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    about himself and ruin his reputations. He also doesn’t want people to think he is a bad person by confessing a lie just to save his life. John Proctor knew that if he confessed he would make himself look guilty and his friends who didn’t do anything would look guilty. “I speak my own sins, I cannot judge another I have no tongue for it”(Act IV,#148). “They think to go like saints, I like not to spoil their name”(Act IV,#148).“Then who will judge me? God

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    careful than men. An act of prejudice that I went through was the stereotype people give me for being from Wyoming and the three ways it changed me are; I no longer judge based on things I’ve never experienced, I learned that being prejudice towards

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    the wrong way and both the antagonist and the protagonist die. In Poe’s stories the theme of Think before you act is shown through Plot,Character, and Conflict. “Quaff ,oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!” The conflict here is that the narrator is sad and is letting grief enter his heart and it is taking over. “On the morrow he will leave me as my hopes have flown before! Then the bird said, Nevermore.” The raven flew into his chamber through the window and would

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    'An Inspector Calls' Essay In Act One of 'An Inspector Calls' how does J.B. Priestley use dramatic devices to convey his concerns and ideas to the members of the audience, as well as interest and involve them in his play? 'An Inspector Calls' is a morality play - a form of play developed in the late middle ages in which a Christian moral lesson was brought out through the struggle between the forces of good and evil - set in 1912, and revolves around the questioning of a family by Inspector

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    “If you seek revenge, dig two graves.” This ancient Chinese proverb explains the mood in Hamlet, a play, written by Shakespeare. The theme of revenge is seen throughout the play as each character extracts one form or another of revenge from a person who has wronged them. In the play the characters Hamlet, Laertes, and Fortinbras all desire revenge for a lost father; however, their motivations for murder differ. Hamlet is unlike the other two characters in the way that he uses reason and logic before

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    peace within himself. This shows how the theme of guilt can affect a person’s life and their actions. In Act 1 and Act 2, the reader gets to know the guilt John Proctor carries with him everyday. Even after several months, he still lives with his guilt about his affair with Abigail Williams. “Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time. But I will cut off my hand before I’ll ever reach for you again. Wipe it out of your mind. We never touched, Abby” shows that John Proctor feels guilty about what

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    quite as important as before. This girl, who I had never really talked to, had stopped her race to help me, even though she could have ran a better time and placed better if she had just kept running.

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    1. What is the Clery Act and Title IX? How are they related to campus sexual assault? Clery Act is the act to disclose the information about campus crimes, and Title IX is the law that prohibits discrimination to students in education institutions. They are related to campus sexual assault because campuses are often discriminating the rape victims by silencing them, and they also do not cooperate to find the assaulter. 2. Before watching the film, were you aware of the prevalence of sexual violence

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    pay and leave she snatch the receipt from my hand and I said before I could even think the word bitch came out of my mouth and she was so offended. Which was the funny part because she’s the one who snatched the receipt from my hand?

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    Ancient cultures continue to shape our world, these stories from Ancient greek and Egypt prove that whatever you are with great thinking comes great power. “Hatshepsut his majesty Herself” teaches us a woman can do anything a man can do with great thinking. “She gradually took on more and more of royal decisions” (pg 9 catherine .M. andronik Mostly men do the decision making and the men didn't think a woman couldn't do it. “Her masterpiece was the magnificent temple” The men built the regular

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