The 18th Amendment 1. What is your first reaction to the 18th amendment? My first reaction to the 18th amendment was why do they have this in the first place? Why do they think alcohol is the reason for everything? 2. Do you think this amendment could be passed today? Why or why not? No‚ because they see what happened before. This time it wouldn’t be better at all. 3. Why do you think some Americans in 1918 might have wanted this amendment? Because they thought alcohol was the cause
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except the Harvard Degrees knew‚ “‘the damn silly thing [they] just did”’ (156) They were able to remember all of the bad things that had happened in the past and wanted to keep on remembering them for the future. The Harvard degrees knew that eventually they will stop “‘build[ing] a pyre and burn[ing themselves] up”’ (156). He explained that as long as they realized that they were doing this‚ eventually they would stop doing the same‚ “‘damn silly things [they’ve] done for the past thousand years”’
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It started with an grade eight student Nikki Maxwell. Like most of the students‚ she isn’t that rich. She studies in Westchester Country Day Middle School. Thatnks to her dad because without him she will not entered that school. Her dad does the school’s bug extermination and got the scholarship for her. With her bff’s company‚ Chloe and Zoey‚ she feels comfortable in school plus her ultimate crush‚ Brandon‚ was also there. Nikki’s only problem is that MacKenzie Hollister who wanta to make her life
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lightly and is excited about his new adventures. Nora doesn’t seem to mind her doll-like existence‚ in which she is coddled‚ pampered and patronized. But as the play progresses you begin to see her true colors. She demonstrates that she’s not just a “silly girl‚” as Torvalds call her that she understands the details of business. When she takes out a loan to preserve Torvalds health. Indicates that she is intelligent and possesses abilities beyond wifehood. Nora’s character becomes questionable when she
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Leaders within a society who influence public opinion and command the respect of their peers are subject to the desire to preserve the public’s opinion of their good character within the community. John Proctor is a strong-willed‚ level-headed local farmer who valued his public reputation over his better judgment to challenge the accusations driven by hysteria and put an end to the trials. In the scene at Parris’s house‚ Proctor misses an opportunity to stop the consideration of witchcraft as the
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smoothly and connected. All of the actors in fact‚ did a great job with their body movements‚ and they stayed completely still when the fourth wall broke. Overall‚ all of the actors were engaging to watch‚ with all of their facial expressions and silly
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Dinosaurs. He draw Calvin standing in front of two statues with a silly look in his face to one of them. Also‚ he included a text in which Calvin is speaking sarcastically about the art of sculpture (Watterson 51). In that strip‚ Calvin was wondering if what he see is supposed to be a great art. Moreover‚ he called this kind of art " A bunch of decapitated naked people " when he draw a followed strip of Calvin with another silly face. By doing that‚ Watterson is trying to show us what he think the
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Dear Dr. Crater‚ It is time for that semi-annual rite of academia known as the term paper to flash across the consciousness of the undergraduate population of the region known as the more or less greater Auraria campus in the city of Denver‚ Colorado. The rite of passage this year will mark the last time I will be presenting my digital scribbling for the perusal and ultimate thumbs up‚ or the slightly less than thumbs up letter grade. Therefore‚ in that spirit it is my most grand privilege to
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remember this‚ huh?" says Kitts‚ holding out her left arm. She turns her hand palm up. There is a soft whirring sound. If you weren’t paying close attention‚ you’d miss it. She bends her elbow‚ accompanied by more whirring. "Make it do something silly!" one girl
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responsibility and self-control) An unspoken contempt of culture in general has grown silly rituals Even most of the relativists have forgotten the purpose of culture and blindly dispense hollow respect for it. Sociology and anthropology texts imply it’s just arbitrary stuff people come up with for the hell of it when they live near one another. With such an implication‚ it certainly seems a little silly in today’s world. Culture emerges in only one circumstance and serves only one purpose.
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