Hamlet’s first soliloquy in Act I‚ scene ii‚ lines 133-164 is a passionate and startling passage that strongly contrasts to the artificial dialogue and actions that he portrays to his uncle Claudius throughout the remainder of the play. This soliloquy serves to reveal Hamlet’s melancholia and the reasons for his dispair in an outpouring of anger‚ disgust‚ sorrow‚ and grief through which he explains how everything in his life seems futile and miserable. He mourns the death of his father‚ is sickened
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1932. With no end in sight‚ the Americans people looked to their government to protect them against starvation‚ hopelessness‚ and perpetual poverty. When Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his First Inaugural Address‚ the United States was middle of the Great Depression. The economy was at rock bottom. In his first Inaugural Address‚ Roosevelt vowed to help the nation recover from the Great Depression. He wanted to stabilize and direct the American economy (American Yawp). He says that the greatest task
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In the article “Those Terrible First Few Minutes”‚ the authors explain how to develop a protocol with better tactical options for civilians. The protocol must first follow lockdown procedures‚ minimize target profile‚ and wait for the police to arrive. This article explains how protocols will differ according to the age of the students and also the different dynamics like school events. Most schools include a generic school shooting protocol but they should not confine themselves with a protocol
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"Several years have now passed since I first realized how numerous were the false opinions that in my youth I had taken to be true‚ and thus how doubtful were all those I had subsequently built upon them." (pp.1) The First Meditation opens with Renee Descartes reflecting on all the things that he has been mistaken about‚ and all his beliefs that were built on those false ones. As a result‚ he somehow feels the need to reexamine everything he has believed in the past‚ and has set aside some time
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In the essay titled “The First Kiss‚” author John Updike portrays baseball as a love-hate relationship with its fans. Updike effetely conveys his message by appealing to pathos using metaphors‚ personification‚ and rhetorical questions. He begins with a metaphor stating‚ “The many-headed monster called the Fenway Faithful yesterday resumed its romance with 25 youngish men in red socks who last year broke its monstrous big heart.” He describes the fans of baseball as a many-headed monster implying
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confederacy and created anger among the people of America. In the beginning of the Civil War‚ Abraham Lincoln stated that he believed there were never opponents‚ and that there shouldn’t be any opposition among the people of the United States. In the First Inaugural Address‚ the speech was primarily addressed to the people of the South‚ and it was intended to succinctly state Lincoln’s intended policies and desires toward that section‚ where seven states had seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate
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Friends and Fellow Citizens:-- Called upon to undertake the duties of the first executive office of our country‚ I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled‚ to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been pleased to look toward me‚ to declare a sincere consciousness that the task is above my talents‚ and that I approach it with those anxious and awful presentiments which the greatness of the charge and the weakness of my powers
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past relationship with her father and current relationships with her children through these works of art. In Olds’ first poems‚ she
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He echoed throughout the streets of this democracy what true revolutionary ideas were. His ideas and beliefs rang true within the hearts of our fellow country-men as proven by his landslide second term victory. One of his most famous speeches‚ his First Inaugural Address‚ was spoken when he won the race for Presidency in 1980. President Reagan wanted to inspire the American people and inform them of how he planned to run the United States of America. He was not only speaking to his fellow citizens
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most difficult of circumstances. Albeit not through luck or chance‚ but facilitated through the leadership of those who have clear goals‚ a plan to meet these goals‚ and the determination to see them through. In 1933‚ Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his First Inaugural Address to the American people‚
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