Apology For The Bridge - Original Writing

In this reading Plato tells the story of Socrates and his trial which ultimately lead to his death sentence. Socrates was a 70 year old man at peace with his own mortality yet willing to face his accusers with an almost definite possibility of death to maintain his own integrity and beliefs and morality. He fully understood from the beginning of his trial what the sentence handed down would be yet on a level of honor and courage not seen in abundance in modern society he maintained his stance and delivered a compelling and convincing argument. He openly stated that he knew his actions had offended Meletus and

Steve and his team could hear and see many sirens going to the base. They were about to cross the bridge that led to the street of the base, when all of a sudden, the bridge in front of them collapsed. The whole bridge had collapsed. Steve, as quick as he could, put his foot on the brakes, and the car made a very loud screeching noise. Steve turned the car sideways to try to give the car more space. The car stopped at the edge of the entrance of the bridge. When the car had fully come to a stop, about half of the car was leaning over the edge, and the car was slowly tilting more and more towards the collapsed

The apology to me does not really feel like an apology. While Socrates addresses the audience of his accusers, he does not sound apologetic. To me, he actually sounds as though he has a higher than thou view of himself based on the oration of an oracle. While this oracle says that, he is the wisest man in all of Athens he goes around trying to disprove it, in the process inflating his ego. At this point, he starts to remind me of Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory. – I know I am smarter than you are, and I have no qualms about telling you because your stupid, we both know it and you just proved it -- Although he does claim that it was a Gods will that he do it. As stated before, an oracle said that he was the most intelligent

After they gutted and bled him out, they fashioned a truss from a felled tree branch, then tied the deer’s legs together and slid the pole through the deer’s legs. She took one end and Charles the other. This made it a lot easier, to carry their prize back to camp.

By the end of the day that we mainly spent waiting inside Java Jolt for the police to tell us our building was out of danger, London had set up a meeting with her detective friend to met up at our house at around 6:30 tonight. But, by that time, we were just getting let back into the apartment, and we just didn’t have the time to clean up the broken plates caused by the vibrations of the explosion. Our energy had disappeared as we watched the death toll rise and rise to over 30- one of which was one of the guys on Austin and Reed's football team. The building was nothing more than a brick base and ash spread out for miles around the scene. The first responders are saying how lucky everybody is because it’s a miracle that so many people got out of the building in time. Suddenly, we heard a loud, hollow knock on the door that disrupted my

By the way, my mom found an old gold watch that belonged to her one true love, Eddie; whom died in a car accident before she met my father-- and my dad asked if she wanted to give it to "one of the boys" (meaning Art, Rick, Lance or Liam) and she replied "No, Corinne, why don't you give it to Weston? He needs a nice watch to go with his work uniform." How sweet is that?? I literally teared up because, three years ago on Christmas eve my mom got waaaay to drunk and told this really heart wrenching story about Eddie dying and that being why she is so resentful towards my father; because he could never live up to the love she shared with Eddie. She ended up apologizing to my pops for blaming him for so long over something he had nothing to do

explosion forcing it to collapse the way it did. Some survivors of the tragic event along with

In this paper I will be discussing the four charges brought against Socrates in Plato’s essay The Apology# and why exactly each of these charges is completely fictitious. The four charges brought against Socrates were that he argued the physical over the metaphysical, he argued the weaker claim over the stronger claim, he went against the gods, and he was corrupting the youth (Singer, lecture, 9-15-11). Each of these four charges is false for varying reasons and I will be addressing each explanation on why each charge is a complete sham, after discussing each charge.

The Apology of Socrates by Plato, is the dialogue that tells the story of Socrates legal self-defense, where he represents himself at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC. Throughout the book Socrates tries to maintain his innocence. Apology of Socrates is essentially a defense against the charges of “corrupting the youth, not believing in gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel to Athens” (24b) Socrates challenges each of the charges he is brought up against. Socrates is brought up on three charges, corrupting the youth, challenging belief in the gods that were accepted and reveled by the State, and introducing a new religious

“‘Come on, Johnny, we're running away.’” Johnny already has a lot of stress and grief, and will break like he did in the

During lunchtime, a horse-drawn wagon parked in the busiest corner of the Financial District, 23 Wall Street. The wagon parked in front of J.P. Morgan’s bank headquarters. The wagon was filled with 100 pounds of dynamite and 500 pounds of cast-iron sash weights, which exploded in a time-set detonation. Though the wagon and horse were destroyed, it is suspected that the driver was able to escape.

After all, Johnny was quite a shy and nervous person who had it rough at

Albert brought with him homemade tools of torture. One was a belt that was cut into six strips about 8 inches long; like a whip. He used the belt to whip Billy until blood ran from his legs. Albert then cut off his ears, nose, slit his mouth from ear to ear and gouged his eyes out; all postmortem. He proceeded to stick a knife into his abdomen his and drink his blood as it drained out. He had also brought along some old potato sacks which he used to place Billy’s head, feet, arms, and hands and weighing the sacks with stones he tossed them into several bodies of water. He goes on to describe in the letter that he kept the boys ears, buttocks, and genitals to eat. He then begins; in exact detail, how he cooked each part of the boy he dismembered as if he were a food critic writing a piece in the local newspaper about their favorite

An Apology Mouth seething and lips chapped with drool I am mad at The turd I left in my brain The front doorstep That everyone can see That tells my nightmares how To scare me I am mad that I can’t clean My porch I can’t make myself presentable Because fall came And I can’t rake my lawn empty Clear Free of drenched flimsy leaves Sticking to my attitude

“I forgive you,” said Immaculee Ilibagiza, standing before the person that killed one of her family members (Ilibagiza). What would you do, given the opportunity to forgive someone who ruined your family, would you forgive them? Regardless of his/her previous actions, Immaculee Ilibagiza found it in her heart to have mercy on the killer that ripped apart her family during the Rwandan genocide. And it 's not every person who can do so, especially after the danger and trauma she 'd been through. Few can say the last time anyone came up to the person who had destroyed her family through slaughter. Far fewer can probably say that after 91 days trapped in a tiny bathroom, unable to move, speak or do anything for chance of catching the attention of killers. But Ilibagiza went through all of this and said it anyway. Hopefully, from her story we can learn not only to persevere but something that may be the hardest thing to do: forgive.