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  • Rfid - the Next New Thing?

    Rfid - the Next New Thing?

    1 Introduction In our quest for an innovative issue, we bumped into the technology of RFID. Radio Frequency Identification is considered by some to emerge as one of the most pervasive technologies in history. As shown in the graph below, this topic has also become a hot item in today’s business media. Although RFID is still in its infancy, it has potential to finally appear in our every day life. Because the technology is rapidly

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    Essay Length: 5,364 Words / 22 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: David
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, women of the Ibo tribe are terribly mistreated, and viewed as weak and receive little or no respect outside of their role as a mother. Tradition dictates their role in life. These women are courageous and obedient. These women are nurturers above all and they are anything but weak. In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo has several wives. He orders them around like dogs. They are never

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    Essay Length: 729 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Achbe, in the novel Things Fall Apart, conveys a flavor of traditional African culture in the 1800's. But despite this, it seems the tragedy of Okonkwo that embodies the theme of the novel. Many of Achebe's themes are not limited to the events in his novel, but relate to situations, in which traditional values are questioned and people from different cultures meet, the most profound impact being related to the themes of religion and justice.

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    Essay Length: 1,312 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Artur
  • The God of Small Things

    The God of Small Things

    Before going into the theatre “to see The Sound of Music for the third time” (35), Estha “[completes] his first adult assignment” (93). He goes to the bathroom on his own, while Ammu, Baby and Rahel accompany each other to the ladies room. This little detail about going to use the restroom foreshadows another instance where Estha will be forced from being a child into manhood. Ammu tells Estha to “shut UP!!” (96) because he

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    Essay Length: 636 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Victor
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Most people think that saving natives from their primitive lifestyles is a glorious thing and that people should continue on to converting their faith; but when seen from a native’s point of view, becoming civilized to another’s standards does not always turn out so well. When people come to an established native colony and does what they can to try to make them believe in what they think is correct, one can understand a native’s

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    Essay Length: 899 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Steve
  • Things Fall Paper

    Things Fall Paper

    In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, women of the Ibo tribe are terribly mistreated, and viewed as weak and receive little or no respect outside of their role as a mother. Tradition dictates their role in life. These women are courageous and obedient. These women are nurturers above all and they are anything but weak. In the novel Things Fall Apart, Okonkwo has several wives. He orders them around like dogs. They are never

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    Essay Length: 729 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Artur
  • Things Fall Apart Study Guide

    Things Fall Apart Study Guide

    KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING The novel is set during the late 1800s/early 1900s in a small village called Umuofia situated in the southeastern part of Nigeria. The time period is important, as it was a period in colonial history when the British were expanding their influence in Africa, economically, culturally, and politically. Umuofia is an Igbo village with very well defined traditions. It is a village that is respected by those around it as being

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    Essay Length: 4,494 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: David
  • There Are Things

    There Are Things

    Violence and harassment against gay men and lesbians has been an issue of growing concern in Australia since the late 1980s. While violence and discrimination against homosexuals was not a new phenomenon, an organised response to it by activist groups and government agencies is. In New South Wales, the Gay and Lesbian Right Lobby produced the Streetwatch Report (Cox 1990), which highlighted the nature of harassment and violence experienced in the everyday lives of

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    Essay Length: 972 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: July
  • Film Sequence Analysis of "do the Right Thing"

    Film Sequence Analysis of "do the Right Thing"

    Spike Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing is able to effectively explore the problem of racial conflict in America by skilfully manipulating cinematic devices such as staging, narrative, cinematography, editing and sound. The concentration and emphasis on characters’ certain physical attributes with the use of photography and camera framing, the fast pace editing style and manipulation of sound all contribute to film’s overall meaning. In analysing the short sequence beginning with a small girl

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    Essay Length: 791 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 15, 2010 By: Janna
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    Book Report 02/11/05 Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is about different traditional village cultures in Africa. It also speaks about the British who try and take over the village by introducing his religion and making it the higher and better religion. Okonkwo is the narrator of the story. The novel setting is in a small village called Umofia which is located in the southeastern part of Nigeria and it is in the late nineteenth

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    Essay Length: 541 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Pollution - the Hidden Things That Are Killing Us

    Pollution - the Hidden Things That Are Killing Us

    The Hidden Things That Are Killing Us Pollution is the introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment. It is a major problem in America and as well as the world. Pollution not only damages the environment, but damages us also. It has caused many problems ranging from lung cancer to the greenhouse effect. It is all among us and yet we continue to live in our own filth. What is the reason behind

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    Essay Length: 711 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Fatih
  • The Most Important Thing I Have Learned in This Class That Every Globalization Advocate Should Know

    The Most Important Thing I Have Learned in This Class That Every Globalization Advocate Should Know

    The Most Important Thing I Have Learned in this Class that Every Globalization Advocate Should Know The globalization of the marketplace is one of the most highly debated arguments in the field of Economics today. There are many sides to this particular argument. Economists’ opinions on the subject vary about as much as night and day. The arguments range form absolute free international trade to hardly any international trade at all. In this essay,

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    Essay Length: 1,206 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Warming Up: Not Always a Good Thing

    Warming Up: Not Always a Good Thing

    Warming Up: Not Always a Good Thing Global Warming: the issue that is becoming a bigger problem as every day passes and continues to go unspoken about. Many people are ignoring the Earths’ cries for help, but if we continue to avoid the subject, we will not have a planet left. It is hard to comprehend the damage that our everyday goods and leisure items are causing, but we, as a planet, need to stop

