Specifically the book is simple to read but had underlying quandary, to create this basic but powerful sense. ... Parables are also usually well known, and when many people know these parables, a sense of community is created. ... This is also because the book will spread much valuable knowledge, making it common through the educational system. This kind of common knowledge takes us back to how the book creates a sense of community. ... It is a tale many can relate to and discuss openly with others creating a sense of community. ...

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Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller believes that a common man can think, aspire, suffer: and that a common man can give his life for "his sense of human dignity." ... That night, Willy took his own life for his sense of human dignity. ... A common man can indeed be a tragic hero, just like the highest kings....

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One of the most common traits that are brought out in this story is fear or cowardice. ... While for some soldiers, facing death will bring fear and paranoia; for others a constant threat of death will bring about a sense of doom. ("Once he thought he had concluded that it would be better to get killed directly and end his troubles") This quality is a sense of inevitability that pervades a person's mind and guarantees them that they will meet their maker soon. ... Facing death in war can trigger cowardice in a soldier, or it could give a soldier a sense of doom and imminent death. ...

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This illustration is a common theme among adolescent males in society today. ... He is gaining a sense of respect for the girls while developing a desire to be noticed by them. ... Through these stages of growth, the reader can sense Sam's and realizations and changes through his many actions, most of which are conflicted with themselves. ... Sam goes from treating women as inferior to treating them with respect and a sense of personal need. ...

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However, despite the common starting points of their theories, their approaches to the question of property are quite differentiated. ... According to him, all men are born free and equal regardless of what generation they have been born into and, private property does not arise from consent to divide up original common property. ... Property in a narrower sense for Locke means the right to exclusive use of an object that no one else has previously claimed by mixing one's labor with an object in its natural state. ... It is argued therefore, that men enter to the society in order to eff...

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Diarrhea and dysentery were extremely common. ... The battalion sat in the same positions it had been in April, and the sights of the landscape around them became so common that it seemed like they had been there forever. ...

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Although the story was written in 1904 and that particular personnality disorder was only diagnosed in 1977, Cather's character embodies many of the symptoms listed by the doctors, such as: "highly developped sense of self importance, preoccupation with fantasies of success, belief that he is special, feeling he has the envy of peers, and arrogant behavior." (Benis, 303) But the main display of Paul's illness is his over-developped sense of self-importance; the way he feels that he is worth much more than the environment of Cordelia Street. A good example of that is when he comes ba...

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Plato was part of a triad of great thinkers who had in common a student - teacher relationship built on questioning and discussion rather than memorization and recollection of facts. ... He wanted an individual to explore what the list of words had in common, aside from pertaining to justice. ... Callicles went on to say that "good" men are filled with virtue and goodness, in a sense pleasure- whereas "bad" men are filled with cowardice and pain. ... In a sense it has been the public and political discussion of how to deal with terrorist activity that has solidified American patriotism, n...

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Marx views the value of commodities in this sense as analytically prior to money; money can be explained according to Marx only on the basis of an understanding of the value of commodities. ... In a society where exchange is common, products come to have a dual character as use values and as values. ... Value in this sense bears the same relation to commodities as mass bears to physical objects. ... The function of money as expressing labor time is common to all commodity- producing societies, but different arrangements perform this function in each society. ... Marx's General Equ...

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Two of the most common side affects of the war were shell shock and stir crazy. ... (P 139) This quote shows that the soldiers sense that death is a very real possibility and so they want to do everything that they can with their time. ... This book points out that war cannot be defined; it cannot even be discussed with any accuracy and in the end it has no sense. ...

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As early as the 1870s, disruptions to the carefully calculated balance of power in Europe began to shift, with much of Europe embarking on a global scheme of Imperialism, fueled at least in part by a growing sense of Nationalism within the many countries of Europe. ... "Trenches, hospitals [or] the common grave,"" he argues, are the only remedies for this condition (Page 283). ... He loses all sense of security, and is left to fend for himself in a world of violence and death, which he has grown to know and cope with too well. ...

