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  • Defense of Socrates

    Defense of Socrates

    Plato's "Defense of Socrates" follows the trial of Socrates for charges of corruption of the youth. His accuser, Meletus, claims he is doing so by teaching the youth of Athens of a separate spirituality from that which was widely accepted. Socrates' argument was unique in that he tried to convince the jury he was just an average man and not to be feared, but in actuality demonstrated how clever and tenacious he was. He begins

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    Essay Length: 1,273 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: July
  • Chronicle of the Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Chronicle of the Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

    Israel Perez English 112 November 9, 2005 Professor Palade Machismo in the novel Chronicle of the Death Foretold The novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold, written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is one of his best known pieces of work. The storyline of Chronicle of a Death Foretold revolves around the death of a man marked as a young bride’s perpetrator. In the novel the murder is recounted in a journalistic style. The narrator investigates the

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    Submitted: April 12, 2010 By: Bred
  • The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

    The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial

    The Sacco and Vanzetti Trial In the trial of Massachusetts vs. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the two men were accused of robbery and first degree murder. At the end of the trial the two men were found guilty and sentenced to the electric chair. After their death, many people had questioned whether or not the men had received a fair trial. There was an obviously inadequate amount of evidence against them. Many believe

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    Essay Length: 271 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Steve
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    Death Penalty The death penalty is a controversial topic in the United States today and has been for a number of years. The death penalty was overturned and then reinstated in the United States during the 1970's due to questions concerning its fairness. The death penalty began to be reinstated slowly, but the rate of executions has increased during the 1990's. There are a number of arguments for and against the death penalty. Many death

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    Essay Length: 1,356 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Jack
  • Death by Landscape

    Death by Landscape

    Death by Landscape It is often wondered what an artist was thinking or what message they are trying to convey when they create an unusual or even a masterpieces of art. Now it is also safe to say that such beauty and talent might only be in the eye of the beholder, and many will never appreciate or understand the views that others have towards an artists work. Why do some people find such depth

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman In Death of a Salesman, a play written by Arthur Miller, Miller reflects the theme that every man needs to be honest with him self and act in accordance with his nature by displaying success and failure in different lights. Miller embodies the theme through characters in the play by explaining how their success and failures in being true to themselves help shapes their fates. Strongest evidence of Miller’s theme is

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    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Drinking and Driving: The Leading Cause of Untimely Death in Adolescents

    Drinking and Driving: The Leading Cause of Untimely Death in Adolescents

    Drinking and Driving: The Leading Cause of Untimely Death in Adolescents The most horrifying event a parent can imagine is losing a child. Especially when it could have been avoided. According to David J. Hanson, "People aged sixteen to twenty-four were involved in twenty-eight percent of all alcohol related driving accidents, although they make up only fourteen percent of the population" (1). This statistic is shocking, but it should not be a surprise. A teenager

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    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: regina
  • The Demon Lover, the Monkey's Paw and the Masque of the Read Death

    The Demon Lover, the Monkey's Paw and the Masque of the Read Death

    There are many similar themes in The Demon Lover, The Monkey's Paw and The Masque of the Read Death. I believe that the main theme of all three of these stories is the presence of evil and the hardship it brings to those surrounded by evil. Each story has something horrible happen to the characters. The horrible things that happen are all external conflicting events. Whether it was a bad luck charm, an ex-lover, or

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    Essay Length: 477 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Mikki
  • The Mystery of the Salem Witchcraft Trials

    The Mystery of the Salem Witchcraft Trials

    The Mystery of the Salem Witchcraft Trials In a plain meeting house in 1692 a woman stands before her judges. She is accused of tormenting innocent girls with an unseen evil. Standing there, the poor woman is ridiculed in front of her whole town. She is surrounded by people accusing her of witchcraft based only on the hallucinations of attention-hungry schoolgirls. It makes us wonder was there no justice? It did not matter; superstition got

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    Essay Length: 250 Words / 1 Pages
    Submitted: April 14, 2010 By: Top
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    Chadwick Hansen. Witchcraft at Salem. New York: George Braziller, INC., 1969. 252pp. Many people believe that the witch-hunt of Salem, Massachusetts in 1692, was based upon mere delusions of a few frightened teenage girls. Despite the popular viewpoint of many other historians, Chadwick Hansen's book, Witchcraft at Salem, offers a generally discarded point of view. He uses exhausted research and well-written material to argue that the events of 1692 were true signs of witchcraft. Hansen

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    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Victor
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    Many people argue whether the death penalty is humane or really a right of the state. How can one take matters into his/her own hands when taking another individual’s life? There are many different reasons for the abolishment of the death penalty, such as forgiveness and human equality, also the mistakes and errors within the judicial system, and retribution. If we as a country are trying to teach love and compassion, we must include

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    Essay Length: 493 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 16, 2010 By: Andrew
  • The Death Penalty

    The Death Penalty

    The murdering of innocent people has occurred throughout history, and for many reasons. The criminals committing these murders almost always have a consequence for such a crime, jail being the most common form. There are times, however, when the government deems it necessary to sentence these criminals to death for such an atrocity. Controversy rages about whether or not this is a suitable consequence, but it is more so a matter of morality and justness.

