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    William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth explores the power of two leaders who both fight for the path Scotland will take. Shakespeare creates a number of interesting characters; Macbeth and Macduff are two of those characters who are seen to be very much the same but also completely different. They are seen to be very similar in many aspects including their strong beliefs‚ the respect they have from other individuals and the way their minds operate. Throughout the play‚ Shakespeare reveals that these

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    Position Paper In the novel Crime and Punishment‚ Fyodor Dostoevsky introduces a complex‚ contemptuous character known as Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov. Living in a poor urban setting of St. Petersburg‚ Russia‚ Raskolnikov retains his proud mental state emotionally-detached from humanity. This semi-delirious mental state presents Raskolnikov with two choices: murder his pawnbroker or rejoin humanity. Many critical events occur leading up to the brutal murder‚ shaping Raskolnikov’s personality‚

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    Crime Data Comparison Ryan Cirilo CJA 314 January 14‚ 2013 University of Phoenix Crime Data Comparison Robbery is a crime that everyone is familiar with and happens every day around the United States. The crime statistics for robbery is different in every city and this paper is going to compare the robbery rate in two metropolitan cities. Further‚ this paper will explain the factors that can explain the rates per city. This paper will conclude with ways to lower the crime rate of robbery

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    Feminist theory shows the ways of a gender structured life. This culture is also displayed in Crime and Punishment by Sonya and Dunya. Feminist criticism is a type of literary criticism that was well known in the 1970’s. Women would begin taking apart the classics and analyzing how the author portrayed women. The women in Crime and Punishment ‚ especially Sonya and Dunya have a stronger state of mind and are able to handle the pressures and struggles of life better than the men in the novel.

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    Joanna Martinez Ms. Tobenkin AP Literature‚ Period 4 8 February 2016 Crime and Punishment Guiding Questions - Part IV‚ Chapters 2-6 Dunya and Luzhin are different characters by the way they act. Dunya does not believe any gossip unless there is evidence and Luzhin believes anything he hears. Even though she doesn’t like Svidrigailov‚ she doesn’t let Luzhin demean his character incorrectly. Whereas Luzhin is just basically passing on thing and even possibly embellishing them. Luzhin is not a

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    Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is a dramatic story about a poor man by the name of Raskolnikov and the conflicting journey he undergoes. The story is about his aims at ameliorating himself through theory and murder. However‚ it is not as cut and dry as the prior statement may make it seem. In fact‚ this morally ambivalent story uses Raskolnikov’s subconscious struggle‚ the effect of love on other characters‚ and Raskolnikov’s redemption to exemplify Dostoevsky’s idea of man’s need for emotional

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    In Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky‚ the reader follows Raskolnikov from a first-person perspective‚ witness to both his actions and feelings. However‚ most‚ if not all of the supporting characters are just as important‚ as they serve as warped mirrors of Raskolnikov‚ warping‚ exaggerating‚ and twisting his personality. None though‚ are as eerily similar as Razumikhin‚ who serves as a baffle to Raskolnikov. Where Raskolnikov sequesters himself mentally – inside his own head‚ and physically

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    In the play Macbeth by William Shakespeare‚ Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are depicted very differently and simply wanting kingship are among the few similarities. It is also interesting how the differences between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are caused by other differences in their traits‚ starting chain reactions of contrariety. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth both posses greedy and ambitious attributes. So far we have learned that Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are very ambitious to gain kingship. At the end of Act

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    deeper than the surface. People’s minds and body’s are overpowered by the guilt that consumes them every second they live with their burden. The devastating effects of guilt are portrayed vividly in Dostoevsky’s fictional but all to real novel Crime and Punishment. In the story‚ the main character Raskolnikov commits a murder and suffers with the guilt throughout. Eventually his own guilt destroys himself and he is forced to confess. Through Raskolnikov‚ Dostoevsky bestows on the reader how guilt destroys

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    Crime Data Comparison Michelle Gage CJA/314 April 30th‚ 2013 Robert Olsen Crime Data Comparison In the late 1920’s the idea was recognized by the International Association of Chiefs of Police or most commonly known as the (IACP)‚ that there needed to be a more reliable and accurate way to keep track of all of the crime data and statistics. This information was needed to determine the crimes that were changing from year to year as well as the sources of what could be changing these statistics

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