Unscrupulous: having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair. Power is a dangerous thing that can corrupt those who wield it. In the 1953 play The Crucible by the American playwright Arthur Miller‚ Arthur Miller’s play "The Crucible" explores the idea of power and allure of detrimental results in the wrong hands. Set in Salem all the while the infamous witch trials of 1692‚ the play describes the destructive consequences of individuals abusing their authority for individual gain. Through
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It’s difficult to imagine how some people hold multiple jobs to support themselves or their families and still struggle on day to day basis. The saying the rich get’s richer and poor gets poorer has never been so evident in today’s society. Let’s begin by explaining what poor is? According to (Encarta English Dictionary 2006) poor is explained as someone “lacking money‚ material possessions‚ unemployed and insecure”. Poor is also divided into two distinctive groups‚ the deserving and the undeserving
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Having too much power is a bad thing ‚ too much power in the wrong hands never ends well. Tick‚ tick‚ tick‚ boom! That was all of your power blowing up in your face. Ultimate power leads to ultimate corruption‚ it affects not only you‚ but everyone around you. In Antigone by sophocles‚ Creon uses his power poorly. He uses his power for him and only him‚ not caring about the results or how his family feels. For example he says antigone must die for doing the noble thing‚ which was giving her brother
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Persuasive Leaders Racism and inequality are issues that have stemmed from the beginning of time. Humans have a tendency to fear the unknown or people that are different from themselves. How do the leaders that we look up to or the media that we listen to affect our opinions of those different than us? Do we listen to the prejudices of others and become more prejudice ourselves‚ or do we listen to others strive for equality and strive harder ourselves to end racism? Do we simply listen with
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(Austria‚ Prussia‚ Russia‚ and Great Britain) decided to form an alliance. Seeing the problems caused by Napoleonic France they wanted to make certain no nation would acquire more power than another (D’Anieri 34). This new agreement also assured each nation an ally‚ should a rogue leader decide to follow Napoleon’s example (Martin 1). On November 20th 1815 the informal multi-national alliance known as the Concert of Europe was born (Martin 2). The Concert of Europe ¬was different from most alliances
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REASONING AND INTERPRETATION – Practice questions 1. Understanding the ecological mechanism that causes extinction is fundamental to conservation as not all organisms are threatened by the same factors. A total of 1012 threatened bird species in 95 families were studied to see how they were threatened by different factors: · habitat loss · persecution by humans and introduced predators · other factors (introduced competitors‚ hybridization and disease) and unknown risk factors. Scientists investigated
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principle of moral development (Narvaez & Lapsley‚ 2009). American psychologist Lawrence Kohlberg‚ is prominently known for his theory on the stages of moral development. Kohlberg illustrated people learn moral values through means of thinking and reasoning (Narvaez & Lapsley‚ 2009). Kohlberg’s model is cognitive in nature‚ focusing on the process of thinking that occurs when one decides whether a behavior is right or wrong. With the escalation of social issues plaguing our school systems‚ such as
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Optional Unit 1 Inclusive Practice “Inclusion applies to an arrangement where every student’s (including disabled learners) entitlements have been designed in from the outset‚ as opposed to integration which applies to the assimilation of students into a pre-existing arrangement.” (www.psychology.heacademy.ac.uk accessed 19/12/10) The term ‘Inclusive learning’ was first defined in 1996 with the release of the ‘Tomlinson Report’. Inclusive practice enables us to recognise and accommodate the
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that society has the obligation‚ to the extent that it is able‚ to help compensate for these inequalities. Thus society would have an obligation to provide compensatory education‚ job training‚ health care‚ day care and so on‚ so that those who start out deprived will at least have a chance to compete for decent jobs‚ housing and so on. This definition still tolerates large discrepancies in the actual distribution of goods‚ but at least it recognizes some form of social obligation to help those most
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Committee: Middle School Disarmament Commission Topic: Justifying International Intervention in Civil Wars Country: Greece A. The issue of justifying international intervention in civil wars popped out most recently due to the various civil wars that have been happening after the 2000’s. The two major contemporary civil wars are the Libyan Civil war and the Syrian Civil war. The Libyan Civil war was a 2011 civil war in Libya that resulted in the change of government in Libya‚ resulting in
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