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Summer Essays and Term Papers
A Separate Peace - AnalysisDealing with enemies has been a problem ever since the beginning of time. In A Separate Peace by John Knowels, the value of dealing with your feelings and dealing with your enemies is shown by Gene Forester, a student in Devon during World War 2 dealing with few human enemies, but his emotions ...
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Does Violence In Movies Contribute To Violent TeensIn the Nineties we have been faced in many different situations that will have a big impact on the way that the teens of the nineties look at their teenage years. We grow in a society where it is not unusual to see kids interested in guns at a very young age. Most parents that I know will buy ...
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Snow Falling On CedarsStranger In The Kingdom
When I first read Howard Frank Mosher’s novel Stranger In The Kingdom I was astonished that something like that took place in Vermont. I have always been under the misconception that racism isn’t extremely prevalent in our local culture today. Once again my white ...
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Imagine Being A Swinger Of Bir"Birches" , by Robert Frost, is a symbolic poem about choices, the choices of heaven's truth, and earth's truth. The choices exists because when Frost had first experienced earth's truth he did not like what the senses convey, or can find no meaning in it, then the aspiration toward some kind of ...
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Alan Dean FosterBorn in New York City in 1946, Foster was raised in Los Angeles. After receiving a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science and a Master of Fine Arts in Cinema from UCLA (1968, 1969) he spent two years as a copywriter for a small Studio City, Calif. advertising and public relations firm.
His writing ...
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Abraham LincolnAlthough other states such as Indiana lay claim to his birth, most sources agree that was born on February 12, 1809, in a backwoods cabin in Hodgeville, Kentucky. In an interview during his campaign for the presidency in 1860 Lincoln described his adolescence as "the short and simple annals of ...
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Hunting My Own "Bear"In William's Faulkner's book "The Bear,'' Ike is a young boy which for the most part of his life has been looking to hunt down a certain bear. However, when he has the chance, he decides not to, and learns a deep-rooted life lesson. I too, just like Ike have experienced an incident in my life ...
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PhotoperiodismPlants and animals in the temperate zones respond in different ways to
the amount of daylight in 24-hour periods. This response to day length is
called photo periodism. It controls many activities, among them is the
flowering of plants. The ability to respond to day length is linked to an
inner, ...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The American Dream
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, the spokesman for the Jazz Age, ruled America’s decade of prosperity and excess, which began soon after World War 1 and ended around the time of the stock market crash of 1929. The novels and stories for which he is best known examine an ...
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Fair Labor Act Of 1938Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938:
Maximum Struggle for a Minimum Wage
When he felt the time was ripe,
Secretary of Labor Perkins,
'What happened to that
nice unconstitutional bill
you had tucked away?'
On Saturday, June 25, 1938, to avoid pocket vetoes 9 days after Congress had adjourned, ...
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Alexander Hamiltonwas born into a rough life. He was the second of two illegitimate children. He was born on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies. The date of his birth is still argued among scholars. They believe that he was born sometime in between 1755 and 1756 but the exact date is unknown. His ...
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Civil War: Northern AttitudesPoliticians of the Northern states pressed to end it, both because it was considered immoral and because white labor could not compete with unpaid black labor. The North demanded for its industrial growth a protective tariff, federal subsidies for shipping and internal improvements, and a sound ...
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Journey Of The MagiT.S. Eliot’s
This Christmas poem is about the Epiphany and was created the very year of Eliot’s conversion to Christianity (Fleisner, 66). Therefore the theme of religion is an important one if we are to analyse the poem correctly. In the book of Ephesians in the Bible, Paul describes the rebirth ...
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In Our Time: ReviewHalf-way through reading Hemmingway's collection In Our Time I was interrupted
by my roommate, George. He wanted to know how I liked the story. He seems to be
very impressed that I'm reading Hemmingway. I explained to him that it was, in
fact, not one story, but a collection of short stories. He ...
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Yuan Shih-k’ai’s Transformation Of The Chinese MilitaryYaun Shih-k’ia (1859-1916) was one of China’s most successful rulers, but his rise to power came the way many modern dictators claim control. Yuan would use his military family lineage and knowledge to create the first modern and dominant army in China. This army would later be the reason he ...
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Ordinary PeopleMatthew Arnold's Devolpment of Setting
In the poem "Dover Beach",witten in 1867 Matthew Arnold creates the mood of the poem through the usage of different types of imagery. He uses a dramatic plot in the form of a soliloquy. Arnold also uses descriptive adjectives, similes and metaphors to ...
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The Writing Of The ConstitutionA constitution is the legal structure of our political system, establishing
governmental bodies , determining how their members are selected , and
prescribing the rules by which they make their decisions .
The nation's founders , fifty-five men , met in Philadelphia in the summer
of 1787 to write ...
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The Yellow Wallpaper: Journey Into InsanityIn "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the
dominant/submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his
submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity.
Flawed human nature seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her
husband, a noted physician, is ...
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Stowawayshave been a problem to shipowners for about as long as there have been
ships in the sea. In the early days of sailing ships and looser maritime
legislation, this was a relatively minor problem. This probably had to due with
the fact that the ships were smaller in comparison to today's ...
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The Hippie CultureLife in America has been molded by many factors including those of the hippie movement in the Sixties. With the development of new technology, a war against Communism, and an internal war against racial injustice, a change in America was sure to happen. As the children of the baby boom became ...
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