Romy Sauter Ms. Thao Honors English 10/ Period 5 October 2, 2017 Literally Love From Lucie, to Dr. Manette, to even Madame Defarge, all characters experienced at least one form of love in the novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Love is given to all of the men and women in the book, and love saves many people’s lives. The characters gave up everything for each other, and sought out revenge on the people that had hurt their families. Love is a very prominent idea in the novel. Even though
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madness to achieve revenge. Medea thinks about the consequences before taking action “what state would take me in? What friend would offer me his land as refuge”. Hamlet weighs also his options as he does not know whether he should defend his father’s honor or not, “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying; And now I'll do't. And so he goes to heaven; And so am I revenged”. Indeed the fact of questioning themselves proves that they have not yet lost their minds; they are lucid enough to define what is
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morality. This means the difference between good and bad. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is portrayed as being the “bravest” soldier and for being an honorable thane. We see Macbeth as being a man with morals who fights for good reasons and in honor of the king of Scotland. However as the play implies, who is “fair is foul and foul is fair,” (Act 1, Scene 1) meaning that appearance can be differing from reality. Gender and power are two topics that are shown in detail in the drama of Macbeth
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that Okonkwo shows is his pride in his masculinity. This forces him to show no other emotion, except anger and fear of looking weak. This flaw caused Okonkwo to have problems with his family and tribe. This including his violence towards his family, killing Ikemefuna, his seven year banishment, and decapitating the District Commissioner, with leads to his death. To begin with, Okonkwo is hard and stern with his family, mostly his son, Nwoye, who does not take after him. It is Okonkwo's inner fear
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because he wanted to be awarded the title of being the Thane of Cawdor. Macbeth had a hunger for being superior to everyone, it was something he strived for. King Duncan made his son Malcolm successor which boiled up Macbeth’s anger and resulted to him killing Duncan. The three witches told him that he would most likely become king for doing so but he believed
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Telling the History of the Holocaust The history of the Holocaust is often studied in a macro format, which incorporates the use of secondary sources to give an overview of events as they happened. The macro format focuses on the key figures such as Hitler and Himmler and how their actions directly affected the topic. Studying the macro history of the Holocaust fails to capture the feelings and opinions of the German people during this time. The study of primary sources written by the German
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Japanese soldiers stormed China and brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people, including both soldiers and civilians in Nanking. Around 50,000 women were sexually assaulted, and kids were murdered as if they were not human beings. Once a capital of China, Nanking was left in ruins and the people were left in distraught. The reason why this happened was foolish and unnecessary. Following the bloodshed from the battle in Shanghai (Sino-Japanese war) the Japanese were passionate in wanting to
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Electra meets her recently returned brother Orestes (who had been banished from the kingdom since his infancy by his paranoid mother). Orestes identifies himself with the snake in his mother's dream, and the two siblings plan to avenge their father by killing their mother and Aegisthus, as Apollo himself has commanded him. Orestes and his childhood friend Pylades pretend to be ordinary travelers from Phocis asking for hospitality at the palace of Argos.
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The Tillman Story is a perfect example of telling the truth slant soldiers were told to lie about what happened when asked, once the family was found out what really happened they were given an overload of information with blurred out key points which made it ineligible, the military as a whole lied to the Tillman family. The death of Pat Tillman became front page news a NFL player who left a football contract to serve for the US in the war who was shot and killed in duty. What makes this so interesting
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with the same happy memories. In the story, Dumas says “After almost two years in Whittier, my father’s assignment was completed and we had to return home. The last month of our stay, I attended one slumber party after another, all thrown in my honor” (Dumas 92). This quote shows the happy memories that Dumas made during her stay in America and also how those she met during that tie were sad to see her go.
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