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  • Those Winter Sundays

    Those Winter Sundays

    Garrett A. Gooch Gooch 1 Ms. Sara E. Lamers Communication 1103 17November2005 An Analysis Abuse is a difficult and sensitive subject that can have long lasting effects. These traumatic emotional effects are often intensified if the abuse happens at a young age because children do not understand why the abuse is happening or how to deal with it. Even more, poets and writers all over the world contribute works that express the saddening events and

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    Essay Length: 1,912 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Blackberry Winter

    Blackberry Winter

    Blackberry Winter Robert Penn Warren’s “Blackberry Winter” is the story of one young boy’s sudden and painfully realistic venture from behind the blissful cloak of childhood innocence into the more brutal reality of the world. Warren captures this transition through the eyes of the young and happily naпve Middle Tennessee farm boy, Seth. When the story begins, the nine year old Seth is lingering on the very edge of his innocence, but is undoubtedly still

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    Essay Length: 960 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • Those Winter Sundays

    Those Winter Sundays

    "Those Winter Sundays" Robert Hayden's, "Those Winter Sundays", is a poem of a son's regret over his inability to honor and appreciate his father during the course of his upbringing. It uses one event to describe a father and son's entire relationship. Actually, "Those Winter Sundays" is a poem written for Robert Hayden's father. Although at first the poem does not seem to be a great tribute to his father, Hayden's admiration and love for

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    Essay Length: 681 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Bred
  • How to Winterize a Jet Ski

    How to Winterize a Jet Ski

    Things I alway carry onboard my PWC: PWC license & registration, copy of insurance, extra money, tools, spark plugs, zip ties, stainless clamps, small syphon, flammable WD-40, oar, extra drain plug, light stick, extra lanyard. Having trouble starting your PWC? Try installing a primer kit. A primer kit replaces the stock choke cable and plate. A primer allows you to squirt a little gas directly into the carb for easier starting. My PWCs start

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    Essay Length: 2,457 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: February 28, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Comparing Those Winter Sundays to My Papa’s Waltz

    Comparing Those Winter Sundays to My Papa’s Waltz

    Battered Memories: Child and Father Relationships In “Those Winter Sundays” and “My Papa’s Waltz” “Sundays too my father got up early and / And put his clothes on in the blueback cold” comes from Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” and describes the life of the speaker who reminisces of the childhood experiences that were spent with the speaker’s father (1-2). “At every step you missed / My right ear scraped a buckle” comes from

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    Essay Length: 1,075 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 14, 2010 By: David
  • Civility and It’s Discontents

    Civility and It’s Discontents

    The Paradox of Free Speech As American people, we know that we are entitled to certain rights according to the constitution; one of which is freedom of speech. In Civility and Its Discontents, Leslie Epstein explores the limits and contradictions of this much cherished right when considering whether he would expel a student who wrote racial slurs in the dorm rooms of a University if it was up to him. He discusses this situation and

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    Essay Length: 421 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 18, 2010 By: Top
  • Review of "a Lion in Winter"

    Review of "a Lion in Winter"

    Henry, the King of England, married Eleanor for her land; their first son died, after him, John was Henry's favorite, Richard was Eleanors favorite, but turned out to be homosexual, Geoffrey plotted against all of them with the King of France who was Richard's "friend;" Henry had an affair with Rosalyn, and Eleanor, with Richard lead a couple of civil wars against him, so Henry locked Eleanor in a tower; Henry's lover died, he bought

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    Essay Length: 545 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 25, 2010 By: Edward
  • Winter Dreams

    Winter Dreams

    James Truslow Adams once said, “The American Dream is the dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement.” The American Dream, although different for every American, is a personal paradise, to which all aspire. It promises prosperity and self-fulfillment as well as rewards for hard work and self-reliance. In “Winter Dreams,” a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald,

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    Essay Length: 553 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Those Winter Sundays

    Those Winter Sundays

    “Those Winter Sundays” In Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” a grown person, most likely a man, recounts the winter Sundays of his childhood. He remembers the early morning events that took place and how much the events portrayed his father’s love for him. The man realizes that as a child he failed to appreciate the hard work his father did in order to provide him with some basic necessities and some small additional perks

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    Essay Length: 754 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 2, 2010 By: Vika
  • Agrarian Discontent 1880 to 1900

