Though in practice Machiavelli deviates away from this idea, it is not to say that he has rejected justice outright. ... Yet this desire to seek out wealth opens the door for a loss of freedom with the gratitude the republic owes its beneficiaries. ... If freedom is a republic's greatest possession, then ingratitude is the republic's most superior defense against those who will make attempts to steal it away. ...

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As other kids were learning how to drive and taking the streets on their own, she was not able to, she had no driver's license and that's when she was seen as the ˜weirdo', both Subject A and B had different responsibilities than just the normal chores. ... She grew frustrated, because she was brought up into a family that saw education as the only thing the government or your peers can't take away from you, so she was always the top of her class, graduating with a 3.97 GPA. ... Not only do they face hardships once they have been settled down but also while they are ...

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When a country is at war, the general population's main sources for breaking news are the government and the media, which are sometimes one in the same. In conflicts since the Vietnam War, the amount of first-hand reporting has diminished. As a consequence, the government became the source for much of the war-related information. However this has changed during Operation Iraqi Freedom with the "embedding- of journalists and also with the increased number of independent reporters. Some questions we must ask then are: "How do reporters go about reporting the details of the war respons...

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By his immense sacrifice, by his great renunciation, and by the immaculate purity of his life he left an indelible impress upon Hinduism, and Hinduism owes an eternal debt of gratitude to that great teacher (Attenborough 102). ... Hinduism teaches to stay away from temptation through various exercises that test one's ability to perform a difficult task; this devitalizes a person and causes him to act on a non-violent level. ... But, he believed that one should denounce the rewards and simply devote one's life to acting on the behalf of others and that life should be lived near the ...

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The pacifist author Kurt Vonnegut wrote Slaughterhouse-Five in the late 1960's as the Vietnam War was ending. He used his own military experience from World War II to write this particular book. The main character is Billy Pilgrim who is actually Kurt Vonnegut himself. Vonnegut, like Billy Pilgrim,...

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When the Asian immigrants first arrived "the streets between the railway station and the factory were lined with an excited crowd, but the police were out in force, and no violence was attempted the self restraint of the working people in the presence of this irritating spectacle, was a cause for gratitude" (Daniels 42). ...

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1. What factors discouraged an early unification of Italy and how were these overcome? Before the year of 1848, the Italian faced a lot of difficulties to urge the unification movement. Until, 1848, the situation had been changed and directly contributed to the unification movement. After 1815 Italy was once again a mere geographical expression. ...

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