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    Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller were good friends for quite a long time. Miller and Kazan could have made some of the best films and plays in the world but they let things come between them. They worked on films and plays together. They had a professional and personal relationship, however The Red Scare destroyed that. The threat of communism also broke them apart. Arthur Miller was a playwright who wrote plays such as “The Crucible” and “Death of a Salesman”. Miller was a kind man and wanted to keep

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    King Arthur was either a real person or if he was a legendary myth. Many articles, books, and papers have been written about King Arthur. For centuries, no hard evidence has been found to prove the existence of Arthur and the Knights at the Round Table. His existence can not be proven, because back then they did not keep records of who was born and when they died. They did not have the technology that we have today. “No one is certain that King Arthur is dead.”(Malory). Even if King Arthur existed

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    Character Of King Arthur

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    King Arthur was a legendary hero who is known for his brave acts of kindness and his courageous actions in battle. He was a man of honor. Unfortunately, his character makes some drastic changes throughout his tales. These changes can lead the reader to have different opinions of Arthur’s character. For example, he never wanted to accept that his Queen was having an affair with his most celebrated knight, Lancelot. However, he does end up in battle with Lancelot but only after the death of Sir Gawain’s

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    dancing in the woods, they did not think it was a big deal, but when some of the girls started to get ill, just like the glass breaking, they knew they would get in trouble. This led to a witch hunt to avoid the persecution of playing in the woods. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, the character’s accusation of others, rather than accepting fault, exemplifies the human tendency to avoid persecution at all cost. When people condemn others, the accuser affect themselves the most. Marc and Dianna MacYoung

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    Willy’s fixation with the American Dream and through which he measures his personal success prevent him from achieving a sense of fulfilment, leading him to become mentally unstable and suicidal. In Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, the American dream can mostly be shown as the desire to become successful by most characters, although they each have personal, different definitions of success. For Willy Loman, success is achieved when an individual is very well-liked and superficially attractive

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    Argument On Lying

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    “I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.” These were the famous words Friedrich Nietzsche spoke and almost everyone in this world can probably relate to it.Lying seems so universal, but no one can really agree if it’s warranted or not.After reviewing a few opinionated and factual articles on lying, the opinionated conclusion is lying is almost always never justified unless it is to protect someone from getting hurt. In “A Philosopher On Lying”, by Mary

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    Alfred Lord Tennyson’s, The Coming of Arthur is a long poem that explains a fragment of King Arthurs journey to becoming the king of Cameliard. In this writing the author takes scenes that may require a long description and sums them up in under ten lines, while scenes that need less detailed descriptions are explained in over twenty lines. An example of this would be the stanzas where Arthur and Guinevere get married. These stanzas could easily be summed into ten or less lines but Tennyson decides

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    Enron Scandal Essay

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    strengthening internal accounting and control systems. In these issues, it begin with Enron's board. The conflict of interest between the two roles played by Arthur Andersen, as an auditor, he also as a consultant to Enron Corporation. While investigations continue, Enron Corporation has sought to salvage its business by spinning off various assets. As that, Arthur Andersen actually has admitted some

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    The Crucible is a play with an abundance of themes. Each of the characters have a theme that contributes to the overall theme of the story as well. The Crucible shows unjust decisions controlled by manipulated courts and envious girls. The court officials put 200 people through the misery of being accused of practicing acts associated with the devil, and they executed 20. The theme that comes to mind after these actions are brought up is inequity. Abigail accused many people in the town of Salem

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    Destiny of the Republic was a story of the life and death of James A. Garfield. It was told in the viewpoints of many different characters throughout the story but mainly in the viewpoint of James Garfield, Charles Guiteau, and Alexander Graham Bell. Garfield was the 20th president of the United States. His presidency was cut short when he was assassinated by Guiteau, and later Bell attempted to Garfield make a recovery to continue his presidency. James Garfield was born into poverty on November

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