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Fight Or Flight Tough Times
1,279 words"Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to work we go. " So sang the charmingly quirky dwarfs in Disney's Snow White. In many ways they stood for the hopes of mid-century Americans: Hold down a secure job, produce your share of goods or products, do what the boss says, go with the program, and earn enough to support a comfortable lifestyle for yourself and your family. Things haven't really changed all that much -- or have they? Only a few of us are currently involved in any type of manual labor or production. ...
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Fall In Love Thousand Dollars
1,313 words... taken out of context. Even slavery was justified by using the cursed of Ham when he made fun of his father Noahs drunkenness. After hams son was cursed to be a slave to Shem and Japheths families, Shem had a son named Cush, which means black. This story in Genesis 9 is what the Confederate "Christians" used for keeping blacks as slaves, saying it was their curse. When the context is added to the content, a whole different picture can emerge. This story says only one son, Caanan was cursed. C...
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Open Boat Short Story
1,054 wordsIn Stephen Crane's The Open Boat, Crane uses a personal experience that happened to him to pattern this short story after. Crane's writing style consists of a very prominent use of naturalism. Naturalism is simply the struggle between nature and man, with nature being the most powerful force. In The Open Boat, Crane writes about a sinking boat, therefore placing his characters at nature's mercy. The story line for The Open Boat is based on a true experience Crane had while smuggling guns to Cuba...
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Life Really Worth Found The Door Truck
821 wordsThis is a fictional short story with literary aim. The wind slapped forcefully against his face and the rain pelted his coat like little bullets as Glenn made his way to the old truck. "It is going to be a long night", he thought, as he hurried through the darkness towards the truck. His hand found the door and he traced his way to the keyhole. As he quickly unlocked the truck and scrambled inside, he became conscious of the ominous and devouring black of the night. Once the truck was start was ...
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Spirit Of St Charles Lindbergh
1,024 wordsAfter Black Thursday, which was one of the major causes of The Great Depression, the nation needed heroes, or someone to simply lift the peoples spirits and thats exactly what Charles Lindbergh did. The "Spirit of the St. Louis" caught the world by surprise and Charles became one of Americas first celebrities. Every aspect of his life was written in newspapers and magazines or broadcast over the radio, this is why it is so easy for me to tell you that Charles Lindbergh is a true hero. Charles Au...
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Sports Acrobatics Partner Tosses Skills
376 wordsThe roots of Sports Acrobatics date back to the time of the ancient Greeks. The word acrobatics is derived from a word in the Greek language meaning to elevate. This derivation is significant, since Sports Acrobatics combines the aspects of lifting and balancing and the high flight of partner tosses and tumbling passes. Modern Sports Acrobatics began in Russia with the formation of the International Federation of Sports Acrobatics (IFSA). This exciting new sport has been competed actively in Eur...
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Short Story First Story
934 wordsShort Story/Film Analysis Aric McDonald Short Story/Short Film Comm. 411 - 35 11: 30 - 12: 45 Spring 1997 The three short stories are similar because they all involve jealousy. This type of jealousy surrounds the main characters who are envious of the achievements or the attention that another man receives. The first story is about an old man who is taking his wife on a second honeymoon when she encounters an old suitor, creating jealousy for the husband. In the second story, the jealousy surrou...
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Comic Relief Greek Mythology
1,366 wordsThe Trickster Karl Jung's explanation for the archetypes that surface in cultural and religious literature is that they are the product of what he calls the collective unconsciousness. That thread of consciousness that connects all human beings and cultures around the world. Yet it is not visible to the naked eye, one must look for the signs of it by researching cultures who are long gone and comparing them to each other and our own. Studying it reminds us that all humans are bound together by a...
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National Missile Defense Threat To The United States
1,458 wordsChina-U. S. Relations Matt Jackson GP 101 Commentary on China China, for most of its 3500 years of history, China led the world in agriculture, crafts, and science. It fell behind in the 19 th century when the Industrial Revolution gave the West clear superiority in military and economic affairs. In the first half of the 20 th century, China continued to suffer from major famines, civil unrest, military defeat, and foreign occupation. After World War II, the Communists under Mao Tse Tung establi...
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Sword In The Stone Wart Sees Power
886 wordsThe Sword in the Stone The Sword in the Stone is a book about an adopted child named Wart. He is of royal blood and does not know this. One day when Wart is in the forest, he finds a magician named Merlin. Merlin comes home with Wart and agrees with Sir Ector, Warts guardian, to become Warts tutor. Merlin goes about educating Wart by transforming him into different animals. Through each transformation Wart experiences different forms of power, each being a part of how he should rule as king. The...