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Antony turns his back to Rome and neglects his duties for Cleopatra at first however, when he accepts marrying Octavia, we can see that he recalls his responsibilities in a sense. ... By the way, Antony meets Caesar's troops and scores an unexpected victory, which is an excellent example of unexpected reversal, a common element of a tragedy. However, since he has presented the common features of a tragic hero since the very beginning of the play, it is obvious that his triumph is only a climax in his story of bad fortune. ...

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Through a combination of events, in particular the loss of his father at the height of a still unsatisfactorily resolved oedipus complex, anxiety became overwhelming. A regression took place, predominantly to an earlier, anal level of the organization of drives and drive-monitoring forces and struct...

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Realism, Liberalism, and Marxism are the three main theoretical positions that have shaped and dominated our understanding of the international world. Out of the three theories, Marxism has had the least influential role. Nevertheless, it should not be disregarded because it has a continuing validit...

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It is common that good friends have similar ambitions, but George and Lennie do not. ... In a sense, he thinks that his life would be much easier if he did not have Lennie with him, but in reality he would not be as happy as he is, because he has a big mouth that could cause him problems. ...

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This "grant of God" gave Adam (and hence men) the right to exercise "dominion," merely in the sense of economic power, over the earth and all irrational creatures. ... In Tocqueville, however, we perceive that a democracy is a term with a common core of meaning lying underneath all the varied interpretations which are often made. At the root of all definitions lies the notion of popular power, of a situation in which power, and maybe even authority, rests with the common people. ... We know that the will of the people' is synonymous with majority, but even within majoritie...

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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."1 Therefore, it makes sense that if mortals cannot bear the darkness, they [should not] not go there. ... It is of common belief that Mistress Hibbins, the town witch, often dances in the forest with the Devil.49 One day, she calls to Hester, saying "there will be merry company in the forest; and I well-nigh promised the Black Man that comely Hester Prynne" would be there.50 To this Hester answers no, but this situation presents the stereotypical witch that many Puri...

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His plays deal with issues common to every society. ... They can relate to the sense f identity, honor, recognition, and familial love (Griffin Preface). ... Audiences all have a sense of their life story of their father, uncle, or brother (Griffin 35). ... Miller mpared McCarthy to the Salem judges in a broad sense (Cliffnotes 52). ... The sense of an evolving general situation, so well achieved by tight structure in The Crucible... is larg y gone (Heilman 151). ...

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George is a fairly sized man who is not incredibly brilliant but has good common sense. ... They share their hard times and the good, their victories and their defeats, but most importantly they share a common dream. ...

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It must have given them an incredible sense of power when the whole town of Salem listened to their words and believed each and every accusation. ... This can be a common phenomenon in politics. ... During her short but relentless reign she managed to send 19 innocent people to their deaths, before running away with her uncle's life savings and becoming a common prostitute in Boston. ...

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Hughes, like others active in the Harlem Renaissance, had a strong sense of racial pride. ... During this time, Hughes struggled with a sense of desolation fostered by parental neglect, and he recalled being driven early by his loneliness "to books, and the wonderful world in books."" ... Unlike other notable black poets of the period, such as Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, And Countee Cullen, Hughes refused to differentiate between his personal experience and the common experience of black America. ...

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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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"...of the many individuals of any species which are periodically born, but a small number can survive. I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful is preserved, by the term Natural Selection . . . " Charles Darwin, M.A., 1859 Not long ago, my brother and...

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However the forth and fifth stanzas are harsh and dispel the common belief of glory and honour which is associated with death on the battlefield and replace it with the reality of mass killing and bloodshed. ... The techniques that Owen uses in 'Spring Offensive' allow him to bring a sense of depth and purpose to his poem. ...

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John Steinbeck's novel, Of Mice and Men, is a tragic and endearing story of the unconditional friendship between two virtually opposite men. The two main characters, Lennie Small and George Milton, are just a couple of hard working ranch hands trying to "make their stake" and achieve their drea...

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