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    in front of a camera someone can definitely portray themselves as noble but could behave entirely different in a Board room. An article written in the online magazine Big Think titled‚ “Leaders Are More Likely To Be Sociopaths” states 2% to 4% of the population are such Sociopaths and they get into the leadership positions maybe 8% or 10% of the time. It’s something to consider. Since we do not have proof that going undercover is more than surface affective I do not believe we should have our tax

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    Is Empathy Innate or Learned? Empathy is innate to humans when they are born. This is relevant because only sociopaths are unable to feel emotion for another living creatures. Sociopaths are chemically imbalanced individuals‚ and have and rare excusable lack of morals. Being that empathy consists of the ability to intellectually identify ones feelings‚ thoughts‚ and attitudes based on their perspective and personal experiences it is only true that it is a given trait as a new born baby. People

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    Montresor and Harry Powell are both two different people in different stories but have something in common which is greed and manipulation.Montresor was a main character in the short story “The Cask Of The Amontillado” and he wanted revenge so he went in the catacombs with his friend Fortunato to kill him.While in the movie The Night Of The Hunter (1955) directed by Charles Laughton the character Harry Powell gets out of jail and married Willa Harper to find $10‚000 hidden somewhere inside there

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    Amontillado‚" Poe realized that the viewpoint must be from Montresor‚ considering that if he had chosen to tell his story through the victim‚ Fortunato‚ it would no doubt have lost its effective‚ memorable qualities. Without Montresor as the narrator‚ this dark tale would possess no true clarity‚ would forfeit its chilling suspense‚ and would fail to offer the reader a valid understanding of Montresor’s conniving and slightly disturbing mind. Montresor is clearly

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    In everyday life‚ we see many examples of the flaws of humans and narrators. For example‚ CNN and Fox News are both news channels who usually have the same stories that they report on. CNN could report on the story from a more Liberal standpoint but Fox News could report on the same story but from a more Conservative standpoint. Whose story would you trust? That is the main flaw about our society and about people in general‚ is that we lie or re-write a story to fit what we believe or what we want

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    Marvin Garantoza Liz Smith English 1B 26 September 2014 The Eerie and Bizarre of Poe Through all the deaths and fatality of his stories‚ Edgar Allan Poe is a man of stories that are eerie and bizzare. Poe is best known for his dark and gothic fiction where it seemed very uncomfortable to read but yet pleasing to the reader. His themes in his stories would deal with death that would include physical signs‚ effects of decomposition‚ and premature burial. In the book Literature: An Introduction

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    All this can make someone get some type of resentment against the society and themselves‚ but there is a breakpoint where this person is no longer just a sociopath or have some type of resentment there is a point where this person loses its own mind sometimes for a belief that makes people think believe that that they have to do it‚ as in some extremist religious groups. Another discussion point about this

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    Fortunato insulted Montresor so bad that he has to be avenged. Montresor feels he needs to defend his honor. He decides to lure Fortunato to his residence‚ so he can get his revenge. He goes out to a big event where there will be costumes and drinking. He takes him down a long staircase to what could be a basement. He calls the room a vault. The retribution may not be as rewarding as Montresor

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    Brittany Bohman Ms. Green English 12 9/17/14 “The Cask of Amontillado” 1. Montresor comes off as unreasonable and a brutal killer. He starts off by presenting himself as kind of knowing his motivations and his strive for good will. Since he mentions positive characteristics‚ Fortunato indicates the care for his death. Fortunato could have done something so awful that it merits the action that Montressor takes. 2. As the story goes on‚ the setting changes profusely. The setting changes

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    the nervousness which had dominion over me” this shows that he was fear full of Madaline death. In the story “The cask of Amontillado” Poe shows the conflict when Montresor traps fortunate in the catacombs “unsheathing my rapper I began to grope with it about the recess I but the thought of an instant reassured me” this shows how Montresor is afraid of killing Fortunato. In the story “The Masque of The Red Death” Poe shows the conflicted by saying “and one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed

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