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New Ideas of Humanists: Castiglione and Pico Della Mirandola Literature Term Paper
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The humanism flourished during the period known as the Renaissance. It focused on learning the human nature and values which were deemed to be more important than religious ones. It was the era of glorifying individualism, the art revival and flourishing, and science development crowned by many new inventions and discoveries.    
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Aylmers View of Untrue Flawlessness and His Egocentrism Literature Research Paper
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To sum this up, Aylmer is but a failure both as a scientist and as a lover. He failed to understand the real meaning of flawlessness that only God can give. He failed to realize that he became egocentric insisting on his idea of removing his wife’s birthmark. It is too short for a man that experiences death to achieve such perfection that he wants. 
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In What Ways Does Fiction Relate to Reality Literature Coursework
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Very recently, there was a high profile and much-discussed case of several cartoonists who depicted humorous pictures of the prophet Muhammad which were published in several periodicals around the world. Clearly those were fictional depictions of the prophet but they created a controversy that became a political and social problem for many countries of the world.
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Ella Delorias Water Lily Feminist Perspective Literature Essay
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Her perspectives, expressed through her work, brought her to the limelight, though most of her these were not fully comprehended during her lifetime. The publication of her novel, Waterlilly, after her death, shed some light on her work. An analysis of the novel 'Waterlily' will not be appropriately carried out without a look at the biography.
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The Babysitter by Tom Petitjean Literature Coursework
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This is right in line with the theory of Rosenblatt that reading which we read not for information, but for experience is different each time any reader, even the same reader, reads it because the reader is different and brings something different to the story each time. After reading the story several times and trying to separate all the different possible realities.
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Bernard Shaw and the Fabian Society Literature Essay
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One of the first pieces of advice provided by new writers includes the dictum ‘write what you know.’  For most, this means writing about things they are familiar with, places they know and people they’ve met.  This was true for Bernard Shaw as well, though whether it was art imitating life or life imitating art remains an arguable point. 
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World War One Poetry: Rupert Brookes The Soldier and Wilfred Owens Mental Cases Literature Essay
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A great deal of the emotion of war up to World War I has been learned through the words and expressions of poets who experienced it first-hand. During the First World War, there were no movie cameras to capture the action as it happened and no television film crews to enter the fields following the battle and capture images of the true carnage that had taken place.
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The Consequences of Love in Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci Literature Essay
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Love comes across as one of the predominant themes for Keats and the ballad La Belle Dame Sans Merci is no different from a lot of his other poetry connected with the idea of love, beauty and truth. The narrative structure of the poem is simple but the consequences of falling in love are quite complex.
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Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea Literature Literature review
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The author states that this novel does not pretend to be Victorian literature, despite its setting in that period. Antoinette Cosway is a character unable ever to find security or happiness. The fallen paradise surrounding her life in the Caribbean was never the ideal Eden. This truth haunts her as she desperately attempts to escape her destiny.
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Beowulf - Fame after Death Is the Noblest of Goals Literature Coursework
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A true hero fears nothing, especially not death. Beowulf is well aware that regardless of the outcome, battles such as that with Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon will add to the reputation that is his legacy to the living world after his death. As such, he shows no fear, and is content to let fate “unwind as it must!”
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Mythology and Symbolism in Irish Literature Literature Essay
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Celtic mythology appears to be one of the most enigmatic in the world history. Even in Greek and Roman literature, where one can find abundant information on many ancient issues, Celts are almost absent as the phenomenon of society. Dancing is the key symbol together with women, who have always served the display of Irish essence in literature and culture of Ireland.
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Womens Rights and Empowerment Literature Essay
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The feminist movement and struggles for women’s liberation and suffrage have in common the desire to increase awareness of embedded patriarchal values that silence and undermine women and argue for women’s equal humanity, voice, and agency.
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Seths Novel, A Suitable Boy Literature Essay
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The authors address the representation of the city in Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in order to offer a comparison of distinct ways in which the city is imagined in colonial and postcolonial eras and author will argue that the descriptions of the cities in these works are influenced by the authors’ personal perspectives.
