Birling's feelings are summed up in the last sentence of his speech before the Inspector arrives, A man has to mind his own business and look after himself and his own'. ... He does this confidently because he is very sure of his facts before he arrives. ... Inspector Goole, whether a real Inspector or not, is Priestley's instrument for teaching the moral lesson in the play. ... This lesson is learnt well by the younger generation but not at all by the older generation, the Birling parents. ... The inspector's speech would provoke much discussion in the audience beca...

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• Grade Level: High School

Along the European painting, my cousin Anna, and I saw some tour guide explaining the European history and their artwork. ... Then, the tour discusses some humorous facts about Socrates and I was so attracted to their attention and we follow them throughout the guide. ... For example, in the painting before he was reaching the poison, his right arm is so relaxed and calm and he was looking away from the poison. ... Also, philosophy can help us decide how our lives can by learning a certain concept or lesson on life. ... Also, Socrates is having a discussion with his friend on whether virtues ...

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There are invaluable lessons learned through experience that simply cannot be replicated in the classroom. ... This is just the beginning of basic knowledge students need to know before going out on their own. ... Within a week of my stay in the area the handy metro pocket guide remained in my pocket. ... Instead of having discussion from the book on what some other person had experienced, and instead of discussing someone else's opinions, we were introduced to a man who was actually a refugee. ... He held a high position with the Somali government before the civil war. ...

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So not only was this a book to read about the life of a genius but also as a guide to help others to become better people and to shape their lives as Vaughn did for Franklin. ... The connection between the three themes is the lessons of virtuosity and from this we can arrive to the conclusion that this is the major reason for the undertaking of his work. ... In 1727, Franklin with a number of his acquaintances organized a discussion group known as the Junto, which later became the American Philosophical Society. ... (The reason for the end of the autobiography is that Franklin died before he w...

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Just War For more than a thousand years Christian ethicists and theologians have used the language of just war theory to determine when it is morally acceptable for a Christian to go to war. The theory has been flexible enough to accommodate political, military, and social change, and still ...

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In 1952, his father died of a heart attack; Murdoch got home to take charge of the family business from the United Kingdom that he studied at the University of Oxford. ... Murdoch learned that Maxwell had already begun negotiating, so he bought The Sun newspaper on $1.5 million before Maxwell takes action. ...

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The men that were persecuted and finally convicted after the death of Czar Alexander II became her "heroes and martyrs, henceforth my guiding stars" (2) A significant aspect of her brief education in St.Petersburg, is the impact nihilism - most notably Cherenyshevsky's novel "What is to be done" - had on Emma Goldman. ... Most was already a well-known orator for the anarchist cause in Europe, editor of "Die Freiheit" and later became Goldman`s mentor. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Diane Stein records Usui's revelation: On the final morning of his quest, in the darkest hour just before dawn, Usui saw a projectile of light coming toward him. ... Before the current capacity of the electron microscope was created, scientists theorized that a cell was rather stable until being interacted upon by forces. ...

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Thus urban areas in Britain, in common with those across Western Europe and North America, have undergone a major process of restructuring (see Buck et al, 2005 for a recent discussion of these ongoing changes and Brenner and Theodore (eds), 2002 for a more international perspective). ... Violence against the person was 37.8 per 1000 population compared with 11.4 nationally; In 1998 only 11 of the 488 schools with more than 35 per cent of pupils on free school meals attained the national average level of GCSE passes; During 1999, 26 per cent more people died from coronary heart disease in the...

• Word Count: 9857
• Approx Pages: 39
• Grade Level: Undergraduate