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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Standardized tests do not calculate a student's ability to be a leader because they do not measure a student's values, confidence level, or attitude. ... Not only is there no measure of the capacity to cooperate effectively, or even to assimilate other people's ideas into your own, but precisely the opposite message is communicated: Only what you can do alone is of any value" (Kohn). ... A student's professional behavior would be best recognized through letters of recommendations that speak directly about the student's character. ... "Standardized tests can&...

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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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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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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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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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Smithfield Fare and Beyond the Pale transcend the boundries of Celtic music emphasising music elements, feeling, and character. ... Beyond the Pale's unusual bagpipe musicianship in "Killworth Hills", with rhythm of 6 notes per measure and tempo allegro, rivals rock songs that would otherwise be written by heavy metal hands such as Iron Maiden. Similiarly, Smithfield Fare's "Fire in The Glen", with a rhythm of 6 notes per measure and a tempo of Adante, resembles a song for a marching infantry in time of conflict. ... The character that stems from the songs performed by Beyond th...

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Bosola's character is next only to that of the Duchess in interest and significance. He is one of the most complicated and complex of the male characters of our dramatist. According to Shelling, " He remains the most consummate character in "The Duchess of Malfi." ... He is an intelligent, sensitive, and "melancholic" man who is said to have a measure of native goodness. ... At his first entrance, however, the most striking thing about him is not his reputedly violent character but his brooding over disparity between merit and reward. ...

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The problems that characters on this soap opera have are resolved very quickly, so it leads us to think frustration is unacceptable in society. The characters do not have serious problems such as money complications, or depression so viewers believe that if they have major problems in their own life they are less of a human being. All of the characters on this soap opera have everything; they have a lot of clothes, a nice car, beautiful home, attractive furnishings, major social life and they seem like they have all of these things without working. Viewers think that they must have all of...

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It provides an insight to character and thought processes that would otherwise be overlooked or, in the least, be speculated as to basis for occurrence. ... It is facinating to note, however, that though the goals of psychology may be honorable, it appears at times that no matter what measures are taken by the researcher to ensure qualified results, things may not be as they appear. ...

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As they present these last scenes from the life of Christ, the distinctions between acting and life becomes blurred and the actors take on more and more of the qualities of the characters that they depict. ... There are those who have been chosen to be numbered among the elect and those who are not and there is no extra measure of grace to be extended to anyone else. ...

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A Sunday Afternoon (or Island of La Grande Jatte) by the French painter Georges Seurat is a horizontal painting in great format that measures ten point five feet in height and nineteen point 6 inches in length. ... We can appreciate this in the pseudo hierarchy of characters in his art; for example the boats of big size in the river that are counter-balanced by the bigger ladies' figures standing close to the edge of it, along with the weight of the background bushes. ... Another good example of this are the people close to the river and the ones closer to the viewer, the business of all ...

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Another must-watch aspect of the movie is the powerful performances of the characters. ... He maintains his strong and energetic character during the battles of war that resonates through the entire Roman army. His acting was outstanding; he was able to portray the role of a tough, authoritive general, but at the same time depicting a lovable character. ... But he ignites their hate when he used unjust measures to deal with this painful reality. ... The casts of the movie are believable portrayals of characters in the Roman history that turn the work of literature into a reflection of life. ...

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Pain and pleasure are the only measures of good and evil in this moral theory. ... Since pleasure and pain are the only factors that are able to measure good and evil, every living being has equal rights. ... On page 20 of John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, he even goes as far as to say "For certainly no known ethical standard decides an action to be good or bad because it is done by a good or bad man," meaning someone who does not have good character can still be moral if they follow the principle of utility. ... Instead, the motives for utility are, as Mill would say, rooted i...

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Knowledge is considered to provide the one universally true view of reality, since it is devoid of values of any moral, cultural or ethical character. ... These are value free, pragmatic and autonomous, so the teaching practices are seen as an innocent and practical activity of passing on correct facts, truths and skills to students.The targets and stages of learning are also made narrower and clearer, thus providing a convenient means of measuring pedagogical progress. ...

