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Thornton Wilder

Despite the three Pulitzer prizes awarded him, may very well [have turned] out to be one of the few enduring writers of our time...There have been countless other authors who in his day have been far more "discussed." That was inevitable for a man who has neither hastened to follow nor troubled ...

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Personal Writing: Our Trip To See The Band "Last One Standing"

This past Friday I traveled down to Burlington with my friends Justin, Jamie, and Steve. The purpose of our trip was to see Justin and his band, Last One Standing, play at his old high school in Colchester. We all met around three o'clock, then piled into Justin's black, Volkswagen GTI, behind ...

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Our Life Is Better Than It Was For Our Forefathers?

Our life is better than it was for our forefathers? Do you think our life is better than it was for our forefathers? To answer this question, we had better go back the period of the middle of the 18th century. It is the period before the great changes that have been done to shape the world as it ...

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Suicide In Our Society

Once every minute someone tries to commit suicide. Sixty or seventy times a day these attempts succeed.( Earl A. Grollman, Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention, Boston: Beacon Press, 1988, p.4) Unlike what many want to believe, suicide can happen to anyone regardless of race, age or ...

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The Problem With The Amount Of Trash In The United States

I am aware that trash has been a big problem in the United States and in our community, and we must find a way to help this problem. Our community is adding to the problem and we need to reduce the amount of trash being produced. We as a community have many options that we can do to. Trash is ...

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Grandpa

In a stark room with the lights turned out, I sit alone thinking. In all of my years I have always had stability. There have been no drastic changes in my life. There was the endless time when my mother had breast cancer, but somehow I knew she would pull through, so it did not really phase me. ...

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Our Iceberg Is Melting

Our Iceberg Is Melting, (St. Martin’s Press 147 pp.) by John Kotter, a Harvard professor and Holger Rathgeber, a business manager does more than just talk about change, they creatively show eight effective ways to bring positive change to any situation or organization through the life of Fred, a ...

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The Color Purple: African-American And Racism

There is one primordial reason why we do not doubt Europeans have taken the lead in history, in all epochs before and after 1492, and it has little to do with evidence. It is a basic belief which we inherit from prior ages of thought and scarcely realize that we hold: it is an implicit belief, ...

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Creative Writing: Downfall

I have heard insidious tales of black rains that fall on ashen fields and metal that screams. Until now I have consoled myself that these were nothing more than the delusions of some poor fevered mind. But today I met a harbinger from this desolate place, and now I fear the truth. The harbinger ...

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Crucible: "We Are Our Own Worst Enemies"

There is an old saying that goes: "we are our own worst enemies." In relation to The Crucible, a play written by Arthur Miller, it corresponds to the characters in the play perfectly. John Proctor, a historical figure in the play, is "his own worst enemy" in every aspect. Proctor's extreme ...

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The Color Purple - The Struggl

There is one primordial reason why we do not doubt Europeans have taken the lead in history, in all epochs before and after 1492, and it has little to do with evidence. It is a basic belief which we inherit from prior ages of thought and scarcely realize that we hold: it is an implicit belief, not ...

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The Hobbit

Bilbo 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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Bilbo The Hobbit

Bilbo 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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Gossip In Grover’s Corners

This essay will explain the role of Gossip in Thornton Wilder’s “ Our Town”. It will analyze the positive and negative effects of gossip as seen in the play. This essay will also include support from the play to substanciate the theories mentioned. First, this essay will talk about the positive ...

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"The Hobbit"

Bilbo 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 ...

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Greek Mythology: Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis is a key element in Greek mythology. This ability to change shape or form is a major development in the stories of Arachne, Zeus, and Daphne. Almost all of the gods had the power of metamorphosis. The first story was the one of Arachne. Arachne was a mortal, who was a great ...

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Cultures Of Achievement Are Essential To Democratic Society

In this project I will first illustrate the argument that cultures of achievement are essential to democratic society. I will then go on to propose methodologies for introducing such cultures to a community and give an example of a plausible organization that seeks to achieve this goal in the ...

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A Lesson From Oliver

Like any other morning I was up at four, the day Oliver met with his violent death. At four in the morning the grass is wet. Now, it's still wet at 6 a.m. and even at seven, and these tend to be the hours of choice for most people wishing to appreciate the phenomenon of grass ...

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The Lottery

: Challenges to Social Order The rigid structure of society reinforces order and promotes conformity of all classes TO THE SOCIAL NORM, but an individual WHO REBELS AGAINST established NORMS poses a threat TO SOCIETY AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL. Shirley Jackson, the author of , conveys ...

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Filling In The Gaps: Ideology In Faulkner’s “Dry September”

The story “Dry September”, by William Faulkner is at its core, a story about ideology. Ideology, being defined as the “system of interlinked ideas, symbols, and beliefs by which a culture seeks to justify and perpetuate itself,”(Bercovitch 635) is the impetus behind all the action in “Dry ...

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