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    Business was thriving‚ the economy was growing‚ and life as a whole was improving. However‚ there was a growing minority of workingmen whose long‚ difficult hours of toil were being taken advantage of by greedy‚ selfish employers. These poor men and their malnourished‚ destitute families compiled the backbone of the thriving economy. Without them‚ production as a whole would have been at a standstill and the growing

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    turns that caused them to be away from home for more than 10 years after the war. Their delay was caused because of their inability to follow direct orders and resist the temptation of disobedience. It was for this same reason why none of them made it home‚ except for Odysseus; although he was the main culprit for heeding to temptation. Homer ’s Odyssey chronicles the journey of the great Greek hero Odysseus and the setbacks he encountered on his way home from the Trojan war. Odysseus is known for

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    the topic of temptation by exposing the Garden of Eden to the reader‚ as he explores the in depth the nature of sin. Steinbeck managed to expand the story of Adam and Eve to a far more relatable setting and time period. A crucial theme in this story is that temptation will always be present in one’s life‚ despite all the ways people try to guard themselves against it. However‚ when a person is tested by God‚ one will always have free will to choose between surrendering to temptation or finding the

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    Although gods and monsters are external forces which impede their return‚ Odysseus and his men make matters worse for themselves by acting without caution and on their own selfish whims. In The Odyssey by Homer‚ internal forces of recklessness and temptation act stronger than external forces in preventing Odysseus and his crew from achieving nostos. Odysseus and his crew act with great recklessness‚ which leads to deaths and losses of progress in their journey home. One example of Odysseus’s recklessness

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    corruption and temptation. This theme is prevalent throughout the Gothic genre‚ from the earlier poetry of Coleridge‚ Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797-98); through to Bram Stoker’s popular novel Dracula (1897) and the striking late set Gothic text The Bloody Chamber (1979) by Angela Carter. The discord between religious ideals and sin are paralleled through these texts‚ and attest to Christianity’s influence in the literary Gothic. As Robert Kidd argues‚ ’Temptation and transgression

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    From The Harbinger‚ an 1830’s newspaper Female Workers of Lowell (1836) We have lately visited the cities of Lowell [Mass.] and Manchester [N.H.] and have had an opportunity of examining the factory system more closely than before. We had distrusted the accounts which we had heard from persons engaged in the labor reform now beginning to agitate New England. We could scarcely credit the statements made in relation to the exhausting nature of the labor in the mills‚ and to the manner in which the

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    One dimensional man by Marcuse is a wide ranging critique of both contemporary capitalism and the communist society that it’s all about culture and its development‚ people loves to live in liberty in order to be always satisfying individuals and the only aim is to get their needs‚ so they feel they got respect between each other’s‚ and they always in a competition to reach everything that is new before the other’s. Marcuse said:” that we are slaves to capitalism” and that what really happened

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    up to the NAZI’s and gave others a hope too. Winston Churchill (Prime Minister) also had the courage to stand up to the Germans when they were bombing Great Britain. The Germans were bombing Great Britain and they were close to defeat. In Blood‚ toil‚ tears‚ and sweat it says‚ "That is our policy. You ask‚ what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory‚ victory at all costs‚ victory in spite of all terror‚ victory‚ however long and hard the road may be; for without victory‚ there is no survival

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    In the face of temptation‚ let your conscience be your guide. “Conscience is the dictate of reason” Thomas Aquinas As human beings‚ we are faced with temptations every day of our lives. It allures‚ excites and seduces us. Our conscience helps us to deal with temptations and it enables us to assume responsibility for our actions. In his poem “ Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening‚” Robert Frost creates characters‚ plot‚ imagery‚ symbolism‚ figurative language‚ metaphor and repetition to send the

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    Original Text: from page 317 of the book Psychology‚ 1996 by Richard Gross But it is not only the vocabulary of a language that determines how and what we think and perceive but also the grammar. In the Hopi language‚ no distinction is made between past‚ present and future; it is a ‘timeless language’ (compared with English)‚ although it does recognise duration‚ i.e. how long an event lasts. In European languages‚ ‘time’ is treated as an objective entity‚ as if it were a ruler with equal spaces

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