1920 Biography About Caroline Gertrude Ederle American swimmer‚ the first woman to swim across the English Channel. Born in New York City‚ Ederle began swimming as a young child and started competing as a teenager. From 1921 to 1925 she broke many American and world swimming records. At the 1924 Olympics in Paris‚ France‚ Ederle won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle relay and bronze medals in the 100-meter and 400-meter freestyle races. Looking for a new challenge‚ Ederle turned to channel
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Queen Gertrude is Hamlet’s mother and the wife of her dead husband’s brother‚ King Claudius. Gertrude and Ambiguity Gertrude is most definitely a central figure in the play – Hamlet spends a whole lot of time dwelling on her incestuous marriage to Claudius – but her character is also pretty ambiguous. Was she having an affair with Claudius before the death of Old Hamlet? Does Gertrude know that Claudius killed her former husband? Why does she drink the poisoned wine her husband has prepared
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Assignment Daisy Buchanan: A selfish‚ greedy and hurtful woman of a noble social class in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby Winter 2014 Ha T.T. Nguyen hanguyenyeume94@gmail.com One of the reasons contributing to the success of F.Scott Fitzgerald‘s novel The Great Gatsby is that the author cleverly builds a network of diverse and profound characters. One of those is Daisy Buchanan‚ who is round and dynamic with various aspects of her personality. Firstly‚ Daisy seems very
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New York City. The Great Gatsby critiques materialism and the new American Dream‚ no longer defined by prosperity for equality‚ but by prosperity for the goal of excess wealth. Nick Carraway‚ the protagonist‚ views Jay Gatsby’s disillusionment about Daisy Buchanan‚ the object of his affection. The tale is not a story about past lovers‚ but instead represents a cast of characters chasing the American Dream which destroys them. The theme suggests that Americans have created a second form of aristocracy
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women were viewed back then in that time during the early 17th century. Shakespeare centers this unjust and cruel behavior towards the two most prominent women in the play; his mother Gertrude‚ and his lover Ophelia. Shakespeare first shows the hatred that exists between both Hamlet’s’ relationships with Gertrude and Ophelia. Hamlet’s two distinctive relationships between his mother and lover come to be similar when his character lashes out and becomes angry. In scenes where Hamlet is livid and
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Great Gatsby‚ one of the main characters‚ Daisy Buchanan is perceived to be a very practical person. When describing someone as being "practical" it means that they are being realistic. This means a person makes sensible decisions and choices‚ especially the types of decisions and choices that you have to make every day.This person has a level head and can weigh out the options without being consumed with the fantasy of the possibilities. When it comes to Daisy Buchanan she is definitely the type of
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the education. 2. Are Daisy and Winterbourne temperamentally well-suited to become friends? If we look at based on the European culture‚ I think is no‚ they aren’t. Although they are come from America‚ but their social situation and culture better are different. Winterbourne settles at Geneva and he was educated in Europe. So we can conclude that Winterbourne is just a man who emigrates from America to Europe. That’s all. He is different with Daisy‚ who always moves from one place
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Character Analysis: Queen Gertrude In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ one of the most interestingly designed characters is his mother‚ Queen Gertrude. Throughout the play‚ she is not only one of the most significant characters but the center of various controversies. In general‚ she brings up numerous questions within the reader as she is driven by her endless need to fulfill her desire for affection. At the most basic level‚ Queen Gertrude is almost like a child. Her actions don’t seem to be well
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She is only a consequential factor when attached to a man. Gertrude takes the blame for the madness Hamlet is undergoing. She represents the motherhood aspect of feminism; if there is something wrong with a child‚ it is usually the other who is at fault (fathers are more like ghosts unless they are congratulating their children). It is possible that Gertrude played a sort of Ophelia type character prior to King Hamlet’s death but was finally free from his captivity
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approach situation with a fearless and courageous attitude‚ and can is often admired by many. The novel Daisy Miller by Henry James is a fictional story about the life of an American girl in Europe and the situations that she experiences. Daisy reacts to these situations with a fearless and courageous approach. Her actions seem to affect every character in the story and are misperceived by many. Daisy consistently had the courage to stand up to the other Americans‚ the characters who adapted to the European
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