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    Lady Macbeth was most responsible for the death of King Duncan. It’s clear that there were a few people involved leading up to the death of King Duncan, but the most important was Lady Macbeth. No one played a more important role than herself in making the devious plan for Macbeth to become king. She was the obvious mastermind behind the murder. Even when Macbeth revealed his discontent with the situation, she masterfully manipulated and goaded Macbeth to do things he couldn’t bring himself to. Lady

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    Martin Luther King Fought for what he thought was right. How would you feel if you were being targeted by over half of the population. “Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends”(American Rhetoric). People of all races should be together thought King. King's father was a minister and so he was a believer in god. Martin Luther King was a good man and was loved. Heros are the people who will always give it their all. Heros are leaders. Heros take a stand when they

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    In “The Man who Loved Flowers” by, Stephen King, characterization is used to affect our understanding of the text. The young man’s character is revealed in many ways throughout the story. Through an attractive appearance, bold actions, and positive effects on others the reader understands that the protagonist is an unexpected psycho killer. In the story King says, “He was dressed in a light grey suit…His hair was dark and cut short”. The young man also had a “fair completion, and light blue eyes”

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    The Twelve Dancing Princesses by Brothers Grimm 1. This story is a fairy tale. Fairy tales are fictional stories that usually have fork lore characters. The story talks about a king who had twelve princesses. They would sneak out during the night for a dance with twelve princes. The story can also be classified as a short story. Short stories are those narratives that can be read in one sitting and its plot usually involves one main conflict with a solution. The conflict in the story revolves around

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    Andrew Jackson, who was the seventh President of the United States, was more of a “king” than a President of the common man. He “walked his own path” and did not listen to the Federal Government on what should be accomplished, he is extremely selfish, and he did not create equality for all people. Normally, the President should make decisions based on what is best for majority of the citizens as a whole; a President who does do those things could be called a President of the “common man.” However, Andrew

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    King Henry V, is one of the only successful monarchs in Shakespeare’s plays. He displays great strength and intelligence. King Henry V is capable of uniting all of his people in his St. Crispin’s Day speech as they prepare to go to battle. The troops were greatly outnumbered and believed they had no chance at winning. But King Henry makes them feel like they are part of something important, and by doing this he motivates them to fight their hardest. In the excerpt we are given, King Henry V rose

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    Man Who Loved Flowers

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    given to the reader that would allow them to figure out the resolution. An epitome of this would be the short story, “The Man Who Loved Flowers” by Stephen King. The story is about how a young man who is walking on the street of New York and buys flower from a vendor. After buying the flower, he walks towards an alley, and brings the flower to “Norma”, however the lady is not Norma, since Norma has been dead

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    play “Antigone” she has heard the news that both of her brothers are dead. She has also learned that her brother Polyneices has not had a proper burial. The new King of Thebes, Creon has decreed Polyneices an enemy of the state a traitor. Polyneices and his brother Eteocles fought over the kingdom of Thebes and died at each other’s hand. King Creon wants Polyneices body to go unburied, to rot in the sun for the animals to have their way. Antigone’s asserting the supremacy of divine law buries her brother

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    How Is Hamlet A Hero

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    perfect king within Elizabethan society, and by comparing Claudius, a man who is the exact opposite of Elizabethan ideals, the audience of Elizabethan times would feel the same disgust as Hamlet when faced with Claudius being crowned king. Within Elizabethan society, murder, or simply any crime, was deemed not honorable. Alternatively, duels were considered the formal and just way of resolving wrong doings. Thus being an dishonourable man, he does not command the respect needed to serve as a king.

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    Essay about Who Killed Martin Luther King

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    Surface, Not Driving in Bullets or: Why White People are Such Morons A great number of people know who Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was. My generation has had the opportunity to learn about his work in the civil rights movement and his “I have a Dream” speech as early as elementary school. I’d venture to say that a fewer amount of people know that this icon was assassinated and James Earl Ray, a white man, was arrested as his killer. Unfortunately, an even smaller number of people have heard of, or

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