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  • The Little Life I Carry

    The Little Life I Carry

    The day I found out I was pregnant was one of the most important days of my life. Babies are adorable. They are blessings from God. As a soon-to-be-mother, my unborn child gives me a wonderful feeling of excitement. It has been almost six months ago since I found out I was pregnant. I patiently wait for the day when she arrives. Everything in my life was planned out. I planned goals for the next

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    Essay Length: 581 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Near Death Experiences

    Near Death Experiences

    The fear of death has given rise to a host of speculations about afterlife. Religions, philosophies and cults have multiplied over the millennia, all trying to answer our need for comfort about this seemingly absurd fate that awaits each of us. And now science has turned its gaze toward the matter of death. (1) More specifically, near death experiences, (NDE). These experiences represent all races of people. All ages. All nationalities. All religions. No religion.

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    Essay Length: 1,769 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Death Penalty Is Wrong

    Death Penalty Is Wrong

    For most crimes committed in the United States a fine, sentence of time in jail or execution is the punishment. The death penalty is the punishment used in 38 states, and many other countries, as a way of disposing the people in society who are mentally or emotionally disturbed, love their families very much, have a bad temper, or just plain made a mistake. These reasons account for many homicides that take place each year.

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: David
  • Give Life,give Blood!

    Give Life,give Blood!

    Give life, give blood! Imagine your mom, dad, son, and or, daughter in a tragic car accident, or diagnosed with cancer. The only chance of survival is a blood transfusion, because your blood type is not a match. We all expect that blood will be there for us or a loved one; however, hardly a fraction of people that can give blood actually do. At some point of our lives we may face a time

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: regina
  • Is Dimmesdales Death Reasonable

    Is Dimmesdales Death Reasonable

    Arthur Dimmesdale, from The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was a minister. He gave powerful and touching sermons; he was the overall image of a perfect minister. However, he had a grave secret that ate at him from within. He had committed adultery with one of his worshippers and fathered a child. Hawthorne uses Dimmesdale to make a point that guilt for unpunished sin will erode a person until they die. The reason for which

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Vika
  • Life Is a Dream

    Life Is a Dream

    The baroque style was one of emotion. “Characterized by dramatic expression, theatrical spectacle, and spatial grandeur, the baroque became the hallmark of an age of exuberant expansion.” (Fiero, 1) In literature these characteristics can be seen a number of different ways. The use of antitheses sets a dramatic tone by creating a direct contrast between feelings as well as creating tension. The repeated occurrence of disorientation, both literally and figuratively, will also create a more

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Anna
  • Social Life

    Social Life

    Social Life The aftermath of the Civil War made a mark on writers during the era. The occurrences and reconstruction of America had changed some writing to shift from realism to depicting social life in literature. The view of many writers focused on the effects of the war like death, sadness, and people confronted with poverty. This is followed up with the Great Depression and World War I. People saw war first hand in bombings,

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Emily Dickinson "i Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" "because I Could Stop for Death"

    Emily Dickinson "i Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" "because I Could Stop for Death"

    Death in Emily Dickinson Poems Death has always been one of man kinds biggest questions. Where do you go after death, what happens after death, and what do you see after death. Are questions that no one has answers to, but is something many people think about and therefore make death a scary thought. Emily Dickinson, is a poet who also has an interest in death and the after life. She writes two poems

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Fatih
  • California Gold Rush

    California Gold Rush

    California History Gold Rush Essay I disagree with the quote stating that the Gold Rush had relatively small impact on the history of California. I believe that the Gold Rush had a very large impact on California. California went from a cow town to industrial virtually over night. The gold was discovered in 1848. By 1852 400,000 people rushed in. This would be the largest peacetime migration recorded. People came from all over the United

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    Essay Length: 884 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Edward
  • Life on Earth

    Life on Earth

    Life on earth A. Procaryotic Organisms 1. The prokaryotic cell, unlike the eukaryotic cell, is able to survive in an oxygen-deprived, mineral-deprived and vitamin-deprived environment. The normal cells in our body, the eukaryotic cells need oxygen, vitamins and minerals to be able to survive. 2. The classification system of prokaryotes Classification of Prokaryotes Procaryotes can be divided into two distinct groups, archaea and eubacteria. Each group has its own characteristics. The characteristics of the archaea

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Rights to Receive Life Support Treatment

    Rights to Receive Life Support Treatment

    Rights of Death Row inmates to receive life support treatment The law is constantly challenged with balancing conflicting interests in society. One of the most common of these conflicts occurs between individuals' need for liberty and society's need for safety and order. Throughout history, this conflict has come before the court in a variety of guises. This paper explores one such conflict: the fairness in allocation of life support utilities to inmates serving on death

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Top
  • Don’t Let Credit Cards Rule Your Life

    Don’t Let Credit Cards Rule Your Life

    Don't Let Credit Cards Rule Your Life Did you know that the average credit-card holder in this country has ten cards, and the average family owes over $7,500? That’s a record. And did you know that one dollar of every three in consumer debt is in credit cards? The fact is, credit card debt is rising faster than Americans' income, and more folks are falling behind in their payments. So today I’m going to look

