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Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita When Vladimir Nabokov finished writing the novel Lolita he knew the explosive subject matter that he was now holding in his hands. After being turned down by publishing houses on numerous occasions to unleash his controversial story to the public, it was finally published by the French in 1955. Many critics were shocked and called it pornography while others praised his work. How could a pure thinking author conjugate ideas on issues
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Vo Chong a Phu
V? ch?ng A Ph? ~Tô Hoài~ I. Tác gi? - Tác ph?m 1. Tác gi?: - Tô Hoài (1920) tên khai sinh là Nguy?n Sen, quê ? Hà ?ông. Sinh ra trong 1 gia ?ình th? th? công nghèo, s?m l?n l?i ki?m s?ng b?ng nhi?u th? ngh? khác nhau. - 1943 gia nh?p H?i v?n hóa c?u qu?c. - Là nhà v?n l?n có s? l??ng tác ph?m k? l?c – 200 ??u sách
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Voice Initiated Electricity Generation
VOICE INITIATED ELECTRICITY GENERATION INTRODUCTION: The project is an attempt to place an idea of turning sound into electricity, allowing a mobile to be powered up while its user holds a conversation. This then promises a way to recharge phones using nothing but the power of the human voice but this would also be able to harness background noise and even music to charge a phone while it is not in use. MINOR PART:BY UNCONVENTIONAL
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Voltaire's Candide
Voltaire’s Candide Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire was the French author of the novella Candide, also known as "Optimism"(Durant and Durant 724). In Candide, Voltaire sought to point out the fallacy of Gottfried William von Leibniz’s theory of optimism and the hardships brought on by the resulting inaction toward the evils of the world. Voltaire’s use of satire, and its techniques of exaggeration and contrast highlight the evil and brutality of war and the world
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Voyage of Narwhal
The voyage of the narwhal is a novel by Andrea Barrett, who reveals many aspects of the search for fame and glory, versus search for the truth. When the characters leave for the voyage with the same mission, it is the drive of their different motives for the expedition that separates their destiny on the trip. It was the commander that in blindness of fame led the expedition to tragedy and loss. Through out this
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Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader By: C.S. Lewis There are three main characters in the story, Edmund, Lucy, and Eustace. Lucy and Edmund are brother and sister and Eustace is their cousin. Edmund is a young teenager, very smart and very kind. Lucy is in her mid teens as well, she is a very happy person. Lucy is always trying to help people with there problems.The setting is first the early 1900’s in England
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Wacc
Cooper Industries Substantive Issues The management of Cooper Industries, Inc., is considering whether to attempt to acquire the Nicholson File Company, a leading manufacturer of hand tools. The Nicholson family and other members of the management group own about 20% of the Nicholson stock; the remainder is publicly held. From the standpoint of Cooper an affirmative decision may involve Cooper in a bidding contest with two other companies, which have already bought up part of
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Waiting for Godot Notes
Waiting for godot notes In any comic act, there are two characters, traditionally known as the "straight man" and the "fall guy." Vladimir would be the equivalent of the straight man. He is also the intellectual who is concerned with a variety of ideas. Of the two, Vladimir makes the decisions and remembers significant aspects of their past. He is the one who constantly reminds Estragon that they must wait for Godot. Even though it
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Walabout Paper
Walkabout (Film 1971) 1) By no fault of their own, the two children are stranded in the Australian outback. Without enough food or water, they have to find their way back without any help. When they run into the aboriginal boy, the children were almost at the "end of the line". In order to survive, they are forced to work and live by the lifestyle of the aboriginal boy, who is (to quote the quote)
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Walden Two - the Psychology of “no Place”
Walden Two: The Psychology of “No Place” In a post-World War Two era, there was much longing for improvement on current society. Burrhus F. Skinner decided to give his take on what he felt were the appropriate steps to take in order to make a true “Utopia.” There have been attempts at other utopia’s (which is from the Greek for “no place”) and Skinner in his book took the best elements of each utopia and
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Waldo Frank and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Waldo Frank and F. Scott Fitzgerald Influential writer Waldo Frank had a set of general views of the American culture during the 1920’s. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a book called The Great Gatsby which describes Fitzgerald’s view of American culture during the 1920’s. Both of these writers’ views on American culture appear to be very consistent with one another. Both of them view the 1920’s as an age where people are very concerned by success
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Walker & Everyday Use
Many times an author draws from his or her personal life and incorporates his or her past into the short story. Alice Walker is one of the most respected, well-known African-American authors of her time. Alice Walker experienced a lifetime of hardship that would influence her later works, helping her to become such an astonishing author. In her short story "Everyday Use", Walker tells the story of her heritage and enables the reader to encounter
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Walker Percy’s the Moviegoer
In the novel, The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy, the narrator, Jack Bolling, believes that everyone has a role to play and that their happiness is predicated upon how well they play their given role. He also believes that people get trapped in “everydayness” and become “dead”. Jack Bolling’s decision to marry Kate Cutrer is partly based on these beliefs of his, but it is also based upon the discovery that Sharon is engaged herself. Kate
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Walking in Anna's Shoes: Living Through Writing
Cold sweat trickles down Kate’s back as she stands over the hospital bed, watching the mother she cares for slowly pass away. The droning beep of the monitoring heart machine pierces through the air. Kate kisses her mother one last time, wiping warm tears from her watery eyes, and sluggishly begins to leave. Step by step out of the door the pain intensifies in her heart, but Kate must keep staying strong and move
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Walmart - the Corporate Enemy
Wal-Mart – The Corporate Enemy During the last 20 years, Wal-Mart has moved into many areas wiping out all the stores around causing people to loose jobs, slashing the tax base and causing many more disturbing problems to neighborhoods so people should stop supporting Wal-Mart for many of these reasons. Always low prices, does this sound familiar? Well this would be the slogan of the world’s most controlling company; Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart grew over the years
