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  • Who Killed Jim Williams?

    Who Killed Jim Williams?

    Who Killed Jim Williams? That is the question that I intend to answer in this essay. Jim Williams was a black militant captain and an outspoken member of the Klan. I will compare the testimony of the three people who where called before a committee to testify as to what they knew about the murder of Jim Williams. The three people are; Mrs. Rosy Williams, John Caldwell and Dr. James R. Bratton. I will compare

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    Essay Length: 998 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Victor
  • Junk Food - Killing Ourselves with Kindness

    Junk Food - Killing Ourselves with Kindness

    Junk Food - Killing Ourselves With Kindness Fellow students or ladies and gentlemen, Junk food is everywhere. There are more than 300,000 fast food outlets in the US alone. The food they are selling us is low in nutrition and high in calories. Junk food is popular, fast and convenient. Nutritional experts regularly tell us how bad it is for us, yet we can't seem to get enough of it. Junk food is called that

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    Essay Length: 1,398 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Abortion - Why Must We Kill?

    Abortion - Why Must We Kill?

    Section #53 December 2, 2004 Why Must We Kill? From the years 1981-2001, 467,910 people died due to AIDS (“Cumulative AIDS”). In comparison, in the year 2000 alone, 857,000 babies were killed (Robinson). More babies are killed in one year from abortions alone than all of the AIDS cases combined in the past twenty years. So why are people fighting to keep abortions legal? In this upcoming election, we have two choices. President Bush is

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    Essay Length: 2,265 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Max
  • Killing an Already Dead Man

    Killing an Already Dead Man

    Fathers and Sons Dylan Thomas' "Do not go gentle into that good night" “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a poem about a man and his dying father. The man in the poem urges the father to fight on for survival and not to give in to “the dying of the light”. In the opening line the man tells the father not to succumb so quietly or so easily to death, no

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    Essay Length: 412 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: July
  • Mercy Killing

    Mercy Killing

    "Euthanasia is often called "mercy killing". It is intentionally making someone die, rather than allowing that person to die naturally. It is sometimes the act of ending someone's life, who is terminally ill, or is suffering in severe pain. Euthanasia is mostly illegal in the world today. Euthanasia can be considered a form of suicide, if the person afflicted with the problem actively does it. The person volunteering to commit the act to that person

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    Essay Length: 283 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Mike
  • If You Don’t Kill It, It’ll Kill You.

    If You Don’t Kill It, It’ll Kill You.

    Hamlet’s contemplative nature is the sole reason for his continual hesitations to act upon Claudius throughout the play. Though Hamlet had many chances to avenge the ghost, his over contemplative mind restricted him to act dutifully as a son. This character of Hamlet not only portrays him as a fool who cannot justify an unfair death, but also as an insane man who’s ponderings lead him to become insane and eventually to his own death.

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    Essay Length: 1,185 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Anna
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird from Tom Robinson’s View Point

    To Kill a Mocking Bird from Tom Robinson’s View Point

    To Kill a Mocking Bird Tom Robinson My name is Tom Robinson. I lived on the outskirts of Maycomb Country with my wife, Helen, and kids. I worked on Mr. Link Deas’s farm as a work hand. He hired me even though I’m a Negro and have a crippled arm; he’s a very nice man. Every day on the way to work, I would pass the Ewell’s home. They’re a white family that lived by

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    Essay Length: 1,108 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Yan
  • How one Protein Can Kill - an Examination of Harlequin Ichthyosis

    How one Protein Can Kill - an Examination of Harlequin Ichthyosis

    How One Protein Can Kill: An Examination of Harlequin Ichthyosis An infant born with harlequin ichthyosis (HI) is phenotypically distinguished by a covering of thick scales with deep, red fissuring. Most neonates with this congenital defect are born prematurely and rarely survive beyond their first days outside the womb (Hovnanian 2007). Recent research has determined that the condition is due to a mutation of the gene that encodes for ABCA12 protein. This protein functions in

