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Oedipus' Pride and His Downfall

Oedipus's "justifiable" pride is based on his position of power, and at the onset of Oedipus Rex, Sophocles paints the protagonist as a just, if not arrogant ruler. He calls his subjects "children," and calls himself a "world-renowned king," which he undoubtedly was. However, the king later ...

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Inheritance Problems

Inheritance Problems (M3) 1. Phenylketonuria (PKU) is a genetic disease that can lead to poor development of brain. The allele for PKU is recessive to the allele for no PKU. A woman has found she is heterozygous for PKU. Her male partner is homozygous for the normal allele. You need to ...

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King Lear and Creon Are Tragic Heroes

Lear and Creon both fulfil the roles of the tragic hero in their plays. Discuss. Essay exploring how effective King Lear and Creon are portrayed as tragic heroes. In Aristotle's Poetics, - a collection of philosophical dissertations on literary and dramatic theory - Aristotle defines ...

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The Truths of Human Genetic Editing

Human Genetic Editing - the controversial discovery that has got scientists all over the world debating about, yet, it’s only been tested on a small group of monkeys (Mullin). Human genetic editing is the act in which scientists inject bone marrow modified by an unregulated and fairly ...

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Josef Mengele

THE ANGEL OF DEATH: "Right, left", what man could send people to their death with a flick of a cane, without batting an eye? . The stories and pictures of Auschwitz tell a gruesome tale of death and torture. Stories of the abused, used, and killed, the tales of the torturees have been told, but ...

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Berger's "Ways Of Seeing"

How do you perceive things when you look at or read about them? What makes you view them this way? How do you know when you see too much or too little? Or how do you interpret the meaning of something when pieces of the image are added or excluded? Included in the anthology ...

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Animal Testing

The Problem with Testing Drugs on Animals Every year is that nearly 100 million animals die in research laboratories at the hands of curious scientists who perform outdated and inaccurate tests that prove no benefit to humans or animals. Before these animals die, they are routinely burned, ...

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Gatsbys Dream

What is the American Dream? In the Webster's New World Dictionary, dream is defined as: "a fanciful vision of the conscious mind; a fond hope or aspiration; anything lovely, etc." In F. Scott Fitzerald's novel The Great Gatsby, the lead character Jay Gatsby defines the American Dream as: everyone ...

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Vegan

"The greatest of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."(Mahatma Gandhi Quotes) Gandhi said this in his book, The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism, this belief is still valid in today's modern society. At the present time in the United States, the concern ...

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Boxing: Down For The Count

The tenth edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary defines boxing as "the art of attack and defense with the fists practiced as a sport." I could be mistaken, but there is a certain emphasis placed on the idea that boxing is practiced as a sport. It is rather ambiguous. Is boxing a sport ...

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The Themes Of Great Gatsby

A good novel has a number of themes. Throughout this book several appear. The following are important themes of The Great Gatsby. The Great Gatsby is a novel about what happened to the American Dream in the 1920’s, a period when the old values that gave substance to the dream had been corrupted ...

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A Review Of Lord Of The Flies

About the author Sir William Golding (1911-1993), was an English novelist who wrote exciting adventure stories who deal with the conflict between mind and instinct. William Gerald Golding was born in St. Columb Minor, in Cornwall. He was knighted in 1988. His novels are moral fables that reveal ...

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An Introspective Look On Fate Concerning The Tragedies Of An

Is man free to mold his own destiny, or is he a mere thread on the spool of life the Fates, the three female deities of Greek Mythology, cut? Can in fact man, determine his life based on his own free will or will he be subject to the web that is weaved for him? The force, which controls the path ...

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George F. Handel

First Part Halle - Hamburg - Rome 1690-1712 It\'s hard today to speak about Handel\'s life and works without mentioning the similarities between him and Bach; first of all they were born in the same year:1685, even if it\'s not a case than the most geniuses of the late baroque era (Couperin, ...

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Instant Replay Should Be Reinstated In The NFL

Have you ever been watching a professional football game and wanted to pet the official's seeing eye dog or turn his hearing aid up? Because of selective blindness and decrepit hearing, NFL (National Football League) games have been filled with bad calls, upset players/coaches, and heart-broken ...

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Penguins

================================================== : the eyes have it! LIFE SCIENCES -------------------------------------------------- Myopic little men in tuxedos, or highly efficient land/water animals? Recent research indicates there's more to than meets the eye. If you've every ...

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Animal Uses

Animals flourish on this planet because, like humans, they need to survive and reproduce. As humans, we have taken advantage of nature. We have ultimately, at least a majority, decided that humans are more important than animals. Any advances in human technology or growth that has harmed ...

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Oedipus, Antogone, And Media

ANALYTICAL ACCOUNT OF A RUNNING THEME “All those who were meant to die have died: those who believed one thing, those who believed the contrary thing, and even those who believed nothing at all, yet were caught up in the web without knowing why.” This particular quote by Jean Anouilh, ...

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The Beast In The Jungle: The Beast Of James

"In the case of Henry James there should not be much dispute about the exactness and completeness of the representation; no man ever strove more studiously or on the whole more successfully to reproduce the shape and color and movement of his æsthetic experience." These are the remarks of Stuart ...

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Fighting For Our Love Ones

In today’s world, most families have a love one struggling to live with cancer, HIV, glaucoma, or multiple sclerosis. Most of us, here in the United States, have watched a love one endure the pain of chemotherapy, uncontrollable muscle spasms, or blindness. Our love ones not only suffer physical ...

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