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In the novel Candide, Pangloss’ response to all of the misfortunes in the world was that "This is the best of all possible worlds." Voltaire expressed this belief throughout the novel, and proved that many of the hardship’s and evil’s that Candide experien ....

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.... them were injured. Carolyn McCarthy’s son Kevin, was among the passengers who were wounded and her dead husband Dennis was found slumped over his lap. Kevin was the most severely wounded of the survivors. He was left partially paralyzed as a result of the Long Island Railroad Massacre. The mass killing that went on in that commuter train was a tragedy with such extreme dimensions that, yet despite all the misfortune the outcome had an optimistic effect on the life of Carolyn McCarthy. A few years after the illogical act of violence shattered her family helped lobby congress for a ban on assault weapons. Later that year though the house of repre ....