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    To what extent should fairness be sacrificed for the development of society? In a free market economy, almost all choices and decisions are based on the individual, rather in which a command economy, the government has absolute control with a few exceptions. Many economies strive to achieve the goals of efficiency, growth and innovation, and employment simply because these are some of the main factors in which a economy grows, whether it be free market or command. When making decisions to benefit

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    After researching my question carefully and thoroughly, I learned a few things about the effects of war on American soldiers who sacrifice everything for their country. I learned that not only do soldiers get trauma during war, but also a disease called Hysteria. This disease has symptoms that make it more challenging for soldiers in times of war, which include depression, anxiety, mental retardation, and alcoholism. This disease also creates physical injuries in the head and nervous system. It is

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    reason or reasons did the Aztecs make sacrifices? The Aztecs sacrificed humans and animals. The way the Aztecs sacrificed humans were done in harsh ways. For example, on humans, they would stab and cut out the heart. The heart was still beating after it was cut out. After that they get all the hearts they cut out and they put it in. The reason they made sacrifices in the first place is for religious beliefs. Thousands of people were sacrificed per year. The Aztecs lived from the fourteenth to the sixteenth

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    Most people in this time sacrificed their whole life. In the Crucible, many characters sacrificed their lives in order to gain something more important to them. John Proctor is a good example of this because he sacrificed his last name for his boys. He would rather be hung than have his last name to be a bad name to have. He did not want his sons to hate their last name. Elizabeth Proctor was his wife and had to sacrifice her own life and her baby's life because she was pregnant, all because of

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    happy but there called happiness town, not anyone help the child that has been sacrificed, they can say “The back of the happiness there are always some sacrifice.” At least one person even if it is not happy but it is say happiness town.

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    In the Aztec civilization, they used to sacrifice. They sacrificed at their great temples. When they sacrificed animals, they took it to the top of the temple and laid it on a stone slab. Then they would slice into its chest and pull out its heart. They would place the heart in a bowl that was held by a statue of the god that they sacrificed towards. For the most part, they just sacrificed things such as items of importance and animals. The topic of sacrifice itself is very

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    “So Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him”. This quote, of course, is from the bible from Hebrews 9:28. The quote is talking about when Jesus Christ was sacrificed. Hebrews 9:28 is saying that because he was killed, when he comes back to life his sins would be washed away. The well-known Bible was written during the 6th century, but a modern example of speaking of sacrifice

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    Sacrifices were done in many civilizations. The Aztecs, a Mesoamerican civilization in present day Mexico, were one of those civilizations. They were polytheistic, meaning that they worshiped many gods. Sometimes to please the gods, people would be sacrificed to that god. The main reason was to repay the gods for creating the Earth and the Sun. According to “The Mystery of the Aztec Sacrifice,” the different ways to kill them were excising their hearts, cuffing their throats, beheading them, drowning

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    moment on he dedicated his life solely to her, to protecting her from the sorrows of poverty. From that moment he could no longer be Jean Valjean, or Monsieur Madeleine, he had to start his life over once again and Cosette was all he had in it. He sacrificed in order to gain self-approval and the ability to forgive himself. Jean Valjean went through the ultimate self-sacrifice, giving up everything he had in life, which was Cosette; he decided to give her to her lover Marius. He had watched and knew

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    A lot of activists sacrifice their life in order to achieve their cause. Three activists that sacrificed their life to fight for their causes are Malala Yousafzai, Martin Luther King Jr, and Iqbal Masih. Some activists know that the might get killed for fighting for their cause but the keep fighting for it until they achieve their cause. Your Body Paragraph 1: One activist that sacrificed her life for her cause is Malala Yousafzai. A group of terrorists called the “Taliban” took over

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