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Moral Essays and Term Papers
The Case for TortureLaura Urban
English Composition 101
Mrs. Raithel
10/17/2001
Analytical Essay
"The Case for Torture" Michael Levin
In his essay, "The Case for Torture," Michael Levin argues that torture is a necessary evil the U.S.A. and its citizens will soon have to accept. Levin claims there are ...
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Socrates' Ideas To AtheniansSocrates
In Xenophon’s dialogue, the Memorabilia, Hippias, upon overhearing Socrates converse with a group of people in the streets of Athens, commented: “Socrates, you are still repeating the same things I heard you say so long ago.” Not in the least bit fazed by Hippias’ attempt to ...
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Compare and Contrast Theological WorldviewsA person’s worldview shapes and informs their experiences in regards to the world around them. It constitutes their foundational beliefs and suppositions about the universe they inhabit. Not only does this belief system impact how they understand and make sense of the world around them, but it ...
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"From Wrath To Compassion": Archilles As A Tragic HeroThe Illiad by Homer is a story about the wrath of a mighty warrior,
Archilles. [Topic Sentence #1]: He displays the characteristics or a tragic
hero in that he enjoys a great reputation, [Topic Sentence #2]: he gives
into his tragic flaw, and [Topic Sentence #3]: he undergoes a change ...
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Symbolism In Camus' "The Plague"For the first essay for Integrative Studies 300 I would like to write on
the Camus work, The Plague. Since Albert Camus has a philosophical view unlike
that of many western writers, the book can serve as an excellent reflection on
an unpopular view of life, living, and death. Life without a god ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Essay On Jack Merridew"The theme (of Lord of the Flies) is an attempt to trace the
defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral
is that the shape of society must depend on the ethical mature of the
individual and not on any political system however apparently logical
or respectable." ...
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The Great Gatsby: Symbolism In ColorsColors can symbolize many different things. Artists use colors in their
paintings when they want you to see what they are trying to express. Like if
an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and
grays basically he uses dreary colors. You automatically feel ...
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A Clockwork OrangeTo leave out the final chapter of is to change the entire meaning of the novel; as Burgess says in the introduction, his story is transformed into a fable. Without the last chapter the reader is left with a dark and pessimistic theme, that absolute good and evil exist in this world and it is ...
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The Canterbury Tales And The PIn Geoffrey Chaucer’s famous work, The Canterbury Tales, he points out many inherent flaws of human nature, all of which still apply today. In the phrase, “avarice is the root of all evil” (Hopper, 343), one can fail to realize the truth in this timeless statement because of its ...
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Inexcusable Acts In LiteratureThroughout many great works of literature there are numerous characters whose acts are either moral or immoral. In the works Euripides "Medea", Shakespeare's "Othello" and Boccaccio's Decameron, "Tenth Day, Tenth Story", the main characters all carry out actions which in today's day and age would ...
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Power And Class In The United1.On Durkheim, Why do the U.S.A have a high suicide rate use Durkheim's two notions Egoistic and Anomie suicide?
Durkheim insisted that individuals were born into an existing social structure consisting of institutions, norms, rules, roles, customs and ideals to which they conformed. The U.S.A is ...
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Martin Luther King- I Have A DMartin Luther King, more than any other figure, shaped American life from the mid-'50s to the late '60s. This was a time when large numbers of Americans, barely recognized as such by sanctioned power, dared to dream of what the country could be at its best, in the face of what often was its worst. ...
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Falstaff's Role In Henry IV, Part OneHenry IV, Part One, has always been one of the most popular of
Shakespeare's plays, maybe because of Falstaff. Much of the early criticism
I found concentrated on Falstaff and so will I. This may begin in the
eighteenth century with Samuel Johnson. For Johnson, the Prince is a "young
man of great ...
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Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes: Hardships Of Tracy WhitneyShe was going to make them pay. Every one of them. She had no idea
how. But she knew she was going to get revenge. Tomorrow, she thought.
If tomorrow comes. In this book the main character has a near perfect
life (at least in the beginning). She is going to marry a very wealthy man,
has a ...
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All The King's Men: Man As A Slave To KnowledgeIn Robert Penn Warren's novel, All the King's Men, Jack Burden
states, The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing a man can't
know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him (9).
Jack's statement reveals that man is enslaved by knowledge. Familiar
sayings such as, ...
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Personal Essay On HamletI remember my fourth grade year as if it were yesterday. My homeroom teacher, Mr.
Anderson, would stand at the front of the room each morning at 9:15, and wait
patiently for us to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Then, like clockwork, at
exactly 9:17, as my class of 28 sat down, he would set up a ...
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Oliver Twist 2With all of the symbolism and moral issues represented in Oliver Twist, all seem to come from real events from the life of its author, Charles Dickens. The novels protagonist, Oliver, is a good person at heart surrounded by the filth of the London streets. Filth that Dickens himself was forced to ...
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An American ShameOur limp-wristed Senators have voted. More afraid of Larry Flynt than God they have acquitted the criminal, Bill Clinton and spit in the face of every American citizen. The great farce is over and America has taken a giant step closer to Hell. The News Mafia has assassinated the last hope of ...
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Definition Of IntegrityThe according to Webster's Dictionary is,
"a rigid adherence to a code of behavior." There are though many ways to
look at a persons integrity. A person with integrity possesses many
qualities. Three of these qualities are honesty, the ability to follow a
moral code, and loyalty to yourself ...
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