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    The Lady or the Tiger

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    The Lady Or The Tiger? In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king‚ whose ideas‚ though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors‚ were still large‚ florid‚ and untrammeled‚ as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy‚ and‚ withal‚ of an authority so irresistible that‚ at his will‚ he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to self-communing‚ and‚ when he and himself agreed upon anything‚

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    Lady Macbeth

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    found particularly thought provoking was Lady Macbeth. Initially‚ she is manipulative and dominant in her relationship with Macbeth and she goads him into committing regicide but by the end she is powerless‚ desolate and stricken with guilt. She is self-deceiving because she believes she is man like and she wants power at any cost‚ but she cannot cope emotionally and goes mad because of her guilt. It is the mixture of fragility and strength than makes Lady Macbeth unique and interesting‚ and her utter

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    Lady of Shallot

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    Much of the poems charm stems from its sense of mystery and elusiveness - of course‚ these aspects also complicate the task or analysis. That said‚ most scholars understood‚ the Lady of Shallot to be about the conflict between art and life. The lady‚ who weaves a magic web and sings her song in a remote tower‚ can be seen to represent the contemplative artist isolated from the Bustle and activity of daily life. The moment she sets her art aside to gaze down on the real world‚ a curse befalls her

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    The First Lady

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    The First Lady Words cant explain the goodness of the first lady of the United States of American. The one and only Michelle Obama is a wonderful women. She helps out the country in many different ways. Words can’t explain how good she has been to us and the children around the world. She has made programs to give food and a program for children to exercise more often. Let me tell you more about‚ Michelle Obama she we born on January 17‚ 1964 in Chicago Illinois. She graduated from

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    City of Ladies

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    visionary in the fight for the equal rights of women. Her original ideas and insight provided a new and more intelligent way to view females. Pizan’s work‚ The Book of the City of Ladies‚ provided women much needed guidance in how to survive without the support of a man. It is Christine’s literary work The Book of the City of Ladies that is most intriguing to contemporary readers. Christine was the first woman writer to possess the ability to identify and address the issues of misogyny in the literature

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    The Lady Of Shalott

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    Fools Love In this narrative poem The Lady of Shalott imprudently makes decisions that will later cost her‚ her life. Four gray towers and four gray walls embower the Lady of Shalott‚ who cannot look down on Camelot or a curse is put upon her. In her mirror she gazes at a striking red-cross knight and foolishly believes to have fallen in love. This knight had no idea of her existence and he too was love crazed for another woman. The Lady of Shalott was content dwelling within the castle

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    Describing the Color Yellow to a Blind Person While people think that the color yellow represents victory and success‚ it also has strong historical and cultural associations. In some countries‚ represents happiness‚ glory‚ and wisdom. However‚ “yellow-belly” is an American expression that means a coward; it may refer to envy‚ jealousy‚ and betrayal. A “yellow movie” can refer to adult movies in Chinese culture; assigning nothing more than a negative hue to “the color of gold”. The

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    Lady With A Parrot

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    Pair 2 The pairing that I have chosen for my comparison is A Lady with a Parrot and a Gentleman With a Monkey by Casper Netscher and The anointing of David by Samuel by Benouville. Netscher and Benouville both represents human forms and use animals to draw symbolic parallels‚ they greatly differ in their depiction of the human form‚ attention to detail‚ and use of shadows in a way that greatly exemplifies the ideals of art for their time period. The medium that was used in the two was similar

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    Lady Macbeth

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    cruelty…” This is the scene where Lady Macbeth shows that she needs to find the manpower inside her to able to betray the King. This quote shows that Lady Macbeth is truly evil as she is asking spirits to grant her the strength to hide her guilt and go through with her plan without any hesitation. One the other hand though‚ it also means that deep inside her‚ she isn’t how she’s acting because she asking spirits for this privilege. This quote proves that Lady Macbeth is the person who started Macbeth

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    Ladies and Gentlemen

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    Ladies & Gentlemen” Meerim Umetalieva Strayer University Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier is a sort of guide to the qualities expected of ladies and gentlemen of the court. Book of the work is a long conversation on the proper station of the court ladies. The discussion on the Court lady began from an argument over the proper way to tell a joke to a woman. The Court lady was to have cautiousness‚ continence‚ and fairness‚ to "shun affectation‚" be graceful and well mannered‚ modest

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