You can only cover up inner savagery so long before it breaks out, given the right situation. It's better to examine the consequences of a decision before you make it than to discover them afterward. ... The settings of the two titles are also different to one another. ... The setting of the North Pole, although different to Lord of the Flies, work well in a very similar way. ... Like Simon, he was only an innocent child, and he also dies as a fault of the monster (Beast). ...

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Priestley gives a very elaborate and detailed amount of stage settings, lighting and character descriptions. ... Birling's feelings are summed up in the last sentence of his speech before the Inspector arrives, A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own'. ... He does this confidently because he is very sure of his facts before he arrives. ... Inspector Goole, whether a real Inspector or not, is Priestley's instrument for teaching the moral lesson in the play. ... This lesson is learnt well by the younger generation but not at all by the older ge...

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It uniquely combines modern day setting and characters withtheoriginallanguage. ... The only modifications that are made appear in the setting, and that is not significant enough to change the underlying themes of the play. ... It is a busy and open area, much like the market setting portrayed in the original script, which is also busy. This is very clever of Luhrman because he is trying to modernise the original setting without losing the feeling of an open and busy area. ... The lift signifies their isolation from the whole party, as before Romeo was chasing Juliet all over the ball...

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Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn was born in Leyden, about 50 kilometres from Amsterdam, on the 15th of July 1606. Rembrandt was the eighth of nine children. Some critics have described Rembrandt's traditionally large family as struggling; however, there is no documented evidence that suggests that the van Rijn family was in anyway impoverished. Rather, it is thought that the family was quite comfortable. Their reputation was that of a respectable, middle-class family. ...

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Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... The soldiers were usually friends from the same village therefore when they die; usually men from a whole village would be gone. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care, as if human lives weren't precious at all. ... Most importantly, The British learnt a lesson...

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Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... The soldiers were usually friends from the same village therefore when they die; usually men from a whole village would be gone. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care, as if human lives weren't precious at all. ... Most importantly, The British learnt a lesson...

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Not only did a lot of British soldiers die but Germans and French as well, this earned Haig with the title 'the Butcher of the Somme'. ... Any Tommy could have told that shell fire lifts the wire up and drops it down, often in a worse tangle than before.... They were so pessimistic that they accepted the fact that they were going to die and were predicting high casualties. ... The soldiers were usually friends from the same village therefore when they die; usually men from a whole village would be gone. ... Despite the number of soldiers dying, the commanders still didn't care,...

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It's some time before the student focuses on the way in which Venice is presented. ... To truly understand Othello, or any play for that matter, you have to think about what happened before the play that brought about the situations you read. ... You have to imagine Roderigos passion for Desdemona, picture Brabantios contempt for Othello, envision the jealousy and distrust that existed between Desdemona and Othello before Iago arrived on the scene. All of those factors were there before Iago put his scheme into action, he didnt create the natural tension between all the players. ... He is...

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Before her mom's death, Mary started schooling at Miss Franklin's school of Coventry (George1). ... Robert Evans, proud of his daughter, bought her any book she wished and arranged for her to receive lessons in German and Italian (George 2). ... In 1878, Lewes died from serious night cramps, and left Mary all alone once again (George 8). ... Before Mary died she left a masterful work in the form of the novel Silas Marner, a story about the isolation of a man who later finds happiness. ... An example is Scenes of Clerical Life, which is known for its specific and detailed accu...

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We know, then, that Frankenstein is going to die - Shelley could have written this so that the reader feels pity for him. ... In this way of thinking, Frankenstein no longer appears to be the kind, benevolent man he was before - he shows a side that is cruel and merciless. ... I don't think this practical' aspect had ever occurred to him before, and it made him afraid for his future. ... One of the first things we notice is that Shelley has chosen the setting for this chapter as a dreary night in November'. ... This setting also establishes a sense of gloom and doom' an...

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All life on earth is similar in that at one point in time it will begin and at any point after that it can end. The interim between the two significant quordinate is the time that is given to the species to have an active effect on others and their environment. This effect can of course be positive ...

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This situation is unfortunate because once Jing-Mei's mother dies; she realizes that they did possess many of the same qualities. ... Therefore Jing-Mei's attitude is merely setting herself up for defeat and disappointment. ...

