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First Meditation
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 900.... Both of Descartes other two arguments succeeded in their goal to establish doubt upon the existence of the outside world, which were the sensory illusion and dreaming arguments. However, people such as Descartes who believe in an omnipotent supremely good being, called God, could easily refute these arguments. Therefore, in order for Descartes to start from the very beginning, in terms of knowledge, he needed to find a way to bring doubt upon the very thing that was the basis for all his knowledge, which was God.
In the evil demon argument, Descartes is not denying the .....
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Structural Levels Of The Iliad
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1056.... world if he gave the apple of discord to her. He did so, and decided to go
and get his reward. Unfortunately, the most beautiful women in the world, Helen,
was the wife of the Greek King Menelaus. The abduction of Helen by Paris lead
to the Trojan war. The promise made by Aphrodite to Paris in order to get the
apple of discord resulted in the abduction of Helen and the start of the Trojan
war. Therefore, Aphrodite, in the universal war, set the stage for the social
war of the Greeks and Trojans. Another time the gods influenced the social war
was when the Greeks and .....
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Iliad
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1315.... knows that he is fated to be killed in battle, when his faithful and devoted friend Patroclus is mercilessly and dishonorably cut down in combat, he puts aside his pride and chooses to temporarily forget about his previous feuds with Agamemnon that have, up until now, prevented him from participating in the war. He joins the fighting with a deadly and vengeful mindset that will likely play a major factor in the outcome of the war. Today, this lust for revenge might be considered a glaring character flaw. However, this passion for retribution undoubtedly conforms to the her .....
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Being Unprepared
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 817.... were staying at that said there wasn't one when they had parked it. It was at this point in time that they discovered that it was illegal to take a rental car into Mexico.
When I was in high school, I was in the band. We lost a competition last year because we had won it the year before, and were cocky enough to think that we could just go down and win it again. We didn't even work that hard in practice for this reason. When we got to the competition, we lost it. We didn't only loose it, but we lost it by a large point margin. If we had prepared ourselves better, we may have .....
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Romeo And Juliet
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 607.... hostilities between the two houses. When he says \"Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, and hither shall he come; and he and I shall watch thy waking, and that very night shall Romeo bear thee to Mantua.\" (Act 4, Scene 1), he tells Juliet how everything will be all right. Unfortunately, for all his good intentions the play still ends in tragedy.
Friar Lawrence is a man who is not afraid to take risks when he feels it is neccesary to help someone. For example in Act 2, Scene 6, when he marries , he is risking his reputation as a Friar so he can help the two lover .....
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To Kill A Mockingbird -
Number of pages: 12 | Number of words: 3149.... and uses them for alcohol
Mayella Violet Ewell:
Bob Ewell's daughter, who later accuses Tom Robinson of attacking her
Reverend Sykes:
A Negro minister who takes care of Scout and Jem during the trial.
Chapters 1-7
The beginning of chapter one opens up with Scout telling us that Jem has a broken elbow. She then takes us back to summer of 1933 where we meet a young boy named Dill. Together Jem, Scout and Dill begin their adventures and their obsession with Mr. Aurthor Radley, or Boo as the kids call him.
We find out that there are rumors about the Radley Hous .....
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Romeo And Juliet - Fate Or Free Will
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 548.... prosperous in this resolve. I’ll send a friar with speed to Mantua, with my letters to thy lord. (IV, i, 122-124)
Juliet is to drink a potion to make her appear dead, and later wake to be free of the shame of marrying Paris. Here, Friar Lawrence is assuring Juliet that he will send a letter to Romeo, explaining their plan. Romeo doesn’t receive that letter, and he does not know what is to happen. Free will comes with great consequences. Friar Lawrence and Juliet inflicted their own wounds by not telling Romeo of their plan. If they had taken the time to make sure that Romeo go .....
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The Road Contemplated
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 784.... down every path. In an
attempt to make a decision, the traveler "looks down one as far as I
could". The road that will be chosen leads to the unknown, as does any
choice in life. As much he may strain his eyes to see as far the road
stretches, eventually it surpasses his vision and he can never see where
it is going to lead. It is the way that he chooses here that sets him
off on his journey and decides where he is going.
"Then took the other, just as fair, and having perhaps the
better claim." What made it have the better claim is that "it was grassy
an .....
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