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AUTHORITY

For every individual, authority has its own meaning, and every person has his/her own reason to obey and/or disobey the law. In life, we have all kind of forms of authority; its starts from parents, to teachers, to religion, to community, to police, and the media. Authority is the one that is invested with power, especially a government or body of government officials. A person has to obey all of the above examples, and if not he/she will face some kind of punishment. For example, if a mother tells a child not to play with fire and they still take matches and try to light it, a mother will punish her child in order for him/her not to do it again. In today's society it is very hard to talk about authority; you don't really know what's right and wrong about social obedience and social deviance.
The short story that we have read in class, "On the Rainy River," by Tim O'Brien, is about a young man who is 20 years of age and is drafted to war. It was the 1968 American war in Vietnam. ...

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