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    There were three great writers of tragedy with respect to Greek literature. They are Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. Sophocles had a firm belief in fate but he also considers free will. He did not stick only to fate like Aeschylus. “Fate is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. It is a concept based on the belief that there is a fixed natural order to the cosmos.” “Free Will is the freedom of humans to make…

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    save him. In the helicopter a gunman focuses on his target. Ready, aim, fire and boom!! The man tells his pilot to land so that he can go and capture his prey. Upon reaching the woman the malicious man with a machete slices off this mother’s nose, gouges her eyes, and takes her hands and feet as well. In victory he leaves but before he gets too far away he returns to put a locator in the child’s teeth for future use and then escapes. This young boy finally wakes up to see a dead carcass of what…

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    A Mother In Mannville Narrative He has a mother. She left him. What kind of sick person would deprive a child from having a family. It probably wouldn't have been the best family, but it would've been his. While I was still trying to process what Jerry had told me, he spoke. "Did something happen? Are you okay?" His eyes focused on me. "Yes, sorry. I just lost my train of thought," I lied. I, not wanting to continue talking about his mother, quickly changed the subject. "Anyway, I want…

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    “caught a girl twelve years old, violated her, mutilated her genitals, tore out her heart, ate it, drank the blood, and burned the remains” (Schechter 300). Peter Sutcliffe, also called the Yorkshire Ripper, liked to slice of the faces of his victims, gouge out their eyes, rip out their tongues, tear out their entrails and eat their genitals. Stranglers are sadistic psychos who get an arousal from strangling their victims. The first American serial killer of the twentieth century was Earle…

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    Sophocles's Theban plays demonstrate mastery of tragic irony, character development, and plot. The story surrounds Oedipus, the king of Thebes, who murders his father and sleeps with his mother, as was prophesied. The main character exhibits several character flaws which impact his actions during the play. Oedipus reflects his hubris through his intelligence and arrogance, as seen in his treatment of Tiresias and his confidence in finding the murderer of Laius. His hubris harmfully affects his…

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    Personal Narrative

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    I stand at the entry way, starring in. I can see from here that his chest isn’t moving and by the amount of blood I see there’s no way he could have survived the exchange . I walk over and I see that there is a gouge across his neck and another on his chest, slicing through a familiar navy blue t-shirt which no longer was true to its color. Beside him is Noah’s pocket knife, which used to belong to our father. He carries that with him everywhere and by the looks…

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    Political Influences

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    Political Influences In its current state, regulations on public power have a number of lobbyists spending and unknown amount of money to bring power utilities back to the private sector with unregulated profits. Groups like the American Public Power Associations (APPA) make a political organization known as PowerPAC. Their goal is to change legislation by supporting congressmen with similar interests. “PowerPAC (Public Ownership of Electric Resources Political Action Committee) is a group of…

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    shadow without jumping. The bird, however, was attempting to make itself known; it began to circle overhead, following the prince wherever he went. "Leave, you miser, you- ow!" Fallacy shrieked. The bird had descended and appeared to be trying to gouge his eyes out. "No, no, no, stop! I am a prince, I-" Finis walked up to him serenely. Between dodges, Fallacy made sure to curse her mentally. "Fa, stop doing that funny little dance. There's a crow attacking you, you know." "I know!" Fallacy…

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    Personal Narrative Fiction

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    Clutching the brown paper bag in her right arm, Sarah Prescott settled her purse securely on her shoulder, switched the bag to that arm, and dug into her coat pocket for her keys. A gust of wind slammed into her from behind, shoving her forward a step and slipping under her coat, and even her sweater, to send a chill up her spine. She hated fall. She hated winter more, but she really hated the fall because that meant winter was just around the corner. Where the hell were her keys? She pulled…

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    Alienation In The Kaffir Boy

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    It completely destructed them as well as every other black family. The rules of the apartheid that determined where people lived meant that most black families did not live together. Wives and children lived on the reserves, while the men lived in the cities. Mark's family all lives together through it all. This is due to his mother's hard work. Even though she is working as hard as she is, her children do not see it because it is covered up by the projection of his father's anger and lack of…

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