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    Their Descents, Their Reasons The world was created by many methods for various reasons; according to the myths, a lot of gods and goddesses were born after this world was created. By their own roles, they have ruled over from a small tribe to a big society that is larger than a country with diverse names. Inanna, Ishtar, and Aphrodite are the goddesses who have similar roles, personalities, and characteristics but different names because those three regions of myths are adjoined. However, the faraway continents such as Asia and America have completely different myths. Several myths in the regions has the descent in the plot of the myths, but the reasons of the descent are various; for example, Inanna goes down to the underworld for the…

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    Tragedy In Frankestein

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    Everyone makes relationships to fulfil their desires. As relationships are made, people look for positivity and happiness that they can get from the relationships. Some relationships turn out well but unfortunately not everybody becomes successful. In “Frankestein” and “The descent”, the protagonist and the others do not develop a positive relationship or at least they cannot because of society. The protagonist and the others do not have a cooperative relationship which is the main factor of…

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    Mexico City with just him, the flight attendant, and the pilots. With the ransom money strapped to his chest along with two different parachutes, he jumped (Gray). The FBI, at his suspected landing area, searched for Cooper, but he was never found and there was not a trace of him (“D.B. Cooper: Everything”). Many people believe that D.B. Cooper died after his escape jump following the hijacking. One justification of this opinion is that it was negative seven degrees Celsius at the time of his…

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    The Descent Into Poverty

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    The Descent Into Poverty John F. Kennedy once said, “We can no longer tolerate the growing patches of poverty and injustice in America- substandard wages, unemployment, city slums, inadequate medical care, inferior education and the sad plight of migratory workers.” This was said in the early 1960’s. It has been fifty-seven years, and we are still dealing with the same problems today in Kentucky, one of the poorest states in the country. Kentucky is one of the poorest states in the United…

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    Macbeth's Descent Quotes

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    In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, the main character Macbeth faces decisions that demonstrate his descent into evil. In the beginning of the play Macbeth is honorable and respect King Duncan, but as the play goes on circumstances arise that leads to Macbeth’s downfall. His descent into evil begins when Lady Macbeth how Macbeth will become the king of Scotland. This starts when Macbeth encounters three witches that tell him he is the Thane of Cawdor, “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, he is the…

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    First Descent Summary

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    First Descent is a charitable non-profit organization providing free outdoor adventure experience to young adults who are fighting cancer. I like this video because it presents a comprehensive overview of the organization. Most importantly, while watching the video, I don't feel be given, instead, I feel involved. Combining typed words, the founder and participators' talks and energetic background music, this video gives people a sight into what the organization is doing. At the beginning, The…

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    Descent into Desperation Something about the film that didn’t necessarily surprise me, but was new information to me was the post-partum psychosis. We haven’t talked about post-depression in lecture yet, but I have obviously heard of this in the past. I have never really heard about post-partum psychosis, though. I was surprised at how severe the psychosis can become. For example, the first mother of the first woman discussed in the film found writing’s on her daughter’s desk about the devil. I…

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    Descent Of Man Analysis

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    Since the beginning of time, the very essence of humanity has been darkened by its own deliberate degeneracy. The darkened revelation of humanity’s descent is due to mankind’s apropos propensity toward the proliferation of dehumanization. Mankind’s theoretical predisposition toward dehumanization can be transcribed as a recurrent historical phenomenon extending back many millennia, seemingly conjugated as a necessary precondition for the perpetration of sustained injustices, especially slavery,…

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    Othello’s African descent definitely has a negative effect on his own relationships. I mean, Othello is the only black person in Venice, so he is bound to have someone criticize him. But most importantly, his race confuses and hurts his relationship with himself over all others. Although, his dark skin does discourage some other characters, Othello’s own self-consciousness causes the most damages to his relationship with others. In public, Othello is generally a proud and confident person. But…

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    Cross symbolise the death of our sins and the road to salvation. In both “Sister Sainte-Alphonse” painting and “The Descent From The Cross” both could signify as a father portrait of their proud children. Jesus as the Son of God and the sister as the daughter of Peltier and the product of a primary honour to the social status of their models. (Fig.2) The cross of Jesus Christ is a reminder that He died an agonizingly painful death. When Jesus claimed to be God, the religious leaders and…

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