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    little pieces beyond repair.” In Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman‚ he examines the extent to which parents can create conflict in a child’s life. Willy’s affair‚ misguided upbringing of his children‚ and delusions create a strained relationship with Biff. Willy’s outward indifference toward Biff’s discovery of his affair initiates Biff’s discontent with his father. When Biff is failing in school‚ the first person he relies on for help is his father. He has the utmost respect for Willy

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    Antigone and Creon‚ from "Antigone" by Sophocles‚ encounter a philosophical war based on their moral views. A conflict arose when the principles that backed up their actions disagreed with each other. Antigone’s side of the conflict held a gods’ law is the way approach‚ as opposed to the "I am king" approach Creon chose to follow. The variation in the beliefs‚ opinions‚ and moral views of Antigone and Creon were constantly disputed through out the play. Antigone felt that Creon was disregarding

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    The Department of Indian Affairs was established and had ended church involvement with running residential schools soon after. 17 years later‚ most schools were either closed or turned over to local First Nations bans by 1986. After 1998‚ indigenous communities were offered financial

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    treaties with defeated states‚ also the German and Ottoman overseas possessions as mandates‚ mainly for Britain and France. The main was the Treaty of Versailles‚ which was created by the Big Four‚ which they laid guilt for the war on Germany. It was shameful for Germany and had to pay for the expensive reparations. Also it included the planned formation of the League of Nations that President Woodrow Wilson was a strong supporter of it and believed that it would prevent future wars and that it would

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    shame displayed in the text which all have a destructive force damaging them forever‚ this includes Amir’s shame felt from watching Hassan get raped and doing nothing about it except running away‚ Baba felling shameful for sleeping with Ali’s wife and getting her pregnant and Soraya is shameful for running of with an Afghan man disobeying her parents. The novel shows Amir feeling shame throughout the whole novel as one bad decision as a child begins to haunt him forever trying to destroy him emotionally

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    In her 1905 speech before the National American Woman Suffrage Association‚ social worker Florence Kelley fought for the abolishment of unfair child labor policies with the help of voters and petitions. In this fight‚ she depicts the horrible state of child labor throughout America‚ contrasting the “little white girls … of six or seven years” (29-33) from the women privileged enough to be in her audience‚ and speaks in both questions and exclamations‚ empowering her audience to do what they can about

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    “The Things They Carried.” There are many ways shame can show itself during war although you wouldn’t think so since they are serving our country. It drives them to do things that they wish they had not. O’Brien really brings all of the possible shameful acts to the reader’s attention. Shame is the reason that Tim O’Brien decided to go to Vietnam. Many of the characters feel shame as a primary motivator‚ too. Not only does it lead them to war‚ but it keeps them there. It is the one thing that keeps

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    admirability of the fields of learning‚ too? Conclusion. Whenever one of two admirable things is more admirable than the other‚ it is so because it surpasses the other either in one of these‚ pleasure or benefit‚ or in both. Whenever one of two shameful things is more shameful than the other‚ it will be so because it surpasses the other either in pain

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    The notion of slavery‚ as unpleasant as it is‚ must nonetheless be examined to understand the hardships that were caused in the lives of enslaved African-Americans. Without a doubt‚ conditions that the slaves lived under could be easily described as intolerable and inhumane. As painful as the slave’s treatment by the masters was‚ it proved to be more unbearable for the women who were enslaved. Why did the women suffer a grimmer fate as slaves? The answer lies in the readings‚ Harriet Jacob’s

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    Is there truly any justice in the novel The Stranger‚ written by Albert Camus? This is a question that naturally protrudes throughout the novel‚ as it is not abundantly clear what Meursault‚ the protagonist‚ was‚ in fact‚ put on trial for. At the beginning of the second part of the narrative‚ it is understood that he is put on trial for the murder of an Arab; however‚ it later comes to our attention that the murder was not the primary reason of his trial‚ and perhaps not even an essential one for

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