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    At an early age‚ she “associated poverty‚ toil‚ unemployment‚ drunkenness‚ cruelty‚ quarreling‚ fighting‚ debts‚ and jails with large families.” (pg. 15‚ Margaret Sanger; A Life of Passion). The image of large families and children born destined to a life of hardship and cruelty‚ fueled the very ideas of the beginnings

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    Mongol’s army is different than the other army in war. It was so organized they were undefeatable. But they’re also brutal‚ if committed adultery you will be executed. It all began‚ in 1206 A.D with Genghis Khan who unites the Mongols‚ but the Mongol dynasty falls in 1368 A.D. The most important question is‚ but was the Mongol Empire brilliant or brutal? The documents that we read support that the Mongol empire was brutal. I will use documents 1 and 4 to support my arguments. The first reason the

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    beginning to fall into a rut of a repetitious and wearisome lifestyle and so the alcohol therefore provided distraction and entertainment. It became a widespread tribulation that reformers sought to end. The religious revival spoke out against the drunkenness of citizens‚ that it contaminated the home and threatened one’s own and family’s spiritual prosperity. Many incipient organizations besought many to sign pledges and employed the use of pictures‚ lectures‚ and testimonies in the hopes to teach

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    a line can be measured. Heraclitus Ephesus Fire Everything is in a constant state of flux Nature & Human condition are connected. Soul as fiery in nature which is generated out of other substances just as fire is‚ has limited dimensions. Drunkenness causes it to be most. Virtuous life keeps it dry & intelligent -Disagreed with Parmenides because of change. Parmenides Elea Monism Change is impossible. Nothing can become what it already is. -Disagreed with Heraclitus Zeno Elea Change

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    How and why does Shakespeare use disguise to develop the comedy of 12th night? The use of disguise features throughout 12th night. As the play is a comedy it has to involve certain conventions such as green worlds and confusion‚ the inclusion of disguise allows Shakespeare to generate comedy and a positive response from the audience as well as making the conventions of comedy easier to include in the play. Shakespeare includes his first use of disguise early on in the play (A1:S2) where Viola

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    Britain were prohibited to attend the church‚ they had to move to New England and maintain their power over the continent. After establishment of their colony‚ the local authorities began to implement laws regulating human behavior in terms of drunkenness‚ swearing and gambling. This way‚ they hoped that the colony would build a new and reliable role model. In view of many scholars‚ although Puritan ambition to create the ideal model of society‚ based upon the establishment of a covenant with God

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    simplicity was valued and excessiveness was frowned upon‚ everyone was reliant on each other‚ and everyone was active in the community. Consequently‚ many laws were enforced in New England which were based on a strict moral code‚ including prohibited drunkenness‚ required church attendance‚ and no critic on Puritan principals was allowed‚ and if these laws weren´t followed there were harsh punishments‚ including banishment from the

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    Although drunkenness was a common problem in the Army‚ it was rare among them. The black soldiers had the U.S. Army’s lowest desertion and court-martial rates despite that nearly a third of the white army soldiers deserted (Britannica‚ 2015). For the duration of almost

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    Cause contributed from this movement. It gave teens a “representative” in a way‚ someone they could relate to as they struggled to find their place in the world. It also mirrored the delinquent behaviors of America’s youth at the time‚ such as drunkenness‚ switchblade fights‚ deadly drag races‚ and archetypal screams to his parents: “You’re tearing me apart!”. Dean’s performance marked Jim as the the “first American teenager” (Dirks

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    conceived from painful firsthand experience in the London city streets. This sentiment is echoed in a different author’s similar observation. From a 1747 excerpt of The London Tradesman‚ he laments that society is caught in a vicious cycle of drunkenness‚ impossible to break. Both authors derive concern from a genuine desire to improve the human condition. However‚ the same cannot be said for artist William Hogarth in his opposing pictures‚ Gin Lane (1751) and Beer Street (1750). Because he was

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