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  • Things Better Left Unsaid

    Things Better Left Unsaid

    Things better left unsaid “The Workbox” I have to admit that when I first read this poem I did not understand that there were hints and clue suggesting possible hidden truths. When first reading the poem, I thought that it was coincidental. Reading this poem for a second time and researching it has shown that there are some suspicions. “The Workbox” by Thomas Hardy is about a man who may have known more than his

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    Essay Length: 1,184 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • Reforms of the German Education System

    Reforms of the German Education System

    Reforms of the German education system: The abolition of the divided secondary school system and a prolonged integrated primary school In Germany at present six- to ten-year-old pupils visit primary school from first to fourth form. At the age of ten an allocation takes place: the pupils are divided into four groups depending on intelligence and achievements at school. The ‘Gymnasium’, which is roughly equivalent to grammar school, is visited by the best ones, and

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    Essay Length: 909 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: July
  • Things Fall Apart Chapter Summary

    Things Fall Apart Chapter Summary

    Chapter 20 Plot: · Okonkwo returns to his clan in Umuofia. · Okonkwo faces the changes in the clan due to the white missionaries. Themes Power Umuofia is a strong and powerful clan. It is for this reason that Okonkwo wants to regain his authority within the clan. He wants to “show his wealth”. This can be achieved by having one of the wealthiest suitor for one of his daughters. Umuofia used to be powerful

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    Essay Length: 993 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Victor
  • How Things Fell Apart

    How Things Fell Apart

    Things Fall Apart is a novel that deals with Chinua Achebe’s own culture and the problems they had to go through when the colonizers arrived from the Igbo point of view. The main message in the novel is clearly stated since the beginning, starting with the title, this is a story about change and through the distinctive narrative, written in English for the westerns but still full of Igbo words and elements, Achebe shows through

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    Essay Length: 1,171 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Fatih
  • A Small, Good Thing

    A Small, Good Thing

    The short story A Small, Good Thing by Raymond Carver tells of two American parents dealing with their son’s hospitalisation and death as the result of a hit-and-run car accident. The insensitive actions of their local baker add to their anger and confusion, yet by the end of the story, leave them with a sense of optimism and strength. With such content, Carver runs the risk of coming across as sentimental; however, this is not

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: July
  • The God of Small Things Essay

    The God of Small Things Essay

    The conclusion of the novel is that the touchable (Ammu) and the untouchable (Velutha) cannot be together. The Big god, who is the society, doesnЎ¦t allow people of different caste to associate with one another. Small god, on the other hand, wants to gain individual happiness with the love affair even though he knows that there will be consequences. The love affair of Ammu and Velutha, Velutha being beaten up, the betrayal of Estha on

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    Essay Length: 737 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 10, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Third Thing That Killed My Father (for the Love of the Fish)

    The Third Thing That Killed My Father (for the Love of the Fish)

    For the Love of the Fish In the short story “The Third Thing That Killed My Father,” Raymond Carver explores the life of the town outcast. Through the observations of a young boy and his father Carver tells the story of a man caught in himself, and captures the true essence of a mans character and his conflicts. Dummy the town outcast finds himself in a struggle to protect the one thing that makes

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    Essay Length: 761 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Things They Carried

    The Things They Carried

    One of the most interesting aspects of The Things They Carried is the way O’Brien reveals the inner worlds of his characters. How far do you agree? In “The Things They Carried” Tim O’Brien definitively reveals the inner worlds of his characters. That’s just one of the aspects that makes the collection of the stories interesting. The author describes himself as a quiet person who can be easily persuaded and goes through moral dilemmas. Through

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    Essay Length: 366 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien

    The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien

    The Things They Carried, by Tim O'Brien All of the men from Tim O’Brien’s book “The Things They Carried” carried physical items and unresolved emotional baggage. The men held onto the physical items and inside held the feelings to help them cope with and escape from the Vietnam war. However, after the war, they carried memories and scars that reminded them of and brought them back to Vietnam. In the first chapter of the book,

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    Essay Length: 701 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Steve
  • Basic Reforms in Iraq

    Basic Reforms in Iraq

    Instituting basic reforms such as improving the economy and starting education earlier are crucial in eliminating terrorism in Iraq. By improving the economy less people will turn to terrorism to support their families. Many Iraqi citizens feel like there is no way out of poverty other then smuggling weapons into the country, or other acts of terrorism (The Despair Beneath the Arab World’s Growing Rage). Also, the United States assisting Iraq in rebuilding their economy

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    Essay Length: 274 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Anna
  • Taming of the Shrew & 10 Things I Hate About You

    Taming of the Shrew & 10 Things I Hate About You

    In "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, and "Ten things I hate about you", directed by Gil Junger, both contexts reflect the society of when each text was composed. When comparing these two texts and observing the themes, it is indisputable that these contexts have shown the similarity and differences of the values during the time, thus, it shows the evolution of society. Firstly, "The Taming of the shrew" suggests money to be

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    Essay Length: 846 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Buddhism: Things I Find Interesting

    Buddhism: Things I Find Interesting

    Buddhism: Things I Find Interesting As I was reading the selected portions of the book for this chapter, I came across a few things that I found interesting. At first I did not catch them, but after I went back and reread the selections, I found these things, that I thought were intriguing. Buddhism is supposedly a non-theistic religion. However, in the reading titled "The Majjhim-Nikaya: Questions Which Lend Not to Edification" (5.1) and in

