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    Sacrifice In Antigone

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    she believes that she should follow Creon’s laws. Determined that burying her brother was the honorable thing to do, Antigone proceeded without Ismene. However, when Antigone is caught, Ismene assumes responsibility for burying Polyneices. Antigone refused to compromise and allow Ismene to assume the blame for burying Polyneices, since Ismene did not actually commit the crime, Antigone wants to spare her sister's life, and Antigone does not want Ismene to dampen her fame. Although Antigone…

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    Muhammad Ali Activist

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    considered a world champion boxer, but is also a well known political and social activist and humanitarian. As an activist, he refused to be drafted into the U.S. military during the Vietnam War. In addition to that, he promoted world peace by traveling to war torn countries and became an advocate for children. As a political activist, on April 28, 1967, Muhammad Ali refused to be drafted to the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. One of the reasons he said was, “I ain’t got no quarrel with…

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    The role that due process plays in the management of conflict especially for discipline and conflict are “to balance rights and responsibility and, to ensure fairness or justice within the organization regarding dismissal procedures” (p. 212). In other words, due process plays a vital role in the management of discipline and termination via making sure all people, especially public employees’ rights are protected under the law as well as creating a balance of the law. The United States…

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    It is common knowledge that in the 1960s it was the peak time of racial injustice in the country. During this time a well known civil rights activist, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was doing everything that was in his hands in order to end this racial injustice in a nonviolent way. The document shown in the previous page speaks about all of King’s efforts and how people reacted to his actions, including those who attempted to kill him and his family. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a very…

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    and Robert E. Lee Henry Thoreau's personality was really bold. I had never read about a character who was so out-spoken and did exactly what he wanted. One of the scene's that stood out to me the most was when I learned he went to jail because he refused to support the government and pay his taxes. Thoreau didn't see eye to eye with the government and he strongly believed that they used all the money collected from taxes to do and support horrible things like injustice…

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    out of his previous private school and we were his last option. Because he is very intelligent he loved to point out every mistake that I made in class. I would politely accept these corrections, but was annoyed by his negative attitude. When he refused to participated with classmates during an experiment, I asked him to stay after and speak with me. He fled the class at the end of the period and the next month was a period of extreme tension because he had to pass my class in order to…

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    bunch of animals, just because their clothes weren't fancy. Charlotte thought that the ship ride would be terrible before they even set sail. Charlotte is highly judgemental at the beginning of the novel. One thing Charlotte did was she refused to be Zachariah's friend because he was old and black. “I don’t need a friend” (Avi 23). Every time Zachariah brought up friendship, Charlotte chose to ignore him. Charlotte kept on using the term, “old man”, which is completely wicked because he…

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    In the memoir Night, the narrator Elie Wiesel recounts a moment when the text says “My father was a cluture man, rather unsentimental. He rarely displayed his feelings not within his family, and was more involed in walfare of others than his own kin” Two singificant themes related to inhumanity discussion in the book Night Elie thought he was dreaming because of the great sight of men, women, and children getting burned and killed.This is what the book says, “I pinched…

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    wanted to give up. Although the first time King George Vl refused to read out of the book, he did end up trying again. This time Lionel Logue had King George Vl put headphones on with classical music playing loudly, he could not hear what he was saying. As King George Vl read out of the book Lionel Logue was recording him speaking. Immediately after King George Vl finished reading he got angry, he was insistent that he was stammering, so he refused to listen to the recording. Later on King…

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    first tried convincing him to become Christian and he gave so many reasons on why he should become a Christian, however Eyvindr still had refused. Then it seemed like the king was begging for him to become Christian because he started offering him gifts like land and properties yet he still said no. The king then told him the consequences and he still refused. Then before his death he asked if he can say something and it seemed like he was going to…

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