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    “Yet I seek not a fellow feeling in my misery. No sympathy may I ever find. When I first sought it‚ it was the love of virtue‚ the feelings of happiness and affection with which my whole being overflowed‚ that I wished to be participated. But now that virtue has become to me a shadow‚ and that happiness and affection are turned into bitter and loathing despair‚ in what should I seek for sympathy? I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die‚ I am well satisfied that abhorrence

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    Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation Martin Luther was the most influential person of the 15th and 16th century the reason being he rebelled against the catholic church the highest authority in the world at that time. When Martin Luther went against the church he not only reformed Christianity but reformed every person in Europe into a thinking human being. So when looking at the most influential people of the time Martin Luther paved the path for all modern sciences. Martin Luther’s Ninety

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    In his Poetics‚ Aristotle set forth the characteristics of good tragedy. To him the two most important features of tragedy were plot and character. The plot should contain a change in fortune‚ preferably from good to bad‚ and should ideally hinge on a recognition or discovery. T The main character‚ the protagonist‚ should be a person in whom good and bad are mixed but in whom the good predominates. That definition is usually paraphrased as "a basically noble person with

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    HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE Old English 496-1050 Middle English 1050-1500 Modern English 1500 onwards OLD ENGLISH Old English literature encompasses literature written in Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon)‚ during the 600-year Anglo-Saxon period of England‚ from the mid-5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066. These works include genres such as epic poetry‚ hagiography‚ sermons‚ Bible translations‚ legal works‚ chronicles‚ riddles‚ and others. In all there are about 400 surviving manuscripts from

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    ASPECTS OF MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE (1066-1500) Middle English‚ Anglo-Norman‚ Anglo-Latin After the Conquest: dramatic changes in language and cultural temperament Old English literature: Middle English literature realistic‚matter-of-fact‚unromantic‚ growing audience‚ a panorama of most serious‚ often melancholic‚ diverse folk of many social classes (castle‚ monochrome gray‚ loyalty to the lord‚ barnyard‚ town); the appearance of leasure desperate courage in defeat‚ class

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    Excellencies‚ Ladies & Gentlemen‚ My name is Charles‚ I am a freshmen in UCLA and I am the candidate for the Student Parliament Minister of Environment. I heard that last year members of the Student Parliament did a great job by improving the school’s conditions to our needs‚ organizing events for students. However‚ I think that the Council needs some refreshment - new faces‚ new ideas are to come in and reinforce the experience of the old ones with their enthusiasm. In my opinion

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    EMPIRICISM - LOCKE Empiricism is defined as the view that knowledge comes from experience via the senses‚ and that science also flourishes through observation and experiment. An Empirical Theory of Knowledge For Locke‚ all knowledge comes exclusively through experience. He argues that at birth the mind is a tabula rasa‚ or blank slate‚ that humans fill with ideas as they experience the world through the five senses. Locke defines knowledge as the connection and agreement‚ or disagreement

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    IMPORTANT QUESTIONS IN PHYSICS (CLASS XII) ELECTROSTATICS One mark questions. 1. If a point charge is rotated in a circle of radius r around a charge q‚ what will be the be the work done? 2. Does the electric potential increase or decrease along the electric line of force? 3. Give the relation between electric intensity and electric flux. 4. What is the dielectric constant of a metal? 5. What is the potential energy of two equal negative point charges 2μC each held 1m apart in air?

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    traditional gender roles with a female’s inheritance of the throne following two kings accused of effeminacy generated an anxiety expressed through literature and incited the debate well into the Renaissance. This anxiety along with a period of transition for the definition of nobility helped sustain the debate for several years into the next two centuries. The Authors and Their Arguments The three authors share the common theme of nobility‚ both of character and of social status. The topic was certainly

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