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Walmart Porter’s 5 Forces Analysis
• Potential Competitors: Medium pressure o Grocers could potentially enter into the retail side. o Entry barriers are relatively high, as Wal-Mart has an outstanding distribution systems, locations, brand name, and financial capital to fend off competitors. o Wal-mart often has an absolute cost advantage over other competitors. • Rivalry Among Established Companies: Medium Pressure o Currently, there are three main incumbent companies that exist in the same market as Wal-Mart: Sears, K Mart, and
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Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman holds a timbre that is sacred to the poetry of America. He is a figure that will remain a part of our society until the world no longer spins. He set a plague of poetry on American culture that has captivated us all and has changed the English perspective on life and nature. Walt Whitman, an American poet in the nineteenth-century, for the first time broke free from the iambic pentameter and
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Walter - a Raisin in the Sun
Walter As Mama’s only son, Ruth’s husband, Travis’s father, and Beneatha’s brother, Walter is both protagonist and antagonist of the play. The play revolves around him and the actions that he takes, and his character evolves the most during the the play. Most of his actions and mistakes hurt the family greatly, but his late rise to manhood makes him a sort of hero in the last scene. What I think of Walter through the
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Walter Dean Meyers
Walter Dean Myers expresses a lot of wisdom throughout his stories. In many of his stories he gives the wisdom of fighting for what you believe in. Two such stories are “The Glory Field” and “Ida Wells.” Both stories “warmed in my mind” to help me discover this wisdom. “The Glory Field” stresses the wisdom of fighting for what you believe in. Throughout the story were examples of this wisdom and how each generation of
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Walter Payton
It is a popular adage that there are only two certain things in life-death and taxes. But for the last decade or so in the National Football League, there has been another sure thing-as soon as he was eligible in 1993, Walter Payton was destined to be elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. That is exactly what happened in January, 1993. All that remains was the exclamation point on his spectacular career-enshrinement day
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Wants
Hemmingway Our literary writers are interested in marriages because it is an interesting subject. Marriages come in so many forms that allow it to be a subject widely written about. Some marriages are happy and some are sad. Some marriages are mysterious and some are dreadful. The subject of marriages can come from religious backgrounds and others can derive from ungodly backgrounds. No matter what the outcome of a marriage is, it is always
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy’s novel, War and Peace, contains three kinds of material, a historical account of the Napoleonic wars, the biographies of fictional characters, and a set of essays about the philosophy of history. Critics from the 1860s to the present have wondered how these three parts cohere, and many have faulted Tolstoy for including the lengthy essays, but readers continue to respond to them with undiminished enthusiasm. The work's historical portions narrate the campaign of
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War Essay
War War is an ugly thing that makes men do crazy thing. Not only is it overqualified that it fills the mind of boys with of becoming heroes and fight to the death for one country. In addition, when the boys get there they find that war is not all it supposes to be. In addition, to survive they have to become beasts. You find a lot of this in All Quiet on the Western
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War of the Worlds Intro
War of The Worlds Mention the book to anyone, and you will probably get a recognizing look on their faces. Some know it as the ultimate prank, others as a sci-fi thriller, yet others remember the book as an eye opening alien invasion story that held your attention to the very last page. Whatever view you hold, the story has many ideals, points, and some even say objectives. In short, the book follows the life
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Was Gene Forrester Guilty of Committing Voluntary Manslaughter?
On the behalf of the client Gene Forrester, we the prosecution find him Guilty of committing voluntary manslaughter upon Phineas. He is found guilty of voluntary manslaughter on the following counts : He has the means, motive based on a mental illness, the opportunity, the witnesses that will testify against him, as well as a full out written confession. First, he had the means. While Gene is not an athlete he, at 140 lbs.
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Was Othello of African or Arabic Descent?
Was Othello of African or Arabic descent? In the famous play Othello by William Shakespeare the topic of Othello’s ethnicity is a very widely discussed topic. Most people get to the, in my opinion, erroneous conclusion that Othello was of sub-Sahara African descent (black). The opposing point of view’s position is that he was of Arabic, or North African descent, which as I will attempt to explain throughout this paper is, in my opinion, correct.
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Watergate
Watergate Political scandals are not strangers to the United States. They date back as far as 1830, with the presidential sex scandal and Thomas Jefferson, and in 1875 with the Whiskey Ring and President Ulysses S. Grant (Time and Again 1). Today we have the Iran-Contra affair with Ronald Reagan and Whitewater with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Even with these, it can be argued that Watergate could possibly be the worst scandal in the history
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Watership Down
Hazel became the leader of the rabbits once they left their original warren. He was a very smart and tricky rabbit who won the respect and trust of the other rabbits by his courage and many great deeds. He always handled problems calmly so others would also remained calm. Whenever a plan was needed, Hazel would always come up with one. Fiver, the younger brother of Hazel, was unique because of his small size
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Watership Down
Leadership Uncovered Richard Adams’ story “Watership Down” tells a tale of the strain of a small warren of rabbits and the transformation of the main character Hazel. Hazel undergoes many changes throughout this story, some good and some bad. He became the leader of the rabbits once they left their original warren. Hazel was a very smart and cunning rabbit who won the respect and trust of the other rabbits by his courage and many
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Wave- Book Review
A BOOK REVIEW of The Wave by Morton Rhue This story, based on a true incident that occurred in a high school in California, demonstrates how easily a group can lose its freedom without even realising it. It all began when their history teacher, Mr. Ben Ross, let them watch a movie on how the Nazis in World War 2 tortured the people who opposed them. To give them a clearer picture, he decided to
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