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    In the Story of Beowulf, Beowulf faces three major battles while paying his debts back to Hrothgar. All three monsters have similarities and differences but they all have one thing in common which is basically to hurt others. The three monsters that will be highlighted throughout this essay will be Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and the dragon. Staring off with Grendel, Grendel is this large, evil, man-eating monster that lives in the swamps below the Kingdom of Herot ruled by Hrothgar. Grendel

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    The story starts off with a terrible monster named Grendel who is striking fear in the danish kingdom. Grendel has started killing the danish king Hrothgar men in the king’s mead hall. Grendel is a demon that is a descendant of Cain. Grendel is a monstrous beast with stealth and claws of death and the ability to breath under water. Grendel has great speed that works with his stealth and strength. Grendel’s home is cave with a lake in it and in the entrance. Sense its home is underwater and in the

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    Annie Hall Adjustments

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    traumatic incident or after a failure. Woody Allen’s film Annie Hall captures the changes of a man named Alvy Singer. Alvy is just coming out of a failed relationship to a woman named Annie Hall. Although Alvy is sad, he begins to learn from his mistakes. Alvy (played by Woody Allen) begins the film as a death obsessed comedy writer with a bleak outlook on life. He is consumed by the fear of death and the desire for physical affection. Annie Hall is the story of Alvy’s growth as a person after the relationship

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    and swamps, like where Grendel resided. He was content in his existence, until the Danish leader Hrothgar built a mead hall close to his “home” if it can be called that. Hearing all the excitement and singing coming from the danes, Grendel felt pangs of different emotions, including lonliness, and jealousy. Enraged by their encroachment into his life, grendel attacked the mead hall at night, taking thirty men back to his lair and killing them. These men knew of no way to defeat Grendel, so they prayed

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    “Though Grendel is dead, Grendel’s mother still lives, and wants revenge for the death of her son.” In the story of Beowulf Grendel’s mother is one of the three evil creatures Beowulf has to face off against. But what would it be like if we took a look through her eyes instead of the man who is trying to slay her? In the eyes of Beowulf she’s just an angry monster terrorizing Heorot, but to her she’s just a mother trying to avenge the death of her son. When we look at the story from different characters

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    William Shakespeare was born over 400 years ago in April the year of 1566. William lived in the United Kingdom for all of his life. He unfortunately died on May 3rd, 1616 at the age of 52. The cause of his death is unknown, but some people have the theory that on the night of May 3rd, 1616 William got a fever caused by some of his friends and him drinking to hard. What made William Shakespeare famous? Well starting off with the basic, he was an english poet, playwright, and an actor. Shakespeare

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    Chapter 19 Key Terms: New vs Old Immigrants: The old immigrants be from da NW Europe. English speaking Protestant countries such as: Ireland, Germany, DA BRITISH, and ze Welsh. Da old protestants were willing to assimilate in the culture and peoples. The new immigrants are SE Europe. Non- english, more religions such as Catholics and Jews. They were from countries such as: Italy, Poland, da Slovs, Greek, Croatians,DA COMMUNISTS jk the Russians. The new immigrants didn’t plan on staying permanently

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    ‘American Beauty’ is a 1999 drama film that focuses on contemporary lives of individuals having diverse personalities and identities. The movie and the main character Lester Burnham are aiming to make us realise that life can be short therefore we should lead more meaningful lives. Through this, he takes us one year back which summarises his life and those around him. Outward appearances can be very deceiving as anyone can acquire superficial impressions. In this discussion, I will be examining

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    The Industrial Revolution

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    The Progressive Reformers were a political organization that sought out to set permanent fixes to these conditions and make it possible for the immigrants to be self-sustaining. On the other hand, the political machines, more specifically Tammany Hall of Manhattan, sought to make changes by directly helping the

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    A Positive Team Motivation Plan Patrick Hall, Joyce Woodbury, William Leonardi LDR 531 July 09, 2012 Eric Heard A Positive Team Motivation Plan In today’s business world, each business organization has a diverse workforce and each worker has specific motivations and emotions. An effective manager understands the challenges involved in creating a workplace that combines the employees’ motivations, satisfactions, and performance into a cohesive and effective workforce. A manager must develop

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