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  • Strong Females in the Work of Miller, and Williams

    Strong Females in the Work of Miller, and Williams

    The theatrical theories of Arthur Miller are filled with ideas that relate to the common man in his struggle to achieve his rightful place in the world. Miller believed that the tragic hero is any character that would die before they lost their dignity, or maybe it's better to say before their dignity was taken from them. The tragic hero, according to Miller, is a character that doesn't lie back and take it, when the

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    Essay Length: 2,023 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Jon
  • Getting Past Katrina by Juan Williams

    Getting Past Katrina by Juan Williams

    The essay “Getting Past Katrina” by Juan Williams focuses on the increasing poverty of population in the country and discusses the possible ways of escaping it. The author talks mostly about African-Americans whose poverty rate has increased since the beginning of this century. The thesis sentence of the essay states that the shock of Hurricane Katrina awoke many of the Americans to the reality that poverty persists even after implementing different social reform programs. The

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    Essay Length: 253 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Edward
  • Tennessee V. Garner

    Tennessee V. Garner

    Name: Tennessee v. Garner Citation: No. 83-1035, 83-1070 (1985) Facts: On October 3, 1974, Memphis Police Officers Hymon and Wright were dispatched to answer a "prowler inside call." When the police arrived at the scene, a neighbor gestured to the house where she had heard glass breaking and that someone was breaking into the house. While one of the officer radioed that they were on the scene, the other officer went to the rear of

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    Essay Length: 832 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Edward
  • William Whipple

    William Whipple

    William Whipple William Whipple was born in Kittery, Maine in 1730. His father was a native of Ipswich, and was bred a maltster; but for several years after his removal to Kittery, he followed the sea. His mother was the daughter of Robert Cutts, a distinguished ship-builder, who established himself at Kittery, where he became wealthy, and at his death left a fortune to his daughter. His education was limited to a public school in

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    Essay Length: 412 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Stenly
  • The Second Coming by William Yeats

    The Second Coming by William Yeats

    William Butler Yeats, a multitalented individual won the Nobel Prize in 1923. Born the son of a well known Irish painter and religious skeptic had many influences in his life. Eventually, he converted to Paganism from Christianity. He is till this day considered one of the greatest poets that ever lived. To understand the meaning of William Butler Yeats poem “The Second Coming”, you must first understand the difference between Christianity and Paganism. Yeats was

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    Essay Length: 1,272 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Anna
  • Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

    In the Play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, no single person is the blame for the tragedy that takes place. The tragedy was the inevitable result of the mutual rivalry and enmity between the Capulets and Montague families, hasty decisions made by our characters and a lot of bad luck. Firstly the main and most important reason that our heroes met their untimely doom was the continuous strife and struggle between the families

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    Essay Length: 697 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Bred
  • William Graham Sumner

    William Graham Sumner

    William Graham Sumner was born in Patterson, New Jersey on October 30th, 1940. He grew up in Hartford, Connecticut with his sturdy, working-class, English immigrant father and his English wife. As a youth he relished in critical thinking. He inherited his father’s strict financial views and by young adulthood had saved enough money to enroll in Yale University. There he was educated in the classics and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1863. While at Yale,

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    Essay Length: 520 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Jessica
  • William Faulkner

    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner was a prolific writer who became very famous during his lifetime but who shied away from the spotlight as much as possible. He is remembered as both a gentlemanly southern eccentric and an arrogant, snobbish alcoholic. But perhaps the best way to describe Faulkner is to describe his heritage, for, like so many of his literary characters, Faulkner was profoundly affected by his family. Faulkner's great grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (Faulkner added the

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    Essay Length: 1,758 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Yan
  • Sherwin Williams

    Sherwin Williams

    BACK-GROUND INFORMATION: Sherwin-Williams was founded in 1866, by Henry Sherwin and was joined 4 years later by Edward Williams. Sherwin Williams makes paints and coatings worldwide and has developed many new pigments, lacquers, and enamels. Today the company produces 130,000 products and has over $5 billion in sales. Sherwin-Williams operates over 2300 stores and has thousands of external customers, some of which include Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Sears as well as automotive and tire stores. The company

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    Essay Length: 1,073 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Garden of Love by William Blake

    The Garden of Love by William Blake

    The speaker of the poem tells of his visit to the Garden of Love and of the chapel that is now where he used to play as a child. Instead of welcoming him in, the chapel has 'Thou shalt not' of the Ten Commandments written over the door. The speaker sees that this negative morality has destroyed the garden as well, transforming the 'sweet flowers' to graves and tombstones. The emotionless ritual of the priests

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    Submitted: January 11, 2010 By: Yan
  • A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

    Faulkner’s Plot Priority In “A Rose For Emily”, by William Faulkner, plot plays an important role in how the story is played out. Faulkner does not use chronological order in this short story. Instead, he uses an order that has many twists and turns. It appears to have no relevance while being read, but in turn, plays an important role in how the story is interpreted by the reader. Why does Faulkner present the

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Yan
  • A Prayer for My Daughter Sailing to Byzantium and the Long-Legged Fly Analysis of William Butler Yeats

    A Prayer for My Daughter Sailing to Byzantium and the Long-Legged Fly Analysis of William Butler Yeats

    To contemporary readers, Yeats can seem baffling; he was opposed to the age of science, progress, democracy and modernization, and his occultist and mythological answers to those problems can seem horribly anachronistic for a poet who died barely sixty years ago, but what is strongly identifiable throughout Yeats writing his the personal honesty that he arrived at. In terms of the evolution of his poetic craft, With the brutal arrival of the new age of

