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  • Plagiarism: A Serious Crime

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    that they have the right to just come in and steal that personðs idea. Plagiarism is stealing. Stealing is taking someone elseðs things without them having knowledge that you are taking it and keeping it for yourself and telling people that it is yours. Plagiarism is the same thing. It is taking other peopleðs work and using it for you to receive credit. Shoplifters and thieves get prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, so why shouldnðt plagiarizers? Anyone that uses anyone elseðs work as his

  • Love, Hate, and Marriage in Much Ado About Nothing

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    131): BENEDICK:    God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some  gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate    scratched face. BEATRICE:    Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such  a face as yours were. BENEDICK:    Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher. BEATRICE:    A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours. BENEDICK:    I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and  so good a continuer. But keep your way, I' God's name; I have done

  • How to Train Your Dragon

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    “How to Train Your Dragon” – something everybody would want to learn, especially if one could train a Night Fury. Set in the mythical world of muscular Vikings and almighty dragons, this animated comedic action movie narrates about how the unlikely friendship between a Viking teenager, Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) and a dragon changes his life (Dragon, 2010). The main setting of this movie is the island Berk, home of the Viking warriors for seven generations. They are tough and every one of them

  • John Ashbery's Paradoxes and Oxymorons

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    because it wants to be yours, and cannot. What's a plain level? It is that and other things, Bringing a system of them into play. Play? Well, actually, yes, but I consider play to be A deeper outside thing, a dreamed role-pattern, As in the division of grace these long August days Without proof. Open-ended. And before you know It gets lost in the steam and chatter of typewriters. It has been played once more. I think you exist only To tease me into doing it, on your level, and then you aren't

  • Sexuality in John Steinbeck's The Chrysanthemums

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    finished feels that something profound has happened to him although he does not know what nor how."  I knew after reading this, that Steinbeck is truly a marvel. It is one thing to have enough luck to leave your reader's with this sense after they've read something of yours, but to have it happen to them when you've actually planned it!  This is incredible. I was not the only person feel what Steinbeck had planned.  And in that group, I was not the only one to want to pick

  • The Panopticon in My Life

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    plays with the fact of human nature being drawn to the center of the action. Coincidentally, or not, the games in the center of the casinos are always the games where people often spend the most money. By chance if your eye isn’t drawn then perhaps the shrill of people winning will bring your attention. Don’t be fooled though, house advantage is always higher than...

  • Holden's Depression in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

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    (213).  Everybody else in his life tries to encourage him to care about school and his grades but it doesn?t make any difference.  From the start of the novel Holden?s history teacher at Pencey tells him ?I?d like to put some sense in that head of yours, boy.  I?m trying to help you.  I?m trying to help you, if I can? (14).  But the fact of the matter is he can?t help him, Holden has to help himself.   The drive to succeed has to come from within him, ?I mean you can?t hardly ever do something just

  • Harvard Admissions Essay: Enough Talk about God

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    about moving your circle of influence past the "intellectualization" of Christianity, is to ask yourself if you feel you are experiencing intimacy with Christ. Christian mysticism is about spirit meeting spirit, and a bond being formed. The most important task you can do as an ambassador for Christ, is to spend time hanging out with God yourself. Even if it cuts into time that you wanted to spend in "ministry." Spending some time enjoying God's presence, aware that God is enjoying yours at the same

  • Oedipus is to Blame in Oedipus the King

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    Oedipus is to Blame in Oedipus the King In the story of Oedipus the King, Sophocles portrays the main character, Oedipus, as a good natured person that has bad judgment and frailty.  Oedipus makes a few bad decisions and is condemned to profound suffering because of his pride.  I agree with Aristotle that he brings it all on to himself because of his own personal pride. One day Oedipus finds out that there is a prophecy that depicts him killing his father and marrying

  • The Magic of Books

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    The books that lined the shelves were of many different colors, of many varying ages, and of many various authors. The bindings were leather and paper and even a cotton fabric material, and the lettering embossed upon them was in gold and silver and sometimes in plain ink. Authors that had been passed on reverently from age to age sat mightily in their rightful places, next to their respective equals: such writers as Defoe and Hawthorne sat side by side, while others, like Whitman and Thoreau surrounded

