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☆☆☆☆☆One assumption seems to be that Congress has a right to decide if some activities are harmful or less desirable than others. The taxing of these activities is based on the assumption that people will limit their activities if taxes are involved (that people will be deterred by having to buy licenses and pay fees).
Inferno (Hell)
the setting is important because the organization of Hell into nine circles reflects Dante's belief in an orderly universe.
a happy life can turn into a sorrowful one in a moment's notice,
In this classic work it tells the story of a man who journeys through Hell and Purgatory so that he can enter Heaven.
Dante travels through the afterlife and witnesses how people are punished and rewarded.
Parables have human characters while fables have animal characters.
The use of slant rhyme
Four survivors of world war ll sit around a table and share their war stories with a naïve reporter.
King Richard the Lionheart
The poetry is performed rather than read.
a small-town governor who speaks out against corrupt politicians faces exile and must build a new life without his family.
Because people become prideful and believe that she will always reward them.
She abandons people when they least expect it
Both were Kings
I sometimes wonder who is worthy here.
an abrupt snap
And when men trust in her she then will fail/ and cover her bright face as with a cloud.
“And, if they lived befmore the christian era,/ They did not worship God in the right way:/ And i myself [Virgil] am one of those poor souls.” (Canto IV, lines 34-39)
The story stresses the affects of a good and bad behavior.
