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  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Willy’s Line of Communication Willy’s wife, Linda, is an essential character to the play because she is the glue in their family. She is the one that holds the family together and makes sure that the family communicates properly. This family is typical in the since that they argue, have issues, and the normal problems that most families do, except for the fact that both sons have stressed relationships with their fathers. If not for

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    Essay Length: 500 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: regina
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    Thesis It is more reasonable to utilize the death penalty than to abolish it. The death penalty should not be abolished because (1) it deters people from committing murder and (2) because the death penalty gives peace of mind to the victims and their families and puts an end to the crime. Arguments for the thesis (1) The death penalty should not be abolished because the fear of the highest form of punishment will keep

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    Essay Length: 434 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: regina
  • Death Penalty

    Death Penalty

    In the words of the late Martin Luther King Jr., “I am happy to join you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration of freedom in the history of the nation” This country has laws-laws that govern and keep peace so that the innocent will be spared and the guilty will be punished. But is this true? Are the innocent always spared and the guilty always punished for their sins?

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    Essay Length: 602 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Victor
  • Antigone Vs. Chronicles of a Death Foretold

    Antigone Vs. Chronicles of a Death Foretold

    It is evident in both Chronicles of a Death Foretold and Antigone; family honour plays a drastic role in decision making, morals, and ultimately outlines the culture of society. Although the decision making and morals aren’t the same in both works, it still demonstrates the culture of the society. In Antigone, Sophocles displays a contrast in the views of family honour to display the culture of Thebes. The reactions by the chorus to the actions

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    Essay Length: 578 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: regina
  • Death of Celilo Falls

    Death of Celilo Falls

    The purpose of this essay is to examine and analyze Katrine Barber’s book, “Death of Celilo Falls”. In this book, Barber successfully seeks to tell the story of a momentous event in the history of the West, the building of the Dalles Dam in 1957. Celilo Falls was part of a nine-mile area of the Long Narrows on the Columbia River. Despite the fact that the Celilo Village still survives to this day in the

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    Essay Length: 1,545 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Victor
  • Why Is Mitch’s Rejection of Blanche like a Death Sentence for Her

    Why Is Mitch’s Rejection of Blanche like a Death Sentence for Her

    WHY IS MITCH'S REJECTION OF BLANCHE LIKE A DEATH SENTENCE FOR HER. In the play, Blanche is already a fallen woman in society's eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone, she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier, and she is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behaviour. She has a bad drinking problem, which she covers up poorly. She lives in a state of perpetual panic about her fading beauty.

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    Essay Length: 470 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Yan
  • The Mind: Aristotle Kant and Socrates

    The Mind: Aristotle Kant and Socrates

    Daniel C. Dennet said in A Glorious Accident that, "our minds--if you like-- [are] just as real as our dreams"(Kayzer, 37). The implications of this statement are substantial, for if this is true--if our minds and our consciousness are just dreams or the constructs of our brain, what we perceive, our memories, and our sense of reality are nothing more than illusions. Not only is this scientifically a valid statement, but it forces us to

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    Essay Length: 2,327 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Jon
  • Death Penalty-Correct Choice?

    Death Penalty-Correct Choice?

    Although thought to be a problem in the past, the death penalty in today’s world has been proven to be an injustice and an immoral sentence for the people convicted. I believe that we do not have the right to kill anyone as a consequence for his or her past choices or actions. Just because a person murdered another, does not mean we have to also put another human being to death. It is God's

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    Essay Length: 535 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 25, 2010 By: Edward
  • Getting Rid of the Death Penalty

    Getting Rid of the Death Penalty

    Getting Rid of the Death Penalty Capital punishment was a corrective measure that was widely used all over the world. It is difficult to pin point the exact date of it's origin but it is a fact that it was practiced intensely during medieval times. Crimes have occurred probably since the beginning of time and therefore there was a need for a counter attack to minimize if not eradicate it completely. Laws were created for

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    Essay Length: 2,951 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Death in Me

    Death in Me

    In life everyone has to encounter challenges, they make us who we are and often times have say in who we will be. Life altering experiences do not have to be bad all the time it could be passing a test or receiving an award. However, for me it was death that was the life altering experience. In transition from childhood to adolescence for me the concept of death was there but not real.

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: July
  • Thoughtless Actions Are the Cause of Death in Romeo and Juliet

    Thoughtless Actions Are the Cause of Death in Romeo and Juliet

    ROMEO AND JULIET [ESSAY] Francis Chan Thoughtless actions are the cause of tragedy in Romeo and Juliet. Do you agree? In Shakespeare’s play, Romeo and Juliet, the tragedy of the two lovers is driven mainly by the thoughtless actions of others. This thoughtlessness is displayed by many of the characters throughout the play; Capulet, Montague and the clergy alike. As well, these flaws in judgements are expressed through a wide variety of themes such as

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • Socrates Philosophical Problem

    Socrates Philosophical Problem

    Socrates Philosophical Problem The problem lies in lack of knowledge which often leads men to mistake bad things for good. His aim in his philosophical dialogs were to establish an understanding of knowledge through questioning and debate. He believed in many universal truths and by the exercise of reason one may come to an understanding of what was good. In this time philosophy was lacking moral and political philosophies and there was not a clear

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Who Is to Blame for the Death of Romeo and Juliet?

