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    If you were to ask me what color hair I have or what color eyes, I would be able to answer your question. But what I never realized before reading The Inferno is that everyone and anyone can see me better than I can see myself. Sure I can simply look in a mirror, but that would provide me with nothing more than a mere reflection. The one person you can never truly lay your eyes on is yourself, for only others can actually see you. The same can be said about sin. One can easily look at someone…

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    Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” is a story about the struggle between good and evil which is a narrative that has been around for decades. All throughout history people have fought to maintain balance between the two and not let one overpower the other and Young Goodman Brown is one of these people. Young Goodman Brown is stuck between choosing to worship the devil or have faith in God. Faith is also the name of his wife, who he sees as the ultimate symbol of purity and goodness.…

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    The Pale Moonlight

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    On December 30th, 1903, the worst fatal theater fire in the United States took place. This fire engulfed the Iroquois Theater in Chicago while the play “Let Us Swear by the Pale Moonlight” took place. It was a brand new theater and known to be one of the “finest” built in the country. The brand new theater as well as the play drew a crowd of more than 2,000 people which were mostly women and children. The audience entered the theater hearing that it was known “to be has fireproof as the Titanic…

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    The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire The triangle shirtwaist factory fire was one of the most tragically industrial accidents in the history of the United States. It happened in the city of New York in 1911, killing 146 workers, including immigrant women. Many of them died publicly by throwing themselves, out of the upper story windows of the burning building. The fire made clear in a powerful way that industrial accidents had causes whose roots lay in employers’ near total power over the…

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    called on John Proctor to come and meet with her. It is late at night and John should be home, but for some reason he has came to the forest. He asks Abigail why he has come and she says she has called for him. She looks at him in an enchanting way. Anything that Abigail says Proctor does. Abigail is trying to make John Proctor join her on the dark side. Abigail (Looking at John seductively). Thank you John for coming. Proctor. I only come to see what it is that you want. Abigail. You come…

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    Young Goodman Brown - Hawthorn “Young Goodman Brown” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story about the devil, good, bad, evil, temptation, faith, lost innocence, hypocrisy, suspicion and doubts. The story doesn’t really say if the events that happen to Goodman are real or just Goodman’s imagination but either way, they change Goodman’s life forever. Goodman is married to Faith, symbolic of what is at stake for Goodman throughout the story, his faith and resisting the devil. The Old Man,…

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    lose two things at once..Goodman Brown and his wife Faith have been married for three months and this shows that Goodman Brown lacks a deep attachment to Faith. This resembles the willingness to stray from his wife to embark on his evening journey. Although Goodman Brown knows what lies ahead of him on his journey into the woods ,is not good he see’s this momentary dabbling in the dark side as a one time affair.’’My love and My faith” replied young goodman brown “of all nights in the year,…

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    Orenthal James Simpson is a famous Nfl player, and actor. In 1994, O.J. Simpson, was convicted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. They were found dead outside Nicole’s home in the Brentwood area in Los Angeles. Nicole had been stabbed in the neck and in the head. She also had some self-defense wounds. Nicole and Ron had been dead for at least two hours when the police showed up to the home. One important piece of evidence found at the crime scene was a…

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    essay, I have chosen Young Goodman Brown because the it is about the battle between good and evil, and how positive and negative activity plays a role in our lives and around the world. In the story of “Young Goodman Brown”, it takes place in Salem and there live a man name Goodman Brown, he is battling with good and evil until his wife, Faith is taken and she has turned evil cause Goodman Brown to believe that there is no good in the world. One day, Goodman Brown is in the forest and he feels…

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    Three Gorges Dam Built on the historical Yangtze River, the Three Gorges Dam is the world’s largest and most controversial dam to be built. The dam has been the cause for the displacement of an approximated 1.3 million people and is currently wreaking havoc on the environment. The question is, however, was it right for the Chinese government to do this? This question can easily be answered using the Australian method of SHEEP factors; social, historical, economic, environmental, and political.…

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