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    Why Undertale Is Bad

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    You can choose your decision on what to do when something happens. There are three main runs that you could play; Pacifist, Neutral and Genocide. You are playing the pacifist run if you do not fight any monsters and instead you find a non-harming way to end a battle. You also are playing the pacifist run if you visit your friends to check how they are doing, since that progresses the story. The neutral run is when you either fight some people or you don’t

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    A popular idea about Jesus throughout our society today, is that ‘he was an admirable man who made unbelievable sacrifices for the betterment of the world, but his actions would be unrealistic today’. Why would Jesus’ actions be unrealistic today many might ask, and the answer would be people think that the time has changed, and the world is so different now that it would be impossible to make the same decisions Jesus did. But is it any different? Just because situations may be different, that does

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    Britain's Appeasement

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    understanding that Britain was not militarily or economically capable of deterring Germany, the belief that Adolf Hitler would uphold his promise to make no further territorial claims, and the responsibility to please the national public interest of the pacifist movement. Appeasement was necessary action due to Britain's military and economic incompetence to be able to deter Germany from forcibly seizing European territory. The effects of the Great Depression influenced the Allies' military reluctance

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    Woodchucks Poem Analysis

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    In Woodchucks, a poem by Maxine Kumin, a gardener is having problems with woodchucks invading her garden. She attempts to kill the woodchucks with cyanide gas, but the Woodchucks wouldn’t die. The pacifist gardener, resorts to violence and shoots the woodchucks with a rifle. She was hoping for an easy solution but ended up going against her peace loving ways and turned violent. Throughout the poem, Maxine Kumin slowly reveals the underlying meaning of her writing. Kumin emphasizes that there are

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    Rick: That is a great claim for virtue ethics. As a pacifist, how can I ever condone war for any cause if that means violating the virtues of our soldiers? Becky: How is that virtue ethics? Lisa: Virtue ethics comes from the understanding that repeated actions over time create virtue. Constantly putting our soldiers into wars solely to prevent the spread of communism would create a culture that believes killing others in the name of capitalism is an ethically good virtue. Even right actions done

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    all time. Albert Einstein was too genius, and his geniuses actually made it difficult for us to learn his political views. He was pacifist. He believed in peace, like Gandhi Mohandas, but by the end of war he contributed to the killing of more than 150,000 people in Japan by giving an idea of how a bomb could be produced to President Roosevelt. What changed his Pacifist? Did he change his mind on a whim? Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. His parents were Hermann and Pauline

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    Evadne Price wrote the book "Not So Quiet" in 1930 under the pseudonym Helen Zenna Smith. Price was an established author and playwright by the time she wrote "Not So Quiet," best known for her serialized romance novels. She also wrote children's books and articles for women's magazine. But "Not So Quiet" was a very different kind of piece, partly because of its far more serious nature, partly because it was somewhat autobiographical. She was initially approached by a British publisher to write a

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    Woodchucks Maxine Kumin

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    In the poem Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin, the speaker progressively becomes more obsessed with the woodchucks which is seen through Kumin’s word choices and the tone of the poem. In the beginning, she was willing to get rid of the vermin “humanely,” by gassing them underground in their home. However, this attempt failed, resulting in the speaker’s obsession with eliminating the garden intruders. After the woodchucks invaded her garden, it became the last straw. With the devastating sight of the ruined

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    America’s involvement in World War I not only impacted the war front but also the people left on the home front. When America entered World War I in 1917 the government enforced many measures on its citizens, many of which violated constitutional rights. The biggest measure inflicted on the American population was censorship. The formation of the Committee on Public Information (CPI) and the passing of the Espionage Act and Sedition Amendment stole American’s freedom of speech, created an anti-German

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    Would a peaceful pacifist support the American Revolution? Although many would believe it would impossible for a pacifist to support the American Revolution since it involved violence, it is possible because Americans used other methods besides violence to revolt against the British government. After studying “Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau and the American Revolution, I learned that although Thoreau was a pacifist, he would still support the American Revolution. The American Revolution

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