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My Friend April

One quiet summer afternoon I lay gazing into the big, blue sky watching the clouds form into immense moving objects that catch my eye for a second. I saw everything from birds to alligators and occasionally a car or bus. While staring at the sky in a world of my own I heard a clamor coming from ...

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Gun Control: Overview

The issue of gun control has been debated for a long time, probably ever since they were invented. The gun is a small, rather easy to obtain, weapon that is lethal if used in the right (or wrong) way. This makes the gun an extremely dangerous factor in our lives. If used improperly, a gun could be ...

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US History

AP US History Review 2009 Session #4 Progressivism-Truman Includes the following chapters from The American Pageant (12th edition): Ch 29-37 Ch 29 Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912 Progressivism: The "real heart" of the progressive movement was effort by reformers to - ...

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Boston Massacre

In my report I will be discussing the . I will be looking at the from three different perspectives. These perspectives are the Boston colonists and Samuel Adams, Tom Hutchinson, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor in 1770, and Captain Preston and his troops. I will also hold some ...

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The Black Cat

When Edgar Allan Poe wrote "" in 1843, the word "paranoia" was not in existence. The mental illness of paranoia was not given its name until the twentieth century. What the narrator is suffering from would be called paranoia today. The definition of paranoia is psychosis ...

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The Boston Massacre

In my report I will be discussing . I will be looking at from three different perspectives. These perspectives are the Boston colonists and Samuel Adams, Tom Hutchinson, Lieutenant Governor and Acting Governor in 1770, and Captain Preston and his troops. I will also hold some depositions from ...

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Literary Interpratation Of The

When Edgar Allan Poe wrote “The Black Cat” in 1843, the word “paranoia” was not in existence. The mental illness of paranoia was not given its name until the twentieth century. What the narrator is suffering from would be called paranoia today. The definition of paranoia is psychosis marked by ...

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Frankenstein Biography, Settin

Most people know of Mary Shelley as the writer of Frankenstein and the wife of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. However, she was far more than that, and parts of her life were just as dramatic and tragic, if not more so, than her famous gothic novel. Mary's parents were themselves well-known in ...

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Jane Eyre 2

Jane Eyre is the main character in the novel Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte. She is a fictional character along with the book. The book takes place in the mid 1800’s. Jane lives in five different places which greatly affect her life. The first place Jane stays is Gateshead Hall. ...

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The Aztec Nation

A distant sound is heard. It sounds like a deep drum being hit with a heavy instrument. You hear it again and strain your eyes in the direction of the sound. All around you is dense jungle. Snakes slither between your legs. You hear the sound once again. In front of you is a dense stand of ferns. ...

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Jane Eyre 2

Jane Eyre is the main character in the novel Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Bronte. She is a fictional character along with the book. The book takes place in the mid 1800’s. Jane lives in five different places which greatly affect her life. The first place Jane stays is Gateshead Hall. ...

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Hiroshima (book Report)

Chapter 1 – A Noiseless Flash The story starts out by a mini intro of the characters. Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the East Asia Tin Works, was sitting down talking to the girl of the next desk. Dr. Fuji was sitting down the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital. Mrs. Hatsuyo ...

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How Does H.G. Wells Create Tension In: The Red Room

"The Red Room" is a short story that identifies fear and the power of suggestion. The story focuses on how the power of suggestion can cause fear, and how the setting of the story or of a place can cause fear even if the main character is cynical and is not initially ...

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Hiroshima

Chapter 1 – A Noiseless Flash The story starts out by a mini intro of the characters. Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the East Asia Tin Works, was sitting down talking to the girl of the next desk. Dr. Fuji was sitting down the Osaka Asahi on the porch of his private hospital. Mrs. Hatsuyo Nakamura, a ...

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Symbolism In Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury, perhaps one of the best-known science fiction, wrote the amazing novel Fahrenheit 451. The novel is about Guy Montag, a ‘fireman’ who produces fires instead of eliminating them in order to burn books (Watt 2). One night while he is walking home from work he meets a young ...

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To Kill A Mocking Bird 2

"I'd rather you shoot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."(96). The above words are what Atticus Finch tells his children after they are given air-rifles for Christmas. In ...

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Ethan Frome

For teenagers every problem (no matter how big or small) is a big deal. If they have too much homework, and can’t make it to the basketball game to hang out with their friends, it’s just not fair. When the boy or girl they’ve been infatuated with says they’re going to call, and never does, ...

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Greek History

It has been four years since my mother had died in a fire that was caused simply by not putting water on the coals we had to cook our lamb on, the coals were still burning, hot and red like the color of blood, but some how it managed to catch fire on my brothers oil art paintings that were ...

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Charles Dickens Great Expectat

"Dickens, in Great Expectations, presents us with a range of ideas, but the most powerful is that the individual is shaped by the worlds they live in and the experiences they have." To what extent did you find this to be true? To what extent one's environment and life experiences shape the ...

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti's Politics

I hope I won't seem too politically incorrect for saying this but after immersing myself in the writings of the guilt-obsessed asexual Jack Kerouac, the ridiculously horny Allen Ginsberg and the just plain sordid William S. Boroughs... it's nice to read a few poems by a guy who can get excited ...

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