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  • Congo Free State

    Congo Free State

    The Belgians of the Congo Free State in Africa obtained a vast amount of riches; however, much of it was taken out and brought back to Europe. Belgian ruler King Leopold made himself the dictator of the Congo and spent the riches to form what was nearly his own private colony, the Congo Free State. As we look at how Belgium profited from the colonization of Congo, I am going to refer to the books

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: David
  • Women in Hamlet

    Women in Hamlet

    Hamlet is one Shakespeare’s most famous plays. This essay will look at Hamlet’s perception of women in general but particularly Gertrude and Ophelia. It will also look at the historical presentation of women, comparing Hamlet’s time to today and seeing if the symbolic role that the female characters have is related to the period. I will also look at Hamlet’s madness, whether it was it was real or not and also whether women could be

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    Essay Length: 557 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Edward
  • The North American Free Trade Agreement

    The North American Free Trade Agreement

    The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) The North American Free Trade Agreement is a free trade agreement among Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico, based on the model of the European Communities (today: European Union). NAFTA was signed separately by the leaders of the three countries, president Bill Clinton, president Carlos Salinas de Gortari and prime minister Brian Mulroney on December 17, 1992 and went into effect on January 1, 1994. The

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jack
  • Women in Combat

    Women in Combat

    John Forbes English Comp 4/5/06 Women in combat In 1994, the Pentagon passed a law that restricts women from being in a direct combat zone. Right now there are many women in one of the biggest war zones ever, Iraq. Some females have been injured and killed while present in this combat zone. The military is violating not only the defense department regulations, but also the requirement to notify Congress when such a change goes

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Steve
  • England Breaks from Catholic Church Outline

    England Breaks from Catholic Church Outline

    England Breaks From the Catholic Church • Why did England break away from the Catholic Church? I. England and the Catholic Church A. Thesis- King Henry severed ties from the Catholic Church because he wanted to basically continue ruling in primogeniture. B. The Pope’s refusal, interference, and power further sparked Henry VIII to separate. C. Just to get a male heir, and marry another woman, King Henry VIII felt it would be politically good to

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Divorce: Christian Tradition and Culture Versus Scripture

    Divorce: Christian Tradition and Culture Versus Scripture

    Religion 314 Christian Ethics Divorce: Christian Tradition and Culture versus Scripture Should Christianity permit divorce? This is a question that has been debated for years, but no one answer has been found. One way to address this question is to turn to the most recognized and respected sources of knowledge on the topic of Christian tradition, The Bible. It seems most efficient to start from the beginning of Christianity’s holy text, The Bible; since the

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    Essay Length: 3,236 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • We Free

    We Free

    LIFE IS BETIFUL My friends, my Doctor Don’t be surprise from my speech today Today I want to show that the world is forgetting how life is beautiful Today I want to remind all of you about the worst things which affect this beautiful life Imagine your self standing front of the sea early morning with some birds are singing for this new day Imagine that you don’t have problems at all and everybody is

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: July
  • Critically Discuss the Contribution of a Theoretial Tradition to the Understaning F Crime

    Critically Discuss the Contribution of a Theoretial Tradition to the Understaning F Crime

    Critically discuss the contribution of one of the following theoretical traditions to our understanding of crime: 1. Radical Criminology, 2. Interactionism&Labelling theory, 3. Sub-Cultural Theory. What is crime? According to Pease (1994) ‘Crime comprises those actions which are deemed so damaging to the interests of the community, that the state determines that it must take a direct role in identifying and acting against the criminal. ’ This definition of crime is rather simplistic and defines

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Monika
  • Women and the Military

    Women and the Military

    Women and the Military Statistics show that the U.S. armed forces currently employ over 229,000 women in its various branches (Donnelly 8). This figure had been increasing exponentially for over 30 years. It’s no surprise to men that women are becoming an important factor in the U.S. military and now occupy every position expect those on the front lines. With the infiltration of women in the services in 1972, great controversy has arisen and

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Spring Break for College Students

    Spring Break for College Students

    Title: Spring vacations for college students on a small budget. General purpose: to inform students of money saving tips. Intro: I. Attention getter: Montego Bay, Jamaica, Cancun, Mexico, Nassau, Bahamas, South Beach, Miami, Florida and South Padre Island, Texas, what do these places all have in common? They are the favorite destinations that make college students giddy with anticipation when spring vacation approaches. II. Thesis statement: When traveling on a small or limited budget, like

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Janna
  • Free Trade and Outsourcing: Good or Bad?

    Free Trade and Outsourcing: Good or Bad?

    Is it Bad? Does free trade and outsourcing damage the U.S. economy by purging jobs and discouraging domestic investment or does it eventually strengthen the U.S. economy? Many seemingly well-educated people believe outsourcing is bad for the economy. They see hardworking Americans’ jobs shipped overseas leaving many people jobless, weakening the economy. President Bush feels so strongly about it that he recently signed a bill forbidding the outsourcing of federal contracts overseas (www.economist.com). Paul Craig

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Teenage Women - Abortion and Law

    Teenage Women - Abortion and Law

    Teenage Women, Abortion and Law Abortion has always been a very controversial issue. This can be due to the fact that people have different beliefs that are emphasized by their own religion and set of moral values. Many people believe that abortion is wrong, but they believe that is it only wrong under certain circumstances. This could be true, but is it more right to kill for a specific reason than to just do it

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: regina
  • Women’s Inferiority in Math and Science

    Women’s Inferiority in Math and Science

    Rhetorical Analysis of Paired Arguments: Women’s inferiority in math and science Audience Analysis: “Sex Ed at Harvard” by Charles Murray Published in the New York Times, Murray is addressing a primarily liberal audience. However, it is read by a general audience both liberals and conservatives between the ages of twenty and sixty because it is circulated nationwide and internationally. This newspaper reaches the educated upper, middle, and lower classes. Murray includes himself in the same

