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  • Good and Bad of Teamwork

    Good and Bad of Teamwork

    Many people don’t like working in groups when one grade will apply to the whole group. I don’t mind working in this type of setting because all of the work is divided amongst the team. If everyone knows what they have to do in order to complete the assignment to the best of their ability, then the grade will reflect the effort of the individual, and most importantly the entire group. If I find that

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    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Anna
  • Modern and Classic Examples of Chaos

    Modern and Classic Examples of Chaos

    The Crucible by Arthur Miller was set in one of the most chaotic times in American history but not the last. In the 1950’s a similar haze of disarray fell on the people of America, in a period referred to as The Great American Red Scare. Like in The Crucible many were pressed and pressured to give names of the involved, whether it be witchcraft or “communist dealings”. Even highly respected of both societies

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Renaissance and Modern Art

    Renaissance and Modern Art

    During my second time visiting the museum, I looked at paintings from the 15th and 19th centuries. Two of the art works that I choose is "The Story of Joseph" from the Renaissance period and "The Marketplace" from the modern art period. Both of these paintings were from different time periods but they were also very similar in content and style. The first pieces that I choose were from the Renaissance period. It is titled

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night

    Do Not Go Gently into That Good Night

    Poetry Essay: “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” Dylan Thomas wrote “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” in 1951 in response to emotions he was feeling about his dying father. Thomas uses villanelle, tone, alliteration, and conceit to craft a masterful work, that gradually progresses encompassing the emotion and rage he is feeling, while maintaining control through diction and form. Thomas’s father was an outgoing military man most of his life.

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Edward
  • Greed Is Good -- Selling the American Dream

    Greed Is Good -- Selling the American Dream

    Advertising is such an integral part of our lives that being deluged with ads almost appears to be our natural state. We open a newspaper or magazine and expect to find pages that proclaim the virtues of products and firms. We turn on the television and are assailed with commercials for ten minutes of every half hour. Some social annalysts even claim that the purpose of television is to round up an audience to watch

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Good or Evil

    Good or Evil

    Good or Evil? The topic of this journal, is one that has caused much debate for a long time. Are we inherently good or evil at birth, or are we nurtured to be so? Many people believe that we have a natural tendency to be evil. Others think we are born good. To make thing a little bit clearer, I will give my definitions of what “good” and “evil” mean in this journal. “Good” as

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Jon
  • Video Games: More Good Than Bad

    Video Games: More Good Than Bad

    It’s Not Pac Man’s Fault Recently, videogames have been accused of increased violence among young people and have been blamed for society’s problems. However, I believe that videogames are not responsible for violence increase or other people’s actions. As a matter of fact, it’s quite the opposite situation. Videogames offer mental health benefits, improve social skills and enforce and incorporate academic skills. Although many adults think video games are nothing but a waste of time

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Modern America

    Modern America

    Where did some of modern America’s issues originate from? The answer to that is the Progressive Era. The Legislation of that era laid all of the groundwork for today, and much of it is still in public debate today. Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, three of the presidents from that era, all played roles in the groundwork. These presidents passed acts, tariffs, and amendments that are still with us, and debated today. The Progressive mind

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    Essay Length: 1,904 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Modernism

    Modernism

    Darkness. The good half of the day. Nobody around to pester him with their tedious small talk, and their unrevealing eyes. Lying. Everywhere. During the day, they wandered round I their thousands, each with their own pathetic life, their problems and attitudes. It irritated him to the point of suicide the way they went about their lives. Believing everything they saw on TV, the internet, or heard from politicians. Of all people, he thought, it

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • Depression Makes Good Theatre

    Depression Makes Good Theatre

    The story of the Federal Theatre Project is quite the epic tale. It was a product of the Great Depression, born under the Works Progress Administration, part of the New Deal, to create jobs for unemployed theatre artists. The Federal Theatre Project (FTP) created jobs for actors, designers, stagehands, and directors. It provided theatrical productions across the United States for people at low or no cost to the theatergoer, many of who could no longer

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    Essay Length: 595 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Steve
  • Modern Political Theory

    Modern Political Theory

    Some of the aspects of the community are a sense of identity and belonging. Being part of a community also sets certain boundaries which take us back to what the Grand Inquisitor said about how people seek to escape freedom. Wanting to live and worship in a community strengthens the idea of living within those boundaries which will automatically restrict freedom. The Grand Inquisitor says that people find freedom” dreadful”, he says “In the end

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Janna
  • Good Morning, Midnight Short Analysis of an Extract Ot the Book

    Good Morning, Midnight Short Analysis of an Extract Ot the Book

    Jean Rhys (1894-1979) a West Indian writer. Discuss how Rhys' style and thematic concerns in this passage are reflective of the period studied. The extract from Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys starts off with the entrance of "an old Englishwoman and her daughter", told to the reader by the omniscient narrator written in first-person. This extract is written in a stream-of-consciousness as there is some attempt of presenting to the reader what is going

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Edward
  • Foreshadowing in the Short Story a Good Man Is Hard to Find

    Foreshadowing in the Short Story a Good Man Is Hard to Find

    This story starts out with a grandmother who lives with her son and his family. The Family decides to drive down to Florida for a vacation even though the grandmother protests it and states that she would rather go to Tennessee. The main reason why she doesn’t want to go to Florida is because she has read about a crazed killer by the name of the Misfit who is on the run heading for Florida.

