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People Essays and Term Papers
Treasure Island: Teamwork Overcomes GreedIn the novel Treasure Island a quest for treasure becomes a fight for survival. Jim Hawkins, the main character in the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, has a defined position in the story and the events that take place are recounted in his point of view. In a way, the boy Jim is “stuck” in the ...
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Eveline 2In his short story, "Eveline", James Joyce discusses the difficult decision of when the time is right to leave home and start your own life. The main character, Eveline, has to decide whether to leave to Buenos Aires with her boyfriend Frank, or to keep her promise to her deceased mother of ...
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A Clockwork OrangeTo leave out the final chapter of is to change the entire meaning of the novel; as Burgess says in the introduction, his story is transformed into a fable. Without the last chapter the reader is left with a dark and pessimistic theme, that absolute good and evil exist in this world and it is ...
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Finding A JobIn May of '83 I graduated from Cherryvale high school. I enrolled in Coffeyville Community College as a music major. In the two years that followed I learned about the occupation of being a music teacher and decided that it would be too time consuming with all the extra-curricular ...
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Capitalism-CommunismCommunist vs. Capitalist Andrew Carnegie's The Gospel of Wealth describes a capitalist society in which each man works for himself in the race for independent wealth. In this caste society, progress is defined as the continual accumulation of material wealth. An individual's organizational skills ...
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20,000 LeaguesTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Some time ago, I decided to read Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, by Jules Verne. I figured that because it was so well known it must be an extremely interesting book. In addition, it was science fiction, the one area that I was always interested. My ...
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ChristianityWhen began, it was one religion with one denomination.
Now it has grown into one of the main world religions with many different
denominations. Over the years, as one church split from another and
opposition became common, the beliefs began to change, though the core has
still remained. Fifteen ...
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The Monitor And The VirginiaThe U.S.S Monitor and the C. S. S. Virginia were the first ironclads to grace the waters of the American Civil War. Their battle in 1862 at Newport News Point is still considered one of the best and most exciting naval engagements of all times. The reason people think of it as the battle of ...
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Analyzing Curse Of The Starving ClassIn class we learned about a man named Goethe. He developed a way to critique any category of art, whether it be a poem, oil painting, or a play. According to the World Book Encyclopedia, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a German poet, novelist, and playwright. He ranks among the most ...
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William Clark's Slave YorkThe names Lewis and Clark have been branded into history, along with
Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who helped guide their expedition across the
uncharted American continent.
How about York? Remember him? If not, you're not alone. York was a slave -
the property of Capt. William Clark.
Now a group ...
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Salvador Daliwas born on May 11, 1904. He was a leader in the new
movement of art in the early 20th century called Surrealism. In 1921 Dali
studied at the San Fernando Acadamy of Fine Arts in Madrid. Here he was
able to associate and learn from such Spanish modernists as Fedrico Garcia
Lorca, and Luis Bundel. ...
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Silent Cal: An American PresidentFun Fact: Calvin Coolidge, a president of few words, was so famous for
saying so little that a White House dinner guest made a bet that she could
get the president to say more than two words. She told the president of her
wager. His reply: "You lose."
At 2:30 on the morning of August 3, 1923, ...
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Personal Writing: My New Life In IndiaTap ... tap ... tap ... I looked up to see a blurry figure of my mother
tapping a few fingers on my shoulder. "Sorry to wake you up, Rishi, but me and
Daddy have something important to tell you." She was not smiling.
I got up, now fully awake, wondering what was going on. With my ...
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Edna's Suicide In The AwakeningThe novel, The Awakening, by Kate Chopin is set in the late
nineteenth century, in Louisiana. This is a place and time for women to
submit themselves to the wants and needs of husbands and families. The
protagonist, Edna Pontellier, isn’t content with being a mother-woman, one
of the ordinary, ...
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Chloroflourocarbonswere discovered in the 1920's by Thomas Midgley, an
organic chemist at General Motors Corporation. He was looking for inert, non-
toxic, non-flammable compounds with low boiling points that could be used as
refrigerants. He found what he was looking for in the form of two ...
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Analysis Of "Because I Could Not Stop For Death"The poets of the nineteenth century wrote on a variety of topics. One
often used topic is that of death. The theme of death has been approached in
many different ways. Emily Dickinson is one of the numerous poets who uses
death as the subject of several of her poems. In her poem "Because I ...
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Peter The Great 4In 1682, Sophia Romanov sent her palace guards to get rid of her “heirs” and other conflicts with her reign. Luckily, her two brothers 16 year old Ivan, and 10 year old Peter escaped with there step-mother. Later on, Sophia declared that both Peter and Ivan are the czars of Russia. In ...
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Cyrano De Bergerac 2"Aggressive: I, sir, if that nose were mine, I'd have it amputated-on the spot! Friendly: How do you drink with such a nose? You ought to have a cup made specially. Descriptive: ‘Tis a rock-a crag-a cape- A cape? Say rather, a peninsula!"
Cyrano de Bergerac is a heroic comedy, a play ...
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Julius Caesar: Brutus' MistakesThe theme I picked for Julius Caesar essay is the mistakes made by Brutus.
According to Mr. Holtz Brutus was stupid and many mistakes. The first one was
him even joining the Conspirators. The second was letting Anthony live and
speak at the funeral. The final mistake was his battle plan. Every ...
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Lord ByronGeorge Gordon Byron a Natural Born Poet
Their are many different opinions on the written works of George Gordon Byron which could include one very big question. Was he a natural born poet or simply a product of abuse and mental illness. His writings may have been more a way to ease his ...
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