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Wendy
  • College Life

    College Life

    College Life As children grow up, they have to move on. College is one of the stages that you will probably go through. As you come up on these new things, you have to make the right decisions. If you make the wrong choice it could ruin your life. If the wrong choices are made there will be long and short term results. Two of the biggest mistakes a student can make are not going

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Top
  • In the Wake of the Plague - Black Death

    In the Wake of the Plague - Black Death

    Norman F. Cantor, In the Wake of the Plague (New York: Harper Collins First Perennial edition, 2001) examines how the bubonic plague, or Black Death, affected Europe in the fourteenth century. Cantor recounts specific events in the time leading up to the plague, during the plague, and in the aftermath of the plague. He wrote the book to relate the experiences of victims and survivors and to illustrate the impact that the plague had on

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Real Life Violence Vs Media

    Real Life Violence Vs Media

    Keep Our Rights; Lose the Real-Life Violence Popular culture can easily be defined as today's trends, music, film, TV, vocabulary, video games and fashion (in this essay, only film, TV and video games will be discussed). It can be seen and heard at anytime, anyplace, it’s literally everywhere. It can be seen my millions, including our youth. However, some might argue that that is a negative matter, and that we as a society need to

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Kevin
  • My Boring Life

    My Boring Life

    Like Mr. Crabiel, I literally work tirelessly in many academic and leadership roles. I sleep no more than six hours a night because of my desire to expertly meet my many commitments. Throughout my life, I have worked as long and as hard as I possibly can to effect beneficial changes in both school and society. During the summer of tenth grade, I took a number theory course at Johns Hopkins University with students from

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Black Death

    The Black Death

    The Black Death The Black Death is one of the most lethal disease out breaks in history. The Black Death's widespread terror accounted for nearly one third of the deaths in Europe. The plague brought about a great depression that was felt throughout Europe. The Great Plague brought out the worst in people during these struggling times. There were severe shortages of labor created from the Black Death. Rioting spread throughout the Europe during these

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: July
  • The Mircle of Life - Prenatal Development

    The Mircle of Life - Prenatal Development

    Prenatal Development-The Miracle of Life Have you ever thought about what an absolute miracle your life is? Imagine how you came to be. Out of thousands of eggs and millions of sperm, one egg and one sperm united to produce you. Had the union of sperm and egg come a day or even a month earlier or later, you might have been every different, maybe the opposite sex or with blonde hair of longer legs.

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Victor
  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman in 1949 and established himself as a respected modern American author. He was born in 1915 in New York City. He began writing plays when he was a student at the University of Michigan; even though, his family suffered financial problems with the depression and had to work to get his college education. His play Death of a Salesman won a Pulitzer prize and was made into

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    Essay Length: 863 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Janna
  • The Death Penalty

    The Death Penalty

    When the death penalty is brought up for debate, some people see it to be unfair or an inhuman way of punishment. Others might say that the punishment fits the crime. I believe that the death penalties also known as capital punishment should be used in our county’s justice system as a form of punishment for horrendous crimes. Capital punishment was legal until 1972, after the Supreme Court declared it to be unconstitutional in Furman

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    Death Penalty Society has always used punishment to discourage would-be criminals from unlawful action. Since society has the highest interest in preventing murder, it should use the strongest punishment available to deter murder, and that is the death penalty. If murderers are sentenced to death and executed, potential murderers will think twice before killing for fear of losing their own life. For years, criminologists analyzed murder rates to see if they fluctuated with the likelihood

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Creating a Philosophy of Life

    Creating a Philosophy of Life

    In his recent research, Pierre Hadot calls our attention to the original vocation of the philosopher: not as scholar but as sage. Hadot attempts to recapture the early understanding of the study of philosophy as an entry into a mode de vie, a way of life richly satisfying and personally rewarding. The challenge for us today, he claims, is to rediscover the unity between two different visions of philosophy: philosophy as scientific discourse and philosophy

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Death Penalty, Right or Wrong?

    The Death Penalty, Right or Wrong?

    The Death Penalty, Right or Wrong? Fear of death discourages people from committing crimes. If capital punishment were carried out more it would prove to be the crime preventative it was partly intended to be. Most criminals would think twice before committing murder if they knew their own lives were at stake. As it turns out though very few people are executed and so the death penalty is not a satisfactory deterrent. Use of the

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Like many other novels and plays, Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, was made into a movie. Directors try to portray the book exactly how it is written, but this can sometimes make the movie too long. When actors and actresses are hired that differ from characters in the story, changes need to be made. When Death of a Salesman was being filmed, Dustin Hoffman was casted to play the part of Willy

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Steve
  • Work, Play, and Worship in "whose Life Is It Anyway?"

    Work, Play, and Worship in "whose Life Is It Anyway?"

    In the film Whose Life Is It Anyway? we are introduced to the character of Ken. Ken’s life is changed after a life-altering car accident leaves him a quadriplegic. Ken, being unable to live the life he is accustomed asks to be released from the hospital and refuses medical treatment. Throughout this paper I will delve into the roles that work, play, and worship played in Ken’s life both pre-accident and post-accident. The roles of

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Mike

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