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Being American Essays and Term Papers
The Great Gatsby: Nick Carraway Fulfilling Whitman's Dream Of AmericaIn "Preface to Leaves of Grass", Walt Whitman speaks of the "great poet" who realizes the beauty of truth and simplicity in life. This is achieved through indiidualism and a perspective that nothing in life is trivial. Individiualism is more than being a unique and independent person. The ...
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Capital PunishmentIntroduction
is punishment by death for committing a crime. Since
the early 1800's most executions have resulted from convictions for murder. The
death penalty has also been imposed for such serious crimes as armed robbery,
kidnapping, rape, and treason. There is a lot of conflict between ...
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General Motors - Financial Ratio AnalysisI. General Motors History Highlights
In its early years the automobile industry consisted of hundreds of firms, each
producing a few models. William Durant, who bought and reorganized a failing
Buick Motors in 1904, determined that if several automobile makers would unite,
it would increase the ...
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A Literary Analysis Of Jack Kerouac's On The RoadJack Kerouac's On the Road is an invigorating story about a man who's got traveling in his blood and a quest for adventure in his heart. It is an excellent portrayal of life on the road and is said to be the best piece of literature to come out of the Beat generation of the 1950s. The ideas ...
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The Autobiographical Elements In The Works Of Edgar Allan Poe"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the
proportions" (Biography on Poe 8). Edgar Alan Poe endured a very difficult life
and this is evident in his literary style. He was once titled the "master of
the macabre." One of the aspects in his life with which he struggled was ...
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Computer SecurityAbout two hundred years before, the word "computer" started to appear in the dictionary. Some people even didn't know what is a computer. However, most of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to use a computer.
Therefore, computer become more and more ...
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Chromosome Probes At The University of Toronto Uploaded: November 29, 1986. Sensitive chromosome probes recently discovered by a University of Toronto geneticist will make it easier to detect certain types of genetic and prenatal diseases, as well as being used to determine paternity and provide forensic evidence in ...
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Imigration And DiscriminationBeginning in the early nineteenth century there were massive waves of immigration. These "new" immigants were largely from Italy, Russia, and Ireland. There was a mixed reaction to these incomming foreigners. While they provided industries with a cheap source of labor, Americans were both afraid ...
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Trapped Inside The TVWhat is it that controls what is accepted and rejected within any society? Who decides what is right, and what is wrong, and what is an illusion? In Amusing Ourselves to death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show business, Neil Postman makes many arguments that the dominant medium of culture ...
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My Stock Track PortfolioThis stock-track portfolio really kept me interested in class and I had a lot of fun doing it. Throughout the semester I made 40 different trades. The day I received my cash I bought 15 different stocks. I purchased 500 shares of each stock. Coca-Cola was my first. I didn't know much about ...
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Black SmokersDeep in the Pacific Ocean lays something that has never been seen before with the naked eye until just recently. These odd formations are called "". They resemble chimney-like pillars that form when extremely hot mineral rich water leaks out of cracks in the ocean floor. When this mixture of ...
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Ty Cobb"Baseball," liked to say, "is something like a war...Baseball is a red-
blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's not pink tea, and mollycoddles had
better stay out of it. It's...a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the
fittest" (Ward and Burns 64). Although was possibly the greatest ...
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Ellis IslandWithin the shadow of the Statue of Liberty lies , the immigration center for the Port of New York, between 1892 and 1954. While Bartholdi's soaring statue was a world famous symbol of liberty and opportunity, the sight of and it's low-lying buildings also encouraged hope in the hearts and ...
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Outlaws In The FrontierHorse thieves, cattle rustlers, bank robbers, train and stagecoach robbers, highwaymen, murderers these were but some of the criminals who infested the American frontier during the 19th century. The word outlaw is a translation of the Italian bandito, meaning "someone who has been banished because ...
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Foreign AidThere are two words that many politicians like to shy away , and those
two words are, "." Taking a firm stand on either side of this topic
is usually side stepped by decision makers. Their opinions are usually based
on a case by case analysis. This extremely controversial topic involves ...
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Protecting A ComputerAbout two hundred years before, the word "computer" started to appear in
the dictionary. Some people even didn't know what is a computer. However, most
of the people today not just knowing what is a computer, but understand how to
use a computer.
Therefore, computer become more and more ...
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Anger Management And HealthEverybody feels anger from time to time. People have been documented
feeling anger since biblical times when God was considered angry. Babies even
exhibit signs that are interpreted as anger, such as crying or screaming. Anger
is not in any way unique to people. Animals also have the ability ...
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Yamamoto, the man who planned Pearl Harbor increased my knowledge about the people of Japan because it introduced me to their culture, and the life and times in Japan before World War II. In Japan, the family is the basic unit of society. For example, if a Japanese has the unfortunate occurrence of ...
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