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    protection‚ and I would like to add destructive. I was protected from the truth that my older sister who I lived with was not my dad’s child. I also learned in my late teens that I was the reason my dad got divorced from his wife: a new baby from an affair was not apart of the wedding vows. There is a saying in the black culture‚ “What goes on in this house stays in this house.”  I was never really able to talk to anyone about what I had learned and how it was affecting me. I was instructed in the ways

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    kind of an appeal to the jurymen. Through tears and emotional plea‚ they beg to be acquitted. However‚ Socrates does not intend to present such acts as he places greater significance to his‚ the jury’s‚ and the city’s reputations. He considers it shameful to try to win approval through emotional appeal rather than the truth as it brings dishonor to the city (37). Socrates points out then that it is the role of a juryman not to acquit someone who seems favorable‚ but “to judge according to Reusi

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    Savannah Zvarik  Lance  English  Due:3/4/15    The Fire of Reality vs. The Cloak of Money  Living  in  America‚  it  seems  the  matter  of  poverty  and  social  class  is  something  we  are  well  aware  of‚  but   we  pretend  like  it  does  not  affect  us  as  humans. During the Great Depression  people  would  refuse  to  get relief in fear that they would be seen as poor  or needy‚ even today the  word  “poverty”  is  said  many  times  but  no  one  seems  to  find  a solution to this ongoing problem

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    Pelleas‚ however‚ cannot distinguish between his idealized version of Ettarre and her actual cruelty. He first encounters her when he is in a “half-awake” (IX. 40) state and considers her a “vision hovering on a sea of fire” (IX. 50)‚ failing to “dissociate the dream from reality” (Poston 202) after that initial meeting. Rather‚ he creates an idealized version of Ettarre in which he regards “the beauty of her flesh/ as tho’ it were the beauty of her soul” (IX. 74-75). King Arthur himself encourages

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    The heart lusts and desires. These are then either fulfilled by the private parts or rejected.” (Riyad As-Saliheen) Verses From Al-Quran "Surely God enjoins justice‚ kindness and the doing of good‚ to kith and kin; and He forbids all that is shameful‚ indecent‚ evil‚ rebellious and oppressive." (Quran 16:90) Pornography and the culture of pornography has all the three elements which God has prohibited in the above verse of the Quran: Fuhsha; Munkar‚ baghi. "Tell them (O Muhammad): ’My Lord

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    This is a brilliant work of the historical digging job that exposes the foundation of modern Britain in the (shameful or disgraceful acts or situations) of empire. Dirks shows that opposite to the(related to the rule of kings and queens) (people with strong opinions) then as now‚ the(shameful or disgraceful acts or situations) of victorious capture‚ violence‚ and bad mistreatment were at its center‚ not its unplanned sideshow. (making people act like decent people) the "native" necessarily involved

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    The stolen generation was a shameful period in Australia’s history. They‚ the stolen generation‚ were a large amount of aborigines called half-castes that were taken away from their family if they were part non-indigenous. These half-castes would have been taken away without any notice‚ then brought to an orphanage like place‚ where the girls would have been trained to become a domestic servant and the boys would be trained to become stockmen. The plan for the stolen generation was to breed aboriginal

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    Wataru’s feeling throughout their encounter. In the beginning of the story‚ Morito explains how his heart would hurt if he has to kill a man he does not hate. When Morito found out that Wataru and Kesa were married‚ he burned with jealousy. After the affair with Kesa‚ Morito mentioned that his jealousy faded away. He actually stated that he has no hatred or spite toward Wataru. In fact‚ Morito thought kindly of Wataru. One can understand how Morito could become jealous‚ knowing that the woman of his

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    became a part of the European tradition while nudity went from showing shame to being a display.} You can see the shameful look by viewing the photo “Adam and Eve” by Mabuse. Adam and Eve are clothed over there lower private areas. You can see the shame by the way they are not looking and shielding their eyes. Through many generations and decades later‚ women have gone from being shameful of their bodies to displaying confidence in their bodies. A example of displaying confidence in a man or women’s

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    in finding out that you couldn’t concentrate because you were so hungry‚ because you hadn’t had any breakfast” This shows that his teacher did not care for him (2). Gregory was poor so he was not able to get something to eat for breakfast. This is shameful and apologetic‚ because he was not able to eat breakfast‚ and was not able to concentrate‚ plus the teacher did not care. The teacher did not care for how his conditions were. Next‚ Gregory calls himself pregnant with dirt. “ I was pregnant with

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