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    other people to gain power will end up facing negative consequences. Next, when someone makes a poor decision, it will affect them in an unpleasant way. Lastly, when someone will do anything to get what they want, they will get payback. Someone 's desire for power causes harm and consequences that negatively affect themselves and people around them. A person who harms themselves and other people to gain power will end up facing negative consequences. Lady Macbeth thinks that Macbeth will not be…

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    human beings need the restraints of a civilized society or they will eventually destroy themselves because of the lack of rules, savagery, and the lack of a proper authoritative figure. In every society, consequence is guaranteed with every broken fundamental rule. This fear of consequence keeps the majority of members from breaking the rules, maintaining the order for the good of the society, and ultimately, for the good of the people. Once elected chief, Ralph tries to create rules in order…

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    States of America ranging from the encouragement of organized crime to the nation’s use of large amounts of government spending in a vain ungainly battle against drugs the few benefits of prohibition are far outweighed by the vast and negative consequences that it produces. The topic of prohibition is a very important one to the American populous because there is an incredibly large amount of people who are users of drugs and alcohol in America, “The national survey on drug use and health…

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    to fly to the tower where Sirius is imprisoned, and rescues him. Sirius leaves Hogwarts on Buckbeak, and goes into hiding as he is still a fugitive. Harry’s decision at this point in the novel was extremely effective in reversing the potential consequences of Harry’s previous actions. If Harry had not taken Dumbledore’s advice, Buckbeak would have been executed, and Sirius would have had his soul sucked out by a Dementor. This point in the story shows Harry making a bold and potentially…

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    There can also be more serious consequences to staring — for example, take rubbernecking, or slowing down to stare at traffic accidents. This common behavior not only leads to traffic tie-ups, it may cause up to 10 percent of accidents that occur in the opposite direction on the highway This morning I had an early appointment 30 minutes from my apartment in New Jersey. I gave myself an hour to get there, because traffic can be a little crazy. I wasn't too worried though, I was heading west,…

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    If you knew the outcome of your actions would lead to a consequence, would you still do it? You might say it depends on how bad the consequence is or how much you gain from the outcome. It is difficult to know what we will do in certain situations to gain happiness. My English teacher thinks it is worth getting a spanking just so his sister would too. This was his happiness in the situation he was in. If you were told you were going to kill someone tomorrow, wouldn’t you do everything to stop…

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    Serena Joy in the novel she breaks one of Gilead's laws by smoking which is forbidden. During the novel, it reveals that breaking the rules in Gilead will lead to serious consequences. Some get away with it but those who don’t and get caught are punished. Throughout the novel many characters are affected by different type of consequences. One of Gilead's biggest punishment is to be killed…

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    Reconstruction began throughout the nation but mostly in the South following the civil war in 1865. It had many widely positive and negative consequences within the period that were felt both short term and long term for the North and the South which would ultimately lead to the ending of Reconstruction period. In this essay I will compare and contrast the many sides of the Reconstruction period from Presidential changes, corruption of government, freedoms of blacks, rebuilding of a nation and…

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    Society today is in an epidemic of texting and drinking alcohol while driving. This on-going issue not only risks others’ lives, yet along with their own. Both situations have their consequences, in which law enforcement will not tolerate. Although drinking and driving, and texting while driving are both very dangerous on the road, they have separate distractions and effects on the driver. For example texting while driving can be stopped by simply putting the phone conversation on hold, driving…

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    The Beginning Before the Protestant Reformation, there were many concerns felt be Catholics. Many people began to voice their opinions as more translations of holy text became widespread. An important aspect of this change was when Greek became common use again during the renaissance and so the original Greek scripts were read and therefore interpreted differently by people, since before this only the Latin Vulgate was approved by the Church meaning that the Church controlled the contents of the…

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