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  • Castaway Story

    Castaway Story

    Asia's Finest Private Robertson, a United States Marine was on patrol with his crew at the mouth of a small river north of North Korea. His fellow Marines called him Chris not because it was his name, but because during basic his drill instructor called him Chris and Robertson corrected him so the instructor made sure the whole camp thought his name was Chris by publicly announcing it over morning revely. Everyone thought it was

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    Essay Length: 3,105 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Mike
  • A Story About Alex

    A Story About Alex

    I quietly sat down at the dinning room table next to him. He was so focused on writing on the white piece of paper to notice my presence. As he scribbled words on the white piece of paper it was then that I got to thinking what kind of person my boyfriend, Alex, really was. When we met he had already own three businesses, a house, and an expensive BMW. That was not what got

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    Essay Length: 514 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • A Story About Seeing Mxpx

    A Story About Seeing Mxpx

    A story about seeing MxPx Essay written by Unknown On November 13th I went to Tramps in New York to see one of my favorite bands, MxPx. MxPx is a Christian pop-punk band. Pop punk basically means happy punk. The band members, are Mike Herrera who plays bass and sings, Tom Wisniewski who plays guitar and Yuri Ruley plays drums. They played about 10 songs, all of which I knew. Some of their songs

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    Essay Length: 474 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mike
  • My Story in the Holocaust

    My Story in the Holocaust

    On March 19, 1942, I was sent by the Judenrat (the Jewish Council) to build underground storage facilities. Our group was led to a bleak, desolate place outside the city where a tall German with a red, square face told us that if we worked hard we would get extra food rations. After a long day of digging, breaking up large boulders and carting away the dirt in wheelbarrows, I went home with a coupon

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    Essay Length: 4,626 Words / 19 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jack
  • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck- Short Summary

    Cannery Row by John Steinbeck- Short Summary

    Cannery Row By John Steinbeck In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck describes the unholy community of 1920s Monterey, California. Cannery Row is a street that depends on canning sardines. It is where all the outcasts of society reside. Steinbeck himself, in the first sentence of the book, describes Cannery Row as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream." Lee Chong, the owner of the

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    Essay Length: 440 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jon
  • A New Story

    A New Story

    The room was dark; the only light was that coming from the TV that had been left on. Its dim blue glow bounced off the worn paint on the walls. It was warm under the covers. In the dark, warm safety of the blankets she could sleep in their arms. Suddenly there was a loud rush of noise and a fury of pictures flashing in front of her eyes. The silence had been shattered by

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    Essay Length: 3,560 Words / 15 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The Story of an Hour

    The Story of an Hour

    In “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Choplin the reader’s see how the settings play a major contribution to the influence a person mood may be in. A variety of emotions can come out from potential happiness, excitement, sadness, anger, and even depression. We all in our everyday lives without much realization use certain places, objects and items to symbolize and stimulate particular feelings. The importance that settings play can always be displayed when

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    Essay Length: 990 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Story of the Hour

    Story of the Hour

    The "Story of the Hour," by Kate Chopin, narrates a brief chapter of an unhappily married woman's life, who, for unknown reasons, has stayed in a repressive relationship for many years. But freedom arrives with an unexpected turn of events. Mrs. Mallard repressed her feelings for many years. This is why, when she is given the news of her husband's death, she only cries to her sister, Josephine. However, after being alone in her room,

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    Essay Length: 494 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Notebook: A Story That Surpasses Time

    The Notebook: A Story That Surpasses Time

    The Notebook: A Story that Surpasses Time Love stories have been made into great and not so great movies since the beginning of motion pictures. The pattern is usually the same in each movie, but for some reason people are drawn to them. The Notebook is another love story, but the dual plot and lack of special effects makes it different. The Notebook is the story of Noah (Ryan Gosling) and Allie (Rachel McAdams) and

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    Essay Length: 393 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Story of an Hour

    The Story of an Hour

    I will argue two points in this story; for the first one, I would like to analyze the deep meaning of Mrs. MallardЎ¦s heart trouble. While for the second one, I am going to explain the authentic result at the end of the story. From the very beginning, the story tells us that Mrs. Mallard is bothered by a heart trouble. She needs someone else to take care of her, and it seems that

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    Essay Length: 540 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Edward
  • American Indian Stories

    American Indian Stories

    In American Indian Stories, University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London edition, the author, Zitkala-Sa, tries to tell stories that depicted life growing up on a reservation. Her stories showed how Native Americans reacted to the white man’s ways of running the land and changing the life of Indians. “Zitkala-Sa was one of the early Indian writers to record tribal legends and tales from oral tradition” (back cover) is a great way to show that

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    Essay Length: 1,255 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Bred
  • Short into on the Philosophy of Transcendentalism

    Short into on the Philosophy of Transcendentalism

    TRANSCENDENTALISM A MODERN PHILOSOPHY Mankind has lost its place at the center of God's universe. Now, when you watch the weather, or plants growing, or someone suddenly die, what you feel is obnoxious bafflement. In the past, you might have said God was responsible or the devil... Definitions of the universe based on speculation or on scriptural faith are no longer automatically accepted... You would have looked out on this vast and undefined universe in

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    Essay Length: 606 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Creation Story Views

    The Creation Story Views

    In the story of the creation, there are two tales hidden in one. Each tale is a different yet similar. Man, along with all other thins is created in each but the difference is in how each of the things were created. Man is created in the image of god in the first story and in the second story, man is made from clay and god breathes life into him. In the first creation story

