Macbeth
.... is to be given the title of Thane of Cawdor. Cawdor is to be executed immediately.
IMPORTANT TERMS:
1. newest state: latest news 6. Bellona: Roman goddess of war
2. broil: struggle 7. Thane: title of nobility in Scotland
3. choke their art: make it impossible to swim
4. kerns and galloglasses: lightly armed soldiers and heavily armed soldiers
5. all's too weak: all his efforts were inadequate
IMPORTANT QUOTE FROM THE SCENE:
"No more that Thane of Cawdor .....
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Ethan Frome
.... physical suffering could have put there". We are led to feel pity for the man who, as a last resort, married Zeena, in an "unsuccessful attempt to escape the silence, isolation, and loneliness" of living a life where social acceptance was had at the cost of his own happiness.
From the outset, Wharton creates warmth of feeling between readers and the character of Mattie. She creates an imagery of Mattie that emphasises all the qualities that she admires herself - love, beauty and vibrance, portrayin .....
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Managing Service Delivery
.... and purpose to the work of an organisation. Vision is a compelling picture of the future that inspires commitment. It answers the questions: Who is involved? What do they plan to accomplish? Why are they doing this? Vision therefore does more than provide a picture of a desired future; it encourages people to work, to strive for its attainment. For public sector leaders who implement change in the product or service they deliver, vision is "a hunger to see improvement" (Pejza, 1985).
As important as it .....
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Miss Brill EXPOSED
.... she does. The way in which the narrator describes “Miss Brill” gives dainty and graceful texture to the story “, Miss Brill put up her hand and touched her fur. Dear little thing! It was nice to feel it again. She had taken it out of her box that after noon, shaken out the moth-powder, given it a good brush, and rubbed the life back into the dim little eyes. “What has been happening to me?” said the sad little eyes. Oh how sweet it was to see them snap at her again from the red eiderdown!…But the nose, whi .....
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Ethan Frome
.... new doctor said that she was extremely sick, and needed more help around the house. She told him, without any discussion, that Mattie had to go. Ethan could not find the words to make her alter her decision. His wife also decided that Mattie had to leave the next day itself and Ethan could not do anything about it. “ Now she [his wife] had mastered him [Ethan]….” provides proof of this. Ethan just could not find the right things to say and it was because of not being able to stand up to .....
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Matthew Arnold
.... So various, so beautiful, so new
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night”
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Ethan Frome --- Contrast Betwe
.... house as “one of those New England farm-houses that make the landscape lonelier”.
The movie shows how Zeena took care of Ethan’s mother. It portrays the young Zeena as a capable young lady who is full of life and immensely polite to others. The viewers notice a blossoming romance between Zeena and Ethan, and Ethan frequently looked at Zeena affectionately before asking her to marry him. This is not evident in the novel, where Ethan was “seized by an unreasoning drea .....
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Ethan Frome 2
.... Mattie was in a way, taken advantage of by Ethan. He made her sense that she was needed, which was something that she deserved, but after he found out that he couldn’t have what he wanted; he brainwashed her into thinking that that only way that they could be together is in death. And left them both disabled.
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Myth Of Rock
.... bound to pay for them but not necessarily to release them). After that, each record has an option that lets the record company decide whether to continue the relationship or not." For the sake of argument, let's say there are four band members, a manager, and, of course, at the label's insistence, a producer with a track record of some success. We also have to figure that the band needs money to live on, so we have to take that into account. Gabrels lays down the facts: "Manager takes 20% of budget; lodgi .....
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Maturity In The Book To Kill A
.... history on display for the edification of the neighborhood.” After that he shows his lack of being able to control his temper and lack of respect when he destroys Miss Dubose’s camellias. There is no doubt that Jem was immature at the start of this book but as the book progresses we see a drastic change in him.
Jem begins to mature, or understand life more, after Scout, Dill and himself enter the Radley’s yard and attempt to peek through the shutters. He loses his pants and decides to go back f .....
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Ethan Frome 3
.... in a novel; whether the character is portrayed as a pleasant, favorable person or a disliked and despised member of society. Imagery, like characterization, can be used to make the reader favor a certain character and feel connected to that character which in turn develops the overall theme of the novel. Whenever Ethan was with Mattie, he noticed all of the wonderful things about her. When he went to the church social to pick her up he saw, ‘. . . a girl who already wound a cherry-coloured & .....
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Macbeth
.... right of the throne. Macbeth did not care who really deserved the throne. He only wanted it all for himself to satisfy his desire. Macbeth also decided to take Banquo and Fleance out of the race for the throne. He could not feel secure with them still alive, therefore, putting their fate in his hands. He had no right to murder or to control the lives of others. Macbeth tells the murderers, " And with him(Banquo), Fleance his son, that keeps him company, whose absence is no less material to me than .....
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Ethan Frome 4
.... sense of responsibility and obligation for his wife Zeena.
Instead of dying together, Ethan and Mattie were crippled in the accident. In a twisted turn of fate, the harsh reality of separation the two lovers fought desperately to escape became their lifelong sentence.
Although together physically, Ethan and Mattie's love for each other eventually faded away forever. Suddenly and unpredictably, Zeena recovered from her trance. The roles were switched. Zeena,
formerly the patient, became the .....
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Morality In A Clockwork Orange
.... choice; he has been conditioned to always do what is good. After Alex is released from the institution he is taken under the wing of a writer who is fighting the oppressive government. ”They have turned you into something other than a human being. You have power of choice any longer. You are committed to socially accepted acts, a little machine capable only of good” (Burgess, 122). However in a teenager’s life it is up to him to decide what is “good”, and taking that away from him will not teach him mo .....
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Magic
.... Book of Quotations published by the Oxford University. On page 366 I found the quote, “ There’s a magic in the distance, where sea line meets the sky,” by Alfred Noyes. Now, I’m not too sure what the quote means, but it sounded agreeable, so I stuck with it. Before this class I had never heard of a book of quotations so my school librarian assisted me in finding it.
The next item I went for in our school library was the Third Edition Webster’s New International Dictionary, by Merriam Webster. Thi .....
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