As You Like It - the Play As You Like It is considered by many to be one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies‚ and the heroine‚ Rosalind‚ is praised as one of his most inspiring characters and has more lines than any of Shakespeare’s female characters. Rosalind‚ the daughter of a banished duke falls in love with Orlando the disinherited son of one of the duke’s friends. When she is banished from the court by her usurping uncle‚ Duke Frederick ‚ Rosalind switches genders and as Ganymede travels with
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Who would you be if you have never experienced sadness? Would you be who you are today? I don’t believe you would. You see‚ emotional balance plays a big role in enhancing your experiences. You must have equal parts of joy and sorrow in order to live a balanced life. Without it‚ you would have no way to learn from your mistakes. Having an ebullient attitude will always lead you to a better life. However‚ in order to know what ebullience is‚ we must be capable of learning from our bad experiences
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Personality: What makes you the way you are? - Science News - The Independent At some point in your life‚ you ’ve probably filled in a personality questionnaire ("Do you see yourself as....?")‚ and wondered as you ticked the boxes if there can really be any validity to such a simplistic way of assessing people. Surely the scores just reflect your mood on the day‚ or what you want the investigator to think. Surely everyone gives the same answer‚ which is "it depends". Or even if the scores measure
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If I could travel back in time In this competitive world‚ sometimes we wish to make time stop and travel back to the past. I’m definitely sure that everyone at least once in his or her life thought: “If I could go back in time‚ I would…” All of us have something in our past that we want to change. Personally I regret that my UPSR result was not ideal. If I have a time machine‚ I will travel back to my golden age of about 10 years old. I have many reasons to explain my choice. Firstly
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What do you like and what don’t you like in the system of our education? No doubt that education plays a very important role in our life. However‚ having studied at the University for 3 years‚ my own opinion about the system of higher education in Russia has formed and I’d like to share my thoughts with you. First of all‚ I would like to single out the things I like. Due to the system of our Education we get thorough knowledge for our future profession which will be very
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feel my legs. Every time I mutter a word I can feel as my lips crack and a drop of blood leaks out. In the smoke surrounding me from our fire I can make out a beautiful woman caressing her belly. She appears to be about 7 months pregnant. It’s my wife. This is the last memory I have of her. By this time my child should be about 9 months old. Wow‚ how time flies by. I can’t believe I have missed her first words‚ her first smile‚ her first steps. What I wouldn’t give to go back home and be able to
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Catharsis in As You Like It Literature is meant to teach. Its purpose is to shed light upon the soul and offer up the best and worst of humanity. All the stories we read‚ all the characters we relate to and begin to understand‚ they all have a tale to tell and a lesson to be learned. This is precisely what makes literature so vital to the human spirit. It is here that we enter the world of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It ‚ a story set in a fantastical forest. As we follow the true love of Orlando
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Would You Have Quit At Valley Forge? “What we know today was not known in late December 1777.” The soldiers had no idea that the French were coming to their aide‚ they thought that continuing in the in their present course at Valley Forge was sure to end in death. In the winter of 1777‚ the Continental Army under George Washington’s command‚ established the winter fort‚ Valley Forge‚ about 18 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The question asks if you had been a soldier at Valley Forge‚ would you’ve
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Belonging is a fundamental human need in As You Like It‚ which Shakespeare deals with through the central aspects of belonging to place and relationships. In As You Like It people’s connection to the court and nature are contrasted‚ as the court is a place of corruption and the forest a place of harmony. The characters experience exclusion and a disconnection from the court‚ so come to find happiness and acceptance in the forest. Shakespeare explores the relationships to friends‚ family and love
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Would You Like Prozac With That? With all those strategically developed commercials for antidepressants such as Abilify‚ Cymbalta‚ and my personal favorite‚ Zoloft‚ it’s easy to see why one in 10 Americans over the age of 12 turns to these happy pills when they’re down. Since the late ‘90s‚ antidepressants have become very popular. So popular‚ in fact‚ that their usage has increased by 400% in the last two decades. Not only that‚ but many users don’t even need the pills. In 2011‚ the National
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