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    themselves in manipulative ways, to create political situations that benefit them. King Henry IV Part 1, a history play by Shakespeare typifies this idea. Context has had an influential role in how shakespeare uses dramatic techniques to shape the characterisation of King Henry, Hal and Hotspur. The desired political situations manufactured by individuals in Henry IV Part 1 all stem from power, personal greed and pride. Those who seek power and obtain it through unjust means often develop…

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    Renaissance literature. In Chaucer’s The Franklin’s Tale and The Pardoner’s Tale there is a complex interweaving of these issues. This interweaving of thematic material is widespread throughout The Canterbury Tales because of the variety of Chaucer’s characterisation. The encompassing framed narrative of the Pilgrimage to Canterbury enabled Chaucer to characterise a microcosm of society at the time and a multiplicity of tales reflecting different issues over a broad social structure.…

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    Due to differing contextual influences, Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion (1912) and Gary Marshall’s film Pretty Woman (1990) portray unique perspectives on the values of social hierarchy and gender roles. Shaw and Marshall both explore the transformation and social mobility of a young woman in order to comment on the social constructs of class divisions and gender roles within society. In Pygmalion, Shaw satirises the social hierarchy of early 20th century England whilst also criticising the rigid…

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    mythical figure who would stop at nothing to gain his ends. This and his admiration of Cesare Borgia, a name associated with betrayal and murder, led to the general dislike of Machiavelli. The character in 'Julius Caesar ' who best represents this characterisation is Mark Antony, Caesar 's right hand man. In Acts II and III, following Caesar 's death, he manages to keep on the good side of Brutus up to the chaotic ending of the funeral orations. During the oration, Antony uses pathos to appeal…

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    4. Ilya Kabakov Ilya Kabakov offers an interesting counterpart to the artist duo Komar and Melamid. In comparison to Komar and Melamid who applied to emigrate twice in 1977, Kabakov was reluctant to leave his country, admitting that he would have remained in the Soviet Union “forever if perestroika hadn 't come”. Nonetheless, this was not due to any deep patriotism to the Soviet Union. Though he still retained his official position as a children’s book illustrator, he was seen as an unofficial…

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    His characterisation of Cunegonde, Paquette, and the old woman shows the horrifying lives of women, despite having different origins they all had similar unprivileged positions within society. From the earliest point in the novel women are described physically as…

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    The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald has been shown a level of appreciation, understanding and care by Baz Luhrmann in his 2013 adaptation of the text. It has been called “Something more sophisticated but no less visually entertaining than the average blockbuster-” by Kofi Outlaw, the talented editor in chief of screen-rant.com. One can agree that when looked at in comparison to the what is called the greatest American novel of all time that the narrative technique, choice of setting, themes…

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    Mary Argument Physicalism

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    Physicalism is the philosophical idea that mental states are just physical states meaning that only what is physical is real so totally disregarding mental ideals. In the case of the claim that ‘someone could know all the physical facts about seeing red and yet learn something new when they see red for the first time’ shows that physicalism is false as it assumes that one just learned a new fact when instead developed a new type of consciousness. This is the very case of the thought experiment…

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    Lansoprazole Analysis

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    Table 5 Evaluation of Lansoprazole microparticles Formulation Code Particle size(μm) Percentage (%) yield Entrapment efficiency (%) F1 181.35± 0.5 72.6±0.10 61.84±0.16 F2 200.53± 0.6 74.4±0.45 63.29±0.70 F3 221.70±1.1 77.80±0.96 64.69±0.90 F4 225.2±0.57 81.60±0.52 66.90±0.90 F5 240.72±0.8 83.52±0.56 73.35±0.46 F6 246.72±0.4 87.71±0.20 75.00±0.09 Surface morphology of the lansoprazole microspheres were shown in Figure 6. Particle surface of formulation F1 was slightly rough surface but…

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    William Shakespeare’s Elizabethan tragedy, ‘Othello’, resonates the damnation and inevitable dissolution of man in the face of compunction, facades, hubris and unbridled jealousy; extremities which foster the machinations of our humanity-the igniter of one’s hamartia. Through the use of dramatic irony, symbolism and soliloquies, Shakespeare journeys one through the complexities and subtleties of the human condition; accentuating the eponymous hero’s inexorable fall from grace which is centred on…

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