... of a dirt road. As for their lengths, widths, and shapes, streets are very different. Streets may be miles long or only a hundred feet. Streets often connect to other streets, or they can be dead ends, leading to nothing but tees and houses. What a street leads to also affects the amount of activity the street has. When a street ends with only houses, as in a neighborhood, often the travelers on the road live there. Therefore, main streets and routes have much more activity because they lead to places. Each of these factors determines the form of a functioning street. Streets also have uses and purposes, mostly for the local community. People build houses a ...
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... arrival, he offers More a letter from the King of Spain, he doesn’t lay a finger on it, for then he will be allying with the enemy. He further goes on to show it to Alice and everyone else that the seal has not been broken, thus showing that he has not read the letter. Even in the case of the Maid of Kent, More writes to her “advising her to abstain from meddling with the affairs of Princes and the State” (Bolt, p. 67). As a precaution, More gets it notarized and thus it is evidence in favor of him, not against him. Other then refusing every possible way of being disloyal, More uses silence as his main strategy. “He was a man with a firm sense of his own self ...
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... Renaissance and their perspectives on the “Irish Question.” They preserved the names of the heroes of the past and celebrated the Irish spirit through their writings so that the sacrifice of many would not be in vain. William Butler Yeats was born in the Dublin suburb of Sandymont on June 13, 1865. Interestingly enough, his family was of the Protestant faith. He wasn’t much of an activist at first and didn’t really care all that much for schooling either, “because I found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my thoughts, I was difficult to teach” (DLB 19, 403). However, in 1886 he met John O’Leary, an old Fenian leader. O’Leary had bee ...
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... the sheep as they went out. For the cyclops let his sheep out to graze and he was touching each different sheep as they went out to make sure that no humans would escape. But escape they did and promptly they left the island. After escaping Polyphemus, Odysseus and his men arrive at the island of Aeolus, another paradise-like island where everyone lives well and luxuriously. Aeolus was extremely kind to Odysseus and his men, entertaining them for a month, then giving them a gift to cherish: a bag in which he had captured all of the winds, guaranteeing that Odysseus and his men would have a quick, safe journey home. When Odysseus and his men were extremely close to ...
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... " Shepherd: If you must be told then...they said it was Laios' child. but it is your wife who could tell you about that. (Text Omitted for space purposes) Shepherd: There had been prophecies... Oedipus: Tell me. Shepherd: It was said that the boy would kill his own father. Oedipus: Then why did you give him over to this man? Shepherd: I pitied the baby, my king, And I thought that this man would take him far away to his own country. He saved him- but for what a fate! For if you are what this mane says you are, No man is more wretched than Oedipus. Oedipus: Ah God! It is true! All the prophecies!-... I, Oedipus, damned in his birth, ...
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... individual in society. The tragic hero must not deserve his punishment for the play to be a tragedy. Also, a tragedy happening to someone in high authority, will affect not only the single person but also society as a whole. Another reason for the tragic hero to be in high authority is to display that if a tragedy may happen to someone such as a king, it may just as easily happen to any other person. Julius Caesar fits the role of a tragic hero. Julius Caesar is a high standing senator that possesses hamartia, failings of human nature. Julius Caesar’s imperfections may be seen in three distinct aspects of Caesar, such as the following: his pride, his vaci ...
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... the unburied after death. Homer indicates this law by writing of Patroklos' spirit's return to remind Achilles that, until he has been properly buried, he must wander the earth. These events show Virgil's and Homer's belief in laws that cannot be changed (Strong 62). The second element of Fate deals with the unalterable predestined occurrence of certain events. One example of such an event is the fall of Troy. According to Homer, the destruction of Troy was foretold in Hekuba's dream that her son, Paris, would be the cause. This prophecy was confirmed by a seer. Although Hekuba tried to avert the disaster by attempting to have Paris killed, fate overcame and Tr ...
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... tries to like or befriend Crooks. Lennie, who, as an innocent person, has no bigotry in him, visits Crooks one night when everyone else is in town. Even thought Crooks does not show it, he enjoys Lennie’s company, and it seems that he and Lennie form a small friendship that would had developed more has the book been longer. Another soul not included with the ranch clique, Curley’s wife, whose name is not mentioned in the book, is new to the ranch as well. She married Curley just weeks before Lennie and George arrived. The ranch hands do not accept this lonely soul into their social group because she is new. However, the ranch hands also do not accept Curley ...
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... as it applies to humanity in general and the Pardoner himself. In Chaucer’s descriptive General Prologue of the character’s, the Pardoner is described in very unflattering terms. Chaucer states that he “had hair as yellow as wax....Hung down thinly…But sparsely it lay, by shreds here and there” (Hopper, 343). Also, described in the General Prologue the Pardoner is described as a “gelding or a mare” (Hopper, 44), the Pardoner is presented as apparently lacking the male sexual organs that would “allow him to assume a straightforward gender identity” (Patterson, 371). The general tone of the description paint ...
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... reasons that can cause Paul kill Jim on purpose. As we understood from what is told, Paul is fall in love with Julie although she just feels pity on him : "The poor boy was crazy about Julie and she always treated him mighty nice and made him feel like he was welcome, though of course it wasn’t nothing but pity on her side" But according to Paul, Jim never treated her right. He faked her by mimicking Doc. Stair when Doc. Stair was away and made her come to doctor’s office. By the way he and some of his friends hid near the office and laugh at her when she realized the trick. They made fun of her till she got home. Later, when Paul learned this he told the whole s ...
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