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    Fate is considered as an important aspect to many people. It is the belief that things in life happen for a reason, and will serve a purpose in creating a person's destiny. Throughout the book Bless Me, Ultima, written by Rudolfo Anaya, readers can see several examples of this idea. The first example involving fate is the connection between what Tenorio says he'll do and what actually does happen. During the story, a funeral is being held for the death of one of Tenorio's daughters. The priest…

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    Although fate and destiny have a similar connotation, fate represents the preordained course of your life that will occur in spite of your actions, and destiny represents predetermined events within your life that you take an active course in shaping. Christianity and Islamic religion represent different opinions on fate and personal destiny based on belief in different gods, and the location from which each religion originated. The religion of Christianity began with God coming to earth through…

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    In Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, fate and destiny are recurring themes. It is a frequent topic of discussion within the text. The griot telling the epic from oral tradition gives a clear opinion about man’s ability to intervene fate. Fate cannot be changed. A person has free will and their choices define them, yet any actions taken to alter their destiny is in vain. This theme appears, slightly differently, in The Epic of Gilgamesh as well. In the lives of Sundiata and Gilgamesh, a higher being…

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    “ Believe that fate is the optimal combination of choice and chance” (Cindy Hilsheimer) This means that fate happens because of your choice and the chance you have. Not only do your choices affect you they also affect others. In A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare the king of the fairies makes a decision to put his wife under a spell. In the process, he accidentally puts the spell on 2 other people who are in love and that leads to a break up, because of his choice he altered other…

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    What do you think makes a tragic hero? According to “an old dead Greek dude”, otherwise known as Aristotle, the very same who created the guidelines of what would qualify as “a good body of text”, a tragic hero is noble or wise, has a fatal flaw, a reversal of fortune, a realization that their fatal flaw is what caused their misfortune, and a greater fate than they deserved. I personally completely agree with Aristotle’s ideas of a tragic hero. They need to be noble or wise so the audience can…

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    A tragic hero is a character within a literary work that possesses a tragic flaw that will ultimately incur the downfall of the character, regardless of the character’s good intentions. Macbeth, from Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, is, without a doubt, one of the most prevalent tragic heroes throughout all works of literature. Macbeth is a tragic hero as he possesses noble stature, a tragic flaw, free choice, an increased awareness of his downfall, and a punishment that exceeds his crimes, all…

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    They call and text Destiny to see where she is at, but there was no answer. The girls go back to the party to find Destiny, they ask people who were at the party if they had seen her, but no one did. Keondrane’ and Kei’Amber chose to leave Destiny and go back to their house, hopefully, she would show up in the morning. The girls are halfway home and are furious at the fact that Destiny is nowhere to be found. Kei’Amber hears her phone going off and when…

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    It is very clean. Interviewer: Okay, and now we are going to go to our last one and the last one is The Destiny of the Republic by Candace Millard, and again, you don’t click on this, but anything this and this. Interviewee: Which publishers released in audio version of The Destiny of the Republic on CD? Books on tape. I would say that is a one. In the electronic version of The Destiny of the Republic, what type of electronic copies can you choose from? I’m just going to look over here and…

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    its fulfillment, the child is consumed by ants and the entire Buendía family and Macondo itself cease to exist. A fate that takes so long to come to fruition emphasizes Márquez’s interpretation that although humans may feel in control of their own destinies, they are truly guided by an invisible predetermined…

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    A man’s life is a journey that has been pre-destined by the gods. There is always a human will towards a desire, but in the end destiny plays its own course, and makes sure that the will leads the way to the fate. No matter how much the man wants to assert his own will, in the end a man is powerless against his fate. As per the ancient Greek theatre, Sophocles play’s normally have emphasis on individual characters, the role of chorus has always been reduced, there are complex characters who are…

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