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  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart Chapter 1 Okonkwo is a wealthy and respected warrior of the Umuofia clan, a lower Nigerian tribe that is part of a consortium of nine connected villages, including Okonkwo’s village, Iguedo. In his youth, he brought honor to his village by beating Amalinze the Cat in a wrestling contest. Until his match with Okonkwo, the Cat had been undefeated for seven years. Okonkwo is completely unlike his now deceased father, Unoka, who

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    Essay Length: 1,798 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Max
  • The Best Things in Life Are Free

    The Best Things in Life Are Free

    Are the best things in life are free? I agree with this statement, but there is an however. If you look at things like life, freedom of religion, and family, then yes I would agree. However, if you look at education, success and thing in that category then I would disagree. There is nothing like your family, which was easily given to you from birth. That is something in life you get for free something

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    Essay Length: 299 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Jack
  • “ Our Society Is Overly Materialistic.We Center Our Lives on Acquiring Material Things at the Expense of Such Traditional Values as Family and Education.”

    “ Our Society Is Overly Materialistic.We Center Our Lives on Acquiring Material Things at the Expense of Such Traditional Values as Family and Education.”

    Topic 2 “ Our society is overly materialistic. We center our lives on acquiring material things at the expense of such traditional values as family and education.” I agree with the issue that our society is becoming too materialistic. People are involved into a commercial world and forget their responsibilities to this society. The traditional value is taken place by materialistic culture. This is because that there is too much temptation to resist in this

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    Essay Length: 644 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Top
  • Resistance Coursework - Some Useful Things

    Resistance Coursework - Some Useful Things

    Resistance Coursework Planning: Aim Investigate how the length of a wire affects the current and resistance of a wire. Variables The variables that could change resistance are: • Length of the wire • Cross section area (thickness) • Changing materials • Changing temperatures The variable I am going to change in my experiment is the length of the wire. Prediction and Hypothesis I think as you increase the length of the Constantan wire, you also

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    Essay Length: 352 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Do Things Ever Stop Being Random?

    Do Things Ever Stop Being Random?

    Do things ever stop being random? During a group critique, I was asked if things ever stop being random. I have replied by saying that if one interferes with the way that something develops and controls it then it will stop being random. I gave an example of a tree fence which had all of it’s bunches trimmed at the same length. I explained that each brunch would have followed its own route if one

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    Essay Length: 422 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Artur
  • Global Warming - Not a Good Thing

    Global Warming - Not a Good Thing

    Global warming Global warming is defiantly not a good thing, though it is a very important topic to talk about and something that needs to be considered for treatment to reverse the effects that have taken place so far, it is also something that can only be helped over a long period of time. Katherine Silverstone is right about one thing, if we do try and conserve on polluting and other inefficient methods of waste,

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    Essay Length: 304 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Edward
  • Ed Reform

    Ed Reform

    In an ideal society, educational reform would lead to the flawless implementation of policies designed for perfecting the education of American children. Students would attend classes daily, reaping the benefits of a well-oiled machine constructed for the production of highly functioning citizens, without the influence of external forces such as distractions from home, chronic health problems, and environment. In reality, society is imperfect and the life of one child can greatly differ from the

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    Essay Length: 726 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien

    The Things They Carried by Tim O’brien

    Change In The Things They Carried a war novel by Tim O’Brien, we are told many short stories compiled to make a whole. I want to emphasis on the importance of the chapter “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong”. In this chapter we are introduced to the character Mary Anne. She shows the changing power of Vietnam, that a sweet innocent young girl can come into this land and be forever consumed by her surroundings.

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    Essay Length: 1,631 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Things Fall Apart: Inevitable Changes

    Things Fall Apart: Inevitable Changes

    In the novel by Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, there is a debate between whether Okonkwo's demise was a result of his going against the will of the gods, or that the new changes were inevitable. The second group argues that Okonkwo's acts do not destroy the tribe, but it is the tribe's lack of adaptability that brings it to an end. Firstly, the title, Things Fall Apart, seems like a statement, a universal truth.

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    Essay Length: 337 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Things They Carried

    The Things They Carried

    Assignment 1 In Tim O’Briens The Things They Carried, the character of Mary Anne, in the chapter Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong serves as a metaphor for the loss of innocence that the soldiers lose during their time in the war. “The guys sometimes liked to kid her...- but Mary Anne would just smile and stick out her tongue”(96). As a child, you would stick out your tongue to make fun of someone or

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The only Thing a Deaf Person Can’t Do Is Hear

    The only Thing a Deaf Person Can’t Do Is Hear

    My research paper is on I. King Jordan, so upon visiting Gallaudet University and receiving the assignment to find out about a building on campus I decided to check out the office of Jordan. His office is located in a building that used to house male students. The dorm was unique in that some places the tile that was laid was from left over material from Capitol Hill. The secretaries area was large and had

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    Essay Length: 290 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Victor
  • Immigration Reform

    Immigration Reform

    Article Title: Immigration Reform Page number (s): 1 (5 points ) Five things you learned from the article. This is a summary of the main points in the article; please write in your own words. (5 points ___________) 1. Many of the protestors had been mobilized by a Dec. 2005 House bill, since stalled, that would have turned illegal aliens into felons, ineligible for any legal status. 2. More than a million immigrants, primarily Hispanic,