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    Essay Length: 389 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Steve
  • The Short, Medium and Long Term Impacts of Terrorism on the Economy

    The Short, Medium and Long Term Impacts of Terrorism on the Economy

    With the aid of a source from the internet I will tell the economic effects caused by terrorism in view of the 9/11 attacks. I will talk about the impacts over periods of time. Firstly the immediate impacts (short term impacts) Direct. Nearly 200,000 jobs were ruined or forced to move out of New York. Private businesses physical assets amounted to a loss of $14 billion. Amongst other related costs such as rescue, state and

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    Essay Length: 340 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: July
  • The Story of an Hour

    The Story of an Hour

    alfaro 1 The Story of an Hour. Kate Chopin was a Victorian writer; whose writing manifests her life experiences. She was not happy with the principles of the time, because women had fewer rights, and they were not considered equal to men. Afraid of segregation from society, people lived in a hypocritical world full of lies; moreover, Kate Chopin was not afraid of segregation, and used her writing as a weapon against oppression of the

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    Essay Length: 393 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Creation Stories of Babylon, Egypt, and Genesis

    Creation Stories of Babylon, Egypt, and Genesis

    Creation myths of Babylon, Egypt, and Genesis There are many similarities in the Babylonian, Egyptian, and Genesis stories. In all the stories one god creates man and explains how all things on earth come to being. They also set up their calendars and show examples of evil within each story to set up moral rules for man to live by. How do these elements compare between each of these stories? In the Babylonian myth the

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    Essay Length: 904 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Mikki
  • D.A. Corbett Detective Story

    D.A. Corbett Detective Story

    Author: Sadeer Nasser Trainee Detective D.A. Corbett stared at the abyss before him. The man he was chasing had leapt it easily enough but could he? The man had planted a bomb in the middle of a town, people were dead and abyss’s like this had appeared all over the road. They weren’t very deep but were still wide enough to make it hard to jump and deep enough to break a leg or an

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    Essay Length: 4,430 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Family Stories

    Family Stories

    Family Stories When thinking of family stories most people will think of their grandmother or mother telling them a story of another family member or a story of their own youth. These stories, as far as I can remember the stories of my own family, are like parables and they are intended to teach us an important lesson for our life or make us familiar with the history of our family, which helps us to

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    Essay Length: 528 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: regina
  • Comparative Essay - Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story

    Comparative Essay - Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story

    Comparative Essay Romeo & Juliet ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘The West Side Story’ are both movies based on William Shakespeare’s play. They are very similar in many ways, but different in others. It is about two teens that fall in love and see each other without their families knowing, because their families have a feud against each other. I will be discussing the differences and similarities between, Romeo and Tony, Juliet and Maria and finally,

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    Essay Length: 887 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Janna
  • Glasgow Crimefighter: The Les Brown Story

    Glasgow Crimefighter: The Les Brown Story

    Glasgow Crimefighter: The Les Brown Story by Les Brown and Robert Jeffrey Edinburgh, UK: Black & White Publishing, 2005. In the study and teaching of criminal justice, it can often be helpful to look at the real life experiences of men and women who make up the criminal justice system. These accounts can put a human face on the successes and failures of the system, and move our understanding from how things are 'supposed' to

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    Essay Length: 518 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Stenly
  • My Story

    My Story

    “To the Reader” Ever since I was a young child I have always wanted to become a teacher. It has been my dream for many years. Now that I am in college it is time to make that dream my reality. I must work hard in order to achieve this goal because the road to teaching is not an easy one. One must put forth a tremendous amount of time and effort in their work.

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    Essay Length: 400 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Tasha
  • The Story of the Crucible

    The Story of the Crucible

    THE STORY OF THE CRUCIBLE In the play, The Crucible, the character John Procter, a very popular man among the town of Salem, and viewed as a strong respectable man finds himself in serious trouble. He may be taken as a hero by some. However, I would never classify him as such. Behind the fake image he works so hard to portray himself as, John Proctor is actually a man with many issues. He’s untrustworthy,

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    Essay Length: 674 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: regina
  • Short Analysis and Description of the Management Style of Netscape Managers Prior the Merger in 1998

    Short Analysis and Description of the Management Style of Netscape Managers Prior the Merger in 1998

    Overview Netscape workforce increased from 2 to 330 in just 15 months between April 1994 and July 1995. Despite further important increased and an attrition rate of 20% in the following years, Netscape undoubtedly had a strong management style which differentiated itself from the vast majority of well established companies (was different from those used by). With today’s detachment we can qualified it as “technological start-up management style”. Indeed it is quite similar to the

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    Essay Length: 819 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mikki
  • "the Story of Hour" Irony Analysis

    "the Story of Hour" Irony Analysis

    Gloria D. Davis Kim Turnage English 113 February 7th 2005 “The Story of an Hour” Irony Analysis Irony is a useful device for giving stories many unexpected twists and turns. In Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour," irony is used as an effective literary device. Situational irony is used to show the reader that what is expected to happen sometimes doesn't (Irony). Dramatic irony is used to clue the reader in on something that

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    Essay Length: 868 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Short Review on Snow Falling on Cedars

    Short Review on Snow Falling on Cedars

    Evocative and extremely well written, this book lets the mind soar throughout all different types of drama. The fictional world the write has created is so realistic that the atmosphere is unmistakably recognized. Including history and romance, this incredibly written book satisfies the reader in ways no book can. The primary pleasure of the book is David Guterson's interpretation of the diverse characters and the beautiful places. Set on an island in the straits north

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    Essay Length: 294 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mikki

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