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    Odysseus’s Greatest Enemy: The World Itself Greece is a beautiful Mediterranean-bordering country. People revel in its beautiful mountains and beaches. One would think that nothing bad could ever occur in such a beautiful paradise. However‚ in the grand epic The Odyssey‚ written by the Greek poet Homer‚ a gentleman named Odysseus is put into troubling scenarios which he must surpass in order to be reunited with his love‚ Penelope. As “People need heroes and epics provide heroes who

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    and create an efficient society. However‚ when under the watchful eyes of their peers and the majority‚ people feel pressured to conform to everyone else’s beliefs‚ and‚ in doing so‚ lose their individuality. This process is shown in Henrik Ibsen’s Enemy of the People. In this play‚ authority and the overwhelming opinions of the majority pressure those with conflicting opinions to conform to the rest‚ causing them to lose their own individual beliefs‚ revealing that the power of majority causes corruption

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    The painting that I am choosing to talk about is called Circling the Enemy by Z.S. Liang. What this painting means is that basically in the mid-nineteenth century‚ there were problems with the residents of Native Americans got more aggressive as many more settlers continued their expedition in the Westward Expansion. But‚ what I thought this meant at first when I saw this was how the Indians were fighting for their land because settlers were moving west and got to their land. What I think this picture

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    Happiness or Duty? Arthur Miller’s‚ An Enemy of the People‚ depicts an intriguing playwright in which the differences of opinions between two brothers leads to a town revolution and the expulsion of one brother from the community. One brother‚ Dr. Stockmann‚ believed the contamination of the water in the town’s health spa was sufficient reasoning to be shut down. The other brother‚ Peter Stockmann‚ took an opposing stance believing that the health spa was the towns only means to economic salvation

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    The Enemies of Empire‚ Harold A. Larrabee Thesis: American imperialism during the early twentieth century was strongly opposed by its own citizens‚ including lawyers and bankers from Boston. Moreover‚ it was mentioned as treason of American principles and an anti-imperialist campaign was formed to destroy it‚ a campaign which focused on the aspect of the opinion of its members. Quote: “The anti-imperialists saw the whole problem as a matter of political morality.” The author is stating

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    His Own Worst Enemy

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    His Own Worst Enemy In William Shakespeare ’s Othello‚ Othello is the tragic hero. Shakespeare’s play‚ Othello‚ the Moor of Venice tells a tragic story of a noble hero who is undone by his own fatal flaws. These fatal flaws are exploited by a supposedly loyal friend and Othello’s trusting nature and inability to separate what is in his heart from what is in his mind‚ dramatically result in tragedy for The Moor of Venice. He is a character of high stature who is destroyed by his surroundings‚

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    Seneca Indians: Allies and Enemies Seneca are among the most respected and feared. The Seneca are culturally similar to their Cayuga‚ Onondaga‚ Oneida‚ an Mohawk confederates. The five tribes were known as the Five Nations or the League of Five Nations. Sometime between 1715 and 1722 the Tuscaroras from North Carolina joined the confederacy and changed the name to the Six Nations. In their relations with white settlers the Seneca played the role of an independent power and were this way from

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    The Enemy Above: A Novel of World War II is a story about a twelve-year-old Jewish peasant named Anton. He lives with his uncles and his grandmother‚ Bubbe in the Ukrainian village of Borshchiv. The story takes place in 1942 during World War II in a farming village. His mother died when he was young‚ and his father went off to fight in the war. A year after his father left‚ German soldiers invade Anton’s village with a plan to eradicate all the Jews from the Ukraine. Pursued by Major Von Duesen‚

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    Document 1 of 1 Haiti Disaster Relief: Logistics is the Operation Author: Vohr‚ James A‚ Colonel Publication info: Military Review 91.4 (Jul/Aug 2011): 76-82. ProQuest document link Abstract: [...] any U.S. military common operational picture must include the activities of the interagency‚ the international community‚ and nongovernmental organizations. A focus on preventing an environmental tragedy from devolving into political violence and chaos accounted for early decisions to deploy the

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    My Brother or My Enemy

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    MY BROTHER OR MY ENEMY? I remember when Chris-my older brother by a year and a half- got a scholarship to study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ we were all happy. Mother rolled on the floor for two minutes as She praised God. Father‚ a much more reserved man smiled and said nothing‚ I did not know what to do‚ so I just stared at Chris in admiration and in a brand new light. My brother was going to America to study Robotic Engineering‚ and I was proud of him. I remember

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