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    Establishing a strategy to make better safety policies and protocol it is something that have to be sometimes well thought. People who creates policies have to think about details and what is good for everyone. Now days fire has been incrementing because of the global warming and higher temperatures. For example, compare two decades ago, fires are 4 times more intensive, and the fires season extended more than two months (Earth on fire,1970). Today the government have implemented ideas of how…

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    and pillaging (4,6, Line 122) and carrion eating birds (1,4, 252) (2,4, 131) as well as the cuckoo, who grow up to kill it’s parents (1,4,205). With as much lust to fornicate as Gloucester the goat, we see the two fight bitterly their deaths over Edmund. We see how they prey on old meat, who’s lost it authority and power – Lear. Special to the two girls animal imagery is that they especially and more than anybody else foreshadow the actual treachery, where as most of the other imagery has other…

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    One’s desire to be recognised and moreover acknowledge the truth within relationships, circumstances and furthermore life, is of central concern in both William Shakespeare’s “King Lear” and Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting For Godot”. The drive and motivation one illustrates whilst craving recognition or validation from those surrounding them is a recurring theme in both plays, as is, the recognition of one another’s identity and the “self” in them. It is the eventual recognition of power and it’s…

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    philosophers Edmund Gettier and Plato First I will discuss Gettier’s views, after would be Plato’s view and finally a conclusion and their views on knowledge and the role of justified true belief. I will be comparing and contrast the views and their ideas of knowledge. At the end of I will formulate and explain an argument that Gettier would have against Plato on Knowledge and trying to figure out what an argument between these outstanding thinkers. First all let’s begin with Edmund Gettier…

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    (Ntoumanis, Edmunds & Duda, 2009). The self-determination theory is a macro-theory that explores what regulates motivation and whether certain behaviours are autonomous or self-regulated. Three essential and universal psychological needs are established, these being autonomy, competence, and relatedness, and these needs are essential for development. Different facets within the social environment can promote or discourage the satisfaction of certain psychological needs. (Ntoumanis, Edmunds &…

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    rebellion against her father, who finds out about her betrayal and repents giving her half of his knights. Goneril’s husband Albany than argues with her over the way she has treated her father, which leads to Goneril talking with Edmund. Later on Goneril realizes that Edmund has also been talking with Regan, which leads to a falling out between the two sisters. Goneril than poisons Regan before stabbing herself, which leads to her…

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    King Lear Sacrifice

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    King Lear had many elements of surrender and sacrifice, however, there are only on character that outshines the others. One of the three daughters of king Lear sacrificed something that showed her extreme value of honesty. Cordelia, in Act one, sacrificed her father’s love with the truth. She knew the reality with her feelings and emotions for her father. Unlike the sisters, she said that her love for her father would be in half because she wants to give the other half to her husband. Therefore,…

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    “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little,” proclaimed Edmund Burke. Many support this assertion that a grave mistake of the common people is to assume that doing only a little is no better than doing nothing at all. Abraham Lincoln, 16th president and speaker responsible for the “Gettysburg Address”, William J. Bennett, author of A Nation Worth Defending, and Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, all concur and provide solid defense of…

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    There have been many successful and unsuccessful attempts at adapting Shakespeare’s works into opera. Though modern composers such as Benjamin Britten and Thomas Adès have set Shakespeare’s original words to music, with few changes if any, the most famous operatic adaptations over time have proved to be Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello and Macbeth. In these works, Verdi manages to keep the intent of Shakespeare and the overall plot of the play, yet molds the details of the story to be more suitable for…

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    chapter as he is having his soliloquy in the second scene where he states “‘Well, then, Legitimate Edgar, I must have your land: Our father's love is to the bastard Edmund as to the legitimate: fine word,--legitimate!’” His father believed his lying son, who claimed that Edgar was the bad child and that he was planning his murder. Edmund even hurt himself to attempt to rise in statute. “‘Some blood drawn on me would beget opinion.’” When able to get rid of someone else of power, he took it,…

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