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  • Great Gatsby

    Great Gatsby

    The story of Jay Gatsby is a romantic one that actually began years before. However, his romantic story turns into a troubling one when we realize that he is not the man he seems to be. The story of Jay Gatsby is not only filled with romance, but with secrecy, obsession, and tragedy. The symbol of Jay Gatsby’s troubled romantic obsession is a green light at the end of the dock of Daisy Buchanan,

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Algerian Civil War 1992-2002

    The Algerian Civil War 1992-2002

    Chris Thorman POLA 293-04 Research Paper April 7, 2003 "Thus, what motivates men to slay the enemy is anger," Sun Tzu says in The Art of War. The conflict between Algerian Islamic fundamentalists and the Algerian military backed government is rooted in anger. The conflict, which began as skirmishes between government forces and Islamic fundamentalists, has taken on the proportions of a civil war as fundamentalists carried out kidnappings, assassinations and other forms of civil

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Monika
  • Great Gatsby Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Great Gatsby Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald

    “The Great Gatsby” written by F. Scott Fitzgerald was about a wealthy man named Gatsby who throws parties just to attract one woman. Gatsby's feelings for a woman named Daisy leads him to hard times that ends with his death. Two other characters died because of love a woman named Myrtle, and her husband Mr. Wilson. (TH) Love leads to arguments, jealousy, and a horrible accident all are the ingredients to the deaths in the

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Monika
  • The Great Alaska Debate

    The Great Alaska Debate

    The Great Alaska Debate WILDERNESS v.s. oil In the last great wild place in Alaska, a battle of epic proportion has unfolded. On one side is the conservationist lobbying to save the second largest national wildlife refuge, home to many different animals, tribes of Eskimos, and Native Americans. The other side is a partnership of oil companies led by Chevron U.S.A. lobbying to drill and extract a massive qualities of crude oil, under 15,200 feet

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • World War 2

    World War 2

    Introduction The start of World War II prompted countries to make large technological advances. With the war raging all around the world, and more and more countries entering the fray, it was especially important for governments to continue to develop new technologies to get a step up on their opponents. Many new weapons, vehicles, and ways of communication were developed and used against the Axis of Power. In today's modern wars, many of these technologies

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • War Driving to Disney World

    War Driving to Disney World

    Ў§War driving to Disney WorldЎЁ Summer of 2004 War driving involves roaming around a neighborhood looking for the increasingly numerous Ў§hot spotsЎЁ where high-speed InternetЎ¦s access is free. What I found interesting was that the hacks were pretty basic and that most of the information on how to break into default systems, how to look for Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) being enabled and other wireless steps could be found in a Google search. My brother

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: July
  • Democracy Makes America Great

    Democracy Makes America Great

    When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, little did he know he would mistakenly anchor in what is now known as the most powerful country in the world, the United States of America. Benefiting millions of people, it could be said that this was perhaps the most profitable and greatest mistake ever made. Columbus had originally intended to find a western route to India. Not even knowing there was a ginormous land mass

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    Harry has finally come of age, and finally started on his final journey to defeat Voldemort for good. The Dursely’s are forced to go into hiding so that Voldemort’s Death Eaters will not torture them for information, and Harry sets off with Ron and Hermione on a difficult quest to find and destroy the last of Voldemort’s Horcruxes. Only once those have been destroyed, Harry knows, can Voldemort truly be killed. It’s not easy. Harry

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Nature of Peter the Great

    The Nature of Peter the Great

    The Nature of Peter the Great Peter the Great ruled Russia from 7 May (27 April O.S.) 1682 until his death. Peter carried out a policy of "Westernization" and expansion that transformed Muscovite Russia into a major European power. He also created a series of reforms that have more political freedoms and flexibility in the nobility, or lack there of, of his citizens. But why did he do all these things, more greedy ulterior motive,

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Korean War

    Korean War

    Korean war By: Kel E-mail: khalid133@email.com The Korean War took place between the years of 1950 and 1953. The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II, in 1945, Korea was freed from Japan. The United States troops occupied the southern part of the country and Russian forces took the north. The very first and main reason we

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • War on Iraq

    War on Iraq

    Police line streets of Benton Harbor after nights of riots Residents outraged by deadly police chase Wednesday, June 18, 2003 Posted: 8:57 PM EDT (0057 GMT) State and local police make their presence felt Wednesday in Benton Harbor, Michigan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story Tools -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELATED • Interactive: Benton Harbor riots • Map: Benton Harbor, Michigan -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- • CNN Access: Mayor: Police relationship unkind to citizens VIDEO Bullets, fire and rage on the streets of Benton Harbor,

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Steve
  • End of the Vietnam War and Effects on America

    End of the Vietnam War and Effects on America

    U.S. Withdrawal U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's decision not to seek reelection in 1968 prompted serious negotiations to end the war to began. Between 1968 and 1969, contacts in Paris between North Vietnam and the United States were expanded to include South Vietnam and the NLF. Under the leadership of President Richard M Nixon, the United States changed its tactics to combine U.S. troop withdrawals with intensified bombing and the invasion of Communist sanctuaries in Cambodia

