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    Cars and 1950’s: They Go Hand in Hand Cars‚ during the 1950’s this new invention was amazing‚ it was thought of as a thing of the future. Cars and new fangled inventions were all the rage. However people didnt quite see the bad side of the car industry.No technology has had a greater impact on American everyday life than the automobile. Where we live‚ how we work‚ how we travel‚ what our landscape looks like‚ our environment have all been profoundly shaped by the car. Detroit was at

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    Belief Systems

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    Worldwide families base their lives around religion. Many of these religions have sparked from a mass enlightenment or movement at one point in history. Though most religion seems to want to be moral‚ they’ve created the exact opposite in modern day life‚ most war arises from religion and seeing different levels of morality and not wanting the other person to continue their practices that way. The way that history has such a mass effect on our modern day lives religion wise could almost be seen as

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    Twelve Angry Men In the play Twelve Angry Men by Reginad Rose the twelve jurors have to decide if a young boy is guilty or not guilty. The boy is accused of the murder of his father. His fate lies in the hands of the twelve jurors. Will he get the death penalty? Will they prove that the young boy is not guilty? Will he get to live the rest of his life? There are many different versions of this story including William Friedkins film version produced in 1997. Friedkins film version is easier

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    change how an individual’s custom is: how they dress or how they behave. Who was Shakespeare’s former boss? Shakespeare’s former boss was Queen Elizabeth. Explain the influence of Puritans on Shakespeare’s plays. The Puritans had an influence on Shakespeare’s plays because they were getting more powerful. Puritans believed that plays meant you were trying to be someone else which by their tradition was a sin. Shakespeare knew that their custom was different from the one he wrote his previous plays

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    Puritan perception and modern day perception though sometimes still can be viewed as similar have changed drastically over time. There are several concepts that were viewed as shameful in Puritan times that people in modern day will just look pass. For example‚ going against the bible by sinning was look upon way more harshly than in today’s society. There are still concepts Puritans had to deal with that we still see being took into affect today‚ such as shunning. The act of shunning can be done

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    2.5 Puritan Preacher Provokes! 10/15/014 AP ENG COMPO Assignment Questions 1. To whom is the sermon addressed? The sermon seems to be addressed to the certain wrong-doing people in the church. The preacher does not seem to be singling any one out but it is clear he is talking about sinners. 2. According to Edwards‚ why is God wrathful? According to Edwards God is wrathful because of the wickedness of the people and the treacherous sins that they commit. 3. Reread the sixth paragraph. What people

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    The Angry Eye -Jane Elliott Discrimination occurs when a person is treated less favourably because of their racial or ethnic origin‚ religion or belief‚ disability‚ age or sexual orientation. Jane Elliott decided to use role-play a situation portraying the discrimination that a person of different colour would be constantly exposed to in day-to-day life. The Angry Eye is a provoking documentary of a diversity training session conducted by Jane Elliot on a college campus. On this video it was

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    made between belief and knowledge in the given dialogue. Then explain what the importance of this distinction is. In Gorgias‚ Plato uses a conversation between two men to lay the groundwork for knowledge and belief‚ suggesting that everything is subjective when it comes to these words‚ and their definitions are open for much interpretation past their most simplest of meanings. Gorgias is meant as a guideline in which we can decide whether or not an object‚ idea‚ or event is belief or knowledge

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    Introduction 12 Angry Men is the captivating story of 12 jurors trying to solve a case of murder. All with different personalities‚ fights break out and disagreements occur. However in the end‚ a lesson is learnt for everyone. When the story begins‚ all the jurors are eager to convict the defendant‚ a young minority‚ on charges of murdering his father. Juror 8 is the lone dissenter. The jury’s deliberations go through a surprizing shift and one by one‚ the other 11 jurors feel compelled to re-examine

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    The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne emphasizes the sin present in early Puritan society by following the lives a three people who commit major sins. Of those three‚ each one experiences different amounts of remorse‚ penance‚ and guilt; but the person that felt none of these was Roger Chillingworth. Roger Chillingworth is the greatest sinner in the Scarlet Letter because of his drive for revenge‚ lack of guilt‚ and infliction of pain onto others. Roger Chillingworth has a strong‚ well-rooted

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