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    Lady macbeth is wife to our so called ‘Tragic Hero’, a kind but strong man who owns a fair title and the respect of the people, but Lady macbeth saw a flaw in her husband that would surely ruin them in due time, he was cowardice. In page 229, lines 39-45, Lady macbeth addresses his cowardly behavior by criticizing him and comparing him to a cat in “adage”, this was after the idea of murdering the king was brought up, a king he was loyal to, and even though he seemed to like the idea of…

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    Field Travel Economics

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    only cost however much for the students buy some frozen yogurt. The yogurt would be limited, and the students would only be able to get a certain amount of yogurt and 1 topping. To arrange this field trip, you can contact The Mix by calling them at (229) 506-5335 or emailing them at hello@mixvaldosta.com. The owners of The Mix are Brian and…

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    growing up in America and learning about the two cultures, she comes to the realization that “[she] had become comfortable enough with [her] identity and culture that showing pride in another country would not take away from [her] heritage” (Roman 229). She works on blending the two cultures to make her own; however, Sedaris envies Hugh’s different cultural experiences. Sedaris expresses his “feelings of jealousy” (233) towards the experiences Hugh had as a child. When comparing their two…

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    “It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.” This quote from Aristotle comes into play, when morals and ethics are jeopardized as soon as there are laws laid in which a person is forced to make an uncompromising decision. In the Greek tragedy, Antigone, a series of unfortunate events come about from a choice the main character, Antigone, makes to bury her traitor brother. Although she went against the rules of the time, she stressed the importance of sibling love,…

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    Schlesinger, classical tales “tell children what they unconsciously know-that human nature is not innately good, that conflict is real, that life is harsh before it is, happy-and thereby reassure them about their own fears and their own sense of self” (229). Despite the fact that both Perrault and the Grimm brothers versions of Cinderella are fundamentally similar to each other, but the differences between them show two different moral universes.…

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    America costs. Their data found that the annual cost of gun violence in the United States exceeds $229 billion annually for an average cost of $400,000 per shooting (“Gun Violence Costs…” 2015 ). $8.6 billion of the $229 billion are direct costs such as long-term imprisonment and health care. The other $221 billion is accounted for in indirect costs such as lost wages and quality of life. The $229 billion cost of gun violence annually is greater than the cost of obesity ($224 billion) and far…

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    Beaten Carlos Bulosan

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    This made him known to writers of his day, and one of these writers became one of his closest friends, a white woman, Alice Odell (Bulosan 229). Carlos described her as a person who, “had warmth and a genius for arousing warmth.” (Bulosan 229). They shared their stories and found that they had somewhat similar, poor backgrounds (Bulosan 230-231). For Carlos, this friendship with an educated academic white woman would help expand his thirst…

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    of a hero’s profile opposers think Odysseus is not a hero. However, Odysseus was forced to have affairs with Kalypso and although he did have the affairs he still longed to be home to his wife Penelope. This is proven in Book V Lines 212-214 and 224-229 when it states “Son of Laertes,versatile Odysseus, after these years with me, you still desire your old home?...My lady goddess, here is no cause for anger. My quiet Penelope-- how well I know--- would seem a shade before your majesty death and…

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    and innovators of the private investigator is Dashiell Hammett. And is also “The most influential figure in the structuring of hard-boiled detective fiction,” (Mansfield-Kelly 229). He wrote the first tough-guy detective in “The Gutting of Couffignal”, named Continental OP and wrote The Maltese Falcon (Mansfield-Kelly 229). This author has paved the way for future authors and filmmakers to adapt the genre for current audiences like director Rian Johnson of the movie Brick. Johnson uses Hammett’s…

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    most of them did not receive a high school diploma let alone go to college. We do not value education and Baber writes “Americans do not really care about education—the country has grown conformable with the game ‘let’s pretend we care.’” (Barber 229). Baber is correct, we are just pretending that education is important to us. Because in today’s world we do not think education is as important as what is on TV or the internet tonight. If America really cared about education one of the highest…

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