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Question
What might success mean to the following people? Think about it and write.
A politician
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Solution
Winning an election with a large majority of votes or implementing a policy that took several years to create.
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The ones who had trained for so long to complete
one by one they all turned around and went back to help him
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The ones who had trained for so long to complete
one by one they all turned around and went back to help him
And brought the young boy to his feet.
Then all the nine runners joined hands and continued
The hundred-yard dash now reduced to a walk
And a banner above that said (Special Olympics)
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Don John: Come, let us to the banquet
[Exeunt all but Claudio]
Claudio: Thus answer 1 in name of Benedick,
But hear this ill news with the ears of Claudio. 'Tis certain so; the prince woos for himself. Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. This is an accident of hourly proof, Which I Mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero.
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Benedick: Count Claudio?
Claudio: Yea, the same.
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(ii) What has Don John just revealed to Claudio?
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Let every eye negotiate for itself,
And trust no agent;"
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