Yet increasingly his ambition defeated his good nature. ... When Duncan arrived at Inverness, Macbeth controled his ambition for the time being and did not kill Duncan. ... Macbeth wanted to ensure that he would reach his ambition without problems. ... His ambition, strong belief in the witches, has brought him to a tragic end of his life, and caused many people to lose their lives. ... This is the inescapable bond that keeps him pale, and this is the law of his own natural from whose exactions of devastating penalties he seeks release: Come, seeling night... ...

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The most common issues that a professional will encounter once in the field are bribery and unethical money ambition. ... Also, due to extreme ambition of money, catastrophes like Chevron in Ecuador happen. ... Currently she owns a company that process Ecuadorian roses for exportation under the name of Magic Touch. ... Secondly, bribery and ambition are the most common unethical practices in the field. ... International business is definitely a career that with good values, persistence and passion dreams like owning a successful multinational company can be reachable. ...

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Originating from Dublin himself, Joyce can personally relate to the lives and situations of the characters, but more importantly to the often debilitating standards that seemed to constrict ambitions, dreams, and desires, leaving a city defined by paralysis. ... These three central elements illustrate the obstacles that stymie individuals" ambition, as well as representing a microcosm of Dublin itself. ... The sudden demise of their relationship was instigated by Duffy's internal fears of a deep and meaningful companionship that led to a feeling of vulnerability, "he heard the strange ...

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Though masters were, in their own regard, the law in which slaves had to obey; the true overseer of the plantations was the solar cycle. ... As the crop flourished, so did the plantation master's ambitions to cultivate the crops more quickly and in more abundance. The growth of crops and this ambition, caused by the solar cycle, established a relationship between labor and slaves. ... This growth in turn, fueled both the masters' ambitions for wealth and his stress; shaping slave labor hours and work intensity. ... As we can see, the solar cycle, even in the sun's absence, dir...

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As time and context changes, significant developments and changes have occurred in the representation of women, their ambitions and ideas of selflessness and choices. ... Society's highest expectation for a woman was that she marries and be a good, respectable wife and mother, even if this meant she could not pursue her own dreams. This idea of ambition is reiterated throughout A Gathering Light through both Grace Brown and Mattie Gokey. ... Ambition is also seen in Mattie's dream of being a writer. ... This is evidence for society's spurning of women pursuing an ambition instea...

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Their main motivation of their change is to reach their ambitions and goals but seem to collide with the social standards at the time inevitably leading to their downfall. ... During the time of the classical Greek theatre, the point of the tragedy was that a man of high status faced problems, in this case Macbeth's ambition, that toppled him exploiting his fear and pity (quoted by Aristotle). ... Stevenson purposely described Mr Hydes appearance incoherently as leaves the reader no choice but to form their own interpretation of Hyde. ... Their ambition and curiosity went against the soci...

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Men, who used to own land to maintain their power status, are stripped of their own land from the colonialists. ... This second-citizen treatment is unfair for Africans, especially when they know they are capable of achieving higher ambitions. ... She no longer seeks an education to make progress on her personal ambitions. ...

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After the East Timorese crisis in 1999 Australia shifted its aim to the expeditionary military force with the ability to act outside of its own territory, this approach is still valid in current doctrine. ... Australia actively participated in suppressing the negative effects of the above mentioned issues in the world (Iraq, Rwanda, Somalia, Yugoslavia, and Namibia) and also around its own borders (Cambodia, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu). ...

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In the other hand if you have a high paying job in the corporate world; meaning a white collar job, and although you might or might not own a house but you earn more than enough for your living expenses then that is consider to be the business success dream. ... Willy Loman had accomplished the historical American Dream but because of his ambition he did not realize it. ... He devoted his life into a career as a salesman knowing that he was good with his hands, but he possessed too much snobbery to admit that his own destiny was in a simple career as a carpenter ("Death of a Salesman&qu...

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As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfilment. ... Eventually, this longing and need for escape becomes a destructive desire for oblivion, as increasingly the social pressures and Maggie's own sense of what is morally right prevent the fulfilment of her desires and ambitions. ...

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As you read Maggie's story, the connections we can draw between her life story - particularly its often-unfulfilled ambitions - and Victorian constructions of femininity. ... Still more painfully, she finds her own nature divided between the claims of moral responsibility and her passionate hunger for self-fulfilment. ... Eventually, this longing and need for escape becomes a destructive desire for oblivion, as increasingly the social pressures and Maggie's own sense of what is morally right prevent the fulfilment of her desires and ambitions. ...

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Once Frankenstein is immobilized by his own moral dilemma, his creation escapes and in the act of being unbound, brings about the destruction of Frankenstein, all that he loves and the world as he knows it. ... If we, in our moral confusion are powerless and the creation takes on a life of it's own - will we inevitably be destroyed? ... Like a child, he wishes to have the Doctor's life mirror his own and begins to murder the people for whom the Doctor cares. ... Seek happiness and tranquility and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yoursel...

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The novel follows an idolized monk, Ambrosio, who struggles between maintaining his monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions after he is tempted by a young woman. ... Matthew Lewis portrays female sexuality as a form of power throughout "The Monk" to advocate that a woman is only able to obtain the power to make her own decisions after she has shed her virtue and becomes aware of the position she holds. ... The women in this novel are raised in a masculine world, and their personal lives and ambitions are controlled by those around them. ... A woman becomes sexually empowered ...

