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    Wall Street Extra Credit

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    Within this essay‚ I will be discussing the different forms of power held by the character Gordon Gekko‚ a big-shot investing guru who is both high in knowledge for his game and equally as arrogant. Power is a huge theme within this movie as Gordon Gekko throws his weight around and shows his prestige and dominance over society as well as main character Bud Fox. The specific terms within the theme of power that I will cover are Legitimate power‚ Reward power‚ Coercive power‚ Expert power‚ and Referent

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    “plain dealing villain” and remain ostracized throughout his days. This is much similar to Aaron in Titus Andronicus‚ who found great pleasure in being evil as that was the expectation of all black men in the Roman Empire. Struggling with his own legitimacy‚ Don John speaks in prose‚ associated with lower characters‚ as opposed to the blank verse that would mirror his eloquence and upbringing‚ casting light on Don’s inner struggle and conflictions. Coming to terms with his birth and accompanying stereotypes

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    Christine Graham Mr. Asnault Honors English 10 August 2010 Deep within a shell Everyone has a personality shell. For instance‚ one might have a soft shell (with a sensitive personality)‚ one might have a hard shell (with a strong-willed‚ egomaniacal personality)‚ or one might be somewhere in between. But that personality shell greatly symbolizes who they are. That same type of symbolism is greatly used in Lord of the Flies by William Golding with a conch shell‚ sharing a huge resemblance

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    Tess of the D'Urbervilles

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    Tess of the D’Urbervilles was first published in 1891 to mixed reviewas . The book is about the character Tess and it is a haunting and tragic tale set in England in the Victorian times in around about the mid 1800’s. The book was initially turned down by publishers because the story included seduction and illegitimate birth. In the book Hardy uses a lot of symbolism‚ some of which foreshadowas the events that occur later in the story. Tess’s world is rural Wessex where agriculture was the most

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    SUBJECT: ILLEGITIMATE CHILD TITLE: ILLEGITIMATE CHILD: Still a product of love If you’re an illegitimate child your life is shattered as your identity‚ your heart is broken as your home. You always seek for something yet you fail to find what’s your looking for. A vagabond that travels from place to place never finding rest‚ a bird that flies from one distant land to another never ever finding its own nest to lay. Yes – I am a child out of wedlock‚ try as I may‚ it is one

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    Amidst the escalating conflicts of the Middle East‚ there are many relationships that Khaled Hosseini illustrates throughout the book. One of the main relationships that greatly affects Mariam’s life is her double sided relationship with her father‚ Jalil. At a young age‚ Mariam is recognized as an illegitimate child of Nana and Jalil. “Nor was she old enough to appreciate the injustice‚ to see that it is the creators of the harami who are culpable‚ not the harami‚ whose only sin is being born.”(pg

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    Have you ever wanted to read a book that set you into a different time but reminded you of life today? Or how would you act if someone said this to you. "There ain’t much a feller can do when he’s married to a born whore" (Metalious 4). An interesting quote from a book right? How would if feel if this person was calling someone you know a slut? Or better yet who would right that. Well it is very simple my friend this is a story from a book I greatly enjoy a best-selling novel known Peyton Place

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    The Life Story‚ Struggle‚ and Self Sacrifice of Two Courageous Women 10. The driver who takes Babi‚ Laila‚ and Tariq to the giant stone Buddhas above the Bamiyan Valley describes the crumbling fortress of Shahr-e-Zohak as “the story of our country‚ one invader after another… we’re like those walls up there. Battered‚ and nothing pretty to look at‚ but still standing.” Discuss the metaphorical importance of this passage as it relates to Mariam and Laila. In what ways does their story reflect

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    Charismatic Legitimacy

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    charismatic legitimacy is in many ways the very opposite of traditional legitimacy. When we use the word charisma in everyday conversation‚ we usually are describing someone who is good-looking or perhaps a witty conversationalist. But in politics‚ charisma means much more. Rather than relying on the weight of history and the continuity of certain roles or values‚ charismatic legitimacy is based on the power of ideas‚ or what is sometimes called "the gift of grace." Charisma is typically embodied

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    Legitimacy Crisis

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    2014 Assignment #3 Legitimacy Crisis Revolutions result in a ubiquitous change in society. This essay ascertains themes throwing legitimacy into crisis through an evaluation of the sources of the French‚ Russian and Iranian revolutions. As stipulated by Max Weber in his legitimacy crisis ideals‚ society functions on a moral relationship between the ruler and the ruled (Hague‚ Harrop & Breslin‚ 1992:19). Non-acceptance by the ruled would result in a regime losing its legitimacy and pave way for

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