However this could be due to the fact that Gertrude is, more than any other character in the play, the antithesis of her son, Hamlet. ... Nonetheless, whether Gertrude lacks the Familial love Hamlet craves, or was too self involved to give it; it has a negative effect on Hamlet as it causes his passionate hatred for the new King. ... The theme of incestuous love is a negative force present in both "Hamlet" and "Sons & Lovers"; not just between Gertrude and Hamlet (mother and son), but it also is present in Act One, Scene Three. ... This presentation of incestuous love is slightly different in...

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It shows Ophelia, a character from Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. ... Millais chose to create a powerful and haunting image, unusual for the time, he chose the moment when Ophelia, driven mad by the murder of her father by Hamlet, drowns herself. ...

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Part 1 Explain and illustrate the broad nature of the post-war welfare settlements and their reconstruction in the 1980s and 1990s. The post-war welfare state was a social construction that resulted from the complex, contested and fragile set of arrangements called "settlements" - the political, economic, social and organisational settlements. Therefore it never was the homogeneous or unified entity that it is often regarded as. Keynes" demand management theory, as a solution to unemployment, advised the government to intervene in the economy by increasing government expenditure in or...

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Iran and the USA in the 1970s The Iranian revolution began in January 1978 and ended with the Shah's replacement by an Islamic fundamentalist government in February 1979. The subsequent seizure of the American embassy in Tehran, together with the failed rescue attempt and the Iran-Contra 'arms f...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes in The Path of Law said "a thing which you have enjoyed and used as your own for a long time, whether property or an opinion, takes root in your being and cannot be torn away without your resenting the act and trying to defend yourself, however you came by it." That seems to be the case regarding the law of adverse possession. Adverse possession is, in fact, the process of dispossessing the previous holder and occupying the land until the owner's rights to recover it is time-barred under the Limitation Act 1980 in relation to unregistered land, or the adver...

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Abstract Ernest Hemingway's prose has left a lasting impression on the way American literature is written and taught. His name is legendary. Hemingway's style was influenced by his years as a newspaper reporter, both before and after World War I. Based on his experiences, this paper examines the ro...

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Toni Morrison, one of the most remarkable African American authors and her novels remind readers that there is a past to remember. African American literature, has its origins in the 18th century, has helped African Americans to find their voice in a country where laws were set against them. The position of African Americans in the leading society of the United States of America has not been an easy one. African Americans needed to find a new identity in the New World and were considered an underclass for a long time. In literature, African American writers have been telling the story of their...

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Tribunals The EOC has looked at 54 employment tribunal decisions, in sexual harassment cases that were heard between 1998 and 2001, to see what those cases revealed. Successful cases The employee Thirty-four cases were successful. In three of those cases the person making the complaint was male. In most cases the harassment began while the person bringing the complaint had been working for that employer for less than one year, and their work tended to be low paid (e.g carers, shop and factory workers, office staff). Shift work was a factor in a third of cases. ...

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The scale of the problem is rather simply expressed by the following government statistics referring to the gap between the most deprived areas and the rest of England: In the 10 per cent most deprived wards in 1998 44 per cent of people relied on means tested benefits, compared with a national average of 22 per cent; In the 10 per cent most deprived wards in 1998 over 60 per cent of children lived in households that relied on means tested benefits; In 1998-99, the employment rate in Tower Hamlets was 55 per cent, compared with 74 per cent nationally; The domestic burglary rate in North Manch...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate