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    and philosophers have wondered throughout the ages since his bloody death in the year 44 B.C. at the hands of some of his closest friends. This treachery would have most people in outrage; who would dare kill the soon to be Roman Emperor? Most would come to the assumption it was blood thirsty‚ heartless men who themselves wanted to seize power‚ but is that really the case? I believe this to be true in that the men were envious of Caesar’s obvious superiority to them in everyway. The men that killed

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    ultimately it is sinners who sent Jesus to the cross to bear their sins‚ Jewish leaders sought to kill Jesus from the beginning of his ministry for several reasons. Jewish leaders felt threatened by Christ’s leadership when He challenged the temple‚ but they also made accusations that He worked on the Sabbath‚ and they felt that He was attempting to make himself equal to God by claiming that He is the son of God. Pastor David L. Brown writes‚ “…the Jewish leadership (the Scribes who interpreted the Law

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    To what extent was Charles X responsible for his own downfall? When Charles X stood down to Louis-Philippe‚ after his monarchy‚ many said that this was his own doing and he was fully responsible for his own downfall. However this was not entirely true‚ Louis unorthodox methods may have contributed to his downfall in the long term however short term causes are just as important and appointment of ministers such as Villele was a crucial fault in Charles’s system. One could say that the polarisation

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    the citizens of Germany or the WORLD. So‚ was the Holocaust the responsibility of the citizens or government and let this go on? The four sources given determines the answer: in Source A‚ The Diary of Anne Frank is the diary of a young‚ Jewish girl who had to go into hiding once the Nazis took over and were capturing the Jewish people of Germany and soon spread to outside Germany. In Source B‚ The 8 Stages of Genocide‚ explains how the victims [mainly Jews] were discriminated from the other humans

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    Ophelia's Downfall

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    Rachael Markley Ophelia Discussion 1. What might have led to Ophelia’s downfall was that she intentionally killed herself to maybe save herself from any further shame that would fall upon her because she has been dishonored by Hamlet and she might be possibly “with child” and also to the loss of her father. In Act 1 Scene 3 pg.45‚ Ophelia tells her father that Hamlet has proclaimed his love to her‚ and then in Act 2 Scene 1 pg.79‚ she tells him that Hamlet has gone crazy and was acting as such

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    Who is responsible for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet? Surely in a world where lawsuits can be brought against anyone‚ blaming them for any misfortune‚ we can now understand that blame is not an objective concept‚ nor a particularly useful one. It is quite possible to build a case that EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN THE PLAY is to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths‚ as follows. Juliet‚ she shouldn’t have taken up with a man who hangs around her backyard trying to peek into her window‚ but should have

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    Okonkwo's Downfall

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    rose to the challenge of life. No matter what life threw at him‚ he always met that challenge with brute force and determination. However‚ never did Okonkwo imagine that his downfall would be because of his own tragic flaw. Okonkwo’s violent and rash nature made him difficult to work with and gave people the wrong image of who he was. He was so distracted by trying to be anyone other than his father that he lost himself along the way. Over the course of the novel‚ it is apparent that Okonkwo

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    Othello and Faustus: To blame or not to blame Trust is an essential part of a peaceful society. The way people act decides whether they are trustworthy or not. One who manipulates trust to deceive people is to blame for the disturbance. Those who places trust in the wrong person are also to blame. Placing trust in an unworthy person is the initial fault as it opens the protagonist to deception. Thus they base their actions according to the false information which condemns them. The person

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    Most Responsible For the Cold War The Cold War was a war that was fought after the end of WW2. It was between two countries that were considered “superpowers” because they were the two strongest countries left after WW2. The Soviet Union was the country that provoked the Cold War by invading the surrounding countries to its west. According to document one three reasons why the Cold War was fought was because of Spheres of influence‚ Ideology‚ and Military factor. During WW2 both the Soviet Union

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    The day I realized that Bush did 9/11 About 10 years ago I had an epiphany and realized the things which for so many years had been heralded as fact are indeed untrue. Chief amongst these being that Bush was responsible for 9/11. See it became abundantly clear to me that jet fuel could not melt steel beams. As I realized the error in my ways I looked up “just how does jet fuel melt steel beams?”. And to my surprise I found no information on how it occurs only that it simply doesn’t. There is

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