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    Good Guys In The Road

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    on their journey to the South as “bad guys” and “good guys”. The good guys refers to the father and the son. The father is the good guy in this book. The reason why i say this is because he was always there for his son. Always protecting him. He always told his son positive things, to not give up, that their is a better life ahead. Something good that he did was that he perseveres when in reality there was no hope for survival. “....everything depended on reaching the coast, yet . . . he knew that all of this was empty and no substance” (29). In this quote, the father is giving him and his son a reason to keep going and to live. Even tho he knows that it may…

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    Good guys are they good or are they actually bad? In Cormac McCarthy’s book The Road, the son argues with the father about if the good guys are actually good or if they are bad. A good example of the boy and the father arguing is, you wanted to know what the bad guys looked like. Now you know. The good guys are an example of good guys that can be also portrayed as bad guys as well. The good guys are people that will take care of you, help you, and not hurt you at all. The good…

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    Mccarthy Good Guys

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    2006 and was written for the author’s son. “Good guys” vs “bad guys” is a recurring subject throughout the book, and the father teaches his son to be one of the few “good guys” that are left in the world they live in. The author shows that by keeping positive morals in the worst times of life, a strong character is developed to overcome any obstacles. The first example of when one in the book demonstrates good morals is when a man on the road attacks the boy and puts a knife to his throat. The…

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    Good Guys On The Internet

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    " I believe in limited government access to internet, and their duty to monitor internet activity. We have an excellent government differing from many other countries, but when it comes down to our governments accessibility to internet, the tables may turn. We as Americans should thrive off of a limited government, responsible people idea. If the people abide by, and respect their civic duties and responsibilities, our government will not feel obliged to monitor online material. Though it…

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    Flowey: Good Guy or Bad Guy? Who Is Flowey? Flowey is a flower monster from the wonderful world of Undertale. He was created when the scientist Alphys Tried to give monsters Determination, but it ended up failing so she decided to get rid of the Determination by pouring it on a flower therefore making Flowey, born without a soul. In the game he is one of the biggest enemies, but what if there is more to this friendliness pellet shooting flower? See these are all variants of that ‘nice…

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    As you can tell from the quote, Dr. Golan is known to be the bad guy. When Jacob was in a position where no one believed him, Dr. Golan was always there to talk to him about his problems and support him. Slowly, he was able to tell him everything that Dr. Golan wanted to know from ability to see hollowgast to the location of the peculiars. Once Jacob found out about the truth of Dr. Golan, he felt betrayed that he was also used for someone else’s purpose. Jacob learned that there are some people…

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    In the novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy shows that “the good guys. Keep trying. They don’t give up.” (McCarthy 137) As one of the good guys, the man has to teach the son to carry the fire so he can replenish the earth by turning the world from evil. If the man does not do this the son will not have anything to live for and will want to die with the man. The man and son have only a few pieces of hope keeping them going; without the son the man would have given up but in the hardest times they…

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    In “Good guys with guns”, the main story was about how a couple who were able to defend themselves with a gun while being robbed. In an interview, they explained that having the right to carry a gun saved their lives. They did stress that both of them had military backgrounds and that they were well trained with guns. I think that while having the gun at that moment did save their lives, the robber, who also had a gun, would not have been able to commit this crime if there were stricter gun…

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    son) questions about if they are good or bad. So how did they distinguish the the “good guys” from the “bad guys,” and were the protagonists actually the “good guys”? In this book, a blasphemous act commonly done by many of the survivors was cannibalism. Unlike how cannibalism is prevalent in this world due to lack of food source, the son and father considers this what a “bad guy would do” and in even in a situation when both of them are starving to death, the…

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    Imagine, having to decide whether to tell your child about their father’s not so great past and ruin the image of their father and might even ruin one of their friendships. It is clearly a decision that wouldn’t wanted to be made if not necessary, no? Now imagine being a student who wants to go to college, finding the test answers to a major test, and then being asked to give the answers to some other kids. There is a clear answer and right thing to do in this situation. Which situation would…

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