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    Essay Length: 709 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Janna
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird Essay

    To Kill a Mocking Bird Essay

    Intensity is the exceptionally great concentration of power or force. Stories are what they are when they have well detailed character descriptions, variety of plots, and symbols. All of these things help make a story interesting and intense to the reader/viewer. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is a 1960 academy award winning novel written by Harper Lee. “A Time to Kill” is a 1993 movie directed by Joel Schumacher. “To Kill a Mockingbird” is more

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    Essay Length: 365 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Racism in to Kill a Mocking Bird

    Racism in to Kill a Mocking Bird

    Bullying And Discrimination Differences in the social status are observed considerably large in the society of Maycomb. Scout and Jem are two little children who are growing up, observing all the complicated incidents and trying to understand them. In the Maycomb County, incidents get more and more complicated as the dilemma of racism becomes bigger and bigger and as wise Atticus starts losing faith in the good in people. Maycomb’s society is like a hierarchy.

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    Essay Length: 616 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Tkam - Don’t Harm a Mockingbird

    Tkam - Don’t Harm a Mockingbird

    Don’t Harm a Mockingbird My brother was once accused of creating artwork with harmful intentions towards his art teacher. He had to go to court, and it is now permanently in his records. He was innocent and was harmed by the evil misconception of his art teacher. In To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the death of a mockingbird is used as a symbol to portray the harm of an innocent person. Tom Robinson’s

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    Essay Length: 576 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: regina
  • Dr. Kevorkian; Mercy Killings

    Dr. Kevorkian; Mercy Killings

    DR. KEVORKIAN; MERCY KILLINGS The roller coaster of life can be complicated at times, and we all experience a piece of time where it seems that nothing could get worse; your family is fighting with you constantly, someone stole your promotion at work, and to top it all off, your mother is suffering with a terminal illness and struggling to stay alive. The hospital bills keep adding up and every failed solution is costing thousands,

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    Essay Length: 1,017 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Steve
  • Abortion - the Deliberate Killing of a Human Being

    Abortion - the Deliberate Killing of a Human Being

    ABORTION Biomedical Ethics PHIL 235 EC Sunday April 16th, 2006 WINTER 2006 “An abortion is the deliberate killing of a human being. As such, it is a murder. When you kill an unborn child, you rob it of its whole future life. Therefore it is never morally permissible and it should be illegal.” Critically assess that claim. Abortion is one of the most controversial and frequently debated topics in the world. The fact that

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    Essay Length: 2,441 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Jon
  • What Is Wrong with Killing?

    What Is Wrong with Killing?

    What is wrong with Killing? Apparently, the killing of human beings whether people accept it or not, exists within our ever growing society. Obviously it's against the law, however does this make it wrong? The answer to this question is no. From a religious perspective killing another individual is wrong. For those who don't believe in God, killing is wrong as well because it takes away a person's autonomy. As long as someone believes in

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    Essay Length: 298 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Top
  • A Rose for Emily: Why Ms. Emily Did Not Kill Homer Barron

    A Rose for Emily: Why Ms. Emily Did Not Kill Homer Barron

    A Rose for Emily: Why Ms. Emily did not kill Homer Barron Ms. Emily Grierson, a well know figure in her community has a lot of controversy surrounding her. Known for being reserved and quiet, Ms. Emily is considered to be the local crazy person. Her family is known for having members with mental illnesses, and she is quite bizarre also. After her love interest Homer is found dead in her house, everyone wonders if

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Mikki
  • How to Kill a Mocking Bird

    How to Kill a Mocking Bird

    Summary To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee is a story written written to show the importance of black people in the 1930's. It is a good story with a good point. The prime messages observed in this novel is that of racism, how the actions of a community, not just a parent, can affect a child, and how rumors and invalidated facts can destroy anyone's reputation. Racism is mentioned throughout

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    Essay Length: 766 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Steve
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird

