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  • Citizen Kane - the Story of Kane’s Life

    Citizen Kane - the Story of Kane’s Life

    Citizen Kane was narrated by more than one person. The story of Kane’s life unfolds in overlapping segments that add more information as each narrator adds their story. The entire story was told in flashbacks. Each narrator had different opinions of Kane, so the viewer gets to see Kane from many different perspectives. Because the narrators are telling their stories at an older age they are sometimes unreliable and often contradictory. Also, the stories

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    Essay Length: 375 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Janna
  • Detective Story

    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: December 24, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Story of an Hour Analysis

    The Story of an Hour Analysis

    In “The Story of an Hour,” Kate Chopin relays the events as they unfold of a woman’s reaction to the sudden death of her husband. While, she grieves, she is also overcome with the elation her newfound freedom brings. Chopin utilizes characterization, point of view, and symbolism in her description of setting to move her story. Chopin’s focus is on female characters throughout most of her works, and “The Story of an Hour” is no

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    Essay Length: 751 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Feminism in the Story of an Hour

    Feminism in the Story of an Hour

    Ebonee English Comp II Wylee Rogers M.A. January 29, 2007 Feminism in “The Story of an Hour” Feminism is an ideology dealing with women’s struggles for the same rights as men. It proposed that all women should be politically, economically, and socially equal to men. The idea arose in the 19th century and is synonymous with the Women’s Rights Movement of the 1900s. To get a glimpse of what many women were faced with in

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    Essay Length: 2,461 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Josephine Baker Story

    The Josephine Baker Story

    Josephine Baker was born Freda Josephine Carson in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 3, 1906 to washerwoman, Carrie McDonald, and vaudeville drummer, Eddie Carson. Josephine's father abandoned them shortly after her birth and her mother married a kind but perpetually unemployed man named Arthur Martin. Their family came to include a son and two more daughters. Josephine grew up cleaning houses and babysitting for wealthy white families until she got a job waitressing at The

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    Essay Length: 1,191 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Dorothy Day - Short Biography

    Dorothy Day - Short Biography

    Dorothy Day (1897-1980) Born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8th, 1897 Dorthy Day was a very influential person in the catholic economic lifestyle. Her father, John Day was out of work when she was little, which gave her empathy for other then, and later on in life because she also knows what its like to be there. When she moved to Chicago her life turned for the better, Her father became sports editor

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    Essay Length: 455 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Story of an Hour and a Sorrowful Woman

    Story of an Hour and a Sorrowful Woman

    Relationships are only successful when they are filled with love, trust and commitment to one another. When speaking specifically of marriage, these feelings should be exceptionally strong and the couple should experience unconditional love towards each other for the rest of their lives. However, time tells many couples that this is not always the case and that perhaps their love for one another isn't strong enough to mend their differences. Gail Godwin's "A Sorrowful Woman"

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    Essay Length: 673 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: David
  • West Side Story Analysis

    West Side Story Analysis

    Characters/Roles. 1. Riff- He is the leader of the Jets. Founded it with Tony. A wild man that acts like a punk and dies in a fight. 2. Bernado- Leader of the sharks, the Puerto Ricans, he is a young immigrant to America. He dies in a fight with Riff, but Tony kills him. He is integral in helping to spur the gang rivalry between the Sharks and the Jets. 3. Maria- She falls

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    Essay Length: 493 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Victor
  • Romeo and Juliet Compared to West Side Story

    Romeo and Juliet Compared to West Side Story

    Romeo and Juliet Compared to West Side Story We have recently been studying two different stories in our class. We read the first act of Romeo and Juliet and watched the movie West Side Story. I was surprised that I actually enjoyed both. Our assignment is to write a compare/contrast paper on what we have read so far in Romeo and Juliet and what we saw in the move West Side Story. I found that

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    Essay Length: 528 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Tasha
  • A Cool Story

    A Cool Story

    It was a typical Saturday afternoon with nothing to do, and nothing going on. Michael, my cousin, had nothing to do, none of his friends were home, except for Joe who was at his house with him. Desperately searching for something to do before the day was over they went into his backyard. On his porch, and started to play war, a simple card game that practically never end's. Then out of the blue michael

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    Essay Length: 299 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: July
  • Afgahn Stories

    Afgahn Stories

    Crying.., was my reaction after I saw this movie. It is unbelievable how people of the same nation could touchier each other and have no pity what so ever. I found it inhuman how someone can make a persons be in “wings” and touchier him none stop for six months, and that is probably not the worst thing that they could do to their own people. I also wanted to cry when an Afghan family

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    Essay Length: 387 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Max
  • A Codis Success Story

    A Codis Success Story

    A CODIS SUCCESS STORY On a Friday afternoon in March 1989, Debbie Smith, whose husband, Robert, is a police officer, was abducted from her home by a man she had never seen before. Mrs. Smith's assailant forced her from her kitchen to the woods behind her home. He proceeded to rape her. Before leaving the scene of the crime, the rapist threatened Mrs. Smith, saying he knew where she lived and he would kill her

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    Essay Length: 1,203 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Fonta
  • The "young Goodman Brown" Story, an Act of Faith

    The "young Goodman Brown" Story, an Act of Faith

    In his story "Young Goodman Brown," Hawthorne cleverly projects his attitude about the Puritan religion choosing a Christian love over the Puritan religion in this story of a mans journey to a revival. The name Hawthorne gave to his character is also significant as it implied Goodman Brown was a good man and the color brown meant that he was not perfect nor was he evil. This story highlights Goodman's commitment and faith to his

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    Essay Length: 1,047 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Summarize the Short Essay “why the Reckless Survive” by Melvin Konner

