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    Ancient Greek Theater

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    This different characters focused on tragedy. Esquilo (456-525 A.C) is considered the creator of greek tragedy. He would mostly inspire his work in mythology topics. Only one of his tragedies was inspired in other situations, which was a play about the Persians. All of his other work was mostly about different gods with unreal powers and superhumans.His most famous plays were The Persians, The seven against Thebes, Agamemnon, The Suppliants. (PAGINA DE DONDE LO SAQUE)He…

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    Go Fight Win Absurdism

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    controversial events that most readers would consider strange in his collection of short stories called “Tunneling to the Center of the Earth.” Many of the characters, like Penny from “Go, Fight, Win” and Leonard from “Blowing up on the Spot,” have absurdist views. By creating characters like Penny and…

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    in every win/lose situation, our nation will soon not recognize the feeling of loss. Losing will turn into a medical condition that needs to be quickly treated with a roll of chocolate…

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    Beowulf As A Hero

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    Every culture has different views on what a heroic person is described as. Today a hero would be known as someone who steps up against what is wrong. In the poem Beowulf Translated by Seamus Heaney, heroes are portrayed a differently, the main character, Beowulf, is known as a hero. Beowulf is presented as a hero because, he defends and protects his people, he was loyal to the people he served, and he was victorious in important battles. A sign of a heroic leader is someone who defends and…

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    Other’s think it is when they get something surprising that they were not expecting. I believe that excellent customer service is when not only the service provider rises up and dedicates their energy to providing the customer with the best win-win situation, but when the customer receiving it feels like the provider…

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    voting present in a one-vote system. In the ranking system, the “greater of two goods” problem would no be longer an issue. To illustrate this, imagine a situation in which a voter ranks Candidate X as ‘1’ and Candidate Y as ‘2’. If Candidate X wins, their MNM will increase and accurately reflect the voter’s consent for them to govern. If Candidate Y wins, their MNM will still increase, reflecting the fact that although the voter supported Candidate X more, they still support Candidate Y to some…

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    In the story David and Goliath, the author Malcolm Gladwell tells us the significant stories of individuals who overcome personal battles in their own unique way. The biblical story of David and Goliath is used as an example of real world problems today. An article writer from the website Word Press explains “Sometimes what we think is an advantage becomes a disadvantage – and vice versa (where a weakness becomes a strength as we learn to compensate against it).” In addition to this quote, I…

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    Nate Silver’s introduction to The Signal and the Noise offers up an intuitive definition of the split between prediction and forecast. Prediction is judgemental and accounts for future changes and opinions, whereas forecast is pure scientific fact and interpretation of the past events. Neither are anywhere close to perfectly predicting any scenario, but there are times where one produces a mostly accurate estimation of the future. Each strategy has its strengths and weaknesses, which Silver…

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    First of all, Devilyn explains that competition causes issues in schools when it comes to contests and grades. In the article he explains, “For every state winner, there are thousands of participants in the local schools who have memorized lists of words in order to learn the lesson that education is really a mean-spirited process, that humilliation is the fruit of their effort, and that only one winner will celebrate a triumph whose satisfaction is measured by the suffering of others, not by…

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    Valley Forge Dbq

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    going through the chimney right, so they had a house full of smoke which is bad for breathing and made their clothes smell like smoke. The question is would You have quit? I would say yes. It it complicated because you have a lot of bad in this situation, no supplies it's basically sacrificing your life and i'm not sure I am brave…

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