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    I think that taking these precautions would be considered a natural reaction in my opinion‚ because Prince Prospero doesn’t want to become a victim of The Red Death that is currently taking over his land and killing everyone off that it comes into contact with. Most any and everyone would try their best and attempt to do whatever is necessary to keep themselves and loved ones locked away from becoming infected with a plague‚ proceeding that they have the ability and obligatory materials required

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    In "The Perils of Indifference" the author is purposeful in the structure of his ideas in order to further develop his overall point. The author begins by detailing that‚ "Fifty-four years ago to the day‚ a young Jewish boy from a small town in the Carpathian Mountains woke up" and then describes the hard experiences of this boy‚ effectively capturing the attention and emotions of an audience from the start. After creating sympathy for this young boy‚ the author then reveals that he is the young

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    Sharenting is the recurrent use of social media to post photos or news of one’s children. Adrienne LaFrance‚ the editor of TheAtlantic.com‚ wrote an article called “The Perils of Sharenting‚” which goes in depth into this subject. The article reveals the dangers that comes with parents posting innocent photos and news online about their children. Her purpose for writing this is to spread awareness regarding the terrors of sharenting; such as: stolen identities‚ digital kidnapping‚ and pedophiles

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    The Perils of Indifference In this day in age several people fail to realize the true importance of taking a stand for what is right. Taking a stand is a topic that is often discussed yet rarely understood. Taking a stand means to be courageous enough to defend an issue that one strongly believes in. The benefits of standing up for what one may feel is right is that one can gain more confidence‚ learn from taking risks‚ but most importantly‚ one can make a difference in many people’s lives.Weisel

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    Poe’s Infatuation with Death Ralph Emerson once wrote‚ "Talent alone cannot make the writer. There must be a man behind the book." Edgar Allan Poe acquired the ability to write Gothic horror through the tragedies that existed in his life. At three years old Poe lost his mother and father. Grief and sadness overwhelmed Poe’s childhood and eventually his literary style. "By temperament and mournful personal experience‚ Poe was drawn into the contemporary cult of death" (Kennedy 111-33.) In

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    Perils of Indifference Wiesel develops his assertion by providing references to events in which action‚ rather than indifference‚that could have saved countless lives; for example‚ Wiesel mentions both world wars‚ the assassinations of the Kennedys and Dr. Martin Luther King jr.‚ and also of the numerous civil wars. Wiesel’s purpose is to inspire people to act and help the children in this world that are dying every minute from violence‚ hunger‚ and disease. The intended audience for this speech

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    In The Perils of Obedience‚ Stanley Milgram expresses his findings of an experiment he conducted trying to prove the lengths people will go to be obedient to authority. The first experiments included a group of undergraduates from Yale. The experiments involved three subjects: the experimenter‚ the “teacher” and the “learner”. The teacher would read off a series of words. The learner‚ who is strapped to an electric chair‚ would be required to remember the words associated to one another. If the

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    Indifference is unnatural; Indifference is a blurred line between light and dark; Indifference is seductive; Indifference is the end of man. Holocaust survivor‚ Elie Wiesel‚ in his speech‚ “The Perils of Indifference‚” argues that indifference is more dangerous than anger and hatred. He supports his claim by first illustrating the “failures that have cast a dark shadow over humanity” and talks about dreadful characteristics of indifference and what it does to us; then he talks about how indifference

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    In response‚ in the article “Elie Wiesel’s The Perils of Indifference” by Elie Wiesel‚ he recalled that when American soldiers liberated his camp he saw how angry they were at witnessing the events that occurred there (Paragraph 2). American civilians had no idea about what was happening to the Jewish

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    The Perils of Social Networking Name Goes here DeVry University The Perils of Social Networking A very good friend of mine told me a story about his daughter learning to drive. I could tell he was a bit perturbed. He began to tell me that he was excited to teach his daughter to drive and that it would be a good bonding experience. He told me about the times that were funny and the times where he was scared. Then he got a little quiet and told me that they were about four blocks from home‚ he

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