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The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm" (Kinsella 484). ... In realism there are no characters that overcome the impossible to be heroes and save the day. Instead there are characters that better represent the way real people act and how they live their lives dealing with what life gives them. ... Viewed as a reaction to romanticism, literary realism is written from an objective perspective that simply and clearly represents the subject matter and characters of the story. ...

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An assessment may lack reliability whenever assessments are inconsistent to measure student's achievements, secondly when a variety of assessment tasks are not used to gather information on student's competence and when teachers ignore to work in a learning team in order to bring collective insights that will enhance children's achievements stated Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth (2006 p. 9). ... Manitoba Education, Citizenship and Youth states that assessment promotes validity if they do not overlooked the following: the intended learning targets, outcomes including co...

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Glengarry Glen Ross is a film about a dysfunctional office space and how the communication issues within an office can ultimately lead to severe measures such as crime. ... How the different characters communicate, verbally in particular, is very interesting and shows the true dynamic of the workspace. The characters all have very different backgrounds and it all surfaces when you look at how they interact with one another. ...

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In this interpretation then, we can show both that the actual character John is responsible for the psychological damage done to the narrator, and the oppressive institution that he represents is responsible for uncountable years of systematic abuse to the group of women our narrator represents. ... The list of symptoms that has been applied to hysteria is too long by any measure to recount here, but practically it could be almost anything, as long as the patient was a woman. ... Consider one of the only other characters in the story, Jennie (who is defined by her relationship to a man, and ...

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This struggle emphasizes the need for freedom and individuality and leads them to take drastic measures in the name of noncompliance. ... The doubts festered and cultivated in Dead Poets Society did not propagate from a single event or idea, rather from the realizations of truths that were as complicated as the characters themselves. The blind tradition and compliance that so many of characters began with stands in stark contrast to the free-thinking ideals that germinated from Mr. ...

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"A dynamic character is an individual that undergoes a drastic character change or revelation... ""[1] Lady Macbeth is an ideal example of this type of character. ... Lady Macbeth links masculinity to violence and thereby she has to resort to influential measures in order to achieve her goals. ... Here underlies the truth to her character, she inherits a change of heart resulting in indisputable evidence that Lady Macbeth is a dynamic character. ... This thereby provides as adequate proof that Lady Macbeth is a dynamic character. ...

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Medea is an epic tale of a struggle between two characters, an opportunistic, deceitful man and a barbaric sorceress, opposed by gender and capabilities. ... However, suppose for a moment the notion that these major characters do not always provide a sufficient and "true" foil as the play suggests. ... The tragic play Medea establishes many contrasting characteristics of the two most influential characters, Medea and Jason. ... Suppose then, it is more useful to discover the "wrinkles" within the foil between the crucial characters of the play. ... Thus, similarities may be seen within Medea a...

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The measurative -ta, resultative -de, deservative -dou, and three aspect suffixes are argued to be inflectional morphemes, with -tou a morphosyntactically governed form similar to case marking in European languages. ... Characters Chinese uses characters which are very different from an alphabet. Characters generally have two parts, one of which represents the meaning and the other the sound. ... It is often said that every Chinese character is a picture, but only a couple hundred are actual pictographs. ... All the rest of chinese characters are combinations of these pictographs a...

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The character of Major Molineux represents an ego trapped within a self-indulged idealism. ... Major Molineux's character is the black and white perceptions never coming to realize that there are many shades of gray in between. ... Robin's character represents the epiphany of self-guided acknowledgement that the ego must be abandoned first and foremost before any progress can occur. ... The narrator figure serves as the inner consciousness, confronting the ever-present ego, or the character of Robin. ... Change is a constant variable when measuring anything within a certain reali...

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In a change of pace for this normally fairly wooden and one dimensional actor, Brown makes Lorkin an extremely complex and initially unlikable character. It is only towards the end that we are allowed to see beneath the tough facade and figure out where he is coming from, the personal demons from his past that have driven him, and maybe grudgingly feel some measure of sympathy for his position. ...

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