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    The Battle Within Ourselves-Dehumanization Everyday people wake up and wonder if they are perfect enough for society. We look at our phones and see a perfect body, relationship or anything that’s supposed to be “perfect” and think we are supposed to match up to that. Equality is what we fight for; but, to a certain extent not all equality is equal. It’s a battle within ourselves to be what everyone wants us to be. Trying to equalize everyone is Dehumanizing because we are all different,…

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    19 were hanged at Gallows Hill, 1 man was crushed to death with rocks when he refused to speak. The hanged include Bridget Bishops, who was hanged June 10, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes were hanged on July 19. George Burroughs…

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    punished bestially. Important to realize, the Jews were so helpless that they could not even help their loved ones, "Called through the empty streets...my name. I looked at the gallows soaring tall and thought ... there's no one left at all" (Ogden, 1). To point out, the helpless boy is left alone in the gallows to be hung in remorse, because he finally realized that standing up for yourself alone is not the Kaur 2 same as standing up with your compatriots. In any case, the only way…

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    through the torturing of innocent civilians. “‘For God's sake, where is God?’ And from within me, I heard a voice answer: ‘Where He is? This is where—hanging here from this gallows...’” (Wiesel, 65) The previous quote indicates that Eliezer lost all hope in God, as a voice within him tells him that God is hanging from the gallows just as the young pipel. Earlier in Eliezer’s life, when he was innocent and full of hope and faith in God, it motivated him to learn more about him. This is indicated…

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    smiled” (Daughter of Smoke and Bone). Hell is empty, and all the devils are here to lead human beings to commit mistakes in their lives. The National Anti-drug Agency showed a particular advertisement of a smoking man hangs himself in the invisible gallows with a dark background full of cracks. The advertisement of Smoke Hang appealed for the public to prevent smoking cigarette and to remain healthy. The Smoke Hang advertisement was successful because it is including three basics ethos, logos,…

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    studied as a child before the Holocaust. The gruesome scene of the child’s hanging is when Eliezer comes to believe that a just God must not exist in a world where an innocent child can be hanged on the gallows. “Where is He?” Eliezer asks to himself, and then answers, “He is hanging here on this gallows.” Witnessing the hanging of the child, Eliezer reaches the low point of his faith in God. (Wiesel 63) At this point, Eliezer has become someone different from the child he was at the beginning…

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    warfare in alehouses "across half a dozen counties." However, "the sight of the damned world" prevents any "faintly festive hiccup." In the end, Thomas "only want[s] to be hanged." To him, life no longer holds meaning and solely exists to "fatten/[the] Gallows." Thomas claims that "all flesh is grass", biblically alluding to the ephemeral quality of life. This could also refer to the bloodied, corpse-ridden battlefields Thomas had saw. In addition, the "past seven years" of "floundering in…

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    Honor In The Crucible

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    support lies, but his entire trial is based on dishonesty. Although John Proctor admitted to lying his honor does not put innocent people on the gallows as does the judge’s. In the Crucible John Proctor is the epitome of a falsely convicted man. He represents convicted individuals with his inability to surrender his honor in order to avoid the gallows. John’s sacrifice gives his sons a understanding of the importance of honesty. Although John cheated on his wife he spares her from further…

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    In 1692 in a town in Salem, Massachuetts, nineteen men and women were convicted of witchcraft and then hanged in Gallows Hill. Some were jailed without trials. On Febuary of the same year three young girls got sick. Doctors could not find the cause or the cure so they believed they were cursed. The three girls named Sarah Good, Sarah Osborn, and Tituba who was a Caribbean slave was accused of witchcraft. In the following month, Tituba admitted to the accusations because she could not…

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    these audiences to form its current readership base of 325,000. With a vast array of the magazine’s content found across the company’s entire platform extending from print and digital to live events, e-commerce, research and other ancillary products (Gallow 2011)…

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