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  • Descriptive Essay

    Descriptive Essay

    Surrounded by the old forest, I rested upon a throne-like rock that faced the stunning blue ocean. Being the queen of the moment, I could hear the birds chirping and the rustling of the leaves above me. I looked around me and realized tall trees with luscious green leaves enclosed me, giving me a warm feeling of peace. With a sigh of content, I looked out over the sea. The sun’s reflection started on the

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    Essay Length: 364 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Essay

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Essay

    topic:How much harder slavery was for women than men... I got a w/o a work cited. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Essay No one in today’s society can even come close to the heartache, torment, anguish, and complete misery suffered by women in slavery. Many women endured this agony their entire lives, there only joy being there children and families, who were torn away from them and sold, never to be

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    Essay Length: 1,811 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Jon
  • Essay on Book "blindness"

    Essay on Book "blindness"

    The sinners dealt with in our past novels and the present novel Blindness empathetically been assigned the trait of ignorance. Thus, providing the root of sin and degration of lives, as relating to the treatment of people in the short story Somni in the novel Cloud Atlas. Focusing on Blindness, the ungreedy are horribly dealt with by the thugs with a “conscience with teeth to bite” (18). This quality of man is the result of

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    Essay Length: 1,003 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Bred
  • Things Fall Apart - by Chinua Achebe (diverse Cultures Essay)

    Things Fall Apart - by Chinua Achebe (diverse Cultures Essay)

    "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe a) Describe in detail your impression of Okonkwo's character having read part one of the novel. b) What is Okonkwo's response to the arrival of the white man, and how does he cope with the changes that come about under the influence of a different culture. c) Describe your own reaction to Okonkwo's actions at the close of the novel. a) Okonkwo is a senior member of the Ibo

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    Essay Length: 2,797 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Bred
  • Compare and Contrast Essay on "since Feeling Is First" and "love Is Not All"

    Compare and Contrast Essay on "since Feeling Is First" and "love Is Not All"

    COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY Poetry is a tool used to express the poets’ innermost thoughts and feelings. The poems discussed in this essay are about one of the most powerful and complex emotions of all, love. The chosen two poems are the following; “Since Feeling Is First” by E. E. Cummings and “Love Is Not All” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. While these two poems share the same topic, the themes presented in each poem

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    Essay Length: 611 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Janna
  • Huck Finn Essay

    Huck Finn Essay

    Throughout Huck Finn, Huck and Jim develop a special relationship despite the rest of the communities' views. Three examples of this are: how Huck doesn't turn Jim in when his conscience says he should, how Huck frees Jim from jail, and Huck deciding he would rather go to hell than lose Jim's friendship. When Huck tries to get some information about whether he has passed Cairo or not, he begins to think about whether or

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    Essay Length: 328 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Edward
  • Ender’s Game Essay

    Ender’s Game Essay

    Ender’s Game Essay The novel Ender’s Game is written by Orson Schott Card. It is about a young boy who is sent to battle school. He meets friends and makes adversaries. In battle school, out in space, Ender, the young boy is a genius and is taught many tactics to destroy their prime enemy the buggers. He excels in school and battles his way into command school before the required age. There he is told

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    Essay Length: 1,107 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Steve
  • Articles of Confederation Essay

    Articles of Confederation Essay

    The Articles of Confederation became officially effective on March 1st, 1781. At this point, the congress became the Congress of the Confederation. The articles largely supported the organization of the Continental Army and allowed the 13 states to unify in the battle against the British. The articles consisted of an introduction, 13 articles, and a signatory section. While many view the articles as a failure, it without a doubt took some actions that have had

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    Essay Length: 360 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Edward
  • Book Review Essay

    Book Review Essay

    Book Review Essay Linda Holz OC 552 History of American Women Stephanie Johnson November 11, 2006 The book I chose to write about is called America’s Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and heroines written by Gail Collins. The company who chose to produce this copy is referred to as HarperCollins Publishers Inc. The publishing took place in New York, NY with the first perennial edition published in 2004, and is Gail’s first

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    Essay Length: 674 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Top
  • Lorenzo’s Oil Essay

    Lorenzo’s Oil Essay

    Lorenzo’s Oil Essay The film is based on the true story of Augusto and Michaela Odone and their son Lorenzo. In 1984 Lorenzo came down with adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD), a rare inherited disease. Doctors said that he would lose all his functions and die within two to three years. Refusing to accept this grim verdict, the Odones set out on a mission to find a treatment for ALD and to save their child. In their quest

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    Essay Length: 885 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Monika
  • Sonny’s Blues Essay

    Sonny’s Blues Essay

    Halet Tesfaye English 1110 Dr. Ladin Sonny’s blues essay In the story of “Sonny’s blues” by James Baldwin many things are discussed. Some of them are not refer clearly you have to dig deep to understand and some of them are just clear and right in front of your face. One of the things that is mentioned In Baldwin’s writies around the last paragraphs is about “cup of trembling” connected to the book of Isaiah

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    Essay Length: 283 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Max
  • Informational Essay

    Informational Essay

    Informational Essay Learning styles can be looked at in several ways. We will see this through the eyes of three different authors along with three different articles. Can Generations Xers Be Trained ?, by Shari Caudron, A Tale of Four Learners, by Bernice McCarthy, and Improving the Dietary Patterns of Adolescents Using a Computer-Based Approach, by Krista Casazza and Michele Ciccazzo, we will discover that there are many ways to learn the use of different

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    Essay Length: 1,179 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Steve
  • Disability Research Essay: Autism

    Disability Research Essay: Autism

    Disability Research Essay: Autism The syndrome of autism can best be described as a life long developmental disability that is the result of a dysfunction in the central nervous system. People with autism fail to develop normal behaviours and interactive social relationships with others. As a result, this presents them with difficulties in learning. For example, autistic people are often described as “living in a world of their own”. This makes it difficult for them

