some good and some bad but all different. All kings have characteristics that make them a good or bad king. Most kings have similar characteristics for example being smart or a fair leader to his citizens. But some kings have different characteristics that can make them a bad king and be cruel. Some kings do things that are not fair but do them because it will help them or their family. King Henry the eighth was a king that had good characteristics but wasn’t always the best king and often was looked
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As the narrator of the short story “Stolen Days” said: “It must be that all children are actors.” This idea can be applied to the short story “Charles” due to the fact that the young boy in the plot has a tendency of acting in a way that is not like his usual self. A liar and an actor cannot be considered the same things. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines an actor as “one who behaves as if acting a part” and a liar as “a person who tells lies” (____). In the story‚ a small child named Laurie
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In order to reach enlightenment and “cross over the sea of suffering to the shore of happiness and awakening”‚ one must first perfect certain virtues‚ known to Buddhists as the Six Paramitas. The Six Paramitas are cultivated both as a way of reaching enlightenment and as a method of purification‚ requiring sincere self-control and daily practice for empathetic‚ enlightened living. The first of the Paramitas is the Perfection of Generosity‚ helping to untie the knots of greed and desire from our hearts
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Why Abolishing Net Neutrality Was a Bad Idea With the recent abolishment of net neutrality‚ an enormous discourse has risen about the legality and ethics of the abolishment of the Obama-era law. Although many argue that net neutrality is not useful for the United States‚ I think that net neutrality is needed in the interest of citizens. It preserves the internet as a public good and brings important economic benefits. While the opponents of net neutrality argue that the abolishing it will help the
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Shareholder Value (LSV) and the Verizon Leadership Development Program (VLDP) made the changes possible (Kinicki & Williams‚ 2013). The Verizon Lean Six Sigma (VLSS) was also implemented into the cultural changes (Freifeld‚ 2013). The Leading for Shareholder Value was one of the main factors for the cultural change (Kinicki & Williams‚ 2013). This was an education program designed to increase the senior management’s understanding on how to control long-term value creation. In this program‚ senior
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Was World War Two inevitable? The origins of the Second World War have been a contentious issue ever since the conflict ended in 1945. It is a topic which continues to provoke furious debate more than sixty years later. It was unquestionably Hitler’s war and was directly brought about by his actions in the 1930’s. However opinion is divided as to whether his actions were meticulously planned or was he simply an opportunist who pragmatically took each step as they arose naturally. Marshal
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Who Was To Blame For The Cold War? The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable‚ and therefore no one’s fault‚ due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World War. Yet many of the tensions that existed
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WAR AND AFTERMATH OF WAR IN THE ENGLISH PATIENT BY MICHAEL ONDAATJE Abstract War and aftermath of war is a paper which talks about the various aspects of war and its outcomes as discussed in the novels of Michael Ondaatje. Ondaatje takes war as a major theme in his two most famous novels: The English Patient and Anil’s Ghost. The present paper discusses the treatment of war in the hands of Ondaatje in his Booker winning novel The English Patient. The treatment of the sensitive topics of war gets
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because it is our task or obligation to help our students to become productive individual and as their teacher we are the facilitator who guide them to do what is right and good. We are the commentator because it is our responsibility to discuss everything to our students‚ we are the provider of new information’s and new ideas to our students. Last but not the least we are the actresses in our classroom because it is our job to do our best in discussing our lessons‚ we need to become an effective
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beginning of the Peloponnesian War‚ Athens was the strongest city-state in Greece. Thucydides claimed that Spartans initially engaged in war in 431 BC as a result of Sparta’s fear of Athenian’s further growth of power (Cartwright‚ 2013). Fought between Athens and Sparta along with their respective allies‚ the Peloponnesian War resulted in the weakening of Greek city-states‚ which created vulnerability to foreign invasions (Cartwright‚ 2013). Following the war‚ Athens was reduced to a state of near
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