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    If men are equal, as Jean-Jacques Rousseau claims in the preface to his discourse on inequality (40), why do some men live in large lavish houses, while others struggle on the street, unsure of their next meal? The distance between the rich and the poor has been increasing steadily over the last decade, but in reality it has been expanding ever since man separated from Rousseau’s original state of nature. The state of nature is different than that which is natural, and within Rousseau’s state of…

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    My God War Monologue

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    My God, War is a terrible thing. I lie in the trenches at night, as the enemy flies over above, circling around, and around, looking for a good place, to unleash their latest dose of hell upon us. We all look up to the sky, thinking is this our last time on earth? That's what it's like here on the front line; you feel as though you are constantly being hunted, not knowing if and when you are going to die, at the hands of your predator-those bloody turks! Sometimes we feel as though the enemy is…

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    Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, released in 2006, is the sequel to the original Pirates of the Caribbean movie which we watched in class. It opens in Port Royal on Elizabeth and Will Turners wedding day, but in a surprising turn of events, upon the arrival of Lord Cutler Beckett, an East India trading mogul, they are quickly arrested on charges of aiding Jack Sparrow escape. While Elizabeth and Will attempt to deal with this new problem, Jack Sparrow, now captain proper of the Black…

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    Robert Walton to his sister. These letters describe Walton’s expedition to the north in search of a new land. He speaks of the months of preparation beforehand, the difficulties of traveling in such cold and unforgiving weather, and a mysterious man who is found in the ocean. This mystery man listens to Walton’s extreme enthusiasm about his journey, but grows uneasy when Walton describes how “One man’s life or death were…

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    doing this, both Rousseau and Locke defined different ideas of property and its purpose in society. Using the texts of Rousseau and Locke, and each philosopher’s divergent definitions of property, laws, and government it is possible to determine that man’s ability to possess property is necessary for individual rights and security. With regards to the definition of property, both Rousseau and Locke write of quite different concepts. In Second Treatise, Locke contemplates that God gifted Earth…

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    The Impact of People’s activities on the Environment Every day, the environment continues to degrade due to man’s activities. Sustainability of the environment has become a long gone story. The environment is no longer as productive as it was initially. The activities of man have resulted to the condition we are in now. The population on Earth, both for man and animals, has increased. Land and other resources continually decline; in productivity and quality. The sustainability of the current and…

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    American culture centers in 1970. In “The Western, or the American Film, par excellence," Andre Bazin states that the myth of this landscape in the classic Western lies in that “the Indian, who has lived in this world, was incapable of imposing on it man’s order,” and that “he mastered it only by identifying himself with its pagan savagery” (145). Mark and Daria reenact this same escape to the…

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    Organized Massacre What just happend? That was the question of many people in the early Twentieth Century. No one expected that a war of this great of magnitude would take place. The death and destruction the Great War brought was painted a vivid red colour with in the minds of almost every citizen who had any ties to this war. Why was the death toll so high and unlike anything the world had ever seen up to that date? World War I was the result of the changing of the world due to…

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    laborers and the company owners at the time, and it also allows the reader to view the situation from a reasonably unbiased perspective. Chapter 14, in comparison to 15, highlights the nervousness and fear the poor feel. The entirety of their land, the “western lands” are all “nervous under the beginning of change.” Their…

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    The English Country side looks breathtaking. The sufferings of the war and the agony the horse goes through is devastating. The sight of horses and soldiers charging across no-man's land into great blasts of machine gun fire is captivating. The visual effects are really spectacular and the sound effects phenomenal. The camera work was stunning by the cinematographer Janusz Kaminski. The movie is long and sentimental. The war scenes…

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