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Now a day too many people are loosing their focus in life. We have heard that people are committing suicide everyday around in our community. In many of these occasions, religion has played a big role in saving many of these victims from the overwhelming pressures of our society. Religion has ac

Modern Cars
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In Shakespeare^s play A Midsummer Night^s Dream, one of the main

reoccurring themes is love. Shakespeare writes of love that is

passionate and impulsive, or sensible and reasonable. In Act three,

Bottom, a crude commoner states on opinion of love. "And Yet, to say

the truth, reason and love keep little company together now-a-days; the

more pity, that some honest neighbors will not make them friends." (Act

III, Scene i, line 136) However, in many ways, reason and love are

already much more closely linked in their society than the modern day

reader is used to. Shakespeare has one example of real love in this

play: Hermia and Lysander^s. Their love is pure and simple. They have

no reason to be in love with each other, but yet have hopelessly fallen

so. This is Shakespeare^s symbol of ultimate innocence. However, often

with innocence comes abuse of that quality, as in A Midsummer Night^s

Dream. Egeus, Hermia^s father, feels that Hermia is too innocent to

choose her own husband, and that it is his place to choose one for her.

Although perhaps he is only doing this to ^protect^ her, it shows his

opinion of Hermia^s incompetence. He illustrates this value system when

explains to Theseus "And, my gracious duke, This man hath bewitch^d the

bosom of my child. Thou, thou, Lysander,...