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    someone in a relationships with a love, People make many types of sacrifices for love, they can be sacrifices for time, money, attention, and physical. People sacrifice time for love, There are times when time is scorse but people will sacrifice their time for loved or something. An example to describe this argument is the love that parents show, because they would do anything for their children. In the article “what’s the biggest sacrifice you have made for love” Ms. Kumar writes that her…

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    Sacrifice means spending less time on entertainment and more time on improving your life and family. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a layered story about a sixteen year old girl named Katniss. The story is set in the future in North America now called Panem. Panem is split in to 13 districts and the capital. The capital is home to President Snow who rules over Panem. The 13th district however doesn’t exist anymore because they rebelled against the capital and the district was turned to…

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    Everyday decisions and sacrifices are made from the moment one wakes up to the second they fall asleep. But some sacrifices in life may be for the love of someone else other than one’s self, whether it be giving up your personal free time, letting go of a personal item for the greater good, or even to risk your life for the well-being of someone else. Either way, choices are made by everyone whether it be for themselves or for others. Thus sometimes requiring a larger sacrifice. It is said that…

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    Sacrifice for Success Sacrifice is a controversial word. It is defined as an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important or worthy. Many people look up to sacrifice and others can not bear to sacrifice their own possessions. Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy were two famous men that fought for freedom. Both believed that sacrifice was required for freedom, whether freedom for a race or nation. Although they had similar views on sacrifice,…

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    The Value of Death An Exploration of Human Sacrifice The question of human sacrifice in particular is useful and quite prevenient. In this essay I would like to explore the transformation of human sacrifice in the America’s from pre-conquest to the colonization of the Spanish. Human sacrifice is customarily viewed through a Eurocentric lens in which it is seen as heathenistic and barbaric. I would like to challenge this view and point out how it is in a way hypocritical to view the Mexica and…

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    lifestyle, people go through many obstacles and sacrifice many aspects of their lives and parts of themselves. However, the majority of the significant sacrifices made in order to attain the American dream are not morally acceptable. Whether or not the sacrifice made by an individual is acceptable depends on their situation. In the books Girl In Translation by Jean Kwok, and So The Path Does Not Die by Pede Hollist, the various significant sacrifices that are made by immigrants are shown…

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    Under Pressure As humans, we make sacrifices every single day for many different reasons with many different intentions. According to the Cambridge dictionary, compromise is defined as “an agreement between two sides who have different opinions, in which each side gives up something it had wanted”. And sacrifice can be defined with “giving up something for something else considered more important.” Two similar definitions for two very different words. These choices are seen throughout literature…

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    Intro: By one sacrifice he has made the perfect forever for those he loves. Great sacrifice happens due to unthinkable events and the need to accommodate them. In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the French people, the Manettes and Carton all makes sacrifices for the greater good. To sacrifice something dear to for the happiness of another is difficult though it ultimately results in the growth of the individual. 1st Body: Dickens writes of a “[fated] revolution”(8) by metaphorically…

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    what we value can be determined only by what we sacrifice. This applies to several characters in Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, especially Orleanna, Nathan, and their daughters. Through their sacrifices, characteristics and values become evident in these characters that would not be understood otherwise. The sacrifices made by these characters contribute to the novel as a whole by giving it depth and greater meaning, just as these sacrifices make each character’s intentions clear and…

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    back.” ― Peter S. Beagle. Making sacrifices for the ones you love is an essential, but as Peter S. Beagle stated, “You must must tear out your own, and not expect to get something back.” You can still make sacrifices that are stupid, foolish, and selfish no matter the size of it because you think you are doing it for them, but you actually are doing it for yourself. The books Romeo and Juliet and Of Mice and Men are great examples of showing good and bad sacrifices for the ones you love. Of Mice…

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