Measure for Measure a Problem Play Measure for Measure is considered to be a dark play because it partly focuses on evil. ... Theses are problems plays because the realistic characters do not readily mesh with the artificial plot provided by the author. ... No character comes to reconsider his or her beliefs about freedom, justice, sexual relationships, or morality. ... The chief character in Measure for Measure is Angelo because he makes himself the judge of public morality. ... Despite these serious issues, the play is considered a comedy, and the story it tells is filled with amusing char...

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The Measure of A Man John Milton's "Paradise Lost" is an attempt to justify the ways of God concerning Creation and the fall of man. Part of Milton's effort at justification is providing the characters of Adam, Eve, and Satan with a measure of humanity and depth not found in the Bible. As a result, the characters and their motivations are much more complex, thus making it much easier for the complex human audience to relate to them. Adam in particular is a remarkably deep character, blending loyalty and perfect morality with emotion and conviction. ...

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Examples of clearly identified prejudice that forced characters to take drastic measures include Tybalt's prejudice towards Romeo, Capulet's prejudice towards the Montagues, and lastly, Paris' prejudice toward Romeo. Prejudice between the Montagues and Capulets strongly influenced the characters to take extreme measures. The first evidence of prejudice between the Montagues and Capulets is visible from a character by the name of Tybalt. ... Another drastic measure Juliet had to perform because of Capulet's prejudice was to fake her death by drinking vile. ... Prejudice b...

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For the first four measures of the song, there is no musical accompaniment. ... This is definitely the most extravagant section of the song and is what gives Bohemian Rhapsody its character. ... The climax is a screeching high note sung and held for an entire measure. ... The rock section kicks off with an intro-riff that is four measures long. ... The fourth measure is now the shifted version of the first/third measure of the riff. ...

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Pierre Elliot Trudeau was a very controversial character in Canadian history. ... The War measures act made membership in the FLQ illegal and it banned their political rallies. As a result of the War Measures Act "almost 500 suspects were arrested."(Gwynn, p. 108) This was the first time in Canadian history that the War Measures Act had been invoked in peacetime. ... Most of the suspects who had been arrested under the War Measures Act ended up being released in a short period of time. ...

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Deathwatch: Literary Analysis In Robb White's novel, Deathwatch, the author develops a theme of survival through the character of Ben. ... Ben's actions illustrate the extreme measures people will go to to survive when he tries to get water. ... As proven on the TV show Survivor, normal people go to extreme measures in life-threatening situations to survive. ... By examining Ben's actions we learn how people go to extreme measures and utilize their individual creativity to survive. ...

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It was also the war itself which helped to pull the U.S. from the Great Depression due to the emergency war-time measures boosting the economy. ... The play revolves around the circumstances and actions behind four characters: Blanch Dubois, Harold Mitchell, as well as Stella and Stanley Kowalski. ... For the viewers themselves, Stanley is a character who is easily empathized with at this time when memories of the Great Depression are still fresh. ... But as the play progresses further and further, Stanley's character becomes more volatile and suspicious. ... It is prudent to cover both ...

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Man is the Measure of all Things The Iliad and the Odyssey were written by Homer in the eighth century B.C. ... These two epics show their characters to be human by showing the fears, happiness and the love of life that each has. ... If man is the measure of all things, man has measured the Iliad and the Odyssey as a keeper. ... Protagoras's statement "Man is the measure of all things" can definitely be applied to the Iliad and the Odyssey. ... If man is the measure of all things, Homer set a standard with the Iliad and the Odyssey 3,000 years ago that has ...

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The actions of the main character Walter White and its rippling effect is the main representation vehicle used. An example of this representation is in the Season 3 Finale "Full Measure" where Walter has seemingly been trapped into a corner with nothing left to do and to protect him and those that he loves he must kill an innocent, aloof character. ... A subtle, underlying vehicle to represent morality is the appearance of characters specifically in clothing attire. ... The obvious change in appearance from the Jesse Pinkman character is his evolution into a darker and responsible c...

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At the beginning of the book, the doctor makes a peculiar request: to measure Marlow's skull "in the name of science ". ... Characters such as Fresleven and Kurtz entered Africa as rational, decent civilians underwent significant psychological distress during their time there. ... The doctor himself admits that these men never come back, so he's never able to re-measure skulls in order to track a change or do anything "in the name of science ". He is measuring internal, psychological changes ("the changes take place inside ") through a physical, seemingly unrelated method "again...

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Martin Luther King, "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ... Their characters have proven that they are true neighbors, and ultimately, both of them succeeded in the situations they were voluntarily dealt in, which truly vanquishes "the measure of a man."...

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When widespread across an organization, knowledge hoarding is often linked to cultural barriers, lack of sponsorship, and/or misaligned measures. ... Misaligned Measures Measures play a significant role in shaping an organization's values and internal culture. To that end, barriers to knowledge sharing may occur when performance measures for individuals, teams, or groups conflict with desired knowledge-sharing behaviors. ... For information on creating well-aligned measures, see: - The Ins and Outs of Measuring Knowledge Management - Use Rewards and Recognition to Acknowledge Employee ...

