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    Unjust Systems Sister Helen Prejean, in her book Dead Man Walking, uses statistics, stories of injustice, and her childhood experiences to relate discrimination and poverty in cities like New Orleans to the death penalty: both are unfair systems that need to be reformed. Prejean first demonstrates ethos, using anecdotes of her experiences as a white child in the segregated 1950’s to convince the reader of her understanding of discrimination. After ethos, Prejean uses logos in the form of…

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    Some of the influences Mawi's father has on his children's life is he just wants them to succeed in life. All he wants is to make sure his kids are safe and happy. I mean who wouldn't want to see their children succeed? Mawi’s father was a doctor back at the camp and when his boys went to school Mawi’s father found out they were fighting and not doing what they're asked too I think it just set him off, he doesn't want his kids getting bullied in the inside, but on the outside he doesn't want…

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    Essay On Conformity

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    In the movie “Dead Poets Society” there’s a group of students that choose to do what they are told and not what they want, until their teacher Mr. Keating tells them to “seize the day.” In this quote it is displayed that in order to seize the day people must choose to…

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    Whether they find themselves vigorously orating from a stage to a riotous crowd of students, or chatting amiably in a school hallway to a group of polite and privileged pupils, the teaching styles of Mr. Joe Clark and Mr. John Keating (played by Morgan Freeman and Robin Williams), while vastly differing in their respective films, share the central concept of their educational philosophies with our very own Dr. Lee; Should we wish to reach our full potential as students, as well as human beings,…

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    be willing to lose everything to gain yourself”. Sophocles well-renowned work based on affliction, Antigone, and drama based film, Dead Poets Society demonstrates to us, that when uncertainty strikes, you’’ be shown your worth. This statement comply with these two literary works correspondingly. In these two written works, Ismene from, Antigone and Dalton from, Dead Poets Society. These two characters showed that they would risk something for what they believed in. In Antigone, Ismene; even…

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    World War Z: Zombie Virus

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    In World War Z, by Max Brooks, a zombie virus ravages the lands leaving all in its ways in ruins. Human society is on the break of collapse and a solution must be formed before the human race becomes extinct. Natural selection and genetic engineering are both front runners in theories of solution to the problem however natural selection move the human race further with less consequences in the future. The solution of the zombie virus is to allow natural selection to take its course and allow…

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    You might think that fictional superheroes are the only heroes at all, but they are not the only heroes, hundreds of other people are being heroes every day when it's from stopping a bully from bullying a kid to someone saving another person from a fire. there are heroes that you meet every day. There are soldiers that fight for our freedoms, and police officer that protect you in everyday life. An example of a hero is Dennis Soules, Dennis Soules was an addiction counselor visiting a…

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    They can be vital help, if they follow Thomas Hobbes’ theory of social contract. According to Hobbes; People are brought together because they are terrified. The characters inside the besieged farmhouse in Night of the Living Dead demonstrate how a community can be formed simply out of fear. Most of the characters have never met before the terrifying events of that evening bring them together. They quickly form a governing apparatus in which two male antagonists, Ben and Cooper…

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    Sometimes we refer to someone behaving “like a zombie.” This phrase could mean several things. A person could be mumbling, walking slowly, or eating very aggressively. These are all characteristics of zombies, and sometimes people act like them. My friend, Lauren, tends to mumble a lot. Most of the time, people cannot understand what she is saying because she speaks so low and all all her words flow together. I have to translate for her pretty often. Some like to say she sounds “like a zombie”…

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    What Caused Scientists to Think Honeybees Turned into ZomBees? Amy Barth’s purpose in writing “Rise of the ZomBees!” is to recount that scientists think bees are turned into ZomBees. John Hafernik, the biologist, spotted bees walking in circles on the sidewalk outside of his lab. Because of this strange behavior, Hafernik put them in a container. John Hafernik discovered that the bees have died in the container and with them were tiny brown pupae. Hafernik figured out that when a female zombie…

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