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  • Reform Movements

    Reform Movements

    Reform Movements During the 19th Century there were many reform movements that took place. Reform movements were movements that were organized to reform or change the certain way of things. Reform movements did not always work but the ones that did greatly changed the way our nation operates today. There were three major reform movements that have altered the nation; the abolitionist movement, the temperance movement and the women’s suffrage movement. Without these movements, and

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    Essay Length: 830 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Things Fall Apart, Joy Luck Club Comparison Essay

    Things Fall Apart, Joy Luck Club Comparison Essay

    Parent-Child Relationships Parents strive to do what is best for their children, but sometimes the children want to go their own ways and pursue their interests. Throughout the books Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the reader will find that all of the parent’s characters in both books want what is best for their children. Although father-son and mother-daughter relationships differ greatly, both parent genders still want

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    Essay Length: 649 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Educational Reform

    Educational Reform

    Gifted Educational Reform Program PROPOSAL: A reform program that is to be put in place to revitalize the deteriorating Cleveland school system, while at the same time enhancing the national collegiate society. It is no small secret that the Cleveland schools are in shambles. Financially, the schools report bigger deficits almost every single year, and we continue to elect mayors and council members with even bigger promises to fix them. It has become increasingly clear

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    Essay Length: 1,147 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Edward
  • Medicating Children Is Not the Right Thing to Do

    Medicating Children Is Not the Right Thing to Do

    Medicating Children is not the Right Thing to do There are many types of people who may have Attention Deficit Disorder, also known as ADD/ADHD, which is attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. ADD is defined as learning disorder affecting children, adolescents, and some adults. Common symptoms of ADD are learning and behavioral difficulties as well as the typical problem of ADHD, hyperactivity. Males are more likely to have ADD with many other symptoms, such as depression

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    Essay Length: 1,363 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Square Deal: Social Reform to Avoid Disaster

    The Square Deal: Social Reform to Avoid Disaster

    The Square Deal: Social Reform to Avoid Disaster Sean Doyel Political Science 210 Professor Ware May 5, 2005 America at the turn of the century was a very different place than it is today. The industrial revolution had set into motion a series of events that empowered and enriched some and nearly enslaved others. Theodore Roosevelt's "Square Deal" was a necessary response to growing social unrest. A severely unequal distribution of wealth along with poor

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    Essay Length: 1,272 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Democracy Encourages the Majority to Decide Things on Which the Majority Is Ignorant

    Democracy Encourages the Majority to Decide Things on Which the Majority Is Ignorant

    The modern democratical sysyem in many modern capitalist states is indeed designed in this way whereby the majority,even though in theory it has the right to decide on things, is actualy kept very ignorant by the few number of individuals of the ruling class. This form of democracy is typically called a polyarchy. In a polyarchial system the control of government decisions about policy is constitutionally rested in elected officials who are chosen and removed

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    Essay Length: 542 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Ssn Reform

    Ssn Reform

    A Much Needed Change Benjamin Franklin was the very wise man that stated, "In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes." Paying taxes is something that we can not get around, no matter how hard we try. We pay taxes on food and clothes. We pay luxury taxes when we go on vacation. There is even a death tax. However, one of the greatest controversies dealing with paying taxes is the social security

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    Essay Length: 445 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Fairtax Plan: The Right Plan for Tax Reform

    The Fairtax Plan: The Right Plan for Tax Reform

    The FairTax Plan: The Right Plan for Tax Reform The FairTax Plan: The Right Plan for Tax Reform April 15th of any given year is the most dreaded day for most taxpaying Americans. This one day is more stressful than the day the taxpayer turns 50 years old or the day of his daughter’s wedding. April 15th is tax day. Every American who earns a wage has the unenviable duty of filing a form 1040

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    Essay Length: 1,097 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Steve
  • 5 Things the Marshmallow Test Can Teach You About Money

