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    example in The Hunger Games, “say you are poor and starving as we were. You can opt to add your name more times in exchange for tesserae. Each tessera is worth a meager year’s supply of grain and oil for one person… What would it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where…

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    Psychosocial Development is the theory that as we go throughout our lives we experience eight essential stages in our lives. Each corresponding stage has a correlating virtue or vice alongside an existential question that the person may subconsciously wonder as they move on throughout their psychosocial development. Erik Erikson was an ego psychologist greatly influenced by the Id psychologist, Sigmund Freud. However, instead of psychosexual stages, Erikson theorized that they were…

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    Western Human Advancement

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    Heron of Alexandria into a practical, functioning steam engine? People only started to apply this basic principle after the industrial revolution in England. The Industrial Revolution has been an overall wonder, in any event in so far as it has happened in every one of those parts of the world, of which there are not very many special cases, where the impact of Western human advancement has been felt. Without question it happened first in Britain, and its belongings spread just bit by bit to…

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    that God has “no moral character.” In the book, Process Theology A Basic Introduction, C. Robert Mesle claims again that the freedom of the world has to deal with God and God’s primordial nature.” Going further with this claim, the author states that God has granted us freedom and its use, but also has the authority /power to “overrule” it. It makes me wonder if God grants permission to Satan to enter humans and perform their…

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    they have?” (Ferguson, 1959: 11). To obtain the information of how the teenagers came to be, interactionists would have to live the life of the teenager and see what they go through. Interactionists would look at the daily lives of the teenagers and wonder what went wrong. Gaines was curious about the teenagers who were living in the same social situations as those who committed suicide and decides to observe other teenager’s lives. She realized that one of the factors that contributed to the…

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    Erikson's Recovery

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    child questions if the world is a reliable place and if objects are consistent. In other words are the objects the same across time and space. For recovery development this stage is when onset of the disorder occurs. The patient questions if they can trust the treatment they are being given. This almost is like when babies are in their first stage of development and wonder if they can trust the permanence of objects and the world, will the objects be the same. Babies wonder if they can trust…

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    Censorship is common in dystopian litterateur and in modern day. In Fahrenheit 451, the government used censorship on books. They believe that books give radical ideas to people and the essence of their society would crumble if people are allowed to read. To get rid of these books and ideas, the government uses fire and firefighters. The captain of the firefighters, Beatty, said, “ burn all,burn everything...fire is bright,fire is clean”(Bradbury 60). Most of the people believed, that burning…

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    Non Violence Definition

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    different. People will end up getting tired of this routine and will rebel with marches, mob fight, war and they will break this endless streak of this terrible world. Rebellion is an act of war, disagreement, and anger acting out for everyone to see. A revolution is an act of freedom; to break free from the self prison some people in this world are in. I personally would participate in the act of a revolution because i…

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    Rationale For The Giver

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    appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs in which everyone obeys. The community is a preciously choreographed world without conflict, inequality ,divorce, unemployment, injustice or choice.Everything is made for peace and all causes for danger are removed from the people’s sense and imagination. And in this world of sameness lives Jonas, who was different from others…

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    Dekanawidah Born to a nation in Hurons, know present day Ontario, Canada, Dekanawidah knew he was distended to accomplished great thing in life from an early age at life. His mother had a dream about baby boy she would have named Dekanawidah and he would grow up to something great. When he was born, his mother was instructed by his grandmother to drown the child in the river since he was born to a virgin mother who refused to tell her mother who the father, creating bad luck for the nation.…

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