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    FACING DISPLINARY ACTION AT WORK (1). Yesterday, 30th of September 2015 became another red letter day in the history of representing our clients at work. We arrived the hearing venue at 08.00 and my client was full of agitations. The atmosphere was tense because all signs showed that dismissal from duty was imminent. Panic set in, she started asking “how would I pay for my mortgages, taking care of bills and children if I am summarily dismissed?” We were there to support her and empathise with her

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    become engaged Scene 2: The Father writes a letter to his daughter on her wedding day and updates her on how he is doing. He then imagines he is walking her down the aisle. Scene 3: The Nasty Interesting Man tries to get Eurydice to go to the Underworld, but she refuses. Scene 4: Orpheus and Eurydice dance together, while the Father tries to dance in the Underworld. Scene 5: The Nasty Interesting Man gets Eurydice to follow him to get the letter from her Father. Scene 6: Orpheus

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    Sinning is wrong no matter how you look at it is all the same to God. In The Scarlet letter Hester Prynne and Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale both sin but the handle in it different ways, because of this the way they were treated by others and the way their sin affected them told the reader information about their character. When people disobey the Ten Commandments they commit sin, and don’t let it show because they do not want anyone to know about it, because of this guilt builds up and overcome the

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    Scarlet Letter Plot

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    The Scarlet Letter begins when a man working in the Salem tax on goods coming into country House makes discovery an in a highly detailed form ornament needlework bright red A among printed materials having effect the story of a mid-17th hundred adulteress. The day before they idea to board the ship, Dimmesdale impulsively stands with Hester and Pearl on the frame structure and publicly makes statement about oneself of that he is Hesters lover and pearls father. The acting of the story begins in one

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    The Custom House

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    period of time. It was an “idle and rainy day” when Hawthorne discovered what he explains to be the Scarlet Letter. He is wandering through the second story of the Custom-House and finds himself in a large, barren room in which the run down walls are unfinished and the ceiling’s uncovered rafters

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    Octavie a letter saying someone had died in the war. Also because how she felt after she read the letter. Last reason, because the locket was so important to Edmond My first reason on thinking that the ending of the locket was surprising was by the priest coming to her house. If you think about it from her perspective what other reason would the priest come to her house with a letter saying that? Also by the letter saying “The autumn day drawing to its close, with the gold and the red fading out

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    Importance of a Letter A letter can have many meanings. For example, an “X” often represents the location of a long lost treasure. Another example is the “S” on Superman’s which stands for hope. In The Scarlet Letter , by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne is shamed, as the result of committing adultery, by wearing the letter “A” on her chest. She is chastised by her community and raises her daughter away from everyone else. Nathaniel Hawthorne describes the scarlet letter as a “fine red cloth, much

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    joins Hester and Dimmesdale. She “knows” the pain he is suffering and offers a solution to end it: Standing on the scaffold during the day so that the entire town will know the truth. “On a Field, sable, the letter A gules.” This sentence marks the ending of Hawthorne’s novel, “The Scarlet Letter”. Literally translated it means “On a black background, a red letter A. It is the epitaph engraved on the gravestone shared by Hester and Dimmesdale. Its significance depends on whether you take the perspective

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    The Scarlet Letter is about a woman, Hester Prynne, who has had an affair with a man who she would not name. During the affair Hester became pregnant, so the affair became known to the town. She had the child but would still not reveal who the father was she was then forced to wear a red 'A ' representing adulterer on her chest for the rest of her life. The movie Easy A is about Olive Pendergast is an average high school student who is not one of the super-popular girls, but not a loser either

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    The Scarlet Letter portrays symbolism in multiple forms through both characters and objects such as the scarlet letter symbolizing Hester’s shame and a wild rose bush growing in an unexpected place to be a symbol of God’s grace. There are quite a few examples of symbolism represented throughout the whole novel. Although Hawthorne made many of these symbols obvious, a few were also obscure. Some of the obvious symbols would be the Prison, the Scaffold, the Wild Rose Bush, and the Letter A. Some of

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