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    Up at Flanagan’s? STEVIE No. MARGARET When I worked up there‚ and she came in? She never told you that story? STEVIE (goes to his desk) I don’t think so. MARGARET She was pregnant with you. No‚ Jimmy actually – she was pregnant with Jimmy - because it was near Christmas‚ and your father was locked up in Walpole again‚ so she didn’t have any money for anything. STEVIE You can sit down. MARGARET She had nothing. Except Saint Vincent de Paul’s. Thank God for them. They used to give out toys

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    Why good people do bad things? “Doing bad is easy but doing well is not”. Yes‚ that saying is the most concrete explanation why good people do bad things. Good people do bad things with good intentions. We‚ humans‚ are all sinful by nature. No one of us can behave perfectly and sinless. But we have the capacity to avoid temptations and to distinguish what’s right from wrong. Good intentions cause most of the world’s great evils. There are many things that happened in the past that can construe

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    show your emotions? There are ways in which to express how you feel other than just the expressions on your face. Many people like to express their emotions through art. There are all sorts of ways to show how one may be feeling. There are countless ways to express one’s self‚ for example‚ Poetry‚ Dance‚ and music. Poetry is a great way for someone to express themselves‚ because it is unique to the writer‚ who may write about anything they may choose. Poetry is a short piece of imaginative writing

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    What is Wisdom? Webster’s New World Dictionary defines the word wisdom as "the quality of being wise; power of judging rightly and following the soundest course of action‚ based on knowledge‚ experience‚ understanding‚ etc.; good judgment; sagacity (penetrating intelligence and sound judgment)." In this paper‚ I will present my interpretation of one instance of how wisdom is obtained and hopefully passed on. I perceive wisdom as the ability to make the best decision or select the best

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    and complete knowledge‚ for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.” This quote is by Khalil Gibran‚ and the meaning behind this quote is very powerful and relates a lot to Oedipus Rex in the idea that people do indeed gain knowledge through the grief and suffering pain experienced in life. Sometimes we try to push out or hide the from the pain and at the end we come to encounter that there is no way of hiding rather than to just bear the pain because it will lead to something bigger and

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    Socrates pursues wisdom in many ways. I would specifically like to elaborate on his search for someone wiser than him in Athens‚ as my example. Socrates questions Politicians first in his pursuit. He wanted to see if these people were wiser than him‚ which is why he questions these people In the first place Socrates questions a politician‚ however he comes up short. He understood that these politicians did not know much of anything; “he thinks he knows something when he does not‚ whereas when I

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    get through them in order to reach salvation and God. In many religious texts‚ it is also stated that our trials often times define our faith in God. Many writers portray character’s tribulations in order to overcome their inner evils. Flannery

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    Mirna Garcia 6/30/11 Assignment #3 William Stafford’s "Traveling Through the Dark" is a poem that expresses the challenging aspects of having to make difficult decisions accompanied by sadness. The narrator expresses his struggle of how he deals with a tragic event he runs into while traveling in the dark on a swerved road. As he is driving down a narrow road he runs into a dead deer. Most people view these animals as beautiful creatures belonging and associated it with our beautiful

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    Wisdom and Folly: Essay Three Liberty University Wisdom and Folly Nearly seventy-five percent of The Old Testament consists of poetry. This includes the books of Psalms and Proverbs‚ which are written entirely in poetry (Henner‚ 2014 par. 1). In the English Bible there are 5 poetic books: Job‚ Psalms‚ Proverbs‚ Ecclesiastes‚ and Song of Songs. The Hebrew people used poetry to express emotion‚ promote worship‚ and to instruct wisdom Hindson & Yates‚ 2012 p. 232). It is the assertion of Hindson

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    In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “Good Country People” the protagonist‚ Joy‚ had mutual characteristics with each of the characters. Her and Mrs. Hopewell were both naïve to Manely Pointer’s true personality. Joy and Mrs. Freeman were both very serious people. Last her and Manely Pointer are both illusive‚ but for different reasons. Each charcter’s life was told in the third person point of view‚ which leads to the mystery behind the story. Joy‚ or Hulga’s‚ point of view is third person limited

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