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    Nick emphasizes his efforts to be practical, as if acting in this way does not come naturally to him. Perhaps by doing this, Nick feels like he is acting in a manly way, thereby drawing attention away from a feminine side that he may be trying to hide from his…

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    Social Tragedy In Macbeth

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    child on the battlefield. Those closest to Macbeth are blind to the monster underneath. Banquo attempts to uncover the malice, furthermore, his own wife does not sense the tyrant beneath her fingertips. Lady Macbeth tells her husband that in order to hide their murderous intentions from Duncan he must pretend to be “an innocent [unassuming] flower, [all the while being] the serpent under it” (1.5.72-73). Ironically, she does not realise that Macbeth perfected this practice long ago, so much so…

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    Courageous or Fearful??? Throughout the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, written by Jamie Ford, Henry the main character displays courage even though he is scared. As stated by Lou Gehring, " Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is being afraid and doing it anyway." For example, he walks Keiko home from school every day to the Japanese side of town where he isn't accepted and he disobeys his father in order to stand up for his own dreams. Henry also displays courage when he…

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    non-Jews willing to risk their lives but Jew and non-Jews had many problems they faced during and after the war. The decision of going into hiding or sending their children into hiding was a very hard decision and it was very hard to find somewhere to hide. It was very hard to go into hiding because the Jews had identity cards and black J on their clothes. Children under age six did not this identity card so it was easier for younger children to go into hiding. Another problem was that for…

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    judgmental. . .” How many people hide their true identity or ideologies? Many times throughout The Scarlet Letter, emotions and actions completely contradicted one another. Not only does this happen extensively in the book with Arthur Dimmesdale, but the same can be said about modern day. Arthur Dimmesdale, the celebrity many admire and hope to live up to, attempted to hide many secrets, the most obvious being his relationship with Hester; in modern society, people hide secrets in a similar…

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    being quick to judge. Although in Chanel’s “The one that i want”, the man in the advert breaks the conventions of masculinity; He’s shown to have a weakness, the regret of leaving his wife. At the theater, he’s shown to be crying but is trying to hide this vulnerable side which is unconventional for masculine men. Following on, the man in Chanel’s “Amelie” advert is shown actually to need a women and is trying to find her, which breaks the convention of masculine men being independent.…

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    Power is something everyone has power over themselves or others. The way they chose to use it. We see the way the government hides lots of information and the hunger they have for power. They do as they wish to get what they want they wish to get what they want shown in Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince and Thomas More’ Utopia. In the way authors of this novels show how they see the government like if they controlled everything and anything and who has more power Gods or the government like in…

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    Overuse Injuries

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    about strategies that parents and children can use to avoid injuries in sports athletes. Strategies for when someone's child is doing multiple sports. There are strategies for child sporting emotion for if someone's child wants to please someone and hides their injuries. Other strategies can be safety when a child is out of shape or when hormones start. First, there are children in the world who play multiple sports. Children would be playing these sports year round and moving from one…

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    Bradbury establishes foreshadowing to warn the reader what’s to come in his future imagined society. Foreshadowing is present when the robot hound appears at Guy and Mildred’s door. Guy asks Captain “What does the hound think about down there nights? Is it coming alive on us, really? It makes me cold” (Bradbury 25). Guy is confused about the dog’s existence, he doesn’t know if it’s dead or alive which frightens him. Later in the novel when guy commits a crime the dog is back. Not only does the…

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    discrimination for being black affect him and his community's in general. The prejudice he faces on a daily basis, isolates the group of people his part of. The poem starts by saying, “We wear the mask grins and lies, its hides our cheeks and shades of our eyes,” the false smile is to hide his genuine emotion from others. In the third section he continues “With torn and bleeding hearts we smile, and mouth with myriad subtleties.”. His implies that despite the struggle he still appears pleasant…

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