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Anna
  • Revolutionary War

    Revolutionary War

    Seventeen sixty-three was a year of great celebration, it was the year of the French and Indian War’s end. The British defeated the French and their Native American allies, in North America. The colonists were pleased with the British victory, because they could now live in peace. However, as time past and the cost of the war were being charged to the colonies, the 13 began to feel enmity towards England. The Americans became unified

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Bred
  • Causes of World War I

    Causes of World War I

    World War I There were many causes to World War I, most of them very frightening and disheartening. This essay will describe two different causes of “The Great War”. First, there was a clash between two coalitions of European countries. Second, the Archduke of Austria-Hungary, Francis Ferdinand, was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. One of the causes of WWI was the clash between two coalitions of European countries. The first coalition, known as the Allied

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Great Gatsby Compared to the Wasteland

    The Great Gatsby Compared to the Wasteland

    Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby and Elliot’s The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties, and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Iraq War

    Iraq War

    The essay is effects on the wabout whether we beleive in iraq war or not and what are the post war orld? I will discuss these issues with respect to what the american thinks and what the iraqi people think about this war. I will conclude it with my opinions about the war . The ideas are based on the information collected from the blogs on the internet. Majorities in all Muslim nations surveyed

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Jon
  • Mirror Stage of Development Analysis on the Wizard of Oz (magic Art of the Great Humbug)

    Mirror Stage of Development Analysis on the Wizard of Oz (magic Art of the Great Humbug)

    In the children’s story, “The Magic Art of the Great Humbug”, all of the characters run into problems with their identities. The old man has the most difficulty with his own identity. He wishes to be a great wizard with superhuman capabilities. The Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion have trouble with desiring qualities that are only common to humans. Finally, Dorothy runs into trouble with the symbols around her that establish her identity. The

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War

    Saad Bhutta U.S. History II Professor: Clark 12 May 2005 Vietnam War From the 1880s until World War II (1939-1945), France governed Vietnam as part of French Indochina. (Indochina also included Cambodia and Laos, and was ruled by the emperor Bao Dai). During this time, the nations of Indochina fought for their sovereignty. In 1940, the Japanese troops invaded and occupied French Indochina, (causing the United States to step in and demand Japan to leave).

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Artur
  • English Civil War

    English Civil War

    English Revolution The history of the English Revolution from 1649 to 1660 can be briefly told. Cromwell's shooting of the Levellers at Burford made a restoration of monarchy and lords ultimately inevitable, for the breach of big bourgeoisie and gentry with the popular forces meant that their government could only be maintained either by an army (which in the long ran proved crushingly expensive as well as difficult to control) or by a compromise with

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • War of Independence

    War of Independence

    War of Independence Arabs and Jews have been at war for over 50 years. People call this The 50 years of war. Arabs declare the rightful land theirs after the war. Martial law soon came in to effect. Jews and even Arabs would blow up buildings and cars Etc. Great Britain came in the picture and ruled for over 3 decades. Arabs do not want anything to do with Jews. The Arabs say that if

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening

    Identify the major reform movements of the Second Great Awakening. To what extent were reformers during the Second Great awakening successful in achieving their goals? The reformers of the Great Awakening were very effective in achieving their goals due to their future advancements, and the major reform movements included reforms in abolition, Women’s rights, and Temperance. The abolition movement spread the idea that that slavery was wrong. It would eventually lead to the outlaw of

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Great Depression in the United States

    Great Depression in the United States

    The collapse of the US stock market in 1929 that led to a worldwide economic depression caused the Great Depression in the United States. For most of the nation, the "Black Tuesday" (also sometimes referred to as "Black Thursday" or "Black Monday") stock market crash of October 29, 1929, marked the beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, and deflation. Although some observers think the causes of the Great Depression are still uncertain, most

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Yan
  • Great Gatsby Info

    Great Gatsby Info

    Response paper on Gatsby The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, has just returned from war and goes east to work, but being restless in the west. In flashbacks he reveals the story of Jay Gatsby, his next-door neighbor. Immediately after Nick moves to West Egg, he visits Daisy Buchanan, his second cousin once removed and her husband Tom, a fellow Yale graduate, for dinner. Here Nick meets Jordan Baker, Daisy’s friend from Louisville, who

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: David
  • Pittsburgh and the Civil War

    Pittsburgh and the Civil War

    Of course it is widely known that the Civil War touched almost every part of the south and also we all know about the major battle of Gettysburg two hundred miles away from our fair city. But when people think of and study the Civil War Pittsburgh is not brought up all that often except for the mention of the men that Pittsburgh sent to the war. If one does a little bit of research

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The American Civil War

    The American Civil War

    The American Civil War was from 1861 to 1865 it was a civil war between the United States of America and the Southern slave states of the newly-formed Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis. The Union included all of the free states and the five slaveholding border states and was led by Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party. Republicans opposed the expansion of slavery into territories owned by the United States, and their victory

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike