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    stories? A Good Man is Hard to Find- my initial reaction to this story was intrigue. I was hooked from the first paragraph because I could foresee some sort of disaster or problem arising. I thought the story did not fail to entertain me. I really enjoyed reading the story and am interested in reading more stories from this author. Good Country People- I found Good Country People a little harder to follow and I kept losing interest in this story. I liked the previous story A Good Man is Hard to

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    City and the Soul - Plato

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    How compelling is the city-soul analogy and to what extent does the picture of “Platonic justice” that emerges from it differ from conventional justice? Much has been written about the inadequacy of the city-soul analogy in establishing what justice is‚ and further about how Plato fails to adequately connect his vision of justice to the conventional one and so is unable to address the original challenge. I mean to show that the city-soul analogy is in fact compelling‚ or at least that is it sufficiently

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    Exercise

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    Exercise is the best medication for life without any cost. I think Marcus Tullius Cicero’s attitude (a Roman statesman and philosopher) is closer to my own‚ “it is exercise alone that supports the spirits and keeps the mind in vigor.” According to me‚ I would say that exercise can bring mental focus‚ self-esteem and relieve stress. There are many benefits from doing exercise. Firstly‚ exercise can help people increase mental focus. It keeps help the brain sharp well into any ages‚ especially

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    tells the jurymen‚ “keep this one truth in mind‚ that a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death…” is meant to imply that regardless of what kind of people will tarnish a good man’s reputation‚ it will have no effect on their legacy. I truly believe that Socrates was advocating that the legacy of a good man will continue to impact the lives of all individuals that are willing to accept and listen to what they had to offer as good individuals. Regardless of how Socrates will be punished

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    The Power Of Conformity

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    The Power of Conformity How would I recreate Asch’s experiment with the friends and family I know? I would let them play a role-play game. A role-play game is a game where you make the decisions to determine your final ending at the end of the game. To start the experiment off I would have 12 people. 4 will know about the experiment while the rest won’t. There will be 3 groups. In one group there will be 1(Person A) that is playing the game‚ 2(Person B&C) that are watching‚ 1(Person D) that knows

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    the well-known author of “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. In this story‚ O’Connor writes about a family‚ the grandmother‚ Bailey‚ the mother of the children‚ and the three children‚ from rural Georgia who are murdered by an escaped convict called the Misfit. O’Connor’s message is irrefutably symbolic of the grace she believes we are offered through Jesus. O’Connor’s upbringing as a Catholic woman in the south had a great deal of influence on all of her work. In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”‚ author Flannery

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    Composition Response to A Good Man is Hard to Find In A Good Man is Hard to Find‚ the author‚ Flannery O’Connor‚ focuses heavily on the suggestion of “good” in the story’s characters. However‚ the perception of what makes a person “good” is different for each character. I believe that an individual’s upbringing and placement in society determine that person’s definition of what makes one “good.” Subsequently‚ I believe that a person can only be considered "good" based on his or her intentions and

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    of surprise allows the writer to manipulate the reader’s expectations and take them somewhere completely different. In the short stories‚ A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flanney O’Connor and Happy Endings by Margaret Atwood‚ both authors use the element of irony and surprise to engage readers and to develop deeper levels of meaning in their text. In A Good Man is Hard to Find‚ O’connor uses several kinds of irony to communicate her message about the human condition. The foreshadowing of irony

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    A Good Man is Hard to Find Analysis 1. In the short story‚ A Good Man is Hard to Find‚ the characters portrayal gives the grandmother a special quality. Bailey‚ the grandmother’s son‚ is a hardnosed man that seems to be gripey and annoyed with his self centered mother at most times. He makes the grandmother seem needy and pesters him. For example when the grandmother asks him to make a pit stop at the house‚ “Bailey looks straight ahead. His jaw bone was as rigid as a horseshoe. “No‚” he said

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    In “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor‚ a family of four decides to go on a vacation joined by the grandmother. The family decides to take a road trip to Florida‚ but the grandmother shows the family the newspaper with the headlines stating there are three loose criminals also going there. The criminals are led by one who calls himself “the Misfit.” The vacation to Florida continues despite the grandmother’s disagreement and plea to go to Tennessee to see an old house the grandmother

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