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    Ambitious‚ brave‚ and self-doubted‚ Macbeth struggles for mastery throughout the play. Greed with power‚ Macbeth kills his way to the top. Macbeth was so wrapped up in the prophecy that the witches gave him. Once the first prophecy came true‚ Macbeth did whatever it took for the rest to become true. Using blood as a motif Macbeth’s violent and ambitious character starts to enter the play. Blood is first seen in the opening battle between Scots and Norwegians invaders. “What bloody man is that?

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    10/30/13 Block 4 POWER CORRUPTS Power corrupts because human nature provokes people to never be satisfied with what they have. My first example of power corrupting is in the book OTH. Han ‚ the narrator tells how Om has power over the students : “ When my conversation with Sokdae was over he put his lunchbox up on the desk. This was the signal for everyone to open their lunchboxes.” (13) This passage shows that Om ‚ the bully is using his power to get lunch from his classmates. Another

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    “Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life”(Marley). In today’s society‚ corrupted leaders are often seen throughout the world. Also‚ almost every day‚ an event happens that forces the government into adding or changing a federal law. With all the historical revolutions from the past‚ one could occur at any time‚ any place. In his novel‚ Animal Farm‚ George Orwell demonstrates through the characters that a revolution could happen in modern society. By inspecting

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    "Power corrupts‚ and absolute power corrupts absolutely‚" said Lord Acton generations ago. In the Greek tragedy Antigone‚ written by Sophocles‚ there was a character named Kreon‚ the antagonist‚ who was the king of Thebes. Thebes was an autocratic state where Kreon had absolute power. Throughout the course of the play‚ Kreon abused his privilege of absolute power; and this caused him to suffer greatly‚ even though he was warned by a few people of his bad deeds. What Sophocles commented on absolute

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    Power is authority and strength‚ which is any form of motive force or energy‚ ability to act‚ or control.  When too much power is given‚ a dictatorship government can form‚ in which all decisions are made by one authority.  In the book Animal Farm‚ by George Orwell the author portrays how “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. From the death of Old Major‚ Snowball‚ Napoleon‚ and Squealer replaced him. At first things started off pretty well; the harvest was very

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    Power is the ability to manipulate and control whatever one desires; to do what one pleases to do without answering to authority. The power that corrupts the characters plays an extensive role throughout Shakespeare’s play‚ King Lear. Goneril and Regan are corrupted by the power that Lear offers them. Edmund’s corruption comes from the trust of his father. Absolute power corrupts absolutely with the characters‚ because once have full control‚ they are so cold that they will do anything to keep the

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    “It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it”. (Aung San Suu Kyi’s speech on Freedom from Fear) “Power has only one duty --to secure the social welfare of the people” Disraeli Benjamin. However‚ the reality is somewhat different. History has led us to conclusions where those in power dominated over the weaker ones and used their supremacy to carry out immoral actions. Keeping such views

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    having too much power is never a good situation‚ and the majority of the time ends badly. First and foremost‚ a theme highly emphasised in this novel is that power corrupts‚ absolute power corrupts absolutely. Orwell has the entire plot of this book revolving around how all the animals want equality and to all be treated the same. One of the pigs; Napoleon‚ becomes more of a dictator figure and all the animals just accept it. Because of Napoleon and the pigs having too much power over the other animals;

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    Derek Putthoff Dr. Eastman English 1011 2 October 2013 PowerPoint In the passage‚ “PowerPoint s Evil Power Corrupts PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely‚” by Edward R. Tufte‚ he makes very clear his opinion that PowerPoint is a very ineffective public speaking tool. His very first sentence creates a metaphor for us‚ PowerPoint is like a prescription drug that has promises of making us beautiful‚ but instead the drug only had side effects of stupidity‚ boring everyone‚ wasting time‚ and degraded

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    Fighting terrorism in India 449:Mumbai‚107:delhi‚75:Kashmir ‚50:Jaipur the list goes on…These are the number of innocent lives that have been lost in the past year to terrorism in 2008.These numbers not only indicate the growing rate of terror in India but also highlight the issues of lack of security ‚corruption and weak government policies to fight terror.This year the nation was shaken by the Mumbai terror attack described as the “fidaheen”style of terror only seen in J&K.We always felt that

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