It’s all Dimmesdale’s fault In the novel‚ The Scarlet Letter‚ many of the characters are looked upon as sinners. Sinners are people who go against the bible‚ God’s word. In actuality every character is a sinner someway and somehow. After reading the book‚ there is one character that sticks out to be the biggest sinner of all. That is Dimmesdale. Although all characters are sinners‚ Dimmesdale committed the greater sin for impregnating Hester Pryne. Dimmesdale is the pope of the town. He gives sermons
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I feel that one of my greatest strengths is not getting involved in other people’s cattiness and drama. I have always been one to listen when a friend needs someone to talk to and I always tried to be understanding‚ but I always hated seeing people others try to take sides in arguments. In my experience this is how a lot of people lose friends and how clicks are started. In high school I was able to be friends with all different kinds of people with no problem‚ whether they were jocks‚ preps‚ or
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In the winter of 1995‚ a fire broke out in the Malden Mills factory and was the largest fire that Massachusetts had seen in the last century. No one was killed‚ but the town was devastated. Malden Mills was one of the few large employers in a town that was already in desperate straights. Employing over 3‚000 employees from Lawrence‚ Massachusetts and its neighboring communities. “The only thing going on my mind was how could I possibly recreate it… I was proud of the family business and I want
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Stuart Mill’s Harm Principle “The only freedom […] is that of pursuing our own [happiness]‚ so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it” – John Stuart Mill. This utilitarian approach brought forth by John Stuart Mill‚ within his works On Liberty‚ identifies a correlation between freedom and happiness. He essentially states that achieving freedom is most effective when an individual is able to act in ways that promotes their happiness‚ in so forth that
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John Stuart Mill was an influential English philosopher known for his theories and philosophical views. One of his popular works is Utilitarianism‚ which were at first articles that were then put together into a book. Utilitarianism is a response to critics who put down Mill’s moral theory of utilitarianism and it also expands the theory further. Mill defines utilitarianism as a theory based on the idea that‚ “…actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness‚ wrong as they tend
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Whereas Rousseau takes both the stand of a feminist and a sexist in his work‚ Mill is quite protective about women in arguing that men do not know what women are capable of because they have never been given a chance to develop and prove it. Mill lived in a time when women were generally subject to oppression and humiliation coming from their husbands and fathers due to the socially preconceived ideas that women were both physically and mentally less able than men. Rousseau on the other side has
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Today I read two articles that have impacted my thought of the millennials era‚ those two articles are The Outsiders: How Can Millennials Change Washington If They Hate It? by Ron Fournier and Millennials: The Greatest Generation or the Most Narcissistic? by Jean Twenge. In the first article they really explained that this generation‚ the people of today are the ones that they younger people are more service oriented than anyone ever was. This is a great thing‚ but whats the link? Nothing actually
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Freedom is a wonderful gift that has no limits. No other country has as much diversity as America. Without the people who are willing to sacrifice for their country‚ my generation wouldn’t be nearly as great. Freedom has always been one of America’s greatest gifts‚ but it’s especially valuable now. Unlike other countries Americans have the freedom to write about and inform the people of their opinions. Another form of freedom Americans have is the freedom of religion‚ which not everyone has the privilege
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theorist in the mid 19th century‚ John Stuart Mill maintained a Utilitarian outlook. Yet‚ his enlightened perspective discouraged forced conformity and promoted the misfit. Furthermore‚ Mill argued that individual liberty is necessary to obtain progress in society.3 This concept remains relevant to the world we see today because‚ without deviants such as Brenda Berkman and Autherine Lucy‚ society would stagnate. In the essay Of Individuality‚ published by Mill in 1869‚ the theorist asserted that the
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Many students have a certain identity that sets them apart from other students. I believe my greatest quality is my ability to get along with others and being able to work well in groups. This quality makes me who I am. I am a chill person that does not create conflict with anybody else. This could be shown with the numerous activities I have been part of. I go to a charter school whose main focus is on science‚ technology‚ engineering‚ and math. There are many labs that involve working together
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