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    Ophelia's Passivity

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    I think that Ophelia’s passivity stems from her environment and that the truly tragic thing about her is that she knows no other way to act. She has no support system that encourages her to act on her own and every man around her somehow feels the need to tell her how to behave. . She begins the play as a beautiful, optimistic, obedient, young woman and ends up broken, indifferent, deeply hurt, and mad. This character arc is made all the more tragic by the degree to which she is dependent upon…

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    c. In Simply Jesus, Wright explains the reasoning behind Jesus using parables as a method to paint a divine picture of what was happening right now; What life would look like with God as king through storytelling to reveal the character and redeeming qualities of God. The beauty and vision of His kingdom could be demonstrated through the telling of the parables and would also let people know that the kingdom is here. His teaching suggested that the time to repent and rejoice is not a future…

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    lead mankind to continuously questioning if there is God as most atheist already have indicated. If the doctrine of Christianity is correct; therefore, mankind created evil not God. The notion of the soul-making entail evil, I believe this theory is nonsense. I would agree that God love…

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    could be hurting their relationships with friends and family.” Sleep texting is another problem students can face. Sleep texting is when one wakes up, fully awake or not, and texts. Sarah J. Brian states that “Sometimes teens send texts filled with nonsense words when they don't wake up all the way.” If a teen checks their phone every five minutes, and their mood…

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    see it as romantic not silly. By implementing these words it causes you to look at love in a different way, making you wonder is it irrational. Toufexis starts of her article by writing “O.K. let’s cut out all this nonsense about romantic love” (136). Recognize how she uses “nonsense” to describe the love we feel, furthering the idea that what people are looking for is pointless. Distinguishing our idea from what she wants us to feel, wanting us to believe that love is absurd. As the article…

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    The most renowned and classic of the genre of literary nonsense novel, beloved by avid readers over the globe more than a century, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” was written by eminent English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll during the Victorian era. The inspiration for this fantasy fiction was a real little girl named Alice, the protagonist of the novel and Carroll invents a story related to this little girl which the title of this story ultimately…

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    There are many pieces of literature that are written in a very beautiful and sophisticated manner. There are many poems and stories that feel similar or you feel like the main character is trying to do the same thing. After you feel like something is similar between two pieces of literature you start to compare and contrast them . One of the many amazing pieces of literature are The poem Jabberwocky(written by Lewis Carroll) and a book called The Lorax( written by Dr.Seuss.) Both poems have a…

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    Instead, tourists ride along for what amounts to a $20 history lesson” (qtd. in “In Charleston, S.C., Resistance to Cruise Ships”). Well duh, this is not 1912. One you get past all of the nonsense, only one good logical point remains, that out of the “4.5 million people a year [who] visit Charleston. Only 175,000 of them arrive or sail on a cruise ship” (qtd. in “In Charleston, S.C., Resistance to Cruise Ships”). That's only 3.9% of the total…

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    Nightwing Vs Fire

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    Both are true for the legendary Teen Titans! 24: Legacy's alum Anna Diops is cast as Starfire for the upcoming Titans tv series. Starfire's character description writers: "An alien princess from a warrior planet who seeks asylum on Earth. A no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners stranger on our world, Starfire has the ability to shoot energy bolts and fly. Searching for her place on Earth, she’ll come into contact with the Titans." She's been one of the most wicked characters in the DC Universe, and a…

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    It is in this garden that Alice saves multiple men from the Queen of Hearts’ wrath and is invited for a game of croquet with an odd twist. The balls are hedgehogs and the mallets, flamingos. The Queen quickly orders the execution of many players while Alice finds the Cheshire cat again. He initiates a conversation, but is quickly interrupted by the King of Hearts, who is ultimately ignored by the cat. The King is angered and orders the cat’s execution but no one knows how to go about the…

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