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    Essay Length: 785 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: regina
  • Pablo Neruda's - Explaining a Few Things in Connection with Isabel Allende's House of Spirits

    Pablo Neruda's - Explaining a Few Things in Connection with Isabel Allende's House of Spirits

    Through their separate mediums of writing, poetry and literature, both Neruda and Allende both achieve a common goal of criticizing the actions of certain militant forces, past or present, within there country of living. In Neruda’s “I’m explaining a Few Things”, the Civil Spanish war, sparked by the forceful and bloody overtake of the current, fair republican government by the Faschist general Fransisco Franco, is the topic of Neruda’s disgust and criticism. The “burning” and

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    Essay Length: 926 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Yan
  • Portfolio Management and Diversification

    Portfolio Management and Diversification

    PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND DIVERSIFICATION Introduction: Portfolio management is a conglomeration of securities as whole, rather than unrelated individual holdings. Portfolio management stresses the selection of securities for inclusion in the portfolio based on that security's contribution to the portfolio as a whole. This purposes that there some synergy or some interaction among the securities results in the total portfolio effect being something more than the sum of its parts. When the securities are combined in

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    Essay Length: 1,980 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: David
  • Is the Government Doing the Right Thing?

    Is the Government Doing the Right Thing?

    Is the Government doing the right thing? The statement made by Honorable Jess A. Helms seems to be pretty clear when he says that the government, instead of giving sources to save the country, is actually providing freedom for crime rates to increase. “You can stand on the Capitol steps and almost throw a rock into neighborhoods where you cannot walk at night because of the violence that takes place nightly” (Helms 1). From

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    Essay Length: 1,162 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    The book "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe is a fictional look at the social and cultural life of an African tribe of the lower Niger River region. It depicts the every day life of the tribe and its members. It also shows the culture and customs of the tribe. The book focuses on one of the tribe members, Okonkwo. He is a well respected member of the tribe. Okonkwo is a good example of

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    Essay Length: 834 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Vika
  • 10 Things I Hate About You

    10 Things I Hate About You

    In the movie, the characters that resemble those of the play, The Taming of the Shrew, have many similarities and many differences from the characters in the play. Also, the setting of the movie is very different from that of the play. The two characters I chose from the movie were Cameron and Joey Donnor. The character of Cameron from “10 Things I Hate About You” resembles the character Lucentio from the play. I believe

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    Essay Length: 500 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Always Do the Right Thing

    Always Do the Right Thing

    "Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest" -Mark Twain. Twain's quote represents an idealism that should be backwards, were doing right wont astonish people because it's universal. Sadly, our world lives in the idealism of Twain's quote. Yet, life is infused with change, consequently, enabling use to change Twains quote by trying to make right choices part of our lives. Doing the right thing means sacrifice. In my

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    Essay Length: 301 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 3, 2010 By: Jon
  • Is There Such Thing as a Just War?

    Is There Such Thing as a Just War?

    Is there such thing as a just war? It is alleged that warfare tends to produce more warfare, and it has been showed so throughout history. That is not arguable, however what is, and what is one of the greatest stand points of “the just war theory” is that war should therefore only be promoted and actively engaged in, only on the rarest of occasions, exercising infinite caution. One of the greatest misconceptions about a

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    Essay Length: 555 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • Things Fall Apart: Christianity Vs. Animism

    Things Fall Apart: Christianity Vs. Animism

    Christianity vs. Animism A major aspect of one’s society is religion. Without it, the way people hold themselves accountable would be nonexistent. In addition, many moral standards that exist today are values taken directly from religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Currently, there exists a feud between people who believe in a god, and of those who do not. Eventually those who believe in a higher power will fight against each other. In “Things

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    Essay Length: 1,862 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 6, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s Odyssey

    Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s Odyssey

    In Chinua Achebe's novel, Things Fall Apart, the impact of British Colonialism in Africa is critiqued through the story of an Igbo man, Okonkwo. Okonkwo is an extremely masculine man who has but one fear, the fear of being weak. Throughout the novel, his actions are motivated by this fear which defines him characteristically as on overly masculine man. This over masculinity is Okonkwo's flaw and it drives his moods and actions, ultimately leading to

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    Essay Length: 952 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: David
  • Patterns Portfolio

    Patterns Portfolio

    The in this unit titled "Patterns" we learned and covered a lot of things. Some of the key concepts we went over are In and Out tables, order of operations, summation notation, consecutive sums, conjecture and proof, geometry, recursive functions, positive/negative numbers and algebraic expressions. We used in and out tables to organize data so that we can see patterns. By organizing it and looking at the in then the out it made it easier

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    Essay Length: 514 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Yan
  • Things Fall Apart

    Things Fall Apart

    "Things Fall Apart" is set in Umuofia, the hometown of Okonkwo, a proud, angry, and hard-working man in his prime. The character Okonkwo always felt a need to prove himself because he is the son of a failure. His father was a man named Unoka who was heavily in debt because he preferred playing his flute and drinking palm wine to farming. Okonkwo first established himself as a man by beating the famous wrestler Amalinze

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    Essay Length: 1,287 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: Mike
  • Da Mayor (do the Right Thing)

    Da Mayor (do the Right Thing)

    In Spike Lee’s film Do the Right Thing, Da Mayor is seen as a drunken old man. During the movie, he tells Mookie to “Always do the right thing”. I believe that Da Mayor represents “the right thing”. Throughout the movie I think that Da Mayor proves that he can follow his own advice. His many acts of honor prove that he is not just a hopeless drunk. The whole neighborhood sees Da Mayor as

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    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 9, 2010 By: Vika

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