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    writer of the television show used the personalities of the different characters to make them opposite. If looked into carefully the characters in the show have opposite personalities. Berger compares the identities of Diane and Carla, two of the cast members of the show. After conducting a semiotic analysis of the identities of both of the women, Berger found that the two women have almost total opposite personalities and interests. This example was presented very well by Berger, and was fully analyzed

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    Thrasymachus thinks that justice is not vice but high-minded innocence, while injustice is good counsel and is good as well as prudent and profitable. He puts injustice in the camp of virtue and wisdom, and justice among their opposites. However, through the refutation, Socrates concludes his understanding of virtue: justice is being virtue and wisdom, and injustice both vice and lack of learning; justice is more profitable than injustice. The first definition of justice that Thrasymachus points

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    Nwoye is Okonkwo’s eldest son who Okonkwo considers unforgivably emasculate and very much like his father, Unoka. As a child, Nwoye usually receives the brunt of his father’s criticism and remains feeling unwanted. Eventually, Ikemefuna comes to fill that void and Nwoye, in his adoration of his adoptive brother, begins to takes after him. Also In a take strange way, Ikemefuna fills the role of both father and brother for Nwoye, providing him with a peer to share his thoughts and a person to look

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    One of the most arguable topics today is teenage internet usage. Many people think that teens today spend too much time on the internet and should be out in the experiencing life in the real world. On the opposite end of the spectrum, Christy Matte, writer of “10 Great Things Teens Learn While “Playing” Online” says the time that teens spend on the internet is useful and will subsequently enhance their computer skills. She explains the skills you learn on the internet and those skills are necessary

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    too busy enjoying the beat of the song. Both songs Nasty Girl by Notorious B.I.G and How To Be a Heartbreaker by Marina and the Diamonds focus on objectifying the opposite sex; however, there are differences because of the gender. Although, these songs share similarities they also have differences such as how they objectify the opposite sex. In Notorious B.I.G’s song he is objectifying women as sexual objects as shown in his lyrics “I go, on and on on and| Don’t take them to the crib unless they bon’in”

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    The laws are: (1) Every object moves in a straight line unless acted upon by a force. (2) The acceleration of an object is directly proportional to the object’s mass. (3) For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. The first law means that there is a natural tendency of objects to continue what they were already doing. All objects resist changes in their state of motion, if the absence of an unbalanced force occurs, an object in motion will stay in

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    Having close friends of the opposite gender can be extremely damaging to a marriage. Most people do not go out of their way to have an affair, it is more likely that two people will meet and connect either through work, church, or a social event. Just because a relationship outside of a marriage isn’t the stereotypical affair that you usually see in movies, doesn’t mean it cannot be considered cheating. Often, there are people who cheat on their spouse every day without having any sort of physical

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    Leo was going to look at the dwarfs stuff. He uses figurative language to describe how Leo felt when he climbed the tower. This supports the theme by showing vs. telling about what the characters are thinking by revealing their actions. The two opposite settings makes it seem believable because one of the setting is described as a “ pit of eternal darkness” (Riordan) which is Tartarus (where Percy and Annabeth are) and the other setting is described as a modern and normal setting where mostly everything

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    When we are growing up, we are taught that members of the opposite gender have “cooties” and that we’ll catch those cooties if we get to close to them. Sometimes, as we grow older, those cooties the other gender possesses remain prevalent; they may just take on different forms. In the poems “The Whipping” by Robert Hayden and “Men” by Maya Angelou, the two different speakers could agree that at least some members of the opposite gender are bad people. The speakers use the definite theme of the

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    Romeo and Juliet and Enders Game are two immensely different stories with obvious differences due to the time they were written, and intentional differences in the kind of story they are. One is a science fiction war story, the other is a renaissance romantic tragedy. It may not be clear, but both stories actually do have some surprising similarities. Both male protagonists share an unwanted enemy, Ender is very young in battle school, making quick progress in his campaign through the program

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