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    The Blame Bystanders Need to Bare Screaming‚ crying‚ begging. Teary eyes stare into your soul‚ pleading for an escape. Don’t let them take me. Please. Shook‚ the fizzing began. A frantic hand tries to grab your shirt. Pop. Pop. Pop. The hand brushes past your shirt‚ and is suddenly yanked backwards. Bubbles are built in a. The sounds of popping are almost unbearable. The fizzing becomes so intense‚ you are about to stop it. You need to stop it. As it is about to overflow‚ the bubbles sink back in

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    likely achieved all of his dreams. Did he work hard? Probably‚ but he worked illegally in order to get his money and authority. He smuggled alcohol‚ which was illegal at the time‚ and did other illegal business. This was a cold-blooded business

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    be blamed for the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet was written by William Shakespeare and published in 1597. It is a drama about the death of a young couple who commit suicide. Their families hate each other so it is hard for them to see each other and be together. I believe that fate and the long lasting family feud caused the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Fate and the family feud are what should be blamed for Romeo and Juliet’s deaths. Some people blame Tybalt because he

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    Jocasta, Blame or Not ?

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    great tragedian Sophocles and won second prize at the Dionysia festival in 427‚ is a monumental one. It is even used by Aristotle as his model for tragedy in the Poetics and has always been considered to be one of the greatest tragedies(Feder 292). In the play‚ Oedipus‚ the king of Thebes‚ swears to find out the murderer of the former king Laius‚ in order to save his people from an terrible plague hanging on the Thebes. Astonishingly‚ the investigation shows that the murderer was Oedipus himself

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    Jesus responded‚ and said‚ “In very truth‚ I tell you‚ the Son can do nothing on his own‚ but only what he sees the Father doing. What the Father does‚ the Son also does. For the Father loves the Son‚ and has shown him everything he is doing – and he will show even greater things‚ so that you will be filled with amazement. For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life‚ so also the Son gives life to those he wishes. The Father judges no-one‚ but has given the power of judgement to the

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    Constitution‚ changing many people’s lives for the positives or negative. Jay Gatsby used this to his advantage making his large fortune bootlegging. Gatsby was a very smart man. He took advantage of the time in society to make money and did it very secretively and smart so he wouldn’t carry the risk of getting caught. Prohibition was introduced because the U.S. Government thought it would reduce the amount of drinking and deaths in the U.S. annually but this was not the case. Prohibition actually had

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    Who was to blame for the downfall of Macbeth? In my opinion‚ it had to have been the three witches. In the story Macbeth by William Shakespeare Macbeth is told by three witches that he is about to become Thane of Cawdor‚ Thane of Glamis‚ and King of Scotland. The thought of becoming so powerful as of King of Scotland is a little too much for Macbeth. The power gets to his head and he has a tremendous downfall and is murdering lots of innocent people. But is Macbeth really to blame for his behavior

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    the only daughter of the Capulet family his family’s archenemy. Juliet Capulet is the beautiful and only daughter of the Capulet family who falls in love with Romeo Montague the son of her family’s rival. Lord Capulet head of the Capulet household and Juliet’s father‚ who is protective of his family and has drastic mood changes. Although Lord Capulet‚ Romeo and Juliet have the best intentions for the future of the families‚ they should be blamed for the deaths because of their stubborn desires.

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    Many of the characters in Great Gatsby were cheating on their spouses. This may seem unusual‚ but it was not uncommon for the time period Great Gatsby was written. Divorce was still looked down upon. As a result‚ people prefered to have an affair than a divorce because they were easier to conceal than divorces. However‚ the affairs in Great Gatsby were exploited. Consequently‚ Gatsby and Myrtle wind up dead. In the end‚ old money prevails‚ and the working class is left paying for their carelessness

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    The annual number of prescription painkiller overdose deaths have increased five hundred percent since 1990; but who is there to blame for this drastic increase in numbers? Doctors should be held responsible for the abuse of prescription drugs among people. At first‚ it seemed that doctors were not taking pain serious enough and they were failing to prescribe the right doses of painkillers to their patients. Sadly‚ this could have possibly started an epidemic of doctors prescribing too much medication

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