People must realize that these people need to die for their horrible crimes! ... If you were sitting, or laying, there in the execution room just waiting for your time to die, you"d be praying and wishing that you"d never been in favor for such an inhumane thing as the death penalty (Kramer 1). ... I believe that murder is murder! ... Be that as it may, your still going to die. ... The fact is that they are going to die no matter what. ...

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She states that the volcano "lay and watched her forests being cut and her elk being hunted and her lakes being fished and fouled and her ecology being tampered with and the smoky, snarling suburbs creeping closer to her skirts, until she saw it was time to teach the White Man's Children a lesson ( Le Guin, 2000, p175). ... She stated while in the hospital that "I kept the radio tuned to a good country western station and lestened to the reports as they came in, and wrote down some of the things they said" (Le Guin, 2000, p176). ... It lives in us and with us, it also lives and dies as ...

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This is vital to human survival, as nature lays the foundations for society by providing the resources needed to cure diseases, build cities, and support human life. ... Thoreau details his experience; "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of...

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And now I was raining apples at him and laughing myself weak.". ... "It is I." I say. ... "I tip a boulder and let it fall thundering toward him I lay the tree sideways, wait for the goat to be in better range, then shove Death shakes his body the way high wind shakes trees. ... I snatch up a stone.". ...

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Position A: For many years the legalization of marijuana has been up for debate and I would like to lay this argument to rest through my paper. First I would like to state the first argument for the legalization. ... I am not saying that by smoking pot the country will begin to think itself and wake up. I am simply stating a fact that has been observed by many philosophers of Psychology, Sociology, and especially Phrenology have seen. ... For that is the American dream- "Get rich or die tryin."" ...

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The fancy sports car lay totaled as John, now with a large gash on his head, races to side of the car responsible. ... I think that if anything, this supports the idea of survival of the fittest. ... Well I"m sure everyone knows what happened. ... Now who has a better system, the mamma dog that leaves the tiger cub to die because it knows it will eventually grow up and kill off there food supply. ... I"m not sure, but I think I will trust my instincts, and not my compassion. ...

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The fancy sports car lay totaled as John, now with a large gash on his head, races to side of the car responsible. ... I think that if anything, this supports the idea of survival of the fittest. ... Well I"m sure everyone knows what happened. ... Now who has a better system, the mamma dog that leaves the tiger cub to die because it knows it will eventually grow up and kill off there food supply. ... I"m not sure, but I think I will trust my instincts, and not my compassion. ...

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Instead, when an insect takes even the smallest bite of these potatoes, it will "supposedly keel over and die- (Pollan 506), saving the plant from being harmed in any way. ... They could be in the French fries that millions of people consume each day "at McDonald's or in a bag of Frito Lay chips- (Pollan 521). ... And yet as I watched then multiply I couldn't help thinking of them as existentially different from the rest of my plants- (Pollan 508). ...

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The boy pleaded to his father to not take all he had but the father refused, "I don't think he should have anything" (McCarthy 149). ... Before the wife dies, she kept insisting of migrating to avoid the terrible cannibalistic people that hunt for weak. ... On the mattress a man lay with his legs gone to the hip and the stumps of them blackened and burnt. ...

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For a while now I've been going through a long thought process wondering not "What is man? " but "What am I?- and where I belong in the garden maze known as life. My philosophy on all the topics that we've had in this course and those that I've experienced in my life are rather optimistic, hypocriti...

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As with any human being I don't think you can label Stalin as just one thing against another. ... An estimated 12 million people died as a result of Stalin's labour camps, starvation, hard physical labour or punishment for not working hard enough. ... "After working for nine hours without a break and without a sip of water or something to eat, I fell to the ground in exhaustion. ... I offered him my leather shoes for my life and he agreed. ...

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