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What Would a Clone Say by Gary Rosen Literature Case Study
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The language of the scientists and their supporters is clinical, meliorative and humane, but it gives off an unmistakable whiff of cannibalism. There is, by contrast, nothing accidental or contingent about creating nascent human life with the declared aim of destroying it. It is the deliberate use of one (developing) person as the instrument of another.
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The Contrasts of 1984 and a Brave New World Literature Coursework
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“Brave New World” is as much a satire on the reality of Huxley's day as it is a novel about the future. Huxley seems to feel that society is progressing toward a materialistic and superficial end, in which all things of real value, including the relationships which make people human, will be squashed.
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Immobility of Sir Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt Literature Essay
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Although many characters appeal to his sense of love, pity, friendship, morality, logic, and fear, More stands by an unchanging moral ideal. Early in the play, Cardinal Wolsey laments More’s “horrible moral squint” (11) and tries to use reason to persuade him that the king’s needs outweigh the church’s law or More’s morality. 
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Robert Kaplan's Warrior Politics Literature Essay
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Kaplan looks to ancient philosophers and military strategists for ageless wisdom that can be applied to modern geopolitics. He argues that the end of the cold war and the proliferation of modern technology threaten to create such complacency that world leaders miss the significance of 'nasty little wars in anarchic corners of the globe'.
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Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Literature Book Report/Review
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By using Thomas Irving as his primary source for factual information regarding the raid on Dresden, Vonnegut inadvertently may have included a great deal of untruth in his story regarding the motivation and reasoning behind the attack, but uses this early assumption as a key ingredient in developing his concepts of the futility of revenge.
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Analysis of American Literature Literature Essay
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Instead of dealing with these issues directly, these stories were buried in criticism. It was not until years later that they became included in American literature as respected authors of great pieces of truly American prose. These authors had the courage, foresight, and technical expertise to write about topics and events which were important depictions of the human experience.
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Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that although classically trained as a surgeon, John Keats quickly abandoned this profession in favor of his heart’s calling, the lure of poetry. He had received fairly harsh criticism of his early poetry, yet he took up the challenge of a lyric epic in the form of “Hyperion” in 1818.
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Selfhood of American Literature in Passages of The Grapes of Wrath Literature Coursework
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The picture gets more ominous in Chapter 21. The migrants arrive in California expecting to find work and some semblance of a life that is far much better than the life they had to lead on the road to their destination. But instead of work and the good life, what they find are other starving migrants competing fiercely for what work that is available to them.
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A Solo Song: For Doc Literature Book Report/Review
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In the paper “A Solo Song: For Doc” the author’s intention was to keep the language and tone of the story as true to the original as he could while retelling the story from Doc’s inner perspective. He wanted to capture the feelings and impressions of the man who had so affected his peers.
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The Left Hand of Darkness Literature Essay
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The mystical ability of certain human beings to see into the future brings an element of fantasy into the novel. The characters with precognitive powers are Paul and members of Bene Gesserit. Paul’s precognition gives him control to shape events in the present to attain the results he desires. Of all his powers, precognition is the most useful, as well as the most terrifying.
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The Presentation of Female Power in Walker's The Color Purple and The Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman Literature Assignment
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The Color Purple is an epistolary novel. In this controversial novel, Walker depicts the struggles of black women, belonging to the rural town of Georgia. Though there are many female characters in this novel, the center of attraction is the protagonist and narrator, Celie, who is a fourteen-year-old uneducated black girl.
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The Aspects of Love in As You Like It by Thomas Lodge Literature Essay
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Celia proves her devotion by leaving her home together with Rosalind and sharing all her wealth: in the forest, she meets a shepherd and buys his pasture, house and flock. What forces Celia to love Rosalind so much? They has grown up together: […]we still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learn’d, play’d, eat together;
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Literary Poetry by Edward James Hughes Literature Essay
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Throughout this poem, Hughes’ love for nature can be seen, but so can his opinion of the state of humankind and their position within the cosmic sphere. The beauty with which he describes the scene surrounding the hawk demonstrates his knowledge of the hawk’s domains as well as the things it would consider important – namely hunting, killing...