    To Kill a Mocking Bird

    To Kill A Mockingbird I've never been to Alabama, but novelist Harper Lee made me feel as if I had been there in the long, hot summer of 1935, when a lawyer named Atticus Finch decided to defend an innocent black man accused of a horrible crime. The story of how the whole town reacted to the trial is told by the lawyer's daughter, Scout, who remembers exactly what it was like to be eight

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    Essay Length: 269 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Max
  • Why Do Teens Want to Kill Themselves

    Why Do Teens Want to Kill Themselves

    Why do Teens Want to Kill Themselves? Most teens interviewed after making a suicide attempt say that they did it because they were trying to escape from a situation that seemed impossible to deal with or to get relief from really bad thoughts or feelings. Like Ethan, they didn’t want to die as much as they wanted to escape from what was going on. And at that particular moment dying seemed like the only way

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    Essay Length: 394 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Top
  • Euthanasia: The ’right’ Way to Kill

    Euthanasia: The ’right’ Way to Kill

    In the recent years there has been a particular case that has brought the minds of Christians as well as non-believers alike to examine the importance of a person’s life. Apart from the ongoing debate regarding abortion as a criminal act or a womanly right, there has been another issue that has been dormant in this nation that some would argue causes the same weight as that of abortion. Euthanasia is defined in Webster’s dictionary

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    Essay Length: 936 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Monika
  • Walking in Someone Elses Shoes Connecting Mockingbird to Rabbit Proof Fence

    Walking in Someone Elses Shoes Connecting Mockingbird to Rabbit Proof Fence

    Rabbit Proof Fence: There are two ways to connect the Mockingbird ‘walking in someone else’s shoes’’ theme in RPF the film. The first is of course how the Australian society did not believe that aboriginals were proper people and deserved the same rights as the European whites did in those days. This is because they lived in the bush and had no civilized way of living, according to the white perspective. Families were split up

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Kevin
  • No More Killing

    No More Killing

    The photograph Warren Avenue at 23rd Street, Detroit, Michigan, October 1993 by Joel Sternfeld, is one with great meaning and use of many creative tools. This photograph has two main purposes: to commemorate a loved man who was murdered and to point out the injustice of his murder. There is a painting of this man with clouds behind him signifying he was a great man who is now in a better place, however, the

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: regina
  • To Kill a Mocking Bird

    To Kill a Mocking Bird

    To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mocking Bird is based in about 1935, right in the middle of the depression. It is set in a small town in Alabama called Maycomb. Maycomb, like most small southern towns, has a problem with widespread racism toward Negroes. The novel focuses on one family, the Finches. In the family there are three people, Scout, Jem and Atticus. Atticus is a lawyer and is defending a Negro man

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Yan
  • Preface to the Analysis of the Extract from "to Kill a Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee

    Preface to the Analysis of the Extract from "to Kill a Mocking Bird" by Harper Lee

    There are many things that were, are and are very likely to stay incomprehensible for us therefore causing perpetual anguished reflections and arguments for many generations of people. Some of these things are objective, natural phenomena in the world around us like the blue colour of the sky or the instinct of different birds and fish which always leads them home. But also there are such things like Good and Evil, Love and Hatred, Honesty

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Max
  • To Kill a McKingbird

    To Kill a McKingbird

    It’s interesting to see the ways different authors depict how a character matures, a stage that many of us have been through. In Harper Lee’s novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird we can easily see how she chose to do it. The novel is set in Alabama in the 1930’s, while black vs. white racism was a big issue and problem for many. Atticus is the father of Scout and Jem, young children who witness

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    Essay Length: 662 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Civil Rights and Killing a Mocking Bird

    Civil Rights and Killing a Mocking Bird

    Since the Civil War civil rights of African Americans, as they are called now, were being fought over and disputed. During the Reconstruction era which followed the death of Lincoln, Blacks possessed the same rights and privileges as the whites. "But with the return of white man's government to the southern states, the blacks suffered under unfair rights and privileges compared to whites; (World 357). On June 7, 1892, Homer Plessy, a 30-year old shoemaker

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Artur

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