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    Acting on revenge can either be bittersweet or deadly. Revenge is the act of “getting someone back” who has done another person wrong. The emotion one feels that could lead to revenge is anger‚ as a replacement of grief. Normally‚ the person taking revenge lets the one who has done him wrong know that he is vengeful. Other times‚ the person would act upon his revenge without letting the victim know what he is getting revenge on. Although‚ sometimes‚ an individual would just forgive the other person

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    gave abolitionist a bad name. John brown is a terrorist who had no need to murder people or attack a federal facility. John Brown killed 15 people at Harpers Ferry which cannot be justified because most of the people were civilians. John Brown also killed people at Pottawattamie creek which can be justified because they were proslavery people that terrorized towns that wanted slavery to be abolished. That still could be considered terrorism because he brutally killed the people instead of

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    Essay: A Call For Independence Through the years before the Declaration of Independence‚ the colonists were not treated properly. They deserved their independence. The colonists have gone through a lot of trouble and I believe it was justified for them to have independence. They have gone through the Tea Act‚ Sugar Act‚ and other Townshed Acts. I will be including my opinion about what I believe to be the strongest grievance in the grievance In the Declaration of Independence is‚ the events leading

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    Augusto Gabriel R. Tan Mr. E. P. Salazar Composition IV 18 January‚ 2013 “Oral Fixation: Revenge and Insanity” I. Introduction Hamlet is known to be one of the most complex characters that Shakespeare has ever written. Hamlet is such an enigmatic character because there is always more to his being than what the other characters in the play can see (Alexander Crawford‚ Web). Shakespeare was able to create a personality which is emotional‚ intellectual yet rash and judgmental and shows the

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    civil-rights movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s. However‚ these two men were drastically different. While King preached about nonviolence and equal rights‚ Malcolm X condoned violence as a means to get what one wants. While Malcolm X was justified in some of his endeavors‚ his philosophy as a whole was unhealthy and damaged the minds of young people. In the late 1950s and early 1960s‚ Malcolm X was a widely known civil-rights leader. People were drawn to him‚ because he has a willingness

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    half of those killed were women and children. It was the final major clash between the Native Americans and the U.S. military‚ and it finally proved that white men are the “true savages” of humankind. Yes‚ the Native Americans’ resistance was justified. White Americans brought many atrocities upon the Native American people. The white men gave them unfulfilled promises‚ purloined their lands and decimated their people. Prior to the Wounded Knee Massacre‚ the United States government gave

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    spies were rampant on the streets. To defend from internal enemies‚ prominent French leader Robespierre enacted the Reign of Terror. Anyone suspected of aiding the enemy was swiftly put on trial and executed. (doc. G) The Reign of Terror was not justified because the threats to France externally and internally did not warrant the methods used. Those suspected of being spies or opposers of war during the French revolution were quickly tried and unjustly executed. Steven Otfinoski remarks in Triumph

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    VI. Bacon’s Rebellion A. Berkeley’s fears of the freedmen were justified. B. In 1676‚ sparked not by a Dutch invasion but by an Indian attack‚ rebellion swept Virginia. C. It began almost as Berkeley had predicted‚ when a group of volunteer Indian fighters turned from a fruitless expedition against the Indians to attack their rulers. D. Bacon’s Rebellion was the largest popular rising in the colonies before the American Revolution. Sooner or later nearly everyone in Virginia got in on it‚ but it

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    Examine the extent to which expenditure on arms and the armed forces is justifiable in the modern world. ! ! With all its wars‚ terrorist attacks and genocides‚ history might suggest that the armed forces has a critical and unquestionable role in any nation-state. However‚ as Steven Pinker puts it “We believe our world is riddled with terror and war‚ but we may be living in the most peaceable era in human existence’. Since the peak of the cold war in the 1970s and 80s‚ organised conflicts of all

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    Revenge is bittersweet Revenge is the main theme of the film The Count of Monte Cristo‚ directed by Kevin Reynolds. The protagonist Edmond Dantes has his mind set on vengeance as he has been deceived and betrayed by J.F Villefort and Fernand Mondego. Throughout the film Edmond carefully plots and plans to have vengeance on Villefort and Mondego. Although with revenge comes with a price‚ what has been done cannot be undone. Edmond has to live with the guilt of taking another man’s life. Villefort

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