...How does Shakespeare show the different moods and feelings of Beatrice and Benedick in act 2 Scene 1 and Act 4 scene 1? Shakespeare demonstrates Beatrice and Benedick's relationship as intricate and diverse so in this essay I'm going to delve into their relationship and different moods and emotions. The character of Beatrice is introduced as bright and having a Sharp-tongue in act two scene one. She is already shown sharp-witted and mocks Benedick’s uselessness as a soldier and friend. In this scene they compete to outdo each other in their ‘Merry war’ with clever jabs at each other. In this scene Shakespeare shows that they have many different emotions. In Act two Scene one, Shakespeare expresses Beatrice’s disdainful opinion that Benedick ‘is the Prince’s Jester, a very dull fool’. By using the nouns ‘Jester’ and ‘fool’ this expresses that Beatrice does not think there is much to Benedick and that he is not very smart. The use of this language from Shakespeare presents Benedick in a negative way in the eyes of the audience. In addition, by using the adjective 'dull' Beatrice shows that she finds Benedick very boring and tedious. Benedick is also shown as having some resentment towards Beatrice in Act two Scene one. He expresses that his ‘visor began to assume life to scold with her.’ This demonstrates that he believes an inanimate object would come to life just to tell her off. By using the verb ‘scold’ this shows that he is angry at her since ‘scold’ is a strong...
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...After viewing the 1998 film “A Civil Action” and reading the article by Marc Galanter about “Why the ‘Haves’ Come out Ahead” we see that the framework applied to the American legal system by Galanter in his article at this point in time is held true in the film. What Galanter does is tell us about the two options that sides may be in a legal case. First there are the One-Shotters, which we will refer to as the OSs. These indivduals are often those who are not regulars within the legal system and often are only there once or maybe twice. A fine example of OSs are the husband and wife in a divorce case or the two parents in a custody case. As suggested by the name, these people usually are only in once. When it comes to the results that they expect it is often tangible. Because this is there one and only case, they are not concerned with a reputation in the courts but instead with real, physical, in a way, results. On the flip-side you have the Repeat Players which we will refer to as the RPs. These individuals, again as the name suggests, are those who frequent the courtroom and are often involved the same kinds of cases. These are what one would expect them to be such as the IRS trying people who did not pay their income taxes or a large corporation. Now the goals for a RP are very different than those of an OS. Instead of the tangible goals of the one-shotter, the RPs are out to often establish a reputation and establish relations to shape future decisions made in the courts...
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...At one point in her rather long life, Beatrice being the naïve girl she was thought she had the perfect life. She had a loving husband, a roof over her head and a great prospect for a large family. Well, that was then; this is now. After 29 years of marriage, her husband had turned into a monster. Beatrice carefully tended to the wounds attained on her left cheek the other night. The water boiled over – causing the cooker to be clouded by the salty foam. She waited in the kitchen with its burning stove that was cooking 4 pots at a time - exuding smoke from all four corners of the cooker, and making the Kitchen seem almost surreal. The room all of the sudden seemed quite dark and claustrophobic; Beatrice, unable to handle the humidity reached for the rectangular shaped window. There she perched: with her wavy, blonde locks seeping out of her roots resembling gold dust, her beautiful white smile, and an hourglass figure to rival Marilyn Monroe’s. Catherine’s extreme beauty caught Beatrice’s unwilling attention. Her eyes grew cold and wild all of the sudden as she noticed Eddie’s admiration for Catherine. She got out the colander whilst still staring at both Eddie and Catherine having a conversation through the window. She reached her hand into the cobwebbed cupboard noticing her sleeves imprinted with various markings of the day’s activities as a housewife; Eddie’s housewife. Beatrice quickly rolled up her sleeves abandoning the colander mid-way through the cupboard....
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...then was hungry for power. There was not a really balanced government because there was a power struggle in the city. This power struggle had a very malevolent effect on Italy. The Power struggle was between the church and temporal authority. This also gave him a bigger influence to write his work of Inferno. But most of all what really influenced him was his love for Beatrice. His family made an arranged marriage with someone else. But Dante didn’t love this other person that his parents arranged for him to get married with. He was highly affectionate with Beatrice than the other person he was supposed to be in love with. “Dante met Beatrice when she was nine years old and apparently experienced love in first sight” (biography). There love was conjoined as one it was actually true love. It was Love that can never be replaced by anybody or any other object that comes by. He was truly devastated that his love was dead. Beatrice death was unexpected. Then 5 years later he publish a book called Vita Nuova it was dedicated for his love of Beatrice. Dante writing of Inferno was influenced by his love for Beatrice, power struggle between church and temporal authority, religion, finding god’s love, his enemies, and...
