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19 Th Century Sierra Nevada
1,000 wordsAlbert Bierstadt's Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California is a scenic canvas oil painting on display at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, DC. Created in 1868, this enormous painting is approximately six by ten feet in size (Honour and Fleming, 2000). The subject matter of this piece is typical of Bierstadt, who is known for his detailed landscapes, especially those of the Rockies and Sierras of the American West. Collectively, Alberts works are manipulated and slightly ...
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Symbol Of Blood Lady Macbeth
864 wordsI am going to prove that in the play Macbeth, a symbol of blood is portrayed often (and with different meanings), and that is a symbol that is developed until it is the dominating thereof the play towards the end of it. To begin with, I found the word "blood", or different forms of it forty-two times (ironically, the word fear is used forty-two times), with several other passages dealing with the symbol. Perhaps the best way to show how the symbol of blood changes throughout the play, is to foll...
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Tragic Hero Tragic Death
1,137 wordsThe play presents different vies of heroism primarily through two central characters, Caesar and Brutus. Caesar is represents a view characterised by courage and defiance. He sees himself as superior and resolute. Brutus by contrast, is admired for inner qualities. His heroism is defined by integrity, honour, dignity, stoicism and altruism. Shakespeare values these qualities over Caesars version of heroism. Normal ideas of heroism, nobility, honour and courage appear in the text but also there a...
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Heroic Deeds Good King
815 wordsBeowulf could be described as an obedient subject, an adventurous warrior and a good king. Beowulf honoured and respected those who ruled his kingdom. He remained confident and fearless when in battle. As King he was noble to his name, heroic, and devoted to his people. Beowulf accomplished all in which he sought to achieve. Everything he did was done for a reason; everything he achieved was for the people and to honour those who ranked above him in the kingdom. Beowulf could be described as an ...
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Act 1 Scene 3 Lines Act 5 Scene
1,027 wordsExplore and compare the ways that Shakespeare presents prince Hal and Hotspur in this play? In this play Shakespeare goes into particular detail with two of the younger characters, Prince Hal and Hotspur. Throughout the play we hear about Hotspur, his personal qualities, bravery, charm and humour. We learn of his views on honour, but we also learn of his lack of realism, his rashness and lack of political acumen. We see Prince Hal's wit and humour, political acumen and signs of genuine redemptio...
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Prince Of Wales End Of The Play
1,015 words... pleasure, and the golden sleep?" Prince Hal is the energetic, high-spirited eldest son of Henry IV. He has a carefree way of life. His gradual rises from associating with lonely thieves like Falstaff to defeating Hotspur at the end of the play. When associating with Falstaff, Hal knows exactly what he is doing. By socialising with people looked down upon by society, he knows that he redeems himself it will seem all the better because of his past. This is shown in his soliloquy. In Act 1 Scen...
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Hagar Shipley Stone Angel
871 wordsA symbol is a literary device used by the author to portray an idea to the reader. In Margaret Laurence's, The Stone Angel, the stone angel is a symbol used to heighten the reader's understanding of the characteristics of Hagar Shipley. First, the stone angel is used to show Hagar's pride in the Currie family name. She prizes the stone angel because it is expensive and imported from Italy to honour a mother Hagar never knew. Similarly, the stone angel is symbolic of Hagar's inability to show emo...
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Existential Mode Left Wing
859 wordsThe Presence of Self-Sacrifice in Heinrich Boll's The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum as Compared with Its Absence in Naguib Mahfouz's Midaq Alley The answer as to why the motif of self-sacrifice appears to have very important in Heinrich Bolls novel The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, whereas in Naguib Mahfouz Midaq Alley we have a hard time trying to find even a traces of it, is actually self-evident, and there is no need to refer to the theory of psychoanalysis, in order to explain it. The event...
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Moral Relations In A Professional Relations In A Professional Environment Ethics
904 wordsDevelopment, understanding and application of ethics in your decision-making process The professional ethics, providing the moral character of relations between people which follow from their professional activity. Its close communication with a collective and indissoluble unity with the general theory of moral is the feature of professional ethics. Professional ethics engulfs the aspects of moral, finds out the specific of realization of general principles of morality in the field of labour, ex...
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Hamlet Laertes Kill Hamlet
1,293 wordsHamlet: Laertes An Important Character In Play Though seeming to simply be a minor character, Laertes is of great importance in the play, Hamlet, and much more than one would initially believe, due to his extensive inner conflict. He is good, loyal, and honourable, seeming to possess the greatest virtue of all the characters, yet he still is doomed to die along with the other characters, precisely because of his great virtue. As Scene Two begins, in the first lines which Laertes speaks in the pl...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est First World War
3,375 wordsThe attitudes of poets towards war have always been expressed vigorously in their poetry, each poet either condoning or condemning war, and justifying their attitudes in whatever way possible. I aim to explore the change in the portrayal of war before and during the twentieth century, and also the structures and devices poets use to convey their views persuasively, and justify them. These two poems describe war, and scenes from war, with varying levels of intensity and reality and also from diff...