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I think Shakespeare was clever when he designed Shylock's character because he is a fully developed character that dually is a stereotype. ... This claim becomes an integral part of his character and his argument in the court. ... Where other characters measure their emotions with long metaphors and words, Shylock measures everything in more prosaic and numerical quantities. ... In Shylock,  Shakespeare has created a character who is a villain in appearance but  a victim at heart.  ...

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Most agree, however, that intelligence measures our ability to adapt to challenges and that intelligence varies for every person. ... One of the important questions that always comes up regarding these tests is what are the tests really measuring? Are they measuring a person's intelligence? ... Otherwise the standardised tests of today are testing an extremely limited aspect of a person's character that can hardly be referred to as intelligence. ... Perhaps we will never be able to measure intelligence accurately, and this raises the question why is intelligence tested? ...

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(Mansfield, pg 40) A technological change is the advance of knowledge whereas a change in technique is an alteration of the character of the equipment and what is actually being used. ... Technological change is hard to measure, in order to try and see what is changing economist often measure its effects by the average rate of movement of the production function. ... The changes in output per man-hour are a very inadequate measure of technological change, a better measure is the total productivity index, and this examines changes in output to changes in both labor and capital inputs. This ...

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Via the technique of factor analysis, which Cattell learnt under Spearman in his earlier studies, Cattell minimised Allport's original somewhat overwhelming list of personality description to what he claimed to be his conclusive 16 source personality character traits. ... Cattell had 3 major measures he utilized: L-data; Q-data; and T-data. ... The Q-data was measures from various questionnaires Cattell administered. ... Cattell used devices for his objective measure: word-association test, the Rorschach ink-blot, or the thematic apperception test. ... The highly correlated tests are assu...

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One point he makes is that In the world of MHC, therefore, sense-perception [emphasis mine] is the sole vehicle and interpretation is the only measure by which all things and all persons might be appraised. ... Dick's character in the novel is portraying that it is not the sense-perception, but rather the documentation, that gives these objects their historicity and authenticity. ... Being an alternate history novel, the reality of the whole story is a fake along with the fake identities of characters and fake objects that are made and they all weave into each other creating a key theme....

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Prospero was my favorite character and the final scene shows that he is forgiving and never uses magic and power to directly harm anyone even though there are plenty of people that want his power. --- Although some scholars have speculated that Shakespeare wrote portions of The Tempest at an earlier stage in his career, most literary historians assign the entire play a composition date of 1610 or 1611. ... It combines elements of tragedy (Prospero's revenge) with those of romantic comedy (the young lovers Miranda and Ferdinand), and, like one of Shakespeare's problem plays, Measure...

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The Breakfast Club brings to light a lot of theories in adolescence, and expands upon them in extreme measures, but measures that are abundant nonetheless. The characters I am going to be focusing on are Claire, Bender, and Brian. ... Another character I will be exploring is Bender, because bender is one of the more unique characters in the film, not having his parents present in the beginning or end of the film. ... The last character I want to get into is Brian, who is in detention because a gun was found in his locker at school. ...

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On measures of cognitive anger, mean scores increased significantly after the story was heard. ... Students also used puppets to act out stories about making friends, and later discussed the stories and the emotions of their characters. ... This lends further support to the idea that children respond more empathetically to characters in stories than in other media. ... Where previous research used stories as an integral part of empathy measures, in the current study storytelling was not directly involved in the empathy measure. ... was used to measure each child's affective perspective. ...

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Indeed, Behn measures and praises Oroonoko's masculinity only in terms of these parallels. ... This essay argues that Behn's juxtaposition of native qualities with values of the period constructs the gender of her characters in such a way that they function only as dark-skinned representatives of white virtue. ... This conflation of gender, virtue and status, seen both in Oroonoko and the Spectator, renders characters flat. ...

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Therefore, as a matter of urgency, individual security measures should be implemented with speed to avert any possible future occurrences. ... The main problems are that not enough measures were put forward to persuade the country holding Snowden. ... Another possible problem is that proper measures were not put in place to review who got access to the highly sensitive data possessed by the NSA. ... The government should come up with counter measures to curb the rise of other countries giving out safe heaven to criminals. ... In the case the government wants to collect very critical informatio...

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Considered to be a very important work of the English Literature, the novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, is remarkable for the intricate relationships between its characters. The two main families of the story, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, go through unique experiences that arise singular reactions and feelings in different characters. ... Earnshaw takes radical measures against the servant, as narrated by her, "I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house,"" (page 33). ... The patriarch believes that, by taking this measure, He...

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Another interpretation is that it was an emergency measure to deal with the economic crisis caused by war, revolution and civil war (Malle 1985). ... The failure of the economic measures in this period led to the New Economic Policy. ... Lenin bitterly realised that this new policy of war communism was not working and one of the measures he took was to appoint former members of the bourgeoisie as managers of factories. ... More recent historians tend to emphasise the emergency character of the economic measures during war communism. Some historians such as Peter Boettke have interpreted war co...

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Besides, the most impotent organ is the Security Council as the measures it prescribes are compulsory, whereas the General Assembly resolutions are of the advisable character. ... Such measures include interruption of relations, break in transportation and communications, and severance of diplomatic relations. If such measures fail the Council may call on UN members to furnish armed forces and assistance. ... Together the Military Representatives form the Military Committee, a body responsible for recommending to NATO's political authorities those measures considered necessary for the co...

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