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  • Colonial Death Penalty

    Colonial Death Penalty

    The fact that colonial Americans held public executions to employ moral lessons to public intrigued me. Until now, I assumed that public executions during the colonial period were held only to entertain people. It is still disturbing to me, however, that colonial Americans tried to promote an execution to their own use. Such discriminations seemed to be common at that period of time. Despite their good intentions, it appears that the public attended to enjoy

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Black Death: Bubonic Plague

    Black Death: Bubonic Plague

    Black Death: Bubonic Plague There is no doubt that this disease was deadly. Deadly and gruesome to watch. The death rate was 90% for those exposed to the bacterium. It was transmitted by the fleas from infected Old English black rats. The symptoms were clear: swollen lymph nodes (buboes, hence the name), high fever, and delirium. In the worst case, the lungs became infected and the pneumonic form was spread from person to person by

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Jack
  • Smoking, Aka Deaths' Candy

    Smoking, Aka Deaths' Candy

    Smoking, AKA Deaths' Candy Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Smoking cigarettes can do very fatal damages human health (Bender 17). There are over fifty ways of making life miserable through smoking due to illnesses, and more than twenty ways of killing a person ("Action on Smoking and Health" 1). The probability that someone who smokes will develop a major complication in their health is one hundred percent; no

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Max
  • Death of a Salesman, Wuthering Heights, and a Clockwork Orange

    Death of a Salesman, Wuthering Heights, and a Clockwork Orange

    There is nothing quite like a book the reader never wants to put down. To achieve this a novel must have interesting characters, a dilemma, and convey a lesson. Wuthering Heights, A Clockwork Orange, and The Death of Salesmen each contain these three main elements. All these books keep the reader interested. A Clockwork Orange does the best at fulfilling the readers interests. This novel has well developed characters. Even though the main character, Alex,

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Only a Life Lived in the Face of Death Can Be Significant or Meaningful’ and Answer the Question ’could a Creature That Was Incapable of Death Live a Meaningful Life?

    Only a Life Lived in the Face of Death Can Be Significant or Meaningful’ and Answer the Question ’could a Creature That Was Incapable of Death Live a Meaningful Life?

    While it comprises part of this essay's subject, it should be noted that in no piece of literature by Albert Camus will you find a direct quote of him declaring that 'only a life lived in the face of death can be significant, or meaningful.' This is a paraphrased version of a passage found in his work the Myth of Sisyphus, which reads: 'There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: regina
  • The Death Penalty

    The Death Penalty

    The death penalty is also known as capital punishment. It is the killing of a person in order to justify or make right a severe crime they have committed, like murder. It is basically a sentence of punishment by some form of execution. I believe the death penalty is wrong and that no person should get to decide weather a person lives or dies because of the actions he or she has committed. According to

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Top
  • Death at Vietnam

    Death at Vietnam

    It wasn’t before wasting 118 billion dollars, 56000 American lives, and 16 years that the war in Vietnam ended on April 30, 19. I served for one year in Vietnam before being killed in an explosion. After my death in the spring of 71, I became more aware of what the United States was fighting for in its multiple wars. Tensions erupted and called for something to be done, the American government complied as it

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman is a play that has come to redefine the concept of modern tragedy. A challenge to Philip Sydney’s judgement that “tragedy concerneth the high fellow” Death of a Salesman is the tragedy of the common man of the low-man. Many critics charge that Death of a Salesman falls short of tragedy and is therefore disqualified as a “great” play. Tragedy is developed as a form of drama that incorporates incidents arousing

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    Essay Length: 264 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Line of Death Row

    The Line of Death Row

    In a society that has come far technologically, medically and legally, we are still centered on the discrimination of one another in one way or another. Whether it is through the way we hire and fire employees, give home/car loans, even when it comes to who is entitled to go to which colleges, across this country race is at the tip of conversation contrary to so many that do not see it or believe it.

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Bred
  • Women as Second Class Citizens - Death of a Salesman

    Women as Second Class Citizens - Death of a Salesman

    Women as Second Class Citizens Women have been regarded as second class citizens throughout history. It is common knowledge that almost every language and culture tends to be male-dominated. Some think that the feelings of superiority by men can be traced back to the biblical times of Adam and Eve as Adam was created in God’s image and Eve came from Adam. Women did not gain equal rights until the early 1970s in the

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Death "we Real Cool"

    Death "we Real Cool"

    Death in “We Real Cool” In Gwendolyn Brooks poem “We Real Cool” Seven African-American high school dropouts want everyone to admire them. These teenagers explain how they stay out late playing pool, fighting, sinning and drinking. Though they believe they have everybody else fooled, they know themselves that the destructive behavior they are taking part in will lead to their death. “The sluggard’s carving will be the death of him, because his hands refuse to

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: David
  • Music and Death

    Music and Death

    Aspcets of Death and Dying 1/18/02 Music and Death: The Songs and Deaths of Rockstars That Have Shocked the World Music as we know it today is the voice of a generation. It gives us entertainment, and speaks out for a community of people in many ways. Most people listen to at least some sort of music, and serves a purpose in almost every facet of society. Just about any expression can be shared through

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mike
  • Near Death Experience

    Near Death Experience

    Near Death Experience It was a warm fall day in early October, a day that I recall quite vividly. The smells of the transition from summer to fall were in the air, accompanied by the sounds of birds singing and the wind blowing through the trees. It was on this beautiful day that my existence was almost terminated. A quick hunting trip could have ended my life. After school on this day, a friend

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Jack
  • Romeo and Juliet - Who Was to Blame for Romeo and Juliet’s Tragic Death?

