In the article "Revenge of the Geeks" by Alexandra Robbins‚ the author presents multiple claims about teenagers and adults. Two of these arguments are about the importance of intelligence. Firstly‚ Robbins argues that technology skills have become increasingly important today. She highlights that teenagers who have advanced technological skills are often highly sought after by colleges and employers. To support this claim‚ Robbins provides examples of teenagers who have developed apps and websites
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Have you ever done something just to hurt or to mess with someone else who has wronged you at one time? In reading Great Expectations we learn that revenge is what drives people on in this book. For people like Miss Havisham her revenge on men by raising Estella to spite them. We also see in able how he wants to have Compeyson caught and locked away for making him get more jail time. Miss Havisham fell in love with a man from you lower class‚ then she was but on the day of their wedding her soon
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Is it ever ethically justified to torture a terrorist to save millions of innocent lives‚ or is it always unjustifiable to torture a person? Imagine one summer day when all the news stations broadcast a message saying that a terrorist has planted a nuclear bomb in New York City and that the bomb will detonate in approximately one hour and two million civilians will parish. The news then says that the terrorist has been captured‚ but the only way to find out the key information to stop the detonation
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Montresor had his revenge on Fortunato planned out from the beginning. He knew when‚ where‚ and how to do it and didn’t back down. Line 23 states that Montresor wore a black silk mask and a roquelaire‚ he wore the costume as a disguise so no one would see him run off with Fortunato. “Thus speaking‚ Fortunato possessed himself of my arm; and putting on a mask of black silk and drawing a roquelaire closely about my person‚ I suffered him to hurry me to my palazzo.”. Montresor told his servants not
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Edmund Gettier challenged the classical analysis of knowledge as justified true belief‚ demonstrating two cases where a true and justified belief is held‚ but not necessarily knowledge - Is Justified True Belief Knowledge? (1963). Showing that justification is insufficient for demarcating mere true beliefs from knowledge as belief and truth can correlate by luck. In what follows‚ section-one will outline the classical analysis of knowledge and Gettier’s challenge to it‚ focusing on Gettier’s first
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communicating significant ideas to the responder regardless of the context of the audience. Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy play‚ Hamlet‚ explores concerns such as morality and the difficulty of taking action‚ especially when certainty is impossible. His young protagonist‚ Hamlet‚ acts as an effective vehicle as he uses powerful language to explore his moral dilemmas. What distinguishes Hamlet from other revenge tragedy plays is the amount of action expected‚ especially from Hamlet himself as he continuously
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The creature who could be self-existent with nature and accepting the realm of what his reality would offer him instead of killing others. I blame the creatures for using emotions to overtake his thought process thus utilizing revenge and violence as a solution to his problem. The creature was upset at Victor who was hesitant to create another creature as a mate for him. Both had valid reasons for why or why not a creature should have been created. If the creature would have listened to Victor’s
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Determining that Fernand‚ Danglars and Villefort committed wrongdoings‚ Dantes punishes them. But‚ did he really have this authority? I don’t think so. His revenge brings pain and suffering to innocents. Through his vengeance on Fernand‚ he brings suffering to innocent bystanders‚ Fernand’s son‚ Albert‚ and his wife‚ Mercedes‚ who used to be Dantes fiancee. Upon Haydee‚ the Count’s slave‚ proves Fernand’s illegitimate
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Anakin and Padme’s story in Revenge of the Sith is akin to Romeo and Juliet’s story. In Romeo and Juliet their families are essentially warring with each other‚ because this is the case‚ Romeo and Juliet have to keep their love for each other a secret. Anakin has no biological family left‚ and Padme’s family has no quarrel with Anakin’s family‚ they are still both lovers who must keep their love for each other a secret‚ since Anakin is a Jedi and the Jedi Code states that “There is no passion [for
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Unlike Abigail and Ann‚ there are characters that are trustworthy and liable‚ such as Elizabeth English and John Proctor. Based off of these four different characters‚ it is begging the question; is lying justifiable? Lying is not Justifiable because it can negatively affect others
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