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…. As chief justice of common pleas and of the king's bench, he challenged the common law against the royal prerogative. Collisions with the king and political enmities led to his dismissal in 1616. By 1620 he had returned to Parliament, where he led popular…

…revenge. Instead he found his pleas for water answered as she approached him with a gourd of water and placed it to his lips; just as a single tear rolled down his face. The time of his punishment expired, Quasimodo was finally released and the mob dispersed…

…to “A Raisin in the Sun”, was about a man with a plea for racial tolerance over the incentive society in his time (Draper 950). This was merely based on Lorraine’s childhood experiences of the disintegrating of white neighborhoods. It also portrayed slavery…

…legislature passed the Alien Land Law of 1913. This law banned the purchase of farmland by anyone who was not eligible for citizenship. This targeted the Japanese immigrants. Although there were pleas from the president, he was unable to persuade the legislature…

…about the things in the poem, but actually accomplishes it within itself. The poem is so clear and lucid that “it is in no sense an imagist poem or a plea for imagism; its sole relation to imagism is in its instance upon clarity of image and its own…

…the wicked one!" At this point, the ceremony ends and Brown finds himself alone. It is unclear to Brown if his frantic plea, begging her to resist the Devil, was successful. Nonetheless he is alone. Alone in the forest and alone in his faith. "Young…

…to find the boy. Ahab seems more interested in the subject of the white whale then the missing boy. Ahab refuses Gardiner’s plea for help. His refusal shows how his mania has overtaken his sense of human decency. Ahab meets his end in the final three…

…of the plot, the play is filled with brilliant speeches, timeless both for their declamatory techniques and for the passions they reflect and evoke. Read from Cassius' speech as he fumes over Caesar's faults; or turn to the touching plea of Brutus' wife for her…

…to the two older sisters, Goneril and Regan. This is Lear's tragic flaw which prevents him to see the true faces of people because his pride and anger overrides his judgement. As we see in the first act, Lear does not listen to Kent's plea to see closer…

…of virtue (Waggoner 156). She is often associated with roses (Waggoner 156). For example, in the governor’s she cries and pleas that she must have one (Waggoner 156). In addition, her very name is an indication of the symbol she conveys (Waggoner 157). Like…