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    will too. Just as parents shape their children, authority figures shape their societies. Authority figures have great impact on the common people, for if they act in dishonest or fraudulent manners, the society considers it acceptable to do the same. Such reflections between authority figures and society are seen throughout Gabriel Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Albert Camus’s The Stranger. With societies constantly looking to authority figures for guidance, Marquez and Camus satirically

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    women, such as Tante Atie, are causing them to conform to the masculine ideal. The roles assigned to the women revolve around caring for men’s needs, leaving them with little time and opportunities for their own wants and needs. In wishing she had two fingers to herself, Tante is showing that she feels like she doesn’t have control over her own life and can’t do as she pleases in Haiti’s civilization. In this male dominated society, women have little power, causing Tante Atie, Sophie, and other women

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    Society is an aspect of this world that will forever be evolving and adapting to how people act. Throughout time, there have been good things and bad things that have occurred. In the blink of an eye, tragedy can strike or luck can come. I believe that society has currently been heading towards the negative end of the spectrum. Government, war, and law enforcement are all parts of society that have had their ups and downs. All of them can be compared and contrasted to accurately display the direction

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    Through the beginning of time since clothing has started being worn to cover our body parts, standards and trends have developed itself over time by an invisible hand. Thus this created many perceptions society starts to perceive in different ways regarding how a clothing item is worn. Whether someone had the final say in what people wore what meant anything, we are not sure of when and why. But how does a piece of fabric help present what an individual is just by the aesthetics and how does what

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    A Short History of Progress

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    The term, progress, is synonymous with phrases that denote moving forward, growth, and advancement. It seems unorthodox then that Ronald Wright asserts the world has fallen into a progress trap, a paradox to how progress is typically portrayed as it contradicts the conventional way life is viewed: as being a natural progression from the outdated and tried towards the new and improved. Wright posits that it is the world’s relentless creation of innovative methods that ironically contributes to the

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    4  Thermal Processes 4. The drawing shows the expansion of three ideal gases. Rank the gases according to the work they do, largest to smallest.  (a) A, B, C  (b) A and B

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    Introduction and process description The PFD for the cumene production Unit 800, is given in Figure 1. The reactants are nourished from their particular capacity tanks. After being pumped up to the required weight, the reactants are vaporized, and heated to required temperature in the let go radiator. The shell-and-tube reactor converts the reactants to main and side product as per the following responses. The produced heat is removed by exchanging heat with cooling water in the shell side. The

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    Religious Diversity

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    Since their establishments, many universities in the United States of America, as well as elsewhere in the world, have grown the diversity of their student populations in more than several aspects including religious diversity. Albeit presented obstacles, this growth represents values of tolerance and freedom that Americans have generally come to hold in high regard. If one considers narrower communities, a collegiate institution such as the University of Southern California (USC) boasts its diversity

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    Justice in Classical Antiquity: A Synthesis of Individual Liberty with the Common Good Justice is a concept institutionalized by society, where individuals entrust their basic rights to be upheld by the state. Together, members share social responsibility, actively pursuing a sense of communal virtue. The fruition of their cooperation brings about conditions where it is easiest for individuals to freely improve the wealth of the public. Using the texts The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato, Antigone

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    It was once said that “the only living societies are those which are animated by inequality and injustice.” A man named Paul Claudel wrote this in his work, Conversations dans le Loir-et-Cher, and he criticizes the ability to have a functional society. Societies are meant to organize the values of people into a system with uniform laws and expectations; however, societies can never fully achieve this. Claudel only sees societies with dysfunctional characteristics like inequality and injustice. There

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