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College Essays and Term Papers
James Clerk MaxwellMaxwell, James Clerk (1831-1879), British physicist, best known for his work on the connection between light and electromagnetic waves (traveling waves of energy). Maxwell discovered that light consists of electromagnetic waves (see Electromagnetic Radiation) and established the kinetic theory of ...
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The Apathy Of Generation XSubject: Political Science Title: For the past 25 years it has been wondered why the young people of America have shared the same apathetic attitude towards politics as the older generation of Americans. Indeed, the issues concerning young voters are just as important as those concerning older ...
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The Life And Times Of Peter StraubPeter Straub was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on March 2, 1943. His father was a salesman while his mother was a nurse. They both had ideas for their son, Peter, as for what they wanted him to become. All Straub wanted to do though, at the age of 5, was learn to read. Kindergarten was a bore ...
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Killer Angels 2The Battle of Gettysburg brought the dueling North and South together to the small town of Gettysburg and on the threshold of splitting the Union. Gettysburg was as close as the United States got to Armageddon and The Killer Angels gives the full day-to-day account of the battle that shaped ...
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Louis LeakeyDiscovering the Secrets of Humankind's Past
was born to be an archaeologist, for his childhood in Africa truly prepared him for the field life he would later lead. The son of missionaries Harry and Mary Leakey, Louis grew up in Kenya near Nairobi, among the Kikuyu African tribe who the elder ...
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Peyton PlaceIn 1956, a woman from middle class Manchester, New Hampshire wrote a book that shocked the nation. At 32 years old, Grace Metalious wrote the blockbuster novel . It transformed the publishing industry and made the author one of the most talked about people in the nation. Metalious wrote about ...
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The Blind And DeafBlindness and deafness is a problem that plagues millions of people everywhere. Both of these disabilities can be lived and coped with. For some degree of these dysfunctions there is a way to reverse the blindness or deafness, but in most cases the effects are permanent Blindness is the total ...
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The Conflicts Of The Black Race: Delayed Economic And Educational ProgressIn the 1960's, blacks, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., fought for their civil
rights and equal opportunities. Although they had only been out of slavery for
less than a century, they felt the time was way past due for them to receive the
same treatment as other American citizens. Our people ...
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The Arrival Of The InternetThe Internet can no longer be avoided. Everywhere you turn it's .com this and .com that. It seems that everyone has a web-page on the Internet including your relatives and neighbors. There are more than 100 million U.S. citizens that use the Internet today and this number is growing ...
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Literary Analysis Of The WomanMaxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior presents the struggles of a Chinese-American woman growing up as she attempts to reconcile two cultures, a female
devaluing Chinese culture and influences by an American culture, while developing her own identity as a Chinese-American. Using William R. ...
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A Good Man Is Hard To FindFlannery O’Connor "" A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O’ Connor’s career spanned the 1950s and early ‘60s, a time when the South was dominated by Protestant Christians. O’Connor was born and raised Catholic. She was a fundamentalist and a Christian moralist whose ...
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The History Of BasketballBasketball was a sport that was invented by Dr. Naismith to provide
indoor exercise and competitions for the students between the end of the
football season and the beginning of the baseball season. Basketball is the
one sport whose exact origin is definitely known. The Springfield College
gym ...
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Business In ComputersI understand that some students that have already graduated from College
are having a bit of trouble getting their new businesses started. I know of a
tool that will be extremely helpful and is already available to them; the
Internet. Up until a few years ago, when a student graduated they were ...
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Being An OutsiderAudre Lorde was an outsider in more ways than one in the society she was living in and chose to write about. From the time she was four, her characteristics and outer appearances held qualities which enhanced this outsider status. I feel she relished the fact that she was an outsider and was ...
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MononucleosisInfectious -- known popularly as "mono" or "the kissing disease" -- has been recognized for more than a century. An estimated 90 percent of cases are caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV), a member of the herpes virus group. Most of the remaining cases are caused by certain other herpes ...
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Jefferson, Thomas 1743 -- 1826Third U.S. president; born in Albermarle County, Va. Son of a surveyor-landowner and a mother who was a member of the distinguished Randolph family of Virginia, he graduated from the College of William and Mary (1762) and read law under George Wythe. After several years of law practice, ...
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Pros And Cons Of Capital PunishmentGood Afternoon, I am honored to be here, and I thank you for having me.
Today I would like to speak to you about a very controversial issue-
capital punishment. What do those two words mean to you? To most people
they mean a murder victims family receiving justice for their deceased.
Let me ...
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The Life And Accomplishments Of John F KennedyPresident Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, in Brooklin,
Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. The other eight Kennedy children were
Joseph, Jr. Rosemary Kathleen Eunice Patricia Robert F. Jean Edward M.
"Ted". As the Kennedy children grew up, their parents encouraged them to
develop their own ...
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Of Mice And MenIn John Steinbeck's novel George and Lennie struggle to achieve their ultimate dream. They want to save up and have a farm of their own. Lennie is as little retarded and George is just a typical guy and they use their friendship to stay together. While spending time on the farm, Lennie starts to ...
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Jeffrey DalhmerWhy does a Jeffrey Dahmer happen? How does a man become a serial killer, necrophiliac, cannibal and psychopath? Very few convincing answers are forthcoming, despite a spate of books that propose to understand the problem.
Many of the theories would have you believe that the answers can always be ...
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