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  • Arthur Versus Beowulf: A Heroic Comparison

    Arthur Versus Beowulf: A Heroic Comparison

    One of the main topics discussed in lesson one is the fact that heroes over time and overseas all heroes have something in common; which is true in the case of King Arthur and Beowulf. It is obvious that they are similar in the fact that they are both heroes, but what makes them an idol of their time and in their culture are poles apart. There are many things that are different about

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    Essay Length: 1,063 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    As we turn on radios and televisions, and even when we open the local newspaper today, we are bombarded with news of arrests, murders, homicides, and other such tragedies. There are many things I don’t agree with in today’s society but, out of the wrongdoing that takes place, I believe murder including the death penalty is the worst of them. I am strongly against the death penalty because it violates “God’s commandments”, costs the taxpayers

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    Essay Length: 276 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • United States Healthcare: A Medical Death Wish

    United States Healthcare: A Medical Death Wish

    America’s Medicaid program provides medical assistance for individuals and families with low incomes and/or few resources. The program began in 1965 and is now the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with limited income. Today, the program covers 53 million people, nearly one in every six Americans, and costs $300 billion a year in federal and state funds. In fact, Medicaid in some states accounts for more than one-third of

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    Essay Length: 780 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Life of Pi Spirituality Vs. Geography

    Life of Pi Spirituality Vs. Geography

    It has been said. "There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea." History and literature have proven this in many ways and Yann Martel's, Life of Pi is no exception. Pi Patel, the protagonist overcomes many challenges spanning from spiritual enlightenment to basic instinct and survival. Coming from an unbiased spiritual background and having a vast understanding of nature and its creatures, Pi is a compassionate and intelligent boy. Like

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Capital Punishment - Legal Punishment of Death for Violating Criminal Law

    Capital Punishment - Legal Punishment of Death for Violating Criminal Law

    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT The definition of capital punishment is the legal punishment of death for violating criminal law. The person who gets capital punishment is the ones who committed serious crimes. Methods of capital punishment throughout the world are by stoning, beheading, hanging, electrocution, lethal injection and shooting. The two most common methods capital punishment use in the United States are lethal injection and electrocution. The lethal injection is the most used form of capital punishment.

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Vika
  • Economic and Political History: A Comparison

    Economic and Political History: A Comparison

    Conal Fury and Micahel J. Salevouris define historiography as "the study of the way history has been and is written-the history of historical writing". When one studies historiography one studies the changing interpretations of events in the works of individual historians more than historical occurrences. The study of forms of historical writing has led to the identification of various schools of historical thought but mainly it has led to the evolution of sub-branches of history

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: regina
  • Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty

    Capital Punishment: The Death Penalty

    "The Punishment of death has never prevented determined men from injuring society." --Beccaria Today, one of the most debated issues in the Criminal Justice System is the issue of capital punishment. Capital punishment was legal until 1972, when the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia stating that it violated the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments citing cruel and unusual punishment. In 1976, the Supreme Court reversed its decision with Gregg v. Georgia and

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Exactly Why My Life Sucks

    Exactly Why My Life Sucks

    Chapter 1 Exactly Why My Life Sucks How can I described the feelings that are welling up inside? How do I control the temper tantrum that is, my little brother? How do I show my parents that I really do care about their feelings? My name is Rosalind Marie Claire. I have two brothers, one older and one younger, and two sisters, also one older and one younger. Which makes me stuck smack-dab in the

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    Essay Length: 1,758 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    The Death Penalty has many issues with people. Some people consider it to be cruel as others don't. Some people consider it not necessary as others do. Some people consider that even though this person kill someone anyone that considers this punishment to them are just the same as them because they are killing the person. This is a matter of opinions and will most likely always be debated. The Death Penalty was first issued

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Comparison of Satan in the Bible to Media

    The Comparison of Satan in the Bible to Media

    The Comparison Of Satan In The Bible To Media Date: April 8, 2006 2:06 pm Subject: Music and Movies Word Count: 3601 Page Count: 15 The Comparison Of Satan In The Bible To MediaTHESISWhen we think of the portrayal of Satan, the prince of darkness, in the different texts, films, and religions, there are many things that are common traits. But there are also things which differ in each medium, and that is what this

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Anna
  • Comparison of Catch 22 and America: The Book

    Comparison of Catch 22 and America: The Book

    America is a work of non-fiction; though the information is presented in a comical manner, it is based on fact. On the other end of the spectrum, Catch-22 is a fictional piece that satires real events. While this might seem to make them different, it actually makes them extremely similar. Though America (The Book) and Catch-22 have many differences, there are certain similarities in theme and tone that can be used to link the two

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    Essay Length: 2,998 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Top
  • Website Book Selling Comparison

    Website Book Selling Comparison

    Website Book Selling Comparison Many commercial websites today offer a multitude of books for any reader to absorb in their lifetime. Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com are two of the largest websites on the internet. Between these two websites there are a few million books sold worldwide every year. I have chosen ten books from the New York Times bestseller list. I chose the top five for fiction and the top five for nonfiction hardcover books. Title

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    Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Artur
  • Comparison of Pygmalion and the Secret Agent

    Comparison of Pygmalion and the Secret Agent

    The stories, Pygmalion and The Secret Agent, are about a woman’s transformation. Pygmalion is a story about a young girl’s transformation from an uneducated flower seller, into a very intelligent and highly capable young woman. Similarly, The Secret Agent is a story about a self-less woman, who is trapped in an unwanted marriage, just so her “half-wit brother and crippled mother” were taken care of (Conrad, 202). The most emotionally affected characters in these stories

