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    Tripartite Soul Book IV 435c-441c The soul and justice within the soul are issues that Plato endears much time and effort into explaining. The existence of ones soul and its influence upon society is a definite argument by Plato‚ yet viewed very differently by various scholars of the time and centuries to come. Through this essay I intend to address Plato’s interest in the just soul in relation to his tripartite vision of its existence. As Plato lays out in his work The Republic‚ the soul is a

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    Pleasures of Reading

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    Reading a book is perhaps the greatest source of pleasure to a cultured person. Reading broadens his outlook‚ drives away his narrow prejudices and lightens up his mind with truth and knowledge. Books are our best friends. They never deceive or desert us in our hour of need like so many of our human friends‚ and the advantages once received from the reading of books remain with us throughout our lives. It is a great pleasure for us to read the books of the master minds of the past that have brightened

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    Gogol Dead Souls Zach F Dead Souls is an interesting view into the world of Russia during the 19th century. The book is about a man named Chichikov‚ who finds a troubling loophole within the Russian Tax system. Landowners were taxed on all of their land and possessions‚ this also included how many serfs they owned‚ dead or alive. The number of serfs they owned was determined by a national census‚ so landowners would continue to be taxed on serfs that had passed until the next census came around

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    ‘’ THE BENEFITS OF DARK CHOCOLATE” Chocolate is one of the most demanded sweet snacks all over the world. It has been traded internationally for centuries. Chocolate is made from beans derived from the cacao tree which is mixed with cocoa butter or plant oils and powdered sugar to produce solid confection. There are varieties of different forms and flavours of chocolate produced from different ingredients. The main types of chocolate are white chocolate‚ milk chocolate‚ semisweet chocolate‚ bittersweet

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    Aquianted with the Night

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    Acquainted with the Night The first time I read the poem‚ I saw a murderer of a sort. Somewhere in the huge amount of time that I’ve spent reading stories‚ watching movies‚ and playing video games‚ “Acquainted” with the “Night” meant vampires. I can imagine something like an old man warning a younger gentleman‚ “Beware young man; In the darkest part of the night‚ those that are “acquainted with the night‚” own the forest and it’s roots. For it is there that they roam the free.” Something in the

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    All Souls Book Review

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    All Souls: A Family Story From Southie By Micheal Patrick MacDonald. (Ballentine Books under The Random House Publishing Corporation‚ 1999‚ 266pp. $14.00) Michael Patrick MacDonald saw hatred animated on a Friday in the early days of October. Some people were reading the newspaper in brightly lit kitchens. Some children were coloring with brightly hued crayons. Some fathers were getting into cars in front of their beautiful homes. But there were no crayons‚ bright kitchens‚ or fathers in

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    A Dark Future Ahead

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    Jason Zhou Pre-IB English Ms. Arnold Feb 5th 2013 “War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength” A Dark Future Ahead a Comparison and Contrast of 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 When discussing the topic of censorship by government in the future‚ one would most likely reference the two novels 1984 by George Orwell and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury both portray a similar dystopian theme. Both of these novels center around the same idea of a grim

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    Soul Surfer Book Report

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    Soul Surfer Summer Read Questions 1. Soul Surfer takes place in Kauai‚ Hawaii. In the story‚ the main character-Bethany Hamilton- is an extremely talented surfer. Her whole life basically revolved around surfing‚ she loved it more than anything else in the world. Bethany spent most of her time in the water‚ either practicing or competing. Until one day during a practice session with her best friend‚ Alana Blanchard‚ something tragic occurred. Bethany was attacked by a 14 foot tiger shark. Alana

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    Dancer In The Dark Essay

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    Dancer in the Dark is a movie about Selma a Czech immigrant and a single mother working in a factory in rural America. Her salvation is her deep passion for music‚ specifically‚ the singing and dancing numbers found in classic Hollywood musicals. Selma has a sad secret that she is losing her eyesight‚ and her son Gene stands to suffer the same fate if she can’t put away enough money to secure him an operation. When a desperate neighbor falsely accuses Selma of stealing his savings‚ the drama of her

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    Night Symbolism

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    used and seen everyday‚ helping create emotion in a story‚ and building onto the theme with positive effects. Symbolism amplifies pieces of text in many ways‚ one of which shows different definitions of everyday items. There are many examples to be provided from the book Night. For example‚ fire and flames are used to symbolise death in many ways. In Chapter Two‚ when they are on the train full of jews‚ Mrs. Schächter has visions of fire and flames and freaks out. Later‚ the all found out the she

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