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When I first read this quote, I didn't realize how antagonizing Lady Macbeth is being. I thought that she was just stating her statement and making the point again that her heart was much darker than his. However she is realizing the danger of him giving their guilt away for others to see and therefore uses the word shame. She shames to wear a heart so white. In other words, she is embarrassed of Macbeth and his non-masculinity. The significance is that it shows how Lady Macbeth extends her influence and has a very large part in Macbeth becoming paranoid yet determined. I think Shakespeare was probably very proud of this line, as he should be with many, since it is such a nice and easy way of putting the words, in order to relate the deeper meaning of cowardliness and evil.

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I think the theme of guilt is a big part of this quote as well. I hate to bring up terrible events but the Texas church shooting is a very large topic right now. It was a mass shooting, which is not what Lady Macbeth and Macbeth had just committed. But Macbeth was already showing guilt and repentance for his actions. I don know what the thoughts of that man was after he shot 26 people, including 8 kids, but I know that it ended with him  . “shot[ing] himself in the head with one of two handguns he had taken to the church and was found dead after his car crashed.” The ending of the play also supports the idea that guilt is too much and will end in self-destruction just as it did for Devin Kelley. No one can live with a dark heart of which Lady Macbeth describes.

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The gunman, Devin P. Kelley, 26, was convicted in 2012, while he was in the Air Force, of assaulting his first wife and her son, a toddler, and he served time in a military prison. Under federal law, that should have prevented him from having firearms, but the Air Force admitted on Monday that it had failed to forward information about his case to the national databases used for gun purchase background checks.

The Defense secretary, James Mattis, has directed the Pentagon's Office of the Inspector General to look into what happened in that case, and review the reporting system in general. Several investigations and incidents have shown that the databases, run by the F.B.I., suffer from spotty reporting of criminal cases by the states and the military.

In 2015, Mr. Kelley tried unsuccessfully to get a Texas license to carry a handgun - a failure that may have been linked to an animal cruelty charge against him the year before. While he was living in Colorado Springs, he was charged with a misdemeanor for beating his dog. A judge imposed a deferred judgment, and the charge was dismissed two years later, after Mr. Kelley completed a court-ordered period of probation.

After Mr. Kelley sought a license to carry, the Texas Department of Public Safety notified him that his application was delayed because of a "possibly disqualifying issue," the department said in a statement issued on Wednesday, declining to elaborate. The department said it asked him for more information regarding his application, but he did not respond, so the application was denied.

An applicant for a carry license must report all arrests, no matter the outcome, and it is not clear whether Mr. Kelley reported the animal cruelty case. A background check by the department would not have turned up his military conviction, but it might have revealed the Colorado case. Even a deferred judgment, like Mr. Kelley's, can be grounds for denying a license, and so can failure to disclose part of the applicant's criminal history.

Mr. Kelley had bought four firearms, including the Ruger AR-556 semiautomatic assault rifle he used at the church, passing a background check each time. Investigators have recovered three of the weapons, and are still searching for the fourth. The gunman also had an Apple iPhone with him, according to people familiar with the investigation, but the F.B.I. has not been able to unlock the device.

As Mr. Kelley left the church, an armed bystander shot the gunman twice and wounded him, the killer dropped his rifle and fled in his car, and the bystander and another man gave chase. The gunman shot himself in the head with one of two handguns he had taken to the church and was found dead after his car crashed.

Law enforcement officials have said that Mr. Kelley had an ongoing dispute with the family of his estranged second wife, but they are still trying to determine if anything else led to the slaughter.

Mr. Kelley had attended the church in the past, and his mother-in-law was a regular there, though she was not present during the shooting. His wife's grandmother was one of the people he killed.

Officials have said they have no indication so far that anyone else was involved in the massacre, or that it was politically or religiously motivated.

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The gunman, Devin P. Kelley, 26, was convicted in 2012, while he was in the Air Force, of assaulting his first wife and her son, a toddler, and he served time in a military prison.

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It is a bit difficult to connect this quote to current events, but the United States and the Paris climate agreement is a little ridiculous in how our government has acted to it. Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth a coward. We should be calling our government and Trump cowards for their “withdraw[al] unless the terms of the agreement are renegotiated to be "more favorable to the American people.”” Our government chooses to ignore the problem and is more ambitious than for its own good, even though we   "make(s) up almost a sixth of all global emissions.”

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Syria will join the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as the only country in the world not signed on to the landmark climate deal.

Syrian officials announced their intention to ratify the accord at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday.

