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In Benjamin Franklin’s work, “The Autobiography”, he writes about his 13 virtues and explains how they play into his everyday use. He invented a chart that helped him keep up with which virtues he successfully worked through on each day of the week Those virtues are Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation,…

Jiddu Krishnamurti once said that “Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.” In the story, The Lottery, the minds of the townspeople have decayed and been programmed to their skewed traditions. The author, Shirley Jackson shows us this through various symbols to display an overall theme of tradition…

Authors use gruesome or macabre details to develop and emphasize theme. Theme, the controlling idea or insight to the story, can be clarified when authors use such extreme forms of violence. In the short stories The Destructors, by Graham Greene, The Lottery, by Shirley Jackson, and The Most Dangerous Game, by Richard Conell, some form…

In the play of Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare there are various types of characters having different behaviours and specialties. One of the most significant characters in the play is Antony. By changing the path of the events he proved his strength, cleverness, and his other unknown abilities. If I was living in The…

To be at home is to be at peace within oneself. Khaled Hosseini, author of the bestselling novel The Kite Runner, focuses greatly on the connection characters feel to a certain location as a home. But every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Hosseini also explains the consequences of over and under attachment to…

Introduction In the intricate realm of commerce, where profit margins and competition often take center stage, the concept of ethics weaves a complex narrative that extends far beyond balance sheets. This essay embarks on an exploration of the multifaceted dimensions of ethics in business, delving into the interplay of principles, values, and corporate responsibility that…

Statistics show that a vast majority of teens are getting pregnant here in the United States. The U.S. has the highest rates of teen pregnancy and births in the Western Industrialized world. Not too long ago one of my closest friend found herself as one of those who make up this population of pregnant teens….

Tim OBriens, The Things they Carried is a riveting tale of struggle and sacrifice, self indulgence and self pity, and the intrapersonal battles that reeked havoc on even the most battle tested soldiers. OBrien is able to express these ideas through eloquent writing and descriptive language that makes the reader feel as if he were…

The Things They Carried by Tim O Brien, a medley of short stories tied together by a common theme, examines the many facets of necessity and poses a question of just how valuable the things we hold to be necessities really are. During the confusion of war, the definition of necessity becomes rather slippery in…

During the French Revolution, there was a big emphasis on sovereignty. Many people and groups view this ideology different the others and not everyone aggress on the same definition of sovereignty the same way. There were those, like Abbe Emmanuel – Joseph Sibyes, who define sovereignty as a nation that doesn’t need leader or higher…