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    money to save Torvald’s life while still keeping her perfect dependent doll like image. If Torvald knew the truth, this breaking of the traditional roles would ruin “[their] beautiful happy…

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    helpful examination of the developments which have brought historians “to think in more nuanced and judicious ways about the influence of religion in the formation of women’s private selves and public roles” (2). Sue Morgan’s chapter discusses the absence of both religion and women in the history of sexuality. She debates the representation of the history of sexuality, with its predominant legal and medical-scientific focus,…

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    subcultures, such as the United States and South-Central Los Angeles. Kohn then concludes his argument by saying “it is misleading and even dangerous to justify our own pedagogical values by pretending they are grounded in some objective, transcendent Truth…” This statement is important because the definition of being well-educated is different in every place. Therefore, it cannot be defined as a single…

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    Siddhartha Gautama. The main goal of Buddhism is to attain the sublime state of Nirvana by practicing the Noble Eightfold Path. Buddhism emphasizes human suffering and seeks to end it by ridding ignorance and craving by understanding the Four Noble Truths. Buddhists also believe in karma and a cycle of rebirth. Also known as Gautama Buddha or Shakyamuni, Siddhartha Gautama is the oracle and founder of Buddhism. Although unsure by historians, Gautama is said to have lived within the 6th and…

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    average attorneys, leading to a better defense and hopefully freedom. Though truth is the only way to receive justice, wealth can manipulate the law to favor one’s side. This is demonstrated through the defense team in the O.J. Simpson murder case, the dual trial in Great Expectations, and the murder case in Legally Blonde. With this method of wealth buying the verdict, it leads to corruption, blinding justice from the truth. For it is corruption that allows for the guilty to find innocence in a…

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    Ignorantly relying on what he has learned from his education, he choose not to trust, initially, the Fore’s knowledge. He was convinced that his research was the universal truth, and to his surprise he was incorrect. Trying to express his ideas from textbooks, Diamond “patiently explained to [his] companions that [he] had read about some mushrooms being poisonous” and that he has heard of “even American mushroom collectors…

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    risk. It is also questioned if politicians can lie for their own political advantage. If lying is right or wrong, there is certainly no absence for such performance in politics. Political leaders who are known for lying to the public will frequently support themselves by saying no, and that they expressed to the citizens what they believed at the time was the truth. In other words, they were truthful. Realists would argue that lying is justified when it is required to defend national or…

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    Lethal Authority

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    noteworthy causation element is an absence of trust in administration's thought processes. A group must trust that initiative has their best advantages at the top of the priority list, in the event that they don't they will probably gather as one contrarily. They bond together to shield each other from "preposterous" administration. Colleagues don't really need to like each different as they bond over a view of "terrible" administration. One consequence of the absence of trust is a sentiment…

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    why someone questioning the extermination of a particular group would believe this, but it’s mainly caused by the dismissal of photo and video evidence, and gaps in the physical evidence. Gaps in the physical evidence most damning points are the absence of a corpse. A prime example is the Nazi’s extermination of the Jewish people. For such a massive number of people being killed, deniers point to how the corpses of the victims were conveniently incinerated. Furthermore, when genocides were…

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    Reynolds draws on his political motivation to uncover the truth of Australia’s colonial past in an effort to represent the disparities between the glorified Australian identity and the harsh reality of institutionalised discrimination towards Aborigines. Reynolds thus bestows the reader with a greater awareness…

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