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    Evil Dead 2013: A Film with Big Shoes to Fill Since the 1981 release of the original Evil dead you will not find many horror films as near and dear to horror film fanatics’ hearts as this classic. Although it is now out-dated and known as a low budget film; these qualities are what made it such a great horror classic. Lacking the luxury of relying on a gigantic Hollywood budget and fancy effects the director used ingenuity to captivate people’s minds. Needless to say‚ it worked. Fast forward to

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    The Possibility of Evil

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    The Possibility of Evil The Possibility of Evil is full of literary devices. The one that is mostly used throughout this short story is irony. A lot of things that appear to be one way‚ turn out to be another.This story leaves a feeling as if everyone can be evil… To portray this feeling the author uses three various types of irony; situational‚ dramatic and verbal. Dramatic irony plays a big part in what makes this story interesting to the readers. In the short-story it says "she was fond

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    Would you kill another human being? Sure‚ it may seem impossible‚ but there is the ability to do evil inside all of us. Philip Zimbardo would know. He was a professor of psychology at Stanford University who ran the “Stanford Prison Experiment”‚ in which he recorded the violent and sadistic tendencies of male college students in the role of prison guards. He once said that “human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside… There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm

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    Argument

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    Government Funding for the Space Program Over the past 20 years the United States space program have seen many changes. The first of them being a large interest from private sectors. Companies such as space X‚ Google‚ Virgin Galactic‚ and Xcor aerospace had come into the mix‚ due to the crash of the United States economy making every taxpaying dollars required to go further in assisting citizens the United States and the death of the space shuttle program. Privatized companies have now been able

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    Robert L.: Case Study

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    Robert L. Dear Jr.‚ the man responsible for the shooting at a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado Springs last year‚ has just been declared unfit to stand trial. According to Judge Gilbert A. Martinez‚ the suspect is “mentally incompetent” and announced that Dear must be sent to a mental hospital to restore his competency. The Courtroom Drama Judge Gilbert A. Martinez’s ruling was based on the reports of the two state psychologists who have met with Robert L. Dear Jr. Both psychologists reported

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    ’Argument’s from religious experience are never convincing’ discuss (35 Marks) A religious Experience is an experience of the divine . Religious experience can be divided into many categories and it depends on what philosopher you agree with as to what categories you would decide on. But the main undisputed categories are; corporal experiences‚ which are experienced by a mass audience‚ vision experiences‚ which are when people see God‚ Hell or Heaven in some sort of semi-conscious state like

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    Evil In Frankenstein

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    Shelley’s novel Frankenstein the creature is brought into this world like a newborn child by his creator‚ Victor Frankenstein. Although the creature has a seemingly evil appearance and has committed malicious acts‚ he was once good and pure. Victor believes that his creature who he refers to by the names “wretch” and “daemon” was born evil‚ but I believe that the creature is actually very kind and good at heart and the creature is right to say “misery made me a fiend.” (Shelley 69) It was really his

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    Is Money Evil?

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    Most people have heard of the phrase “Money is the root of all evil”. Often people will think this phrase is not true. In this society‚ everybody needs money to survive. Money rules over everything. Without it‚ you cannot purchase anything at all. So how can money be the root of all evil when life would be miserable without money? With money‚ you can support your family members‚ help friends with income problems or even donating to the needy people and have a higher standard of living. So the

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    Despite Mackie seeming to have proven the logical problem of evil to be sound it is not surprising that theists have sought to resolve the problem rather than abandoning their beliefs. Responses to the problem of evil fall into the categories of defences or theodicies. Generally speaking a defence is used in response to the logical problem‚ simply showing how there is no logical inconsistency. This does not require an explanation of evil‚ nor need it be true‚ as a false though coherent explanation

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    ON THE THREE EVILS

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    ON THE THREE EVILS Humanity has been led astray by three evils – greed‚ hatred and ignorance. Whether we are Buddhists‚ Hindus‚ Muslims‚ Christians‚ Animists‚ or Atheists‚ we cannot escape the three inevitables: old age‚ disease‚ and death. Nobody can deny that the five sense objects – pretty sight‚ delightful sound‚ fragrant smell‚ savory taste‚ and nice touch – are only fleeting phenomena. They are neither lasting nor permanent. Nor can anybody deny that property is transitory: no one can carry

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