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    Essay Length: 298 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Essay on Decency

    Essay on Decency

    Decency is a word with many meanings, depending in which connexion you use it. I have chosen to enjoin this issue a bit, so that it's about being decent to others, and how to prevent having an indecent behaviour. Decency is something we all have. Some less than others. An example could be hosts on TV shows. Especially in talk shows you often see, that the host is touching the fine line between crossing the

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    Essay Length: 283 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 5, 2010 By: Max
  • Caesar Essay

    Caesar Essay

    Caesar Essay Brutus consists of the characteristics and traits that make up a tragic hero. They are his good character, his superiority over others, his tragic flaws, and his tragic realization. Without these characteristics, Brutus would not be perceived as a tragic hero. These characteristics were developed through his idealism. Throughout this play, Brutus shows signs of these traits and gives the reader more reasons to believe that he is a tragic hero. More than

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    Essay Length: 851 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Jack
  • Essay on Why There Was Conflict Between White and Black Australians in the Ninteenth Century

    Essay on Why There Was Conflict Between White and Black Australians in the Ninteenth Century

    ESSAY ON WHY THERE WAS CONFLICT BETWEEN WHITE AND BLACK AUSTRALIANS IN THE NINTEENTH CENTURY The relationship between black and white Australians has not surprisingly been based on myth and misunderstanding ever since the first contact between the foreign English and the native Aboriginals at Port Jackson in 1788. The British believed they were confronting primitive savages, with the capacity for any acts of barbarianism, while the Aboriginals who had never seen human beings with

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    Essay Length: 799 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Don Quixote Essay About Created Reality

    Don Quixote Essay About Created Reality

    Othello Essay The novel Don Quixote, by Miguel Cervantes, is an exploration into the idea of created reality. Cervantes, through the character of Don Quixote, illustrates to readers how we as human beings often make reality to be whatever we want it to be. Don Quixote is a perfect example of “created reality.” The character Don Quixote is real, and he lives in a real world, but everything that he sees is exaggerated in his

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    Essay Length: 553 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Athenian Definition of Democracy

    Athenian Definition of Democracy

    Discuss the Athenian definition of democracy. Is the city state the only kind of state in which true democracy can exist? What happens to democracy when it is applied to a society with a large dispersed population? What are other examples of democratic societies besides Athens? Compare and contrast Athenian democracy with American democracy. Is the United States a democracy in the classical sense of the word? The ancient Greek word "demokratia" was ambiguous. It

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    Essay Length: 1,269 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Bred
  • Critical Thinking and Language Essay

    Critical Thinking and Language Essay

    Critical Thinking and Language Essay By Bobby Pearson University of Pennsylvania Shari Muench PHL 251 August 27, 2006 Critical Thinking and Language Essay 2 One Metaphor that my mom used for me was that she called me a “couch potato.” My mom called me a couch potato because she says that I stay on the couch all the time looking at television. Well I do. I would get off of work at seven in the

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Top
  • Pride and Prejudice Essay

    Pride and Prejudice Essay

    This is an unrevised version of the essay. Sorry! I don't have another version. Sometimes at the moment of reading a novel, we can feel that the author reflects our own feelings; in fact, we can easily imagine our own life printed in the book. It is the case of Jane Austen’s novels, in which she presents us human relationships through either a very natural or critical view: showing its virtues and defects. One of

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Jon
  • Lord of the Flies Essay

    Lord of the Flies Essay

    In the book The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Two of the most important symbols from this story are the conch shell and the beast (A.k.a the beastie). The conch shell represents leadership and government on the island. And the beast symbolizes the savagery that exsists inside the boys. In the first paragraph the conch shell will be analyzed and told what role it played and society. The conch shell was basically the

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    Essay Length: 819 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: Anna
  • Doll House Essay

    Doll House Essay

    Nick Markel 9/25/06 Irony Mr. Evans A Doll House contains many examples of irony, in many different forms. The main characters, Nora and Torvald, are mostly involved in this. Many of the examples of irony in this play, but not all, are types of dramatic irony. Dramatic irony usually refers to a situation in a play in which a character's knowledge is limited, and he or she comes upon something of greater significance than he

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    Submitted: February 7, 2010 By: regina
  • Landscapes Essay

    Landscapes Essay

    Take-Home Essay The world we live in today is always changing, whether it be technology or the land. As these changes take place, society must adapt to them. Many things begin to change as a result of this and society beings to turn into something completely different. One of the most overlooked changes that takes place is that of the environment and landscape. The landscape is one of the most important parts of our society's

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    Essay Length: 1,832 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Effects of Technology Writing Essay

    Effects of Technology Writing Essay

    Running head: EFFECTS OF TECHNOLOGY WRITING ESSAY Effects of Technology Writing Essay Christine University of Phoenix Effects of Technology Writing Essay Technology is more accessible now than just 20 years ago. Now we are able to get online on our personal computers or laptops. We don’t have to be at a library, or even hooked up to a cord, we have the capability to go “wireless”. We can write with others and get a response

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    Essay Length: 670 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Why Has It Been So Difficult to Reach an Agreed Definition of Terrorism?

    Why Has It Been So Difficult to Reach an Agreed Definition of Terrorism?

    WHY HAS IT BEEN SO DIFFICULT TO REACH AN AGREED DEFINITION OF TERRORISM? In 2005 Jenny Brockie a presenter of Insight an SBS television program asked a number of people from different ethnic background that” Terrorism' is a word we hear a lot these days, but do we really know what it means? ’’ Here are what they defined terrorism as WOMAN 1: Usually politically motivated, but any group of people or a person that

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    Submitted: February 8, 2010 By: Kevin