“The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe.” H.L. Mencken. Over time in society the rights people in America have to be free has become overthrown by the idea of being safe. In today’s society due to police brutality‚ hiding your identity‚ and prejudice the people have to worry more about being safe than their right to be free. People want to be safe before they can feel free. Police brutality is a prime reason an average person would want to be safe before
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Have you ever thought of why we have a constitution? Well one reason is‚ it helps guard against tyranny. The constitution was made in 1787 by a group of 12 to 13 delegates who didn’t want one person or a group of people to get to much power. Some of the things in our constitution that help guard against tyranny are federalism‚ separation of power‚ big vs. small states and checks and balances. Federalism guards against tyranny because the states and central government have power they control
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unwilling to help Northup had no other choice. He described it as a "brutal and horrendous" for a slave to be slashing another slave in front of a group of white men. It was truly a horrifying sight. Just like Master Epps‚ enjoys the pain of slaves‚ so does his oldest son‚ a boy about 10 or 12 years old. Every morning he will ride his horse through the fields‚ with a whip in his hand and beat the slaves just for the fun of it. While his father laughs from a distance‚ cheering on his son. This behavior
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Why technology takes the full attentions? Is it because the human can’t do anything without helps from smart inventions. Nowadays‚ a person becomes very far from the nature and that depends on technology‚ it has been a key of knowledge which helps society to create new special things and optimize the life routine. Also‚ technology tries to guess what you want next and help you to improve in today; it’s become same as of air the human can’t live without it. Technology makes the life very comfortable
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Given the circumstances‚ dangerously high internal temperatures and high blood alcohol levels‚ Renee would inform the detective of the following physiological information: The vasodilation caused by the consumption of alcohol increases the diameter of blood vessels‚ which increases the volume of blood that can pass through a vessel. This dilation of blood vessels decreases the amount of venous return to the heart. Also‚ this increased diameter of blood vessels and increased volume allows for less
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Great Expectations Essay How does Dickens create sympathy for Pip in the opening chapters of Great Expectations? Charles Dickens was born during the Victorian times‚ he wrote ‘great expectations’ in a weekly instalment‚ every week he sold one part to maintain the reader’s interest. He wanted people to understand the mass divide of the rich and poor. He wished the people would realise how badly the poor were treated at that time. He used Pip to grab the reader’s attention in the opening chapters
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After the death of Janie’s husband she has a massive time to herself and to think about her past. One of the things she comes across to while she is alone she begins to notice that she hated her grandmother for her beliefs and values that she made her had. Janie states on page 85‚ “She hated her grandmother and had hidden it from herself all these years under a cloak of pity.” Janie never really let her emotions out until now where she is alone and can concentrate on herself and her feelings. Also
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Using the art of rhetoric‚ Lady Macbeth persuaded Macbeth to kill King Duncan and a few other characters. Anytime Macbeth had a doubt in his mind‚ she would easily manipulate him with her words. The words Lady Macbeth told her husband partly set the tragic events of this play in motion. In scene I act VII of “Macbeth”‚ Lady Macbeth specifically uses Pathos‚ Ethos‚ and Logos in order to get the response that she wants. The scene starts out with Macbeth pondering about whether their plan to murder
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How does Tennyson tell the story of ’Godiva’? In the poem ’Godiva’ Alfred Lord Tennyson employs another famous mythological legend and transforms it into a story of his own. it is a narrative poem written from the perspective of an omniscient narrator whereby Tennyson has introduced political and economical aspects of Victorian society‚ the time in which the poem was written. The poem is written in verse paragraphs
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The use of comedy in Shakespeare’s Hamlet serves many purposes for the audience‚ while also serving a distinct purpose in the play. Hamlet is a tragedy about a son who avenges his father’s murder‚ but his madness and indecision take its toll on everyone. Shakespeare uses humor in this play as a device to temporarily distract the audience away from the almost relentless tragedy and dark plot turns that permeate the rest of the story. The humorous scenes in the play always come directly before or after
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