.... downfall, we are simply outraged. Also the character cannot be so evil that for the sake of justice we desire his or her misfortune. Instead, best is someone"who is neither outstanding in virtue and righteousness; nor is it through badness or villainy of his own that he falls into misfortune, but rather through some flaw [hamartia]". The character should be famous or prosperous, like Oedipus or Medea. What Aristotle meant by hamartia cannot be established. In each play we read you should particularly consider the following possibilities. (1) A hamartia may be simply an intellectual mistake or an error in judgement. For example when a character has t .....

.... at Stanford University. There she worked hard to obtain four degrees. In 1973, she received her Bachelor of Arts in English and her Bachelor of Science in Physics. In 1975 she received her Masters in Physics and a Ph.D. in 1978. In 1977 she responded to an ad in the Stanford University newspaper for NASA astronauts. She was originally looking for postdoctoral work in astrophysics. Previously, astronauts had always been military pilots, but now NASA wanted to hire scientists and technicians who could monitor the complex technology of the shuttle. Prior to her application, no women had ever been accepted into NASA's space program. There .....

.... The rest of his life was then devoted to being loyal to Charles and his successor, James II. In 1663 he became happily married to Lady Elizabeth Howard, a sister of his patron. Until then he had no real source of income. He began writing plays as a source of income. His first attempt failed, but his second attempt The Rival Ladies, a tragic comedy, was a success. During the next 20 years he became an important and well-known dramatist in England. Some of his most famous plays included names like Ladies a la Mode, Mock Astrologer, and An Evening’s Love. Another play that was famously known because it was banned as indecent was Mr. .....

.... had a dream of the brotherhood of mankind where every person shared a common language, currency and loyalty, but he was unable to see his dream through due to an illness that claimed his life at the young age of 33. Alexander was born in 356 B.C. He was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia. He was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympias, a princess of Epirus. At the age of 13, Aristotle was hired to be Alexander’s private tutor. Aristotle inspired interests of politics, other races of people and countries, plants and animals, and a great love for literature in Alexander (“Overview of .” 1). He w .....

.... now, but not for long. Henry II is disappointed with how approaches the honor of being archbishop of Canterbury. Once takes the dubbing of archbishop of Canterbury he vows to fulfill all religious actions that need to be taken. He devotes his life to religion. He wants to do the right things for the church and the kingdom, but Henry II does not like the fact that becomes a militant defender of the church against royal encroachment and a champion of the papal ideology of ecclesiastical supremacy over the lay world. The disagreement of each other's ideas triggers the collapse of their friendship. The obliteration of and Henry's friendship happe .....

.... next two presidents also. There were two major reasons which made people expand the country during Jackson's presidency the silver & gold believed to be in the areas near Mexico, and also bankers accumulated so much money from material from the west that money became inflated--which encouraged people to move west to escape this growing inflation. Martin Van Buren Van Buren was the next president who had to face the horrible economic conditions began during Jackson's presidency. In 1836 Van Buren was elected president, this time I think voters used their heads and knew Van Buren was the only candidate really ready to face .....

.... had sold. Vernon was sent to Parchman Prison where he served 9 months. Due to family hardships, and his family had to move to Memphis, Tennessee. was raised in a religious home. He grew up surrounded by gospel music. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing. At age ten placed first in a school singing contest. He then began to teach himself the rudiments of the guitar. In 1949, was enrolled in the L.C. Humes High School in Memphis. The total combined salary of both his parents was a mere $35 dollars a week, but they managed. In 1953, graduated from .....

.... that shape and give meaning to the narrator. They are less objective and more subjective, giving them less of a realistic point. An example of this is Rip Van Winkle, a story about a man who runs from his abusive wife and finally gets away and falls asleep, for twenty years. Other stories Irving accounts for, are: Bracebridge Hall, Tales of a Traveler, History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus, A Chronicle of Granada, The Crayon Miscellany, Astoria, Bonneville, and concludes with The Life of Washington. The reason his stories are considered “romantic,” most likely has to do with the new style of writing coming to America .....

.... in mathematics at the University of Padua, where he remained until 1610. (1:1) “Galileo wanted to study gravity-and how it affected acceleration-in great detail.� (3:1) “First of all, the theory which virtually everyone accepted at the time was the traditional theory of Aristotle, who believed that heavier objects fall more quickly than lighter ones.� (4:2) In order to prove Aristotle wrong, Galileo would perform an experiment. “It was at Pisa, of course, that the famous leaning tower might well have suggested Galileo's most famous experiment.� (4:1) “What the leaning tower of Pisa type of experiment demonstrates, when actually perfor .....

.... a personal style at a very early age. His patron Lorenzo died in 1492, two years later fled Florence, when the Medici family was temporarily expelled. He settled for a time in Bologna where he sculpted several marble statuettes. then went to Rome, where he was able to look at many newly discovered classical statues and ruins. He soon sculpted his first large-scale sculpture, Bacchus. At about the same time, also did the marble Pietà. One of the most famous works of art, the Pietà was probably finished before was 25 years old, and it is the only work he ever signed. The high point of ’s early style is the gigantic marble statue David w .....