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...The love between Claudio and Hero is a partial idealistic and realistic love, as in the love between Benedick and Beatrice is a more realistic love. Although, Claudio and Hero's relationship has contrasts and similarities with Benedick and Beatrice's relationship, at the end it is an equally happy ending for both couples. From the beginning of the play, Claudio realizes, after returning from war, that he is deeply in love with Hero. It was love at first sight, Claudio refers to Hero as “the sweetest lady” he ever “looked on” (1.1.147). The attraction Claudio has for Leonato's daughter is purely the result of first, physical beauty, and second, the desire to marry a noble and virtuous woman. These qualities are very desiring therefore...
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...employees and their families because of both factories was their only source of income, the town without the factories would not continue to exist, lawyers on all sides had to put in many hours and spend a lot of money on the case but -- What evidence do you see of considering various stakeholders and alternatives and getting the facts before making decisions by the various characters? The evidence I see is all about getting the data needed to argue the facts at hand. Jan needed more data; he should have gotten all doctors reports and got the EPA involved sooner before going to court. The Beatrice and Grace Lawyers needed evidences to show never was at fought. Alternatives for them were to get their own team to check the land to prove that never was at fault. But Facher, Beatrice attorney, argues that neither the pollution nor its results can be proven. He also angles to separate Beatrice from Grace, correctly perceiving that the Grace legal strategy is unpromising. -- What was the "turning point" for Jan? Are you meaning when Jan stood on the bridge thinking it’s one more case he can easily knock out of the park and make a fortune, as well as a name for he and his firm or when he sat in his car imagining the...
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...Strategy to Beatrice in the year’s preceding Rasmussen * Beatrice’ initial M&A strategy was predicated on building market share by making selective acquisitions of smaller companies (i.e., daries, etc) that were complementary in nature (see pg 1086). Simultaneously, Beatrice achieved economies of scale through as they progressively became a “geographically dispersed company.” * Beatrice M&A Criteria * Acquired company needed to be profitable / not dilutive to current growth (needed to be able to grow “faster” than food – and not necessarily related to food) * Preference for smaller companies (incremental build-up of market share) * Preference to have strong management teams (which would remain intact after the acquisition) * Beatrice’s Unrelated diversification * FTC regulatory restrictions on dairy companies forced Beatrice to focus on moving beyond dairy products and delve into non-food products such as makers of food service equipment and gardening equipment) * Diversified conglomerate model allowed Beatrice to enhance their comprehension of other industries from the pre-existing management teams of their acquired companies (“valuable sources of information” that subsequently enabled them to branch out into other industries that they deemed valuable) * Beatrice – structure: Decentralized multi-divisions with a central office (contrast with Cooper’s more central organizational frameworks). * Beatrice did drive...
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...The Shakespearean comedy, Much Ado about Nothing encompasses themes such as the importance of honour, the ideal of social grace, nevertheless uses a plot which primarily revolves around the theme of deception re occurring in various forms. On one hand deception is used throughout Much Ado About Nothing in a malicious manner, however on the on the hand it can be portrayed in a benevolent and beneficial manner such as the fooling of Beatrice and Benedick and deceiving them into proclaiming their love for each other. The use of both forms of deception often makes it difficult to distinguish between the two, such as when Claudio announces his desire to woo Hero, however Don Pedro takes it upon himself to woo her for Claudio. However Shakespeare’s use of deception is neither completely a means of malice nor a mean of showing traits of kindness between characters, the use of deception aids the development of the plot and creates a path for other elements necessary in the play such as its comical elements. The plot of Much Ado About Nothing centrals around misunderstanding, as during the Elizabethan era “Nothing” was pronounced “Noting”, meaning to observe, to take notice of or to write something down – take note of something, as the reader learns the play revolves around observation and surveying, however often these ‘notings’ are not continuously accurate, they are often misinterpreted or misunderstood and also misreported. The title highlights the idea of how lack of careful noting...
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...the character of Blanche who is very frantic and hysterical. William Shakespeare lived through the time of change - England was a proud nation and full of power. This reflects through the male, dominating characters and the way women are submissive such as Hero and Claudio. Beatrice and Benedick, however, contrasts the typical relationship of that time as Beatrice doesn’t necessarily conform to the way a woman should behave, signifying a time of change. In both of these plays, we can see that men dominate and females are usually submissive to them. However, there are exceptions which are clearly shown through Beatrice in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ who has little regard for what is considered proper and is very outspoken and witty and rarely conforms to what is expected of her. This is also shown in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ through Blanche, who holds herself very high and thinks of herself above men. Both Blanche and Beatrice insult the men around them. It suggests that this is considered normal of both of these different times and as a result, men appear to hold higher power and importance over women, leaving them as conforming to what the men want. In Act 1, Scene 1 in ‘Much Ado About Nothing’, Beatrice interrupts her Uncle, Leonato, and Messenger in the middle of their conversation which immediately juxtaposes her cousin, Hero. In this scene and throughout the play, Hero hardly contributes and is only seen talking when spoken to. This interruption reflects...
