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    In book 9 of Plato’s Republic, Socrates describes the character of a tyrant. All men, Socrates admits, have a lawless and beastly nature. This darker nature displays itself during dreams, while the rational part is sleeping. “Then the wild beast within us, gorged with meat or drink, starts up and having shaken off sleep, goes forth to satisfy his desires; and there is no conceivable folly or crime a man may not be ready to commit.” The difference between tyrants and other men is that tyrants do…

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    In Athens Greece, c. 445 BCE, The Parthenon was a structure of mathematical, optical perfection, and was built as a temple to the goddess of Athena. During the High Classic Greece period, this marble structure stood 45 feet high, and was topped with a very detailed pediment, containing life sized figures, depicting the story of Athena's birth, symbolizing the passage of the day. As the structure stood in it's place, the world around it would go through many drastic changes, giving the structure…

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    Fences Literary Analysis Jack Kelley P.1 In the play Fences, a fence itself symbolises what the family wants for each other and how certain characters want to live their lives. Rose, the main character’s wife, wants the fence because it makes her feel secure both physically and mentally. While Troy, the main character, wants it because it gives him control of his territory. The fence to Cory, Troy’s son, is a thing that would be both physically and mentally blocking him from his true…

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    Multi Love “Just Checking” was published in 2013, it is a General Mills breakfast cereal advertisement for its brand Cheerios. This advertisement eventually had to disable their comment section on YouTube because several consumers felt it was bigoted. This advertisement involves a biracial innocent daughter running up to the kitchen table out of curiosity. She placed the box of Cheerios down on the table and asked her Caucasian mother “are Cheerios good for the heart” because that is what Dad…

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    Fences symbolize different things for each character. To Troy the fence symbolizes a boundary separating him from his two lives, to Rose it represents something that holds her family together and to Cory, it represents the internal conflict he has about which side of the fence he wants to be on. Through the book the characters grow and learn more about what the fence means to them. The fence to Troy represents a seperation between his two lives. On one side of the fence there’s Rose who requires…

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    Education Trainer Essay

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    Subject: Every Member Education Trainer Post-Visit Evaluation Dear [name of contact], Your help is needed with the Post-Visit Evaluation for the Every Member Education Trainer workshop hosted by [name of chapter/association]. This evaluation is a required step for the EME Trainer workshop. Please follow the link below to access the survey. This must be completed within the next five days. The information received through this evaluation is essential to our requests for funding and for making…

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    People call me the “special one” almost like God. They treated me all superior and spoiled me like no tomorrow, I HATED IT. All I ever wanted to have is a normal life, with normal friends, normal problems. But my selfish dream was soon drifted away and replaced with a different one when the war broke out of course. That is when everything went perfect, well for me of course. “I heard she was going to get mini sandwiches today” “Oh! We should get some too!” “Yeah!” Ugh. The girls…

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    Wall-e is a new, dare say one of the best upcoming roller coasters and it is based off of the sensational movie Wall-e made by Disney’s Pixar. In the movie, the plot takes place in 2805 where humans have abandoned Earth on the account of it was not in the ideal shape for humankind to live in. Therefore, humans left robots to clean up the mess they had made where after some time, the Earth became habitable once more. Mankind had been sending extraterrestrial vegetation evaluators or EVE to Earth…

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    “A women is unstoppable after she realizes she deserves better.” – Anonymous. In the drama, “Fences” the relationship between husband and wife is one to inspect. Rose and Troy are a couple that do not always see eye to eye, yet Rose always looks for the best in him. Even toward the end, although Rose is wants nothing to do with Troy she still takes in his new daughter. A similar relationship can be seen in the short story “Sweat”. The relationship between Deli and Sykes is far from perfect. Deli…

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    plays to his own. The theory that Bacon could have written the plays was first put forward in 1856.” Another strong contender is William Stanly, and with the initials WS it’s not hard to understand why. According to The Telegraph, “He was the 6th Earl of Derby and had his own theatre company called Derby's men. He was known to sign himself off as Will. He travelled in Europe, and through his marriage to Elizabeth de Vere, he was related to William Cecil, on whom many believe the character of…

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