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Romeo And Juliet: Juliet Is Independent, Courageous, And A Heroic Young Woman
Number of words: 411 | Number of pages: 2.... thee hence, for I wilt not away....”(V.iii.160) Juliet is telling
Friar that you can leave Romeo since he is dead but I will not because I
love him. Her Juliet shows courage because she decides to stay with Romeo
knowing that there is allot at risk is anyone finds her.
Juliet showed many acts of heroism in the play. In order to stay
married with Romeo, Juliet takes a potion that makes her seem dead for two
days . Not knowing if she was going to wake up, Juliet took the chance so
that her and Romeo could possibly be reunited. She did in fact wake up
seconds too late just in time to see Romeo drinking the poison. Without
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Basketball Diaries: Movie Summary
Number of words: 409 | Number of pages: 2.... of male influence in his life. Jim looked
at the church as an institution rather than a home. No, I do not hold this
view on the church. I was raised in environment with personable priests.
This helped me grow with the church rather than against it.
A very controversial issue is whether drugs and alcohol are morally
wrong. Catholics believe that anything that can harm your body is morally
wrong. I believe that drugs are morally wrong. They alter emotions,
thoughts, and physical being; this is completely unacceptable and morally
wrong. Alcohol is not very morally wrong. Alcohol is only wrong when it
is abused. It is not wrong .....
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Essay On Impulsiveness In Romeo & Juliet
Number of words: 959 | Number of pages: 4.... Montegue and Capulet confrontation
by thinking first and not doing the impulsive suggested by Tybalt. Through
thinking these actions through, problems were prevented.
However, Capulet was at times, a very rash person, and that lead to
much of the misfortune in this play. Hours after Romeo killed Tybalt,
Capulet acted on haste in Act III, Scene 4 and told Paris “I will make a
desperate tender/Of my child's love: I think she will be rul'd/In all
respects by me; nay more, I doubt it not....And bid her, mark you on me, on
Wednesday next-” and then continued to sound delirious saying “Wednesday is
too soon;/ O' Thursday let i .....
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Merchant Of Venice: Shylock The Antagonist?
Number of words: 972 | Number of pages: 4.... 3-4) Jews
were also viewed as devils by Elizabeathan audiences. Old stories
portrayed them as "blood-thirsty murders" that poisoned wells and killed
Christian children for their bizarre Passover ritu! als. (Stirling 2:1)
These were the stereotypes which Shakespeare's audience held in regard to
Jews. Shakespeare himself had never seen a Jew but he goes to great
lengths to humanize Shylock even while perpetuating the stereotype.
In Act 1:3, before Shylock ever says a word to Antonio, he lets the
audience know in an aside that he hates Antonio. He hates him for having
hindered him in business and for having humiliated him in .....
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Oedipus' Destiny
Number of words: 901 | Number of pages: 4.... 17). But instead of killing the infant, the shepherd gave him to another shepherd who then gave Oedipus to the King Polybus of Corinth. So this poor child survived to continue his tragic destiny.
As Oedipus grows up, he becomes a self-confident, intelligent, and strong willed person. That is the kind of role that is cost for him by destiny. A drunken stranger tells him that he is not the son of King Polybus. His strong will drives him to ask an oracle about his parents. The oracle does not answer his question, but tells him that he would kill his father whom Oedipus believes to be King Polybus and marry his mother. .....
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Comparing Washington And Macbeth: The Fate Of A Nation
Number of words: 487 | Number of pages: 2.... a dictator, or king. He believed that power
did not come from controlling others, but from the honor and respect that
was given to him. Washington knew that this power would only come from
subordination to civilian authority. He would be a precedent by being the
first general to turn down his immense powers. With these actions,
Washington assured the success of a new democratic nation.
MacBeth, like Washington, was power hungry and very successful in war.
However, he felt that power came from wealth and control over his
subordinates. As a king, MacBeth abused his power. His first priority was
to secure his own safety, .....
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Romeo And Juliet: Romeo
Number of words: 332 | Number of pages: 2.... bad things about Romeo. For instance on
page 500, line 67, when Capulet says "Verona brags of him." When Lord
Capulet said that it shows that he is well respected by Verona and its
people. People say bad things about Romeo, when Tybalt says "It fits when
suck a villian is a guest, I'll not endure him" on page 500, line 75.
Tybalt calls him a villian because he dis-likes Romeo and wants to kill him
because he came un-invited to the Capulets party.
Romeo does many things throughout the play that will make him look
bad, but he also does many good things. Romeo likes to show hid affection
to Juliet every time he sees her. Mo .....
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Hamlet: Truth Of His Father's Death And Hypocrisy Surrounding Him
Number of words: 799 | Number of pages: 3.... then be false to any man,"(I iii,ln 80)
It is clear that his first priority, in talking to his son, is to teach him to act proper, to keep up his own appearance, and not to wish him well. From his later actions, one can see that Laetres honor is what concerens him the most, not his well being. When Polonius feels it necessary to send a spy to keep an eye on him, he once again expresses his lack of trust for anyone. He goes on to ask Reynaldo to, "before you visit him. . . make inquirer/ Of his behavior. . .And thus do we of wisdom and of reach/ With windlasses and with assays of bias,/ By indirections find directions out, .....
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Hamlet As A Tragic Hero
Number of words: 1043 | Number of pages: 4.... actor had. A group of players has arrived and Hamlet
arranges a personal viewing of The Murder of Gonzago with a small portion of his
own lines inserted. Hamlet then observes one portion of the play in which one
of the players put on a great display of emotion. Hamlet, besieged by guilt and
self-contempt, remarks in his second soliloquy of Hamlet of the emotion this
player showed despite the fact that the player had nothing to be emotional about.
Hamlet observed that he himself had all the reason in the world to react with
great emotion and sorrow, yet he failed to show any that could compare with the
act of the player. .....
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El Norte
Number of words: 519 | Number of pages: 2.... for the tunnel and even the coyote said, "it is living hell".
During there tunnel journey, they encountered rats and they were getting eaten alive. Finally they were gone and they were able to continue and they found their coyote at the end. He got them hooked up at a motel to stay.
Day 1 they try to find work, and people pick them up to put them to work and give them two dollars a week and they think it is a whole a lot, but it really isn't. Enqrue and Rosa said "that everyone said how much more money u get in the United States but they didn't say how much everything costs" I think this quote is a good point. At the end Enq .....
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