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    fly‚ or use super strength. Heroes in the modern day are expected of a lot. They need to resist the bad things that are constantly surrounding them‚ and show that they care about their surroundings. They should choose good‚ even when everybody else is doing the wrong thing. There are heroes around us everyday. A hero can save the world‚ and do amazing things. But we tend to overlook the heroes that walk around with us everyday. A hero in the modern day should be able to make good choices in the

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    Modern day technology such as cameras‚ cellular phones‚ and television‚ has made the media more accessible to the public. Before technologies were attainable to most‚ the news was spread around by newspapers or by spoken communication. An example of the media using conventional technology in the early 1990’s‚ a standard camera‚ is in “The War Photo No One Would Publish‚” in which Torie Rose DeGhett addresses how the media censored graphic photographs‚ such as Kenneth Jarecke’s photo of a soldier’s

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    Middle Eastern cultures and the modern idea such as the deeds one does and his or her attitude. A hero is a hero whether it be fighting a bloody battle to save all the citizens in the city or it be saving a small animal from a tall tree. Both express attitudes of helping others and selflessness by putting others before oneself. Characteristics differ through time periods and locations but they all have a common goal of helping the greater good.

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    Courtney Mosley English 213-12:00 June 4‚ 2013 Phoenix Jackson and the Modern Day Woman A phoenix is a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness‚ to burn itself on a funeral pyre‚ and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope; a person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence; a person or thing that has become renewed or restored

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    is complete with flaws and bad qualities that round out the character‚ but has passions and convictions that any reader can relate to. Throughout the course of the Iliad‚ Homer creates the character of Achilles to be a Homeric hero‚ and also‚ a modern day hero. To understand a "Homeric hero" one must know a little about the Homeric code. The Homeric code is a trend throughout Homer ’s myths and Greek society in which the individual prefers having a short‚ but glorious life as opposed to a long

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    Unit 2 Paper: A Modern Day Sir Thomas More After reading Utopia‚ I realized problems in today’s society itself. Hythloday compared and contrasted concepts of government between Utopia and European countries all throughout the book. The perfect Utopian society included all‚ but not limited to: rational thought‚ communal property‚ no love of gold‚ no class distinction‚ little to no crime‚ no poverty‚ religious tolerance‚ and little inclination to war. Many of these concepts are completely

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    Bales‚ Kevin‚ and Zoe Trodd. Modern slavery: the secret world of 27 million people. Oxford: Oneworld‚ 2009. Print. Modern Slavery: The Secret World of 27 Million People is an analysis of modern slavery‚ going back to the history of slavery and the economic and political context of the present time. Other than the fact that it really places slavery into a much larger context‚ the book also seems exhausting ‚ with lots of statistical references and a broad analysis. Kevin Bales is a researcher who

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    Our contemporary society has many flaws and issues that can cause severe sufferings for mankind. Among them Contemporary slavery also known as Modern day slavery is one of very unjustifiable problems which clearly demonstrates that inhumanity still exist in the present day in our modern community. Although slavery is illegal in every country in the modern world‚ in a recent statistic‚ approximately 35.8 million people are currently trapped in this curse (USA Today) but unfortunately many of us simply

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    because of its tragic ending that resulted in the lost lives of two “star-crossed lovers”. Many people usually don’t see how Romeo and Juliet’s times are also comparable to modern days. If Romeo and Juliet were looked at closely though‚ others would see multiple similarities to modern days! Romeo and Juliet’s relationship plus modern relationships have several similarities which are very surprising. First of all‚ in Romeo and Juliet‚ by William Shakespeare‚ Romeo and Juliet fall for each other extremely

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    Throughout the history of Iran‚ there have been many forms of resistance‚ such as the Tobacco Revolt and Black Friday‚ which have created other types of resistance in modern day Iran.The power of force to silence and eliminate forms of resistance in history has nurtured a movement of forms of protest in modern day Iran. Foremost‚ in the year of 1891‚ the Nasir al-Din Shah signed an agreement with the British giving them privilege over the profitable Iranian tobacco industry. Following the agreement

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