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    Lucy in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe is a hero because she helps fight off the evil White Witch and save Narnia. Even though no one believes Narnia is real she continues to go there and visit the faun and beavers. She also later in the book helps defeat the white witch and her army and then saves the faun. After the battle she then heals all of the wounded soldiers with her healing potion. These prove that Lucy is a hero. In the lion the witch and the wardrobe the ordinary world is

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    It is the human instinct that the more power one wants the more degenerate activities one must do to accomplish it. In Shakespeare's disaster of Macbeth, a warrior whose respectable desire for control drives him to do shocking deeds that prompt his end. Shakespeare demonstrates that power taints by utilizing Macbeth who undermines under the prospect of having control over others. Macbeth winds up degenerate under the prospect of getting to be the best and picking up relatively entire control over

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    granting him with other talents, like the ability to soar through clouds at high speeds. While in Heaven, Monkey demands to be called Great Sage of Heaven. In order to gain immortality, he steals and eats from the Immortal Peach Garden and drinks elixir. Consequently, Monkey’s punishment is to be put to death in the alchemical crucible. As a result, the fire makes him stronger and indestructible. For example, Monkey uses his powers to rob, deceive, and battle monstrous

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    Kate Chopin’s dramatic short story “Story of an Hour” demonstrates to the reader a woman’s inner struggle of the contrasting emotions after the death of her husband. Mrs. Mallard becomes aware of the death of her husband and is stricken with grief. The grief is short lived after she is overcome of the awareness of her happiness of finally achieving independence. Finally, her grief and happiness come to a head and the contrasting emotions cost Mrs. Mallard her life. The poem “Strong Independent Woman”

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    Get Rid Of Acne and Blemish With These Hidden Tips Overview Acne is skin problem resulting from the fluctuation of hormones. At teenage, most people are promised that when they become adults, the problems with acne will stop. However, this promise is never fulfilled because there people who still experience the same challenge even at the age of thirty. This is because not all acne is as a result of hormonal changes; some are as a result of poor hygiene. The goodness is that there are ways of overcoming

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    The Hero’s Journey can be found in various films including “Big Hero 6”. If you have already seen this movie then you will know how Hiro, our main character, progresses throughout the 12 stages of the hero’s journey. In this movie Big Hero 6, Hiro Hamada shows what it means to be an epic hero throughout his journey with his diverse group of friends to save his world. In Hiro’s ordinary world, Hiro, who graduated from high school at 13 and is very smart, bot fights in a dark alley. The movie starts

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    The Archetypal Quest In almost every book you read, you will find that someone always has to go on some sort of journey or quest (Rice). If you examine each quest closely, you will notice that they are all very similar (Rice). When things are used repeatedly like that, they are said to have an archetypal pattern (Rice). The quest on which all these heroes go on is referred to as the archetypal quest (Rice). “The Wizard of Oz” focuses on a small-town girl living in Kansas. “The Epic of Gilgamesh”

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    short of witchcraft, a criticism of scientific discipline or portraying science as something evil and ungodly. Though Shelley does not seemingly describe all of science as evil or immoral, it is when Victor begins to attempt to find the spirit (the elixir) of life itself that she beings to criticise these philosophies as unchristian. Even Clerval, Victor’s best childhood friend, is presented as contrasting with Victor’s obsession with unchristian science: “…Clerval occupied himself… with the moral

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    In the Shakespearean tragedy, Romeo and Juliet, Friar Lawrence was a monk, and a counselor, who came up with intricate plots and concocted a seemingly magical elixir in order to solve problems that the lovers encountered. Friar Lawrence had a profound impact on the outcome of this Shakespearean play; however, in a way that led to catastrophe. There are many factors that caused the deaths of the lovers, but two of the most important were how Friar Lawrence disregarded his own logic, and how he missed

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    Ironies of The Story of the Hour by Kate Chopin I. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” is a story of irony. Irony is an incongruity between expectations for a situation and what is reality. Chopin uses three forms of irony in her story: situational, verbal, and dramatical in her story. II. Verbal Irony- The use of words to mean something different than what they appear to mean. A. The title of the story- “The Story of the Hour” 1.The story only takes minutes to read, although it takes place

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