Count Olaf Essays

  • Creative Writing: The Bad Beginning

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    Mr. Poe is the Executor of the Baudelaire fortune and decided Count Olaf is where the children will go after Mr. Poe finished making the arrangements. He Chose Count Olaf because he is the closest family member in the area and does not want the children to be out of their realm. He wanted the children to be ... ... middle of paper ... ...g their unique skills to think up a solution to end “The Marvelous Marriage”. Just as Count Olaf thinks he has succeeded, Violet explains that she is right handed

  • A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning

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    experiencing the great grief of their parents’ sudden death. The children, now orphans, have to go live with their distant relative, Count Olaf, who have no intention of treating them well. The readers soon learn that the children will battle more hardships by themselves. Since, Handler makes all the authoritative figures as incompetents and they are often blinded from Count Olaf’s schemes. Despite the uncomfortable stream of traumatic adversities the children faced, Daniel Handler’s The Bad Beginning

  • Constructing the Characters in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events

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    is constructed to be an emotionally strong inventor, Klaus is constructed to be a bookish intelligent teenager with intelligence well beyond his age, sunny is constructed to be a baby who loves to bite things whose name shows her intelligence and count Olaf is constructed to be a self-centred, evil man that is a very bad actor. Each of these characters are constructed using a mixture of symbolism, written, audio and technical codes. Violet is the eldest of the three Baudelaire children. She is the

  • Once Upon a Time, the TV Show

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    Snow White jumped off the cliff, and plunged into the waters below, trying to escape the evil queen's huntsmen once again. That is one example of one that would do unspeakable things in order to survive. Everyone knows the classic tale of Snow White, but Once Upon A Time puts twists on every tale you thought you knew. In the tv show Once Upon A Time, all fairy tales are twisted into a new form, and one of the strongest relationships between the show's most famous villain, and the one fairy tale

  • Mutual Funds

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    become a part-owner of a large investment portfolio, along with all the other shareholders of the fund. The fund manager invests the contributions when shares are purchased, along with money from the other shareholders. Every day, the fund manager counts up the value of all the fund's holdings, figures out how many shares have been purchased by shareholders, and then calculates the net asset value(NAV) of the mutual fund, which is the price of a single share of the fund on that day. If the fund manager

  • Buddhist Doctrine Of Karma

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    actions give good results and vice versa. It is the quality of an act, which determines its consequences. But what determines the karmic quality of a deed? In Hinduism it is the correct performance of a person's "duty", especially his caste duties that counts. Early Buddhism, which recognized no caste distinctions, evaluates the karmic quality of an act in terms of moral and ethical criteria. In particular it is the mental factors, which accompany the commission of deed that determines its consequences

  • Pay Policy: Ethics Versus Pay

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    man-hours used. The event itself has an APH standard, as do individual auditors counting in the store. 100,000 pieces of inventory divided by a 2000pph standard will require 50 man-hours. 50 man-hours divided by 10 team members equals a 5-hour count. Five-hour counts make up about 3/4ths of RGIS’s target completion times; additional pieces require additional people, and vice-versa. The 2000pph standard that this store has would be met if everyone counted at that speed. But in reality, not everyone has

  • Four Conditions for Knowledge

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    three conditions had to be met: first, you had to have a belief; second, the belief had to be justified; third, this justified belief had to be true. So a justified true belief counts as knowledge. Gettier however showed this analysis to be inadequate as one can have a justified true belief that no one would want to count as knowledge. In the first Gettier counterexample, Smith is justified in believing that Jones is the man who will get the job. Smith’s also justified in believing that Jones

  • Technology, Privacy and Credit Card Fraud

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    credit card fraud before too much damage has been done. In East Lansing, there were two cases of credit card fraud within this past year.  According to an article in The State News, Sadia Zoe Tabie- Bogne was arrested on November 10, 2004 for two counts of credit card fraud.  She has stolen and made over $3,000 worth of purchases, with at least $2,800 of it being stolen from her husband.  All of Sadia's victims have been international students, her husband included.  Sadia Zoe Tabie- Bogne's pre-trial

  • Creative Writing: Jacksonville

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    I sat swinging my legs on the bar stool, staring at the counter, trying to look occupied, when a tall man sat down next to me. I looked over at him as he ordered a drink, paying with a sleek credit card. He took the shot and drank it quickly, signaling the bartender for another. “Drowning your worries?” I asked him, spinning my chair to face him. He looked me over, taking in my short frame. “I'm trying,” I studied him for a moment, then spoke. “You’re not from around here are you?” He smiled

