EXAMPLE ONE:

Original passage:

Edmundson, M. (2004) Why Read?. New York: Bloomsbury. p. 79.

"The Romantics took Hamlet as the representative contemporary individual, and their instinct was in many ways just. Hamlet stands between the Homeric figure that Bowra describes and the Christian ethos. He feels impelled by his father's ghost to take revenge and murder King Claudius. Hamlet the Elder is a figure steeped in the old heroic code. He would have looked to Achilles as an exemplar. When someone kills a member of your clan, you don't turn the other cheek, or even call on God to deliver just punishment. You strike, in as quick and deadly a ways as you can."

Passage One:

We find an intriguing explication of Hamlet from the Romantics. They felt that Hamlet stands as a representative of the modern person and place him squarely between the Homeric heroes of the past and the beliefs of Christianity. After seeing his father's ghost, Hamlet feels he has no choice but to exact revenge on his uncle. Hamlet's father, Hamlet the Elder, is much more like Achilles than Hamlet, since the old king believes that revenge against one's enemies is far better than turning the other cheek, as Christians believe.

Passage Two:

The Romantics provide a solid interpretation of the characters in Hamlet. Hamlet stands between the Homeric figure and the Christian ethos. He feels impelled by his father's ghost to take revenge and murder King Claudius. Hamlet the Elder is a figure steeped in the old heroic code. He would have looked to Achilles as an exemplar. When someone kills a member of your clan, you don't turn the other cheek, or even call on God to deliver just punishment. You strike, in as quick and deadly a ways as you can.

Passage Three:

Although the Romantics understood Hamlet as a bridge between the Homer's heros and Christianity, Hamlet's revenge against King Claudius portrays Hamlet's reverting to the code of Hamlet the Elder: "When someone kills a member of your clan, you don't turn the other cheek, or even call on God to deliver just punishment. You strike, in as quick and deadly a ways as you can" (Edmundson 79).

Passage Four:

We find an intriguing explication of Hamlet in the Romantics. They highlight the ways that Hamlet acts as a bridge between the Homeric figure and the Christian ethos. When Hamlet's father appears and exhorts Hamlet to act, Hamlet feels impelled by his father's ghost to take revenge. The old king is a figure steeped in the old heroic code. He believes that when someone kills a member of his family, you don't turn the other cheek but strike as quickly and deadly as possible (Edmundson).

EXAMPLE TWO:

There is a lot of talk going around about the future of books as print items and also things like Amazon Kindle. Alot of people think that the book is going to die out at some point and everything we've known will be online. Like with Google Books there's alot of things that are on the internet already and we see the effects of the change on our lives. You might think that its not going to happen but it will be happening. Yet what's the cost?

We see these happenings when you take a book and look at it in your hand. These very physical objects have little in common with the digital world. And I would argue that there could be no digital equivalent of these books/objects. We could reproduce the content and make digital copies that would be beautiful. But we could not reproduce on screen the feeling of touching and browsing these books, nor could we duplicate the sensation of smelling and touching the fine leather and paper or what it simply feels like to be in the presence of these unique human achievements. That is why these books will not really only be electronic in the future their too nice in print.

EXAMPLE THREE:

Freedom of speech is the independence to speak openly without censorship or restriction. The synonymous phrase freedom of expression is often used to signify not only autonomy of verbal communication but any work of seeking, having and imparting knowledge or ideas, not considering the medium employed. In practice, the entitlement to freedom of words is not supreme in any place and the allowance is commonly stricken by limitations, such as on "hate speech".

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