  • Ecopsychology

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    Ecopsychology You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes no. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue

  • Understanding Catullus’s Poems

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    seventy-two, discussed some a very significant aspect that exists in today’s society, which is cheating.  Catullus accuses Lesbia of cheating in he couldn’t believe that she is doing this to him.  “ ‘How,’ you may ask, ‘can this be?’ Such actions as yours excite increased violence of love.”  He accuses her of putting the relationship in jeopardy and losing his love for her.  You can’t help but feel sorry for Catullus is this scenario.  He devotes his undying love to Lesbia and she cheats on him.  Unfortunately

  • Guilt in the Stories, As the Night the Day and The Heir

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    killing Sokpae so he left the family. Sogun had thought that running away would make him lead a guilt free life. While leaving the house the voice of his grandfather stayed in his mind. He remembered his grandfather saying: “Everything in here is yours.'; (Kiwon 494) Sogun knew what he did was wrong and what he did wrong led to Sokpae’s death. And for this he left so that he could not cause anymore problems or troubles to his grandfather and his uncle. His g...

  • The Importance of Childhood in Steppenwolf

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    his gravitation toward the "All girls are yours" door in the magic theater, his growing eagerness for Dionysian pleasures, and his attraction to Hermine (and similarly, to Maria and Pablo.) Through all of these venues, Harry finds the temporary respite he is looking for; therefore, to him, issues of love and pleasure (in many instances, sexual pleasure) are inexorably entangled with the idea of childhood. The presence of the "All girls are yours" scene is perhaps the most direct manifestation

  • Machiavelli’s View of Human Nature

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    to presuppose or be equivalent to some version of psychological egoism. He says, for example, that “men in general … are ungrateful, voluble, dissemblers, anxious to avoid danger, and covetous of gain; as long as you benefit them, they are entirely yours,” but their “love is held by a chain of obligation which, men being selfish, is broken whenever it serves their purpose.” (Prince, xvii, p. 61) Again, speaking of a prince’s counselors, he says “[they] will all think of their own interests …. for men

  • Hatsue and Ishmael's Incompatibility in Snow Falling On Cedars

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    I knew it.  I felt it inside of me.  I loved you and I didn't love you at the very same moment, and I felt troubled and confused.  Now, everything is obvious to me and I feel I have to tell you the truth... I am not yours any more. I wish you the very best, Ishmael.  Your heart is large and you are gentle and kind, and I know you will do great things in this world, but now I must say good-bye to you.  I am going to move on with my life as best I can, and I hope that you will too. Sincerely

  • Niccol? Machiavelli - The Qual

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    in capturing the selfishness of men. As written in The Qualities of the Prince by Machiavelli, “Men are ungrateful, fickle, simulators and deceivers, avoiders of danger, greedy for gain; and while you work for their good they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons… when danger is far away; but when it comes nearer to you they turn away.'; Machiavelli’s generalization demonstrates his low opinion on the nature of men because he

  • My Life as a Diabetic

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    want to pass that fear on to you. You don’t see it as I do. It’s not your body; it’s not your life. I don’t tell you because I don’t want you to be afraid for me. I can deal with it. I’ll be OK. I don’t tell you because I know that my words are inadequate. I can’t express what it is, yet I do want you to know (even if you can’t exactly feel it). I want to let you in to my world. I want you to know how different my life is from yours, even though it looks much the same. I’m not scarred or crippled. You

  • Love

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    care about them as a person, but also about their well being. When they are hurt, you feel hurt and when they are in pain you feel pain also. Their physical and emotional problems are not only theirs, but they are yours as well. To be in love means to care about that person so deeply that your life would not be complete without them. The fact that you cherish one person so much is a blessing to some, as well as a gift. The following fable tells of an orphan girl who had all the happiness in the world

  • How to Mark a Book

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    the most out of anything. I want to persuade you to do something equally important in the course of your reading. I want to persuade you to "write between the lines." Unless you do, you are not likely to do the most efficient kind of reading. I contend, quite bluntly, that marking up a book is not an act of mutilation but of love. You shouldn't mark up a book which isn't yours. Librarians (or your friends) who lend you books expect you to keep them clean, and you should. If you decide that I am