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Normally the groups like Taliban happily own the responsibility of any attack which has been carried out by it as a shot in the arm. The denial in the ICRC office attack points towards two things- either they didn't attack or they feared that owning up of responsibility of the attacks on world's most respected humanitarian organisation will do more harm than good. ... The now infamous speech of Collin Powell, then US Secretary of State at the National Foreign Policy Conference for Leaders of NGOs at Yale University in Oct 26, 2001 (Powell, 2001) referring to NGOs as "force multi...

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The struggle was initially based on the religious conflicts among Germans by the Protestant Reformation, but it was later influenced by other issues and later became dominated by dynastic ambitions. ... However, Christian's intervention was really motivated by nonreligious considerations, mainly territorial ambitions in northwestern Europe and a determination to end Habsburg control of the Danish duchy of Holstein, Germany. ... His attempts to end the War aroused the enmity of his own officers, and on February 25, 1634, he was assassinated. ...

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The Bismarck's Dual Alliance was intended to stabilize the European status-quo, however only got the ball rolling and therefore other powers in European felt threatened and began creating their own alliances. ... France was becoming more concerned with Germany's growing power, being a neighboring country and also France was having their own domestic issues with too many political groups and war was a good way to deflect their own issues. ... In reaction to this challenge to their naval supremacy, from 1903 to 1910, the British Royal Navy embarked on its own massive expansion to keep ...

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Still, she was fortunate with her class status and generous father to learn under eight different tutors and to further her own educational horizons by extensive reading. ... It's possible that it was that very education that drove the creative desire to write their own publications. ... Similarly, Murray defended Eve posthumously in one of her letters saying, "A laudable ambition fired her soul and a thirst for knowledge impelled the predilection so fatal in it's consequences. ... Furthermore, it is interesting that Murray chose to defend Eve based on her ambition and did not u...

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He could "see more things than most people, but he could see none of them too distinctly", since his vision is obscured by ambition and greed. ... He convinces everyone around him that they own a share of the Syndicate, and as such, are part of something much greater. ... Heller likewise pokes fun at the gullibility and shallowness of American society, revealing that "the sweetest part of the whole deal was that there was no need to reimburse the government at all" (259), showing that society is more inclined to gain profit than uphold its own moral standards. ...

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They are socialized to hold high aspirations, yet they are relatively blocked off from the conventional educational and occupational opportunities needed to realize those ambitions. ... Certainly hard work and ambition, in school and then in the economic marketplace, are the culturally approved means of success, but there is also an element of admiration for the robber baron and the rogue who breaks the rules about appropriate means but achieves success goals by deviant means (Merton 217). ...

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This familiar metaphor shows the audience a challenge to society's constructs and an aggressive ambition to rise above its narrow confines, furthered by the euphonic alliteration of air and hair, providing a harsh discordance to the poem's ending. 'Lady Lazarus' thus uses the familiar as a lens on the unfamiliar, contributing to Plath's ambition to use the everyday to critique an unjust and oppressive world. ... Hughes makes use of another significant familiar image in 'The Shot' to suggest Plath's desire to universalise masculine guilt without reconci...

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Many artists have two ambitions – to gain artistic recognition within the society of art, and to have effects in the society at large social effects are also expected as part of art policy. The problem is that these ambitions are not easily reconcilable. The society of art has its own system of power,with norms that makes it difficult for artists to have effects in the society at large without its prior recognition. ...

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The evil of the Salem tragedy recreated by Miller lies within the system and the people who promoted the system for their own evil purposes. ... Other human "flaws" which are manipulated by people in the court system are vengeance (Abigail and the Putnams); jealousy (Abigail and the Putnams); fear and hysteria (the girls in the court); ambition and power (Abigail and Danforth); and greed and lust (the Putnams and Abigail). ... By creating some definite characters who we know are evil or are good, we can apply them to people we know in our own lives. ... And if we don't know any people wit...

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This lack of societal influence and morals causes the pursuer's own morals and ethics to become diminished, which eventually leads to the destruction of oneself and possibly one's loved ones. ... Education can be salvation for some, but for others it can also become an obsession which can drive them to their own destruction, as seen in the case of Victor Frankenstein. ... As Victor narrates his story to Walton, he warns Walton of the dangers of pursuing knowledge, saying to him "avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and d...

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Her reign will ever bear this distinguishing characteristic of her sex."2 In its own right the reign of Catherine the Great was impressive, but it was made all the more important because she was a women.3 The mere fact that Catherine II, a small German princess without hereditary claim to the throne, ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796 amid the loyalty of the great mass of the people, and the respect and admiration of her neighbours, is sufficient proof of the force of her character. ... Catherine was an avid student of the Enlightenment, which was the European intellectual movement whose ideas ab...

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Like a beast in its lair his soul had laid down in his own filth but the blasts of the angel's trumpets had driven him forth from the darkness of sin into the light " [Joyce: pg. 88] Thus the cleansing process of confession allows Stephen again to return to the fidelity of the Church. Through this amalgamation of religious, family and Irish nationality, which is perceived to be "interdependent aspects of a single repressive force with the Church at the heart of this complex " [64], Stephen is constantly deemed to be in a struggle between his heretical ambitions and his ties to orthodoxy....

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