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  • Street Racing

    Street Racing

    Street Racing To race or not to race, what will keep you safe? Racing can be safe but not always if you race illegally. There are a lot of safety items that some racers don't even use, I mean they keep you safer but they don't spot the buck for the equipment. They spend so much money on their cars to make them faster, yet most of them don't spend money towards safety. I know

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    Essay Length: 258 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Tommy
  • "from Poppa" - Book Walk

    "from Poppa" - Book Walk

    Picture Walk from Poppa written by Anne Carter Illustrated by Kasia Charko Reviewing Students: Alexander , Age 9, Grade 4 Spencer , Age 7, Grade 1 Emily and Lauren Keats, Age 4, Junior Kindergarten Notes: Because of their age I treated Emily and Lauren as if they were one student. They are fraternal twin sisters. 1st Student, Alexander Cover Q: Tell me what you think this story is about by looking at the cover?

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    Essay Length: 847 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Book of Job and the Lessons Taught

    The Book of Job and the Lessons Taught

    The Book of Job and the Lessons Taught The Old Testament’s Book of Job is a highly controversial part of the Biblical text. The book of Job is part of the collection of Wisdom Literature, along with Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. The Book of Job is not simply a story, but a fable, full of meaning and lessons to be learned. Job attempts to rationalize human suffering and the ways of the

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    Essay Length: 1,451 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Anna
  • "the Sabbath" Book Report

    "the Sabbath" Book Report

    Book Review “The Sabbath” By Abraham Joshua Heschel Published by HarperCollinsCanadaLtd Copyright 1951 Kylon Gienger 2/25/08 “The Sabbath” is a detailed coverage of the nature of the Seventh Day. The main idea presented in this book is that the Sabbath is a celebration of time, not space. The concept is that God set aside one day out of the week for us to separate ourselves from space; this world, and just consecrate and enjoy the

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    Essay Length: 835 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: regina
  • Longitudes and Attitudes Book Report

    Longitudes and Attitudes Book Report

    "Longitudes and Attitudes", written by Thomas Friedman, is a collection of columns, broken by September 11th's great catastrophe and including material from his diary. The book displays his outstanding strengths as a commentator along with a few weaknesses. "Longitudes and Attitudes" is a collection of his more recent columns and a diary of supporting incidents. It relates to the theme that has consumed him in his career. This theme is given point by Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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    Essay Length: 1,006 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Power Shifts in Law Enforcement

    Power Shifts in Law Enforcement

    Departmental Implementation of a Powershift Many police departments both across the country and throughout the world have found themselves struggling with manpower resource issues. Having enough officers on call to effectively meet the needs of the community must always be the priority, but it is a priority that is often overlooked by those who delegate financial resources to these departments. Being tasked with performing a job more efficiently and still using the same levels of

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    Essay Length: 495 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jack
  • Elitism and Institutional Powers

    Elitism and Institutional Powers

    Elitism and Institutional Power Wealth and Power in America Elitism and Institutional Power Most scholars would acknowledge that all societies are governed by elites in some form or another. Political scientists Harold Laswell and Daniel Lerner elaborate further by stating, “The discovery that in all large scale societies the decisions at any given time are typically in the hands of small number of people confirms a basic fact: Government is always government by the

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    Essay Length: 1,785 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Pigman Book Report

    Pigman Book Report

    I read The Pigman by Paul Zindel. The setting of this story takes place in the Franklin High School.It is in the time period of when ten dollars was a lot of money, and you can buy a six pack of beer for a dollar twenty five.the Narrator is 3rd person. The title realates to the story because Mr. Pignati collected figurine piugs that his diceased wife gave to him. Mr. Pignati is a

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    Essay Length: 634 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Dibs - Book Review

    Dibs - Book Review

    “Sometimes he sat mute and unmoving all morning or crawled about the schoolroom floor oblivious to the other children or to his teacher.” The book Dibs is a testimony of a child who seemed to be mentally retarded because he has created his own world inside of him. In her book, Virginia Axline proves that the therapy by the play is a way of curing people such as Dibs. During her book, she gives

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    Essay Length: 1,295 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Continued Importance of Books

    The Continued Importance of Books

    Many people don't realize the potential of books. It is a highly emotional even when a serious book collector takes a well bound book of favorite content into his or her hands; it is as though they are holding and cherishing an invaluable and exquisite piece of art. Books have been an issue of many of religions and even militant factions and yet, they remain today providing us with places to go, an escape from

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    Essay Length: 459 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • A Nation of Immigrants Book Review

    A Nation of Immigrants Book Review

    The book I read was “A Nation of Immigrants,” it was written by Mr. John F. Kennedy. The book was fantastic; it was about the start of immigrants coming into this nation. It spoke about how they fled there country for a new life in America and would do anything to get here. Some would wait days, months and even years to get sworn in as an American citizen. Many immigrants fled Nazi persecution and

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    Essay Length: 554 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • The Scope of the State's Power in Matters Affecting Health: the Case of Jacobson V. Massachusetts 1905

    The Scope of the State's Power in Matters Affecting Health: the Case of Jacobson V. Massachusetts 1905

    The Scope of the State’s Power in Matters Affecting Health: The Case of Jacobson v. Massachusetts 1905 The federal government does not have the explicit power to regulate public health so it bases its regulations on the federal government's exclusive ability to regulate interstate commerce. As an illustration of this power, there is a famous case - we will call it the fried chicken case - where the federal government was able to end

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    Essay Length: 1,511 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Night Book Review

    Night Book Review

    The book Night by Elie Wiesel is an influential and terrifying account of a boy and his family in various Nazi concentration camps. The story is told from the point of view of the author Eliezer as he is experiencing the situation and begins with the families’ transition from their regular lives to life during the Holocaust. The German’s call for deportation causes the separation of the family. Moving from one concentration camp to the

