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    beauty, constancy and order should be preserved, and much more so, in one’s decisions and in one’s deeds” (I.14). This reference explains the relation between honor and nature through relating our deeds and decisions must be preserving of the individual and others. Therefore, by preserving the individual, culture, knowledge, and the family advances, which is extremely honorable in Cicero’s mind. This nature of preserving oneself leads to success that is shared by many, making the decision to follow one’s nature virtuous and honorable. The main focus Cicero has in his writings is on the truthfulness of a person and he attempts to explicitly outline to his son through his breakdown of honor and duty. He states, “Everything that is honourable from one of four parts… Therefore, the thing that underlies this virtue, the matter (as it were) that it handles and treats, is truth” (I.16). Although there are four main parts to honor, Cicero explicitly highlights the importance of truth in order to be honorable. He categorizes the other three aspects of honor with each other and states their aim is only on necessities, while truth has the most importance, “The first of these, that consisting of the learning of truth, most closely relates to human nature” (I.18). Cicero states wandering without knowing the truth is something is extremely dishonorable, which is why he states truth is a main part of honor. He makes this clear in his writing. After highlighting the relations…

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    Like what I have been establing earlier, this is by far a good book just something I did not read at the right time. I supposed. Six of Crows is progressive compared to Grisha. I noticed Bardugo’s depth of writing and plotting have grown so much. This book also explored something, the previous series haven’t managed to tackle, such as politics, Grisha and their nature. Naturally there are similarities and a passing mention of the Grisha trilogy cast, but there are still huge differences that…

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    that communal property should serve communal interests and that private property private interests,” (9). Using this definition of justice, he is able to relate things that are honorable to things that are useful, which helps him as he writes to his son about what a man is obligated to do in order to be a good citizen. He defines this obligation in two levels as “the highest aim among goods,” (Cicero 5) and “the moral guidance which can shape our daily lives in all their aspects.” (Cicero 5) The…

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    and Leah's problem is from the article “Finders Keepers” in the Scope magazine in January 2018 written by the editors. The problem is Leah thinks she should return the money and the other, Jack, thinks that he should not return the money because they found it so he thinks he has the right to keep it. I know if I lost my money I would want it back and I would hope someone would be kind enough to try to help me find it or return my money. Lots of people would just keep it for themselves but…

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    essentially recognition or insight into ones self, circumstances, and/or tragic flaw—usually once it is too late to make a change. Finally, a tragic hero must produce ‘catharsis ' in the audience. According to Collins English Dictionary, catharsis—in the context of Aristotelian literary criticism— is characterized as “the purging or purification of the emotions through the evocation of pity and fear, as in tragedy.” It is worth noting that another characteristic of a tragic hero is a punishment…

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    “I, young in life, by seeming cruel fate / Was snatch’d from Afric’s fancy’d happy seat” (Wheatley, 24-25). This line from well-known poem To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, tells the first part of Phillis Wheatley’s remarkable story. Brought to America as a young child, Wheatley became of the first to display African people’s emotional, spiritual, and intellectual ability. Though her life was short and sad, it was a testimony of African American talent to the whites of her day…

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    Firstly, Antony uses the stylistic choice of irony when the conspirators and Brutus were called honourable men. Everytime Antony described Brutus as “honourable” he would use an increasingly sarcastic tone, until the last time in the speech, it was felt as if the meaning was changed. The last time Antony calls Brutus honourable, the speech hugely impacts the crowd to changing the mindset of Brutus’s, which is that Caesar was killed for the better of Rome, to the mindset that Brutus and the rest…

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    expectations for the Judge, I thought he would be more short tempered and impatient. As far as my expectations being met in some cases they were in others they were not. It was not a massive courtroom, rather it the right…

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    exposure at 60%, which has a monetary value of $101,862.50, payable at the maximum rate of $290.00 per week for 351.25 weeks. We also have an MSA amount of $90,575.00 as recommended by the CMS. Authority was given up to $220,000.00 to close out this entire claim, including the settlement of the serious and willful. The applicant will self-administer the MSA. Prior to this hearing, the applicant’s attorney made a demand of approximately $231,000.00. It is our intention to include all…

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    affects many citizen’s right of individualism. With the interference of government in peoples personal affairs, the government of the United States and that of Nigeria have become a government that governs most. George Orwell 's book, 1984, indirectly explains that the best government is that which leaves the people with liberty, privacy and sense of individualism. The government that encourages freedom for all and shared power among the poor and the rich. When it comes to what I consider an…

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