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people who seemed to be the recipients (deserving or not) of incredible luck. They were at a party and heard cocktail chatter about a fantastic job opportunity. They fortuitously knew a guy who knew a guy, etc. The first century Roman philosopher Seneca said, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” A lot of folks have echoed that sentiment over the millennia. Luck favors those who don’t depend upon it. Sure, some things are mostly about luck. Las Vegas comes to mind. But mostly

The Cause and Effects of Virtue Virtue can be defined as behavior that shows high moral standards. Virtue is a useful quality that can drastically improve the quality of living for a person. Lucius Annaeus Seneca did not agree with the idea of the liberal studies being able to give us virtue, he believed that the right way to becoming virtuous was through doing good deeds and gaining morality in order to become a better person. Once virtue is gained, it affects the person positively and they are

Vengeful = Villain Revenge has existed for a long time. A vengeful character is often portrayed as the villain which therefore makes a revenge seem evil, but many authors tend to use revenge in books as a way to surprise the reader. Two short stories that feature the theme of revenge are , “The Cask Of Amontillado” (CA) by Edgar Allen Poe and “Sredni Vashtar” (SV) by H.H Munro (Saki). In CA the character’s revenge was motivated by Fortunato using acts of derision on the main character in the past

The Effects of Revenge The pursuit of vengeance regardless of all consequences and collateral damage is a fundamental aspect of the human condition. In both literature and reality great acts of violence are the products of retribution. Subsequently, this theme of avenging a wrong is central to both Hamlet and The Count of Monte Christo. Revenge is unpredictable and often causes unforeseen pain, making generally it undesirable. Attempting to enact vengeance upon a single person may often cause unintentional

Revenge is an act of retaliation at someone who wronged you. In the comedy of Much Ado About Nothing, by William Shakespeare, the theme of revenge plays a role. Revenge plays a part in our lives just as it does with the characters in Much Ado About Nothing. Growing up with a younger sister of similar age, we often fought (we still do). It is now all a big blur on why we fought, but I can still remember the act of revenge that we took on one another. I remember that it was around lunch time when

create the program to address the need. Creating the goals and objectives will assist in the success of the program. Need That Was Determined In the Community, And How the Need Was Identified The community being discussed is Seneca County in the Finger Lakes of New York. Seneca County population is approximately 35,000. The median family income is $42,000 with the average amount of

The Juggler “I want to believe in faith and risk and a world where you can stand beneath the grey October sky and flash your own colours through the air like a magician” (218 -221, p. 6). These beautiful lines constitute the final conclusion of the short story, “The Juggler”, written by Ursula Hegi and published in 2001. The story deals with themes such as beauty, letting go and being stuck in the past. The short story takes place in Coeur d’ Alene in the first weekend of October. An unnamed

Introduction Over the course of human history every society, even the most culturally isolated of civilizations, has developed some form of faith-system for interpreting and understanding the spiritual and material worlds. Thousands of such systems have existed over the centuries, and as tribes and cultures expanded, these faith-systems inevitably met each other face-to-face and clashed. Two thousand years ago there was a particularly important collision; one between the Roman stoic and

As Madame Defarge states, “Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule” (164). In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, both Dickens and Dumas portray vengeance as an emotion harbored over years and how a quest for vengeance affects a person. However, Dumas constructs Edmond’s reasons for revenge as an epic path for justice, while Dickens warns how vengeance can create a maelstrom of destruction. Both novels include a primary

Characterisation is hugely important to a plot just for it to make some sort of sense. The characterisation of key figures in the plot, however, has huge significance as it helps you to understand why the characters perform certain, (often unthinkable,) actions. If we only have one dimensional characters described to us then we are unable to immerse ourselves into a highly complex plot. Intense characterisation makes us form connections with key figures and actually empathise with some of them, especially