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    Ktonos, by virtue of winning the grand melee, was now the rising star in the class. Defiant of tradition, he would no longer carry a seconod blade into a fight. Both hands on the hilt of his bastard sword, he was rapidly showing that he was a force to be reckoned with in a fight. More than a few of his class mates were forced out of training for days at a time from injuries that he delivered. Even enchanted to not deliver a lethal wound, Ktonos had found was to subvert this, using his pommel to great

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    fight other dogs. According to Orhan Yilmaz, dog fighting has been going on for centuries as a past time. When a dog enters a fight, there is almost always one dog getting injured, sometimes it is so bad that the owner of the dog carries it away in a bag to disguise it, just so the police do not see the injured creature. Having dog fights in an area repeatedly will end up attracting more crime even which causes only more trouble. A dog trained for fighting ends up becoming somewhat savage and likely to

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    Why should people take action? In the play “Antigone” by Sophocles Antigone takes action by burying her brother which no one was supposed to do. She did it because she felt it was only right. People should take action whenever they feel ,there are various reasons such as their feelings emotionally , fairness, the good well being of others, or just whenever they deem morally correct. There are many reasons why people should take action, for example, for fairness. Why fairness, well because fairness

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    Dog Fighting Sherry LaFace COM 220: Research Writing January 23, 2010 Erin Fagan Dog fighting is a very cruel thing, and it is happening right under our noses. It is illegal to fight a dog in all fifty states. By being an observer at a dog fight, it is against the law in forty-seven states. So why do people continue this cruel practice? The answer seems to be money. Some people who breed dogs for fighting can sell their puppies for up to two thousand dollars. Even though fighting dogs

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    Strunk and Dave Jensen, who are battling not only in a war but with each other.  They were viciously fighting about a missing jackknife.  A question that the reader might ask themselves is, why

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    Have you ever been judged by people who don’t really know who you are? Maybe it was because of the way you looked, or your social class. This is a problem that occurs all too often, and it happens everywhere. S.E Hinton, author of “The Outsiders,” noticed this happening in her own neighbourhood, so she made this a huge part of the theme of her book. She wanted people to stop judging others before they really knew who they were, and their life circumstances. In this book there are two main social

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    Change is apart of everyday life, it is inevitable no matter what we do, but it is our choice as people on if we want these changes to be negative or positive. A few years back, I made a promise to myself that as I progress through life, I will always try my best to change for the better and fix myself in areas where I fall behind, but not everyone makes the choice to be better. Some make a choice that affects who they are in a negative way as well as hurting those closest to them, someone I used

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    This essay will explain Mill’s view regarding freedom of expression and apply it to a modern concern regarding hate speech. In On Liberty, Mill argues in favor of nearly unrestricted freedom of expression in accordance with the harm principle because limiting the opinions of others hinders the “marketplace of ideas” or clashing of views to allow for the truth to rise to the top through refinement or exchanging false beliefs for truths. Mill explicitly states that silencing speech is an evil that

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    Dog fighting Imagine, you are in a cage, your side aches, your ears are torn and bleeding. Cruel faces study you through the the bars. A gruff, high voice asks another “since he lost, will we kill im?” “Maybe, but the boss is the one who will decide, Jerry” a scratchy voice answers in return. A large face with a bulbous nose peers at you. You whimper, trying to signal the pain you are in. The man just laughs, and says “Sorry, you little scamp, if the boss doesn't kill ye, ye going

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    normalcy, a standard or regular pattern, or as the military calls it, a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP’s). Tactically speaking, the use of SOP’s in the development of military organizations is what permits these organizations to develop an effective fighting force. The more knowledgeable and proficient an organization is of executing their SOP’s, the more tactically proficient they become. Through constant and persistent training in a benign environment, each person of the organization learns and understands

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