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Number Of People Human Beings
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Birthday Annie Christmas Shopping Mary
554 words"Hurry up!" Annie said to her mom as she went barreling down the stairs. "I'm coming. " Ms. Mary Weston called back to her daughter. She was almost ready to go Christmas shopping when she remembered that she had forgotten to get her gloves out of her coat pocket. She found Christmas to be a bittersweet time of year at their house. Her beloved husband of eighteen years had passed away on Christmas Eve four years ago. Annie was only five when Richard died of cancer. She was too young at the time t...
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Hills Like White Elephants
475 wordsHills Like White Elephants is a story that portrayed many symbols. White Elephants have always been gifts that are unwanted. Hemingway in this selection uses these white elephants to describe abortion through one couples eyes. He uses different items and views that happen around this couple to symbolically describe abortion. People who have white elephant parties, wrap gifts that they do not want in their house anymore and give them away as a gift for someone else. Jigs unborn child, in this sto...
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Animals And Plants Endangered Species
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One Less Venue Letter To Mayor Animals
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Museum Of Art Freedom Of Expression
1,173 wordsWhat is art? Can it be defined in any single painting, or sculpture? Is it even something that can be seen, or does it have to be experienced? The term "art" is so vague that it can be applied to almost anything, really. Mostly, however, art should be that which frees our imagination. It connects our conscious with our subconscious, putting into a visual form what we feel and think. It allows us to explore our inner self and fill that urge to understand our minds and our universe. Art helps us t...
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The Secret Life Of Great White Sharks
1,139 wordsGreat White Sharks are greatly misinterpreted as vicious man-eaters because of the media, movies, and peoples imaginations, but they are actually large fish who mistake people for seals and other marine life. What is a great white shark? The great white, among the least understood of Earths creatures, is an apex predator, meaning that it is at the top of the food chain with no natural predators. This means great whites have their pick of food when it comes to selecting their prey (Klimley 15). C...
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Mother Happened Dad
337 wordsI walked into the house from basketball practice at six pm. The remains of the vase that was on the stand beside the door, lay at my feet. The furniture in the living room was tipped and topped over and anything fragile had been thrown and had shattered. Mother sat on the bottom step crying, her arms a mass of cuts and gashes. "What happened?" I practically yelled. I ran over to Mom and threw my stuff down beside her. "What the hell happened?"Your dad and I got into a fight. He left, " she said ...
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The Indian Carpet Industry
1,419 wordsIndia, like many other countries, has always used wool as the basic material of the carpet. Other materials commonly used are silk and cotton. Silk carpets are particularly high quality pieces. In the beginning of the carpet making century, only natural dyes were used to color the wool. Madder, as well as other wild vegetables, was the most important element of this dying process. "Other natural elements used to make dyes are turmeric root (light yellow), pomegranate skins (darker yellow), rhuba...
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Full Of Life Cave Paintings
1,670 wordsChris Ofili Chris Ofili is an interesting contemporary artist. He was born in Manchester in 1968. He studied in London at the Chelsea School of Art (1988 - 1991) and later he entered the Royal College of Art (1999 - 1993). Chris Ofili is an English painter, who has a Nigerian descent. No wonder all his work reflect his African background. In 1992 he won the scholarship, which gave him the possibility to travel to Zimbabwe. Chris Ofili's style is highly influenced by his Nigerian origin as well a...
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Favorite Animal Elephant Show Elephants
702 wordsFinally, after what seemed like a year in the car, we were there. I was ready to get out and see this Circus Museum that my mom had always talked about. We spent another day making the great trek from our car to the entrance. I looked up at the old man selling tickets, but it was not an old man, it was a clown! This place may have some promise after all. The gate opened and I walked through. I could smell the musk of the animals, the sweetness of the cotton candy, and the salty aroma of the popc...
