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    2 The role of secondary characters is a crucial part of any work of literature, including plays. In the play "Rome and Juliet", by William Shakespear, Friar Lawrence is a secondary character who makes a considerable impact on the story. His character elaborates on the themeof tragic love. Without the character of Friar Lawrence, the story wouldn't have such a dramatic and tragic ending. He influences important events of the play, and also reveals more of Romeo and Juliet's…

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    "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men." A quote by Alice Walker conveying her strong belief in feminism and racial equality. The author 's life had an impact on her writing. Between attending segregated schools, poor family and a victim of bullying, Alice Walker converted her struggles and beliefs into award winning writing. She worked as a social worker and civil rights…

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    Copyright has been a controversial topic since the day it was created. It’s intentionally written for protecting intelligent properties, yet turns out causing a lot of pernicious side effects. In the editorial “In Defense of Piracy” of Lawrence Lessig, he criticized that the “copyrights wars” chokes creativity and criminalizes people who share stuff online. He provided an example which was about a mother posted her 13-month-old son dancing video with Prince’s music playing on the background on…

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    It was a breezy Sunday in Santa Monica, Hollywood. Lawrence Exeter and his wife were buying clothes for their soon to be son at Goosie Gander Baby Shoppe. “I don’t understand why our son needs to dress like this,” exclaimed Mrs. Exeter as she held up a navy blue button up shirt. “I told you already he needs to follow in my footsteps, the key to success is about how you dress!” replied Lawrence, a very successful businessman. Lawrence grabbed the shirt out of his wife's hands and walked up…

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    North America in 1603 when he was invited on an expidition of François Gravé Du Pont, who was his uncle. Champlain also once he returened back to France wrote a book of this trek, it was the first completed story with full descriptions of the St Lawrence since Jacques Cartier's went and explored it himself. Champlain from the years 1604 to 1607 went on and explored the settlement North of Florida, Port Royal, Acadia in 1605 as well as the Eastern settlement that would become Saint John, New…

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    Friar Lawrence; Is he to blame? Did Romeo and Juliet really kill themselves or was it someone else that pushed them over the edge? Friar Lawrence is an acquaintance of Romeo and Juliet’s. Even though the two families have a feud, he helps them devise a plan to become married and run away together. Romeo and Juliet both end up dead. Friar Lawrence is the character most at fault for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths because he could have taken different actions to prevent their deaths. Friar Lawrence had…

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    fall in love & get married in secret with the help of a monk named Friar Lawrence. After Romeo gets banished for killing Juliet cousin, and Juliet is forced to get married to someone she doesn't love, Friar Lawrence comes up with a plan for both of them to escape and live happily ever after but the plan fails and both teens end up killing themselves. Who is responsible for the death of Romeo and Juliet? While both Friar Lawrence and Romeo and Juliet are partially responsible, Lord and Lady…

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    engaging in a consensual sexual act. The case began with the arrest of a Houston resident, John Lawrence. Lawrence and Garner were detained and held in police custody overnight. Both men were charged with violating the Texas "Homosexual Conduct" law. This law prohibits a "person who commits an offense if he engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another individual of the same sex." The Supreme Court case Lawrence v. Texas was ruled that states cannot make laws banning homosexual sodomy.…

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    Friar Lawrence is most to blame because, when Friar Lawrence gave the letter to Friar John he didn’t specify how important that letter really was. Friar John didn’t know how important the letter was or he would’ve tried way harder to get that letter to Romeo. If Friar Lawrence would’ve made it clear how important the letter was Friar John would’ve gave it more effort to get it there quicker. Friar Lawrence never told Friar John that this letter could possibly save two lives. So, therefore Friar…

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    Friar Lawrence because of his underdeveloped plan, his misuse of important information, and his selfishness over the health and safety of the star crossed lovers. When lives are at stake many people become more cautious. People think out what they are going to say, and what actions they are taking. Friar Lawrence however is not one of these people. When Friar Lawrence makes a plan concerning how he will reunite the star crossed lovers, he misses out on very important details. Friar Lawrence…

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