szkoła-i-dom: Climax (narrative)

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The climax (from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax) 'staircase, ladder') or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. The climax of a story is a literary element. As a literary element, it is a stage where the protagonist finally faces the greatest challenge or the ultimate obstacle, leading to the resolution or transformation. In terms of structure, climax often constitutes the second of the two parts of a story's Act II, the first being "rising action", which culminates to a moment of crisis. There are also sources that state climax is part of Act III, leading to the falling action a…

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Crisis and Climax of 1929։ Surrealism and the Imprints of Desire. Crise et apogée de 1929 : le surréalisme et les empreintes du désir À la fin des années 1920, la sexualité devient à la fois un moteur créatif et un facteur de tension pour le mouvement surréaliste à Paris. Cette thèse se consacre à une œuvre singulière issue de ce moment décisif : 1929, une plaquette de poèmes de Benjamin Péret et Louis Aragon, illustrée de quatre photographies sexuellement explicites de l’artiste américain Man Ray (Les Quatre Saisons). Censuré pour obscénité dès sa parution, ce calendrier libertin a été largement marginalisé par la critique malgré sa notoriété. Cette étude montre comment 1929 met en œuvre t…

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The Bar Kokhba Revolt (132–136 CE), also known as the Bar Kokhba War, the War of Betar, and the Third (or Second) Jewish–Roman War, was the last and most devastating of three major Jewish rebellions against the Roman Empire. Led by Simon bar Kokhba, the rebels established an independent Jewish state that lasted over three years before being crushed by the Romans, leading to the near-total depopulation of Judea proper, along with mass killings, enslavement, and displacement. Resentment toward Roman rule and national aspirations remained high in the Roman province of Judaea following the First Jewish Revolt. Around 130 CE, Emperor Hadrian planned to rebuild Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina, a Ro…

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Rising Rates of Antimicrobial Resistance: A Slow Crisis Demanding Urgent Action. Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global and national public health crisis that threatens the effectiveness of modern medicine and increases mortality, healthcare costs, and treatment failure. According to global estimates, antimicrobial resistance caused 1.27 million deaths worldwide in 2019, with projections indicating a substantial rise by 2050 if urgent action is not taken. In Pakistan, antimicrobial resistance ranks among the leading causes of death, driven by widespread antibiotic misuse, over-the-counter availability, inadequate diagnostics, poor infection control, and antibiotic use in agriculture.…

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Dino Crisis is a 1999 survival horror game developed and published by Capcom for the PlayStation. It is the first installment in the Dino Crisis series and was developed by the same team behind Capcom's Resident Evil series, including director Shinji Mikami. The story follows Regina, a special operations agent sent with a team to investigate a secluded island research facility. Finding it overrun with dinosaurs, Regina must fight through the facility to discover its secrets and escape alive with her team. Instead of the pre-rendered backgrounds of the Resident Evil games that preceded it, Dino Crisis uses an original real-time engine with 3D environments. Gameplay features traditional survi…

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A major worldwide financial crisis centered in the United States took place in 2008. The immediate cause of the crisis was the collapse of the 2000s U.S. housing bubble, which involved excessive speculation in property values by both homeowners and financial institutions, exacerbated by predatory lending and by deficiencies in regulation. The first phase was the subprime mortgage crisis, which began in early 2007 as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) tied to U.S. real estate, and a vast web of derivatives linked to those MBS, collapsed in value. A liquidity crisis spread to global institutions by mid-2007 and climaxed with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, which triggered a…

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The Tragedy of Macbeth, often shortened to Macbeth (), is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the physically violent and damaging psychological effects of political ambitions and power. It was first published in the Folio of 1623, possibly from a prompt book, and is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy. Scholars believe Macbeth, of all the plays that Shakespeare wrote during the reign of King James I, contains the most allusions to James, patron of Shakespeare's acting company. In the play, a brave Scottish general named Macbeth receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by his laten…