Reading Response for Antigone Power is a tricky entitlement to decide among a community. Some people may believe that the ruler has the best decision in mind for everyone in that specific community‚ and other people may believe otherwise. My personal opinion on how much power a ruler should have is sort of a complicated opinion in that I do not believe in one specific ruler to make decisions for a whole community. Rulers should not have any significant power than anyone else because it should be
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self-destruct themselves? It could have been a family tragedy. In Sophocles Antigone Antigone buries her brother‚ which is against the law‚ but she still does it and gets sent to a cave to be killed. Creon‚ the leader‚ must make a big descion to keep his authority. Through Koryphaios’s conversation with Creon he convinces him not to kill Antigone. Leaders need to enforce laws to keep a country alive. Haimon‚ Creon’s son‚ is engaged to Antigone. Haimon talks to Creon and he gives supportive reasons not to kill
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Antigone | Quote | Comments | Analysis | 1. "And now what is the proclamation that they tell of made lately by the commander‚ publicly‚/to all people? Do you know it? Have you heard it?/Don’t you notice when evils due to enemies/are headed towards those we love?"Line 8-12 | Antigone speak to Ismene about their brother Polyneices‚ that it is unfair to unbury him. Also she refers to the situation of the evil‚ cursed their father Oedipus who had been expelled outside from Thebes. | | 2
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be able to handle it. As a result‚ he doesn’t dare reconsider any of his decisions--doing so‚ he thinks might make him appear weak and cause his subjects to lose respect for him. So when he orders that Polyneices be left unburied and then orders Antigone to be entombed alive when she’s caught violating the order‚ he can’t let himself listen to her or Ismene or to Haimon. He even refuses to listen to Teiresias‚ conveying the displeasure of the gods‚ until Teiresias has left‚ but in fact that message
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Homelessness Is Rising In The United States Prepared for Dr. Guzman-Trevino Prepared by Summer Loerakker May 6‚ 2014 Summer R. Loerakker 11861 State Hwy 53 Summer_ward80@yahoo.com Temple‚ TX 76501 (254) 778-6165 May 6‚ 2014 Dr. Guzman-Trevino Temple College 2600 South First Street Temple‚ TX 76504-7435 Dear Dr. Guzman-Trevino: : in the main three areas contributing to the rising numbers of the homeless in the United States. This research was conducted to examine the main three
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The Sun Rising By John Donne. I--The sun rising is a poem in which the poet expresses his anger with the sun. In the first stanza the poet calls the sun a busy old fool and unruly that is undisciplined because the sun visits people without their consent to their homes and disturbs them from their sleep. The poet says that the sun should not disturb lovers‚as love unlike anything knows neither season nor time. The poet tells the
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restricted and even denied‚ and the climatic positive effects girls’ education will bestow on their families and their countries’ economy. I first heard of the 10x10 campaign movement after my mother saw your film Girl Rising. I was instantly interested in the movement and found the Girl Rising website. After reading about the 10x10 campaign and he individual and unique stories of the girls featured on the film‚ I was inspired to begin my research in the topic of girls’ education I believe your campaign
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Rising Tide Essay In the passage “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927” the author John M. Barry describes elaborately the functions and complexity of the Mississippi River. The author wants the reader to enjoy and know the fascinating characteristic the Mississippi River offers through and informative passage. Barry’s fascination of this river goes beyond our imagination due to the simple‚ solid facts that are stated. Throughout the passage the reader can see the many rhetorical
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The poet‚ John Donne wrote "The Sunne Rising" poem. The poem is metaphysical. Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of the reality of things‚ including questions about being and substance‚ time and space‚ causation and change‚ and identity. Metaphysics presents the theoretical philosophy as the ultimate science of being and knowing. Metaphysics provides sense relating to philosophical speculation and intellectual abstraction. Metaphysics belongs to the nature
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Temperature Rising Global Warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth’s near-surface air‚ landmasses‚ and oceans its projected prolongation. Many believe that the Earth is currently facing warming in the ozone layer brought on by the rising levels of trapped gases known as the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution. Global warming is‚ in Laymen’s terms‚ altering the balance in energy of the earth (Reid 27). “The topic of climatic change has been in question
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