system” (Lu 245). Legend (© 2011)‚ a dystopian young adult fiction novel written by upcoming author Marie Lu. Before Lu became a full time writer‚ she was an art director for a video game company. This is a book inspired by the television show‚ Les Miserables. The show involved a highly skilled detective hunting down a notorious criminal. Legend is written from the perspective of two different characters with two completely different backgrounds. June‚ the Republic’s prodigious student is finishing
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examples of this is the holocaust. This paper will connect catholic social teaching‚ the holocaust and prejudice and racism in the United States. The holocaust was one of the most devastating things documented in the history of the world. To think that all these people were killed just because of how they looked or the religion they believed in is something horrible to think about. The holocaust violated a number of catholic social teaching principles but there were three major ones violated. The
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Who to blame? Fantine is like a little girl who is buying a car‚ where the car company charges high interest‚ and she ends up paying an enormous sum. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ both society and Fantine are to blame for her decline‚ though society is much more at at fault than she. Firstly‚ Fantine is partially to blame since she is inexperienced and naive. Likewise‚ society is at fault because the population dehumanizes people living in poverty. Moreover‚ society is responsible because
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issues behind homelessness‚ but also the morality of the problem. Morality is what helps a person to distinguish between what is right and what is wrong. One tool people can use as a guide to determine morality is the Ten Building Blocks of Catholic Social Teaching. The blocks include ten principles that‚ when followed‚ lead to a moral life. Homelessness is a moral problem because it violates the Principle of Human Dignity‚ the Principle of Common Good and the Principle of Preferential Protection for
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Tradition of the Church and social situations as completely different entities. However‚ this is not true‚ the Catholic Social Teachings (CST) bridges these worlds together. The scripture is our main source of revelation‚ explaining how to reach the kingdom of heaven. For this reason‚ the Catholic Social Teachings rely heavily upon the scriptures as this leads to the Tradition of the Church. The Tradition and the scripture are highly intertwined.The Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church states: “the Church
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In any good novel‚ and even in life‚ people can be influenced in both positive and negative ways. In the three novels that we have read so far‚ Great Expectations‚ Lés Misérables‚ and Wuthering Heights‚ the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations‚ the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences
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In Girl With A Pearl Earring and Les Miserables‚ Griet and Cosette are mistreated by the higher class. Cosette is Fantine’s daughter who is given to the Thenardiers‚ a family of innkeepers‚ because Fantine knows she cannot take care of Cosette. While at the Thenardiers’s inn‚ Cosette is abused and forced to do extortionate tasks she is barely able to do‚ like fetch water in the dark with a bucket larger than her. She is given no mercy‚ because of the “fierce mistress and venomous master” she is being
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Character Analysis of Hugo’s Javert Hugo’s character Javert sees anyone who may have commit a crime as simple as the theft of a loaf of bread as a social malefactor‚ a blight on all of society‚ a prime evil who needs to be eliminated‚ removed from the general population‚ and a devil that can be neither reformed nor tamed. Javert is the true rationalist. Like Medieval philosophers‚ he believes that people will naturally resort to evil‚ and that these people can never be saved or reformed. Javert
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Victor Hugo‚ the author of‚ “Les Misérables‚” once said‚ “Change your opinions‚ keep your principles; change your leaves‚ keep intact your roots.” This is a quote that can be reassuring to a person who is going through a rough patch in life or when they are at a stance in their life where they have forgotten who they are. When I read this quote‚ I think about where I come from and how it has shaped me to be the person I am today. One way that my roots have affected me is by my speech communities
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• Social Justice: Defined as “Justice in terms of the distribution of wealth‚ opportunities‚ and privileges within a society.” (“ Social Justice”‚ 2017 ) Social Justice is in essence mankind treating each other with dignity and it does not allow for racism or discrimination in any form. The Catholic Church has always been aware of social justice in its teachings and when applied to a school environment these themes are referred to as Catholic Social Teaching and is used to address how Christianity
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