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    People are defined by who they are and what they do. In Shakespeare’s the Tragedy of Macbeth, the character Macbeth shows some characteristics of a good king. However, the power leads him to become a villain. Power can change a person’s life. Macbeth undergoes a tremendous change that reveals the evil in him. He realizes that in order to gain power he would have to do something he never did before. After talking to his wife, he knows that King Duncan has to be killed. When Macbeth says “Blood will

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    Once upon a time there was a king. He had no sons, but one daughter. One day she became sick, and the king inspected her food for traces of poison by having taste testers eat the food to see if they got sick. When they had come down with sickness the king analyzed the food with one of his scientists new inventions, the Sample Tracer, a machine that can detect traces of foreign material from whatever it scans. It took samples of the uncooked food and the food given to the princess and detected traces

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    “Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.” The Civil Rights Movement arose in the 1950s, when individuals such as MLK and Martin Luther King began to resist segregation and led movements that pressured lawmakers to make changes. Martin Luther King was a nonconformist that changed race relations for the greater good. The actions that have led The Civil Rights Movement was about how African

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    It is clear from the documents that Andrew Jackson acted like a king. One reason that Andrew Jackson acted like a king was because he owned slaves throughout his lifetime. Document 7 states that he owned the most slaves when he was president. He acted like a king because you can not own the common man if you are the common man. This means that if Andrew Jackson was the hero of the common man, he would not be able to own slaves. The slaves WERE the common men. If Andrew Jackson was one of them

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    Tell-Tale Heart and Disney’s The Lion King prove that obsession eats at the heart, consumes the mind, and results in self-destruction. Intro Darkening imagery works hand in hand with increasing obsession in these works. Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart is able to clearly the depict the power of the mind and it’s ability to provoke the darkest of thoughts. In The Tell-Tale Heart, the man is disturbed by the old man’s blurred eye and becomes obsessed with it. The man is a psychological mess and believes the

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    their own country, friends, and family. The unity needed between a king and his colleagues is very important to ones country for not only the present but also far in the future. Typically if the king has a son for a child than he shall be king after the father dies, but there are several characters that believe that they should be king or that their families should be higher up in society. The country of Scotland needs a new king who is well rounded in the traits of love, faith, courage and strength

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    personality change. At the plays beginning Macbeth is a loyal and honorable man who, unfortunately, is immensely ambitious. As the play progresses however, Macbeth begins to lose the honor that he held onto so dearly. Macbeths descent into dishonor is displayed in the two most prominent murders in the first 3 acts: the slaying of Duncan and the assassination of Banquo. When Lady Macbeth is convincing her husband to murder the king, the reader is able to detect his hesitation to commit such a heinous crime

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    Plato’s Democratic Man Plato describes the degeneration to democracy in Book VIII of The Republic as the relationship between man and the city. There are five stages starting with the first being and aristocracy led by a philosopher king who is wise and makes the decision for all and his soul is considered to be that of gold. Aristocracy stage leads to timocracy which would is the new generation of leaders and their souls are not considered to be made of gold as the philosopher king would be in the previous

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    life’s die like King Duncan one of the kindest men in this play, young Siward an innocent young boy who died fighting and Banquo one of Macbeth’s closest friend. The innocents of the people who died in Macbeth were not just King Duncan, young Siward and Banquo, Macbeth had more people killed it was as if once he killed one person the other people were just in his way and needed to be gone. The murder of innocents is shown through King Duncan, young Siward and Banquo. The innocence of King Duncan is terminated

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    Ladies and gentleman of the jury. Sitting before you today is a man accused of the murder of Duncan, the King of Scotland. The prosecution will portray Macbeth as an ambitious man, one who plotted to murder his own cousin, so that he could lay claim to the title of the crown. But the issue in this case is not whether Macbeth murdered the deceased. This fact is not disputed. What you must determine is whether Macbeth was of sound mind when he committed this act. Evidence showed that this was not so

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