The Honourable

were initially swayed by Brutus’s rhetoric, reason and his credentials. Brutus was a nobleman with great ancestors and a lineage to be desired. Brutus is a trusted man in Rome, so many Plebeians just accepted his word as fact because he was an “honourable man”. However, Brutus’s reputation could not carry his message alone to convince the Plebeians the murder of Caesar was justified. The content of his speech was not sub-par. Brutus is a man of reason and rhetoric and accordingly his speech was…

Look at the facts, the majority of what Ophelia is how she is seen by a man, whether that man be her father, brother, or Hamlet, there is not a lot of personality outside of that for her “My lord, he hath importun'd me with love In honourable fashion”(act 1 scene 3). But with Nala you see her have adventures when she was a child, and when Scar takes over she goes off in search of a way to stop him. Nala is what Ophelia could have been Helping the male characters achieve his goals, while…

weapons. Mark Antony had a tough job he had to give a speech after brutus had the crowd cheering for him. Antony starts to give his speech and he slowly starts to explain why Brutus was wrong. “But Brutus says he was ambitious, and Brutus was an honourable man. He has brought many captives home from Rome, whose ransoms did the coffers fill. Did this in Caesar feel ambitious.” (Julius Caesar,56) In his speech he continuously said that Brutus is an honorable man. Eventually the crowd is…

believes man is made up of. Jekyll explains he had a better start in life than most other people, “born…to a large fortune [and of] excellent parts”, his family was quite well off in terms of finance and he was born with the foreseeable stature of an honourable gentleman. For the majority of his later life, Henry Jekyll found both his life of pleasure and his professional life to be clashing, though he deeply enjoyed his work as a reputable doctor, he also wanted to live his life to the…

ambitious” () by using pathos he set an emotional feel to how he had lost a faithful friend. Antony says tells the Romans that Caesar cared for the poor, that he wept for them. Marc Antony then repeats “yet Brutus says he was ambitious; and Brutus is an honourable man.” (III, ii, He talks about how he offered Caesar a kingly crown but refused, then again he repeats the same thing again. The last thing Antony said was “my heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come…

task. Our actions had remarkable results - we simultaneously collected over $2000 in donations for the Breakfast Club; raised awareness regarding poverty and hunger; and exponentially increased school spirit. Furthermore, we were recognized with an Honourable Mention by the Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board for a “Speak Up!” grant. The utter success of Dodge for Hunger subsequently means that we can continue, and even improve the event on a bigger scale…

Dulce Et Decorum Est is a poem written by Wilfred Owen following his own experience in the trenches during the Great War. His poem is based on the death of a fellow solider and how he was haunted by the brutality of war. The rhyme scheme to this poem is chaotic. First we have an octave, followed by a set-set, then a couplet and finally a 12 line stanza. Stanza one starts with the conventional ABABCDCD pattern in, however in the second stanza the rhyme scheme becomes abrupt. The stanza breaks…

Decorum est" is a Latin titled poem meaning to die for one’s country. It was written during the World War 1 by Wilfred Owen in the 1920’s. The poem is known for its terrible imagery and denunciation of war. Also, the poem describes how sweet and honourable it is to die for one’s country. The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner is a five- line poem written by Randall Jarrell and published in the year 1945. The poem talks about the passing of a gunner during the Second World War in a Sperry ball…

A person may be pushed to become an honourable character through various conditions of fear. It is a priceless state of mind that to facilitate one to respect others as well as themselves and takes great willpower, which not everyone is capable of. However this idea is not something that is achieved easily, honor can be easily lost, fear being a contributing factor towards this. For people to believe a person worthy of honor they must go through situations that test their ability to cope with…

Some said of the Australian Outback that God never crossed west of the Great Dividing Range. God, of course, had a choice. Not so Durham, exiled to fly-blown Hughenden. The Sub-Inspector and Mrs Durham arrived to a barren landscape dusted in parched hues of thirsty brown, the clay soil of the basaltic plain cracked for want of rain. Mobs of cattle lay slumped amid tufts of dead grass. Occasional gum trees offered scant shade. Dogs panted. Crows flew lazy circles. Dust storms stifled breath.…