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    Essay Length: 470 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: Jack
  • Websites on Issues Relating to Death & Dying

    Websites on Issues Relating to Death & Dying

    Websites on Issues Relating To Death & Dying The web can be as useful or meaningless as you want it to be. I have found it to be a wealth of resources when it comes to needing information on anything. I guess part of that depends on whether or not a person can decipher between sites that are credible, and sites that are not. I have compiled ten sites that I have either known about

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    Submitted: April 17, 2010 By: July
  • The Crucible and McCarthy Trials

    The Crucible and McCarthy Trials

    The Crucible and McCarthy Trials The Crucible, essentially an allegory, uses the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials to symbolize the 1950s anti-Communist purges (Bloom). Arthur Miller’s Crucible was first presented in New York on January 22, 1953, when Senator Joeseph McCarthy’s House Committee on Un-American Activities was casting a pall over the arts in America (Masterplots). Senator Joseph McCarthy accused many American leaders of being communists, which lead to many unfounded accusations that others were also

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Artur
  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman Willy Loman is a salesman who is trying to make a happy living for him and his family to survive on. He tries but he is not the best at selling things, he tries to convince everyone that he is, but he and his family both know that he is not that great. I don’t believe that he can be considered a tragic hero because he was never a hero

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Death of Salesman Ruth Letter

    Death of Salesman Ruth Letter

    Dear Mom, It has been a week since I left home to stay with your sister’s family. I am continually surprised at how much I actually miss you. I know you haven’t seen your sister, or her family for that matter, for a very long time. I just want to try and describe her family so you have a better picture of them. The hardest working man of the family is Uncle Willy. He works

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Death of a Soul, the Glance of History

    The Death of a Soul, the Glance of History

    The Death of a Soul, The Glance of History And meet the time as it seeks us. Cymberline Before the preface, I saw the sentence adopted from ShakespeareЎЇs Cymberline . All of the sudden, a sense of seriousness and heaviness mounted up in my heart. I felt the authorЎЇs tone of despair and disillusionment. Ў°at most, one generation had gone though a revolution, another experienced a putsch, the third a war, the fourth a

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Salem Witch Trials: Behind the Hysteria

    Salem Witch Trials: Behind the Hysteria

    Salem Witch Trials: Behind the Hysteria The people of the Seventeenth Century lived in a world that few people in this century would even acknowledge. It was a terrifying place because these societies had the notion that individuals suffered from attacks of those from an “invisible world.” The Salem Witch Trials were a string of hearings held between the years of 1692 and 1693. They were held before local judges followed by county court trials

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    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Vika
  • Life and Death Displayed Through the Indian and Greek Cultures

    Life and Death Displayed Through the Indian and Greek Cultures

    Life and Death Displayed Through the Indian and Greek Cultures Hinduism, an ancient religion is one of the oldest in the world, evolving more that three thousand years ago. Indian and Greek cultures tend to have some similarities as well as some differences. Life and death are both equally important one to the other with these two cultures, but they seem to relate differently to these concepts. Exploration of these cultures concerning these concepts is

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    Essay Length: 1,155 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 20, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Discussion with Socrates

    Discussion with Socrates

    Jake TA: Noreen Discussion Section: 12pm Friday Discussion with Socrates Socrates was an interrogative man, who asked questions incessantly in order to find out if he was the smartest man, as the god Apollo had stated to him. He would ask questions that dealt with moral issues, such as how should a person live, and what is a good life. Socrates is the smartest man because he knows that he doesn't know everything. Everyone else

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: David
  • Desperation for Death

    Desperation for Death

    The United States has slowly become a materialistic battlefield. As technology has progressed within the last century, Americans have become stuck on maintaining the perfect appearance. Girls all over the world have developed severe eating disorders leading to poor health and death. In the United States alone, eight million people claim to have suffered from some type of eating disorder. Ninety percent of the victims were women, which begs the question, "Why are women more

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Artur
  • Comparing the Symbolism of the Houses in the Red Death and House of Usher

    Comparing the Symbolism of the Houses in the Red Death and House of Usher

    Comparing the Symbolism of the Houses in the Red Death and House of Usher Most stories have occurrences of symbolism. Symbols are used everyday in many different ways. For instance, the Bald Eagle is used to symbolize the determination and nobility of our United States of America. In both the Masque of the Red Death and the Fall of the House of Usher, the symbolic nature of the House plays an imperative role. The House

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Jon
  • Odyssey Death and Rebirth in the Odyssey

    Odyssey Death and Rebirth in the Odyssey

    The Odyssey, by Homer, is a classical piece of Greek literature. Throughout The Odyssey, the Blind Bard makes use of many literary techniques in order to lend meaning to the poem beyond its existence as a work of historic fiction and aid his readers in the comprehension of the tale. One of these techniques is the use of motifs. A motif is a recurring theme that is used throughout the work. In The Odyssey, Homer

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    Essay Length: 1,412 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction

    The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction

    The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction American history is a collaboration of all of the wonderful events and the not so successful ones that make up this great country that we call the United States. Records of this fabulous nation date back all the way to dates way before our original founding fathers. However, few episodes of American history have aroused such intense and continuing interest ad the trials and executions for the witchcraft

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Juvenile Death Penalty

    Juvenile Death Penalty

    Death at 18? One of the most controversial issues in the country today is addressed in the question, “Should the death penalty be applied to juveniles, and if so how young is too young?” The death penalty has been in the United States for many, many years, and the United States still has yet to figure out how to solve all its dilemmas and whether or not the penalty is right or wrong. Debates about

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Tommy

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