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    Should Sports Be Coed

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    I have always been involved in a sports team during my life through soccer, gymnastics, and track. I believe that girls are just as fast and as strong as guys can be as long as they work hard and put effort in the sport the girl’s soccer team at Cornwall suddenly is cut. The main character, Viola then wants to try out for the men’s team. The coach then laughs, and as a result Viola breaks up with her boyfriend Justin. Justin states, “I think the coach said it all. Yesterday you told me that I…

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    inevitable. The texts for class demonstrate how destructive war is. It also exemplifies how manipulative and cunning it could be too. In the three very different texts: When they Die, They Sing,” “Thinking of a Friend Lost in the Tibetan War,” and “Cornwall Hill,” we can see very different attitudes in their stances on war. They took unique stances on how soldiers perceive war and how they described war. However, despite the difference in attitudes towards war, the three texts emphasize how…

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    A disturbing amount of evil, cruel and unjust treatment is displayed throughout Shakespeare’s King Lear. So much so that it can be a challenge to look beyond and recognize the occasions where justice is served. Although not as consistently as it should have been, justice is served in its own unique ways, for both the characters with good intentions and those with evil. Due to the lack of goodhearted characters in the play, more opportunities for justice naturally came to the evil characters, or…

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    The Biography of Sir William Gerald Golding Sir William Gerald Golding was born on September 19, 1911 in Saint Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. He was raised by Mildred Golding, an active suffragette, and Alec Golding, a schoolmaster, in a 14th- century house next door to a graveyard. Golding had received early access to education at the school his father ran, Marlborough Grammar School. When he was twelve years old, Golding attempted to write a novel, but failed. Additionally, he was a…

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    The balkanization that caused Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union to break up is caused by Nationalism and the different ethnicities that existed within Austria-Hungary and then Yugoslavia later. Austria-Hungary's primary culture was Austrian, part of the German Cultural branch, yet most of the empire was Slavic Balkan. The breakup of Austria-Hungary created Yugoslavia, and while the ethnicities were part of the same cultural group, the different ethnicities trying to gain power would lead to its…

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    relieve him”, although he is already in unity with Cornwall, Goneril, and Regan’s plot to rid their father, King Lear. Due to Edmund’s belief that Gloucester is now a threat to his plan and inheritance, he plans on ridding his father before it is villainous actions are clear. Edmund achieves this by betraying Gloucester through discussing his father’s strategy to rescue Lear with Cornwall. This places Gloucester in danger and ensures, through Cornwall, that Edmund is “Earl of Gloucester”…

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    Lear and is betrayed by his son Edmund in believing that his other son Edgar is coming up with a plan against him and trying to kill him. At the beginning of the poem with Gloucester is branded a traitor for helping King Lear, and he is blinded by Cornwall who is the husband of Regan and when his eyes are taken out, he realizes that his son Edmund betrayed him, “All dark and comfortless. Where is my son Edmund? Edmund, enkindled all the sparks of nature to quit this horrid act” (Act 3, Scene 7,…

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    active, getting among the elements, eating and drinking well, chilling out and getting cosy. Most of all, it’s about having a good time.” (Watergate Bay Hotel Home, n.d.) (The Watergate Bay Hotel, 2017) The Watergate Bay hotel is situated on the North Cornwall coast in Newquay, England, United Kingdom. The hotel was built in 1904 and its purpose was as a railway terminal hotel for a Newquay to Padstow line. (The Watergate Bay Hotel, 2017) 2.2 CLASSIFICATION The Watergate Bay hotel is rated as a…

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    King Lear Setting

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    Dover for safety. Lear agrees, but poor Gloucester is captured and brought to the evil sisters for the punishment of helping their father escape. Also the proof of Gloucester help to the French is showed, which leaves Regan's husband Cornwall to punish him. Cornwall pulls out Gloucester's eye and stoops on it. Reagan's servants are terrified of this, that one of them tries to help by fighting but is killed by Regan. Gloucester calls for Edmund but Regan reveals that he is traitor for selling him…

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    For example, after Cornwall gouges out Gloucester 's eyes, a servant angrily retaliates by saying that “[he’ll] never care what wickedness [he does], if Cornwall comes to good” (3.7 120). The servant doesn’t see justice happening anywhere, and threatens to fight for what he thinks is right. Shakespeare is communicating that it is in man’s…

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