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    By saying‚ “He who lies with dogs‚ rises with fleas‚” Franklin is talking about how associating with certain individuals will result in adopting traits from those people. If one is surrounded by undesirable people‚ the habits and behavior have a good chance of rubbing off on him. These undesirable people are regarded as dogs for their poor conduct and dishonorable habits. The “rising with fleas‚” is the process of the mannerisms of the “dogs” transferring to a

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    Julia Cavanagh 2-27-17/SS/Pd. 7 Q3 Project Mrs. Kelly The Black Death‚ or as most people know it today as The Plague‚ killed more than 20 million people in Europe and Asia in the Late Middle Ages. This horrific disease affected all aspects of life during the time. The population

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    Europe had suffered one of the worst natural mishaps the world had ever seen. From the wings of Italy through to Ireland‚ its inhabitants had lost their last strand of hope as a plethora of violent behavior and barbarism had befallen upon them. While morality deteriorated and respect for human life seemed impracticable‚ the people of these times were being threatened to their extinction. Their hope in God grew weary as the living learned to expect not the graceful hand of the God they knew‚ but rather

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    "the untestable‚" which is perhaps understandable for its practicality‚ but deeply flawed as both philosophy and social policy. Flawed as philosophy‚ because testability is not even a metaphysical distinction‚ but an epistemological one‚ and yet in the real world everyone uses the word “supernatural” to make metaphysical distinctions. And flawed as social policy‚ because the more that judges and scientists separate themselves from the people with deviant language‚ the less support they will find from

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    Have You Eaten Yet?: Swift’s Final Solution 	As a lately favored eighteenth century essay‚ Jonathan Swift’s "Proposal" has been canonized as a satirical model of wit. As will be discussed shortly‚ Swift’s essay is often seen as an allegory for England’s oppression of Ireland. Swift‚ himself and Irishman (Tucker 142)‚ would seem to have pointed his razor wit against the foreign nation responsible for his city’s ruin. Wearing the lens of a New Historicist‚ however‚ requires that we reexamine

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    Virtues of My Life: Order‚ Courage‚ Patience In order to survive in 1996‚ there need to be at least some standards and goals of morality in a person’s life. Moral excellence is definitely hard to achieve‚ but is definitely something to attempt. Personally‚ there are many distractions and obstructions the present day provides‚ creating a difficulty of direction in my own life. I need to overcome obstacles such as peer pressure in order to become a confident‚ successful person. The present

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    though‚ it is all the same thing. The Black Plague caused death everywhere‚ and‚ the effect is change in religion‚ economy‚ and the country. The Black Plague all started from a flea. The fleas lived on rodents and other animals‚ the most common were the rats‚ are believed to have delivered the disease (Alkin 3). The fleas injected the disease into the animals which they were on.

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    English 4 5 April 2013 Naturalism The rise of the violent and radical Montagnards signaled an important moment in British‚ American‚ and French social thought. The late eighteenth century had been characterized by optimism‚ progressivism‚ rationalism‚ and secularism. The violent over-throw of the French Revolution and the increasing disorder and poverty of urban life in England‚ led to a retreat from these values. The result was a revival of religion and deep questioning of the notion of progress

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    another example of a company attempting to duplicate its strategies and business model unsuccessfully. Wal-Mart didn’t consider how the vast differences in culture could affect their survival and ultimately let their complacency‚ conservatism and conceit get in the way. Their continued losses forced them to withdraw their investment after failing to adapt to the environment‚ the culture and customer needs. Wal-Mart should have adjusted their leadership style to be able to transcend context as well

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    argued that human thought proceeds through three stages: theological‚ metaphysical‚ and positivistic. The first‚ theological‚ involves trying to explain all phenomena through the direct operation of supernatural beings and divine forces. The second‚ metaphysical‚ is similar to the first‚ but those supernatural beings have become more abstract and less anthropomorphic. In the final‚ positivistic‚ both supernatural beings and metaphysical abstractions are abandoned in favor of naturalistic‚ empirical explanations

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