The translation by John Gardner portrays these themes by using specific characters, medieval symbolism, and various settings within the story. ... Cotton supposedly acquired the manuscript from Yorkshire bibliophile Henry Savile (1568-1617), but its whereabouts before then are unknown (Grolier). ... Unfortunately in 1982, the great and exciting John Gardner died in a motorcycle accident. ... Bercilak teaches Gawain an important lesson that sticks with him for the remainder of his life (Gibbons 1). ...

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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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There are invaluable lessons learned through experience that simply cannot be replicated in the classroom. ... In the classroom setting one does not have to deal with this amount of paperwork, and, for myself, it took a little getting used to when I got into the office setting. ... This is just the beginning of basic knowledge students need to know before going out on their own. ... In a classroom setting everything is carefully planned out. ... He held a high position with the Somali government before the civil war. ...

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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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He saw some principles of evolution much before Darwin published his facts. When his best friend Arthur Hallam died Tennyson was extremely depressed. ... In the next section he contradicts the last by seeing the sun and stars as slowly dying with no hope for rebirth, "The stars," she whispers, "blindly run; A web is wov"n across the sky; From our waste places comes a cry, And murmurs from the dying sun: (Tennyson 3.5-8). ... If you are good then before people thought they would go to heaven. ... Matthew Arnold liked to teach lessons of the wrongs of current society through hi...

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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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He died in August 2, 1988 at the age of fifty (Kennedy, X. ... They started to listen but were interrupted before the narrator can hear anything about himself. ... Beulah then died out of cancer. ... She leaves the room to get on a robe, and Robert and the narrator share marijuana who has never smoked before. ... Setting The setting of the story is somehow complicated since the writer has not directly mentioned any place or time. ...

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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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They were designed to provide an appropriate setting for communal worship and the services which make up the Christian Mass and specific liturgy. ... The artwork, design, and overall architecture were not only intended to inspire the worshipper, they were meant to teach him about the lessons of a "patron saint " or gospel message. ... (Braughton 2001) In England, the imprint of the cults of royal saints had been made long before the Conquest among the West Saxons and East Anglicans: it was deep, ubiquitous and persistent. ... Since the Church forbade him to fight with a weapon he died in bat...

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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 honest admission of the father's somewhat "limited" (Holland, 2013) belief is the setting that Elder Holland chooses in order to build each individual's faith. ... God could say the very same thing to the man who brought his son before Him in Mark Nine. ... Nephi declared that we must "follow the Son, with full purpose of heart, acting no hypocrisy and no deception before God, but with real intent" (2 Nephi 31:13). ...

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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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Though the relationship, which lasts for four years before the events of the novel unfold, seems picture perfect, it is never revealed how influential the relationship with Miller is on Buck's eventual return to the wild. ... As the narrator states: "He had learned the lesson, and in all his afterlife he never forgot it. ... Again and again, as he looked at each brutal performance, the lesson was driven home to Buck: a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be obeyed, though not necessarily conciliated" (London, 6). ... Abraham Rothberg, in his article Land Dogs and Sea Wo...

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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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The area that is being looked at is very similar to physical geography, geological setting, climate and existing patterns of the land use to the Brampton- Etobicoke region of southern Ontario. ... This street was built along Humber River and Etobicoke Creek The most dramatic results of the storm took place in this area. 32 people died on this one street and 60 families were left without homes. ... This lessons the quality of the water and conflicts the habitats of animals that live in and around the water. ...

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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 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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