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New City Essays and Term Papers
John D. Rockelfellerwas a rich man who made his fortune in the oil
refinery business. He created a monopoly in the standard oil trust company.
He gave away most of his fortune. In my opinion Rockelfeller is a captain
of industry. Vanderbilt, The New York Times, Allen Nevins, and an excerpt
from Rockelfeller's ...
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The Reign Of TerrorHistory is said to be written by the winners, but is it possible to
rewrite history? In a way, the French, like many who have preceded them, and
many who will proceed them have done the impossible, rewriting history. From
trivial folklore, such as George Washington chopping down a cherry tree, ...
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Leonard Bernsteinwas born in Lawrence, just north of Boston, on Sunday, August 25, 1918. Bernstein was named Louis at birth, after his mother’s grandfather, but at the age of sixteen he had it formally changed to Leonard, or Lenny.
As a child, Bernstein was sick very often with asthma and hay fever. Perhaps due ...
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Theodore RooseveltDuring the course of the twentieth century, America has been influenced by numerous prominent individuals. The Wright Brothers pioneering flight on a dusty North Carolina field, and Charles Lindbergh’s piloting aviation to its utmost extremes during his arduous journey across the Atlantic are ...
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The Joy Luck Club 2Fasting of the Heart: Mother-Tradition and
Sacred Systems in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
"Concentrate your will. Hear not with your ears
but with your mind; not with your mind, but with
your spirit . . . blank, passively responsive to
externals. In such open receptivity only can Tao
abide. And in ...
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Critique Pedagogy Of PraxisThe art of thinking, creating theory, and conceptualizing ideas, all fall into the realm of Moacir Gadotti in Pedagogy of Praxis. Gadotti takes the reader through the back hills of intellectual exercise to reach a striking depth at his intense perceptions. The reader must stretch his capacity for ...
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Interlingua Is DoomedThe dream of Interlingua-a common language that all the people of the
world speak-has long existed in many peoples minds. They and their
organizations have for many years tried to push this through, but the odds
are still against them.
The benefits of a common language on the planet are obvious, ...
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Theodore KaczynskiKaczynski was born on May 22, 1942 to Wanda and of Evergreen Park Ill, a tidy and middle class suburb of Chicago. The second son Ted’s brother, David was born in 1950. As children, both kids were very reclusive, not playing with any neighbor children and rarely seen outside of the house. At a ...
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Freedom Of Speech: Censorship On The InternetWith more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press ...
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Saddam Hussein: The U.S Portrayal Of Evil EncarnateWhen Iraq invaded and occupied the country of Kuwait in August 1990, the Bush administration was faced with several dilemmas. From a foreign policy point of view, this action could greatly destabilize the balance of power in a part of the world that was vital to U.S. interests. The United States ...
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Do Androids Dream Of ElectricSheep
Philip K. Dick, the author of Sheep, was born in 1928 in Chicago, but he lived most of his life in California. During 1952-1982, Philip wrote 36 novels and 5 short story collections. Philip K. Dick died in 1982 in Santa Monica, California. ...
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ProgressivismThe progressive believed that by applying a more uncorrupt form of democracy they could in fact fix the already corrupt democracy especially at the state and city levels. The progressives believed that if given a chance the majority of voters would elect honest respectable officials unlike those ...
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1984is a political parable. While Brave New World describes a future of everyone getting exactly what they want, George Orwell takes this in the opposite direction with a description of how the world most likely will be: mindless, loveless, unfeeling followers of nothing. The first paragraph of the ...
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The Awakening 2The Relationship of The Awakening and Creole Society
In The Awakening, Kate Chopin brings out the essence of through the characters of her novel. In this novel Edna Pontellier faces many problems because she is an outcast from society. As a result of her isolation from society she has to ...
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I Believe: A Code Of Ethicsby
PHIL 301
Fall Semester, 1996
I believe in the power of Mind...
I believe pitchers should bat...
I believe Oswald was a patsy...
I believe everything is a conspiracy...
I believe that people are responsible for their own actions...
I believe that ...
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Great ExpectationsThere are many common, familiar cliches about illusion versus truth. "All that glitters is not gold" and "Things are seldom what they seem" are the most universal hackneyed phrases, but they do not cover entirely every aspect of appearance versus reality. In Charles Dickens' novel, , there are ...
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Tattoo Or Not To Tattoo... TheAn informative guide to the history, selection,
care, and removal of skin art.
Tattoo or not to Tattoo
Tattoos or skin art as it is commonly called, seems to be the latest fashion trend today. Everywhere you look someone else is getting inked, be it could be the college student, the young mom ...
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Sex On TelevisionOnce upon a time in the “Golden Age” of television, networks deferred to their own in-house offices of standards, which kept profanity, questionable morals, and salacious behavior off the airwaves. Today’s standard- free TV shows are obsessed with sex and it is very obvious to ...
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Biography Of Irene KuhnIrene Kuhn was born in New York City on a snowy, white winter day
on January 15, 1900. She was very bright. She quit school at the age of
sixteen. She quit to enroll in the Packard Business School. She
graduated in seven months. Then she got her first stenographic job at
nine dollars a week. ...
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Government Should Establish Program To Reduce Juvenile CrimeJuvenile crime is increasing rapidly and is a problem that plagues
America. The murder rate by 18 year olds has increased 467% since 1965! The
current policy maintained for the last number of decades is clearly not
effective. An increase of 207% in the number of murder cases committed by 15
year ...
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