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    Othello, Why Did I Marry?

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    Encounters: Journal Entry #1 Othello 02/10/2011 “Why did I marry?” Lies‚ insecurity and perhaps self-esteem are a driving force for Othello to question his reality. Othello’s judgment seems to be clouded by self doubt‚ for example‚ “By the world‚ I think my wife be honest and think she is not. I think that thou art just and think thou art not” (Act 3‚ 395). He knows that his wife is faithful but he is uncertain of that fact. This suggests that perhaps Othello is not as confident or perfect as

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    another. There were plenty of reason why the revolution emerged in Great Britain‚ they included steadiness in their social‚ economic‚ and political views. Britain worked sedulously especially on their navy‚ since the country was surrounded by water that played an enormous role on their part. The ocean helped in varies openings to a world of an endless opportunity both in economic and political sectors. Another important advantage the British had were colonies‚ which provided limitless supply of

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    Why did the Spanish Armada fail? Charlotte Wong 7B (20) The Spanish Armada failed because of many things‚ most of them were because of they did not done a proper preparation for the battle. The Spanish was very weak and unorganized‚ they know that they were‚ but they still don’t do any preparation‚ as if they knew that they will lose. They did not done well in the tactics‚ ship design and choosing their leader. If they can’t do these basic things

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    Why Did the Civil War Begin?

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    Why Did the Civil War Begin? On 22 August 1642‚ King Charles I raised his battle standard and declared a civil war against his enemies in Parliament. A civil war is a conflict fought between inhabitants of the same country. In this case the two sides that fought against each other in England were the King ’s side known as the Royalists and Parliament ’s side known as the Parliamentarians. The main reasons for going to war were part of three or possibly four topics; they were Money‚ Religion‚

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    Judith was an illiterate. (It is argued that Shakspere wouldn’t permit his own daughter to reach the age of twenty-seven and marry without being able to read one line of the writings that made her father wealthy and locally famous) From where did William Shakspere secure his knowledge of modern French‚ Italian‚ Spanish‚ and Danish? Not to mention classical Latin and Greek? (Ben Jonson‚ who knew Shakspere intimately‚ stated that the Stratford actor understood "small Latin and less Greek")

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    Why did the 1905 Revolution fail? Liam Hunt When looking at why the 1905 revolution failed‚ we must first consider the state of affairs leading up to the revolution. One key event in the state of affairs was the separation of the Social Democrats who became known as the Mensheviks and Bolsheviks in 1903. This was because some members of the what was to become the Bolsheviks‚ wanted to have a violent revolution‚ whereas the other members wanted to wait until the capitalist stage of the Marxist

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    Why Did the Romans Invade Britain Britain had lots of things the Romans wanted          Lead Wood Tin Wool Pearls Slaves Gold Silver Corn Corn  As the Roman Empire grew bigger there were more and more people to feed  More and more Romans started living in towns leaving fewer people in the country to grow crops Valuable Metals: Silver  The Romans made their money out of silver – more coins were needed as the Empire grew.  Britain already had silver mines that the Romans knew about

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    The main reasons that the League of Nations was originally set up was to prevent war‚ encourage disarmament and as a way to settle international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. As stated by Wilson‚ ’This treaty is nothing less than an organization of liberty and mercy for the world’ (Foley 1969:129) The intentions of the League appealed to many countries‚ especially as they were still raw from the war and favourable towards pacifism. With the benefit of hind-sight it is easy to criticise

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    British Recruitment WW1 Michael Johnson Source One This source comes from the book ‘Forgotten Voices of the Great War’ written by M. Arthur and published in 2002. The source shows the story of one man’s recruitment into the army. However the source shows how the recruitment officer‚ encouraged the man to lie about his age‚ so he was eligible to recruit for the army. This shows the eagerness of the government to recruit as many people as possible‚ it shows this because the recruitment officers

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    After Von Papen had been replaced as Chancellor he thought that he could use and control Hitler and the Nazi’s because of their popularity in Germany. Of course Von Papen seriously underestimated Hitler and had no control at all; however his actions did benefit Hitler as he managed to persuade Hindenburg to make Hitler chancellor in the hope of his own power. An important fact to take out of this that is shown brilliantly in the temporary triangle was that Hitler was reliant on Von Papen and Hindenburg

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