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Hills Like White Elephants Hemingway
385 wordsThesis Ernest Hemingway? s writing style mirrored the way he lived his own life. Ernest lived the way he wrote creating situations, setting scenes and events leading to their consequences. Hemingway leaves morals and conclusions to the reader. In his short story, Hills like White Elephants these writing characteristics can be illustrated by the following outline. I will refer to Hemingway? s other writings and the history of his life for further illustration. I. White elephant characters are los...
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Freedom Of Speech Museum Of Art
1,520 wordsFreedom Is it really attainable? Here we are. The end of another century is upon us. It is a time of reflection for most. A time to review our achievements and create new goals to attain. We can individualize these ideas and expand them out to incorporate our society as a whole. If we look at them both we will find a correlation between them. Our country has grown and multiplied in every sense. We have taken the original constitution our forefathers wrote and expanded on it to fit society s ever...
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Normal Citizens Exact Position Gps
342 wordsDescribe how GPS works and how normal citizens have been able to use it to make their lives easier. GPS is a global positioning satellite that is used to show the exact position on earth that you are. This system is used in many ways. Many people in a new city use rental cars. These people will probably get lost. Now in these cars there is GPS. This system allows the driver to know where they are and gives them a map of the place they are planning to visit. GPS also speaks to that person and let...
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Second Punic War Set Up Camp
1,286 wordsIn 237 B. C. , Hannibal Hannibal In 237 B. C. , Hamilcar Barca took his nine year old son, Hannibal, to the alter of a Carthaginian god and made him swear that he would always be an enemy to the Romans. Hannibal and his father then left for Spain. The center of Carthaginian power in Spain was the city of New Carthage (modern Carthagena). Hannibal saw firsthand his fathers techniques for war (Green 9). When Hamilcar died in battle in 230 B. C. , his son-in-law, Hasdrubal, became general and conti...
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Hills Like White Elephants End Of The Story
1,070 wordsHills Like White Elephants Hills Like White Elephants, is a short story, written by author Ernest Hemingway. It is a story about a man and a woman waiting at a train station talking about an issue that they never name. I believe this issue is abortion. In this paper I will prove that the girl in the story, whos name is Jig, finally decides to go ahead and have the baby even though the man, who does not have a name, wants her to have an abortion. It is the end of the story that makes me think thi...
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1,059 wordsAn Analysis of Theme in Ernest Hemingway s Hills s Like White Elephants Ernest Hemingway s Hills Like White Elephants is a fascinating story, set at a train station at Zaragosa, Spain. This story first appeared in a short story collection titled Men Without Women, which was published in 1927. In this story, we eavesdrop on a conversation held by the American and the girl with him (170). In their dialogue, conflict is created as the characters face what most readers believe to be the obstacle of ...
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Social And Moral Nuclear Proliferation
1,214 wordsPolitical, Social And Moral Messages In The Political, Social And Moral Messages In The Works Of Dr. Seuss Theodore Seuss Geisel, better known to generations of readers all over the world as Dr. Seuss, is the American author of many popular children s books. Dr. Seuss deft combination of easy words, swift rhymes and batty nonsense (Horn 69) has convinced many children that reading does not have to be a boring chore, but instead can be fun and entertaining. Amidst these wacky drawings of zany cha...
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Pop Art Soviet Union
2,073 wordsConstructivism This Poster Movements Poster Movements Constructivism This art form appeared in the early 20 th century as a result of the Russian Revolution and grew a tremendous amount during the 1920 s and 1930 s. Founded in 1917 in Russia by sculptor Antoine Pevsner and his younger brother Naum Pevsner Gabo, they believed that art should be functional and include materials and technology that are new to the market. All the people who eventually succeeded in this art form, where either forced ...
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Lucid Dreaming Conscious Mind
1,470 wordsThe powers of dreams have always been underestimated. There is a whole new world in the subconscious mind that helps us in a subtle way. In this project you will see how a baby was born because of a dream, how nightmares can be partially good for you, be given a background on dreams in general and details on interpreting your own dreams amongst other things. Background Everybody dreams but not everybody can remember them. We usually dont remember dreams when we suddenly wake up and move about. T...
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