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    integrity. In recent times, cheating has become more prominent than ever before. The concepts of honesty, fairness, and morality are not enforced, therefore, deception, fraud, and dishonesty prevail in the shadows. In Cheating Culture, written by David Callahan, the author addresses the issue of lying, deceit, and trickery in today's world, while also recognizing a change in the near future is within the people's grasp. Perspective is defined as a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something

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    “Life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement”, that was what writer, historian, James Truslow Adams defined the American Dream as in 1931. And it means that everyone has the same opportunity to become success in life and that if they strive for it, and if they put everything they got into something, they would have a better life. However, looks at the society today, can’t anyone dare to say that the motto is still relevant

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    Cheating is a common activity in today’s society. Whether it’s on a test at school, taking part in tax fraud, or even just playing a board game with your family, cheating can occur. Some people have never thought of cheating as that big of deal. They see it as a way to get ahead without doing that much work, but others view cheating as going against their moral values and don’t want to compromise them. Nowadays, cheating on a test or letting someone copy down your answers on a homework assignment

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    Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead by David Callahan the author criticizes the economic world. In the beginning parts of Callahan’s work, he specifically pin-point when cheating started to become an uncommon factor is succeeding. He reflects on as far back as Greek and Romans who were fined for cheating. In every decade there was a new factor to cheat in as the author highlights many cheating ordeals exposed through-out Americas history. Further along in his book Callahan brings up the cheating culture

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    arms once again and I will banish these demons to their rightful place within the Earth.” I hadn’t been speaking to God long when Father Callahan came up from the food pantry having finished his inventory. “Father Callahan, thank God you’re still here!” I told him. “Evil is among us and we have to prepare for a battle.” Of course, Father Callahan had no idea as to what it was I was talking about, nor should he. So, I then proceeded to explain while bringing him into the church’s foyer where

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    1971. Harry Callahan, the cop, attempts to track down a rooftop killer who calls himself Scorpio. If he does not find him fast enough, a kidnapped girl will die. Callahan goes from phone booth to phone booth on foot to make sure the kidnapped girl does not get killed. Once Callahan finds Scorpio, he abuses the murderer’s civil rights which ends with him being back on the streets. The killer gets on a school bus full of kids and hijacks it as soon as he is released causing Callahan to go after

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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    I held open the door for the boy and he mumbled something inaudible as he shuffled past me. “It’s just sitting on that first pew over there,” I told the boy as I slowly began to pull the athame from having had it tucked away in my waistband. “Ah, man!” the boy exclaimed. “What the hell is that… did something die in here?” “Yes,” I replied as I raised the athame up behind him before quickly dragging it across his throat. “You,” I then told him. Fangs sprang from the boy’s jaw as pure black

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    and the list goes on and on. One of those characters sticks out as the most successful and iconic franchises of Clint Eastwood’s long, esteemed career is his badge-yielding, pugnacious, temperamental monocrat of a cop persona, “Dirty” Harry Callahan. Callahan is an inspector for the San Francisco Police Department. He keeps his methods within the guidelines of the law, but pushes his limits as far as he can, seemingly prepared to ignore any restrictions that might get in his way, waiting to lunge

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    immediate loss of life can grant the destruction of a person’s right to a fair legal treatment. Scorpio freely confessed to kidnapping and mutilating the girl. That should have been enough to convict him of those crimes. Klockars mentions that Harry Callahan stated he thought the girl was already dead, but he had no physical proof. Without the body there is no murder. Or is there? When Harry discovered Scorpios domicile was on the grounds of the football stadium he should have gotten a warrant and then

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    In the first scene of Eastwood’s Sudden Impact, the audience is presented with a scene in which a car is surrounded by thick, dark fog, making the background difficult to make out. If not for the diegetic sound of the crashing waves a few hundred feet below the edge of the near by precipice, the audience would have a lack of sense of location. Already, the scene has an ominous feel to it thanks to the darkness of the scene and the remoteness of the location where nobody is there to witness what is

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