May Day Eve By Nick Joaquin The major characters in May Day Eve are Badoy‚ Agueda‚ Anastasia‚Agueda’s daughter‚ and Voltaire (Badoy’s grandson).[5] Agueda and Badoy have different personalities. Agueda was described to be a bold‚ liberated‚ and a non-conformist young woman who was “ahead of her time”. While Badoy was characterized in the beginning as a promiscuous young man who wanted to prove his machismo‚ he realized that he was “deliriously in love” with Agueda. As Don Badoy Montoya visited his
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“Terms and Conditions May Apply” offers an illuminating look at privacy in the digital age‚ and the potential dangers of it as our online information (data) is shared with the government‚ and sold to the highest bidder. In the documentary‚ Cullen Hoback shows how those “terms and conditions” and agreed policies allows corporations to do things with our personal information that we could never imagine. What are we really agreeing to when we click “I agree”? Through Interviews with tech enthusiasts
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Louisa May Alcott was writing books at the age fifteenth through fiftythree.She has wrote over 30 books in her life span. At age fifteen she wrote poems and was producing theater acts.She was asked by many people to do a book about girls and make it interesting.Alcott also went to the Civil War to be a nurse. Louisa Alcott then wrote a book called Little Woman in 1868 was the most famous book she wrote. What is Louisa May Alcott’s background what happened in her childhood? Louisa Alcott was born
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What Dreams May Come is a movie about life‚ loss‚ death‚ afterlife and rebirth. The film explores the emotions evoked by a variety of characters when they are faced with coping with tragedy and death. It also delves into the manifestations of heaven and the variety of forms heaven takes in the minds of different people. The main character‚ Dr. Christian Nielsen‚ and his wife Annie Collins are forced to cope with the tragic deaths of their two children Marie and Ian. The children’s deaths almost
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Hamlet vs. What Dreams May Come "Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune‚ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles" In the movie "What Dreams May Come" there are two people who fit this quote. Chris and Annie are the parents of the children that have both died. The mother Annie goes insane for a short period of time‚ while the father Chris is strong-willed and shows no signs of insanity. He is the noble minded one who suffers till the outrageous
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Instructor Smith English 10-4 8 February 2013 The Centaur “The Centaur” by May Swenson portrays an imaginative‚ care free young girl as she becomes one with what she thinks is the centaur‚ she is “the horse and the rider” (38) ‚ but eventually her mother brings to an end her wild ride. Through structure‚ diction‚ figurative language‚ and imagery‚ Swenson describes a special time for the ten year old girl. The structure in the poem illustrates the freedom of youth and playfulness. The poem
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William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a play primarily about the protagonist’s struggle to discover absolute certainty within a world plunged into instability. While Hamlet is reflective of the ideologies and contextual values which were of integral importance within the Elizabethan period‚ his dramatic exploration of this struggle continues to resonate with contemporary audiences. Through the use of dramatic techniques‚ Shakespeare explores the moral ambiguity and uncertainty existing within the kingdom
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How the effectiveness of HCIs may be measured Quantitative measures of effectiveness Speed The speed at which an interface interacts with the user is fundamental to its effectiveness. If it reacts very slowly to a user then it is likely to be ineffective. Speed can be measured as: • How quickly the user can input a command • The speed at which a user can type in any data • The speed of throughput‚ or the response given by the interface • The length of time necessary for the user to comprehend
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"The chief festivities occurred at Michaelmas‚ Christmas‚ Easter‚ and May Day. Of these‚ the first and the last were closely connected with the seigneurial system. On Michaelmas the habitant came to pay the annual rental for his lands; on May Day he rendered the Maypole homage which‚ has been already described. Christmas and Easter were the great festivals of the Church and as such were celebrated with religious fervor and solemnity. In addition‚ minor festivals‚ chiefly religious in character‚ were
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Better or Worse? In George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm‚ the animals demonstrate several ways of how humanity behaves. The novel is an allegory with animals illustrating human behaviour during the Russian Revolution. Throughout this time‚ the main aspect of human behaviour in the novel is the animals showing the worst of their intentions‚ however there are also good qualities exposed. The better quality that was showed most was loyalty meanwhile the awful qualities revealed was greed‚ and the
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