every year. Nurses and other healthcare professionals traditionally take part in the secret Santa game and buy gifts for each other. Because the holidays are quickly approaching, I decided to devise a game based on the prisoner’s dilemma called Santa’s secret. There are four individuals in each team with a total of three teams, one for each shift-morning, evening, and night shift. One person from each team is the designated “secret Santa” in which their role is to think of a gift to buy for the other team. The members of a team all know who their own secret Santa is but do not know who the secret Santa is on other teams. My manager will be the outsider and will decide who the secret Santa will be for each team and later evaluate the teams. I will give each team rules that they have to abide by and will also be assigning rewards/punishments based on the final outcomes of the game. Each team will have exactly one week to find out who the secret Santa is on other teams....
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...challenges that are placed in order for us to face them with courage. We are usually caught up in these situations through ambition or may not understand the value of what we’re given. Humans were made for a purpose and to experience the most powerful feeling in this world. The best of creatures in absolute terms is our Prophet Muhammad (SAWS), who set a perfect example of showing love and affection toward every other creation in this world. The Kite Runner is a complicated maze from beginning to end, therefore showing multiple examples of various types of love. This ideology has a starting point to it for everyone and in The Kite Runner this began from the interaction between Amir and Baba. This is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. 1 1 The first phase of love would be the on the basis of the parent to child relationship and this is the purest example of love where one must be the observable attention for another. Characters in The Kite Runner revolve around this belief of paternal love and they all have expectations of their surroundings. Amir is the sole character who experiences this phase of love at its peak. He has a very mystifying relationship with Baba where he feels the love is not complete. Amir believes that his father rarely shows affection toward him and that Hassan is being replaced for Amir at times. Amir experienced this with Baba when "Go on, now," he'd say. "This is grown-ups' time. Why don't you go read one of those...
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...In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet experiences his mother’s remarriage to his uncle and Ophelia’s rejection which makes him feels very upset and angry about women. “Frailty, thy name is woman.”(1.2.146) This suggests that Hamlet thinks that all women in the world are weak and act in the same way. At the beginning of the play, Ophelia describes Hamlet’s love for her that Hamlet has a great affection on her and he has made the holiest vows to her. However, Polonius still asks Ophelia to leave Hamlet. Later in the play, Ophelia follows her father’s advice and rejects Hamlet’s love. Hamlet starts to treat Ophelia terribly. It brings to a question that whether Hamlet loves Ophelia or not. Hamlet is angry for Gertrude’s remarriage to Claudius because he loves and cares about his mother. It is the same for Ophelia. His mad and angry acts towards Ophelia show readers that he loves and cares about Ophelia because no one will be mad if he is betrayed by someone who is insignificant to him. The ways Hamlet talks and treat Gertrude are almost the same with the ways treats Ophelia. This shows Ophelia is as important as his mother. Hamlet is upset for his mother’s hasty remarriage and his thought of his mother worsen when the ghost tells him that Gertrude marries to a person who is the murderer of his father. He loves his mother so much that draws him to madness. He starts to treat his mother badly. “What wilt thou do? Thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho!” (3.4.22-23) He is being...
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...Following Amir and Hassan win the kite running contest, Hassan vows to Amir that he will find the kite and bring it home to show Baba. Amir begins to worry about Hassan because he is taking a lot longer than he expected therefor Amir sets on his way to go find Hassan. He approaches an ally way and peaks down it, finding Hassan pinned underneath Assef and his gang, once Amir understands what is going on he has a decision to make he contemplates his options for a moment, “I had one last chance to make a decision. One final opportunity to decide who I was going to be. I could step into that alley, stand up for Hassan – the way he'd stood up for me all those times in the past – and accept whatever would happen to me. Or I could run. In the end, I ran.” (Hosseni 137-139) This is the instant where Amir betrays Hassan, Amir runs away knowing very well that he should have stood up for Hassan. Amir makes the selfish choice to run away and protect himself instead of helping his best friend from one of the most damaging events that a person could endure, rape.This is only the beginning of Amir’s rough road of learning about betrayal and how to deal with it. Hosseni foreshadows Amir’s betrayal in the second chapter, when he expresses Amir’s behavior towards Hassan. When Hassan asks the simple question, "Would I ever lie to you, Amir...
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...The Cask of Ammontillado Nowadays we hear about missing persons and different murders every day. It seems like nothing is left unsaid. But is there in fact happening a lot left unsaid, as in “The Cask og Ammontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe? This text is written with a first person point of view “I continued, as was my wont..” p. 28 l.12. We are seeing everything through Montresor’s eyes, and he directly relates his experiences. The story is based on a lot of dialogue and Montressor’s thoughts. Montressor is the main character and he is very cold, conniving, brutal, vengeful and merciless. Especially when he tells us about his torture and murder of Fortunato. In Montressor’s mind, he does what is necessary, and he thinks that Fortunato deserves to be murdered “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could..” p. 28 l. 1. He tells the story fifty years after it happened, which makes him very unreliable. If he actually had put Fortunato into a vault, he is not to be trusted. If he is lying, and just tells a fabricated story about killing the guy Fortunato, he is still not to be trusted. A sympathetic character is someone we can identify with on some level. Montressor is a typical unsympathic narrator, but that doesn’t mean that we have no sympathy for him. We can identify with Montressor, because he is still alive. He got away with murder without any trouble. Everyone has skeletons in their closet, even if it’s something widespread or something small. It...
