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    Antigone Essay In society‚ being self-centered about ideas frequently affects peoples’ judgement. Sophocles raises this issue in his play Antigone. He believes that listening to the wise benefits your judgement‚ but the result of refusing to listen leads to tragic outcomes. Sophocles uses Ate to develop the characters’ inability to take in others’ perspective. Sophocles first addresses the tragic results of not listening through Antigone’s refusal to take advice. In Sophocles’s prologue

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    Heather Woody 1) Compare and contrast any two sociological theories.  Be sure to identify major theorist associated with the theories.  Which is the better explanation? Why? Survival of the Fittest/Social Darwinism & Altruism Herbert Spencer used the phrase “Survival of the Fittest” after reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Mr. Darwin’s biological theory called‚ ‘natural selection‚’ was what he considered the preservation of favored races in the struggle of life. The

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    Harrison Pre-AP English 10 14 August 2013 Antigone Essay Sophocles uses rhetorical appeals in Antigone in order to clarify what the characters say to the tragic hero Creon. Ethos‚ pathos‚ and logos are used in this Greek tragedy by three characters to make Creon realize and reverse his decision in punishing Antigone for her crime. Antigone‚ Haemon‚ and Teiresias all use a different predominant one form of rhetorical appeal‚ yet it is just one of these characters using pathos that is able to overcome

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    When people were asked what they like to do‚ most of the answers would include travelling. There are many ways to travel‚ but the most two common ways used by most people are backpacking and staying in hotels. There are always bad and good points about both of them‚ but in my presentation‚ I will compare and contrast the three major differences between these two. They are the costs‚ the safety of the staying‚ and the availability of plans. So‚ let’s start by comparing the cost of them. First of

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    Antigone Essay Creon and Antigone are both honorable people‚ yet both are fatally proud and that is the source of the tragedy. To what extent do you agree? The source of tragedy in Antigone by Sophocles cannot be simply attributed to the downfall of the two charactersCreon and Antigone. Creon and Antigone both have a very strong will and can both be very stubborn towards people‚ Creon by refusing to listen to other people and Antigone very determined to fight for what she wants which is to

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    Compare and contrast two developmental theories of intelligence Intelligence is a complex psychological construct and promotes fierce debate amongst academics. Many experts maintain that intelligence is the most important aspect of individual differences‚ whereas other doubt its value as a concept. At one extreme many claim that individual differences in intelligence depend upon genetic factors‚ and at the other many argue that environmental factors account for it. In this essay I will compare and

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    in a contrast esaay u need to rite an intro and u also need to compare so u shd and MUST mention they both has so much pride and the actions taken in their lives mean that they are both destined to die. in oedipud each character tries their best to prevent Oedipus’ downfall - the oracle at delphi is mocked‚ jocasta and laius kill their son to prevent his son killing him one day and marrying his own mother. is this the same as death of a salesman? do they try their hardest to prevent the outcomes

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    similarities and differences between two Artworks " The Little fourteen -Year- Old Dancer" and " Baboon and young". Discussion about this works of Art will be based on the field man’s analysis‚ thus description‚ analysis‚ interpretation and judgement on the subject matter‚ media and size‚ location and literal qualities‚ social‚ cultural and political issues surrounding the creation of the Artworks but in the form of compare and contrast. I will also discuss how these inspirational sources have contributed

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    Professional athletes Who in your opinion is the G.O.A.T (greatest of all time) of professional basketball? Is it Kobe Bryant or could it be Michael Jordan. I know some people can argue about this all day. In the following paragraphs I will compare and contrast the two professional athletes and perhaps change your opinion or strengthen your argument on who you think is the best. Kobe Bryant also known as the Black Mamba is arguably the best to ever play for the Los Angeles Lakers. Kobe was one of very

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    aspects of Antigone‚ we created an off text improvisation where we played characters from Theban society -I was “A Female Citizen”- we read them out to the class so we could get an idea of people we could work with which was a good idea as it enabled us to engage with each other and incorporate more detail into our improvisation. Our improvisation was set in a market place‚ we each spoke of our feelings to each other‚ which showed the contrast in opinions towards Antigone(or her sister)/Creon. I admired

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