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    The Neckklace Character Sketch Not once in the whole story does Mathilda ever thank her husband. She is concerned only with herself. Mathilda’s selfish greediness is also shown in her attitudes toward other people. She has one acquaintance mentioned‚ Madame Forrester. Matilda is such a type person in our society. A woman not thankful for what she has. One might perceive that Matilda and her husband are just really poor. Well from what I gathered‚ I think that she is just middle class. They may

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    Character Sketch of “The Barber” The story Just Lather‚ That’s All by Hernando Tellez‚ is about making the right decisions. It’s about a barber who must face the choice of taking revenge by killing Captain Torres‚ an executioner or to provide him with the perfect shave and thus preserve his job and his reputation. While he condemns himself to an uncertain future‚ he finally makes the right decision. “The Barber” is displayed as a heroic character by portraying intelligence‚ honour and morality.

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    Hamlet Character Sketch

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    and tells him that his uncle Claudius was the murderer. Throughout the rest of the play‚ Hamlet searches for any mere shred of evidence to prove Claudius’ guilt. Hamlet is overly rational‚ pensive‚ at times even brooding; he often uses his extreme intellect to hide his emotions. His extreme logic makes him deter vengeance on Claudius until the final scene of the play where he murders Claudius. Killing Claudius not only ends the plot to this play‚ but evolves Hamlet’s character in proving he is a true

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    Puck Character sketch

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream-Character Sketch Essay-Puck Puck is a sprite in Shakespeare’s play‚ A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He serves the fairy king Oberon; Puck is his court jester. He is very obedient and loyal to Oberon; Puck does every task he asks him to do. Puck is a trickster and joker; he plays many tricks on people. In the play Shakespeare introduces him as a “shrewd and Knavish sprite...” (2.1.35). Also as “that merry wanderer of the night” (2.2.45). Puck is the one who creates the drama

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    The Chrysalids

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    The Chrysalids is a story set in the future. In the story‚ the “normal” people living in Waknuks‚ where David came from‚ were searching for the abnormal‚ or the ”mutants” and tried to kill them. Throughout the story‚ they were very eager to look for David and the rest of his telepathy group to investigate their special powers or even‚ to kill them. The reason of them really doing so was not because of that the telepathies were actually different‚ but is due to that they were scared that the telepathies

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    The Chrysalids

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    In the beginning of chapter one of the book‚ The Chrysalids‚ David‚ the main character‚ describes a recurring dream about an unknown city. He describes the dream as a city clustered on the curve of a big blue bay. The city had unusual automobiles‚ with carts being pulled without horses and shiny fish shaped things in the sky. David’s description of the dream is quite vague and the book does not further address its significance. The reader is unaware of its importance later on in the book. David

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    The Chrysalids Essay

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    Hindi ENG1D 05/04/2014 The Chrysalids Chrysalid: scientific term meaning a sheltered state‚ or stage of growth. In the book The Chrysalids children are kept in a sheltered state and know only what they are told. A child that does not follow the ten commandments of God shall not be accepted. Some minor characters although do not agree with the rules in the Waknuk society and have an affect on the protagonist. Aunt Harriet and Uncle Axel the importance of minor characters as they significantly contribute

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    By close reference to any TWO characters in the story‚ show how they have been important in communicating the novel’s key themes. Joseph Strom portrays the theme of intolerance. When Aunt Harriet came to see Emily in the hope of exchanging babies to get the normalcy certificate‚ Joseph asked Aunt Harriet if she wasn’t ‘ashamed of producing a mockery of her Maker’. This shows that he sees the baby as a deviant and sees Aunt Harriet’s act of producing such a child to be an act of mocking the lord.

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    Brutus Character Sketch

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    "Et tu Brute?" Caesar’s simple statement sums up Brutus’ round character in the development of The Tragedy of Julius Caesar. Brutus was thought no threat and an ingenious right-hand man due to his nobility and his loyalty; however‚ these qualities are precisely why the story is such a catastrophe. What stemmed from these traits is the last expected outcome. Caesar’s surprise was so immense‚ he could only mutter these last few words. Brutus’ honorable nobility‚ his loyal patriotism‚ and his naïve

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    Axel Kornerup

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    Axel Kornerup’s Experience Director netVoice Inc January 2002 – Present (9 years 11 months) Netvoice Inc is a VoIP company focusing in making communication cost more affordable for the Philippines. In less than two years it has made its mark in the industry by allying with two industry giants‚ Net2phone the world largest retail VoIP company and PLDT the countrys largest Telecoms company. Netvoice is the first institutional company to offer Voice Over IP services in the Philippines and is now

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