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...“That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, ‘Let us go over to the other side’. Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, ‘Teacher don’t you care if we drown?’ He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, ‘Quiet! Be still!’ Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, ‘Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?’ They were terrified and asked each other, ‘Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!’” JESUS’ BAPTISM “At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptised by John in the Jordan. As Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: ‘You are my son, whom I love; with you I am well pleased.’” THE TRANSFIGURATION After six days, Jesus took Peter, James and John with him and led them up a high mountain, where they were all alone. There he was transfigured before them. His clothes became dazzling white, whiter than anyone in the world could bleach them. And there appeared before them Elijah and Moses who were talking with Jesus. Peter said to Jesus, ‘Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. Let us put up three shelters- one for you, one for moses and one...
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...awaken and attack Asgard in order to obtain Aether. Thor and Loki team up to trick Malekith to extract Aether from Jane body and destroy it, but their effort failed. In the end, Malekith died due crashing with his own ship after battle with Thor causing his plan to destroy entire universe and restore glory of Dark Elves using Aether in Greenwich futile. (149 words) IDENTIFY ANY FOUR ISSUE / PROBLEM REVEALED IN THE MOVIE The first issue or problem that has been arise in Thor: The Dark World movie is between the main actor, Thor and Loki. Loki is the character who are the youngest brother of Thor but actually he is only adopted son of the King of Asgard. It can be seen when Thor as an eldest brother do not trust his own brother at all because of Loki’s attitudes or behavior which is make him...
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..."DIMITRIE CANTEMIR" Christian University FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES LOVE AND TIME IN SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS GRADUATE: SCIENTIFIC COORDINATOR: -2016- Important aspects about William Shakespeare William Shakespeare, English dramatist and poet He is considered the greatest writer of the English language literature of all time The first one (until approximately 1598) belongs to a series of pieces in which youth girded Shakespeare’s current fashions, adapting issues to public taste In the second Shakespearean stage, which runs from 1598-1604, are located the pieces often called "middle works", characterized by a higher stage virtuosity Dramas Julius Caesar, Hamlet and Othello announce the next period, known as the great tragedies (1604-1608), in which Shakespeare delves into the deepest feelings of the human being The final phase (1608-1611) shines his latest masterpiece, The Tempest, in which fantasy and reality intermingle offering a testimony of wisdom and acceptance of death. •Human vision (caught in the passion play); •Relationship with the company and provided genius; •Nature, love and art - universal ways of saving time and evil attack. Sonnets give the feeling and eventually even convince the reader to visit a temple and understands that the priest officiating the ritual union between text and reading is a creature with a special expertise whereof modern poetry can not even have the feeble idea ANALYSIS OF WILLIAM...
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...Leadership and Self Deception Introduction From personal experience, nobody ever wants to hear that they have a problem in any aspect of their life. The truth is painful to hear. I know that I’m very critical of myself and I am able to accept it from myself. By nature, we as individuals aren’t as accepting to listen to someone else tell us that we have a problem or that we are the problem. Sometimes listening to someone tell you that you have a problem can really throw you off your game. In your mind, you are thinking…yeah right, I don’t have a problem, tssk tssk, what are you talking about? Your natural instinct is to disagree and get defensive, maybe your eyes twitch, your heart beats really fast and you break out in a sweat, whatever it is…you likely deny that you have a problem. Philosophers call this self deception, being in the box where you resist any suggestion that there is a problem. Self deception is most common in organizations and is the most damaging. Others looking at you give you a different perspective of yourself. You yourself may never see that there are any issues. When we aren’t recognizing there is a problem, we tend to be blind to the truth. If we are close minded in acknowledging there is a problem, any approach to find a solution will make matters worse. Self deception is so fundamental to leadership because leadership is about making matters better. We undermine our leadership at every aspect if we perceive that we are never the problem...
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...on the idea of the classic prisoner's dilemma. If you have had a class on game theory, you will be well aware of this concept. It forms the basis of many TV game shows. The prisoner's dilemma was illustrated in Truman Capote's book, "In Cold Blood" concerning the 1959 robbery of a Kansas farmhouse by Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, who murdered their victims in order to eliminate the witnesses. After the men were captured, the police interrogated them separately. To get a confession, the police offered the men a reduced sentence for cooperating. Failure to cooperate would result in a death penalty charge for both. In the prisoner's dilemma, if both parties cooperate they are mildly punished; if one betrays another, one is severely punished while the other goes free; and if both betray one-another, both are moderately punished. Can you think of settings where you work in which the organizational structure has created a prisoner's dilemma? Competition can (but does not necessarily) bring out conflict. In game theory, there are non-cooperative and cooperative games. A non-cooperative zero-sum game has a definite winner and loser. For one to win, one must lose. We often think of politicking as an element of that. A cooperative game is where everyone who plays is better off...
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