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    Dr. Victor Frankenstein achieves his victory very similar to that to the British when they defeated the French at Waterloo. The overview of Frankenstein helps to show how victory is achieved by Victor in the novel. Victories aren’t always achieved on a battlefield, or a field, or even in the classroom. Some triumphs, however, are won in life itself. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a successful scientist, and his creation of his “creature”. The story is told…

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    Mary Shelleys Frankenstein is a story about Victor Frankenstein creating a "monster", but his creature has no monster like qualities until he is left and abandoned by his creator. The creature is only treated with cruelty and rancor because of his gruesome appearance. The creature gets no sympathy throughout his life and greatly suffers because of it. Through the description of the creatures plight Shelley suggests compassion as the true indication of human nature. At the beginning of…

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    In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we meet a character named Victor Frankenstein who starts off on a voyage but ends up on a quest for knowledge in his head. When obtaining this knowledge and making his creations Victor begins to seclude himself from everyone and everything. As the story goes on its evident that solitude does play an important role in the story, but solitude was not always beneficial for both Victor Frankenstein and his monster. Solitude caused unfeasible decisions for the…

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    Monsters are often portrayed as the villain, there is only two options either the cause or the effect. Frankenstein by the author Mary Shelley is a book that talks about a young man named Victor Frankenstein whose vision was beyond what was believed to be possible and because of this, Victor turned the impossible possible. Often when doing things out of the ordinary there should always be a conscious thought that the outcome of something might be different than what it was believed to be. For…

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    “Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out, quoted Willie Nelson.” In Mary Shelley’s Novel, Frankenstein, the main protagonist, Victor Frankenstein pursues diligently in order to find the elixir of life. Even though Victor had an earnest desire to acquire knowledge, his lacks of compassion for his creation through the act of abandonment had a devastating impact not…

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    This story is a remembrance of the author’s younger brother, William Armstrong. It happens in a rural area, near a coastline during the separation of summer and autumn. William Armstrong known as Doodle is born handicapped. He is expected to be deceased. His father even got him a little mahogany coffin but he lives. The author has plans to murder Doodle but abandons them as he realises that Doodle is intelligent. The story focuses on the author’s complicated feelings towards Doodle. Sometimes,…

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    To some people, Avatar may seem like just another science fiction action-adventure flick designed to show off some new special effects while giving audiences some feel-good messages in the process. However, there are much deeper messages to be found in the movie. The events in Avatar between the humans and Na’vi closely align to the motives, actions, and outcomes that occurred during historical imperialism. One of the most noticeable parallels between the motion picture and historical…

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    Mary Shelley, one of the most creative thinkers of her time, has proved herself capable as a teacher by showing her many readers the intense powers of corruption in her novel Frankenstein. In her story, Shelley’s first character, Victor Frankenstein, a young innovative scientist, brings a monster-like human being, made out of dead human and animal parts, to life. When the monster awakens for the very first time, Frankenstein finds himself disgusted by the monster’s hideous appearance. He leaves…

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    Ruchit Patel Professor Bonds English 112-11 27 July 2017 Society tries to label all item such as bad or good, poor or wealthy. Although some of these labels are definite, most are misbelief. In Mary Shelley's, Frankenstein, the act of blunder by society is extremely conspicuous. Two of the most erroneous assumptions of society revolves around the principal characters, Victor and the creature. There is a vivid comparison between the two characters, which isolates them from the community. Victor…

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    The US Constitution after Marbury vs Madison The Marbury vs Madison, or William Marbury versus James Madison, is a case that helped the US constitution reach a very important decision in its history and it is arguably a landmark case which helped to form a baseline for the exercise of judicial power under Article III. Some call it the most popular case in the history of the US. What started out as minor argument about jobs took a turn and converted into a legal decision. The decision in Marbury…

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