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    tight as a spring‚ and I forgot to breathe. His dark eyes lifted to mine‚ he adds‚ ‘but I resist it.’ ‘Why… I swallow.’ ‘Why is that your first instinct?’ ‘fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. I’ve seen it. It’s fascinating.’” In this scene‚ Tobias brings about the importance of how fear means so much more than darkness and depression. He’s allowing you to see fear as courage and enlightenment. Veronica Roth’s novel‚ Divergent‚ reveals that fear inspires you to desire to be more than you thought

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    old girl named Liberty 5-3000 who are both different from the others in their secluded society which lacks individualism and self-interest. The movie‚ Divergent‚ also follows a similar story line. Divergent is a story about an 18 year-old boy named Tobias Eaton and a 16-year old girl named Beatrice Prior who are both different from the others in their society which lacks individualism and self-interest. Anthem and Divergent are similar in that the main characters have one set lifestyle‚ they change

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    Racial bias affects the direct file of a juvenile being tried as an adult. Studies have shown inconsistencies in the juvenile justice system where race was the determining factor in juveniles taking on adult sentences. For example‚ the case with Studies show that the race of the juvenile defendant can influence a direct file’s decisions to charge them as adult. Racism is the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race‚ especially to distinguish

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    Competition: Should We Care about the losers? Only if you’re doing it wrong Jonathan Wolff is the head of philosophy at the University College of London. In one of his pieces titled‚ Economic Competition: Should We Care About The Losers‚ he particularly focuses on the economic wellbeing on individuals whom interests may be in danger within economic competition. After discussing several subcategories within economic play‚ Wolff believes that we have a moral obligation to help those that may be taken advantage

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    In the book Divergent by Veronica Roth‚ she portrays a good message with adventure and some romance. She expresses that everyone is different and you don’t have to be afraid to be yourself. Beatrice Prior and Tobias Eaton‚ also known as Four‚ learn that through a series of events. Beatrice and her mother were getting ready for the stimulation test to see what faction Beatrice belongs in. They were in their plain old house right before the stimulation tests were going to occur. Her mother cut her

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    In 1988 a motion pictured titled: The Accused‚ was released. The movie was directed by Johnathon Kaplan and the lead character‚ Sarah Tobias‚ was played by Jody Foster. Ms. Tobias was a uneducated‚ poor white female that lived in trailer in New Bradford‚ Massachusetts. This was one of Hollywood’s first movies to include rape‚ let alone gang-rape‚ in a direct manner. The occurrence happened in Big Dan’s Bar‚ while the sexual assault was occurring the crowd within the bar was cheering the rapists

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    However‚ you may choose to investigate an author of your own choice. Below I have listed some contemporary authors and story collections you may want to check out: Jhumpa Lahiri Flannery O’Connor Raymond Carver William Faulkner David Sedaris Tobias Wolff Ernest Hemingway John Updike Kurt Vonnegut Carolyn Ferrell E. Annie Proulx T. Coraghessan Boyle Melissa Bank John Edgar Wideman Jim Ray Daniels Kevin Canty Nathan Englander Amy Tan Z.Z. Packer Thom Jones Sarah Vowell “The Best

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    form of governance because people need some authority over them that ensures their self-preservation. Rousseau argues that the individual in the minority may be forced to legitimately follow the majority decision and still retain his or her autonomy. Wolff is able to discredit this line of thought in his work In Defense of Anarchism by proving different parts of the theory invalid. However‚ anarchists desire to discredit authority‚ like democratic governments‚ for their philosophy of anarchy‚ but people

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    because it uses philosophical methods such as critical reasoning and analysis to answer these questions. It examines the current structuring of political systems in order to understand how they could be improved. Philosophy professor Robert Paul Wolff examines these questions of political

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    people...”6 The thought-provoking thing about this interpretation of democracy‚ and Wolff also uses this definition to describe democracy eo ipso‚ is that it defines a particular form of democracy viz.‚ the representative democracy. It may seem an ambiguous distinction‚ but it is important to recognize that this definition of democracy already presupposes two of the main tensions of democratic theory that Wolff

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