Which of the following best states a theme from the story the gift of the magi

Choose a topic and write a descriptive 5 paragraphs about that topic. then explain why u chose that topic?

Lynna [10]

Here is My essay comparing Sparta and Athens

I wrote about this because They are super cool city-states to research about, and it's fun to learn about how they lived.

Sparta and Athens were both Greek city-states, yet they were very different. Athenians valued art, beauty, reasons, and logic, while Spartans lived a life of simplicity. Sparta was isolated on a plane between the mountains. They did not welcome visitors, and didn’t trade. They were focused on war. Athenians, on the other hand were very open. Since the soil near Athens was not great for farming, they had to trade to fill their needs. Trading opened Athens up to a lot of new ideas from around the world.

Sparta was a society dedicated to war. At the age of 7, Spartan boys went to live in military barracks to be trained as soldiers. While the women, stayed home and took care of everything. Women had a lot of freedom in Sparta. They could own property’s and they can choose who they want to marry.

In Athens women had very little rights and freedom. They could not own property, banned from reading, and they had no choice in marriage. Athenian boys learned how to read, write, play music, they learned math, and fitness. Athenian girls stayed home and were taught how to run a household from their mothers.

Sparta and Athens were both military strong but in different ways. Sparta’s military was composed of powerful, well-trained men. The Athenian army was almost as large as the Spartan, but the Athenian navy was way more advanced and they dominated the Mediterranean Sea.

In both Athens and Sparta, you had to be a male citizen to participate in government. A Democracy developed in Athens, and Oligarchy in Sparta. Oligarchy consisted of 2 kings and 28 men. They were called council of elders, and had to be at least 60 years old.

Both city-states had huge slave populations, with each home to about 100,000 slaves. Slaves were at the bottom of the social order in both states, while military men were at the top.

As we can conclude, even though Athens and Sparta were both Greek city-states, they were completely different. Sparta was focused on war and living a simple life, while Athens valued people, and were very open.

Citing’s

· https://www.reference.com

· https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euZh8KLB5eE

· https://www.connexus.com (social studies)

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Which of the following best describes the theme of this excerpt in Liberalism and Socialism

Artist 52 [7]

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Socialists, who are they? and liberalism, what is it? I shall choose here to signify as socialist those thinkers and spokesmen who cannot be faulted as tender toward authoritarian regimes: I shall exclude Communists, Maoists, Castroites, as well as their hybrids, cousins, and reticent wooers. I shall assume that with regard to liberalism there has been some coherence of outlook among the various shades of socialist (and Marxist) opinion. But in talking about liberalism I shall be readier to acknowledge the complexities and confusions of historical actuality. And this for two reasons: first, that liberalism is our main interest today; and second, that since a surplus of variables can paralyze analysis (eight kinds of socialism matched against six of liberalism yield how many combinations/ confrontations?), I would justify taking one’s sights from a more-or-less fixed position as a way of grasping a range of shifting phenomena.

In the socialist literature, though not there alone, liberalism has taken on at least the following roles and meanings:

Especially in Europe, liberalism has signifed those movements and currents of opinion that arose toward the end of the 18th century, seeking to loosen the constraints traditional societies had imposed on the commercial classes and proposing modes of government in which the political and economic behavior of individuals would be subjected to a minimum of regulation. Social life came to be seen as a field in which an equilibrium of desired goods could be realized if individuals were left free to pursue their interests.1 This, roughly, is what liberalism has signified in Marxist literature, starting with Marx’s articles for the Rheinische Zeitung and extending through the polemics of Kautsky, Bernstein, and Luxemburg. In short: “classical” liberalism.

Both in Europe and America, liberalism has also been seen as a system of beliefs stressing such political freedoms as those specified in the U.S. Bill of Rights. Rising from the lowlands of interest to the highlands of value, this view of liberalism proposes a commitment to “formal” freedoms—speech, assembly, press, etc.—so that in principle, as sometimes in practice, liberalism need have no necessary connection with, or dependence upon, any particular way of organizing the economy.

Especially in 20th-century America but also in Europe, liberalism has come to signify movements of social reform seeking to “humanize” industrial-capitalist society, usually on the premise that this could be done sufficiently or satisfactorily without having to resort to radical/ socialist measures—in current shorthand: the welfare state. At its best, this social liberalism has also viewed itself as strictly committed to the political liberalism of #2 above.

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The main character is trying to solve the ______________________. this is lit term work

romanna [79]

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What was the goal of the campaign Mayor White started in 2008?

tigry1 [53]

Bill White (Texas Politician) started the campaign to stop drunk driving

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Write 5 sentences describing a bad day you had.

matrenka [14]

Answer: It was the first high school football game and I was so excited; I had been looking forward to this day since the first day of school. I was now part of a team and I was loving every minute. Just as they call my name I take off running full of anticipation for the first play of the game. Before I made it to the sidelines, I felt my knee pop and down I went. Needless to say, my spirits were crushed and I never got to experience that first game play.

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