    Agrarian Discontent 1880 to 1900

    Ben Boyd AP US History The period between 1880 and 1900 was a boom time for American Politics. The country was finally free of the threat of war, and many of its citizens were living comfortably. However, as these two decades went by, the American farmer found it harder and harder to live comfortably. Crops such as cotton and wheat, once the sustenance of the agriculture industry, were selling at prices so low that it

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    Essay Length: 1,468 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: July
  • Winter Dreams

    Winter Dreams

    Weber 1 Sara Weber Mr. Archer English 4 28 May 2003 Fitzgerald Essay- Prompt 5 Money may be able to buy ones happiness but not necessarily satisfaction in life. Fitzgerald's characters in “Winter Dreams” and Great Gatsby had money, but not satisfaction throughout their life. One can have satisfying materials, do satisfying things, and obtain satisfying qualities. Characters in “Winter Dreams” and Three of the most satisfying materials that a person could own is a

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    Essay Length: 1,350 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Similarities and Differences in the Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams

    Similarities and Differences in the Great Gatsby and Winter Dreams

    There are numerous similarities and differences between The Great Gatsby and “Winter Dreams”. The key and most significant similarity between the two stories was the importance of class rank during their time period. Both stories emphasized class rank, which became very essential to the plot. Class rank informs how much money you make and how well you show it off to others. In The Great Gatsby, Tom, Daisy, and Gatsby were all very prosperous. Each

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    Essay Length: 346 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 19, 2010 By: Anna
  • Globalisation and Its Discontents - Bbc Report

    Globalisation and Its Discontents - Bbc Report

    This was the year that globalisation ceased to be an academic issue and took to the streets. The mass anti-globalisation demonstrations - which began in Seattle at the end of 1999 but intensifed at the meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington and Prague - reflected a growing disquiet over who was benefiting from the increasing integration of the world economy. Demonstrators in Washington form a human chain Activists surround Congress in Washington

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    Essay Length: 913 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Vika
  • Those Winter Sundays and My Papa’s Waltz

    Those Winter Sundays and My Papa’s Waltz

    The poems Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden and My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke are two very similar works of literature. Both poems deal with the narrator looking back on the lives of their fathers and recalling certain events from the past. Those Winter Sundays deals with the narrator looking back on how her father sacrificed everything for the family and was never fully appreciated. My Papa’s Waltz deals with the narrator looking back

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    Essay Length: 518 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • Winter on the Mind

    Winter on the Mind

    Few things in the world today can take you from the ordinary life that you are living this very moment and transport you into unthinkable experiences though thoughts and emotions. In a world dominated by digital television and Dolby surround sound, one minuscule art remains untainted and virtually indistinguishable; that is the art of poetry. The time and effort that goes into the production of a movie or a television show is unequal, I imagine,

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    Essay Length: 538 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 6, 2010 By: Monika
  • Sigmund Freud - "civilization and Its Discontents"

    Sigmund Freud - "civilization and Its Discontents"

    The question of living in integrity and obedience is the main concept leading societies towards promising future. Sigmund Freud's "Civilization and its discontents", for many scholars seem to be one of the best psychoanalytic works, among the famous and widespread theories of obtaining civilization. He argues that human nature acts aggressively towards each other, thus, aggression cessation appeared to be the key solution for this problem. In this essay, I will summarize some main points

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    Essay Length: 1,013 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2012 By: Mariyam
  • Winter Dreams Vs. the Great Gatsby

    Winter Dreams Vs. the Great Gatsby

    Arthur Bright Mrs. Sagoes American Lit. 4B 5 May, 2015 Winter Dreams VS. The Great Gatsby The two books, Winter Dreams and The Great Gatsby, were written by F. Scott Fitzgerald which, knowingly, compared to each other’s plot in the process of their writing. The two protagonist characters, Gatsby and Dexter, both realistically resembles to Mr. Fitzgerald’s life of love and success. These stories tell about the life of two men that grow up to

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    Essay Length: 738 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 11, 2015 By: Art Bright
  • The Disconted Husband

    The Disconted Husband

    The text under analysis is one of the stories belonging to the pen of Agatha Christie (née Miller; 15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), an English writer, novelist, and playwright. The author’s books are still sold in millions of copies. The story tells us about a man, Mr Reginal Wade, who asked Mr Parker Pyne for a piece of advice at his domestic concerns with his wife: she asked him divorce. Mr Wade is

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    Essay Length: 1,553 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2019 By: Natalie Ilina

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