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    Torture: A Short Story

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    because they didn't seem to react to the yelling further down and some of them were even twitching oddly. It wasn't until we were nearing the last cell that I recognized the yelling as Jericho's. I hadn't noticed because of all the horrors on the way. I look over my shoulder at Garett. He had long given up on restraining me, but he looks somewhat weary about seeing Desmond. "STOP!…

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    As most counselling professionals work in teams, this is easier for them to know what to do and also easier in helping them in their work. Morality is often defined as how an individual thinks about what is right and what is wrong and also think weather if what they are about to do is considered good or bad behaviour. Morality is also often drawn from temptation of the individual and also greed for example if an individual were to find a bag of money on the floor, would that individual take it…

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    The terms structure and direction can seem overwhelming and difficult to understand, but when trying to comprehend certain issues, events, or ideas, those terms can help in the distinguishing between right and wrong. Structure and direction can also help in understanding how some things are the way they are and how they got that way. Everyone can have their own ideas of how structure and direction apply to certain issues also, which sometimes allows for disagreement. Using my own interpretation…

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    When defining the word ethics, I think of it as a moral guideline of what is right and wrong. How do we define what is right and what is wrong is based upon how we were taught and raised. As a person with Chinese background, I believe culture plays a huge role in defining ethics. Born as a Chinese American, I often find it hard for myself to fit into the “Chinese group” while attending at Penn State. Probably because I never had any Chinese friends prior to college. I grew up in a small town in…

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    housewives to perform something productive for their surroundings. She also encourages neighbourhood to avoid travelling on personal vehicles. Furthermore, she attends meeting for her child in university on weekly basis where she meets other parents give a good inspiration. However, her activities start to decline by the end of the week. She prefers to eat junk food and doesn’t care about reusing plastic packs. If she plans to eat at home, majority of the cooked food is thrown in the drainage…

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    Adnan's Testimony

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    The courts got it all wrong; they jailed the wrong man! In 1999, a student at Woodlawn High School was accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend. His name was Adnan Syed; he was accused, tried, and convicted of murdering a fellow student. The body of Hae Min Lee, an eighteen-year-old senior, was found in Leakin Park. When the state wrongly convicted him for Hae Min Lee’s murder, the prosecutors used testimonies from suspects that were inconsistent and they attempted to vilify him to make him out to…

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    However, as Phuong moves out and Pyle begins creating havoc, pressure starts to build up. A conversation that Fowler has with Captain Trouin proves prophetic: “One day something will happen. You will take a side” (192). When Pyle’s bombs are set off on a square in Saigon, Fowler is finally inspired to act. He leaves the scene with images of the “Third Force … all over [Pyle’s] right shoe” (208) and “the torso in the square, the baby on its mother’s lap” (209). The bombing elicits Fowler’s…

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    for the better. And you can’t do better unless someone points out what you are doing wrong that’s causing drama and problems in your life. I have prayed about it and read about it and I have gained a little balance but it still is a question that comes up for me often. Then I had the pleasure of meeting John the Uber driver. In his previous life he was a social worker who eventually became a social worker with a drinking problem. He put that issue behind him and moved on but he told me as an…

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    In the early 19th century, women were often thought as inferior to men due to their sentiment and irrationality. However, emerging feminist advocate Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women were not treated as rational beings because men would not allow them to have an education. She believed that women should have equal rights as men to prove that they were rational beings and not prone to sentiment. She wrote many works demonstrating her beliefs in hopes to evoke change for women’s rights.…

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    Denny's Short Story

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    Denny needed a drink. That’s what he decided. But he thought better of it. Too much was happening to be getting drunk. Yes, it was his vacation—classic drinking time—but even so. He felt like he’d been pretty much cleared by this Detective Washington, but the fact of the matter was that the scumbag who killed Rashida was still out there. And Denny was determined to help find the guy. Then again, he remembered Jimmy Clarke. He didn’t want to end up a fall guy like Jimmy had. Thirty-six months in…

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