    Summarize the Short Essay “why the Reckless Survive” by Melvin Konner

    In the short essay Why the Reckless Survive by Melvin Konner. He gives an in-depth explanation of why people do reckless activities. His main point of thought is that people don’t think clearly about risk. He explains that “The American public, after years of education, wears seat belts at the rate of 20 percent and has reduced its cigarette smoking only somewhat, “The widespread success of lotteries alone shows that people do not think

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    Essay Length: 569 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Jessica
  • A Comparison of Two Stories: The Lottery & The Story of an Hour

    A Comparison of Two Stories: The Lottery & The Story of an Hour

    The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson, and "The Story of the Hour" by Kate Chopin, both have similarities and differences when it comes to the elements of literature.  Particularly, when the authors use foreshadowing to manipulate the moods of the stories and add irony to cleverly deceive the reader. Both of these stories possess similarities and differences when it comes to their components of the story, specifically the authors’ usage of elements of mood and the

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    Essay Length: 1,332 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: regina
  • The Story of "outcasts of Poker Flat"

    The Story of "outcasts of Poker Flat"

    The Outcast of Poker Flat Bret Harte’s story of “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” Is a study in moral contrast, faced with calamity. The characters react indifferent and unpredictable. Theirs John Oakhurst who is a gambling man, uncle Billy who is a slues robber, the duchess tow sisters who sell their body’s, and last but not least theirs Mother Shipton a proper English woman. I rank the duchess number one, because their the two who

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    Essay Length: 329 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Kevin
  • A Very Touching Story

    A Very Touching Story

    THIS IS BEAUTIFUL ......AND YOU WILL CRY... Sally jumped up as soon as she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She said: "How is my little boy? Is he going to be all right? When can I see him?" The surgeon said, "I'm sorry. We did all we could, but your boy didn't make it." Sally said, "Why do little children get cancer? Doesn't God care any more? Where were you, God,

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    Essay Length: 834 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Steve
  • Sexual Assault: Short-Term and Long-Term Psychological Effects

    Sexual Assault: Short-Term and Long-Term Psychological Effects

    Sexual Assault: Short-Term and Long-Term Psychological Effects Sexual assault is a term that is used interchangeably with the word rape. The decision on whether or not to use the term rape or sexual assault is made by a state’s jurisdiction. Sexual assault is more readily used in an attempt to be more gender neutral (National Victim Center). Sexual assault can be most easily described as forced or unconsentual sexual intercourse. The individual that is performing

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    Essay Length: 1,569 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Artur
  • Three Flood Stories

    Three Flood Stories

    The three flood stories, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Deluge and the Repeopling of the Earth, and The Flood Story from Genesis, have similarities and differences. All three revolve around supernatural beings destroying all living creatures and saving a select person as well as their family and animals. The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Flood Story are the closest, probably due to the fact that they are both from the same region, and more than

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    Essay Length: 801 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Story of an Hour

    Story of an Hour

    This short-story revolves around what goes through a person’s head when informed that a close family member has perished. However, I wouldn’t say that this is the theme of the story, which I’ll get back to. Louise Mallard is a young, yet married woman who suffers from heart trouble, and that’s why her closest relatives feel that they have to break the news to her as gently as possible. Immediately after hearing the shocking news,

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Monika
  • Apocalypse: The Story of The Book of Revelation

    Apocalypse: The Story of The Book of Revelation

    Apocalypse: The Story of the Book of Revelation 1. The word “Apocalypse” means revelation 2. The popular idea attached to the word “apocalypse”, however, is one of a cataclysmic end of all things 3. Few have actually read the Book of Revelation, but everyone is familiar with the idea of Armageddon 4. Some symbols and ideas correlated to the Book of Revelation include the four horsemen, the number 666, stars falling to earth from the

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    Essay Length: 422 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: regina
  • Write News Paper of the Story

    Write News Paper of the Story

    ON THE SIDEWALK BLEEDING The boy lay on the sidewalk bleeding in the rain. He was sixteen years old, and he wore a bright purple jacket, and the lettering across the back of the jacket read THE ROYALS. The boy's name was Andy and the name was delicately scripted in black thread on the front of the jacket, just over the heart. ANDY.. He had been stabbed ten minutes ago. The knife entered just below

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    Essay Length: 2,652 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Bred
  • Simple Wedding Story

    Simple Wedding Story

    I had just gotten hired by the New York City Fire Department, I was working the morning shift when a call when out for a fire in a taxpayer with possible people trapped. Since I was on the ladder company our primary job was to find the possible trapped victims. We got on the road and immediately could smell the smoke, then dispatch came over radio and said police are on location reporting a 10-,which

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    Essay Length: 367 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Short Sea Trade

    Short Sea Trade

    Short Sea Shipping is a successful mode of transport in Europe. For instance, in the 1990’s it was the only mode that was able to keep pace with the growth of road transport. It has in fact started to outpace road transport. Short Sea Shipping is also an obvious choice to play a key role in reaching the objectives of the European Transport Policy. It can help curb the forecasted substantial increase in heavy goods

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    Essay Length: 431 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Monika
  • Beowulf - a Story

    Beowulf - a Story

    Beowulf Beowulf is a story that takes place in medieval Europe, the main part of the story is about a knight, Beowulf, that has to fight evil creatures such as a dragon. No one is exactly sure who wrote Beowulf, Paleographers believe from characteristics of the scribal hands that wrote the soul surviving text, that the manuscript was copied down in the late tenth century or early eleventh. This early copy of Beowulf is still

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    Essay Length: 1,372 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Stenly

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