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Night Without End Essays and Term Papers
The Women Of PoeA Poe story which fuses the themes of transcendence and lost love is "Ligeia," Poe's own favorite of his tales. The story's narrator marries a woman of exquisite beauty--a woman named Ligeia. To the narrator (and to Poe, naturally), she is the perfect woman, for she possesses classical beauty, ...
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Kurt Vonnegut Sarcasm And BlacKurt Vonnegut uses sarcasm to portray the humor, foolishness, and futility of real life issues, people events, and expectations. In his books, he writes like a satire, but in reality, that’s not what it really is. He has many opinions and questions of mans’ search for the meaning of life. ...
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The Many Faces Of Love In ArthThe theme of love develops through several different levels in Arthurian Literature. Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace equate love with sexual desire, and little else. The concept becomes less one-dimensional in Hartmann von Aue’s romances. In Erec and Iwein, Hartmann’s definition of love includes ...
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Margaret Sanger: Radical Heroine
founded a movement in this country that would institute such a change in the course of our biological history that it is still debated today. Described by some as a "radiant rebel", Sanger pioneered the birth control movement in the United States at a time when Victorian ...
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Herman Hesses DemianDemian is the story of a boy, Emil Sinclair, and his search for himself. Emil was raised in a good traditional home at the turn of the century in the nation of Germany. His family is very wealthy and they have a reputation as a principled, religious family. As a boy, Sinclair views the world ...
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Creative Writing: The SearchI used to work for the F.B.I., in the Portland office. It was my
childhood dream to be the one who gets the bad guy.
My fiftieth birthday was in just three months. I had a wife and three
children, still do, and the same job I'd had since my graduation from Quantico.
We were living just outside ...
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Kobe BryantYou have to be very careful what you ask for in life-you just might get it. Just ask .
May 12th, '97. The Delta Center, Salt Lake City, UT. Los Angeles Lakers vs. the Utah Jazz. Game Five.
There's 11.3 seconds left in regulation and the score is tied, 87-87. In the words of De La Soul, stakes is ...
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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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The Many Faces Of Love In ArthThe theme of love develops through several different levels in Arthurian Literature. Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace equate love with sexual desire, and little else. The concept becomes less one-dimensional in Hartmann von Aue’s romances. In Erec and Iwein, Hartmann’s definition of love includes ...
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Demian is the story of a boy, Emil Sinclair, and his search for himself. Emil was raised in a good traditional home at the turn of the century in the nation of Germany. His family is very wealthy and they have a reputation as a principled, religious family. As a boy, Sinclair views the world within ...
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Huck Finn NotesHuck Finn reminds the readers that he has already appeared in a book about Tom Sawyer called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. This book was "made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth." He reminds us that at the end of ...
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Child Laborwas and is still an existing practice in the world today. Manuel, a five-year old worked at a seafood cannery in Biloxi, Mississippi, with a shrimp pail in each hand and a mountain of oyster shells behind his back. He is typical for thousands of working children in the years before the civil ...
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Falkland Islands War PaperNo one really knows who discovered the Falkland Islands. Nearly every British historian will insist that the English explorer John Davis discovered the islands in 1592(1) while Argentineans typically credit Vespucci, Magellan, or Sebald de Weert. (2) The events of January 2, 1883 are not in ...
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OverpopulationIt’s a dark, cold, rainy night. The wind chill can be compared to that of Arctic wastelands, only the rain won’t freeze and disappear upon contact to your skin, instead the freezing cold ice-rain pierces your flesh like a million needles. The cold doesn’t subdue. A dark, small, shadowy object can ...
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Margaret Sanger: Radical Heroine
founded a movement in this country that would institute such a change in the course of our biological history that it is still debated today. Described by some as a \"radiant rebel\", Sanger pioneered the birth control movement in the United States at a time when Victorian ...
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Creative Writing: The ChaseAlan and Dan lived in a small western town. They were good friends and had been for some time. The two high school seniors spent most weekends together. It was, however, a small town that they lived in, leaving them with nothing to do on a Friday night when there wasn't a party or sporting event. ...
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Serial Killers In The U.SBefore we can discuss what serial killers do, we must first define what a
serial killer is. Some people might place serial killers into the same group as
mass murderers. This would be incorrect because they are two totally different
types of killers. While both of these individuals may kill many ...
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Macbeth - Symbolism And ImagerIn "Macbeth" William Shakespeare employs his skills in imagery and symbolism. The landscape of "Macbeth" reveals the contours of the title character's psychological turmoil. Churning with self-doubt about his determination, his ability to connect word and act, and his sexual potency, Macbeth is ...
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Stan Kenton & His OrchestraBorn December 15, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas, Stanley Newcomb Kenton grew up in Los Angeles, California. Sometime around the age of 8, his mother, Stella, a traditionally-trained musician noticed her son's irrepressible aptitude for the piano and became his first teacher.
It wasn't long, however, ...
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Nature And Its Elements In Jane EyreThe passage I have chosen to do the close critical reading on is from Jane Eyre (1847) by Charlotte Bronte. This passage is part of vol. II chapter 10 and is as follows:
"It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent ...
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