    5 Things the Marshmallow Test Can Teach You About Money

    Tina is an intellectually-gifted bartender who struggles to pay her bills. Tina serves martinis to Susan. Susan is no more intelligent than Tina, but Susan is a millionaire. If not intelligence, then what explains the difference between wealth and financial lack? And what do sticky, gooey marshmallows have to do with it? In the 1960s, Stanford University psychology researcher Walter Mischel conducted a longitudinal study. Mischel placed marshmallows in front of hungry four-year-old children. He

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    Essay Length: 481 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Max
  • 3 Most Important Things a Child Should Be Taught

    3 Most Important Things a Child Should Be Taught

    The fabric of society is formed by progressive generations based on a collection of tightly held values and morals. We advanced as a society by teaching future generations proper conduct, a common language and beliefs, such as religion and traditions, that are appropriate for functioning as a collective member in that society. Thus, is it our duty as citizens to ensure that our children are left with an intact society and to provide the tools

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    Essay Length: 316 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Importance of Things Fall Apart

    The Importance of Things Fall Apart

    The Importance of Things Fall Apart The novel "Things Fall Apart", by Chinua Achebe, was an eye-opening account of the life and eventual extinction of an African tribe called the Ibo. It focuses on one character, Okonkwo, who at a very early age set out on a quest of self-perfection. Coming from a family ruled by a man who was lazy and inconsistent with everything he did, Okonkwo vowed to never accept the fate of

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    Essay Length: 647 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Jack
  • 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: December 19, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Things They Don't Want You to Know

    Things They Don't Want You to Know

    Things They Don't Want you to Know: 1. In 2005 George W. Bush made an agreement with the prime minister of Canada and the president of Mexico to combine the three nations into the "North American Union"Like the European Union, we will lose our sovereignty, our currency (to be replaced with the "Amero") and our Constituion...A "new one" will be drafted. This is on the table and supposed to begin in 2010. Why do you

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    Essay Length: 1,369 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Janna
  • We Are Told About the World Before We See It.We Imagine Most Things Before We Experience Them (walter Lipman) How Might Expectation and Previous Knowledge Affect Perception and Therefore Knowledge?

    We Are Told About the World Before We See It.We Imagine Most Things Before We Experience Them (walter Lipman) How Might Expectation and Previous Knowledge Affect Perception and Therefore Knowledge?

    Perception is a way of knowing and gaining knowledge. Expectation, the belief about the way an event should happen or behave, and previous knowledge, understanding and skills we gain after experience play significant roles when gaining knowledge. They frame and lead us into imagine before we experience. Our five senses let us see, smell, taste, feel and hear. People think that we believe what we see. However, we see what we believe. Lipman’s suggestion criticises

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    Essay Length: 1,211 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Reform Movements

    Reform Movements

    Throughout American history, there have been many periods of time where reform movements have sought to expand democracy. One of these periods is the era of 1825-1850. There were many events occurring during this time that pushed democracy further. The desire to make America a civilized, almost utopian society and religious revivals occasionally adequately expanded democratic ideals, while movements for equal rights among women and slaves tried to put true democratic ideas on the table.

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    Essay Length: 466 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Victor
  • Free Speech: Is There Really Such a Thing?

    Free Speech: Is There Really Such a Thing?

    Free Speech: Is There Really Such a Thing? In order to find truth to anything, one must make multiple suggestions, ask many questions, and sometimes ponder the unspeakable. Without doing so, there would be no process of elimination; therefore, truth would be virtually unattainable. Now, in our attempts to either find truth, express our beliefs and opinions, or generally use the rights we are given constitutionally, we are often being criticized and even reprimanded. Our

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    Essay Length: 1,264 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Jon
  • The Paper of Great Things

    The Paper of Great Things

    THE PAPER OF GREAT THINGS In the novel The God of Small Things by Arudhati Roy a relationship between a family is shown and the painful past comes through several memories and the presence of the caste system in India is used to juxtapose right vs. wrong. A very powerful closeness is observed between the two main characters and through their relationship one of the main themes of love through obscurity is showcased by the

