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    Deception and Truth

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    being viewed as hand and hand with “evil”‚ this includes‚ not only viewed by people‚ but also portrayed in movies and novels from all eras of time. Frequently feelings dealing with deceit‚ like jealousy‚ create anger in an individual leading into irrationality. Although honesty is important‚ of course‚ deception can actually make it easier for people to get along. Most lies are harmless social untruths in which people pretend to like someone or something more than they actually do. Deception is sometimes

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    In Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare portrays love blossoming in the midst of violent conflict at the centre of the feud. The connection is not coincidental; it is essential. This antithesisbuilds tension‚ as the Chorus sets up a ‘fearful’‚ ‘fatal’‚ ‘death-marked mood’‚ sowing the seeds of tragedy in the turbulent ground of ‘rage’. The lovers will be destroyed in a catharticmovement that will ‘bury their parents’ strife’. Shakespeare shows the redemptive power of love opposed to destructive hate - and

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    A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Contrast In Human Mentality The Play: "A Midsummer Night’s Dream"‚ by William Shakespeare offers a wonderful contrast in human mentality. Shakespeare provides insight into man’s conflict with the rational versus the emotional characteristics of our behavior through his settings. The rational‚ logical side is represented by Athens‚ with its flourishing government and society. The wilder emotional side is represented by the fairy woods. Here things do not make sense

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    Tyranny of customs

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    TYRANNY OF CUSTOM Customs‚ traditions and usages are the result of long experience of people living at a particular period. When certain things are found to be useful for a certain society‚ these things are being adopted by the people of that time. Later on those practices are transmitted to the posterity‚ and then they take the form of the customs and traditions. Customs an therefore‚ the expression of the accumulated wisdom of our ancestors Our ancestors in all walk of life setup. Customs and

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    We Are Not Your Monkeys

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    The authors of the poem‚ “We Are Not Your Monkeys”‚ are attacking the caste system by identifying themselves with monkeys and demons. For a long time‚ caste system has been the core of Hindu society. The hymn‚ “The Sacrifice of Primal Man”‚ from Rig Veda has first explained the origin of the hierarchy:”When they divided primal Man/ …/ The Brahman was his mouth/ The arms were made the Prince/ His thighs the common people/ And from his feet the serf was born” (p. 32‚ line 41-48). It is believed by

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    The Effects of McDonaldization on Education Sociology 204 McDonaldization is the term created by George Ritzer to describe the homogenous sociological event that is happening within our society. It is the process in which a task is broken down into several simpler; the subsequent tasks are then rationalized to find the single most proficient method for completing each task‚ or rationalization. Within these tasks‚ five dimensions are used to explain the process: efficiency‚ calculability‚ substitutions

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    Is Deception Justified?

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    viewed as hand and hand with “evil”‚ this includes‚ not only viewed by people‚ but also portrayed in movies and novels from all eras of time. Frequently feelings dealing with deceit –lying or jealousy- creates anger in an individual leading into irrationality. However‚ can a simple trick or lie for the sake of entertainment or flattery allow deception to be justified? Robert Southey once said “All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice‚ and falsehood passing

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    The Coase Theorem

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    The Coase Theorem In “The Problem of Social Cost‚” Ronald Coase introduced a different way of thinking about externalities‚ private property rights and government intervention. The student will briefly discuss how the Coase Theorem‚ as it would later become known‚ provides an alternative to government regulation and provision of services and the importance of private property in his theorem. In his book The Economics of Welfare‚ Arthur C. Pigou‚ a British economist‚ asserted that the existence

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    The Writing Style of Elie Wiesel In the memoir Night‚ Elie Wiesel uses a distinct writing style to relate to his readers what emotions he experienced and how he changed while in the concentration camps of Buna‚ during the Holocaust. He uses techniques like irony‚ contrast‚ and an unrealistic way of describing what happens to accomplish this. By applying these techniques‚ Wiesel projects a tone of bitterness‚ confusion and grief into his story. Through his writing Wiesel gives us a window into

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    Literary analysis: How Meursault is indifferent in The Stranger‚ by Albert Camus Although Meursault is the title character and narrator of Albert Camus’ short novel The Stranger‚ he is also a somewhat flat character. His apparent indifferent demeanor may be a convenience to Camus‚ who mainly wanted to display his ideas of absurdism. And as a flat character‚ Meursault is not fully delineated: he lacks deep thought and significant change. His purpose is that of a first-person narrator whose actions

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