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    Oedipus the King

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    Michael J. O ’Brien. Englewood Cliffs‚ NJ: Prentice‚ 1968. 111-121. Print. ---. The Heroic Temper: Studied in Sophoclean Tragedy. Berkeley: U of California P‚ 1964. Rosefeldt‚ Paul. "From Strange Interlude to Strange Snow: A Study of the Absent Character in Drama." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology (Aug. 2002): 117(14). Academic OneFile. Gale. Web. 14 Sept. 2008  . Segal‚ Charles. "Criticism by Charles Segal." Discovering Authors. Online ed. Detroit: Gale‚ 2003. Student Resource Center -

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    Throughout the story Theseus learns a great deal of what it is to be a king. Not just any king but a king that is truthful‚ and loyal to his people‚ a king that has great leadership skills and can protect his people. Theseus also believed in justice and that is must be carried out. At a very young age Theseus quickly gained his leadership skills. This was when he traveled to Eleusis and became king. He quickly learned that Eleusis was a female dominated society and wanted to change their customs

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    King Lear's Insanity

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    Shakespeare’s King Lear it initially appears that the same formula is going to be followed with Lear‚ a broken old king who has lost everything‚ running out into a violent storm unprotected. However‚ Shakespeare does something unexpected with Lear’s madness that keeps readers interested in the story hundreds of years after it was written. In King Lear‚ Lear’s madness is actually beneficial because of the enlightenment it brings him and because of what his madness leads other characters to do in response

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    Oedipus the King

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    grazing cattle‚       makes women in labour lose their children.       And deadly pestilence‚ that fiery god‚       swoops down to blast the city‚ emptying       the House of Cadmus‚ and fills black Hades       with groans and howls… OEDIPUS - CHARACTER OEDIPUS: My poor children‚ I know why you have come—       I am not ignorant of what you yearn for.       For I well know that you are ill‚ and yet‚                                             [60]       sick as you are‚ there is not one of you                                      

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    king

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    10. The gravimetric determination of nickel in alloys Gravimetric analyses belong to the most precise‚ because contemporary analytical balances make possible determination of the mass of a sample with great accuracy. In these analyses one should obtain high purity compound of the analyzed element or a compound directly obtained from the analyzed substance). This reaction has to be exactly stoichiometric. It is also important that the weighed compound was non-hydroscopic and stable in air‚ it also

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    Horror King Stephen King Known as the Horror King‚ Stephen King has earned that title with his award winning novels such as Carrie‚ The Dead Zone‚ and The Shining. Stephen King has written more than two hundred works of literature including his novels‚ short stories‚ and poems‚ one hundred and seventy eight of which were turned into works of film. Born on September 21‚ 1947 in Portland‚ Maine‚ Stephen King was raised by a mostly single parent. Stephen’s father “left the house to buy a pack of

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    Characters

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    Characters- be they villains‚ vagrants‚ kings‚ or commoners – are the essence of Shakespeare’s plays. The essence of anything lies in the set of attributes that render it the characteristics of its substance‚ purpose and function. In Shakespeare’s play‚ “Macbeth”‚ the essence of the play are the characters. Shakespeare uses a variety of different characters and all of them carry a different idea about our society. This includes kings‚ who carry the idea of chivalry‚ majesty and kindness; villains

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    Character

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    the novel‚ though the main conflicts occur in the very first chapter‚ when Katsa‚ the main character‚ rescues a Lienid grandfather who had been kidnapped and imprisoned in a dungeon cell. This books genre is fiction since this story occurs in a very different world from ours. Kasta and the council‚ a group that has grown throughout all seven kingdoms‚ know who kidnapped the Lienid grandfather‚ which was King Murgon of Sunder‚ but they do not understand why he would do it since he did not usually

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    King Lear's Dementia

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    an instance. Like Lear in Shakespeare’s he was blinded by dementia which caused him to make irrational decisions‚ when Gloucester lost his sight‚ he managed to see the truth which was right before his eyes all these while. Blindness can be a gift of darkness‚ it allows you to settle down and focus only on your own thoughts. It helps heighten your senses and enables you to probe deeper than just the surface meaning. Dementia can be said as a form of blindness. It causes King Lear to be blind to the

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    Character

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    his love with the outside world and one another. For leaders to accurately convey God’s love‚ they must possess good character. Good character requires one to act in righteousness and uphold the laws of the Lord. The godly character of a good leader can translate into corporate firms. “Doing what’s right” represents a company and their product or service. A firm’s character is further analyzed through managers and their skill set. Conceptual skills are skills managers use to think and conceptualize

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