"I confirm that the Syrian Arab Republic supports the implementation of Paris climate change accord, in order to achieve the desired global goals and to reflect the principles of justice and shared responsibility, but in accordance with the capabilities of each of the signatories," Syria's Deputy Minister of Local Administration and Environment M. Wadah Katmawi said.

Katmawi added that developed countries, "in their capacity as the primary contributors to climate change, should live up to their legal and humanitarian responsibility" by offering technical and financial support to developing countries to help battle climate change.

The Syria People's Assembly voted to approve ratification of the agreement last month, according to the country's state-run media outlet SANA.

Syria, plunged in a civil war, was not present at the 2015 negotiations for the climate agreement, which is dedicated to lowering emissions and strengthening countries' abilities to deal with the effects of climate change. Nearly 200 countries signed on the pact at the time. Nicaragua was the only other hold-out, based on criticisms that it was "insufficient" in addressing climate change.

However, the Central American country recently announced its intent to join the agreement. In late October, Nicaraguan Vice President and first lady Rosario Murillo said the nation had submitted a "document of adhesion" to the United Nations to join the pact.

"It is the only instrument we have in the world that allows us to unify intentions and efforts to face climate change and natural disasters," she said of the agreement at the time.

President Donald Trump announced in June that the US would withdraw from the climate accord, a process that will be complete in 2020.

"We're getting out," he said. "And we will start to renegotiate and we'll see if there's a better deal. If we can, great. If we can't, that's fine."

In addition, Trump is not invited "for the time being" to the climate change summit being hosted in December in Paris, the Elysee Palace press office told CNN on Tuesday. Invitations are being sent first to countries that are "very active and particularly engaged" in climate change and will then extend an invitation to whoever the US government chooses to represent them.

French President Emmanuel Macron is one of numerous foreign leaders who decried Trump's decision to exit the agreement. He appeared to troll Trump in a televised speech when he pledged to "make our planet great again."

At the opening plenary for the COP23 on Monday, the US representative reaffirmed that "the administration's position remains unchanged" on the agreement: the US will withdraw unless the terms of the agreement are renegotiated to be "more favorable to the American people."

At the time Trump announced the US' withdrawal, the leaders of France, Italy and Germany indicated in a joint statement that the US could not unilaterally renegotiate the agreement. The UN body that facilitated the deal said it "cannot be renegotiated based on the request of a single party."

Trump's decision to leave the accord sparked massive outcry. Former President Barack Obama, whose administration negotiated the agreement, said the decision would hurt American workers, saying "the nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created." Mayors and governors throughout the US vowed to carry on the commitments of the climate accord in their own jurisdictions.

The US trails only China as the world's worst emitter of carbon dioxide, according to the European Commission's emissions database. In 2015, it released 5.1 million kilotons of carbon dioxide, more than all 28 European Union countries combined, and makes up almost a sixth of all global emissions.

CNN's Schams Elwazer, Shama Nasinde, Bijan Hosseini, Angela Barajas, Kevin Liptak, Ben Westcott and Steve George contributed to this report.

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Syria will join the Paris climate agreement, leaving the US as the only country in the world not signed on to the landmark climate deal. Syrian officials announced their intention to ratify the accord at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, on Tuesday.

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3. I was on the phone with my older brother, and sadly my only brother, who was on his way to work. We were speaking about some current issues going on and he mentioned again how he was happy to be quitting this part time job soon that is at the casino. I, personally, think he gives up too quickly, even if he has a lot of school work, so I mentioned my slight disapproval, which I then followed with my quote. He was confused at first and asked me to repeat myself. He almost took offense but also made a joke that our hands are not of the same color (since he has a slightly darker skin tone). Then he went on with what he is saying since he accepts most of what i say and then forgets it a second later.

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2. I often speak to Mrs. Macceca in the library when printing or checking out books. I thought she would definitely be a good candidate for the test. I said my line, again, probably a little bit too obvious that it was memorized, and she stopped for a moment with confusion and then broke out in a smile. She had had another student do this to her as well and therefore knew about it being from Macbeth. We then had a conversation about the book and I related to her my amusement at Lady Macbeth's very dramatic character and how I liked the book as a whole compared to the other Shakespeare books I had read.

