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    against imperialism because this includes people opposing the expansion of a country beyond earlier borders. Anti-imperialism originated in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Person 1: Imperialism has quite a bit of motives though. The directive motive is a demand to market for profitable investment. There is also the element of expansion and the need to secure world standing in order to remain competitive. Person 2: Did you know that the term ‘anti-imperialist’ happened…

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    Emotions, motives, and stress play a huge role in many peoples’ lives daily. When at school, work, or doing daily activities, your emotions and motives are affected. The arousal theory also plays a role in your emotions, motive, and stress. Emotions are one’s mood and the way they are feeling. Motives are the urges that cause a person to act a certain way. Stress is when there is pressure on a certain object. Each of the three simultaneously works together to effect peoples’ thoughts and actions…

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    in the play are definitely understandable, as her motive and background are not complex, they are certainly not excusable. Abigail’s motivation for everything that she does is to eventually marry John Proctor. The lone obstacle to this goal is Goody Proctor, John’s wife. Betty Parris claims that when they were dancing in the woods in the beginning of the play, Abigail “drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor.” This fits Abigail’s…

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    rhetorical arguments that create a lasting dialogue that illustrates the consensus employing those that have laid the groundwork for their movement. Rhetoric as the basis of language informs this thinking as drawn from Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives. Burke conceptualizes rhetoric as inherent to identity as humans and that we are rhetorical beings who persuade through language: “For rhetoric as such is not rooted in any past condition of human society. It is rooted in an…

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    to be the daughter of Reverend Parris, descends into a coma. Moments later, a crowd begins to form around Parris’ home while rumors about witchcraft spread through the town. In the play, The Crucible, many of the characters have their own personal motives that go on throughout the story. Abigail Williams, is one of two most acclaimed characters in the play who show an abundance of traits. She is the one who takes account in the play. She carries the largest amount of responsibility for the girls…

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    The Teletubby with a Motive The newspaper details the event of a peculiar man, Terez Owens, dressed in a teletubby costume who broke into his friend's home and stole food a couple days before Halloween. Though the friend chose to press charges over the damages made to his house from the break-in, the man is only charged with "criminal mischief and disorderly conduct" (Weinreich, 2014). Owens had broken a window and door, cutting himself in the process , and then raided his friend's fridge for…

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    In “The Crucible,” the Judge Danforthe’s obliviousness to the accuser’s secondary motive allows several character to seek revenge, revealing the hypocrisy of the Puritans. Throughout the play, Abigail Williams abuses the court the most by lying ultimately to seek vengeance from Goody Proctor, the wife of the man she loves. Abigail claims Goody Proctor made a voodoo doll of her and stabbed a needle through her stomach. As the reader knows, Abigail is trying to kill Goody Proctor; therefore, it…

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    In every decision motives are needed. Intentions can be good or bad. Leaders who drive for their own power have been involved the deadliest events in history. The Salem witch trials were built on choices for self profit. In the play, The Crucible, Arthur Miller reveals that a fearful combined with selfish motives can have disastrous effects through flawed leaders. Reverend Parris’ actions are based on what will benefit him because he is paranoid due to the intensity of the atmosphere in Salem.…

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    Have you ever wondered why the Nazi Germans hated the Jews enough to distinguish their entire race? I have always wondered this and wanted to figure out the causes and motives to the Holocaust. Some historians believe that the Nazis had planned the extermination of the Jews when Hitler took power in 1933. Other historians believe that the extermination of the Jews wasn’t originally planned. Either way, the Nazis are still responsible for the death of 6 million innocent Jews. The first World War…

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    slaughterers possess. After types and traits are picked out there also comes the human beings motives, what drives them to do these horrible acts. Taking…

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