Evaluation:
Published: 12.07.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Tolerance Towards Others', 1.
  • Essays 'Tolerance Towards Others', 2.
Extract

Tolerance, as defined in the dictionary, is a fair and permissive attitude toward those who race, religion, nationality, etcetera, differs from one's own. In today's society we misuse the word tolerance. In such examples as, I am very tolerable of so-and-so. So to emphasize the true meaning of tolerance, society should look at the events that took place in history. There has been no tolerance in races, religions, and other characteristics of human nature.
In AD313 the Roman emperor Constantine the Great decreed toleration of Christianity. Twenty years later, Constantine the Great set the p…

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