In our everyday lives we hear about drugs manipulating people to the point of nearly insanity. ... After reading Euripides's Bacchae, although not all in the same form, I noticed more than one occasion where manipulation took place throughout the play. ... Being gods, people felt like they had no say in what was happening or, as in the play, couldn't realize it until it was too late. ... The king of the town, Pentheus, feels as though it is his place to go into these mountains to somehow stop this madness. ... Using this play to compare to really helped me emphasize my point. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Looking at society from our own experiences and pass judgments, there is a point where a line must be drawn and wasting of human life is that line. ... The young kids gathered in the town square. Laughing, playing, and having fun, the kids gathered stones and put them into a pile. ... The children and adults of this small town showed the tradition to be acceptable and honorable to their society. ... The black box holds the key between life and death to every person in the town. ...

• Word Count: 746
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• Grade Level: High School

So many things come into play when it comes to social class such as History perhaps of the town that he lives in or maybe the race of him and the people that surround his family. When you look at examples of Social Class and despair such as a poor town in a city, it's a safe assumption to believe Race may also play a role in the way these people live their lives. It is beyond naive to think Race no longer effects society and the way our world works. ... It is the small glimpses that keep us striving and help us to drag our tired bodies out of the comfort of our beds in the morning. ......

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• Grade Level: High School

From the opening lines of the play we see King Oedipus as the strong leader of his city. ... We know that Oedipus fled his home town to avoid a prophecy that foretold that he would kill his father. ... Even in our worst moments, when we've been caught with our hands in the cookie jar, we will still try to justify our actions in some way and avoid accountability. We will still try to find a way to control the situation to fit our needs. ... But humankind is arrogant and our harshest flaw is our need to control. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

He wants to be the talk of the town not the laughing stock. ... So what did I do when asked if I was okay to go back out and play? ... My coaches saw that I was unfit to play for the rest of the game, so I was forced to sit out and my team was down a player with no substitutions to go in. ... Being our own enemy isn't a bad thing all the time when we end up learning from our mistakes. ... We just need to know when to stop being our own enemies and become our own heroes....

• Word Count: 979
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• Grade Level: High School

While driving or walking down a city or large town street, chances are good that we will see a homeless person standing on the next corner, in need of financial help or a job. ... Empathy plays a major role in these acts because it is looked upon as what evokes altruism. ... It is also important to our well-being because it potentially makes us happy, is good for our health, fights addiction, and is contagious. ... However, as we grow older our decision to help others becomes shaped by the opinion of our peers and surroundings. ... People should always take into consideration the role that the...

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• Grade Level: High School

Images play a major role when analyzing a text from a mythic approach. ... The shadow "is the darker side of our unconscious self which we wish to suppress"(Bressler 1999). ... Everybody in town think that Parson Hopper is a good a person. ... In other words, he does not want to fail to this positive conception that people have about him; therefore he covers up his face and this way people of the town will not be disappointed by Hopper's shadow. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The people of the town they live in start thinking of Atticus as an outcast because he was defending the colored man and what more was on his side. ... This is where assimilation comes into play. ... Each story can help us get a better perspective of our own society. ...

• Word Count: 687
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• Grade Level: High School

Momma took Mayas hand adjusted the towel under Mayas chin (p 391) as if to say, This town is not good enough for us, and we are not playing there games anymore and led her away from the dentist office with her dignity in towed. ... Members of the majority wills not accept minorities unless extreme excellence forces them to do so, hence, we want people to remember our names and not be grouped to a mass of people, considered to be of a lower status and called by names deemed derogatory. ... We should always remember the name we are called by others than our given names are meant to belittle an...

• Word Count: 1380
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School