What do I care if Mohammed was a good man‚ or Buddha! Does that alter my own goodness or evil? Let us be good for our own sake on our own responsibility! Not because some body way back there was good! (Reminisces of Swami Vivekananda p. 273) We are responsible for what we are‚ and whatever we wish ourselves to be‚ we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions‚ it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be
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Written by Henrik Ibsen‚ An Enemy of the People is a prominent example of a text that incorporates universal topics which are those of integrity and environmental damage. Similarly‚ the film Erin Brockovich‚ directed by Steven Soderbergh‚ reflects these themes. Due to the variant mediums the techniques used to portray these themes to the audience are vastly different. Integrity is essential if corrupt forces in society are to be constrained or abolished. In An Enemy of the People‚ the protagonist
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Kudzu was first introduced to the United States in 1876. It was discovered that animals would use the plant for forage and was later used as cattle fodder. Additionally‚ kudzu was found to be a great tool for erosion control due to its strong root system. The plant also helps fix the nitrogen content in the soil. Kudzu also contains several medical chemicals‚ daidzen and genistein‚ which fight inflammation‚ infections‚ cancer‚ and promote estrous cycles. Although kudzu seemed like a wonder plant
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One theory in Jared Diamond s Collapse is that soil degradation and erosion leads to insufficient agriculture and a society s demise. In Timothy Egan s The Worst Hard Time‚ he sets forth in specific and excruciating detail exactly what Diamond outlines in Collapse. Only Egan s book isn t theoretical. It isn t a survey of what s happened in other countries. It s about the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. It s about what happens‚ right here in the heart of America‚ when the land is misused‚ mistreated‚ and
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"Enemy at the Gates" Craig Williams was born in Concord Massachusetts. He wrote the book "Enemy at the Gates" in 1973. The point of this book was to show both the extreme importance of this battle in the course of World War II and the courage of both the German and Russian troops during this horrific battle. This book did an excellent job portraying the hardships the soldiers faced and the gruesome scope of the battle for this important city. However‚ it did so with a pro-axis slant.
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Odysseus’s Greatest Enemy: The World Itself Greece is a beautiful Mediterranean-bordering country. People revel in its beautiful mountains and beaches. One would think that nothing bad could ever occur in such a beautiful paradise. However‚ in the grand epic The Odyssey‚ written by the Greek poet Homer‚ a gentleman named Odysseus is put into troubling scenarios which he must surpass in order to be reunited with his love‚ Penelope. As “People need heroes and epics provide heroes who
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Literary Review: “The Worst Mistake In The History of the Human Race” The article “The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race” by Jared Diamond was overflowing with an extremely different stance on the globally accepted views of the impact of agriculture. The author stated “With agriculture came the gross social and sexual inequality‚ the disease and despotism‚ that curse our existence.” This was the heart of his theory as he depicted agriculture as a curse suffered by mankind‚ to
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means to me. The doomed player in my nightmare isn’t one of my beloved Cincinnati Bengals. He wears a generic dark jersey that could be any team’s uniform. He is catching a pass‚ so he’s probably a wide receiver‚ though because I can never make out his number I suppose he could be a tight end or a running back. He jumps for a high throw‚ and as he comes down he is blasted on either side. One defender hits him high‚ one defender hits him low. And then he’s literally ripped in half by the force of
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to play with the truck and pretend there is some sort of story related to the small‚ toy truck. Both boys are very stubborn‚ and being so small‚ they are each adamant in their decision and do not change their mind. They each go about playing their own game‚ hoping that the other will soon abandon their idea of playing in the sandbox and play with them. Soon the boy with the truck is moving the truck on the sand and sand begins to fill the other boy’s dug hole. Tension rises and the boy digging the
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remain clean and pure leaders. Rather than the men learn to control themselves and behave appropriately‚ it is apparently a duty placed on women to make men better. This just an indirect way of scapegoating women for an issue that is clearly the man’s own responsibility. Men being given higher status in society is much too common‚ and it can be seen in how women were referred to in this time period: “while the women whom they married and who accompanied them‚ are generally referred to as their ‘wives’
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