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    Essay Length: 497 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Price of Power

    The Price of Power

    The Price of Power By: Maria Huellas We all know that humanity has a dark side, the part which everyone has but many fail to recognize. In today’s society, everything seems to revolve around how people view themselves and also the people around them. Backstabbing and false faces structure �Macbeth’ and I believe that Shakespeare made the characters of Macbeth represent themselves as model citizens, but for those who can see right through their false

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    Essay Length: 1,185 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Kevin
  • A Child Called It Book Review

    A Child Called It Book Review

    A Child Called “It” by David Pelzer is his own autobiography of his life as a child being abused by his alcoholic mother, Catherine Roerva Pelzer, who isolates him from the family, then abuses him, and nearly killed him through starvation, poisoning, and once stabbing him. Since Mother starved him for days, he began to steal food in order to survive, and when she finds out he has stolen food, she abuses him with her

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    Essay Length: 425 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Race

    Race

    Although I was able to witness many different examples of inequalities in most of my daily encounters, a situation occurred that has had the ability to overshadow all of my other observations. While at work, I was able to have a conversation with a co-worker about her father’s recent loss of a job promotion. What makes this situation, such a powerful example of the force of stratification is more that just the conversation that took

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    Essay Length: 793 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Power Markets and Electricity Derivatives

    Power Markets and Electricity Derivatives

    Since the early ‘90s, the electrical energy sector has undergone profound and dramatic changes. More and more countries moved towards the deregulation of their energy sectors, from a regulated and monopolistic industry to one were the market forces of supply and demand determine the unit price of electricity. The first case of energy sector deregulation in Europe was recorded when the United Kingdom with the Electricity Act of 1990 created the Electricity Pool for England

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    Essay Length: 576 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Bred
  • Race Car Safety

    Race Car Safety

    Race Car Safety Introduction This paper is going to explain the major safety devices built into the race cars used in the sport of auto racing. The paper is intended for the general readers that have little knowledge about auto racing and the safety features of a race car. Most readers will have a general grasp for the vocabulary and graphics used, since the sport of auto racing has been growing very rapidly in the

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    Essay Length: 1,094 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Race, Class, & Gender in Early America

    Race, Class, & Gender in Early America

    Throughout history, much of society, more or less, accepts the structure of our industrialized labor force. One hardly takes a moment to stop and think of how it all started. The industrialization of a nation had to begin somewhere. After reading Leith Mullings article "Uneven Development: Class, Race, and Gender in the United States Before 1900", many issues that I previously hadn't considered were brought to light. The development of our nation and the structure

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    Essay Length: 1,244 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Janna
  • How Did Stalin’s Cunning Bring Him to Power in 1929

    How Did Stalin’s Cunning Bring Him to Power in 1929

    A. Plan of Investigation This essay discusses the significance of Stalin's cunning in bringing him to power in communist Russia in 1929. This consists of the study of Stalin's actions from when Lenin died right up to when he came to power in 1929. It also includes how Stalin outmanoeuvred his rivals. The two sources to be focussed on are J.V Stalin Collected Works from Stalin's speech at Lenin's funeral and Stalin rev. edn by

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    Essay Length: 487 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: David
  • The Power of Story

    The Power of Story

    The Power Of Story Stories have influenced and shaped our lives, but how do they maintain their strength, whilst providing a powerful mechanism linking the past and the present? To protect and retain their essence, the stories power is reinforced, providing enough ability to survive. Exploring the concept, of the power of story, Jane Yolen’s novel, “Briar Rose” portrays an allegorical story of the Holocaust, hidden within a metaphorical fairytale. Yolen exposes, the historical nightmare,

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    Essay Length: 654 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Yan
  • Hydrogen Power

    Hydrogen Power

    Why are we as Americans so afraid to change? Even if it is a change for the better? The world has been using oil coal and other petroleum products to power just about everything that moves for the last 150 years. Yet most cars in the United States only get 10-20 miles a gallon and even the "good" ones can get only a petty 20-50 miles a gallon. So why do we put up

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    Essay Length: 830 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Bred
  • Alternative Forms of Generating Electrical Energy: Wind, Solar and Fuel Cell Power

    Alternative Forms of Generating Electrical Energy: Wind, Solar and Fuel Cell Power

    The societal demands for electrical energy have drastically increased in the past number of years. The sharp escalation of fuel consumption caused the demand for fossil fuels, which generate electrical energy, to increase as well. Almost 80% of domestic electricity use is used for space and water heating. To reduce the amount of energy produced by fossil fuels, the amount of electricity used must be lessened, and other renewable methods of electrical energy generation must

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    Essay Length: 2,500 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: regina
  • Negro Spirituals

    Negro Spirituals

    The story of Negro spirituals is closely linked to the history of African Americans, within three milestones: the abolition of slavery (1865), the Black Renaissance (1925), and the first Dr. Martin Luther King’s Day (1985). Negro spirituals blend a combination of spoken word, hums, moans, groans, and old slave dialect and incorporated them with a simple repetitive tune to convey strong emotion. Before 1925 almost all the first Africans who arrived in the New World

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    Essay Length: 1,189 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Race

    Race

    RACE Othello is of a different race from his wife and all the other main characters, he being a black Moor and they white Venetians, except Cassio who is from Florence. The hero is alien to the other players. He is an imposing man much respected due to his vast experience maintaining the security of the Venetian Empire. The Duke of Venice depends greatly on Othello and when the crisis over Cyprus arises, Othello is

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    Essay Length: 300 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Fatih

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