In this speech, Socrates gives the jury the picture of himself that is normally portrayed others who are ignorant of his thinking, saying that he is known as a "wise man" who "ponders everything about the earth and investigates everything beneath it, and turns the weaker argument into the stronger" (18b-c, page 28, Defence of Socrates, Oxford World Classics, Plato). ... Socrates also says that he would then be fairly judged, unlike on earth, by the three judges of the dead, and that he would free from death and dying again. ... He is introduced as "walking upon air and attacking the mystery...

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Give me the daggers; the sleeping, and the dead are but as pictures; "tis the eye of childhood that dears a painted devil. ... Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him! ... This shame that lurks inside of her is so strong that it is coming out subconsciously in sleep walking episodes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Sajda's father was a very independent man, but what he could not bare was his wife Saida (Sajda's mother), they were constantly arguing everyday about silly things, but with mutual decision Sajda's parents both decided to call it a day when Sajda was seven. ... On her way home, she saw Sajda walking with a tall Asian guy, this was the moment when her heartbeat was faster then normal, Saida just stood there shocked and with a thought in her mind thinking " Sajda will not do anything stupid will she?" ... Sajda phoned for an ambulance and then phoned her mothers friend Aish...

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• Grade Level: High School