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Lady Macbeth and her motives slightly remind me of the Novel Rebecca by Daphne DuMarier, in which the main protagonist falls in love with a man who we find out murdered his first wife. The circumstance of the murder sounds very horrible and thought out, leading the protagonist to question his character and her decision. She sticks with him and soon discovers the truth that his wife was only after his money. She very quickly after marriage had an affair and was blackmailing him when he murdered her. This justified murder in his mind, reminding me of Lady Macbeth's reasoning for Duncan's murder and why she does not feel guilty as well. The protagonists character reminds me of Macbeth who has to decide whether to support the murder or not. She feels horrible about the death, especially since the wife was pregnant, but she ultimately accepts the reasons and guilt in helping him escape charges of murder. The obvious connection is also since it is between a couple. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth pressures him and in Rebecca, he must pressure her into believing him and helping him in court.

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“His is a zero-sum approach to world affairs in which the “winner” takes all and diplomacy is for losers.” It reminds me of Lady Macbeth who works for her own interest. “The United States has become less respected under Trump, polls suggest, and as the president disdainfully discards the nation’s mantle of global leadership, erstwhile close allies are relying less on America and instead are going their own way.” Trumps careless actions remind me of Lady Macbeth who also seems to not care about what others think, which led to their destruction when the thanes took the problem into their own hands. “They’ve lost a good bit of faith in American leadership and what America stands for.” Just as Lady Macbeth lost hope in Macbeth at first and later the thanes would too, lots of the world has lost faith in America, under Trump.

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A few days after the election that elevated Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, the German magazine Der Spiegel ran an image on its cover of Trump's head ― a blaze of yellow and orange ― hurtling through dark space toward the globe, above the headline "The End of the World."

In the year since the Nov. 8, 2016 election, dread and anxiety around the world has only mounted with the realization that Trump doesn't care for strategic alliances or multilateral solutions to global challenges. His is a zero-sum approach to world affairs in which the "winner" takes all and diplomacy is for losers.

The United States has become less respected under Trump, polls suggest, and as the president disdainfully discards the nation's mantle of global leadership, erstwhile close allies are relying less on America and instead are going their own way.

The new @DerSPIEGEL cover story on Trump's election will be online in English this evening (European time). pic.twitter.com/OKNYPXZgtD
- SPIEGEL English (@SPIEGEL_English) November 11, 2016

Trump's management of U.S. foreign policy is "revolutionary in a very negative way," said Aaron David Miller, who is vice president and Middle East programs director at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and a former State Department negotiator in past Democratic and Republican administrations. "It's a galactic disaster."

Trump has disempowered Secretary of State Rex Tillerson by farming out foreign policy to his son-in-law and chief adviser, Jared Kushner, and to Gary Cohn, the head of the National Economic Council and Trump's chief economic adviser. He's also allowed U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley to speak on issues that normally fall under the purview of the secretary of state, Miller said, adding that Trump also contradicts himself, his advisers and members of his Cabinet.

"Messaging has been wandering all over the parking lot," Miller said.

"The rest of the world is shaking its head," he added. "They've lost a good bit of faith in American leadership and what America stands for."

A Disregard For American Values

Trump's pugnacious style and his Manichean rhetoric on the world stage, along with the unpredictability of a White House in near-constant disarray and the abandonment of several existing international commitments have only further eroded America's position.

Trump has withdrawn from the Paris climate accords and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. He has threatened to walk away from the Iran nuclear deal, angering European allies who see America going back on its word. He has vowed to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement. He has left key State Department positions unfilled, impairing America's ability to understand the rest of the world. And his blustery rhetoric on North Korea has raised fears of nuclear war.

"It's the worst of all worlds," said Stephen M. Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. "The United States is continuing to intervene in various places ... but we're now doing it with an incompetent president. And this will not end well."

The biggest difference between Trump and his predecessors, Walt argued, is Trump's seeming disregard for foundational American values such as freedom, democracy and equal rights. That, combined with ease around thuggish authoritarian presidents including Vladimir Putin in Russia and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines, directly undermine America's standing in the world.

"He's very comfortable with dictators of all kinds," Walt said. "It's one thing to recognize that there are sometimes trade-offs and that sometimes you have to compromise on those values ... But in Trump's case, he's throwing those values out of the window. And that is giving up a great advantage that the United States has had in terms of foreign policy ― namely, that the United States stood for something other than just self-interest."

America's Global Reputation Hurt By Trump

"Trump and many of his key policies are broadly unpopular around the globe, and ratings for the U.S. have declined steeply in many nations," according to the Pew Research Center, which polled more than 40,000 people from 37 countries around the world earlier this year.

Most non-Americans consider Trump "arrogant," "intolerant" and even "dangerous," the poll found. Just 22 percent of respondents expressed "confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs," compared with 64 percent during Barack Obama's presidency. The decline in trust was most marked among America's closest allies in Europe and Asia, as well as in neighboring Mexico and Canada.

