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  • The Queen of Spades

    The Queen of Spades

    French connoisseurs already know Pushkin's The Queen of Spades in Mйrimйe's translation. It might appear impertinent to offer now a new version, and I do not doubt that the earlier one will appear more elegant than this one, which has no merit other than its scrupulous exactness. That is its justification. A preoccupation with explaining and rounding off induced Mйrimйe to blunt somewhat the crystalline peaks of the tale. We have resisted adding anything to

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Ebonics: The Language of African Slaves and Their Descendants

    Ebonics: The Language of African Slaves and Their Descendants

    Dr. Williams and a group of Black scholars first coined the terms Ebonics in 1973 when referring to the language spoken by African slaves and their descendants. Ebonics, which is derived from the word ebony, which means black, and phonetics, which means sound, was adopted as the new term for Black English and African-American Vernacular English. Mary Rhodes Hoover states, “Many who condemn Ebonics refer to it as “bad grammar,” “lazy pronunciation,” or “slang.” However,

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    Essay Length: 531 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Jon
  • Review Of: Engineering, Biology, and Nanotechnology

    Review Of: Engineering, Biology, and Nanotechnology

    Article: Engineering, Biology, and Nanotechnology Written by Chris Phoenix, CRN Director of Research (CRN stands for Centre for Responsible Nanotechnology) Date published: April 2004 Source: The Internet Web page: http://www.crnano.org/essays04.htm, Summary The author thesis statement is to discuss how Engineering and Biology compete and combine to form the relatively new science called Ў§NanotechnologyЎЁ. The methodology used by the writer, member of CNRЎXCenter for Responsible NanotechnologyЎX, is mostly the exemplification of the concepts, stating differences and

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    Essay Length: 1,207 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Review About Technology

    Review About Technology

    Critical Review Quinn, Chapter 1 Summary The first chapter of the book is basically discussing the different ways in which technologies in this world have changed from old-fashioned, one tasked computers to every computer in this present age being modernised and able to process a variety of tasks at the same time. It also talks about what computers in this age do for us, and how much we depend on it due to factors like

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    Essay Length: 427 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: July
  • Lion in Winter Play Review

    Lion in Winter Play Review

    "The Lion in Winter" was performed on Saturday November 22nd was not as good as I thought it was going to be. The set was a great design and looked as it should for the time period. However, I didn't like how scenes were changed. The set should have been designed to encompass more aspects of the scene structure. There was a lot of unnecessary movement on stage when there shouldn't have been. Stage hands

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    Essay Length: 365 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Vika
  • Critique of a Film Script

    Critique of a Film Script

    Critique of a Film Script Star Wars: A New Hope In this critique, I will be discussing how Star Wars: A New Hope, can be said to repeat or fit in with traditional film patterns. First of all, the film has a linear narrative, in that it goes from beginning to end in chronological order. In regard to a traditional three act structure, this script can be said to follow it in two different respects.

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Cancer Incidence and Mortality of African Americans in Texas

    Cancer Incidence and Mortality of African Americans in Texas

    Cancer Incidence and Mortality of African Americans in Texas Cancer is a large classification of diseases characterized by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnormal cells. Undetected and uncontrolled, it can ultimately result in death. Causes of cancer can be categorized into three factors: external (chemicals, tobacco smoke, radiation, viruses), internal (hormones, immune conditions, genetics) and lifestyle (tobacco and alcohol use, unprotected sun exposure, poor nutrition, physical inactivity). Many cancers can be cured if detected and

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: July
  • Dames, Coppers, and Crooks: A Look at Film Noir

    Dames, Coppers, and Crooks: A Look at Film Noir

    Dames, Coppers, and Crooks: A Look At Film Noir Film noir is a style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic “Golden Age” period until about 1960. Frank Nino, a French film critic, first coined the label film noir, which literally means black film or cinema, in 1946. Nino noticed the trend of how “dark” and black the looks

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    Essay Length: 1,262 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Photography Review

    Photography Review

    Photography Review Joel Meyerowitz spent the summer of 1976 and 1977 taking magnificent photographs, which he later published in 1997 in a book called "Cape light." These photographs were taken in Cape Cod, Massachusetts around the Truro-Provincetown area in the summer. His book is full of marvelous photographs, which depict a typical summer up on the Cape. These pictures may seem beautiful to anyone. However, these pictures possess more meaning to anyone who has ever

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Janna
  • African American Cinema

    African American Cinema

    Black Cinema The subject of African-Americans in Motion Pictures provides some of the most interesting studies along with the many controversial interpretations of the roles as actors they played on screen. As far back as the silent films era, African-Americans have been featured in motion pictures playing roles depicting some aspect of acting and being purveyors of a black image. The messages or themes of these movies have over the years presented a mixture of

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Christian Review of Magnolia

    Christian Review of Magnolia

    Magnolia begins with the dramatic re-telling of three extraordinary events. A man is murdered by three men whose surnames iterate the town in which he was murdered, a scuba diver is lifted up by a seaplane and dropped onto a forest fire, and a man’s failed suicide attempt turns successful when he is accidentally shot by his shotgun-wielding mother. Such events hold little importance in the actual story of Magnolia, a story of how the

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    Essay Length: 954 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Wall - the Musical Film

    The Wall - the Musical Film

    Is there Anybody in There? In the musical film, The Wall, Roger Waters and Pink Floyd portray the protagonist, Pink, as a man who is delving into the realm of insanity. Over the course of the movie, Pink slowly spirals downward and becomes more paranoid and schizophrenic. His hallucinations increase in both quantity and horror. However, Pink’s fall into total insanity is mirrored by that of Chief Bromden in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the

