If people do not protest‚ can they righteously call a government unfair? If they protest violently‚ should any authority listen to them? There must be a middle way. Henry David Thoreau‚ a great author and pioneer in transcendentalism wrote the essay “Civil Disobedience”‚ in which he reminds us‚ “All men recognize the right of revolution;... the right to refuse allegiance to‚ and to resist‚ the government‚ when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.” This is the thin line that
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The past three weeks I can say that I have learned quite a lot‚ I never really thought I could understand what entailed through organized crime. There are many different attributes that were involved to form organized crime. Without knowing exactly what those attributes are you would never be able to figure out what it takes to organize crime or even get why they call it organized crime. I would say to myself why do these mafia and big groups put so much time and effort into making sure that there
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things I could live without‚ but what CAN’T I live without? Well there’s the obvious things‚ oxygen‚ food‚ water‚ shelter‚ no-one can live without these‚ these things are vital for everyone’s life. But beyond the essentials‚ what is one thing I couldn’t possibly live without? One thing I wouldn’t want to live without? 2. Maybe Television? Castle‚ Bones‚ X Factor‚ My Kitchen Rules‚ where would I be without my favourite drama series or a fix of reality TV? Well if I was that desperate I could
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and surprises. I hate watching any horror movies because I am scared and couldn’t sleep well in the following couple weeks. I don’t understand why a lot of people enjoyed watching it when in fact that is what I hate the most. After watching this movie‚ I was scarred for life. The images of the murders that happened in the movie are still stuck with me. Having to see gory images and people getting killed was too scary for me. After watching a horror movie‚ I could not fall asleep. I had to keep a
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will be considered when I select major. First of all‚ I place great emphasis on doing voluntary works. I was a member of Community and Volunteer Service Group for three years in secondary school. During those three years‚ I participated in a multitude of voluntary works such as cooking stuffed dumplings for the needy‚ making origami for a rummage sale‚ visiting the old and so on. I enjoy doing different kinds of voluntary works because of the sense of satisfaction that I gain from helping others
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Complex Attitudes of Love in “anyone lived in a pretty how town” Love‚ according to E.E. Cummings‚ is both a natural and consuming‚ yet ultimately ephemeral sensation. Cummings uses a cyclical structure of the seasons‚ as well as weather and astronomical patterns symbolic to each season‚ to demonstrate the natural quality of love‚ separating its phases into the distinct phases of each year. To depict the consuming nature of love‚ Cummings uses a variety of imagery‚ diction‚ and structure throughout
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As I Lay Dying consist of numerous narrations and individual sections. Each chapter containing a different character’s conscience and thought process. This is called stream of consciousness‚ by using this method it gives an expression to the confused and disordered flow of thoughts in each character. In addition‚ most of the chapters and narrators in the novel are from one single family‚ the Bundren family. In this family the members consist of Addie‚ Darl‚ Jewel‚ Cash‚ Anse‚ Dewey‚ and Vardaman
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Thoreau Taught Us How to Create a Better World‚ but Few Listened Imagine what the look on 19th century writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau’s face would be if he were transported to present day America. Now‚ if Thoreau thought that "export[ing] ice‚ talk[ing] through a telegraph‚ and rid[ing] thirty miles an hour" was superfluous‚ envision what he would think of our modern society (Thoreau excerpt). He would gasp at air conditioning and refrigeration‚ feel faint when he saw a computer or
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the experience of his father’s death had paralyzed him physically and emotionally. Nothing could touch him‚ he said. He even stopped thinking about his father. Elie did nothing all day long; the only thing he wished to do was to eat. That is just what he and his fellow prisoners did when their liberators finally
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Personal Response Essay: Jeffrey Andreoni’s Why Can’t I Feel What I See Jeffrey Andreoni states in his article “Why Can’t I Feel What I See” that happiness was much easier attained by the generation born in the first third of last century than more recent generations. The idea presented to explain this statement is that recently we as a society decided that happiness is to be measured “in terms of material gain” (3); when really all that is needed for happiness is to create things with our hands
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