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Tasha
  • As Good as It Gets

    As Good as It Gets

    As Good As It Gets Before further investigation, I thought that As Good As It Gets was about a man, Melvin, with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. At first glance, this seemed like the obvious diagnosis; he portrayed both obsessions and compulsions. Melvin was very careful not to touch things that may have been germ ridden, such as door handles, borrowed jackets, and coughing children; he even brought his own dining utensils out to eat with him. He

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Bred
  • A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand

    A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand

    A Modern Form of Slavery: Trafficking of Burmese Women and Girls into Brothels in Thailand And Trapped by Inequality: Bhutanese Refugee Women in Nepal Index Introduction 3 Main Review 4 Important Facts 5 Government 5 Inside the Brothels 6 Help and Organizations 6 Reports Comparison 8 Similarities 8 Conclusion 9 Introduction The following assignment presents a research upon a topic which is going way far on time, and includes violation of human rights. It centers

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    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Max
  • Modernism

    Modernism

    Modernism is the overall art movement that started in the late 1800s and lasted to the mid-late 1900s. Artists of this time were primarily interested in how they presented their artistic ideas and issues rather than reproducing the world as it appears. Paul Cezanne is considered to be an important person at this time as he focused on planes and structure, as he painted a specific mountain over and over again to look at its

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Victor
  • Do Effective Managers Also Need to Be Good Leaders?

    Do Effective Managers Also Need to Be Good Leaders?

    Do Effective Managers Also Need To Be Good Leaders? Remember the difference between a boss and a leader: A boss says, "Go!" a leader says, "Let's go!" - E.M. Kelly In order to answer the above question, we first need to define managers and leaders. Each of who have their roles defined. Then, we should compare the differences and similarities between the two, and determine if effective managers need to be good leaders. A manager

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    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Bred
  • Canadian Health Care System, Good or Bad

    Canadian Health Care System, Good or Bad

    Canadian Health Care System, Good or Bad Pat and Hugh Armstrong, authors, in their article "Canada's System Is A Model For Health Care Reform", reprinted in Health Care: Opposing Viewpoints, argues that the Canadian health care system is superior to the United States' market-based system. They support their argument with three reasons. First, they reason that 96% Canadians prefer their health care system to the United States'. They use as support the five principles of

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Max
  • Land and Modern Individualism

    Land and Modern Individualism

    Land and Modern Individualism These days there have been many issues surrounding the topic of private property and eminent domain. I feel that eminent domain is a good way to keep the needs of the community and each person's individual property rights balanced. Even thought I believe individual property rights are more important that the needs of the community, I also believe the government sometimes has to take that property away for the better good

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Western Culture and Policies That Have Shaped the Modern World.

    Western Culture and Policies That Have Shaped the Modern World.

    Western culture and policies have shaped the modern world, especially the Middle East, in many ways. Since the sixteenth century, the nations of Western civilization have been the driving wheels of modernization. Globalization is simply the spread of modern institutions and ideas from one high power to the wider world. Technological innovation and economic growth along with such concepts as democracy, individualism, and the rule of law administered by an impartial judiciary, set Western

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Max
  • How Modern Transport Fuels Effect Our Environment

    How Modern Transport Fuels Effect Our Environment

    How Modern Transport Fuels Effect our Environment Why is looking at alternate fuels important? There are several reasons, but the most important reason is that air pollution kills in the neighborhood of 3 million people every year and air pollution affects more than 1 billion people in a negative way. That’s over 1/6 of the earths population being harmed by air pollution, that’s a trend that cannot continue without extreme repercussions to everyone on

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Monika
  • Deism in Modern Time

    Deism in Modern Time

    At a glance, or at the pages of any newspaper, reveals that ideas which divide one group of human beings from another, only to unite then in slaughter, generally have their roots in religion. (Harris, 12) An explanation of religion has been attempted by many scholars. Hobbs wrote once that, religion can be explained as the product of human fear interpreting natural phenomenon in anthropropomorphic form. (Web page on Hobbs and others) Many have set

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Top
  • Anomie: The Norm of Normlessness in Modern Society

    Anomie: The Norm of Normlessness in Modern Society

    Anomie, first developed by Emile Durkheim, is very evident in today's society. The concept of anomie, according to Durkheim, is a state of normlessness, where individuals are succumbed to deregulation in their lives and through out their society brought on by a social change. Robert K. Merton, following the ideas of Durkheim, developed his own notion of anomie, called Strain Theory. Merton argued that anomie was a day to day function in society, seen as

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Independence of Uzbekistan Was Good for the Uzbeks Even Though They Have Basically the Same System of Government as in the Soviet Union

    The Independence of Uzbekistan Was Good for the Uzbeks Even Though They Have Basically the Same System of Government as in the Soviet Union

    It is in the nature of things for people of countries under some forced union of a unifying power to become content or to have a higher standard of living when their country acquires its independence. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was one of these unifying powers, which influenced several regions to unite as Soviet Socialist Republics (SSRs), in 1922, under the same government. Uzbekistan was a land divided by khanates when it became

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: regina
  • "not Waving but Drowning" a Modern Poem

    "not Waving but Drowning" a Modern Poem

    Stevie Smith lived from 1902 to 1971, which was the pinnacle of new modernistic poetry. Smith was unlike most of the poets of this age as critics have reported that her work fits into no category and shows none of the same characteristic influences of the age. Although this may be true, many of her poems followed modern principles. An example is “Not Waving, but Drowning,” a morbid poem about suicide and depression. Morbid poems

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Bred