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Victor
  • Hamlet - Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

    Hamlet - Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

    Hamlet In the play Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare, the tragic hero, young Prince Hamlet is brought to see the ghost of his father. His father commands Prince Hamlet to seek revenge for murder and to protect Denmark from the evil King Claudius. This command must be upheld by Hamlet out his own duty and honor. Hamlet at first believes that Claudius is evil because he does not like the fact of Claudius

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    Essay Length: 1,006 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Janna
  • London by William Blake

    London by William Blake

    William Blake, London London by William Blake is a poem characterised by its dark and overbearing tone. It is a glimpse at a period of England’s history (particularly London) during war and poverty, experienced by the narrator as he walks through the streets. Using personification it draws a great human aspect to its representation of thoughts and beliefs of the narrator. The author uses a rhyme scheme that mirrors the pace of walking. The pace

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Janna
  • Barn Burning by William Faulkner Brief Summary and Analysis

    Barn Burning by William Faulkner Brief Summary and Analysis

    This was the first time I have read "Barn Burning." I really enjoyed it because it promotes justice and standing up for what's right in life, even though it is sometimes hard. I believe that one of the points of the story is that family, friends, or society can pressure you into the wrong just as Abner Snopes pressures his son Sarty by telling him "You got to learn to stick to your own blood

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: July
  • William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a great English playwright, dramatist and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright of all time. No other writer's plays have been produced so many times or read so widely in so many countries as his. Shakespeare was born to middle class parents. His father, John, was a Stratford businessman. He was a glove maker who owned a

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Roger Williams

    Roger Williams

    Most people go through life not worrying about others thoughts, just throwing stereotypes around without any justification or knowledge of the person being alienated. Some are ungrateful for the religious freedom that most of us are able to carry. Some do not realize the fight that people went through over 300 years ago to gain religious freedom and work through and around the profiling given by the hierarchy of society. No one worked harder for

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    Essay Length: 1,746 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Fonta
  • To Elsie by William Carlos Williams

    To Elsie by William Carlos Williams

    When you hear the phrase “the American people” do you think of a people who are despoiled, alienated, or lost? William Carlos Williams characterizes the American people in this way in his poem To Elsie, which provides commentary on the American people’s lost perspective. Through tone and imagery Williams tells of a self-alienating America that has lost perspective of its most treasured ideology, the American Dream, due to its violent and unstable tradition. Williams’ tone

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    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Victor
  • Eric Williams

    Eric Williams

    Eric Williams Amongst the various historical figures in the history of Trinidad and Tobago, one man that greatly stands out from the rest is Dr. Eric Eustace Williams. Dr. Williams was born on September 25, 1911 and died one March 29, 1981. He is best known as the first Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago. He career in politics began in 1956. He remained in office until his death in 1981. Aside from being a

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Contrasting the Prose Styles of Cs Lewis and William Gibson

    Contrasting the Prose Styles of Cs Lewis and William Gibson

    Contrasting The Styles of CS Lewis and William Gibson Using Neuromancer and That Hideous Strength The styles of C.S Lewis and William Gibson occupy opposite poles in the Science fiction realm; chronologically, sub-genre-wise, and most importantly, in terms of style. They differ significantly, in terms of use of language, tone and personal philosophy. Yet both are brilliant examples of great science fiction. Style is one of the most important elements in any written work, perhaps

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Bred
  • That one Five Paragraph Essay About William Golding's Story

    That one Five Paragraph Essay About William Golding's Story

    That One Five Paragraph Essay about William Golding's Story Michael Chelberg In 1954, just about ten years subsequent to WWII, a man by the name of William Golding wrote a novel based on his feelings towards the worl's society. The story of his idea was based on approximately 25 British boys whos plane crashed on an uninhabited island somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. He named his creation, "The Lord of the Flies". You can read

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Real Boys by William Pollack

    Real Boys by William Pollack

    The book Real Boys by William Pollack explores the lives of boys. He states that boys hide they feelings. So it may seem on the outside that a boy is tough, cheerful, and confident, but really they are sad lonely and confused. He looks at the “mask” boys have been put on. Also explains how to get behind that mask. He goes over the boy code and explains it. Also he goes over the

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Monika
  • Zapp by William Byham

    Zapp by William Byham

    “Zapp!”, by William Byham shows a positive method to change employee’s work morale and self confidence for the better. The story is a contemporary fable that shows what supervisors, managers, and organizations must do to create and maintain an empowered workforce. The steps are easy to follow and can be applied to any workplace. The beginning of the story presents us with a typical situation. The self-esteem and moral of the workforce is very low.

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    Essay Length: 994 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Artur
  • Theatre: William Shakespear

    Theatre: William Shakespear

    According to Harold Kittel, "Wieland criticism during the past generation has generally taken a psychological or philosophical tack--either bringing Freudian insights to bear on characters' behavior (particularly Clara's) or examining the ways in which the novel questions Enlightenment assumptions it was formerly thought to dramatize" (Kittel 123). Both approaches have of course served to open the book up nicely, but I would like to look at the novel from a third angle, one that may

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: David
  • The Sinful Nature of Men in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

    The Sinful Nature of Men in William Golding's Lord of the Flies

    When anyone thinks of the word “evil” they do not think it is within themselves. In reality, without a structured and well-followed society, people are apt to follow their own corrupt desires and neglect the thought of consequence. In the allegory, Lord of the Flies, William Golding reveals that man’s selfishness and sinful nature will be unmasked when the structure of a society deteriorates. As the story opens, the boys are stranded on the island

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    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: regina

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