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Smoking Marijuana American Soldiers
1,221 words... be waiting for him to return. His duties in the hospital did not cover a large range. His patients were usually suffering from malaria or minor injuries. At around 7 p. m. Jims relief would show up and hed rush out to dinner and then on to the EM club for what he considered to be the fun of the war. Its Saturday night. That means lots of loud music and cold beer, (Calbreath, 3). The EM club was where the medics and other soldiers would relax in the evening. Nights were usually filled with ca...
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Told Me Stories Mix Of Cultures Eyes
1,034 wordsI can remember it like it was just yesterday. It was the mid-eighties and I was just an awe-stricken young eight-year-old as I accompanied my aunt to Shannon Airport. She was the second of my relations that was travelling to spend a summer in Australia and I can still remember the look in her eyes as we saw her off. To me, she exuded an air of nervous anticipation, tinged with the excitement of what was no doubt going to be one of the most memorable summers of her young life. As we entered throu...
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton William Lloyd Garrison
1,758 wordsPerhaps more well known then the recipient of her letter, Susan B. Anthony wrote to her fledgling protg orator, Anna Dickinson, that your mission will brighten and beautify every day if you will but keep the eye of your own spirit turned within [where] that precious jewel of truth is to be sought and formed and darling you will find it & speak it, and live it and all men and women will call you blessed. (Faderman, 96) Dickinson's skill and ability carried her throughout the country, speaking abo...
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Catherine And Heathcliff Catherine Linton
1,224 words# 8216; My fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it' (Page 20) In this extract Lockwood thought he had a dream, he remembers that he 'turned and dozed' and dreamt again, but the above extract shows that this was different from any other dream, it is much more realistic and increasingly frightening. This leads the reader to believe that this really is not a dream and that a superna...
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Burning Sensation Nine Years
1,455 wordsCan I have a regular king size Demurer please? Thats what I use to say after finishing a pack of cigarettes before the day was even finished. It all started nine years ago my first day of grade nine. I wanted to be cool so the cool kids would like me. I managed to get my hands on a cigarette and a lighter; I sparked it and took a puff. I felt a burning sensation down my throat as if I have been trapped in a burning house full of smoke. I coughed and coughed clearing my throat trying to spit out ...
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Red Badge Of Courage Crane Realistic Treatment War
820 wordsThe notion that war is an exciting, romantic endeavor full of glory and heroism has existed for centuries and continues to some extent today. One hundred years ago, however, Stephen Crane set out to destroy these myths through his novel The Red Badge of Courage, which traces the experiences of a young soldier in the American Civil War. Crane shows the true nature of war by contrasting Henry Fleming's romantic expectations with the reality that he encounters. This contrast between romantic vision...
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Bubonic Plague Middle Ages
1,833 words... lourdes of bleeding, new postures for sleeping and many other remedies. The very rich are trying medicines made of gold and pearls. The terrible truth is that nothing seems to work. Flight is the best option, and if one cannot fly, then all that remains is resignation and prayer. The Medieval Miracles of Healing -- Medical Science So it was that, throughout antiquity, during the early history of the Church, throughout the Middle Ages, and indeed down to a comparatively recent period, testimo...
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Leonardo Da Vinci High Renaissance
892 wordsThe Last Supper was a very powerful Biblical event, in which Jesus and his disciples gathered for one final dinner together. According to the Bible, important events took place during the Last Supper, including an announcement by Jesus that one of his disciples would betray him and the first communion. To artists in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it was necessary to give proper deference to such notable occurrences. Both Leonardo da Vinci and Jacopo Robust, known as Tintoretto, took upon...
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The Time Machine Compared To Nineteen Eighty Four
1,529 words... whereas Winston had fears to grind down his mind until it was nothing but a mush that the party could sculpt into any shape that they wished to. The Time Travellers partner in The Time Machine is an Elois named Weena which he had saved towards the beginning of the story and they form quite a tight friendship: Taking Weena like a child upon my shoulder The relationship was more like father and daughter or older and brother and sister than that of a couple or man and wife. Throughout the novel...
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W W Norton Norton Anthology Of English Literature
992 wordsWilliam Wordsworth's description of his poetry in Preface to Lyrical Ballads gives the impression that it feel much like a modern newspaper to a reader; basic and with wide appeal. He emphasizes the idea of simplicity and familiarity of both topic and language, arguing the superiority of a poem that appeals to the common person. However, despite the value placed on simplicity, his poems are far above what many readers would perceive to be elementary. This is demonstrated by the fact that his poe...
