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  • The Long Goodbye Summary

    The Long Goodbye Summary

    A milestone in the genre, this novel demonstrated for the first time that hard-boiled fiction could serve as a vehicle for social comment and critique. While the apparent plot is slower paced and less metaphoric than Chandler's previous novels, the revealed plot shows him using his own life as a material, an autobiographical turn that prepared the way for Ross Macdonald. Marlowe meets and befriends English expatriate Terry Lennox, a drunk who has been abandoned

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Artur
  • Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West

    Uses of Global Poverty: How Economic Inequality Benefits the West

    The piece done by Daina Stukuls Eglitis really points out the global wealth cap and how it is still very massive in size and growing. It shows the rich getting rich, and the poor countries remain in poverty with little ways to pull themselves out. It comes out to say that the previous administration had been making little progress on the task to close the gap between rich and poor nations, but since of 2002

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    Essay Length: 277 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: July
  • Herman Miller - a West Michigan Based Furniture Manufacturer

    Herman Miller - a West Michigan Based Furniture Manufacturer

    Herman Miller, a West Michigan based furniture manufacturer has embarked on a project to create products that are "green" and a methodology to ensure that the products are ecologically friendly from beginning to end. Like Friar Tucker, Herman Miller must follow a pathway to successfully design and implement this project. The initial parameters were for a new evaluation process to determine just how ecologically friendly the raw materials for use were. "To evaluate the extent

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Summary of the Battle of Fort Sumter

    Summary of the Battle of Fort Sumter

    Summary of the Battle of Fort Sumter On March 5, 1861, the day after his inauguration, President Lincoln was informed that Fort Sumter had less than six weeks of food supply left. President Lincoln turned down all efforts to settle the differences with the Confederacy by the Confederate Government. The Confederate Government decided that it couldn’t tolerate a foreign force in its territory any longer. President Lincoln believed that conflict was inevitable so he came

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • Summary of Private Uses for Public Interest

    Summary of Private Uses for Public Interest

    This lecture by Stiglitz is about how and why Pareto or near-Pareto improvement is hard to achieve, through his experience in Council of Economic Advisors for the United States government. First, Stiglitz writes about Adam Smith's invisible hand theory as an explications of conditions under which market equilibrium will be Pareto efficient, and discusses about the importance of government intervention by writing that in presence of imperfect information or incomplete market, there will always

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • South West Airline

    South West Airline

    Southwest Airlines Executive Summary Incorporated in 1967, Southwest Airlines Co. (Southwest) is a Customer Service Organization that offers air transportation in the United States. Southwest Airlines flies Boeing 737 aircrafts and provides services to 64 cities in 32 states throughout the United States. Southwest focuses predominantly on point-to-point service, rather than hub-and-spoke service. Southwest offers 411 non-stop city pairs. For the most part Southwest serves short-haul routes with high frequencies. Southwest’s average flight length was

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    Essay Length: 251 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Fallacy Summary

    Fallacy Summary

    Fallacy Summary A fallacy is defined as a defect, other then false premise, in an argument, which causes an argument to be invalid or weak. Fallacies are an all to common problem in today’s world and can be found in all aspects of life and work. When fallacies occur in the work place they can affect decision-making and can eliminate critical thinking. This leads to biased and incorrect decisions and judgments. It also can take

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    Essay Length: 1,195 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Mike
  • Summary of "a Dolls House"

    Summary of "a Dolls House"

    The play "A Dolls House" is written by Henrik Ibsen. The setting of the play is in the Helmer's house, and the plat is written in third person limited- to Nora- point of view. The protagonist and/or main character is Nora. The theme of the play is learning to take care of yourself.Ibsen wrote this play to infrom women that they can be independent. Throughout the play, Nora is trying to be independent but, she

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    Essay Length: 499 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Tommy
  • World War II

    World War II

    Growing domestic opposition to the Nationalist government's policy of self-strengthening before counterattacking in N China and Manchuria led to the kidnapping of Chiang Kai-shek was kidnapped at Xi'an in Dec., 1936, by Chang Hsьeh-liang . Chiang was forced to agree to a united anti-Japanese front with the Communists as a condition for his release. The situation was tense, and in 1937 full war commenced. A clash (July, 1937) between soldiers of the Japanese garrison at

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Summary of the Cask of Amontillado

    Summary of the Cask of Amontillado

    The two stories that I chose to distinguish against are A & P and The Cast of Amontillado. In the A & P, the author basically gives you clues that let you understand that this story takes place in an old, small setting grocery, because in the story he states, “This whole store is like a pinball machine and I don’t know which tunnel they’d come out of, and also, “I go through the punches,

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Jon
  • The West Africa Regional War

    The West Africa Regional War

    The West Africa Regional War For observers of the West Africa regional war, the recent calm in the war-torn Mano River Union (MRU) states Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea has given rise to optimism. Guarded, as this optimism might be, the decrease in violence in West Africa during the second half of 2001 is an important development given the scope and intensity of fighting that gripped these states earlier in the year. While observers agree

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    Essay Length: 1,355 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Ww II

    Ww II

    The Second World War was the most deadly, destructive and consequential war in history. Seventeen million military personnel died in the war. Civilian deaths in the Soviet Union and China alone totaled 30 million. Causes of the war can be traced back to the end of World War I. Germany, Italy, and Japan suffered deep economic problems. Inflation was rampant. However, by the late 1920s, economic order was being restored. This trend reversed when the

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    Essay Length: 792 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Queen Elizabeth II

