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Machiavelli forces readers to carefully consider the meanings of the words merciful and mercy.
In the passage from "The Prince," the author Niccolò Machiavelli mentions the words mercy and merciful intending to make readers contemplate their meanings with special circumspection. Thus, <em>mercy </em>is compassion towards somebody one can hurt or punish, and <em>merciful </em>means benevolent. In that respect, Machiavelli suggests that an unsympathetic ruler can preserve power rather than a compassionate one.
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4. we had better not stay out late
5. I ought to have a ticket before I get on the bus
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Holden keeps asking them, if they knew where the ducks who live in Central Park South lagoon go when the water freezes over, which makes them (cab drivers) to question is mental state.
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From the given question, Holden keeps asking the different can drivers if they knew where the ducks who live in Central Park South lagoon go when the water freezes over.
Also, when he asked same question to a taxi driver, the taxi-driver frowned at his question and then begins to talk about something else like fish instead. before now Holden asks the taxi-driver to have a drink with him, which he rejected.
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The protagonist's cultural background creates conflicts in between him and his daughters. His daughters wanted to get settled in American society and get assimilate in it, go to the malls, movies in bright daylight, but he and his wife wanted to hold their Dominican culture which creates the conflict between them. Both the parents was not good in accent language and not updating their lifestyle according to American society on the other hand their daughters were good in accent and writing and in identifying themselves according to new culture. When the narrator wrote the speech for her teachers day and read it to her family, her father did not like the speech. It was disrespectful according to him because he was not good in language, and he had no understanding of phrases this was also one of the main conflict between them due to their cultural background.
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This is also known as the "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech that Churchill gave during the Battle of France (which of course, the French would lose to the Nazis, who marched into Paris on June 14, 1940). Churchill was attempting to rally support from the British politicians and the people, since England too was at war with Germany. Great Britain was, in fact, on its own, since the United States would not enter the war until Japan attacked Pearl Harbor a year later.