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The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Literature Book Report/Review
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Faulkner is able to reveal much about how the Compson family has declined to a very low state, illustrating his concept of what a low state means as well as telling the tale of the absent Caddy.  The book itself is broken into four different parts, each part being told by a different character.  It opens in the voice of Benjamin, Caddy’s youngest brother who is also mentally handicapped. 
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An Analysis of Fairies as a Literary Device in Medieval Folklore Literature Essay
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Only through analysis of the writing bequeathed from those periods are today’s historians able to understand the multiple levels of conflict people had in reconciling their traditional faiths with the new faith.  Through this study, one learns more about both the use of fairy as literary devices and the attitudes of the general medieval populace.
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The Similarity of Heroes in the Tale of the Hour and Yellow Wallpaper Literature Essay
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She pities this woman more than she is allowed to pity herself because, of course, there is nothing wrong with her, and her husband takes care of her anyway. However, this strange creeping woman behind the paper is trapped in a way that brings the narrator’s heart, and woman can easily find the energy to work on this other woman’s behalf.
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The Community of the Individual: An Analysis of the Poetry of Octavio Paz Literature Essay
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As long as human nature exists, it will appreciate observations that resonate within its own experience; Paz’ poetry accomplishes this by directly addressing issues not of the human condition, not of the Mexican experience of identity, but of experiences that cross identity divisions and speak for all humans through one voice.
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Dependent Rational Animals Literature Book Report/Review
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            Although not all non-human animals have evolved to the point that they have complex thought processes, many mammals have. Granted, the spider or the termite might not be able to reason out its next action or plan a series of behaviors, but dogs, cats, primates, whales, dolphins, and others can. If one pays attention and keeps an open mind, it is possible to observe this thinking behavior.
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Hemingway's In Our Time from a Feminist Perspective Literature Essay
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Hemingway intentionally leads the reader to believe that these are the ultimate outcomes of the stories, never permitting the weakness of grief to touch these characters despite their sudden and surprising losses.  Despite their silence, because of their silence, these women are allowed to walk in strength to better lives than those left behind in the stories of Hemingway.
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Meaning of the Eyes in the Sandman Literature Essay
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This essay focuses primarily on the theme of eyes, an overview of the main types of Hoffman’s vocabulary used in the story referring to the theme of eyes and vision, particular cases of the usage of these words, and their meaning. We will also draw possible conclusions and try to discover the author’s implications that are not stated directly.
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James Joyces the Dead Literature Essay
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Despite its difficulty, there are several layers of meaning attached to the story which only become clear once a person is aware of both the nature of the modernism movement and the events in the story itself. In fact, without a background regarding modernism and modernist literature, it would be more or less impossible to understand and enjoy this work.
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Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber Terrorism Literature Book Report/Review
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The book discusses an important issue of the modern world i.e. IT security is a national security issue. According to Thompson (2003), people still discard the idea of cyberattacks. Thompson believes that the main point of Verton’s book is to make the people aware of the possibility of a cyberattack. One of the important points of the book is the interdependency of the infrastructure of the country.
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Angelo in Measure for Measure Literature Essay
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To give him credit, though, Angelo does not expect any form of mercy, but instead requests that he be provided that same measure of justice he provided to Claudio: “Let my trial be my own confession. / Immediate sentence, then, and sequent death”. The two women begging for his life, along with the revelation that Claudio has not been killed, enable the Duke to spare Angelo’s life as well.
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The Works of Kate Chopin Literature Coursework
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The story is also characteristic of Chopin’s crusade for feminism, because she highlights the oppressed female condition in this story as well, through the plight of the character of Desiree, who is entirely subject to her husband and is forced by society to exist only as an extension of him, having no identity that exists apart from him.
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Abraham versus Agamemnon: The Knight of Faith versus the Tragic Hero Literature Assignment
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Agamemnon is portrayed as the classic tragic hero who had accepted the advice of Calchas the seer to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia, so as to ensure safe winds to guide his ship and crew into Troy. Against him, Silentio places Abraham, the father of God’s chosen people. The tragic hero, even Socrates the intellectual tragic hero, can gain no greater prize for society than this. That is a feat that can only be attributed to the knight of faith.