    Romeo and Juliet - Who Was to Blame for Romeo and Juliet’s Tragic Death?

    Romeo and Juliet essay. Who was to blame for Romeo and Juliet’s tragic death? The tragedy of 'Romeo and Juliet' , written by William Shakespeare in the late 16th century is about how two young people from conflicting families meet and fall in love. 'Romeo and Juliet' is one of Shakespeare's well known plays. In 'Romeo and Juliet' Shakespeare in the prologue stats that they will both die 'A pair of star-crossed lovers take their

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Yan
  • Death

    Death

    There are many different points of view on the topic of death. One such view comes from a man named Nagel. Nagels point of view on death, is death is bad or negative you might say, and its ok to fear and not wish for your existence to end. The reason Nagel believes that death can be a negative experience, is because he believes, and follows a theory called the deprivation theory. This theory states

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Death Penalty: Just or Unjust

    Death Penalty: Just or Unjust

    Death Penalty Introduction: The most severe of all sentences: that of death. Also known as the death penalty, capital punishment this is the most severe form of corporal punishment as it is requires law enforcement officers to kill the offender. It has been banned in many countries, in the United States, an earlier move to eliminate capital punishment has now been reversed and more and more states are resorting to capital punishment for serious offenses

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Masque of the Red Death

    The Masque of the Red Death

    THE "Red Death" had long devastated the country. No pestilence had ever been so fatal, or so hideous. Blood was its Avatar and its seal -- the redness and the horror of blood. There were sharp pains, and sudden dizziness, and then profuse bleeding at the pores, with dissolution. The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Case Against the Death Penalty

    The Case Against the Death Penalty

    THE CASE AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY It's dark and cold, the fortress-like building has cinderblock walls, and death lurks around the perimeter. A man will die tonight. Under the blue sky, small black birds gather outside the fence that surrounds the building to flaunt their freedom. There is a gothic feel to the scene, as though you have stepped into a horror movie. Unfortunately, this is not a scene in a horror flick; these are

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Yan
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    So Singapore takes away a life, again. The life of young Van Tuong Ngyuen, who died at the end of a rope in Singapore for drug trafficking 25 times the amount of heroin that attracts an automatic death sentence. Someone commits a crime, and then they are killed. Can someone explain the point of this? This is particularly silly. Because someone commits a crime, that person is punished by being executed. So Singapore believes that

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: regina
  • Bataan Death March

    Bataan Death March

    The Bataan Death March started on April 11, 1942. It was a result of over 70,000 American and Filipino soldiers surrendering to the Japanese on April 9. The Japanese were surprised by this number, having only expected about 30,000. According to soldier Lester I. Tenney, who experienced the Death March first hand, it was brutal for the prisoners of war. "Japanese soldiers hollered and would prod us with their bayonets to walk faster(on a short

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: July
  • The Masque O the Red Death

    The Masque O the Red Death

    Edgar Allen Poe's The Masque of the Red Death is an elaborate allegory/microcosm that combines objects in the story with visual descriptions to give focus to the reader's imagination. In the story, a prince named Prospero tries to dodge the Red Death through isolation and seclusion. He hides behind seemingly impenetrable walls of his castellated abbey and lets the world take care of its own. However, no walls can stop death because it is

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Edward
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    Death Penalty The idea of a person being put to death, no matter what the reason is, is not a light topic, nor a pleasant thing to think about. But the fact is, more than half of the world's countries and 38 U.S. states have a death penalty, so this topic is going to come up. The form which prisoners are executed is changing day to day. In American and a growing number of many

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Yan
  • Death of a Salesman V.S. the Crucible

    Death of a Salesman V.S. the Crucible

    The Death Of A Salesman v.s. The Crucible In The Death Of A Salesman, the main character, Willy Loman, is a unsuccessful salesman caught up in high hopes for his sons, Biff and Hap, who both also soon become failures. Willy's flaw is that he has filled his sons up with so much hot air that he is not satisfied when they do not succeed, and regrets to believe where they stand in life now,

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Anna
  • War: Death, Suffering and Destruction

    War: Death, Suffering and Destruction

    War: Death, Suffering and Destruction War. A common term heard nowadays. But what is the true mening of war? Is it the correction of what someone thinks is evil? Is it the submission to someone else’s point of view? Is it the autodestructioin of human kind? There are a lot of meanings to war. It is up to each person to give the term war a meaning. Many people are forced to leave their homes,

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: regina
  • Frost on Death

    Frost on Death

    Frost on Death Robert Frost, born in the late 1800’s, wrote many poems over his long life. Most are considered to be very profound works that show the true talent of their author. If Frost isn’t speaking on about the less tread path, he is remarking on life’s oddities. In the poem Design Frost comments on several anomalies in nature that lead to death of an insignificant insect. Frost also remarks on what could be

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: July

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