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  • Great Wall of China Report

    Great Wall of China Report

    The Great Wall of China The Great Wall of China is truly one of the greatest architectural achievements in recorded history. The longest structure ever built, it is about 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles) long and made entirely by hand. This wall is said to be visible from the moon. It crosses Northern China, from the East coast to Central China (Karls, 1). This massive wall is not only one of the ancient wonders of the

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    Essay Length: 1,991 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • An Unneeded Wall

    An Unneeded Wall

    An Unneeded Wall Today we must address an issue that is very urgent in our nation today. Today we will debate the building of 700 additional miles of wall across the U.S.-Mexico border. Some say that this is a necessary measure in the fight against the ever growing threat of terrorism in the globalized world we live in today. Some say that illegal aliens will continue to over run our country, stealing jobs from citizens

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    Essay Length: 596 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Steve
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable and rotting yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. Okonkwo remembered that tragic year with a cold shiver throughout the rest of his life. It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. He knew that

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    Essay Length: 1,616 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Fall of the House of Usher

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    "The Fall of the House of Usher" Summary The narrator approaches the House of Usher on a "dull, dark, and soundless day." This house--the estate of his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher--is very gloomy and mysterious. The narrator writes that the house seems to have collected an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. He notes, however, that although the house itself is decaying in pieces (for example, individual stones

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    Essay Length: 1,254 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Although his father was a lazy man who earned no titles in the Ibo tribe, Okonkwo is a great man in his home of Umuofia, a group of nine villages in Nigeria. Okonkwo despised his father and does everything he can to be nothing like the man. As a young man, Okonkwo began building his social status by defeating a great wrestler, propelling him into society's eye. He is hard working and shows no weakness

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    Essay Length: 506 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Fall of the House of Usher

    The Fall of the House of Usher

    "The Fall of the House of Usher" Summary The narrator approaches the House of Usher on a "dull, dark, and soundless day." This house--the estate of his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher--is very gloomy and mysterious. The narrator writes that the house seems to have collected an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. He notes, however, that although the house itself is decaying in pieces (for example, individual stones

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    Essay Length: 1,253 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Why Was It Possible for Rome to Become an Empire and Last So Long. What Were the Reasons for It's Fall?

    Why Was It Possible for Rome to Become an Empire and Last So Long. What Were the Reasons for It's Fall?

    Fall of Rome Essay: Why was it possible for Rome to become an empire and last so long. What were the reasons for it's fall? Rome was one of the greatest empires of the ancient world. The early Roman state was founded in 509 B.C. after the Romans drove out the hated Etruscan king. By this time Rome had already grown from a cluster of small villages to a small city. Little did the settlers

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    Essay Length: 591 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Wide Sargasso Sea Motif Walls Essay

    Wide Sargasso Sea Motif Walls Essay

    Wide Sargasso Sea Essay Walls Walls. They have acted in the same way for centuries; they have given people a sense of security, yet at certain times walls turn on people. For some these walls of safety become walls of entrapment. Walls take the very same actions in Jean Rhys' novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, as they surround the main character, Antoinette Cosway, for her entire life. The use of walls acts as a significant part

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    Essay Length: 756 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

    The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow

    In 1863 Jim Crow was performing black face in major production halls. Jim Crow became a simble of racial discrimation. The erra of Jim Crow had begon at this time. This erra was a time were Jim Crow pushed for blacks have there rights taken from them. During the Jim Crow erra a lot of resterants and bathrooms had signs hanging outside that said coloreds only. Many blacks were fighting to start their commintuies because

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    Essay Length: 1,328 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Artur
  • Things Fall Apart (turtle Story Analysis)

    Things Fall Apart (turtle Story Analysis)

    Storytelling is a significant part of every cultural. Since the dawn of time human beings have passed down stories from generation to generation. Stories have many different purposes; perhaps the most notable is to preserve ethics and cultural traditions. In Chinua Achebe novel, Things Fall Apart, we observe the telling of many stories; most remarkable is the story of the Tortuous and the Birds. At its baseline, the story is purely entertainment. It is a

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    Essay Length: 367 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: Steve
  • The Fall and Rise of Cultures

    The Fall and Rise of Cultures

    The Fall and Rise of Cultures Jameson Gesford BUSM 3543: Organizational Communications Professor Linda Raymond December 19, 2006 One type of organizational culture, stemmed by war, is fading out. With the fall of this “conquer and command” culture another is rising. This new culture stemming from various events, such as political, new societal management theories, and generational employment shifts is more beneficial and productive. Compassing such great qualities as being more efficient and beneficial

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    Essay Length: 1,849 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Artur
  • The Falling Season

    The Falling Season

    The Falling Season The journey of Hal Clifford the author turned member of the Mountain Rescue Team-Aspen who starts out as an author writing about these special people, only to become one of them. This book is about the life and death drama of this elite team who puts strangers safety first. The team told the author Hal Clifford “If your going to write about us, then you must become one of us.” This assignment

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    Essay Length: 3,825 Words / 16 Pages
    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: Vika
  • Literary Analysis of Things Fall Apart

    Literary Analysis of Things Fall Apart

    In Things Fall Apart the Igbo society is dominated by gender roles. Husbands beat their wives just for bringing food a few minutes late. Women are completely discriminated against. In fact, it is an insult to call a man an agbala (a woman). To men, women exist in a world in which they are “to be seen not heard, coming and going, with mounds of foofoo, pots of water, market baskets, fetching kola, being

