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    Moral Lessons in Antigone

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    The play Antigone was written by Sophocles around four hundred forty B.C.E‚ in the height of the golden age of Greece. Theater was then‚ as it is now‚ a medium through which to implicate the outlooks of its writer and to examine moral issues‚ whilst providing entertainment. The subjects discussed through theater were often deeply rooted in the dialogue of the characters in the plays and struck the chords of the audience such that enlightenment could take place‚ and in that day and age this purpose

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    I. Definitions A. Controls all products B. Is a part of the Economic System C. System of society of living things D. Political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership II. Pro and Cons A. Social programs 1. Food stamps 2. Public housing 3. Public health-care 4. Public education B. Allows for a stable economy C. All capitalistic system is all about individual and singular life 1. people don’t necessarily like to share 2. think

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    In The Odyssey there are important morals and lessons to be learned‚ just like in Gilgamesh; but The Odyssey does it in a different way. In Gilgamesh it was based in present time as in the morals where explained as it happen to Gilgamesh; but in The Odyssey most of the morals were explained in little stories of Odysseus’s journey back home. Being that said you were able to see how those different stories of different lessons shape the poem itself. The moral of power of cunning over strength was shown

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    through their similarities and differences. In the Canterbury tales the autthor makes sure that you know that there are alot more differences than there are similarities. For example the Wife of Bath and the Pardoner‚ they are very different stories but the author seems to tie in their similarities and differences. In the Wife of Bath and in the Pardoner there are many similariries and differences between the two tales. In the tales one of the similarities is that they both have experienced the

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    I have chosen the Pardoner to expand on. In the prologue this character is described as having shoulder length‚ thin‚ yellow hair. He had bulging eyes and no facial hair. This might have been part of the reason that Chaucer judged him to be effeminate‚ describing him as “a gelding or a mare.” The pardoner is a member of the church‚ with the job of selling absolutions to the members of the church. This character could be a representation of one of the great controversies of the time regarding the

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    The pardoner is a priest whom most people think of as being honest and respectful‚ however‚ in reality he is a hypocrite whom takes advantage of the less fortunate and plays with their emotions. The pardoner lived off the money of the church people whom believed in him and his beliefs. He took advantage of their vulnerability and used their weakness to obtain more goods for his own personal gain. The pardoner is thought of without sin but in reality is the most sinful person of them all. This tale

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    She looked up at the same ceiling above her bed before falling asleep for 18 years. Caroline Sheridan grew up in Nashville‚ Tennessee and never moved before coming to Dallas for college. “I didn’t really think I wanted to go any further west than Nashville for college‚” Sheridan said. Her life was in Nashville. She went a small coed private catholic school from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. And later a non-denominational school for high school. Growing up in Nashville with her family

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    Calvin Cambridge and his two best friends‚ Murph and Reg Stevens‚ are teenage orphans. At night they have to sell chocolate for the orphanage director‚ Stan Bittleman‚ after each home game of the Los Angeles Knights. Calvin meets the team’s coach‚ who is impressed by Calvin’s knowledge of basketball and honesty about the chocolates‚ and offers Calvin tickets for the next game. Calvin obtains a pair of old sneakers from a thrift store reportedly used by a great basketball player when he was a boy

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    Chaucers Pardoner

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    Third eye wider than ya motherfuckin’ ego‚ amigo Hero‚ incognito tuxedo‚ boosten hoes overall libido Feeling euphoric like the beat a placebo Hot as jalapeno‚ Sick I need some chemo quick as torpedo‚ Cash the chips‚ Casino‚ Amino Acid‚ on acid‚ im tripping‚ an all these atoms im splitting im fittin Nuke‚ nauseous‚ fittin to puke‚ shoot‚ took a shot of absloute‚ whoo Fuck these bitches‚ man‚ fuck these hoes‚ Third eye soul‚ mind growth i suppose. I dont know‚ nobody does‚ no body loves

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    The best moral lesson that atticus taught his kids was that‚ you can’t judge someone if you have not walk in there shoes. The reason why this is the best is because in the book they blamed Tom Robinson for the rape of mrs. Ewill when he didn’t do a thing and they didn’t believe him because he was a black man and they would always believe a white man’s word over a black man’s word any day. Atticus knew this but he thought he could change people’s minds but there was little chance of winning and

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