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    For our multimodal assignment I chose to do a video that corresponds to one of my favorite poems called Loves Deceit by Big Rube. Some factors that had an impact on why I chose this poem was because I felt like a lot of people haven’t heard it before or don’t know about the poem, unless they watched ATL a film made in 2006. Also, I feel like the poem can relate to a lot of us who have been in love before and for the reason that the author who created this poem is an American rapper and hip-hop producer

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    Deceit is the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth. Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is an allegorical, dystopian, satire, that reflects the events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917. He uses animals to bring a comedic outlook to shy away from the seriousness and make fun of the Russian Revolution. The animals chosen for each individual in this revolution is used as a persona of that specific person. In saying that, each animal is somewhat

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    captain” who has “little of command but the name”, Captain Delano fails to latch onto his intuition of who is truly in command of the ship until it’s almost too late. There are many subtle clues that hint at the notion of Melville spinning a web of deceit in Benito Cereno, but the most revealing clue that best exemplifies this is when Babo attempts to stab his beloved “master”—Benito Cereno. In what seems to be an emotional ending to the novella, Benito Cereno bids his emotional adieus to Captain Delano

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    Lies and deceit are major components in the development of the plot of Charles Dickens’s nineteenth-century novel, Great Expectations. Deceit, the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth, coupled with lying tend to be the prevailing character trait of many of the characters in the novel. As a matter of fact, Dickens not only inaugurates the story with a lie, but the deception continues to shape the plot until the end. One of the fabricators in the novel

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    In Edmond Rostand’s play Cyrano De Bergerac, characters discuss about poetry, writings, eloquence, war, bravery and love. The main character, Cyrano is a noble man. People love him because he fearlessly shows his eloquence at the Hotel de Bourgogne Theatre one day. Since that day, everyone loves to hear his poetry and words he has to say. He is excellent in words and admired by many people. Throughout the play, Cyrano struggles with his large nose that became a stumbling block to embrace true love

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    Vicario in Chronicle of a Death Foretold, her lie ends up costing an innocent man his life. In the novel, Angela falsely accuses Santiago Nasar of deflowering her, thus causing her older brothers to kill him as an attempt to restore honor. Angela’s deceit is strikingly similar to that of Abigail Williams’ in Arthur Miller’s play, The Crucible. In The Crucible, Abigail charges several townsfolk of being witches, resulting in several innocent deaths. While the two pieces of work are dissimilar in plotline

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    afterlife, it doesn’t stop any of them from being dishonest or deceitful. When Marcellus says “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”(1.4.90), he’s right and Shakespeare uses the characters actions and their inevitable deaths to show us that deceit and lies are what is rotten in Denmark. The most important event that drives the majority of the other characters to their deaths is one of deception. Claudius murders his brother, who was the king of Denmark so he can become king. Claudius is aware

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    importantly, deceit. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, deceit is the act of deceiving someone by hiding or misrepresenting what is true. However, there are two different types of deceit. There is a lighter side of deceit, where deceit is used to hide or twist things that in the end, will help out a person or benefit them in some way. There is also a darker side, where a person uses deceit to harm others or to gain something for themselves. Shakespeare represents the human condition of deceit in

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    E-Mack Brown Mr. Sutterfield College Composition 1 29 October, 2017 Effects of Deceit: A Look At the Stanley Milgram Experiment A recent Pew poll shows there is an increasingly substantial amount of public disagreement about basic scientific facts, facts such as the human though process (Scientific American). People in today’s society believe that studies, for example the Stanley Milgram Experiments, are falsified and irrelevant. In “The Perils of Obedience” Stanley Milgram, an experienced psychologist

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    A Streetcar Named Desire is a socially challenging play in light of the way in which Tennessee Williams depicts the capacity of human nature for brutality and deceit.  He takes the viewpoint that, no matter how structured or 'civilized' society is, all people will rely on their natural animal instincts, such as dominance and deception, to get themselves out of trouble at some stage in life.  William's has created three main characters, Blanche Dubois, Stella Kowalski and Stanley Kowalski. Each of

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