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    Question #1 Shakespeare’s plays often involve gender roles. Both Romeo and Juliet and The Taming of the Shrew are plays written about men and women and love, or the lack thereof. In both examples this led to marriage and the genders were clearly separated. While Romeo and Juliet is a sad tragedy about love, The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy written about gender roles. For example, in Shakespeare’s time, women were expected to be seen and not heard. Katherine was the opposite of what a…

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    Upon arriving at work, a woman notices her parking spot is occupied, and she knows that the car in her spot belongs to her boss. Irritated, she drives around the lot but their are no available spots. Ultimately, she pays for parking around the corner from work and has to walk in the cold to her building. For the remainder of the day she is tense, and ends up yelling at a co-worker. The next day, her boss is in her parking spot again, and the again the day fails to improve. The woman failed to…

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    dead a considerable long time; so then I didn 't care no more about him, because I don 't take no stock in dead people” (14) Huck became interested as the Widow was trying to teach him however he lost interest as he found out that he was no longer alive and that would mean Huck could not look up to him like he did others,…

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    The story follows a young boys, Huckleberry “Huck” Finn, travels through the American south during the 1830s or 40s. It begins in the fiction town of Petersburg Missouri where Huck has been placed under the guardianship of a lady that goes by Widow Douglas. She attempts to civilize the extremely untamed Huckleberry, an act which he does not respond well too. Huck’s best friend, Tom Sawyer, aids him in sneaking out one night to meet up with his gang of “robbers.” Huck begins to get bored of these…

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    that he lives in has twisted his conscience, which gives him bad advice, into something that it 's not. For instance, in this quote by Huck “ Pap said it warn’t no harm for borrowing things...but the widow said it warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing and no decent body would do it.” The widow is implying that Pap is an awful influence on him, and Huck is going to end up like him if he doesn’t start making the right choices and not following society’s expectations. Most children in this…

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    cries to him "Reckless one- my Hector! Your own fiery courage will destroy you! Have you no pity for him, our helpless son? Or me, and the destiny that weighs me down, your widow, now so soon". She is immeasurably anguished at the thought of her beloved husband returning to the war to ultimately die. She fears his death, being a widow and having a fatherless son. The chapter ends with Hector leaning down to kiss a son he just met before departing. The emotion in this chapter; the love, the fear…

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    council about his mistreatment but they shunned him and told him to go to bed because he was nothing but a young boy. ”I too his son shall go and hunt the meat that I eat. And it be known now, that the division of that which I kill shall be fair. And no widow or weak one shall cry in the night because there is no meat…”(London 64). Keesh takes matters into his own hands because of the council so he by himself goes out into the cold wasteland to hunt his own meat. As Keesh returns from his hunt…

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    Gurkhas were killed, wounded or either missing. According to Russian federation 50 million people were killed, in which 27 million were Russian and the and the rest were Nepalese army and due to that numerous women became widows and due to backward thinking of the society they widow had hard time to live their life. Parents who were dependent on their sons who went to the army were helpless, because of the death of their children they didn’t have anyone else to earn for them to…

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    No one knew who Pharaoh Tutankhamun was, as he didn’t do all too much within his 10 years of ruling, but everyone suddenly knew his name when his preserved mummy was found in a tomb, which had been raided. Tutankhamun lived a short life, only living to be 19. Why was this? There are many different theories on why this may be, but there is one that stands out compared to the rest for me: assassination. Let me explain. Pharaoh Tutankhamun was found with a blood clot at the base of his skull, which…

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    are designed to encourage the able-bodied to work, families to take responsibility for the care of the youth, eldery, and disabled, and individuals to prepare for their own future. This criteria determines who can apply for benefits, for example; widows, the sick, the disabled, or the aged, and what conditions these individuals must meet to…

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