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Shakespeares Macbeth Literature Essay
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These groups of warlords would unite under the ostensible leadership of one king to promote their common interests and the war on more distant nations. Thus, people began to have a dependence on the divine rights of kings and lawful succession. James Stuart was already King James VI of Scotland when Queen Elizabeth’s death made him James I of England as well.
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Desirees Baby: Armands Grief Literature Essay
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The pyre outside burned mightily as Armand’s workers feed it with a graceful cradle of willow, with all its dainty furbishing. Armand Augbigny stared at the fire unseeingly clutching the piece of paper in his trembling hands. What have done? He loved Desiree so much and has always wanted to have her children running across the fields.
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Central Concerns in John Thompsons Political Scandal Literature Book Report/Review
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The topicality of John Thompson’s Political Scandal in the milieu of increasing media coverage of the scandal, gives the book a special relevance. The book throws a flood of light on the current obsession of the media with the scandals. Thompson’s assumptions have indeed sent a fresh wave of current thinking on the sensitive issue of our time, political scandal.
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Heart of Darkness Literature Book Report/Review
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Conrad's fiction is not unwavering in its commitment to the living voice; the antithesis between the spoken word and 'cold, silent, colorless print' gradually develops into a more complex opposition between authentic and inauthentic language where the latter comprehends any spoken or written discourse that flaunts its own uprootedness, figurality or ambiguity.
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Literary Criticism Literature Assignment
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Criticism has been in vogue for the last twenty-five centuries. Many theories regarding criticism have been introduced by theorists. These include Medievalism, Romanticism, New Classicism, Marxism, Feminism, Psychoanalytic criticism, Sociological criticism and others.
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Judith Moores Fat Girl Literature Essay
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If the patient was already an adult and requesting information for themselves, I would still recommend they read this book as a starting point to understanding their own story.  Rather than turning to diet pills, surgery, or the latest restriction diet, I would recommend they begin to take a look into their own story to determine what need they have been feeding. 
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Hardy: A Poet of Awkward Innocence Literature Literature review
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A careful reading of any random selection of Thomas Hardy's poems will demonstrate how they are not the simple productions of an ‘innocent awkwardness’ as F.R. Lewis once suggested.  Instead, they contain elements of innocence in their withdrawn perspective and their original viewpoints even as they use moments of awkwardness to draw attention to those aspects of the poem that can bring in the allegorical meaning he intended.
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I Saw Ramallah Literature Case Study
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Barghouti’s personal and professional life affected his memory of public events. He was not fond of politics, but political events of that time influenced and affected him, and this affection is reflected in his book. He perceived the world political events through a wide scale of his own experience.
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The Role of Illustrations in William Blakes Poems Literature Essay
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The poems included in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake are unusual for their day not only due to their simple appearances and deeper meanings but also by the way in which the poet, artist, engraver illustrated them, providing his readers with the rare opportunity to glimpse his thoughts in creating each poem.
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The Major Themes Arising in the Play Mankind Literature Essay
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These concepts can often be represented in the form of a particular character, such as the concept of fellowship.  However, these allegories are developed through the actions and interactions of the characters involved.  It can also be seen as the story interacts with the participant, whether they are enjoying the play or reading the script. 
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Changing External Environment of a Maritime Organization Literature Case Study
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The economic growth, socio-political environment, and the legal or ecological factors don’t always directly affect a shipbroking firm, but, they can do it indirectly by changing the volume of world trade, NTBs imposed by countries, and other legal or financial regulations imposed to curb the functionality of the shipping industry per se. (Khan, A, 2001).
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Literature Essay
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Tolstoy deftly uses metaphor to show the reprimanding mood the regiment commander is in and the respect and even fear that exists between commanding officers and their subordinates, first when he describes how he checks the troops before Kutuzov’s arrival. A captain who has been called out shows “the uneasiness of a schoolboy.
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