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Aspects In Marianella
Words: 987 - Pages: 4.... so is Don Teodoro Teodoro: Nela, you are very sick Marianella: yes. I think i've made Florentina angry. Florentina: no Marianela - you are a good person.
Pablo arrives at the house of Florentina. Pablo: florentina, i heard my dad was here. Florentina does not answer him. Pablo didn't have to visit Teodoro or Marianella .Pablo: It is not important to me to stay blind after i have seen. I had a dream that that you were looking for me. To your side were very ugly girls. Why are you beautiful? Creí that you wish to be at my side. My cousin, and wife of my soul. Florentina: what? No,no,no. Teodoro, Pablo is crazy. Say something.Teodoro: Pablo .....
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Michel De Montaigne On The Edu
Words: 1017 - Pages: 4.... an individual that is both wise and happy; according to Montaigne the two are irreconcilably bound, as "the surest sign of wisdom is constant cheerfulness" (119).
The methods used to achieve Montaigne's ideal education are a mixture of the ability and talent of the tutor; the individual attention paid to a student and the well-rounded nature of the curriculum. Montaigne asserts that a pupil is only as good as the skill of his tutor. The ideal tutor in Montaigne's eyes would be one that is more wise than learned, having "a well made rather than a well filled head" (110). The tutor should not have the student repeat what is told to h .....
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Beowulf: First Literary Superhero
Words: 456 - Pages: 2.... arm and squeezes until the torture is unbearable. Grendel loses his
strength, his body parts, and his blood in this violent scene. He later bleeds
to death. “Saw that his strength was deserting him, his claws Bound fast,
Higlac's brave follower tearing at his hands.”(line 464-466)
Beowulf's unusual and courageous method of killing Grendel demonstrates
his bravery and physical strength. Before, Unferth had taunted Beowulf about his
foolish bravery but when he and all the rest of the Geats saw that Beowulf's
strength and power were worth boasting about, they were humbled. To prove
Beowulf was powerful, he hung Grendel's arm, claw, .....
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The Princess Bride
Words: 596 - Pages: 3.... in many aspects. Buttercup, on the other hand,
made some poor choices.
Westley was intelligent. He displayed this characteristic when
he poisoned the cups of wine. He poisoned both cups to guarantee
that Vizzini, played by Wallace Shawn, one of the kidnappers of
Buttercup, died. The intelligence was in the preparation. Westley had
built up immunity to the poison before so that the small amount didn’t
affect him when he drank it, but affected Vizzini.
Westley also showed intelligence when he couldn’t move, but
made Prince Humperdink believe that he could. Westley just kept
talking to Humperdink until he cou .....
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The Glass Menagerie 2
Words: 475 - Pages: 2.... also very important because it is what makes humans able to coexist. If no one took responsibility for others than children would not have caring parents, people could not trust each other, and love could not exist. Analytically speaking, responsibility to others is more important to the function of society as a whole than personal happiness. However to a single person, happiness generally seems to be more important than responsibility. An unhappy person that spends their entire life being burdened by the responsibility of another person might as well be a slave.
In the case of Tom Wingfield, leaving his family's home in search of happin .....
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My Antonia 3
Words: 435 - Pages: 2.... Anton says “ Gee! I’d like to go back there once, when the boys is big enough to farm the place. Sometimes when I read the papers from the old country, I pretty near run away, I never did think I would be a settled man like this.”(234,235)
Antonia couldn’t be any happier with the life she is living. She has become grizzled, lost many teeth, and has had to work hard in this new venture. One phrase that shows Antonia's love for the farmland is when she says; “There wasn’t a tree here when we first came. We planted every one, and used to carry water for them, they were on my mind like children. Many .....
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In Despair About Nothing
Words: 1348 - Pages: 5.... It is the hollowness or emptiness man experiences when he feels that his life has no significant meaning. If there is nothing to believe in, then life is nothing. The older waiter in the story recognizes the existence of nothing: “Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y pues nada y pues nada” (202). As existentialists, men are forced to make all decisions in their lives for themselves, with nothing to believe in except for the positive result of their choices. Existentialists are plagued with dread over their potential confrontation with nothingness, an anxiety that comes with the impossibility .....
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Oedipus Rex: Classic Tragic Hero
Words: 910 - Pages: 4.... an important or influential man who makes an error in judgment, and who must then suffer the consequences of his actions. Those actions are seen when Oedipus forces Teiresias to reveal his destiny and his father's name. When Teiresias tries to warn him by saying "This day will give you parents and destroy you" (Sophocles line 428), Oedipus still does not care and proceeds with his questioning. The tragic hero must learn a lesson from his errors in judgment and become an example to the audience of what happens when great men fall from their lofty social or political positions. According to Miller, a person who is great, who is admired everyw .....
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Hamlets Insanity 2
Words: 1795 - Pages: 7.... to ponder the thought of any sane person denouncing their love for their lover without showing the slightest hint of sadness. However, Hamlet does perform this wicked deed. The protagonist’s mind is also filled with enough incestuous thoughts of his very own mother to disturb the audience. The most troubling and powerful piece of evidence to prove his insanity is that he does not feel the slightest twinge of guilt nor the smallest sliver of remorse after he murders three innocent bystanders in cold blood. The human conscience is what separates humans from animals because human’s have the ability to question evil deeds su .....
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Watership Down 3
Words: 627 - Pages: 3.... idea to ship the two injured rabbits across the river upon a flat piece of wood. When this act had been done, the other rabbits had a new admiration of Hazel. This new admiration was brought upon, when he had to choose to leave injured rabbits behind he refused and thought of idea to help them across, Hazel has shown himself as a competent, caring, and wise leader.
Fiver is a small rabbit that seems to have the ability to see future visions. It was because of him that the eleven crusaders left to find a new home. He predicted the destruction of the warren long before it was to happen. His character is very strange, he is constantly looking .....
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