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The Tower of London

The Tower of London has always had the same reputation for anyone living in Britain, even from its humblest beginnings. Since its construction by William the Conqueror, to its uses by former Kings of England, and even in its portrayal in Shakespeare, the English obviously recognize the Tower of ...

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Hills Like White Elephants

In the story “Hills like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemmingway, there are many symbols, and they all work together to help create meaning of this story. The symbols that I will discuss are ‘white elephants’ which relates to the hills and the unborn baby, ‘the railroad’ which relates to the ...

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Gulag

The term "GULAG" is an acronym for the Soviet bureaucratic institution, Glavnoe Upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh LAGerei (Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) that operated the Soviet system of forced labor camps in the Stalin era. Since the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's The ...

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Indian History

Early Indian Development History II Honors Mrs. Badger DUE DATE: 12/15/11 Luke Perda "Pledge Observed" Throughout India's history numerous foreign forces controlled it. These outsiders included the Aryans, the Guptas, and the British. All three of these invaders influenced India in a ...

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Racism or Reality?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Racism or Reality? Nick Ziats Ms. Woldendorp Period 3 November 23, 2011 The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is highly controversial because of the belief by many that the book promotes or exploits racism. Some people believe that ...

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Comparing and Contrasting "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Crucible"

Comparing and Contrasting "The Scarlet Letter" and "The Crucible" Through careful analysis of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Crucible by Arthur Miller; one will discover many similar themes. These themes include sin, punishment of sin, the devil, and love/lust. Through ...

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The Wars

The Wars, written by Timothy Findley, is a story about World War I, and consists of many shocking images passed over to the reader. Findley accomplishes to pull the reader into the narrative itself, so that the reader manages to feel an impact upon him/her-self about what is read. If it was not for ...

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The Cultural Legacy of Charlemagne

The Cultural Legacy of Charlemagne ~~ Paul V. Hartman ~~ Charlemagne is the most famous ruler of the Middle Ages, and is credited with ending the Dark Ages through reform of education. At a time when most men were little more than 5 feet tall, his height of over 6 foot must have been ...

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Edgar Allen Poe vs Stephen King

Edgar Allen Poe is the father of the Gothic writing style and is considered the greatest gothic writer of all time. Poe has had an immense influence upon many modern gothic writers like Stephen King. This is evident in Stephen Kings’ work through his use of the same elements of Poe. In Stephen ...

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Alcohol and Its Angels: Comparing the Humor

Alcohol and Its Angels: Comparing the Humor In the Book, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, Pap, who is Huck’s father, who is a worn-out alcoholic, knows that his son has money and attempts to collect it for himself. Pap is one of those people who want to transform themselves from wearing ...

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Gun Control

Phil Hogan Mr. Tatum Comp I Persuasive Essay Summer Online Gun Control Composition I Summer Online On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred during a midnight screening of the film "The Dark Knight Rises," at a Century movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Twelve people's lives were ...

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Maqbool Fida Husain

Maqbool Fida Husain Gouri R. 'To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults,' says Somerset Maugham in The Moon and Sixpence. What do you think of the artist who completes an elaborate ...

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Cold War

Cold War Brenda Bradley 20[th] Century American History - 2 Everest University Professor Geisler Individual Work Week 8 September 6, 2012 The containment policy was used by the United States to control the up rise and movement of communism. If I am not mistaken this was when the ...

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Huck Finn

The novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain has been disputably called “one of the world’s great books and one of the central documents of American culture” (Lionel Trilling 327) and I am one of the opposition to this thought. The question one must ask when reading Huck Finn is “Why ...

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Lord of the Flies & They Cage the Animals at Night

“In literature, evil often triumphs, but never conquers”. Every story needs a conflict. The most universal conflict is the struggle between good and evil. Sometimes evil must succeed to have a deeper impact on the readers. However, in the end good will always be victorious. The books Lord of the ...

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Interpretation of the American Dream in the Jungle, the Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman

Interpretation of the American Dream in the Jungle, the Great Gatsby and Death of a Salesman The United States Declaration of Independence proclaims that “all men are created equal” and that everyone has the rights for “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” This document led to the ...

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Year 11 English Vocabulary

* Allegory - a symbolic representation
i.e. the blindfolded figure with scales is an allegory of justice. * Alliteration - the repetition of the initial consonant. There should be at least two repetitions in a row. 
i.e. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. * Allusion - A ...

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Prostitution

Marisela Rivera PHI-105(TEM101) 06/16/2012 Lisa Trevo Prostitution Prostitution is one of the oldest occupations and it has been a battle for law enforcement to enforce the illegal aspects of street level sex workers. "Cities throughout the United States spent an average of $7.5 to $16 ...

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Escaping Victorian Society

Tyrianna Green Dr. Barker English 1302 19 October 2012 Breaking Free From Society Walls Today's generation of men and women live among society with little to no restrictions at all. However, in the past, people were held to higher intolerant social values which fixated on mainly social ...

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Propaganda

After World War two, the world split into two distinct camps. Propaganda was use to justify or condemn about such as the United States and the Soviet Union became engaged in proxy wars against one another. As a result, propagandists ought to portray an enemy nation as harboring all the qualities ...

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