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“When I was young, a stray cat used to hang around my house a lot. My dad would give it milk and some food all the time. One day, an old racist couple moved next door. My mom and I went over to welcome them, they creaked the door open and yelled, “get off our property you freaking Filipinos and tell your other black neighbors to stay away!” Well one day, they saw my dad feed the stray cat. Later that afternoon, my dad went to take the trash out and heard a horrible crying near our fence. He goes to look and finds the cat wrapped in barbed wire, bloodied, and the tail cut off. I helped my dad take the cat out, called animal services and the police on the neighbors” (Thought Catalog). That was a story of a real life situation. There were real …show more content…
In Morton A. Kaplan’s article Degrees of Evil it is stated, “There is important evidence that Stalin employed terror for reasons of personal pleasure and eventually for reasons of sheer paranoia” (Kaplan). In this instance, by what Kaplan is saying, it can easily be seen how Stalin’s actions were morally wrong. In some cases his actions had good intentions, like with trying to end the food crisis with collectivization, but the saying goes that the path to Hell is paved with good intentions. Stalin originally tried to fix things but his way of fixing it was not good, his actions were not …show more content…
Harry Potter is a series loved by many, it’s a story about a boy and his friends as they grow and learn to defeat the dark forces against them. In this series Voldemort is the main antagonist throughout the entire series, he’s an evil wizard who’s goal is power. In J.K. Rowling’s first book Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone she wrote “Voldemort...he turned up in the village where you was living, on Halloween ten years ago. You was just a year old. He came ter yer house an’...You-Know-Who killed ‘em. An’ then - an’ this is the real myst’ry of the thing - he tried to kill you, too” (Rowling 54-55). The first glimpse of Voldemort that anyone reads about is how he murdered two parents and tried to kill a baby. That instance is a large example of morally wrong and causing harm. Voldemort, over the span of seven books, tries hard to kill Harry and along the way many people die and suffer from his

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