In only two of the polled countries ― Russia and Israel ― did people believe Trump is a better president than Obama.

"I don't think you need a Pew poll to come to the conclusion that our allies are beside themselves ― both in terms of the issue of competency and strategy. And our adversaries ... have exploited every conceivable opportunity Trump has thrown their way," said Miller.

American presidents once heralded the country as the shining city on a hill ― an exceptional beacon to the rest of the world ― and allies saw the appeal in making common cause with the U.S., with British leaders often boasting of the "special relationship" that spanned the Atlantic.

These days, apprehension about the U.S. has even crept into the halls of Westminster.

"'America First' doesn't sound like the basis for a mutually beneficial partnership," one Tory Member of Parliament told HuffPost on condition of anonymity.

A Surprising Trump Effect

After the U.S. election, European liberals feared a wave of Trump-style populism that would upend the political map on the continent and bring down the post-World War II political order.

But when Dutch voters went to the polls in March, they rejected the nativist populism embodied by Geert Wilders, a far-right leader who had praised Trump throughout his campaign.

The "Trump factor" played a role in "making people think twice about voting for a populist, as people have seen that if you elect a populist, you can get all kinds of wacky policies," Charles Grant, director of the Center for European Reform, a London-based research organization, told The New York Times.

In France, Emmanuel Macron won the spring elections in a landslide by shrewdly positioning himself as the anti-Trump: A liberal, progressive globalist believer in diplomacy and international institutions. When Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris climate deal, Macron tweeted, "Make Our Planet Great Again," earning 230,000 retweets and sparking a French government-funded website by that name that encourages those concerned about climate change ― especially scientists and entrepreneurs ― to immigrate to France.

Trump is so disliked in France that the label "Trump à la française" has become a mark of political infamy, and former allies, such as the far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen, rarely invoke his name. Even far-right voters don't like Trump anymore. Supporters of the National Front, a populist, anti-immigrant party, hold increasingly negative views of Trump.

According to a new poll by HuffPost France, only around 20 percent of National Front voters say they have a positive opinion of Trump ― a decline of 11 percent since a similar poll from last year ― suggesting that familiarity has bred dislike.

Given the intense disregard of Trump, European leaders have, by and large, sought to distance themselves from the American president lest they be tainted by association.

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel's party made one small but significant change to its electoral program before national elections earlier this year, substituting the word "friend" with the word "partner" when referring to the U.S. That puts America in the same category as Turkey, a country with which Germany has strained relations.

Conversely, British Prime Minister Theresa May waded into political trouble when she invited Trump for a state visit soon after his inauguration. Formally, invitations for state visits have to be extended by the queen on advice from her government, and more than 1.8 million people signed an online petition to have the visit downgraded because Trump would "cause embarrassment to Her Majesty." The speaker of the House of Commons also refused to allow Trump the honor of addressing the Westminster Parliament, citing Trump's "racism and sexism."

For now, the visit appears to be postponed until sometime next year.

Lennart Pfahler, Paul Waugh and Geoffroy Clavel contributed to this report.

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It Only Took Trump One Year To Trash America's Global Reputation

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A few days after the election that elevated Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, the German magazine Der Spiegel ran an image on its cover of Trump's head ― a blaze of yellow and orange ― hurtling through dark space toward the globe, above the headline "The End of the World."

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A photo to symbolize how Lady Macbeth allowed her heart to very quickly become dark with evil.

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The quote references Macbeth's cowardice, which is really the struggle inside, tearing him apart, of his guilt versus ambition.

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I thought this photo was a good representation of how Lady Macbeth, though her hand was not on the dagger, influenced Macbeth for Duncan's murder.

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Another representation of Lady Macbeth and how evil and darkness was dominant over a

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1. I may have given it away with my tone of voice, but when speaking with my mother, I first tried out my quote. Her reaction wasn't much. She accepted it and laughed. There was not much of an attempt to understand what I said.

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My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white ~ Lady Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2,  lines 64-65)

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When I first read this scene in the play, this line caught my eye since it reveals Lady Macbeth's thoughts on her own person. I love the manner of using pretty figurative language to actually insult her husband and relate her evil feelings. It made me laugh at the same time since Lady Macbeth seems to like the idea that she is full of evil and no guilt, yet earlier she mad an excuse for why she, herself, couldn't kill Duncan. I chose the quote because it is an interesting choice of words that make you think a second in order to understand it, and because it is a quote that anyone who knows me would never imagine me saying.

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This is almost a direct reference to the scene and how they were alike in that both their hands were bloody.