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Aristotle On Tragedy
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1049.... righteousness; nor is it through badness or villainy of his own that he falls into misfortune, but rather through some flaw [hamartia]". The character should be famous or prosperous, like Oedipus or Medea.
What Aristotle meant by hamartia cannot be established. In each play we read you should particularly consider the following possibilities. (1) A hamartia may be simply an intellectual mistake or an error in judgement. For example when a character has the facts wrong or doesn't know when to stop trying to get dangerous information. (2) Hamartia may be a moral weakness, especi .....
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Robert Hunter
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2443.... modern concepts and written in a more current style. Last are themes that are either used frequently in both contemporary and traditional ways, or transcend the division of contemporary/traditional and form their own categories.
One of the main traditional themes that Hunter uses is the gambling theme. The poems "Candyman" and "Loser" exemplify this motif the best:
Come on boys and gamble
Roll those laughing bones.
Seven come eleven, boys
I'll take your money home.
--"Candyman"
Last fair deal in the country, sweet Suzy
Last fair deal in the town.
Put you .....
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Edgar Allan Poe
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1971.... He succeeded there and In 1829
he signed for an officer-training. This was the same year as he published his
second book "Al Aaraaf, Tamberlane and minor poems" but this time under the name
of Edgar A Poe. Before he left his training he got financial help from the other
cadets to publish his third version of the book, although Poe called this book a
second version. In this book there are famous poems as "To Helen" and "Israfel".
These poems show the musical effect that has come to characterize Poe's poems.
Later Poe moved to Baltimore to live with his ant. There he married h .....
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The Life Of Sid Vicious
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1230.... loved John, and made a request to legally adopt
his stepson. Before the adoption could go through though, Chris died of ill
health. John later changed his name from John Ritchie to John Beverly.
John attended the Soho Primary School where he horrified his
teachers when he told them that he no longer believed in God. John left
this school with two zero levels in English Literature and English Language
and absolutely no ambition to pursue his academic studies.
John went back into education by taking a photography class at
Hackney. During his time at Hackney his life changed .....
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Raymond Mary Kolbe
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1013.... finishing preliminary studies at the junior seminary, Maximilian was sent to Rome where he studied theology and philosophy. Ordained to the priesthood in 1918, Father Maximilian taught Church History at a seminary in Cracow in 1919. Although the Whiskey priest’s history was not crimeless like Father Kolbe’s, he still taught mass proceedings and baptism.
After being diagnosed with tuberculosis and surviving a near fatal heart attack, Maximilian was determined to organize the first group of the Militia outside of Italy. The phenomenal growth of this apostolate between 1927 .....
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Orson Welles
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1157.... recognize them." [To Kennety Tynan, 1967]
is often referred to as a “Renaissance man”, an individual who’s ambitious and concerned with revolutionizing multiple aspects of life. He was a prolific writer and talented actor who often appeared in his own productions. A gifted artist, Welles, coupled his abundant energy with an enthusiasm for life. He tried everything and was not afraid to take risks and to suffer the consequences of failures as well as the acclaims of success.
While, some critics say that Welles could never top “Citizen Kane”, such movies as “The Trial”, “Touch .....
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Ray Bradbury
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1251.... sensations, feelings, and images that generate great stories. As a child he was first inspired by seeing "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". "His childhood was that of a pleasant memory of a half-forgotten dream" (Person I). In 1932, after his father was laid off his job as a electrical lineman, the Bradbury family again moved to Tucson and again returned to Waukegan the following year. In 1934 the Bradbury family moved to Los Angeles, California.
Bradbury graduated from a Los Angeles High School in 1938. His formal education ended there, but he furthered it by himself -- at ni .....
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Moll Flanders 2
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 734.... teach me, yet I learn'd by imitaion and enquiry, all that they learn't by instruction and direction.". Here she learns many different skills that could help her through out her life span but not once does she use these skills to make a good living.
In this wealthy house she falls in love with a gentleman (older brother). Not once but in many different occasions she lets him make love to her and then takes the money that he offers to her as if it was job not love. In the end things don't turn out to the way Moll wanted them to and gets married to Robin (younger brother). .....
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