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...FINC 439 Beatrice Peabody 1:A)Price= .60/(.0836-.0550)=20.99 B) Dividends per share are expected to grow at a constant rate forever is the condition when using the constant growth model. Real world stocks do not satisfy the constant growth assumptions because it is not realistic to assume that you grow your business constantly at the same rate each year. 2:A) Expected Return=(.60/27)+5.5=7.72% Expected Dividend Yield= .60/27.00=2.22% Expected Capital Gains Yield= growth rate=5.5% When comparing the two expected returns, the return has decreased and the stock price has increased. This is a usual indication that the value of the stock has gone up which would indicate that it is less risky. B) The relationship is that they both grow at a constant rate and remain that way overtime 3:A) The value of this company’s stock is 34.58, which we calculated in excel B) 37.27 which is our stock value calculated at the end of year 1996 C) Dividend Yield=.60/34.58=1.74% which was calculated in excel Capital Gains Yield= 7.76% Total Yield=9.5% Overtime the Dividend Yield decreases as the Capital Gains yield increases. When the growth rate becomes constant the dividend yield becomes constant as well. 4) Question 2 Initial return= 7.72% G=(10.5)/2=5.25 Expected Return= .60/27=2.22+5.25= 7.47% The growth rate got smaller from 5.5 to 5.25, which would indicate that the expected return will decrease as well. 5) Required return= 6.40%+ 6.2%=13...
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...Florence Beatrice Price was the first African-American to have music presented by a major orchestra. Florence Price was born Florence B. Smith April 9, 1887 in Little Rock, Arkansas to music teacher Florence Gulliver and James Smith. Taught by her mother, Florence learned to play the piano and performed her first recital at age four. She attended elementary school with William Grant Still, published her first composition at age eleven, and proceeded to graduate Capitol High School with the title valedictorian at age fourteen. Florence then attended the New England Conservatory of Music and majored in organ and piano while posing as Mexican. After graduating in 1906 she then worked as a college professor, a church organist, and a theatre accompanist. She moved to Atlanta, Georgia and became Chair of the Music Department for Clark University in 1910. After returning to Arkansas, Florence married lawyer Thomas J. Price in 1912 and moved back to Little Rock, where they had a stillborn son and two daughters. The child would later have the piece To My Little Son dedicated to him....
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...Beatrice is a strong-willed, independent woman. How far do you agree with this statement? I would agree for the most part with this statement. Beatrice is indeed strong-willed, but her independence has its limitations. As with many Shakespearean characters, appearance can be deceptive, and what we see is only a facade, a mask to hide their true character or feelings. I believe that Beatrice uses her cleverness and quick wit to hide her real feelings, and that although she is independent to a certain extent, she is aware that she has limitations because of her gender. Although Beatrice states ‘I would rather hear my dog bark at a crow than hear a man swear he loves me’ she is ultimately fooled into believing that Benedick loves her. The fact that she is tricked so easily, and subsequently admits her reciprocal love, tells us that she views marriage in a more favourable light than she had previously led us to believe. Whether she gave in to the ‘social construct’ demanded by the patriarchal society in which she lived is questionable. What we do know is that Shakespeare has presented her as a wilful, self-confident, autonomous woman who appears to revel in her single status. In contrast we have Hero, the antithesis of Beatrice. She is meek, obedient and completely dominated by the men in her life. She is the perfect foil for Beatrice, her willingness to please further enhancing Beatrice’s character. It is clear from the start of the play that Beatrice is not an...
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...Script Analysis Dominque Montesano 2.1.1-70 Beatrice Beatrice is the niece of Leonato and cousin of Hero. She is a women with a quick witt and is very opinionated. She is a generous-kind woman but she can at times tease other people, like her rival Benedick. In this passage, Beatrice tells her uncle and cousin that she is basically denouncing marriage. They hope that she changes her mind in hopes of seeing her married someday but Beatrice sees otherwise. From 2.1.27-39 Beatrice is telling them what her ideal man were to be and bashes the particular flaws that men have, such as beards that she compares to wool. After reading this passage I am confused whether or not she is totally against marriage or just hasn't found the right man yet. She is targeting all the men that aren’t her ideal image of a man but why is...
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...killing her. There was also another couple that were in love, Benedick and Beatrice, they never got along until they realized that they were falling in love with each other and eventually express how they feel about each other. In “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, Beatrice is a foil to Hero, because of their different views on love, their actions, and their thoughts. Beatrice and Hero have completely different...
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... It’s a great story about love, evil, and forgiveness. In the play “Much Ado About Nothing” by William Shakespeare, Beatrice and Hero are foils of each other because of their interactions with others, how others feel about them, and their personality traits. Beatrice and Hero are major character foils in the play “Much Ado About Nothing” because of their...
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