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    People can achieve something great by banning together people are more powerful than they would be as individuals in the novel Lyddie is a fictional novel about the industrial revolution a time where people transferred over from handmade goods to machined goods in the book a mother who isn't in their right state of mind forcefully sends her too kids to work to pay a debt their father had left all those years ago however when the main character Lyddie is fired she goes to work in the factories to…

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    Lyria Alternate Ending

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    still held to the Old Ways. It served them well, and they saw no reason to change it. When traveling Men of the Light came across their village, they listened to his preaching with indulgent smiles, much like a parent to a child's wild story. Afterwards, they would pat the priest on the back, replenish his food supply, and send him on his way.…

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    business, (Palepu & Hayley 2013). Market Situation: JB Hi-Fi Limited is one of the largest and fastest growing home entertainment retailers in Australia. This company started a business almost 43 years ago in Melbourne and has expanded over Australia and New Zealand, since inception it has maintained a wide reputation for its cost leadership strategy, which assisted JB Hi-Fi to attract millions of customers. These scores of customers have made JB Hi-Fi superior to the electronic retail company…

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    Death of A Salesman, written by Arthur Miller in 1949, follows an aged salesman, Willy Loman, as he struggles to accept the reality of his failing career and misguided life principles. In this essay, I will examine the structure of the play and how Miller has used time and space to reveal character, present Willy’s faulty ideals, and foreshadow. The play is broken into two acts and a requiem: each segment takes place on a different day in the present day, within the world of the play. For the…

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    All My Sons Guilty Father

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    that no one can steal”-Anonymous. In Arthur Miller’s play All my Sons shows that it is difficult to accept the death of a loved one. During the war Joe Keller and Herbert Devver ran a machine shop which made airplane parts Devver was sent to prison because the firm sent out defective parts causing deaths of many men. Keller went free and made a lot of money. The twin shadows of this catastrophe and the fact that the young Keller son was reported missing during the war dominate the actions.…

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    All My Sons by Arthur Miller has been argued by many to be a modern tragedy while others claim that his play, All My Sons, cannot be considered a tragedy. However, to truly debate if Miller was able to created a modern tragedy, one must first know what a tragedy is. “Tragedy”, as first coined by Aristotle, a famous Greek philosopher, is defined as a play that portrays the fall of a good character because of a catastrophic mistake by the protagonist. A true tragedy must also evoke pity and fear…

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    For Willy, his adventurer / explorer brother, Ben, and his salesman hero, Dave Singleman, are images of success, but the character of Ben is fantastical and the achievements of Dave are idealised and exaggerated. Using these as his benchmarks, Willy can never achieve the success he so desperately craves. Through a series of flashbacks in the play, where we witness Willy's persistent efforts to make the American Dream a reality for himself and his family, Miller launches a scathing attack on the…

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    confliction, and arguments of Willy Loman. Willy Loman who is the main character in this play has to face difficulty to achieve the America dream like others. However, the reality is often different to the imagination, so that Willy Loman has to exchange his life for the dreams. America is a country of youth, opportunities, and freedom which is a reason to explain “American dream”. People can be successful when they have nothing in their hands or they are protected by rights in Amerca. These…

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    people pride runs their life and influences their decisions. One of the assertions Sophocles makes is that “all men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong.” This relates to pride since many of the mistakes that we make stem from our pride. The component that differentiates a good man from the rest, is his ability to realize the wrong and then try to fix the wrong, which is a crucial point of pride that…

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    How Does Keller Show Guilt

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    a string, all guilt has a snapping point. Joe Keller is the protagonist in Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, who is consumed by the guilt of killing innocent World War II pilots. The guilt of this tragedy is unbearable for Keller, as it drives him to insanity and ultimately compels him to commit suicide. Keller's greatest enemy is his internal demon. He struggles with the weight of cheating his once loyal partner, Herbert Deever, into 'fixing' defective plane parts and reselling them. The…

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