Maria Arias Mr. Lander LA Honors‚ Period 6 3 January 2014 Convicting Hester Prynne Does the sinner deserve repentance? Do we the right to be merciful or can only the Lord have mercy? Philosophical questions like those are not easy to answer‚ but thankfully there are pastors and judges to provide us with insight.The crime Hester Prynne has committed is plain adultery. The child she now has is evidence of her crime. Hester Prynne has broken the law‚ she has shamed
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How does the Sofia Coppola‚ in The Virgin Suicides‚ use a range of stylistic features (film techniques) to display the movies themes and with what effect on the audience? INTRO: Director Sofia Coppola uses a range of film techniques to display themes of obsession‚ the superficiality of vision and isolation from the real world in her film The Virgin Suicides. Through use of symbolism‚ characterization‚ setting and techniques specific to a film such a soundtrack‚ Coppola is able to construct
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The Democratic National Convention has taken place recently. One of the speakers during this convention was First Lady Michelle Obama. She spoke to support and endorse Hillary Clinton. By using pathos and a demanding but caring tone‚ Mrs. Obama informs the audience that Hillary Clinton is the best candidate for the presidency because of what she has done for the children of America. Mrs. Obama appeals to families with pathos ‚ therefore changing voters opinions of Mrs. Clinton. During her speech
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CHARACTER ANALYSIS (FLORANTE AND LAURA) I. Florante at Laura Florante and Laura are the main characters of the great metrical romance of arguably the greatest Filipino poet‚ Francisco Balagtas. Florante is the son of Duke Briseo and Princess Floresca of Albania and the main protagonist of the romance. Laura is the daughter of King Linceo of Albania and the love interest of Florante and is later married to him. This is a package deal‚ because they can’t stand alone on their own for their cultural
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Laura‚ after teaching school and visiting Eugenio in prison‚ comes home to be warned by Lupe that Braggioni is waiting for her. Even though she hates his presence‚ she allows him to sing to her. “He scratches the guitar familiarly as though it were a pet animal‚ and sings passionately off key‚ taking the high notes in a prolonged painful squeal” (Porter 1). She fears him‚ as he is known for his meanness and pride; she does her best to tolerate him. For the past month he has been spent every night
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label” (Barnes 96). Her character is always eating‚ and her love interest even tells her at one point that “there’s more to you than just fat”‚ as if this is a compliment. Marty is another member of the Pink Ladies and the film characterizes her as a boy crazy teen. Her storyline revolves around having multiple boyfriends‚ gaining the attention of the older Vince Fontaine and at the girl’s sleepover attempting to enlarge her breasts. The film stresses the ideology that “women are defined by their
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Multiples versus DCF analysis Multiples analysis is simple to understand and apply. The inputs for the multiple arepublicly available‚ though are vulnerable to accounting manipulation. Also‚ it isdifficult to obtain a truly comparable large sample of firms. Multiples analysis isbackward-looking‚ reliant on historical/current data to obtain multiples. It reflectsrelative value rather than the intrinsic value which DCF valuation produces.DCF analysis generates an intrinsic value as it relies on data
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Hope in old age In "Loneliness" by Laura Cortes‚ the author paints a picture of a man whose family has grown up and moved on. The poem shows that a man‚ older and alone in the world‚ can still hold on to hope for the future. Cortes establishes that the man has aged considerably since “he planted the trees forty summers ago” (line 6) and “time has gone by too soon” (13). Cortes appears to be describing the old man from when he began his family‚ perhaps when he may have married and began
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everyone in the situation safe and unharmed‚ and explains how shifting emotions such as anger from using them for violence and destruction to controlling them and using anger to leave the emergency unharmed. The excerpt from the biography Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand is about a group of men stuck in the ocean after their plane crashed during World War II. The men show the importance of being emotionally stable and handling their emotions. For example‚ instead of using their anger from the crash they
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and law breaker. He has stolen anything from liquor to multilayer cakes. He was eventually convinced to stop and become a runner. When he went to the olympics he tried to steal a germany flag when he was at the olympics. `In the book Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand‚ the main character Louie is a thief and a very rebellious person. Louie was a thief throughout his entire life. One reason is “If it was edible‚ louie stole it. Housewives who stepped from their kitchens returned to find their suppers
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