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    Essay Length: 410 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    either the symbol of salvation or the root of all evil. From the perspective of much of the younger generation as well as many of the leaders of the tribes, the Christian missionaries coming from Europe were highly respected, especially after the incident where the Church was built in the Evil Forrest. Because of incidents such as this, more and more people began to convert to Christianity, tearing many families apart. People such as Okonkwo

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    Essay Length: 477 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart Things Fall Apart is a sad story of the downward spiral a man has in his life that eventually makes the heartbreaking decision to take his own life. The main character, Okonwo, is a well-respected, wealthy warrior of the Umuofia clan. The Umuofia clan is a Nigerian tribe that is in a group of nine associated small villages. Okonwo is a man that always gives his hardest efforts to live successfully

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    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Tim Obrien Rhetorical Strategies in the Things They Carried

    Tim Obrien Rhetorical Strategies in the Things They Carried

    Everyone experiences something that’s effects their life in some way; In the novel The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien uses flashbacks as well as imagery to help the readers understand what he went through and the impact it had on his life. While in The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd uses symbolism and some imagery to let the reader know how the experiences the main character had experienced impacted her life. In The

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Book Review: Getting Things Done

    Book Review: Getting Things Done

    Book Review: Getting Things Done Reading through much of this book peaked my interest on many different viewpoints and ideas. David Allen has indeed done his homework and talked to many different people in various careers and summarized helping others in this informative book. This book is very interesting and could help people with reducing stress in high profile jobs. A couple of ideas Mr. Allen wrote in this book could be very helpful to

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Edward
  • Most American Thing I Can Do

    Most American Thing I Can Do

    Most American Thing I Can Do The most American thing I can do is to simply ask questions. Why are we at war? Why do we pay taxes? We do we support democracy in fledgling countries? We are a democratic nation. Does that not mean the government and this country belong to me as much as to the president? If we stop asking questions about what is essentially ours, do we not essentially give it

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    Essay Length: 406 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Mike
  • Heart of Darkness/things Fall Apart

    Heart of Darkness/things Fall Apart

    Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” share many similarities and differences. One similarity is the way that Europeans treat the Africans as inhuman. Another similarity is how in despair the Africans resort to death to deal with what Western culture has brought to them. A difference in the books is that in “Heart of Darkness” the Europeans were already settled into Africa while in “Things Fall Apart” the Europeans don’t settle until

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    Essay Length: 1,391 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Tort Reform

    Tort Reform

    In the United States justice system, a tort is best defined as an injury or loss that was committed deliberately or negligently by a single person or an entity (Crane). The history of tort law can be traced back to the initial trespass of property or person, but it was not until the 18th century that the distinction between intentional and unintentional acts was made (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia). In recent years, tort law has become

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    Essay Length: 1,441 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Janna
  • Does Utopian Socialists offer an Attractive Political Reform?

    Does Utopian Socialists offer an Attractive Political Reform?

    Utopia is a term invented by Sir Thomas More in 1515. However, he traces the root two Greek words outopia and eutopia which means a place does not exist and a fantasy, invention. It is widely accepted that Plato was to first to picture a utopian order. In his masterpiece, “Republic”, he formed the principles of ideal commonsense and his utopia (Hertzler, 1922:7). After the classical age, Sir Thomas More assumed to be the

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    Essay Length: 1,641 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: David
  • The Age of Reformation

    The Age of Reformation

    The Age of Reformation The Age of Reformation - religious revolution in Western Europe in the 16th cent. Beginning as a reform movement within the Roman Catholic Church, the Reformation ultimately led to freedom of dissent. The preparation for the movement was long and there had been earlier calls for reform, e.g., by John WYCLIF and John HUSS. Desire for change within the church was increased by the RENAISSANCE, with its study of ancient texts

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe wrote the book "Things Fall Apart" in 1958. the novel quickly became famous for having two unique differences between two very different groups of people. The two groups were the Ibo tribe and the Europeans missionaries. The book makes a contrast of the European imperialism. The conflict shown by the Europeans and the Ibo is important to the telling of the novel. Had this contrast not been a part of the story, things

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Mike
  • Health Insurance Reform

    Health Insurance Reform

    Health Insurance Reform Due to the upcoming presidential election, the two major political parties and their candidates have been focusing on the primary problems that the nation will face in the future. Chief among those problems is the future of Medicare, the national health- insurance plan. Medicare was enacted in 1965, under the administration of Lyndon B. Johnson, in order to provide health insurance for retired citizens and the disabled. The Medicare program covers most

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    Essay Length: 1,413 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Anna
  • Social Reform

    Social Reform

    Many things can contribute to the rise of social reform in the 1800's. Many scholars such Ralph Waldo Emerson or Edgar Allen Poe, helped lead the reform era. But the most some of the most important ideas that encouraged social reform was the Second Great Awakening, Industrialization, and nostalgia. All three played a very important role and had key people who helped jump start a era of reformation. People knew that it was time for

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    Essay Length: 1,386 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • Social Security Reform

    Social Security Reform

    Social Security: Being a nineteen year old college student, what does Social Security have to do with you? The fact is, it has every thing to do with us as students! Shortly after President Bush’s re-election, he started to put his new found political muscle into Social Security reform, declaring now is the time to act. This new reform will allow workers to withhold payroll endings and put that money into personal retirement accounts. This

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    Essay Length: 1,757 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 18, 2009 By: Fatih

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