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    Matthew Hope is the featured character of the Matthew Hope series of legal thrillers by Ed McBain. The first novel of the Matthew Hope series of novels was Goldilocks that McBain first published in 1978. When we are introduced to Matthew Hope in the 1978 debut Goldilocks, he is a bor and bred New Yorker who moves down the country to Florida. He finds a job at a small legal firm in Calusa, where he intends to hone his skills practicing as a civil lawyer. Despite being determined to do good as a civil

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    Throughout the years scientists have considered birds to be monogamous species, mainly because majority of the animals that put in equal efforts(like birds) in rearing their offspring are. However recent advancement in genetic fingerprinting technology shows that a significant proportion of the offspring were conceived through Extra Pair Mating. Scientist still haven 't fully understood what factors lead to this behavior. However, with all the research done in this field there seems to be a relative

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    Name Instructor Name Class Date Review: The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit Sloan Wilson’s novel, The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, takes place in post-WWII America, in the idyllic setting of the 1950s. The main protagonist, Tom Roth, lives with his wife Betsy in Connecticut with their three children. Their home is rundown and they have money problems. Tom, a veteran of the war, works at a charitable organization in New York City, and is often haunted by flashbacks of his experiences in the war

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    Scene 1 of Act IV of Othello is a turning point in Othello’s relationship with Desdemona and in the plot as a whole. Rhetorical devices develop a stark contrast between this version of Othello and his demeanor in earlier scenes. This shift in character is accompanied by a shift in tone, and together they serve to push the plot towards Othello’s impending collapse. Othello’s use of invective exclamations and inferences throughout the scene create his accusatory and hostile tone while instilling apprehension

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    lack of communication in a union can prompt strain and isolation, even in the ones that were solidified and built on loyalty and sacrifice. Ross uses an insignificant object, the painted door, to re-define and symbolize the true archetype, as being infidelity “Questioning Devotion turned Betrayal”. The painted door is used as a tragic irony towards the conclusion of the

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    to undergo early 30 surgeries, a couple miscarriages and an amputation of her leg, close to her death. The emotional pain came from her rocky relationship with her husband, who she married, and divorced to marry again, and had to deal with his infidelities until the very

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    unfaithful to her mother, but everyone felt ‘warm’ when he was in the house.This carries the idea that even something as sacred as a marriage can be compromised. I myself have witnessed engagements among my own friends slip through the cracks because of infidelity and

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    antagonist. That being said, that does not absolve all the complications the storm has caused. The idea of a storm being blamed for the misbehavior of the two can be thought of as a sensible justification. Nevertheless, the storm only prompted the infidelity between the two. Both characters perpetuated the events that have occurred during the

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    Euripides’ Medea is different from most Greek plays due to the characterization of Medea, who offers a paradox between men and women, and more specifically, Medea and Greek women. The playwright himself opposes traditional Greek mythology through his progressive anti-war, pro women and anti religious ideas. The play is based in a male dominated society, allowing Jason and Creon to casually yet brutally throw Medea aside. Women, in Greek culture, lack authority amongst the men who believe they

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    shares a close relationship her. Emilia’s close relationship with Desdemona allows for reader’s to obtain a greater insight into Desdemona’s thoughts and emotions. In one particular scene, Desdemona and Emilia are deep in conversation about the infidelity of women; Desdemona questions Emilia if she would ever consider to “do such a deed for all the world” to which Emilia replies “The world’s a huge thing; it is a great price for a small vice” (IV.III.75-80). This scene portrays the vast difference

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