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Yeah Replied Jurgen Manager Roberto Ravelli Joel
1,441 wordsCreative Story: Joel's Dream Joel was sitting in the airport lounge, sipping his mineral water, when the toy came on, BA flight two-six-one to Milan is now boarding. Please make your way to departure gate three, Thank you. Thats me! See you later She, Ill phone you when I get there! See you Joel, hope everything goes okay! After exchanging kisses, Joel picked up his bags and heads off through the Departures corridor and to the plane. Joel was possibly the best talent to come out of Scotland for ...
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Gatsby Dream Long Island
1,226 wordsI see a feather outside the window. It floats low, moving randomly from the sidewalk to the grass. As it is just about to land on the road, a car passes by the feather and gives it a push to fly even higher. A couple more blasts of wind would send it into the clouds. The feather lingers in the sky, above the houses and the trees. The sun shines brightly and the birds chirp loudly, but the wind is beginning to end. The feather gently sinks little by little, but it has not hit the ground yet. It a...
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Artist As A Young Man Portrait Of The Artist
1,048 wordsThe Daedalus Myth: Its Role in A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST James Joyce? s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a novel of complex themes developed through frequent allusions to classical mythology. The myth of Daedalus and Icarus serves as a structuring element in the novel, uniting the central themes of individual rebellion and discovery, producing a work of literature that illuminates the motivations of an artist, and the development of his individual philosophy. James Joyce chose the name ...
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Knew He Needed Parents Are Divorced Brian
1,078 wordsThe Hatchet Book Report The book I am reading is called Hatchet. It is about Brian Robeson, whose parents are divorced. It starts off that he is flying to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness. His parents are divorced because his mom is seeing another man, and Brian? s father doesn? t know. He refers to this as the secret. This flight to see his father in the Canadian wilderness is Brians first time in an airplane. He explains this to the pilot and tells him that he is scared. The pilot f...
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Younger Generation Target Audience
908 wordsMichael 10 / 22 / 99 Professor D. Hum. 101 While I was flipping through the pages of? Maxim? magazine looking at the gorgeous women and laughing at the funny captions, I stumbled upon an advertisement that made me laugh out loud. It is a series of four pages, two facing each other, and then two more layed out in the same way. The first set of two pages has a hot dog on the left page and the Nike Air Flight Post on the next. It? s not fancy, nor does it have beautiful women on it, it just says in...
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Exposed To The Virus Ebola Zaire
1,027 wordsReston Maryland which is a suburb of Washington DC. and the second major area is in Kenya Africa. The story takes place in the 1980 s. Main Characters: Since this story is a true story there is no one character that is a main character. The author does not create the story around any one main character so Ill just list every character I can remember from the book. 1. Charles Monet: He was the first host to the deadly ebola virus breakout in Africa. He was 56 years old and was kind of a loner acc...
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World War Ii Black And White
1,230 wordsA hurried businessman runs across the airport at a full sprint. If he doesnt get to Gate D 3 in three minutes, he will miss his flight to Singapore. As he is running, little beads of sweat begin to form on his brow. People gawk at him and hurl insults his way when he bumps past them with seemingly no thought. All of a sudden, the man stops in full stride, whining to a stop. He breathes heavily and looks to his right. How can he go on the plane without something to read? Quickly the man bounds ov...
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Close To An Hour Started
565 wordsI think an event that proves I deserve the word? lost? would be from this summer when I was on vacation. It would be my loss of innocence. It all happened right after my dad, his friend and I finished playing a round of golf. It was the very first time I had ever beat my dad. We were on our way back to our friend? s house in Reno, but we stopped to get some gas and to call his wife and ask if we should pick up some grub. We couldn? t get ahold of them, so we started back. We pulled out of the ga...
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Make You Feel Flight Attendant
1,822 wordsMILE HIGH CLUB Trent Boyd hefted his small attache? case into the over head compartment and sat down in the aisle seat and waited for the 737 to take off. Leaving the bone chilling cold of Detroit to spend a long weekend in New Orleans was enough to bring a smile to the face of any seasoned traveler! One stop over in Memphis, and it would be good by Woodward Ave. and hello Bourbon Street! This would be Trent? s sixth visit to the Crescent City, and it was definitely his favorite destination, wit...
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Tip Of Your Bat Ball From The Pitchers Hand Eyes
720 wordsKEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BALL Although the games of baseball and fastpitch softball are quite different, watching a baseball game can improve your softball skills. This particular tip deals with a mechanic in hitting that is mandatory to be successful. It is a simple fundamental, but one that must be consistently communicated in coaching fastpitch: Keep your eyes on the ball. If you have ever seen still photos of a baseball player hitting a homerun, perhaps in the newspaper, a baseball magazine or ...
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