    Who Is to Blame for the Death of Romeo and Juliet?

    In Shakespeare’s play, “The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet”, the two protagonists, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet, are “a pair of star-crossed lovers” [Prologue] whose tragic death “buries their parents’ strife” [Prologue]. In the play, many factors lead to the death of Romeo and Juliet; among these are fate, impulsive love and the rivalry between the Montague and Capulet family. As one of the central themes of the play, fate plays an important role in

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    The play "Death Of A Salesman" , the brainchild of Arthur Miller was transformed and fitted to the movie screen in the year 1986. The play itself is set in the house of Willy Loman, and tells the melancholy story of a salesman whom is in deep financial trouble, and the only remedy for the situation is to commit suicide. In the stage production of this tale, the specific lighting, set, and musical designs really

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    A "Great Drama" is a play in which an audience can find personal relevance. It is something which an audience can relate to. A great drama should having meaning to audiences for multiple generations. Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" successfully related to its audience and left us with messages that still echo today. The Crucible must be considered to be a great drama because of Miller's skillful play writing which created a script that not only

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Death and Thoughtlessness in Poetry

    Death and Thoughtlessness in Poetry

    Although the poems "Not Waving But Drowning" by Stevie Smith and "The Fly" by William Blake were written in two very different time periods, it is still possible to find similarities between them. Williams Blake's poem is seen through the eyes of someone who thoughtlessly kills a fly and then tries to justify it, while Stevie Smith's poem is about a man who is in trouble but whom his friends won't listen to. The meaning

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Black Death

    Black Death

    Historically the Black Death, also referred to as the Bubonic plague, is disputably recognized as the most devastating disease to affect the human race. During the outbreak of the Black Death approximately million people (nearly one third of Europe’s population at the time) were killed. The disease is said to have started somewhere in the Gobi desert during the late 1320s and spread at an obscene rate. The question remains: how did the Black

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Jack
  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Bio 111 2. Homeostasis is defined as having a balanced and stable internal environment. Also, the circulatory system is one of the systems in the body that helps maintain homeostasis. It transports blood throughout the entire body. Plus, blood transports gases, nutrients, hormones, and metabolic waste in the body so our bodies. - One-way homeostasis is maintained in the blood is the transporting of red blood cells throughout the body. Red blood cells are

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    Essay Length: 1,339 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Jon
  • Socrates

    Socrates

    SOCRATES (469-399 BC) Socrates was the first person I chose for my “committee”. The things about Socrates that have always drawn me to his work was his belief in “know thyself” and that “the unexamined life is not worth living”. His drive and interest in questioning appeals to me most, probably because I question everything. I want to know why things are the way they are, how they got that way and why am

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Mike
  • Death of a Sales Man

    Death of a Sales Man

    No one has a perfect life. Everyone has conflices that they must face sooner or later. The ways in which people deal with these personal conflicts can differ as much as the people themselves. Some insist on ignoring the problem as long as possible, while some attack the problem to get it out of the way. The book of a Salesman, is written by Arthur Miller. It takes place at Willy Loman’s - A 63

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Jack
  • What Is the Impact on Family Members After the Death of a Child?

    What Is the Impact on Family Members After the Death of a Child?

    What is the Impact on Family Members After the Death of a Child? Introduction “Three and one-half million children under the age of nineteen, die each year in this country” (Koocher, 1994, p. 377). This paper is a literature review of many aspects of bereavement and the grieving process. The definition of bereavement will be discussed (Kanel, 1999). This paper will include the phases of bereavement (Burnett et al. 1994). Involved in the bereavement process

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    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Death Among Inmates Behind Bars

    Death Among Inmates Behind Bars

    Murder and suicide are occurring more often among minorities behind bars than any other racial group because of the color of a person’s skin. Prison and jail deaths have increased because incarceration rates have increased with people of color (Race Relationships in Prison). Being an Afro-American or Hispanic behind bars means trouble and the possibility of either getting killed or killing yourself. Death among inmates is a serious crime that is occurring more and more

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    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Max
  • The Salem Witch Trials of 1692

    The Salem Witch Trials of 1692

    The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 In colonial Massachusetts between February of 1692 and May of 1963 over one hundred and fifty people were arrested and imprisoned for the capital felony of witchcraft. Trials were held in Salem Village, Ipswich, Andover and Salem Town of Essex County of Massachusetts, but accusations of witchcraft occurred in surrounding counties as well. Nineteen of the accused, fourteen women and five men, were hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem

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    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Yan
  • Death of a Salesman

    Death of a Salesman

    Tragic Dreams In Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, the main objective of the protagonist is to achieve the “American Dream” by the means of being “personally attractive” and “well-liked” throughout his lifetime. Willy Loman never really had any support from family growing up. Neither his father nor mother were involved in his life, and his older brother left him to go on a business adventure at a young age. Willy only has the inspiration

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    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Socrates: The Greek Philosopher

    Socrates: The Greek Philosopher

    The life of the Greek philosopher Socrates (469-399 BC) marks such a critical point in Western thought that standard histories divide Greek philosophy into pre-Socratic and post-Socratic periods. Socrates left no writings of his own, and his work has inspired almost as many different interpretations as there have been interpreters. He remains one of the most important and one of the most enigmatic figures in Western philosophy. As a young man Socrates became fascinated with

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    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Steve

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