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Analysis of Writing Women's Worlds by Lia Adu-Lughod

    Analysis of Writing Women's Worlds by Lia Adu-Lughod

    Analysis of Writing Women's Worlds by Lia Adu-Lughod Writing Women's Worlds is some stories on the Bedouin Egyptian people. In this book, thwe writer Lia Adu-Lughod's stories differ from the conventional ones. While reading, we discover the customs and values of the Bedouin people. We see Migdim, a dominator of the people. Even though her real age is never given, one can assume that she is at the end of her life, maybe in her

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Max
  • Women’s Rights

    Women’s Rights

    Women's Suffrage The struggle to achieve equal rights for women is often thought to have begun, in the English-speaking world, with the publication of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792). The United States The demand for the enfranchisement of American women was first seriously formulated at the Seneca Falls Convention (1848). After the Civil War, agitation by women for the ballot became increasingly vociferous. In 1869, however, a rift developed among

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Vika
  • Traditional Versus Modern Ethics

    Traditional Versus Modern Ethics

    Well, at any given time there are many different standards of ethics around the world, depending on where you are. The main thing to know is that ethics are winding down, things are getting less ethical, and they are developing into something worse. The early developments in moral and political philosophy left a lasting effect through the history of those. For both moral and political philosophy it is both Plato and Aristotle that have been

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Andrew
  • We Are Told About the World Before We See It.We Imagine Most Things Before We Experience Them (walter Lipman) How Might Expectation and Previous Knowledge Affect Perception and Therefore Knowledge?

    We Are Told About the World Before We See It.We Imagine Most Things Before We Experience Them (walter Lipman) How Might Expectation and Previous Knowledge Affect Perception and Therefore Knowledge?

    Perception is a way of knowing and gaining knowledge. Expectation, the belief about the way an event should happen or behave, and previous knowledge, understanding and skills we gain after experience play significant roles when gaining knowledge. They frame and lead us into imagine before we experience. Our five senses let us see, smell, taste, feel and hear. People think that we believe what we see. However, we see what we believe. Lipman’s suggestion criticises

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Emancipations of Slaves and Women in the Early Nineteenth Century

    Emancipations of Slaves and Women in the Early Nineteenth Century

    In three decades prior to the outbreak of Civil War, the Northern United States abounded with movements yearning for social transformation. The two most important movements, the ones that struck deeply at the foundations of American society, that ones that were so influential that they indeed provided the historical background to the two immense issues that Americans continue to debate and struggle with, were the crusades for the abolition of slavery and the equality of

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Application of Three-Dimensional Construction and Ethnic Elements in the Design of Women Fashion

    The Application of Three-Dimensional Construction and Ethnic Elements in the Design of Women Fashion

    The development of contemporary clothing has stride forward to the period of diversified and individuation, which requires designers to have innovation constantly to reach for the international trend. For the innovation, we have to originate the modern shape of clothing, in the application for clothing construction as well as the surface texture of fabric, to cater to the modern aesthetic perception. Therefore, studying the foundation theory of the three-dimensional conformation (three-d as the short form

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • The View of Women

    The View of Women

    One of the many issues that young women have to deal with as they enter young adult hood is that "mirror image" of what the beautiful girl is suppose to look like. Being a coach, I deal with many girls at that awkward and changing age, so when I came across this interest group I new I could benefit from it. This interest group is the "Academy for Eating Disorders" and was put together and

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Max
  • Portrayal of Women in Twelfth Night

    Portrayal of Women in Twelfth Night

    The Portrayal of Women in Twelfth Night The women in Shakespear’s play: Twelfth Night, are all depicted as having power, comedic and being very emotional. All of the female characters are given power, whether it be over each other, men or their servants. The woman with the power over the greatest number of people is Olivia, she has numerous servants and doesn’t hesitate to give them orders, which can be seen in (1.5.287) when she

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Top
  • Order in Free Verse

    Order in Free Verse

    Order in Free Verse To fully understand what order truly is, we must look to what order is not, and through this we will fully be able to dissect the concepts of order. Free verse is a style of writing poetry which is defined as poultry without any fixed metrical pattern, rhythm, or rhyme but which instead exhibits its own natural rhythms, sound patterns, and seemingly arbitrary principles of form. Many times when we think

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Women in the Middle Ages

    Women in the Middle Ages

    Women In The Middle Ages The women of the middle ages had a standard and void to fill as a wife and a mother. they were pawn pieces in middle age society that the patriarchal males used gain money, property or even advancement in nobility. Women were to be obedient to their fathers and loyal to their husbands. Meanwhile, there were many other women in the Middle Ages that made there own way, fortune, and

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • Free Speech: Is There Really Such a Thing?

    Free Speech: Is There Really Such a Thing?

    Free Speech: Is There Really Such a Thing? In order to find truth to anything, one must make multiple suggestions, ask many questions, and sometimes ponder the unspeakable. Without doing so, there would be no process of elimination; therefore, truth would be virtually unattainable. Now, in our attempts to either find truth, express our beliefs and opinions, or generally use the rights we are given constitutionally, we are often being criticized and even reprimanded. Our

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jon
  • Quaker Women in American Colonies

    Quaker Women in American Colonies

    "Quaker Women in the American Colonies" During the colonial period, women were considered inferior to men and “nothing more than servants for their husbands.” During the eighteenth century, unmarried Quaker women were the first to vote, stand up in court, and evangelize; although Quaker women enjoyed rights that women today take for granted, they were most known for their religious radicalism. According to Rufus Jones, a professor at Harvard, the Quakers “felt, as their own

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Top

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