  • California VS Peterson

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    eight months pregnant, disappeared on December 24, 2002. When the body of the California woman and her unborn child were found four months later, her husband, Scott, was charged with two counts of murder. Detective Craig Grogan gave a sworn statement that he had probable cause to believe Mr. Peterson committed two counts of the crime of 187 Penal Code, homicide, on or about December 23, 2002 or December 24,2002, in the county of Stanislaus. April 17, 2003 at 0658 hours the Judge of the Superior Court

  • Errand Boy Monologue

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    *Bzzzz* “Fucking flies.” *SMACK* “Come on man, you need to give us the money or we’re gonna have some problems.” Simply staring at this scum makes me regret my decisions, borrowing money? Go to a fucking bank you retard. “I don’t have it now… give me another week, please.” I practically beg and this scum looks at me like I am the scum in this situation. “We don’t got time.” He just taps his foot against the ground while staring at his watch. *Bzzzzzzz* Didn’t get the

  • Jane Eyre

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    is none other than Beauty and the Beast, which was part of one of Perrault’s compilations. Bronte uses the ideas and themes of Beauty and the Beast to reveal the importance of inner beauty and to make a point that it’s what’s inside a person that counts. The beauty that can be found through outward appearance is superficial. A person’s inner beauty as shown through the relationship of Jane and Rochester can overcome society’s ideas of what constitute being beautiful. We know that Bronte was familiar

  • The Need For Universal Health Care

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    The Need For Universal Health Care Like many college students I have to pinch pennies to make it through school. Every last penny counts when budgeting my monetary supply. As a result of this I have found that I do not have enough to spare to pay for health insurance. Unlike most college students I am over the age of 23 and thus not covered by my parents insurance. Since I am only employed part time I am also not able to obtain it from work. This puts me in the company of the more than 42 million

  • Bias In Printmedia

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    the types of bias are and how they are used. There are many different types of bias that are used in health related articles such as statistics and crowd counts, word choice and tone, and through omission. Print media demonstrates these types of bias in many articles. One method of bias being used is print media is through statistics and crowd counts. A writer can manipulate the reader into thinking that the results are very high or very low in some cases. In The Toronto Star on October 23, 1999, the

  • Definition of Science Fiction

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    science fiction, the simple fact that it can be so much more than just science fiction. I would like to present a definition of what science fiction is in this paper. My definition will not be exact, because so many people have a different idea of what counts as sci-fi and, not only that, but we may have found yet another venue for science fiction by the time this paper is complete. In order to define what science fiction is and to support my definition, I am going to give some examples of stories that

  • Dependent Personality Disorder

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    period leading up to the murders and she had begun to drink heavily during this time (Pergament). Alcoholism is a component of dependent personality disorder. After only four days of testimony, the defense rested its case. Susan was charged with two counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison with the chance of parole in 30 years, the year 2025. Dependent personality disorder is an inability to function without significant reliance on a forceful or dominant person providing direction. Individuals

  • The Importance of the Origin of the First Quarto of Hamlet

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    Indeed, a First Quarto exists dated a year earlier (1603); Q1 is shorter some 1600 lines; and the Folio does restore certain seemingly authorial passages. It appears as if "I.R.," the printer, or "N.L.," the publisher, is correct on all possible counts. We cannot even condemn I.R. or N.L. for self-interested advertising. They admit that their copy is "almost," but not quite, "perfect."* Thus we might wish to take seriously one further point that the title page tries to make, namely, that the earlier

  • The Arrogant Duke in Broning's My Last Duchess

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    arrogant, not to mention a murderer. He has belittled his past wife, he has bragged about his belongings, he has puffed out his chest with the family history, but one of his final statements cements his personality and character. He is speaking of the counts daughter, his potential, future wife, of whom he expects a hefty dowry, and states, “Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed At starting, is my object.”. The Duke sees women as objects, he believes them to be there for his enjoyment, as a possession

  • Purposes of the Dramatic Monologue in My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

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    disclose the poet’s own ideas but the thoughts of the lead character in the poem. (Christopher Baldick 1) .In the process, personality of the main character is revealed by the poet. In "My Last Duchess," the duke is speaking to a aristocrat of a wealthy count. Before the commencement of the poem, the aristocrat has been led through the Duke's palace most likely through an art gallery filled with paintings and sculptures. The aristocrat has seen a curtain, which hides a wall painting, thus the duke decides