    Queen Elizabeth II

    Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of sixteen independent states and their overseas territories and their dependencies. She was born on April 21, 1926 and was already known to take the place of her father’s throne, since she was the only child. She was baptized in the Private Chapel on the grounds of the Buckingham Palace. Elizabeth was named after her mother, in whom her two middle names were given from her paternal great-grandmother, Queen

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    Essay Length: 795 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Steve
  • West Side Story

    West Side Story

    West Side Story In this musical, it uses several types of narratives, for example, after the fight between the Jets and Puerto Ricans, after the police leave, they enter the ally and the girl is begging to join the gang saying how much she wants to fight is a part of narrative sexuality (B 34). The girl is more of a tom boy who wants to be like one of the guys. Also, in the

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Tommy
  • The Great Encounter of China and the West

    The Great Encounter of China and the West

    The Great Encounter of China and the West 1500-1800 The Chinese and European cultures came together for the first time in the fifteenth century when great Chinese fleets traveled throughout the Indian Ocean and along the coast of Africa. These voyages created much concern for China. They lead to a period of isolation for security reasons. By the time the first Europeans arrived in China there was little to no evidence of these voyages. (Mungello

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: regina
  • William N. Rogers Ii, Center for Asian Studies

    William N. Rogers Ii, Center for Asian Studies

    William N. Rogers II, Center for Asian Studies "Pa Chin's Family--one of the most celebrated novels of the May 4th Movement--continues to be indispensable reading. Its clash of the traditional and the modern, of age and youth, of Confucianism and individualism remains relevant to any understanding of how China struggled, and continues to struggle, to escape the constraints of stifling orthodoxy." Book Description An essential work for anyone interested in the society and history of

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Goal - Summary

    The Goal - Summary

    The book tells us the story of a plant manager, Alex Rogo, who is trying to save his plant, at least show some improvements within 90 days to keep it open. Alex’s primary problem is that his plant can not consistently get a quality product out of the plant on time at the cost that can beat the competition. His plant is losing money and if he cannot make it profitable, the management eventually will

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Executive Summary

    Executive Summary

    The organization that I selected for my formal research report was The Republic Newspaper. I have a strong opinion about the biased nature of their reporting, but I wanted to see if this was a fair opinion. Therefore, I did a lot of research on the subject of perceived bias from an overall perspective as well as conducting my own survey. The results were overwhelming. As I expected, reporters are put in a squeeze

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    Essay Length: 253 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Story of Usher Summary and Relationship to Themes

    The Story of Usher Summary and Relationship to Themes

    The story begins on one "...dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year...." From the very beginning, the reader, as a result of Poe's imagery, is aware of a sense of death and decay. Even the narrator, Roderick's childhood companion, describes "a sense of unbearable gloom [which] pervaded [his] spirit" as he approached the House of Usher. Setting in all works of literature is the make or break of a story.

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    Essay Length: 578 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Yan
  • Ode to the West Wind

    Ode to the West Wind

    In “Ode to the West Wind,” a poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the speaker expresses his fascination with power and with those forces- both destroyers and preservers- that inspire the same powers within the speaker. The author uses imagery, metaphors, and rhyme scheme to add to the poems meaning. Through word choice, sentence structure, and alliteration Shelley shows that wind brings both good and evil. The speaker uses his vivid imagery in the poem

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    Essay Length: 303 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Janna
  • Kanye West and George Bush

    Kanye West and George Bush

    Why Kanye West Believes that George W. Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People Comments by Kanye West in the news that centered around Hurricane Katrina and George Bush’s lack of care for black people in New Orleans that may have led to a delayed reaction to the crisis was met with much controversy. I believe Kanye West’s motivations for making such comments centered on his frustration with the situation, along with the depiction of black

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Vika
  • Creating a Bankruptcy Plan - Simulation Summary

    Creating a Bankruptcy Plan - Simulation Summary

    In creating a Bankruptcy Plan simulation the user encounters several bankruptcy situations in which the user must decide which chapter of the Bankruptcy Code to file and implement the appropriate bankruptcy plans. The simulation begins with Cardew Printing, a small limited liability printing business, which has been running at a loss for several years. Cardew Printing is unable to make the agreed upon payments to its creditors and is faced with deciding between chapter 7

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Top
  • Sutton&anderson Pastoralism Summary

    Sutton&anderson Pastoralism Summary

    Sutton & Anderson Chapter 8 March 30, 2005 Pastoralism is the form of agriculture where the domestication and use of animals are used for the primary means of food production. There is a relationship among the animals and humans. The humans give the animals' protection and guaranteed reproduction. Animals give humans food and other products. Most pastoral groups are loose tribes moving around, yet the household is the primary organization. Three types of pastoralism exist,

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jon
  • An Informative Summary of Japanese Hospitality

    An Informative Summary of Japanese Hospitality

    An Informative Summary of “Japanese Hospitality Robots Debut at World Expo” Tsuno, Yoshikazu “Japanese Hospitality Robots Debut At World Expo.” 9 Mar 2005. SpaceDaily 1 Apr 2005 . The 2005 World Exposition in Nagkute, Japan will present technical wonders to the public. The World Expo runs in the central Aichi region for six months starting March 25. Japan uses the expo to display its technological might. Interactive Robots on display will be the main attraction.

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Solldier’s Home Summary

    Solldier’s Home Summary

    Summary of “Soldier’s Home” Harold Krebs, a Methodist college student, went off to World War I as part of the US Marines in 1917. During the war, he fought in many fierce and bloody battles: Belleau Wood, Soissons, the Champagne, St. Mihiel, and the Argonne. There, a picture was taken of him, a fellow corporal, and two German girls on the Rhine. Krebs came back to his home, a small Oklahoma town, in the summer

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Venidikt

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