Papers 1551-1560 of total 3969 found.
Category: /Literature/English
…behind him.”(Sophocles 62), and he told the shepherd that “You will die now unless you speak the truth”(Sophocles 62). As was the case when he was questioning Teiresias, Oedipus’ ears seem closed to the pleas of those who are trying to protect him from…
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Category: /History
…of Nelson Mandela during the 1950’s when the apartheid laws were being implemented. After decades of receiving no response to their pleas for justice and equality, the group launched a non-violent campaign in 1952 in which apartheid laws were deliberately…
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…: “‘Be thou strong for me,’ Dimmesdale pleads, ‘Advise me what to do’”. His request is a cry for help from Hester. He admits that he is unable to go through this by himself. With this plea comes an interesting sort of role-reversal. People believe that he…
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…wrote in a style that audiences were not aware of or appreciative of, reconciliation was never a possibility. However this play, not intended to be a plea for woman's rights, but a call for all humans to be free, has made a significant contribution…
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Category: /Literature/English
…the respect of many people. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. Arnold felt that his services were not properly rewarded. In 1777, Congress promoted five officers, who were junior to Benedict! , to major general. Only a personal plea from General…
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Category: /Literature/English
…that he was suffering from a terrible mental and bodily illness, and longed for the companionship of "his only personal friend." The plea seemed so heartfelt that the Narrator immediately set out for the Usher ancestral home. Approaching the ivy-covered…
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Category: /Literature/English
…this talk of discrimination and affirmative action? Why all the pleas for acceptance and peace? I heard my parents talk about the things that they and my grandparents had to face. The injustice, the unfairness, and the down right prejudice they had to deal…
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Category: /Literature/English
…as working closely with people in the health field that many individuals whether they are believers of non-believers of God, often choose to cry out in the last and most crucial moments of pain and despair “Oh God pleas help me!” As he brings out…
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Category: /Literature/English
…make them very extreme. Creon is an extremist in reason. He thinks his law is the most important. Antigone is an extremist of passion. Creon is unwilling to put the god's law above his law. He is u nwilling to listen to the passionate pleas of his…
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Category: /Literature/English
…was working and to get them even more together he decided to put difficulties in their way, as he knew that his daughter would do the opposite of anything her father tells her to do. Accordingly, in spite of Miss Piggy's pleas for mercy Clifford is apprehended…
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