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    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Anna
  • African American Culture

    African American Culture

    African American Culture Music Spirituals This is a religious song sung by the black people in the southern part of the US and are often influenced by African melodies. The spirituals are typical working songs and often content stories and persons from the Bible. Many of the slaves, in fact, thought of themselves as modern children of Israel who were looking for freedom. The songs first become well-known outside the southern states when the slaves

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    Essay Length: 1,168 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Janna
  • Lord of the Flies - Book Review

    Lord of the Flies - Book Review

    The symbols in the book “Lord of the flies” all reinforce the theme of the novel. All of the characters themselves were very symbolic. Ralph is a symbol of civilization, he is always the one who attempts to organize and accomplish things in order to better the group, like the fire and the building of shelters. Jack, on the other hand, is a symbol of anarchy. The struggle between Ralph and Jack is symbolic of

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Vika
  • African-Americans Segregates Themselves

    African-Americans Segregates Themselves

    The argument that African-Americans segregates themselves from other groups is not a valid argument. It is not partly because of history, since municipal ordinance in the early 1900's determined where African-Americans could live, which are now considered ghettos. A reason why this ordinance was in existence is because Chicago is an older city that grew during a time when racial struggles were occurring. This history is what gives Chicago a high index of dissimilarity, which

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Kevin
  • African Ecosystem

    African Ecosystem

    African Ecosystem African Ecosystem The individual organism being a lion on the African wilderness is an endanger species that struggles in life to feed it self, and its pack members. In Africa there are animals that need to eat other animals to survive, and the lion is on the top chain. The producers of these ecosystems are plant that animals consume to survive in the harsh environment that Africa percents to this animals. The

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    Essay Length: 376 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Films Unprecedented

    The Films Unprecedented

    The films Unprecedented: the 2000 Presidential Election, Uprooted, Tragedy in the Holy Land and Bowling for Columbina are the video that we have been watched in the class. These four films are all somewhat relate to our discussion about Human Rights. The first film Unprecedented is the riveting story about the battle for the Presidency in Florida and the undermining of democracy in AmericaThe. Second film uprooted is about three stories of immigrants who left

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: regina
  • Seabiscuit - Movie Review

    Seabiscuit - Movie Review

    Today, I would like to introduce a film to all of you. It is called Ў§SeabiscuitЎЁ. The story background was the Great Depression in America. In 1937, America was in the seventh year of the most catastrophic decade in its history. The economy had come crashing down, and millions upon millions of people had been torn loose from their jobs, their savings, their homes. The most brash of peoples was seized by despair, fatalism, and

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Everday Use: African-American Heritage

    Everday Use: African-American Heritage

    “Everyday Use:” African-American Heritage Everyone is raised within a culture with a set of customs and morals handed down by those generations before us. As individuals, we view and experience heritage in different ways. During history, different ethnic groups have struggled with finding their place within society. In the 1950s and 60s African Americans faced a great deal of political and social discrimination based on the tone of their skin. After the Civil Rights

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Steve
  • Stephen King’s Why We Crave Horror Films

    Stephen King’s Why We Crave Horror Films

    As I was lying in bed recalling the event happened an hour before I was thinking to myself that I will never look at lightning the same way again. Thunder and lightning was still present in the night sky as I lay there in bed thanking God I was alive and well. Each flash of lightning lit the entire room and each clap of thunder rattled the windows of my hotel room. Lightning can seem

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Music Review

    Music Review

    Nerva and Robenson Altino, better known as the Altino brothers, are two virtuoso pianists who have taken the world by storm with their combination of style and technique on the piano. On February 16, 2008, the Altino Brothers graced Oakwood University by performing live in music concert series. The duo pianists played a wide variety of songs, ranging from J.S. Bach and Richard Wagner to I. Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff. While all of the piano

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    Submitted: November 19, 2009 By: Wendy
  • African-American Studies

    African-American Studies

    African-American Studies The aspect of African-American Studies is key to the lives of African-Americans and those involved with the welfare of the race. African-American Studies is the systematic and critical study of the multidimensional aspects of Black thought and practice in their current and historical unfolding (Karenga, 21). African-American Studies exposes students to the experiences of African-American people and others of African descent. It allows the promotion and sharing of the African-American culture. However,

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    Essay Length: 1,298 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Edward
  • Let Your Life Speak : Review

    Let Your Life Speak : Review

    Reflection: Let Your Life Speak Throughout my reading of this book, I often felt like Palmer was talking to me specifically. What I mean by that is the topics he covered in this book, especially those concerning the meaning of vocation as well as the idea of reclaiming the gift you were originally given when you were brought into this world, really hit home for me. I really liked learning about the meaning of the

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Movie Review: Fight Club

    Movie Review: Fight Club

    Dewhitte H. Davis Daniels ENG-1013 March 31, 2005 I Am Jack’s Paper The movie Fight Club shakes the foundations of our democratic nation, spits on our capitalist society, and makes all who watch it look at the American way of life differently. In a country driven by consumption, one can imagine the movie Fight Club rubs certain people the wrong way. When Edward Norton was asked why he decided to take the role as

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Edward
  • Review Essay on Paolo Sarpi and the Uses of Information

    Review Essay on Paolo Sarpi and the Uses of Information

    A Closer Examination of Paolo Sarpi and the Uses of Information in the Seventeenth-Century Venice Paolo Sarpi was a scholarly friar who was a driving force in trying to change government policy concerning the distribution of information and played a significant role in the politics of seventeenth-century Venice. Through his political ties and extensive information networks, he managed to make known his thoughts on just how powerful information could be in the proper as well

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike

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