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Dulce Et Decorum Est Give The Reader
1,476 wordsDulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen and The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred lord Tennyson are both about war and death. However, the themes are portrayed in two very different ways; one is about glory, and the other about a horrific death. Tennyson wrote The Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854 after reading a article in a newspaper. The poem was written to increase the moral of the fighting soldiers and of the people at home. The Charge of the Light Brigade celebrates the glory of war, an...
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Garden Of Eden Kubla Khan
1,336 wordsKubla Khan, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, is one of the most enigmatic and ambiguous pieces of literature ever written. Allegedly written after a laudanum (an opiate) induced dream, the author claims to have been planning a two hundred to three hundred line poem before he got interrupted by a man from Pollock, after which he had forgotten nearly all of his dream. This may have been merely an excuse, and the poem was scorned at the time for having no poetic value, one critic even going so far as to...
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Due To The Fact Native Son
1,096 wordsNative Son Literary Analysis Richard Wrights controversial Native Son was an overnight classic when released in 1940. This story of a young black mans struggle in 1930 s Chicago is one that still echoes throughout the generations. Through his unique uses of symbolism and motifs, Wright reveals to a wide audience the dilemmas and hardships that African-Americans endured and still struggle with today. Through Native Son, Wright boldly addresses the issues that many others will not. Native Son focu...
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Solve This Problem Live In A Society
1,460 wordsIn nearly every science-fiction film ever produced, the pinnacle of excitement is always when a captain demands that the ship be shifted into warp drive. While the concept of warp drive may still not be developed in respect to todays vehicles, the concept is now applicable to the current worlds lightening swift advances in technology, communications and globalization as a whole. This is the pillar upon which Thomas L Friedman bases The World is Flat, in which Friedman explains his contention of ...
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The Career Of James Fennimore Cooper
541 wordsJames Fennimore Cooper was a romantic writer in the mid 1880 s. Cooper wrote to entertain and wasnt held back by the rules of literature, which were set forth by the boring writers of his time. Cooper in his work exaggerated greatly, this however was not a flaw of Coopers. Cooper was harassed greatly by Mark Twain because of Coopers wide imagination and unique style of writing. Twain tried to state that Cooper was a terrible writer and that when it came to literature, Cooper broke about every ru...
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Tells The Reader Young Boy
918 wordsThroughout a persons life, reflection upon an experience can bring about wonderful memories. In Wordsworth Nutting he reflects on a day in the woods that changed his view on life and reality. During this reminiscence, Wordsworth experiences the relationship between man and nature. His specific usage of words distorts reality by giving the poem a dream-like feeling. Nutting affects the young boy by making him appreciate nature. At the same time he loses focus of reality which gives the poem a fai...
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Middle School First Day
1,037 wordsThe first thirteen years of my life werent very exciting. I played soccer, went to school, hung out with my friends, you know, the normal things a kid did. Then, my fourteenth year, I met the guy that threw me my first lifeline. His name was Gabriel Flores. He was the kind of guy everyone liked. He played all the sports including baseball, football, basketball, soccer and track, and played them well. The first day I saw him I knew there was something special about him I couldnt quite figure out....
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Christina Rossetti Kate Chopin
1,524 wordsChristina Rossetti's poem "A Birthday" and Kate Chopin's short story "The Story of an Hour" present conflicting attitudes toward love. In particular the speaker in Rossetti's poem is anticipating and overjoyed by the arrival of her new found love, whereas the character in Chopin's story, after the initial shock of her new found freedom, was overjoyed by the loss of her love. In the poem and short story several literary elements and techniques were used to convey these different attitudes toward ...
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Western Civilization War Broke
881 wordsModern European Histor What did Paul Valery mean in saying that the mind of Europe doubted itself profoundly? Before 1914, people in Europe believed in progress, peace, prosperity, reason, and rights of individuals. During that time, people began to believe in the Enlightenment, industrial developments were just starting and scientific advances began to take place. People then really believed in progression and further developments. Unfortunately, World War I broke out. Nevertheless, the optimis...
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John And Elizabeth End Of Act
261 wordsTone Shift between Act I and Act II of Arthur Millers The Crucible The tone changes from maddened anticipation at the end of act one to somber falseness at the beginning of act two. The authors diction highlights the tones of hysteria and excitement at the conclusion of act one. Rising to a great glee, Abigail exclaims, I saw Goody Silver with the Devil! Accusations from Abigail and Betty are flying everywhere. All logical thinking, reasoning and organization have vanished from Salem. Also, Reve...
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