their are many people trying to win over his wife. Over the course of twenty years their were over 100 wooers living in his house. When Odysseus finally returns home Penelope has a test for the wooers which blows Odysseus cover. After that he kills all of the wooers and has anybody involved killed also. I think that Odysseus did the right thing. The reason is because if his people were loyal they would not let people win over his wife. Odysseus punishment was not harsh for the people involved either
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Why Do People Believe in Conspiracy Theories? People come up with crazy ideas all the time‚ many of which are torn apart by scientific evidence. However‚ some ideas are crafted so precisely and detailed that they are accepted as fact by millions of people. These alternatives to accepted history are known as conspiracy theories‚ and the people who create them are of a special breed. It is difficult to imagine having the time and passion to craft an alternative reason behind many of the world’s events
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experiences that I believe have helped to form the values that I believe in. Specific people that I believe helped foster what I believe in would be my parents‚ grandparents‚ and a few other people that are special to me. First‚ my parents have informed my values because they have always told me to believe in myself and use what I know to help others. My parents have always enforced in me that I could be whatever change I want to see in the world. They told me that I cannot make a difference if I do not try
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identity‚ racism‚ and socialization towards the black community in his work. In the film “Do The Right Thing” we can tie in the idea of W.E.B. Du Bois’s double consciousness when examining the pivotal role of the character Mookie. Throughout the film Mookie is constantly walking on a thin line between two highly segregated social groups‚ which as a result leaves Mookie torn to where his place in society should stand. W.E.B. Du Bois’s concept of double consciousness is intended to describe an individual
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one which many people spoke about but didn’t prepare themselves for. It was looked upon as a myth‚ but for us it spiraled around fusing itself with time‚ making the war between worlds reality. Nothing that I was grown to know‚ or to believe‚ was true today. As a nonbeliever‚ I was made to believe that nothing existed outside of Earth. I didn’t believe in God‚ I believed in science‚ in what I could see‚ in the physical because to me there was no spiritual. But as swarms of people soon flooded the
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"DO THE RIGHT THING" Spike Lee’s movie Do the Right Thing is an excellent portrayal of what life was and is most certainly like in some areas of New York City and across the United States of America. His movie tells the story of Mookie an African American pizza deliveryman‚ trying to make a living to support his son and girlfriend. He works for Sal and his two sons Vito and Pino who hold completely opposite attitudes when it comes to race. Then there is Radio Raheem who organizes a boycott
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the choice to do good or evil and relates to the virtue that every person has. In Plato’s "Meno"‚ Socrates argues with Meno over what virtue really is and the true definition. At one point‚ they discuss that being virtuous is "find joy in beautiful things." The go on at length arguing what is beautiful and what is good. They also cover whether or not people actually do desire bad things or if all people desire good things. At the end they concur that people do not desire bad things and virtue
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Do the Right Thing Film Analysis “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.”(Martin Luther King Jr.). Violence and racism are both important motifs in‚ Do the Right Thing (Lee‚ 1989). They are prominent in almost every scene of the film and lead to the climax when Radio Raheem is killed by the police. Spike Lee used many different directorial techniques in his movie. Heat and music
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Is suicide ever the right thing to do? Imagine you’re standing atop a high bridge‚ you take a deep breath‚ say one last silent goodbye to your friends and family‚ and you leap to your death. By doing this‚ you’re making a permanent solution to a temporary problem. You may be solving your own personal problem‚ but imagine the pain‚ suffering‚ and anguish that your friends‚ family‚ and peers go through. The people around you are wondering what was going through your mind and why you did it. Maybe
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and directed Do the Right Thing interpreting many realistic anomalous problems; gaps between the generations‚ racism‚ sexual & gender roles to name a few. Mookie‚ played by Spike Lee‚ is a pizza delivery man at the local pizzeria‚ but lacks initiative past Bedford-Stuyvesant‚ Brooklyn. The community is full of distinct personalities‚ and Sal‚ played by Danny Aiello‚ the pizzeria’s Italian-American restaurant owner where most characters in this cinema express their prejudice out right in tasteless
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