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Nurture vs Nature : Violence School shootings, serial killers, and violent children. All awful tragedies that unfortunately take place every day in our society, but why? Why do these terrible things happened? The answer is obnoxiously obvious: People have the capacity to do very bad things. Sometimes they need to and sometimes it's because they want to and the reasoning behind these individuals is perplexing. Anytime a shooting occurs, kids lash out, or horrible things happen by the hands of…

Academic Dishonesty “Lying is a basic human reaction, and this is the class where we study it.” Dr. Renholds pauses. “We lie to keep people safe from nasty truths; just like when your Daddy told you that Fifi went to live on a farm upstate. We call these lies White Lies, and for the most part they are harmless. We use them to maintain the status quo of our lives and emotions.” He turns away from his podium, and reaches up to the old dusty chalkboard. The remnants of past lectures remain…

Jacob Vore Advanced Poetry Mr. Dranginis 2/15/16 Hamlet; An Existential Character One of the most common and cliche questions you hear people ask is, “What is the meaning of life?”. This question has never been answered and has been pondered by philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham. Philosophers have also contemplated over the value of life, as is seen in ethical theories such as utilitarianism, to help answer existential questions. Merriam-Webster defines existentialism as a…

Structure and language Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s novel, Infidel is an autobiography focusing on her struggles as a Muslim woman. It starts of by a detailed recollection of her childhood and life in Somalia leading to her movement to America. Ayaan’s novel focuses on her inner struggle with Religion and human value, which she later on figures out. Ayaan’s profound awakening happens when she moves to the Netherlands where she later on obtains a degree in political science. The structure and language…

World War II officially began on September 1, 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Poland. However, the War of Ideas that Hitler and the Nazis launched had begun much earlier, when he began to censor and destroy literature that did not hold true to the Aryan race. In an attempt to unify the nation of Germany under one ideal, he burned millions of books. While just a short time later, America became unified by a contradictory approach. Instead of everyone being forced to agree to one ideal, they…

Killing a Mockingbird To kill a Mockingbird a bestselling novel by Harper Lee with over 30,000,000 copies in 40 languages worldwide it was released in 1960. It was made into a movie December 25, 1962 screen play by Horton Foote. It is a story about a southern town in Maycomb County Alabama Macomb was an old town a tired old town. It is a story about a father his daughter his son, their friend and the man he defends in court Tom Robinson. The story takes place back in the 30s there is a lot of…

The many women in The Iliad have had a profound effect on the story as a whole, and to this day, researchers still study the role they played in Homer’s great works. Palladas’ view towards the women in the Homeric plays, specifically The Iliad is greatly misconstrued and incorrect. Palladas’ view of women being the sole cause of the terror and destruction in the poem is not quite accurate. The extent to which his claim of women being dangerous and the cause of all the problems in the poem is…

Christianity faces a major threat today, but it does not come from without; it comes from within. Many have labeled this threat as the “emerging church” movement. This is a reformist movement within Christian-oriented circles primarily characterized by protest (Carson 9, 14, 25). Few have taken up the task of discussing this movement in detail, but in D.A. Carson’s work on the subject, he exhaustively covers the movement and what it means for Christian-oriented people. Carson succeeds in this…

Too Many Tamales Soto, G., & Martinez, E. (1993). Too Many Tamales. New York: Putnam. Book Summary: This book is about a little girl named Maria who was assisting her mother while making tamales for Christmas. With the excitement of getting to feel like an adult, Maria decided to borrow her mother’s ring without permission while they cooked the tamales. Her family began to arrive and Maria soon realized that the ring that she borrowed was missing. She soon turned to her cousins for help to find…

Yossef Elnaggar, Rohit Kothare Ms. Ciccone Honors English II-1B December 22, 2015 Violence and Greed Fuel Actions Greed often prompts people to commit violent actions that contradict society 's beliefs on acceptable and moral behavior. These actions, frequently performed blindly and without much thought, lead to many dramatic encounters between characters. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the protagonist, Huck, encounters individuals whose greedy and violent personalities…