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    glance, Forbidden Planet can easily be seen to parallel many other works relating to technology, nature, or both. One of the most obvious parallels is, of course, to Shakespeare 's The Tempest, the story of a man stranded on an island which he has single-handedly brought under his control through the use of magic. Indeed, the characters, plot, and lesson of Forbidden Planet mirror almost exactly those of The Tempest, with the exception that where The Tempest employs magic, Forbidden Planet

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    Sama Alaa El Feky  900121886 Monday, May 23, 2016 Professor Justin Kolb Seventeenth Century Literature Paper 3 Milton’s Paradise Lost & Lanyer’s Eve’s Apology: Who makes the better Eve argument? Being the first to fall for the biggest sin and the sole representation of women, God’s Eve has been distinctively portrayed countless times. Both John Milton and Aemilia Lanyer convey two stimulating views of Eve. Milton in Paradise Lost captures Eve as a rebel who risks an entire mankind to evil, while

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    In the book A Separate Peace by John Knowles there are several biblical archetypes. These biblical archetypes give the reader an insight into the deeper meaning of the text. This adds a greater significance to the story, and gives the reader a greater understanding. Some examples of these biblical archetypes are the garden of Eden, baptism, and Judas and Jesus. The garden of Eden is a paradise, in which there is the tree of the knowledge of good in evil. Adam and Eve both live in Eden, and God tells

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    specific to choose an apple tree because the tree alludes to the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Bad in the Bible. Although, it isn’t specified that the tree is an apple tree, traditionally it is assumed that it is. In the Bible, the story of the forbidden apple relates to

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    verses in the city; how would you decide? Both have their own set of advantages and disadvantages; positives and negatives. There are many differences that could make a person’s decision where to live very easy. Whether a person prefers the country life or the city life, there is a choice we all have to make at some point in our lives. Let’s compare some of them. Living in the country, individuals feel need to have their own personal space and away from other people and closer to nature. City dwellers

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    enhance their prestige and represent their value within their empire. Leaders of cities such as Versailles, Isfahan and Chinese Imperial cities have implemented architecture in countless ways to portray their own importance and power over their people. The use of axis and baroque planning is a prime example of how leaders use city planning to enhance their power by controlling views and how people travel though the city. Ornamentation and colour are other ideas often used to represent power and riches

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    several advantages and disadvantages of citizenship. An advantage was that citizens had the right to seek specific jobs; a disadvantage was that some legal requirements were forgotten about. A city

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    During the Post-Classical Age, cities and urban areas in Muslim society played critical roles in religion because Muslim people had to make religious pilgrimages to Holy Cities such as Mecca and Jerusalem, trade because the cities had huge complexes which allowed trade to flourish, and cultural advancement because the cities were filled with a variety of different people as well as there were great advancement in education. Cities in Muslim society played a major role in religion because they

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    institutional racism, poverty, and poor education, there was a growing controversy with the use of streets in the city. Jennifer Tilton, writer of Cruising Down the Boulevard discusses the rhetorical and institutional harms towards youth being in public and private property while Ulf Hannerz analyzes different subsets of Urban Studies and how they can be used to think about societal circumstances in the city. Privatization of urban spaces is both a predecessor and result of alienation of misunderstood persons

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    I felt my heart hammer and my legs weak. That tiny dot, the city, from the start of the day had made me the tiny specimen instead as I stood under its giant wall. A girl can’t help but feel nervous as she entered a new chapter in her life. It was evening and my treacherous long journey across the jagged rocks and down the steep mountains had led me finally to the city’s gates. It was beautiful, it was everything I hoped for as I took in the firm yet glimmering poles that stood side by side to

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