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However they both died in infancy. ... Alois Hitler died when Hitler was 13 and his mother raised him and his sister by herself. Klara died when Hitler was 19, and from then onwards, he had no relatives willing or able to support him.1909,Hitler left his home to seek his fortune in Vienna. ... He utterly became a loner, however throughout his time there he learned a valuable lesson that would create success in the future. ... Again everything went black before my eyes and I tottered and groped my way back to the dormitory, threw myself on the bunk, and dug my burning head into my blanket...

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The savage lesson of Thebes brought results, the Athenian assembly quickly congratulated Alexander, and the Greek states, with Sparta as the continuing exception, remained Macedonian allies. ... Before leaving Persepolis, Alexander burned the palace of the great king for reasons that have never been made clear. ...

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The story begins with her memories of how she and Maxim first met, in Monte Carlo, years before. ... But instead, it turns out that Rebecca was dying of cancer, and that furthermore she was infertile; she had lied to Maxim about her pregnancy. ... Instead, the heroine's thoughts turn to her younger self, years before, and then the real story begins, told in a flashback. ... He is Maxim de Winter, the owner of the famous estate known as Manderley, and he is reportedly in mourning for his wife, who died the previous year. ...

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This setting suggests that the family are uncomfortable with each other and therefore suggests problems. ... Just before the Inspector leaves he turns the blame onto the whole of society by mentioning that the problem did not lie with just Eva Smith and one particular family, but it was the 'millions and millions and millions of Eva Smiths and John Smiths still left with us... intertwined with our lives.' ...

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In each production of Henry V, the emphasis changes: Henry can appear to be "the mirror of all Christian Kings" or as a cynic who uses the, seemingly corrupt, church to justify his actions. The play is full of noble speeches, heroic battles, and valiant English underdogs fighting their way to victor...

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The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... Northerners rejected that notion as opposed to the will of the Founding Fathers who said they were setting up a perpetual union. ... Constitution before the 1860 presidential election. ...

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Indeed, Kurt Vonnegut himself once said of Thompson's work; "It is the literary form of Cubism: all rules are broken: we are shown pictures such as no mature, well-trained artist ever painted before, and in the crazy pictures we somehow see luminous new aspects of beloved old truths". ... In terms of setting, this gives us the impression there has been a fruitless resolution to a conflict that has had no impact in society - much in keeping with Vonnegut's philosophy that we cannot control what goes on around us, however hard we try. ...

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It failed when promoter Sir Humphrey Gilbert died. ... However, most settlers died, only 60 of the 400 survived the winter of 1609-1610. 4. ... Here, a similar slave code was established, setting the stage for slavery to invade America. ...

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The twentieth century really begins before the end of the nineteenth century. ... Before 1914, English literature and ideas were in many ways still harking back to the nineteenth century: after 1918, Modern begins to define the twentieth century. ... Poetry to 1945 Queen Victoria died in 1901, but most of the certainties of the Victorian age had disappeared long before. ... Yeats himself quickly drew the lesson that 'We must purify poetry', which was to continue, through movements like Imagism and Vorticism, up to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the period when the Modern mov...

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Violence against the person was 37.8 per 1000 population compared with 11.4 nationally; In 1998 only 11 of the 488 schools with more than 35 per cent of pupils on free school meals attained the national average level of GCSE passes; During 1999, 26 per cent more people died from coronary heart disease in the 20 per cent most deprived Health Authorities than in the country as a whole; 43 per cent of all housing in the 10 per cent most deprived wards is not in a decent state, compared with 29 per cent elsewhere, and 19 per cent of all homes in the 10 per cent most deprived wards are in areas suf...

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The Republican Party, dominant in the North, secured a majority of the electoral votes, and Lincoln was elected the first Republican president, but before his inauguration, seven slave states with cotton-based economies formed the Confederacy. ... Northerners rejected that notion as opposed to the will of the Founding Fathers who said they were setting up a perpetual union. ...

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There appears early, too, a strain of religious interest in showing the lessons of history, religious and ethical. ... In writing the history of the Peloponnesian War he limited himself to matters of state and war; he tried to establish chronology and facts with some exactitude, avoiding the digressions of Herodotus; though his attempt at writing a factual and impartial history was not entirely successful, he wrote a grave work, conveying the lessons he drew from his story. ... Motley, and Francis Parkman were followed by such brilliant and questioning men as Henry Adams. 12 The broader i...

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