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    Finally, near the end of the book, Paul kills an enemy soldier with a knife, showing the final event, summing up how apathy is so common in the soldiers lives. The first event that shows how the physiological effect of apathy is developed throughout the book is when one of the main characters, Kemmerich, dies. Paul and his friends, while watching one of their best friends die, give up on him and decide to move on right

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    its own modern monsters contained in minds of people or in systems in society, as opposed to some type of physical entity. Examples for modern monsters of today can be pressure and apathy, but caring too much has more effect and negative results rather than apathy’s effect of caring too little. Rather than apathy, pressure is one of the most abundant monsters, found in countless of areas and caused by a variety of things. Attacks of such a monster can begin from a countless number of elements

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    Chocolate is the story of a woman fighting tradition in quest for love and freedom. The novel has diverse relations of apathy and love between the characters. The author Esquivel illustrates these relations by the use of the colors red and white. Throughout the novel Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel uses the colors red and white to symbolize love and apathy in the relationships between the characters. Laura Esquivel uses the color red to symbolize love and passion in

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    love, she cared for him, and similarly in her hate, she cared for him. Her hate had the chance to become love again due to its essential similarity of attraction to love. However, when apathy dominated Mrs. Morel, she neither cared now could love her husband anymore. As the essential opposite of love and hate, apathy allowed for piece-of-mind in an attempt for a wife to escape the reality of her husband—to make him a ghost. Since, humanity is based so much so on interaction, Ms. Morel stripped her

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    anger, and revenge are some of the causes of evil. Although these traits do cause the idea of evil in an individual, the inspiration for iniquitous intents is — in fact — sprouted through the unideal human traits of apathy and ego. One of the human traits that cause evil is apathy; for it makes people not consider the other individuals’ feelings and security. Every

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    Reason bled slowly into the Romantic period intervening a system structure that viewed man concerning the Universe. Romantic writers focus on the self-concerning nature: loss, death, fear, joy, sadness, and hope. The causes and quality of the theme apathy provide a thematic concept connection in both Voltaire’s Candide and Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil. The most fearlessly outspoken writer in all of history conveys satirical tragedy through the eyes of a nieve young man named Candide, and his optimistic

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    specific to that race and that these physiognomies and abilities cause them to be superior or inferior to other races. The US government propagates racism with labels such as African-American, Caucasian, Hispanic, Latino, and Asian-American. The apathy that we have toward minorities and immigrants

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    mood in her novel, The Hunger Games, through the citizens of the divided dystopia of Panem. This essay will analyze the origins and influence of apathy on a people and an individual, in both a political and personal sense. Collins’ main argument, that citizens’ facing governmental oppression can either become compliant with apathy, or, instead, utilize apathy in creating a false appearance to increase their chances of survival in a sadistic society, is conveyed with contextual motivation for the protagonist’s

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    Using Depression to Access Risk of Developing Dementia One of the first rules of science is correlation is not causation. This simply means that finding the cause to an effect can be very difficult. Dementia is a group of symptoms not one disease that causes loss and impairment in memory, thinking, and social abilities that severely impacts quality of life1. The most common cause of progressive dementia is Alzheimer’s disease. Because dementia covers so many symptoms, it is difficult to study in

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    from alienation, and the apathy that follows war. Vonnegut’s experiences and struggles of the war in Dresden provoke him the write about his awful experiences. Billy Pilgrim is a master of disguise. He serves as a superb mask at Vonnegut hides behind in order to get his message across to the reader without scaring them away with boring lectures. Vonnegut also uses Billy, the protagonist of the story, to show what he experienced in his past. The ideas of loneliness and apathy from war are also displayed

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