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- 231: Macbeth: Many People Were Involved In the Death of Duncan
- ... was to do was wrong and that it horrified him. "The prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'er-leap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: Then eye wink at the hand! yet that be, Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." (I,iv,l.55-60) Macbeth charges the stars to shut their light off and to hide his true intentions from everyone around him, including himself. In doing so, Macbeth comprehended what he was to do and accepted the responsibility of the death of ...
- 232: Romeo And Juliet - Who Is To Blame For The Deaths In The Pla
- ... hasn’t thought about the possible failures or an alternate plan. When Romeo hears that Juliet is "dead", he blames fate for taking Juliet’s life: "Is it e’en so? Then I defy you, stars!" (V, I, l.25). Romeo hurries to Juliet’s vault where he drinks the drug and dies beside his love: "Here is to my love. O true apothecary, thy drugs are quick. Thus with a ... of the potion, failure to send the letter, and selfishness of the Friar are the causes for the deaths that occurred in the play. In spite of the many coincidences and references to heaven and stars, Romeo and Juliet however, is not totally a tragedy of fate. Each character has his/her freewill and is responsible for his/her actions. The tragedy of Romeo and Juliet should be designated as the ...
- 233: The Character of Macbeth
- ... to it, and that he has ambitions to be king within him already. Macbeth is drawn to darkness, because he believes that it will hide his evil deeds. This is first shown when he says ‘stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires' ( 1:4 L50). Macbeth is afraid that people will realise that he wants to be king and is prepared to kill for it, so he calls on the stars to hide their light, so people cannot see what he is thinking. This is again in an aside, so the audience are the only ones who know what Macbeth is thinking. Asides and soliloquies help ...
- 234: Galileo Gallilei
- ... began causing him problems. The Roman Catholic Church was uneasy about this declaration that they were wrong. The Church believed that all the planetary bodies were formed at the beginning of Creation, and that new stars were impossible. In 1609, Galileo heard of a "spyglass" that had been developed in Holland and quickly constructed one himself - the first telescope of twenty times magnification. Galileo presented the telescope to the senate of ... our moon revolved around the earth. Since these four bodies apparently circled Jupiter, this theory was put in question. Also through his telescope, Galileo observed that the Milky Way was made up of thousands of stars and that could not be seen with the naked eye. After observing Earth's moon and then finding the four moons of Jupiter though his new device, he began to declare that the findings of ...
- 235: Shakespeare's World
- ... noticed that such beliefs were very unpredictable. Like the belief in the zodiac, the Wheel of Fortune opposed the theory that fate was controlled by man. Instead, fate was believed to be controlled by the stars. This is why in the opening chorus of Romeo and Juliet, both of them are described as "… star crossed lovers…" This suggests that the stars had already destined them to love and then to die. Shakespeare is arguably the best writer of all time, yet it is interesting to know that so little is known about him. Perhaps no-one ...
- 236: Slaughterhouse - Five: Satire About War and Life
- ... Germans. He was thrown on a boxcar of a train and all the Americans captured were given a coat to wear. Everyone else’s coat was from a dead soldier with brass buttons, numbers and stars. Billy’s was the only one from a civilian, not only a civilian but a woman. “The coat that Billy Pilgrim got had been crumpled and frozen in such a way, and was so small ... to joining the Free American Corps. The way Vonnegut makes fun of him is in the way he is dressed. “He wore a white ten-gallon hat and black cowboy boots decorated with swastikas and stars. He was sheathed in a blue body stocking which had yellow stripes running up from his armpits to his ankles. His shoulder patch was a silhouette of Abraham Lincoln’s profile on a field of ...
- 237: The Ethical Delimma Of Journal
- ... not sometimes rescue them from journalism greed. The example of rape case would powerfully explain how important of media law is, in order to protect the victim. Furthermore, public figures such as Politicians and Film Stars are greatly suffering from the intrusion of privacy. Journalists must now have some strategies to minimize harm in particular case. Breach of confidence is a civil remedy ordering protection against disclosure or/and use of ... public figures are treated extremely different. One of reasons is that they hold or seek some public responsibility or public trust and this justifies greater scrutiny. This group is usually politician. Furthermore, film and TV stars also typically sacrifice their own privacy to obtain benefits of celebrity through exposure willingly sought (MEAA, 1997, p.47). However, it might be time to improve vision of journalism, as newspapers nowadays seem to intrude ...
- 238: Jon Philip Sousa
- ... s first big tragedy hit. While on vacation with his wife in Europe, Sousa's promoter (David Blakely) died. This was hard for Sousa to face but it also inspired him to write the great Stars and Stripes Forever. Through 1900-1905 Sousa and his band had three awesome tours in Europe. Finally, in 1910 he had his first world tour. In 1917 World War I broke out and Sousa took ... long and extraordinary life. At age 77 he died after conducting a rehearsal of the Ringgold Band in Reading, Pennsylvania. The last piece he ever conducted and that he is widely known for is "The Stars and Stripes Forever".
- 239: Night Essay
- ... to Elie. These two things are most definitely parallel. Elie has become a walking corpse, devoid of all emotion like those around him. “Night. No one prayed, so that the night would pass quickly. The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes”(18).
- 240: Civil War Timeline
- ... cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins. April 14, 1861. - Fort Sumter after its capture, showing damage from the Rebel bombardment of over 3000 shells and now flying the Rebel "Stars and Bars" April 17, 1861 - Virginia secedes from the Union, followed within five weeks by Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina, thus forming an eleven state Confederacy with a population of 9 million, including nearly 4 ... Lee's lines at Petersburg. Confederate Gen. Ambrose P. Hill is killed. Lee evacuates Petersburg. The Confederate Capital, Richmond, is evacuated. Fires and looting break out. The next day, Union troops enter and raise the Stars and Stripes. Lee Surrenders April 9, 1865 - Gen. Robert E. Lee surrenders his Confederate Army to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at the village of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Grant allows Rebel officers to keep ...
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