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    Uncontrolled Emotions and Their Consequences The plays Trifles by Susan Glaspell and Oedipus the King by Sophocles illustrate how uncontrolled emotions‚ such as fear‚ anger‚ embarrassment and can lead to bad consequences‚ including impulsive actions‚ destroying lives‚ and ultimately death. When reading these plays‚ the reader sees how detrimental negative emotions can be when it comes to the well-being of themselves and others that are in their lives. Not only can the lack of control of these emotions

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    Peer pressure is the control and influence people affect others. A negative effect of peer pressure is anything that a peer tells an individual what to do that makes them feel uncomfortable or that they know is wrong. It can be a very dangerous thing when you are young and impressionable. Negative peer pressure can make teens do many different things such as drinking‚ drug use or change of appearance; these things have very bad consequences and can affect people’s lives on the long run. An example

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    SETTING AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE: Trifles takes place in an agricultural area in the American Midwest. The name of the county the play is set in is Dickson County. The time that Trifles is set in is the late 1800’s. The setting heavily influences the characters in the play. Their diction is typical of that area and time period. It is possible to judge that the characters do not have extensive educations based on the area they were brought up in. This is because in agricultural areas children have

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    abusing illegal drugs are peer pressure and depression. These concepts will be expanded upon in detail in this paper. Peer pressure is one of the major reasons that teens abuse illegal drugs. Peer pressure is when another person in this age group persuades someone else to do something they don’t want to do. (Williams‚ Rob) This happens often among friends. In Alcohol‚ Stepney discuses children mimicking or idealizing friends‚ family‚ or T.V. Most people use peer pressure every day. A typical

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    Introduction This paper discusses the implementation of peer assessment strategy that I carried out in a primary school in Dar es Salaam during my practicum. It consists of a background‚ rationale‚ the implementation process and conclusion. The challenges encountered and their possible solutions on how to overcome them.. Background Black and William (1998) define assessment as all those activities undertaken by teachers‚ and students in assessing themselves‚ which provide information to be

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    A Doll House Vs Trifles

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    actions as crimes‚ one’s conscience is the real determining factor. In “The Trifles” by Susan Glasbell and “A Doll House” by Henrik Ibsen‚ both of the main characters commit crimes that they feel are justified. Mrs. Wright is accused of killing her husband in the play and justified by her neighbors for suffering through her emotionally abusive relationship. On the other hand‚ Nora in “A Doll House” commits forgery by imitating her father’s signature to save Torvald’s life. Although both actions are considered

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    Susan Muthana Mrs. Cervantes AP European History p.3 1 April 2015 DBQ The debates over Italian national identity and unification in the period circa 1830-1870 were controversial. The ideas of the unification of Italy were preferential to those who wanted it to become a republic‚ but to others‚ they favored a separated monarchy of kingdoms and territories because a republic may be pernicious and consisted of mixed opinions. Though some wanted to stick to tradition‚ there were

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    What Is A Trifles Class

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    looking back on this semester‚ I reflected on so many great memories from this course. Reading “Trifles” and debating or weather Minnie was innocent or not was one of my favorite moments. “My Papa’s Waltz” was a great poem and extremely relatable for me. Through taking English 151‚ I have realized just how unorganized I have been. My priorities were not organized how they should have been at all. “Trifles” was an amazing play. It covered so many controversial ideas in only a few pages. The debate

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    March 8 2011 English 2310 Jury research paper The US Constitution grants citizens the right to trial by a jury of your peers. In other words‚ it grants citizens the right to be judged by average ordinary rather than by lawyers or judges. Basically the way the system works is all adults who register to vote become members of the potential jury pool. When a jury is needed for a trial‚ summons are sent out to a number of potential jurors to appear

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    The Value of a Jury System

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    Value of a Jury System The Founders of our nation understood that no idea was more central to our Bill of Rights -- indeed‚ to government of the people‚ by the people‚ and for the people -- than the citizen jury. It was cherished not only as a bulwark against tyranny but also as an essential means of educating Americans in the habits and duties of citizenship. By enacting the Fifth‚ Sixth‚ and Seventh Amendments to the Constitution‚ the Framers sought to install the right to trial by jury as a cornerstone

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