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    Essay Length: 549 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 24, 2010 By: Anna
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Struggle between Change and Tradition As a story about a culture on the verge of change, Things Fall Apart deals with how the prospect and reality of change affect various characters. The tension about whether change should be privileged over tradition often involves questions of personal status. Okonkwo, for example, resists the new political and religious orders because he feels

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    Essay Length: 333 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Janna
  • Counter Reformation

    Counter Reformation

    In order to understand the Counter Reformation one must consider the political factors and motivators behind them as well as the belief factors when examining clashes with the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church during 16th century experienced a reformation that was both politically and belief driven. The Catholic Reformation also known as the Counter Reformation allowed the church to clearly define its position, eliminate unchristian practices and examine its role in world. This paper will

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    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Yan
  • Poor Things V. Frankenstein

    Poor Things V. Frankenstein

    Andrew Klush Eng 101H Mr. Panza Essay on Monstrosity Mary Shelley made her reputation of being one of the best Romantic authors on the basis of just one book. The notoriety that came with being the daughter of two famous authors helped, as did her age at the time of conceiving the book, but Frankenstein was the only one of her stories to achieve any fame. The level of fame it achieved, however, was astounding.

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    Essay Length: 2,482 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart That year the harvest was sad, like a funeral, and many farmers wept as they dug up the miserable and rotting yams. One man tied his cloth to a tree branch and hanged himself. Okonkwo remembered that tragic year with a cold shiver throughout the rest of his life. It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair. He knew that

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    Essay Length: 1,616 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Reformation in Continental Europe and England and Its Consequences

    Reformation in Continental Europe and England and Its Consequences

    Reformation is the religious revolution that took place in Western Europe in the 16th century. It arose from objections to doctrines and practices in the medieval church, loss of papal authority and credibility as well as other societal, political and economical issues of the time. This revolution had a major impact on Europe and it gave way to short term and long-term consequences, which still can be seen today. There were many causes of

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    Essay Length: 1,620 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Jon
  • Ten Things I Hate About You

    Ten Things I Hate About You

    10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU I HATE IT WHEN YOU CALL ME BY NAME. It subtracts from the "us" that we have established and lessens the importance I have in your heart. My name is what anybody ordinary calls me. And regardless of whatever comes your way, you will never be ordinary to me. I HATE IT WHEN YOUR VOICE DOESN'T SOFTEN WHEN I CALL. Your tone has turned harsh, your words fail to

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    Essay Length: 750 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: regina
  • The Things They Carried

    The Things They Carried

    “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is a short story base on the lives of a group of soldiers during the later years of the war in Vietnam. In this story, O’Brien examines the burdens of the soldiers and the effects that these burdens can have on man in life-threatening situations. The author describes these burdens referring to the weight that the soldiers carry. These soldiers have to go trough great physical strain but

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    Essay Length: 2,078 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Artur
  • The Things They Carried

    The Things They Carried

    The Things They Carried The story “The Things They Carried” is about war and the things that soldiers carry with them in the war. This is a story that I can relate to. The author describes what the characters carry both physically and mentally. First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carries letters and pictures of girl named Martha. The letters are not love letters but Jimmy can hope. He carries the letters to help him remember

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    Essay Length: 581 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Women Roles in "the Things They Carried"

    Women Roles in "the Things They Carried"

    In this book there are three major women Linda, Martha, and Mary Anne. Linda’s role is positive yet very saddening because she in a way has given Tim O’Brien the power to tell stories so in depth using memories. Mary Anne’s role is encouraging because she comes to Vietnam and throughout the journey she discovers herself; she redefines the typical role of women. Martha’s role in this book could be considered positive because she is

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Artur
  • Of Mice and Men and “hope Is the Thing with Feathers” Comparison

    Of Mice and Men and “hope Is the Thing with Feathers” Comparison

    In both “Hope is the thing with feathers”, by Emily Dickinson, and Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck, hope is portrayed as keeping up one’s spirit, and welcome when times are grueling, and sounding promising but not always making sense. Curley’s wife dreams of being a movie star, and this keeps her married, if unhappily, to Curley, but her dream is actually a delusion, and while promising much, never actually delivers. George and

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Although his father was a lazy man who earned no titles in the Ibo tribe, Okonkwo is a great man in his home of Umuofia, a group of nine villages in Nigeria. Okonkwo despised his father and does everything he can to be nothing like the man. As a young man, Okonkwo began building his social status by defeating a great wrestler, propelling him into society's eye. He is hard working and shows no weakness

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    Essay Length: 506 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Health Care Reform

    Health Care Reform

    One of the most pressing economical issues today is health care. Far too many Americans cannot afford reasonable health care when they become ill. Health care reform is a general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes. Health care reform is needed to ensure Americans get the high-quality care that is needed and deserved. Health care reform is not only for the sick, but it also improves the health of the nation

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    Essay Length: 1,708 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Chrisette
  • Things Fall Apart (turtle Story Analysis)

    Things Fall Apart (turtle Story Analysis)

    Storytelling is a significant part of every cultural. Since the dawn of time human beings have passed down stories from generation to generation. Stories have many different purposes; perhaps the most notable is to preserve ethics and cultural traditions. In Chinua Achebe novel, Things Fall Apart, we observe the telling of many stories; most remarkable is the story of the Tortuous and the Birds. At its baseline, the story is purely entertainment. It is a

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    Essay Length: 367 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: Steve

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