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    Essay Length: 659 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Janna
  • A Comparison of Two Ibsen Works

    A Comparison of Two Ibsen Works

    Henrik Ibsen’s works Dollhouse and An Enemy of the People can be shown to have both been written by Ibsen not only through characteristic technique such as blocking and character exposition, but also the similarity in the decay of the social persona of characters from the norm and the main character’s heightening stalwart. The later of that statement proves the works to be Ibsen’s writing more effectively because such a commonality is a more

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    Essay Length: 1,373 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Victor
  • Lifes Not Cheap

    Lifes Not Cheap

    Life is not cheap. Everything has its price tag; even those necessities that we just simply cannot live without. Whether you are looking to buy a tube of toothpaste, a bar of soap, a carton of milk or even a new pair of underwear that tiny price tag that we are all too familiar with is always leering around close by. I am sure that we can all agree that life is much simpler, less

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Cloning - All Constraints upon Cloning Should Be Lifed

    Cloning - All Constraints upon Cloning Should Be Lifed

    Cloning ALL CONSTRAINTS UPON CLONING SHOULD BE LIFED Cloning has been a very controversial topic since it affects moral values of human beings and other living things alike. In February 1997 scientists in Scotland announced the birth of the first cloned sheep named Dolly, this heralded the future of cloning possibilities and scientists began extensive experiments on cloning and have since then cloned both plants and animals successfully. The next step was to clone

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    Essay Length: 2,200 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Yan
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    The debate over capital punishment has been continuous for many years now. It is a very controversial issue that revolves around several theories of punishment and social justice such as utilitarianism, retribution, and the right to live. These arguments come from different types of schools and reasoning, but they can all be evaluated within a utilitarian view. It views society as one organism. Its goal is to improve the state of society for all citizens

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    Essay Length: 615 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Heart of Darkness - Things Fall Apart and Apocalypse Now Comparison

    Heart of Darkness - Things Fall Apart and Apocalypse Now Comparison

    Nobel Prize winner Hermann Hesse once wisely noted, “Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties”. The entire ensemble of characters in Heart of Darkness, Things Fall Apart and Apocalypse Now are filled with a strong sense of tradition and culture. This culture not only dictates ritualistic and hollow day to day practices; it begins to define the profound inner

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    Essay Length: 2,187 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: July
  • Life in the Trenches

    Life in the Trenches

    Life in the trenches during World War 1 were horrible. It was entirely unexpected for those eager thousands who signed up for war August 1914.The Great War- was a phrase coined even before it had begun. It was expected to be very short and like most wars a great movement. However The First World War was symbolized by its lack of movement, the years of stalemate exemplified on the Western Front from autumn 1914 until

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Monika
  • My Father’s Life

    My Father’s Life

    struggles of life In the story “My Father’s Life” Raymond Carver spends significant amount of time describing the life of his father. However, it seems strange that he does not reflect much about any personal memories of his relationship with his father. It seems that while growing up his father was too involved with the struggles of life and thus never had the chance to build a relationship with his son. As he grew

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    Essay Length: 324 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Being Happy with the Small Things in Life

    Being Happy with the Small Things in Life

    Being Happy With The Small Things In Life In “Barbie-Q,” Sandra Cisneros chooses a particular point of view in order to communicate the central points of this story. The story is narrated by one of the two young girls who are the main characters. The story begins with the following: “Yours is the one with mean eyes and a ponytail.” “Mine is the one with bubble hair.” (Cisneros 576) This clearly shows that the narrator

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Victor
  • The Life Cycle of an Erythrocyte

    The Life Cycle of an Erythrocyte

    The diameter of a typical human erythrocyte is 6-8 µm. Adult humans have roughly 2-3 Ч 1013 red blood cells at any given time (women have about 4-5 million erythrocytes per cubic millimeter of blood and men about 5-6 million). Red blood cells are thus much more common than the other blood particles: about 4-11 thousand white blood cells per cubic millimeter, and about 150-400 thousand platelets per cubic millimeter. The red blood cells store

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Comparison of Pakistan and Philippines

    Comparison of Pakistan and Philippines

    When analyzing the gross domestic product (GDP) of Pakistan it becomes strikingly evident that there is another country which is very comparable to Pakistan based on its GDP; this nation, which appears to have a very similar economic orientation to Pakistan, is none other than the Philippines. The gross domestic product (GDP) of a country is the total market value of all the goods and services produced within an economy in a given year. Based

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Anna
  • Living the Good Life: Herodotus V. Epicurus

    Living the Good Life: Herodotus V. Epicurus

    What is considered a good life? Herodotus and Epicurus presents readers there depiction of a good life in their works, Persian Wars and “Letter to a Friend,” respectively. The ideas of a good life presented by Herodotus in Persian Wars and by Epicurus in “Letter to a Friend” both share identical aspects of a good life, but at the same time both works are distinct from one another. One similarity between the two writers’ idea

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    Essay Length: 883 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Pat Tillman: A Hero or A Waste of Life

    Pat Tillman: A Hero or A Waste of Life

    Pat Tillman: A Hero or Waste of Life? Many peoples’ ideas differ about the subject of Pat Tillman. Pat Tillman, 27, was a member of the 2nd Battalion, th Ranger Regiment based at Fort Lewis, Washington. Tillman was a great football player prior to joining the army. He turned down a three year, 3.6 million dollar contract for the Arizona Cardinals in 2002, to join the army in the wake of the September 11th attacks.

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Anna

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