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    She looked up at the same ceiling above her bed before falling asleep for 18 years. Caroline Sheridan grew up in Nashville‚ Tennessee and never moved before coming to Dallas for college. “I didn’t really think I wanted to go any further west than Nashville for college‚” Sheridan said. Her life was in Nashville. She went a small coed private catholic school from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. And later a non-denominational school for high school. Growing up in Nashville with her family

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    of Duncan‚ Macbeth should be held accountable for his deeds. A reason to support this claim would be‚ Macbeth’s heart had already been filled with malicious intent before he even had a conversation with his wife about killing King Duncan. Readers can say that his wife‚ Lady Macbeth‚ acted as a sort of trigger that pushed him to the edge. Even though that she is just as guilty as he is‚ Macbeth should’ve trusted what he was doing was wrong. On the night that Duncan visited the Macbeth household‚ his

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    One of the biggest moral lessons you can learn in this book is that: people are people‚ regardless of race or social class. Throughout the book‚ Scout and Jem face many examples of it as they go about their daily lives. The examples appear everywhere from the beginning of the book all the way to the very end‚ but Jem and Scout don’t catch on to the lesson until later in the book. One of the first examples was when Jem invited Walter Cunningham to go home and have dinner with them in chapter 3. Scout

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    elements‚ the Witches introduce an element of supernatural mystery and fear into Macbeth. As Coleridge says‚ “as true a creation of Shakespeare’s as his Ariel and Caliban” and “wholly different from the representation of witches in the contemporary writers‚ and yet presented a sufficient external resemblance to the creatures of vulgar prejudice‚ to act immediately on the audience.” It is significant that the play begins with a brief meeting of the three witches. A very short prologue is long enough

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    The best moral lesson that atticus taught his kids was that‚ you can’t judge someone if you have not walk in there shoes. The reason why this is the best is because in the book they blamed Tom Robinson for the rape of mrs. Ewill when he didn’t do a thing and they didn’t believe him because he was a black man and they would always believe a white man’s word over a black man’s word any day. Atticus knew this but he thought he could change people’s minds but there was little chance of winning and

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    Analyse how a conflict was used to explore a theme in the written text(s) In ‘Macbeth’ written by William Shakespeare‚ the theme of the destructive nature of unchecked ambition and its negative consequences was explored through Macbeth’s internal conflict‚ which was between his moral values and his ambitious thoughts. Through the metaphor of sleep‚ Macbeth’s internal conflict showed how over ambition can lead to a lack of peace within people‚ causing sickness in their mental health. The imagery

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    Essay Draft- Discuss how the novel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K. Rowling teaches us important moral and social lessons. Novels aren’t just a source of entertainment‚ they also contain important social and moral lessons. This can be seen in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K Rowling through the journey of Harry Potter and his friends in their first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. During this time they have to work together to defeat Voldemort

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    provided entertainment‚ taught moral lessons‚ and explained the earth and its nature. Notably‚ the modern reader can learn valuable moral lessons from ancient Greek myths. Not to mention‚ the variety of myths that exist‚ many of these myths give children knowledge and understanding of the world. These following aspects are shown in the following myths‚ Phaethon and the Chariot of the Sun‚ Icarus and Daedalus‚ and Athena and Arachne. Additionally‚ These moral lessons are important for our society today

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    Critical Response to “The Moral Thinking of Macbeth” In his essay‚ “The Moral Thinking of Macbeth‚” J. Gregory Keller attempts to address Hannah Arendt’s claim in her article‚ “Thinking and Moral Considerations‚” that evil may arise in society directly from thoughtlessness. He attempts to use the murder of Duncan in Macbeth as an event to clarify her argument that thoughtlessness leads to evil and that thinking about the ethical ramifications of one’s thinking can actually turn people toward

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    On September 29‚ 2016‚ I went to see Macbeth‚ a play written by William Shakespeare. This production was adapted for Young Audiences by Christopher Matsos and directed by Geoffrey Wilson. I viewed this play at the Lincoln Theatre. This version of the production was performed in a steampunk Scotland. It was supposed to suggest that there was something “punk rock” and cool about the play. Furthermore‚ this play was not at all what I had expected‚ the characters were dressed in dark cloaks‚ there was

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