but the lives of the people around us. Showing mercy does not just involve compassion towards others‚ but also involves showing forgiveness. Forgiveness is a key part of giving second chances‚ and plays a major part in Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables. In Les Miserables‚ the ex-convict Jean Valjean is released from prison and spends one of his first nights of freedom in the house of a kind bishop. When leaving‚ Jean Valjean steals some of the bishop’s silverware and is later on captured and taken back
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Les Misérables (Reaction Paper) Les Misérables (the musical) in my opinion is one of the best musical renditions in the world. Whether it’d be in the theatre or on the big screen‚ Les Misérables‚ never cease to deliver such a heartfelt act. A few weeks ago‚ I was given the chance to watch the recent Les Misérables musical in the movies (starring Hugh Jackman‚ Anne Hathaway‚ Russell Crowe‚ and Amanda Seyfried) and I enjoyed it. Im a person who loves music. I most definitely love musicals! The
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two musicals have stood out from there comic counterparts. Les Misérables and West Side Story tell more serious stories and have captivated audiences with revivals and film versions. Both are based on classic literature‚ and share universal and relatable social problems. West Side Story created by Lenard Bernstein‚ Steven Sondheim‚ Arthur Laurents‚ and Jerome Robbins tell the story of Romeo and Juliet in 1950s New York. Les Misérables by Composer Claude-Michael Schonberg and lyricist Alain Boublil
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Today‚ humans across the world are face with the ever growing problem of being poor. Just like in the book Les Miserable‚ we see a great many of people who are slaves to their job. To be poor was consider a crime and for that everyone was outrage about this. Soon it got to a point where there was no means of getting by or supporting a family. I’ve seen and know people who are facing this trouble today. It’s so significant because most are faced with some type of poverty in life. Poverty has
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Officers dispatched to Pizza Roma for a report of a fight. The caller stated that two males were fighting inside the bar and that it was moving out to Green St. Officers arrived on scene and were advised by Roma staff that one of the participants had fled on foot. The actor was described as a black male wearing a black shirt‚ black pants and a black hat. The male was said to have fled in to the parking lot toward Walnut St. It was also advised that the other actor involved described as a white male
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Can a former child soldier retain or regain a sense of identity through his or her experiences? The experiences we have in life help to shape us into the people we become in the future and bring us close to understanding who we are as a person. However there are times when experiences can change us and make us seem like complete strangers to ourselves. These types of experiences can be from changes to our surroundings‚ lifestyle or other variables that are different to our normal life. This can
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American lawyer and political leader‚ Robert Green Ingersoll‚ once said that “kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.” In book one‚ “Fantine‚” in the novel Les Miserables‚ author Victor Hugo uses the helpless and beast-like character of Jean Valjean to demonstrate that when an individual‚ at his lowest point of being‚ is exposed to kindness‚ he may rise up and become virtuous‚ so that he may help others achieve this virtue in return. A helpless individual in the midst of a radically unequal
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Who to blame? Fantine is like a little girl who is buying a car‚ where the car company charges high interest‚ and she ends up paying an enormous sum. In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables‚ both society and Fantine are to blame for her decline‚ though society is much more at at fault than she. Firstly‚ Fantine is partially to blame since she is inexperienced and naive. Likewise‚ society is at fault because the population dehumanizes people living in poverty. Moreover‚ society is responsible because
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morning teacher and class‚ today I will be talking to you about social injustice in Australia and how it is being treated by the government and the Catholic Church. In particular racism in Australia. We define social justice as the distribution of advantages within a society. Generally justice means the right thing. In social justice it just means socially everything is right and with no disadvantages. But today I’m talking about social injustice‚ so that is generally the wrong things that are happening
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One of the most treacherous phenomenon world issues is social injustice. There is no solid moral philosophy regarding the definition of social justice. In my opinion‚ social justice is illustrated as an encouraging‚ just society by overcoming injustice and valuing diversity. Therefore‚ social justice exists when equality of access to civil liberties‚ human rights‚ opportunities for healthy and fulfilling lives‚ and allocates a fair share of benefits to the least advantaged members of society; are
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