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  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    "Things Fall Apart" is set in Umuofia, the hometown of Okonkwo, a proud, angry, and hard-working man in his prime. The character Okonkwo always felt a need to prove himself because he is the son of a failure. His father was a man named Unoka who was heavily in debt because he preferred playing his flute and drinking palm wine to farming. Okonkwo first established himself as a man by beating the famous wrestler Amalinze

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    Essay Length: 1,287 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Summary and Analysis Of: Things Fall Apart

    Summary and Analysis Of: Things Fall Apart

    Summary and Analysis of: Things Fall Apart There are many lessons that we learn in life. Chinua Achebe?s Things Fall Apart teaches one of life?s greatest lesson. True, lasting happiness matters more than ones social rank or ones rank of wealth. Okonkwo, who is the main character in this book, is trying his best to be the man that is father was not. His father was a well known bum and a man who owed

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    Essay Length: 673 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Vika
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart Chapter 1 Okonkwo is a wealthy and respected warrior of the Umuofia clan, a lower Nigerian tribe that is part of a consortium of nine connected villages, including Okonkwo’s village, Iguedo. In his youth, he brought honor to his village by beating Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling contest. Until his match with Okonkwo, the Cat had been undefeated for seven years. Okonkwo is completely unlike his now deceased father, Unoka, who

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    Essay Length: 1,798 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Max
  • Muslim Empires

    Muslim Empires

    The Muslim Empires Since the beginning, all empires have faced change in many ways, declining and rising in status. Many empires have collapsed, only to start again under a different name. Like all empires, the three Muslim Empires, the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals have faced this inevitable state. Although each individual empire is different, they each have similarities in their reasons for decline. Whether it is social, religious, economic, or political reasons, the empires, like

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    Essay Length: 1,069 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Yan
  • Do Falling Birth Rates Pose a Threat to Human Welfare?

    Do Falling Birth Rates Pose a Threat to Human Welfare?

    Do Falling Birth Rates Pose a Threat to Human Welfare? The issue of whether falling birth rates pose threat to human welfare is an issue that British economist, Thomas Malthus dwelled upon many centuries ago. Malthus authored Essay on the Principle of Population in 1978. In his essay, Malthus posed his hypothesis that unchecked population growth always exceeds the growth of means of subsistence. Actual population growth is kept in line with food supply growth

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    Essay Length: 1,489 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • Fall of the Qing Dynasty

    Fall of the Qing Dynasty

    The fall of the Qing dynasty was caused by internal changes within the dynasty, peasant revolts, the rise of Sun Yat-Sen and overall western influence. What happens when there is a trade imbalance between two major trading countries? Just ask Great Britain and China. It’s hard to get by when the country you need goods from does not really need to trade goods with you. This is what happened with Great Britain and the Qing

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    Essay Length: 899 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Things Fall Apart: Inevitable Changes

    Things Fall Apart: Inevitable Changes

    In the novel by Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, there is a debate between whether Okonkwo's demise was a result of his going against the will of the gods, or that the new changes were inevitable. The second group argues that Okonkwo's acts do not destroy the tribe, but it is the tribe's lack of adaptability that brings it to an end. Firstly, the title, Things Fall Apart, seems like a statement, a universal truth.

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    Essay Length: 337 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • Greek and Roman Culture

    Greek and Roman Culture

    Greek and Roman culture, although similar, are very different and interesting. Since the Romans adopted culture from the Greeks, many traditions are the same. When the Romans conquered the Hellenistic cities, they became fascinated with the idea of a Greek style of doing things. All things Greek were now considered popular. This is how much of the Greek way of life made its way into the Roman society. The first part of culture that the

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    Essay Length: 1,225 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Rise and Fall of Newspapers

    The Rise and Fall of Newspapers

    The Rise and Fall of Newspapers “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspaper without a government. I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”(Thomas Jefferson, 1787). Newspapers today are said to be crucial in the democratic process and preventing complete corruption throughout our society. They provide the public with information and facts that help them form their own opinions that are necessary for

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    Essay Length: 1,148 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Greek and Roman Influence on Western Civilization

    Greek and Roman Influence on Western Civilization

    Western civilization is what we call modern society that mainly includes North America and Western Europe. But how did this western way of life come to be? Their are many different ways but mainly through ancient cultures. The two main ones are the Greek and Roman. Greece with their golden age and Rome with its great Empire and Republic and also together. Their are many ways in which western civilization is like the ancient Greek

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    Essay Length: 587 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Roman Body Armor

    Roman Body Armor

    During the expansion of Rome and the acquisition of new territory, the Roman armies were often met by heavy resistance and bloody conflicts. The armies needed a type of protection that would safely protect soldiers and would ensure victory for Rome. That is the reason armour (upper body) in particular was implemented to save soldiers on the battlefield. The armour had to meet certain standards of construction for it to be useful: Of these standards

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    Essay Length: 3,101 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Legends of the Fall

    Legends of the Fall

    “Legends of the Fall” -- directed by Edward Zwick and starring Brad Pitt, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Julia Ormond, and Aidan Quinn -- tells the story of Colonel Ludlow (Hopkins) and his three sons; Alfred, Tristan, and Samuel. “Legends of the Fall” is a sort of epic melodrama about three brothers, their father, and the woman who weaves among all of them. The film is primarily focused with the middle brother, played by Brad Pitt. Pitt

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Tommy
  • 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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    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Horror of “the Fall of the House of Usher”

    The Horror of “the Fall of the House of Usher”

    The Horror of “The Fall of the House of Usher” What is a horror? What does it mean to be terrified? The definition of a horror fiction is “fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the reader.” Since the 1960s, any work of fiction with a morbid, gruesome, surreal, or exceptionally suspenseful or frightening theme has come to be called “horror” (Wikipedia) . “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • An Analysis of the Meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998

    An Analysis of the Meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998

    While being born in the modern times, no woman knows what it was like to have a status less than a man’s. It is hard to envision what struggles many women had to go through in order to get the rights to be considered equal. In the essay The Meanings of Seneca Falls, 1848-1998, Gerda Lerner recalls the events surrounding the great women’s movement. Among the several women that stand out in the movement, Elizabeth

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Death of Celilo Falls

    Death of Celilo Falls

    The purpose of this essay is to examine and analyze Katrine Barber’s book, “Death of Celilo Falls”. In this book, Barber successfully seeks to tell the story of a momentous event in the history of the West, the building of the Dalles Dam in 1957. Celilo Falls was part of a nine-mile area of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Despite the fact that the Celilo Village still survives to this day in the

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    Essay Length: 1,545 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Victor
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Struggle between Change and Tradition As a story about a culture on the verge of change, Things Fall Apart deals with how the prospect and reality of change affect various characters. The tension about whether change should be privileged over tradition often involves questions of personal status. Okonkwo, for example, resists the new political and religious orders because he feels

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Janna
  • Romans

    Romans

    “ For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through redemption that came by Jesus Christ.” The first part of this passage says, “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”. As Christians we believe that nobody is blameless and good before God. We all fall short of his expectations by sinning and doing things that do not please him. We

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    Essay Length: 666 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Fatih
  • 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
  • Mughal Empire

    Mughal Empire

    While the Mughal Empire was extremely large in both size and population, it was very faulty and led to chaos in northern India, resulting in its decline and Britain’s control of India. During the rule of Aurangzeb Alamgir was the point when things started to decline. His corrupt policies and bad relationships with certain groups in India was the final event leading to the fall of an already weak empire. With all the chaos arising

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    Essay Length: 464 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Tasha
  • 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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    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

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