Captain Vere’s decision to rush Billy’s trial and execution can be justified from both a legal and military standpoint. Melville mentions many times throughout the book that the punishment for killing a superior officer‚ is death by hanging. Claggart is Billy’s superior officer‚ so by killing him‚ even accidentally‚ Billy is immediately subjected to the law. Rumors of a mutiny had been circulating around the ship‚ the last thing the Captain would want to allow to fester by delaying Billy’s trial
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Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Edgar Allan Poe‚ Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ all are highly acclaimed American poets of the 19th century‚ particularly ranging from between the years 1820-1860. Between the years 1820 -1860‚ is considered as the Romanic Period‚ which was the follow up from the Romantic Movement that started in Germany. The Romantic Movement surfaced in the America in 1820‚ and ended up coinciding with the period of national expansion‚ and the exploration or a
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In The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon‚ Christopher seems incapable of telling the story but becomes a rather wonderful narrator. From the first few pages it is clear that Christopher struggles in reading others emotions. In addition to this‚ without the help of Siobhan‚ Christopher’s grammar would have made the narration of this novel disjointed and very repetitive. Although this occurs at times‚ it does not take away from the narration but rather adds to the character
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Christopher’s Mom when he was 13 years old she had an affair with Roger‚ Mr Shears she decides to leave her son and her husband because she thinks that they would be better of without her ( London) this hurts her husband Ed so badly that he tells Christopher his mother had died because of a heart attack Outer appearance “small person” (p.24) “smells nice” (p.24) “smoker” (p.96) Character traits and behaviour we get to know from the novel “hot-tempered” woman‚ who gets angry
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Assignment no 1 LIN2602 Unique no 224185 (1) Inflection | Example | Derivation | Example | It creates new words forms of the lexeme. | language→lan-guages. | It creates new lexemes with a completely new meaning. | Educate+ -ion→educa-tion. | It never changes the part of speech of a word. | language=noun languages=noun | It sometimes changes the part of speech of word | Educate=verbEducation= noun | It affixes tend to have a regular meaning. | The –s indicates the
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Remember the Titans Opening scene – arriving at Gary’s funeral. The Titans theme music is playing as they walk up the hill to Gary’s grave site. Verbal Technique of narration by voice-over Sheryl: “In Virginia highschool football is a way of life. It’s bigger than Xmas day. My daddy coached in Alexandria. He worked so hard my momma left him. But I stayed with coach‚ he needed me on that field. Up until 1971 in Alexandria there was no race mixing. Then the school board forced us to integrate
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the white football coach‚ Bill Yoast‚ was replaced by a black football coach‚ Herman Boone. There was uproar among the white players and their parents because their white head coach was being replaced. The players attended a training camp where white and black players do not mix. An exception was a fat white player who sat with the blacks. In the camp‚ the white and black players were hostile to each other. Coach Boone made them sit together in the bus and even had each of them having a roommate
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Civil Rights movement‚ when all-black and all-white high school has been combined in Alexandria‚ West Virginia. Football was the only thing this town was known for‚ the school year begins not in school but on the football field. It starts with Herman Boone‚ a coach from South Carolina who is a hard core coach who doesn’t take any shit. He was hired by white board to please black population of their new school‚ which put coach Bill Yoast in the assistant coach position. It was Boone’s job to unite
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complications start. The white players are reluctant to play with the black players as a team. Herman Boone (Denzel Washington)‚ a strict coach who loves the game‚ replaces Yoast as head coach. Boone believes in team play. During the summer training camp‚ he teaches the players how to play but also how to bond; become friends. When school starts‚ the season starts. With an all-new team in place‚ Boone and Yoast team up to make the team better than ever. Helping out the team is Yoast’s
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apart by racial hatred and the order to integrate their public high schools. Reluctantly‚ the school board replaces Bill Yoast (Will Patton)‚ the popular white coach‚ with Herman Boone (Denzel Washington)‚ a reputable black coach‚ as head coach of the T.C. Williams Titans football team. Yoast‚ under an invitation from Boone‚ accepts the position as coach of the defensive line. Together they inspire‚ not just the team‚ but the town to “Trust the soul of a man rather than the look of him.” This
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