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King Lear: Treachery And DeceitShakespeare' King Lear is a story of treachery and deceit. The villainy of the play knows no bounds. Family lines are ignored in an overwhelming quest for power.
This villainy is epitomised in the character of Edmund, bastard son of the Earl of Gloucester. Edmund is displayed as a " most ...
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Ancient Stories Of The FloodStories of a primeval flood exist in all parts of the world, virtually every branch of the human race has traditions of a Great Flood that destroyed all of mankind, except one family.
The closest parallel to the Biblical story of the flood occurs in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, our fullest ...
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Legalization Of Marijuanahas been an issue for a long time.
Marijuana was first brought up as an issue in 1915. It had since then
became a much bigger issue in the 1960's and is now being considered for
medical purposes in the 1990's. Some of the issue's faced can be
described as: Legalization for medical purposes and ...
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A Separate Peace: The Internal ConstantWhile everyone on this earth is physicly unique, all share many
internal emotions and internal struggles with each other. Although outside
they are different than anyone else, inside there is commonplace. In the
book A Separate Peace, I believe that one of the main characters, Gene,
resembles me ...
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Oedipus Rex: The Punishment Of The KingAt the end of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Oedipus, king of Thebes, ends
up banished forever from his kingdom. Additionally, Oedipus physically puts
out his own eyes, for several reasons which will be discussed later. The
question is: Did Oedipus deserve his punishments? There are many factors
that ...
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African ReactionHow the European Settlers Further Oppressed the Native Africans
In the last few readings and cases studies, women and the peasant farmers were the subject and target of much of the white European aggression. The whites saw the women and peasants as minor threats to their occupation of the land and ...
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Cold War PropagandaThe Cold War never presented any real threat on America. It was nothing more than the propaganda of two battling super powers. The two super powers involved in the Cold War were The United States of America and The Soviet Union. The two countries were constantly battling over who is the most ...
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Song Of Myself: Individuality And Free VerseForged in the fire of revolution and defined by manifest destiny, America has always been the land of the individual. Although the American dream has not always been consistent, (married with 2.5 kids, 2 cars, a dog and a satisfying job), the spirit of innovation, individuality and progress ...
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Leadership In Ancient CivilizaDuring the period of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, different leaders exhibited different styles of leadership and employed different political strategies. In addition, these leaders came to power and maintained their control in their own unique ways. Each leader seemed to have his own ...
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Huck Finn Vs. 19th Cevtury EthNinetieth Century Morals vs. Huck’s Conscience
Sometimes making a stand for what is right, especially when it is
totally against the customary beliefs of society, can never be an easy
accomplishment.
In the novel, The Adventures Huckleberry Finn by, Mark Twain, the
main character Huck, encounters ...
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Costs And Contributions: The Wave From South Of The BorderEvery year, hundreds of millions of people enter the US via land ports
of entry, and the INS each year apprehends over 1.3 million aliens at or near
the border. Over 90 percent of those apprehended near the border are Mexicans,
and some who enter the US legally and illegally are carrying drugs ...
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Articles Of Confederation 4After the Revolutionary War, the United States government was in a state of frenzied disillusion. In an attempt to solve the problem of a lack of a functioning government, the Articles of Confederation were formed. Often times called the “Articles of Confusion”, the Articles of ...
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Boston Tea PartyThe is considered to be the boiling point in a series of events leading up to the revolutionary war against the British. When a group of devout colonists, boarded British tea ships and unloaded their cargo into the Boston harbor, America would be changed forever. What was, at first, seen as an ...
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Bilbo The HobbitBilbo Baggins was a hobbit. Now, what is a hobbit, you ask? Well, "Hobbits are little people, smaller than" dwarves. They love peace and quiet and good tilled earth." A respectable race, hobbits lived for serenity. Bilbo himself enjoyed sitting outside, smoking his wooden pipe. Now if a dilemma ...
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Woodrow Wilson And The PresidencyFrom the beginning of the 1912 election, the people could sense the new
ideas of Woodrow Wilson would move them in the right direction. Wilson's idea
of New Freedom would almost guarantee his presidential victory in 1912. In
contrast to Wilson's New Freedom, Roosevelt's New Nationalism called ...
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The Library Of Congresswas established by an act of congress on April 24, 1800. It was originally housed in the United States capitol. The collection, which stared out small at 740 volumes, slowly increased to over 3,000 volumes by 1814. That year, though, the British along with the capitol burned those books during ...
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Cassius Clay - Muhammad AliCassius Clay better known as Muhammad Ali is by far the greatest boxer of all time. \"King of the World\" by David Reminick is a very detailed biography of Muhammad and good documentation how boxing used to be. The book takes you on a journey behind the scenes of Alli’s rise to the top and boxing ...
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Nathanial Hawthorne. Considered to be one of the greatest American
writers of the 19th century. But did you know that he hated portraits, and
it is now thought that he was a mild manic-depressive? Born in Salem,
Massachusetts on July 4, 1804. A decendant of a long puritan line of
Hathorne's. His ancestry included ...
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Robert Frost - IdeasIt has been said many times that all men have a common bond, or a
thread that joins them together. Robert Frost¹s poem ³The Tuft of
Flowers² explores the existence of such a bond, as experienced by the
speaker. In the everyday circumstance of performing a common chore, the
speaker discovers a ...
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Abraham LincolnOn the stormy morning of Sunday, February 12, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, wife of Thomas, gave birth to a boy. He was born on a bed of poles covered with corn husks. The baby was named Abraham after his grandfather. In 1811 the Lincolns moved to a farm on Knob Creek which was also near Hodgenville. In ...
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