Observation: Your neighbor added a farmer’s porch to his house and painted the ceiling of it blue. When you asked him why‚ he told you he had read that the sky blue ceiling would fool wasps into thinking it was the sky and they would not build any nests under the eaves of the porch or along the ceiling. Question: Would a blue ceiling really deter wasps from building nests on the porch? Introduction: There are many colloquial stories about blue painted porch ceilings. In particular‚ southerners
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This question is looking at trying to understand who and what factors led to the 11 years personal rule by Charles I. The relationship breakdown between Crown and Parliament began in 1603 with James I and ended in 1629 when Parliament was dissolved. To fully understand the causes of the breakdown we need to look what inherited problems James had to face. Elizabeth had created a debt of £400‚000 which was passed onto James‚ so already he faced severe financial problems. On top of this was the
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be the play’s main fool. In addition‚ it is he who sends everyone on hard (but funny) adventures. Puck is a fool in the true sense of the word during the time of this play - someone that entertains for his master. It was Puck’s job in this play to entertain the fairy king Oberon. I picture Puck as wearing a funny hat and pointed toe shoes. Another fool in this play would be Nick Bottom‚ but he is a fool in the present-day sense of the word. Bottom is not the type of fool who entertains his
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Inflated ego and the fool are both revealed by Nick Bottom. For example‚ in Act One‚ Scene two‚ Bottom repeatedly exaggerates how he is “such a good actor” and thinks he can play all the roles‚ pshhh. Bottom is also ‘the fool’ in A Midsummer Night’s dream; this is shown by Bottoms language and hyperbole‚ this is legit him‚ “If I do it‚ let the audience look to their eyes‚ I will move storms” (1.2.20)‚ huh‚ what a fool. Dramatic irony and pun is also employed‚ when Titania
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other to accomplish their roles in the play‚ as do Peter Quince and Nick Bottom. Robin’s role in the play is being the minion of Oberon. He accepts he is Oberon’s minion when he states‚ “I jest to Oberon and make him smile”(2.1.46). When Oberon sends him to run his errands he accepts without complaint‚ “I go‚ I go‚ look how I go!” (3.2.102). Robin is also mischievous when he does his deeds. He proves this when he turns Bottom into an ass‚ “Forsook his scene and entered in a break. / When I did
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It’s the 1920s‚ you have just came to to America‚ poor as dirt with no job. Fast forward 10 years and you are as rich as can be. How did this happen‚ it is all thanks to the American dream. In The Great Gatsby written by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the main character‚ Jay Gatsby fulfilled the American Dream by starting as a soldier‚ and building his way up to living in west egg with a frivolous mansion. The American Dream however is not perfect‚ and the author tells us so. Fitzgerald portrays the tragedy
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frivolous lives by believing their money would make them happy. It was a time of alcoholic prohibition and a time of emancipation for women. Thus‚ it was a time of parties‚ drinking and wild women for those who could afford it. Those who were at the bottom of society were constantly striving for the top of the economic ladder. This time era‚ in Long Island‚ is the basis of F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s book‚ The Great Gatsby. It has become one of the great classics in American literature and is well known
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and charming. This is shown in the words Nick talks about her: “[Daisy] dress[es] in white‚ and [has] a little white roadster” (Fitzgerald 80). This means that her daily life is linked with the color white‚ which symbolizes purity and a noble social class. However‚ her pure beauty is just a deceitful guise. Secondly‚ Daisy sustains superficial thoughts. This is indicated in the words she speaks of her daughter‚ Pammy. "[Daisy] hope[s] [Pammy] will be a fool - that is the best thing a girl can be in
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West Egg are the people who don’t have any real standing or moments The Novel also journeys to the 1900’s in the war and arrival in New York‚ an age of miracles‚ it was an time of sculpture‚ it was an age of surplus‚ and it was an age of mockery. Nick Caraway‚ recent graduate from Yale arrive home to West Egg to begin a career neighbors to the unknown Jay Gatsby Invited to the home
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2012 Diane Duncan I have chosen option no. 3 for this paper‚ exploring the course of true love in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I will be addressing the four following questions: * What functions in the plot do Puck and Bottom serve? * What purpose is served by having Titania fall in love with an ass? * How does the famous line‚ “The course of true love never did run smooth” characterize the affairs of the couples? * Why do the fairies intervene in human affairs
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