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The Greek-Trojan War In The IliadThe gods and goddesses that the Greek people believe in make up the
Greek mythology studied today. These divine characters represent a family
living on Mount Olympus who intervene frequently in the lives of the human
characters in Greek plays. They are omnipresent, for they are always ...
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A Separate Peace: An AnalysisThe classic " A Separate Peace" is a challenging novel that everyone should read. Upon completing this novel I pondered many questions in my mind. I certainly was not ready for the harsh realities that were given in this story. My measly 15 years of life hadn't prepared me for the lessons I ...
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A Modest ProposalHave You Eaten Yet?: Swift’s Final Solution
As a lately favored eighteenth century essay, Jonathan Swift’s "Proposal" has been canonized as a satirical model of wit. As will be discussed shortly, Swift’s essay is often seen as an allegory for England’s oppression of Ireland. Swift, ...
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Call Of The WildIn 1903, Jack London wrote his best selling novel, concerning the life of a sled dog that travels throughout Alaska, the Yukon, and the Klondike. Throughout this book Jack London uses personification to illustrate the dog’s viewpoint. London describes what adventures the dog encounters after being ...
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America And The Computer IndustryOnly once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of every two ...
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Animal ResearchDoctor Zola-Morgan stated in a speech to animal rights activists, "I've seen the impact of the animal rights movement. I believe this is an attack on science of the worst kind. If we allow it to prevail it will take us back to the dark ages." There has been a great debate going on whether or ...
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The Invention Of The ComputerOnly once in a lifetime will a new invention come about to touch every aspect of our lives. Such a device that changes the way we work, live, and play is a special one, indeed. A machine that has done all this and more now exists in nearly every business in the U.S. and one out of every two ...
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The North American Free Trade AgreementSince the birth of this great nation in 1776, the United States has
remained a dominant world power in many aspects. The American standard of living
has been the envy of the world, powered by an economy rivaled by nearly no one.
Our economy continues to be the rock with which the global economy ...
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The Plague 2The Plague by Albert Camus won the author a Nobel Prize for literature, and with good reason. The story, about an outbreak of the bubonic plague in Oran and the isolation Oran is forced into as a result, examines the human condition under a unique light. Rieux, the narrator, shows ...
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Pythagoras Of SamosBorn: about 580 BC in Samos, Ionia
Died: about 500 BC in Metapontum, Lucania
Pythagoras (fl. 530 BCE) must have been one of the world's greatest men, but he wrote nothing, and it is hard to say how much of the doctrine we know as Pythagorean is due to the founder of the society and how much is ...
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Richard M. NixonRichard Milhous Nixon came from a family with a strong heritage. His
father's side of the family were Methodists originally from Scotland. Then, in
the early 1600s, they migrated to Ireland, and to America in the 1730s. His
grandfather, George Nixon, died in the Battle of Gettysburg during the ...
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A Brave New World And 1984 - A Comparisson Although many similarities exist between Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World and George Orwell's 1984, the works books though they deal with similar topics, are more dissimilar than alike. A Brave New World is a novel about the struggle of Bernard Marx, who rejects the tenants of his society ...
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H G WellsHerbert George Wells English author and political philosopher, most famous for his science-fantasy novels with their prophetic depictions of the triumphs of technology as well as the horrors of 20th-century warfare. Wells was born September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, and educated at the Normal ...
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Mark Twain 5Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, he was born in Florida, MO, on Nov. 30, 1835, and he died on Apr. 21, 1910.Through this pen name he achieved worldwide fame during his lifetime as an author, lecturer, satirist, and humorist. Since his death his literary stature has further ...
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Legalization Of MarijuanaOne debate that keeps coming up time and again is the topic of the
legalization of marijuana. Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug.
Nearly one in three teenagers have at least tried marijuana by the time they
graduate high school. It is also gets the most publicity for its ...
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Time Makes A Big DifferenceHave you ever looked around your class and seen someone sleeping?
If you have, you're not the only one. School starts so early, that kids
don't have optimal performance during the day. Also, school lasts so long,
that kids get restless by the end of the day. As students of Elmbrook
Middle ...
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The War In VietnamDirect U.S. military participation in The Vietnam War, the nation's
longest, cost fifty-eight thousand American lives. Only the Civil War and the
two world wars were deadlier for Americans. During the decade of Vietnam
beginning in 1964, the U.S Treasury spent over $140 billion on the war, ...
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Alzheimer's Diseaseis a progressive and irreversible brain disease
that destroys mental and physical functioning in human beings, and
invariably leads to death. It is the fourth leading cause of adult death in
the United States. Alzheimer's creates emotional and financial catastrophe
for many American families ...
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Fiberoptics"A friend of mine once said that the trouble with being an architect is that everyone is an architect; everyone knows what's good and what's bad. I seem to remember the same story told by an economist. In physics we don't have that problem" (Sobel ix).
Fiber optic technology has been inevitable ...
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Mother And Child In Sylvia Plath PoemsSylvia Plath: Consider how the poems dealing with Mother and Child convey a startling variety of responses
Although each of the poems in question (You’re, Morning Song, By Candlelight, Nick and the Candlestick and Mary’s Song) focuses on the relationship between mother and child, the emotions ...
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