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    Essay Length: 1,235 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Things They Carried

    The Things They Carried

    THE THINGS THEY CARRIED ( The Things They Carried is a collection of stories about the Vietnam War that the author, Tim O’Brien, uses to convey his experiences and feelings about the war. The book is filled with stories about the men of Alpha Company and their lives in Vietnam and afterwards back in the United States. O’Brien captures the reader with graphic descriptions of the war that make one feel as if they

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    Essay Length: 344 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Measurement - Mathematic Reform

    Measurement - Mathematic Reform

    Part A: Content Goals for Measurement in Grades 3-5 Most students enter grade 3 with enthusiasm for, and interest in, learning mathematics. In fact, nearly three-quarters of U.S. fourth graders report liking mathematics (NCTM, 143). This can be a very critical time in keeping children interested in what they are learning. If the work turns too monotonous and uninteresting it can have a negative effect on their perceptions of the subject later in life. If

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Monika
  • Reformers in the Antebellum Era

    Reformers in the Antebellum Era

    In May 1837, members of an array of reform organizations descended on New York City to hold their annual “Anniversary” meetings. Their leaders proclaimed crime, poverty, prostitution, alcohol, ignorance, or slavery as the death knell of the family and the republic, and demanded change. For an entire week, women and men from throughout the Northeast and Midwest attended speeches, rallies, prayer vigils, and business meetings to alert the public to the dangers that plagued the

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Top
  • No Such Thing as a Fair Fight

    No Such Thing as a Fair Fight

    No Such Thing As a Fair Fight In Jimmy Carter’s editorial to the New York Times, he states his reasons as to why he believes America should not have gone to war with Iraq, and he outlines what he thinks makes a war just. Carter conveys what he is saying, stating clear facts, and appealing to the reader’s ethos, pathos and logos. In a very different essay author Elie Wiesel supports Presidents Bush’s decision to

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Jon
  • Ideas for Reform Papers

    Ideas for Reform Papers

    Intro: The beliefs that America is entirely free is not correct, in the introduction I plan to bring into view the ideas that each person has about our society and then explain that these ideas may not be necessarily true. Also I am going to speak about t the way that our society has developed and not necessarily our freedoms. Thesis: In changing the way that the government handles the political aspects of censorship, the

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    Essay Length: 309 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Steve
  • Political Campaign Finance Reform

    Political Campaign Finance Reform

    With the upcoming presidential election, it has been interesting to learn about things as they are actually happening in our country today. Among the many issues that surround the race to the office, financing the presidential election seems to be a major topic that is always in the public eye. There are many different views on how the election should be financed but it is hard to tell how far government funding and donations can

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    Essay Length: 504 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: David
  • Pocahontas and the Mythical Indian Woman: Reforming the Image Through Native American Fiction

    Pocahontas and the Mythical Indian Woman: Reforming the Image Through Native American Fiction

    POCAHONTAS AND THE MYTHICAL INDIAN WOMAN: REFORMING THE IMAGE THROUGH NATIVE AMERICAN FICTION Pocahontas. Americans know her as the beautiful, Indian woman who fell in love with the white settler John Smith and then threw her body upon the poor white captive to protect him from being brutally executed by her own savage tribe. The magical world of Walt Disney came out with their own movie version several years ago portraying Pocahontas as a tan,

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Jack
  • Shakespeare?s 10 Things

    Shakespeare?s 10 Things

    1. Betrayal and revenge 2. Metaphors of death-King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Othello 3. Humor- A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It 4. Pastoral settings- Ling Lear, A midnight Summer's Dream 5. Madness and insanity- Othello, Midnight Summer?s Dream, King Lear 6. Reversal- the main character falls from a high place 7. Letters- King Lear, Merchant of Venice 8. Things are not as they appear- King Lear, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer Night?s Dream 9.

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    Essay Length: 1,198 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Victor