Jay Gatsby is like the American government – the weak‚ dishonest‚ inefficient government we believe to be the best in the world. His individual qualities are ones that‚ when examined objectively‚ should be frowned upon. Like the government‚ we can hate these qualities but love the whole. From the beginning of The Great Gatsby‚ he is protected by the most influential character; the narrator. Because our first impression of Gatsby is provided by a biased friend of his‚ our view is skewed in his favor
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William Shakespeare’s Macbeth‚ the tragic characters often have ambition to thank for their fatal or perilous ends. Ambition cannot exist in a pure form‚ free from consequence because there will always be a dark path to take that might seem to be justified by the ends. The natural order of humanity is disrupted once Macbeth indulges his ambitions. In addition‚ Macbeth begins to lose sight of what he wanted and what he aspired to be originally. He reaches a place of no return. In the end‚ Macbeth and
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The photographer I decided to choose goes by the name Jay Maisel; he mastered his craft within the city of New York. He is one of the top natual-light photographers in the field today. Maisel has developed an eye for photography that allows him to really capture the essesnce of everyday objects that surround us in our daily lives. Jay Maisel’s pictures are almost percieved by some to be like paintings‚ which is only natural for him because he was a painter long before he becoma a photograper. His awareness
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Christian Temperance Union. This group was lead by Francis Willard. The goals of the Women’s Christian Temperance union were to lobby for federal aid for education‚ free school lunches‚ unions for workers‚ an eight-hour workday‚ work relief for the poor‚ municipal sanitation and boards of health‚ national transportation‚ strong anti-rape laws‚ protections against child abuse and of course prohibition. The root of Willard’s argument for female suffrage was based on the platform of "Home Protection"
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of someone else. Ethical responsibility is defined as the obligation to do something that is morally sound in order to make sure a person is in good physical and emotional health. In the article titled‚ “Can the Law Make Us Be Decent?‚” written by Jay Sterling Silver‚ the author states that there is not a federal
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To What Extent is Civil Disobedience Justified in a Democracy? Contents Abstract 3 Introduction 4 What is Civil Disobedience? 5 Democracy 8 Conclusion 11 Bibliography 12 Abstract My interest in the topic of civil disobedience was sparked by a specific news article in which activists climbed Mount Rushmore to hang a poster demanding that the president of the United States‚ Barrack Obama‚ address issues of global warming. The activists
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In Ain’t No Makin’ It‚ Jay MacLeod studies how two groups from the same low class projects‚ the Hallway Hangers and the Brothers‚ respond differently to the achievement ideology put forth by school systems. Although both groups live in the same housing development‚ they all have different school experiences‚ family situations‚ and personal lives that ultimately make up their individual habitus‚ causing different beliefs and attitudes amongst them. The Hallway Hangers have a negative view that rejects
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“Is Capital Punishment Justified†When looking at the issue of whether Capital Punishment is ever Justified‚ Robert W. Lee believes that it is because it is necessary to punish people to for heinous crimes against society fairly. I plan to expand on his argument by looking at four different categories; risk of executing an innocent‚ the incapacitation and the deterrent effects‚ race sentencing and the death penalty‚ the cost of life without parole versus the death penalty
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What did Charles George Gordon do to earn the view that he was an Imperial Hero and was it justified? When discussing heroes the first things that would come to mind are selfless individuals‚ they would show a tremendous amount of bravery in the face of certain defeat and have the courage and determination to beat overwhelming odds. The dictionary definitions of heroes are “a mythological or legendary figure often of divine descent endowed with great strength and ability” or “a man admired for his
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Is capital punishment justified? This is something that has been effectively an area of debate not only legally‚ but morally‚ ethically‚ economically‚ and philosophically for decades. Capital punishment is defined as The lawful infliction of death as a punishment for committing capital crimes such as rape and third degree murder; More commonly referred to as “the death penalty”. The area of contention arises when discussing whether or not it is ethical to inflict death upon a human being regardless
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