face it‚ friends are much more fun. It was also because I was turning 26. Now that was exciting. This was very interesting and all i was hoping I would get to visit the Buckingham palace as Prince Harry is having his tour there. Oh God how I love them royals. When I was young I had a HUGE crush on Prince Harry even though he is only 28 now. He was my Justin Bieber or Harry Styles or Zayn Malik. My friends always teased me about it but I knew I was different. I wanted older men‚ class instead
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Canty (youngest son of a family living with the dregs of society in Offal Court) has always aspired to a better life‚ encouraged by the local priest (who has taught him to read and write). Loitering around the palace gates one day‚ he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales – Edward VI). Tom is nearly caught and beaten by the Royal Guards; however‚ Edward stops them and invites Tom into his palace chamber. There the two boys get to know one another‚ fascinated by each other’s life and their uncanny resemblance
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Nicolo Macchiavelli and The Prince At the end of the 14th century‚ Italy was still politically organized by city-states. Emerging as one of the most influential writers of the Renaissance‚ Niccolo Machiavelli was a political analyst‚ whose aim was to free italy from foreign rule‚ as well as to unite and strengthen the Italian city states. Machiavelli believed Italy could not be united unless its leader was ruthless. In 1513‚ he wrote his best-known work‚ The Prince‚ in which he describes the
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therefore accustomed to their rule. The natural prince only has to keep past institutions intact‚ while adapting these institutions to current events. -Second‚ the natural disposition of subjects in a hereditary state is to love the ruling family‚ unless the prince commits some horrible act against his people. Even if a strong outsider succeeds in conquering a prince’s hereditary state‚ any setback the outsider encounters will allow the prince to reconquer the state. Machiavelli explains
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Tough Love “If you have to make a choice‚ to be feared is much safer than to be loved” (46). Niccolò Machiavelli declared this in The Prince while explaining how to be an extraordinary leader. If leaders are feared they will be respected by their people and other countries‚ thus keeping justice and maintaining control. If a leader is feared‚ they will receive respect from their people and other countries. People will not turn against the leader‚ but if the people love him they would
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“The Happy Prince and Other Tales” -Oscar Wilde Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright‚ poet and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit‚ he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London‚ and one of the greatest "celebrities" of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed‚ especially The Importance of Being Earnest. His most famous works are:
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The story of Happy Prince was published in 1888. It is an allegory. The story is religious and is full of happiness. Happy Prince is a statue with a smile on his lips. It is made of gold‚ sapphires‚ and brilliants. Some time ago he was a boy with not knowing what tears were. Swallow is a bird‚ helping Happy Prince to please people. The story begins very strange with a describing of a beautiful statue‚ standing very high. In the story we can find a lot of similes‚ metaphors‚ flash-backs. A simile
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The Happy prince" by Oscar Wilde seems to be written for children but its content addresses issues of morality to even adults: it develops feelings of sympathy for the poor in children and it makes adults rethink of their attitudes towards life‚ the conversations between the prince and the swallow in some places amuse us while in others places bring tears to us. Not just the moral values but the way the author treats the topic goes far beyond what one can expect from a fairy tale to rank the story
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ethically and morally to avoid chaos and destruction. However‚ as history has shown us this has not been an easy endeavor and very few rulers have been able to accomplish this. "This leads us to a question that is in dispute: Is it better to be loved than feared‚ or vice versa?" (Machiavelli‚ 51) An effective ruler would be one that relies upon fear without hatred‚ rather than love‚ as described by Niccolo Machiavelli in his book The Prince. In a perfect world all people would be good-hearted‚
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THE LITTLE PRINCE In the eyes of a child‚ there is joy‚ there is laughter. But as time ages us‚ as soon as we flowered and became grown-ups the child inside us all fades that we forget that once‚ we were a child. The story begins about drawings of closed and open boa constrictors. Later‚ the author relates a story about the Turkish astronomer who discovers the little prince’s home‚ Asteroid B-612. When he presents his findings to the International Congress of Astronomy‚ dressed in
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