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New Thinking Essays and Term Papers
Modern Japan Since 1945On September 2, 1945 the Japanese surrender. They had lost the war because United States drop two atomic bombs. The place where it drops the atomic bombs was Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The total estimate of casualties in Nagasaki was 40,000 people dead and Hiroshima casualties were 20,000 to 100,000 ...
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Into The Wild Sometimes a character may be pushed over the edge by our materialistic society to discover his/her true roots, which can only be found by going back to nature where monetary status was not important. Chris McCandless leaves all his possessions and begins a trek across the Western United ...
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The Nation’s Sectional Discord And The Unity Within The NationWhen the Constitution of the United States was first created in 1787, its purpose was to unify our country. However, by 1850, the United States had become ‘source of sectional discord and tension and ultimately contributed to the failure of the union it had created.’ What happened during the 63 ...
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In ShapeThe Impact of Women Redefining Sexual Identity in Middle Adulthood
It is becoming an increasing phenomenon that women are coming out as lesbians in their middle-adulthood. While defining one’s sexual identity is often a confusing time for youth it becomes that much more difficult for women as ...
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Individual UnderstandingI agree with functionalists, specifically the strong Artificial Intelligence (AI) camp, concerning the concept of understanding. While John Searle poses a strong non-functionalist case in his AChinese Room@ argument, I find that his definition of Ato understand@ falls short and hampers his point. ...
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Women's SuffrageThe movement began in 1848 when a group of women met in
Seneca Falls New York. These women issued what became known as the Declaration
of Sentiments and Resolution s, and 11 pt. document outlining the demand for
equal rights. Al of the articles of the Declaration passed except for the right
to ...
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Cry, The Beloved CountryThe book "" by Alan Paton is a book about agitation and turmoil of both whites and blacks over the white segregation policy called apartheid. The book describes how understanding between whites and blacks can end mutual fear and aggresion, and bring reform and hope to a small community of ...
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Kate Chopins The AwakeningThe novel opens on the Grand Isle, a summer retreat for the wealthy French Creoles of New Orleans. Leonce Pontellier, a wealthy New Orleans business man of forty years of age, reads his newspaper. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lebrun's parrot repeats phrases in English and French and her mockingbird sings in ...
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Slang In AmericaFor hundreds of years, English has been continuously changing. Words that were unacceptable 100 years ago are now commonplace. English has always had a trademark of being a comfortable language, the language of the common people (MacNeil 143). Change in the grammar and diction of a language is ...
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Sophocles - AntigoneChoices affect all of our lives. We are always faced with choices. What we do with those choices will determine how are lives will turn out, what destiny lies before us and even what will become of us. The choices we make are in our complete control. Whether we make choices during the heat of the ...
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What I Would Place In A Time CapsuleAs the turn of the millennium approaches, the human race will continue
to develop new technology and new ways of thinking. It is always enjoyable to
take a visual journey back in time, to view what was considered advanced and
what thoughts of future times represented. A time capsule stored with ...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilmanwas a self-proclaimed philosopher, writer, educator and an intellectual activist of the women's movement from the late 1890's through the mid-1920's. She demanded equal treatment for women as the best means to advance society's progress. She was an extraordinary woman who waged a lifelong battle ...
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The Sun Also RisesPrevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway's novels is the concept popularly known as the "Hemingway hero", an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a "man's man". In , four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett ...
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Hamlets TransformationIn Hamlet, the protagonist Hamlet faced many dilemmas that led to his transformation throughout the play. The people around him and the ghost of his father dramatically affect him. Seeing his father’s ghost had changed his fate and the person he had become. The path he chose after his ...
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Literature And Its Affect On Society
All throughout American history, literature has played an important role in the shaping of the nation's culture and ideology. Having an extremely influential past, literature indirectly affects the television world that has swept over the minds of the baby boomers and their offspring. In ...
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Canterbury Tales - Medieval ChurchIn discussing Chaucer's collection of stories called The
Canterbury Tales, an interesting picture or illustration of the
Medieval Christian Church is presented. However, while people demanded
more voice in the affairs of government, the church became corrupt --
this corruption ...
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Galileo Galileiwas born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. Galileo was the first of seven children of Vincenzio Galilei, a trader and Giula Ammannati, an upper-class woman who married below her class. When Galileo was a young boy, his father moved the family moved to Florence. Galileo moved into a nearby ...
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Ralph Waldo EmersonBorn on May 25, came from a long line of
merchants on his mother’s side and preachers on his father’s side. It is
possibly this unique conglomeration of life experiences that lead Emerson
to be possibly one of the greatest and most influential essayists and
thinkers of all time. Emerson was ...
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Portrait Of A DancerIt was a sweet-as-molasses, sleepy Sunday afternoon in the middle of July. The heat was especially torrid as I walked in direct sunlight along the road leading to the water's edge. I was cooled by a gentle breeze as I drew closer to the small lapping waves and left the towering house farther ...
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