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Florence Nightingale Queen Victoria
2,157 wordsFlorence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy in Villa Columbia on May 12, 1820. Florence was named after her birth place just like her older sister Parthenope, who has the Greek name of Naples. Florence was the daughter of the wealthy landowner William Nightingale of Embley Park Hampshire, and his wife Francis Nightingale born 1788 who was a sibling of ten children. William was part of the antislavery movement and both William and Francis Fanny were Unitarians. In England the Nightingales ha...
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Avenge His Fathers Death State Of Denmark
1,310 wordsThe Shakespearean play, Hamlet, is a story of revenge and the way the characters in the play respond to grief and the demands of loyalty. The importance of Fortinbras and Laertes in the play is an issue much discussed, analysed and critiqued. Fortinbras and Laertes are parallel characters to Hamlet, and they provide pivotal points on which to compare the actions and emotions of Hamlet throughout the play. They are also important in Hamlet as they are imperative to the plot of the play and the fi...
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Avenge His Father Father Death
604 wordsHamlets Last Soliloquy Commentary that he is angry at himself for not having avenged his father s death and we see that he makes up his mind to do something about it. Hamlet begins his soliloquy stating that many occasions or happenings seem to haunt him for his inability to act upon revenging his father s death. The occasions which he talks about could be the meeting with Fortinbras and his army and perhaps his encounter with the players. Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, had, unlike Hamlet, taken ...
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Prince Of Wales End Of The Play
1,479 wordsOne of the most important aspects of 1 Henry IV is the development and transgressions of Hal who is the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne. The plays focus on the family reminds us that the struggles England endured through its growth were largely struggles inside the royal family. Hals character is at a point where he is unable to define who he will be; a responsible part of the monarch, as his father would like to see, or a rogue as is John Falstaff. Throughout the play the prince keeps co...
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Rule Of Law Social And Cultural
1,676 wordsSocial Constructionism A Discourse Analysis Essay, Research Social Constructionism A Discourse Analysis DISCOURSE ANALYSIS This discourse analysis attempts to answer several questions regarding Chairman Hyde s speech against the president. Firstly an attempt has been made to uncover some of the more prevalent themes and discourses in the hope that they will give some kind of enlightenment of American society and culture. Secondly, this analysis describes the many ways in which Chairman Hyde atte...
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Act 2 Scene 2 Act 5 Scene
855 wordsSteve Strohack The bible states that blood is The River of Life. In William Shakespeare's Macbeth, the symbol of blood is used in various contexts as an effective method in describing the theme of the play. This essay will outline how Treachery and Treason, Honour and Guilt thoughts are clearly represented. The first reference of blood is one of honour, and occurs when Duncan sees the injured sergeant and says What bloody man is that? (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 1). This is symbolic of the brave fight...
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Man Of Action Vaulting Ambition
706 wordsMacBeth s villainy is shown when he kills his king, friend, and innocent people and usurps the throne but he is not totally evil. His bravery loyalty and honour are qualities to be admired. He s a man of action and remorse not just an evil villain. MacBeth s villainy is shown when he kills Duncan and the king s guards. MacBeth isn t a traitor just because he done all this, he is loyal to the king and once he kills Duncan he has a guilty concise He s here in double trust: / First I m his kings ma...
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Benedick And Beatrice Hero And Claudio
1,549 wordsMuch Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most popular comedies. Set in Messina, Italy, it depicts the life of a young couple about to be married in parallel with another couple more reluctant to marriage at first but who will finally succumb to cupids arrows. This essay will lean on the Kenneth Brannagh s film version of the play to emphasize three major themes: marriage, deception and gender power. There are two visions of marriage in the play: the first one, characterized by Hero and Cla...
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Truth And Honour Truth And Honour Began Life
608 wordsNarrative Essay about truth being necessary in everyday life. by Anthony Meszaros Hail, travellers! Come to me, all who are weary and burdened and I will provide you with rest. Do you feel tired of all the lies and deception of the world? Do you despair at the lack of trust you perceive all about us? If so, relax yourselves my Wiseman, listen or sleep beneath the wool of the lamb, and ponder this tale of turmoil. I, my friends have been sent to this stable from within your minds, sent to clarify...
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