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    Submitted: May 8, 2010 By: David
  • The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo

    The Rise and Fall of Comrade Zylo

    1. Everything had become clear. That slender curtain of doubt was torn. Araniti was officially informed that he was to be promoted to the post held by comrade Zylo.The people congratulated him for the new post, expressing their pleasure with a lot of praise. Araniti, self-controlled and as always cold-blooded, thanked them and left with his eyebrows knitted. Comrade Zylo was handing over his dossier, explaining the instructions and plans .He was trying to be

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    Submitted: May 10, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart There was a man who dreamed as a child of being well known and respected throughout his village and neighboring villages. This man, Okonkwo, worked hard at his goal, and he achieved it. Okonkwo, a man with great strength and personality, had achieved his goal to become rich and famous, a privilege that was unseen before in his family. Although Okonkwo reached his goal at an early age, his life began to

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    Essay Length: 514 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 12, 2010 By: Vika
  • A Lover’s Tragic Fall

    A Lover’s Tragic Fall

    A Lover’s Tragic Fall The thought of being made a cuckhold, losing honor and respect, and foolishness all play an important role throughout William Shakespeare’s, Othello. The main character, Othello, is a tragic hero. He is well respected, he has a tragic flaw of machismo, and in the end his fall is far more than he deserves. Othello is a man of high stature in Venice. He is the general of the army, he

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    Essay Length: 1,670 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Jack
  • The Down Fall of Odysseus

    The Down Fall of Odysseus

    The Down Fall of Odysseus All throughout literature many characteristics bring the down of a person. No story is truer about that than The Odyssey. The Odyssey was a Greek epic told by the famous Homer. Odysseus is very clever and aggressive, but also very prideful. His pride causes his journey home to take many more years than expected. Odysseus' pride is the cause of his downfall, which Homer wants his readers to understand how

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    Submitted: May 16, 2010 By: Max
  • Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic

    Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic

    In 509 B.C., Rome became a republic, a government in which power is controlled by the common people. It was under this Republic that Rome grew and expanded by conquest into the most powerful nation in the world at the time. As Roman territory increased, however, politicians and generals became more and more powerful and hungry for power. A series of events during the 1st and 2nd centuries B.C. led to the demise of the

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    Submitted: May 20, 2010 By: regina
  • Critiques on Wall Street

    Critiques on Wall Street

    The article, "Greenspan gets another Fed term," in the New York Times discussed Alan Greenspan's success and failures during his term. The article was fairly easy reading. I found some statements to be quite amusing however, there were some issues discussed that was a little ambiguous. Reading this article, I learned that President Clinton nominated Alan Greenspan to a fourth term as chairman of the nation's central bank. I had no clue as to what

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    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Mike
  • Fall of the Ming Dynasty

    Fall of the Ming Dynasty

    Raymond Trombley The long reign of the Ming dynasty bridged two periods during which China was ruled by foreign invaders, the Mongols (1271 1368) and the Manchus (1644 1912). The first Ming emperor, Chu Yuan chang, drove the Mongols from Peking in 1368. After providing China with nearly three centuries of relative peace, stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty lost the capital city to a Manchu army in 1644. The Mongol Empire, which in its

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    Submitted: May 22, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Rise and Fall of Kate Chopin

    The Rise and Fall of Kate Chopin

    The Rise and Fall of Kate Chopin Kate Chopin once stated that the only true subject for great fiction is “human existence in the subtle, complex, true meaning, stripped of the veil with which ethical and conventional standards have draped it” (Foy 1991). Likewise, Chopin has written almost one hundred short stories, three novels, and one play: all about the people she knew and places she had experienced in her lifetime. Chopin’s work was categorized

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    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Janna
  • La Vey Pushed the Domino but It only Rocked, We Have to Make It Fall

    La Vey Pushed the Domino but It only Rocked, We Have to Make It Fall

    “La Vey pushed the domino but it only rocked, we have to make it fall “ God is dead This is a fact. He might have been a alive not too long ago in fact, but now he is definitely dead. If he isn’t explain to me why hasn’t there been an apparition in the last 100 years or so. And the Mexicans finding the Virgin of Guadalupe every where doesn’t count. The Catholic Church

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    Essay Length: 533 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Thing Fall Apart

    Thing Fall Apart

    “That man was one of the greatest men in Umuofia. You drove him to kill himself; and now he will be buried like a dog...” Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe is the story of trials and tribulations that the main character, Okonkwo, has to overcome in anyway that he can. Some cultures may have seen Okonkwo as a warrior, a strong man, a manly man, a great farmer etc., but I do

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    Essay Length: 1,283 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Janna
  • Falling Water

    Falling Water

    Falling Water Falling water, one of Frank Lloyd Wright's most widely acclaimed works, was designed for the family of Pittsburgh department store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann. The key to the setting of the house is the waterfall over which it is built. The falls had been a focal point of the family's activities, and they had indicated the area around the falls as as the location for a home. They were unprepared for Wright's suggestion

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    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Fall of Usher Themes

    The Fall of Usher Themes

    Major Themes Mortality: The plot of Poe's tale essentially involves a woman who dies, is buried, and rises from the grave. But did she ever die? Near the horrific finale of the tale, Usher screams: "We have put her living in the tomb!" Premature burial was something of an obsession for Poe, who featured it in many of his stories. In "The Fall of the House of Usher," however, it is not clear to what

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    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: Anna

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