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Using Socrates (either as portrayed by Plato or Aristophanes–or both) and Ordinary Men respond to the following quotation. Make sure that your response takes the form of articulating and developing a thesis. “As I considered the nature of evil, the question that imposed itself was: Could the activity of thinking as such, the habit of examining whatever happens to come to pass to attract attention, regardless of results and specific content, could this activity be among the conditions that make men abstain from evil-doing or even ‘condition’ them against it? (The very word ‘con-science,’ at any rate, points in this direction insofar as it means ‘to know with and by myself’ a kind of knowledge that is actualized in thinking.) And is not this hypothesis enforced by everything we know about conscience, namely, that a ‘good conscience’ is enjoyed as a rule only by really bad people, criminals and such, while only ‘good people’ are capable of a bad conscience.”

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Your assignment will be to write a paper in which you discuss one side of an issue surrounding a drug that is used recreationally. you may use your personal observations, […]

When analyzing the causes of the American Revolution, historians have taken several approaches. The one that has some attraction, and the one I would like you to use, examines the causes chronologically and in three parts. First, what were the fundamental or long term factors that contributed to the colonists wanting to be free of England? By that I want you to discuss the factors, events, and ideas from about 1500 to 1760 that can be reasonably considered as setting the stage for the colonists declaring their independence. Second, what were the factors in the 10 to 12 years immediately before the war that heightened the tensions between Great Britain and the colonies. Finally, what were the triggers, or final straws in the two to three years immediately before the Declaration of Independence that caused the simmering pot of rebellion to explode into large scale rebellion?