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    If you have read my past work at all, you know I am beyond passionate about helping businesses succeed. I personally believe that in order to any business to find sustained success it has to be led by a person with a go-get-em attitude and the iron will to work as long as it takes to achieve their goals. One such individual you may or may not of heard of is Emanuel “Manny” Hernandez. This Puerto Rican businessman has achieved more than he ever thought possible. I recently had the pleasure of…

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    Capital punishment is the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime. The death penalty is a complex issue, and can understandably be argued from both sides, those opposing the death penalty, and those who feel capital punishment should still be an option. Capital punishment should be abolished because, people are capable of change, the penalty puts innocent lives at risk, and we pay millions for each death penalty case. Firstly, people are capable of change; in other…

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    Capital Punishments role in America plays a huge part in how America handles offenders and repeat offenders. Staticbrain.com reports that Time magazine says,” An estimated 2,000,000 people have been victims of crimes, from assault to murder. With insufficient laws to address these issues, criminals become careless and bolder. For this reason, there is a need for a death penalty.” Capital punishment, should not be abolished because, it takes committing a heinous act to receive the death penalty…

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    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a movie filmed in 1975 based on Ken Kesey’s same named book. The movie is about the conflict between the two main characters Randle McMurphy and Nurse Ratched. McMurphy is a criminal who is guilty of raping a fifteen year old girl and pretends to be insane so that he can escape from his punishment. In the asylum he meets people who are going to change his life and also he is going to change their lives. The movie has lots of hidden meanings. They are about…

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    paper, I will discuss Nathansons argument against capital punishment. I will discuss how Nathanson has responses to Haags arguments with two cases. I argue that Haag has good responses but I would agree with Nathanson to say that one must treat everyone the same depending on their crimes without treating each criminal differently even though they have committed the same crime but are not getting the same punishment. Haag’s primary objection in capital punishment was that it does not matter if…

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    Justice is a concept that is hard to define. It is often defined by laws that society must follow, and everyone believes that it they are broken that person is a criminal. That is not always the case though. Sometimes if a law is unjust the only option is to break it to achieve true justice. That is the only way that change can happen. In Sophocles’s Antigone the main character breaks the law because it is unjust. Through her actions Antigone shows that if a law is unjust then breaking it is…

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    From the class I’ve learned that there are two kinds of evil, natural evil and moral evil. Natural evils are natural circumstances such as tornadoes, floods, and earthquakes. Moral evil results from human actions such as murder, theft and rape. The question that is risen if God is all good, then why does evil and suffering exist in the world? Just within the last few months, on the news there have been reports of tragic school shootings and natural disasters, and if God is all good why does…

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    processes of someone walking the tightrope of sanity. The importance of physical activity and social interaction is realized by Maya herself when Nila and her mother come to visit her. These two "had not the time for thinking and imagining" (139); shopping and knitting and painting and cooking and caring for orphans give their lives outward direction and structure. Maya, with no outside concerns or social contacts, is very self-…

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    Winning the Ultimate Prize, Death THESIS: “The Rocking Horse Winner” by D. H. Lawrence and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson are quite different by quite similar as well. Both authors use Gambling, love and having no love as themes. Gambling in the “Lottery” is right there upfront and in your face straight from reading the title to the announcement of the winner. Lotteries are a form of gambling. In the “Rocking Horse Winner” it’s not so in your face but comes about half way when Paul the son…

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    Arguments Against Socrates

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    Socrates argument In the apology book Socrates have many accusers. Now he is accused of corrupting the youth but He is denying the allegations he is saying that he could not intentionally corrupt anyone. Some people are convinced that he is speaking the truth but some people thing that he is lying. Socrates was teaching the youth not to believe in the gods that the city was believing in but he told them to believe other god not the one that they grew up believing in. Meletus is accussing…

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