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Third Person Limited Story Takes Place
704 wordsIn the Call of the Wild, the author tells a story of a dog whose name is Buck. We follow buck through his adventures in the Klondike. He experiences a transformation as he adapts to the cold temperatures, the heavy sled behind him, and the savageness of the other dogs. By the end of the story Buck is a completely different dog. The main message of the book was probably to never count on where you are now in life, because things change. The author presents this by using Buck as a Symbol of a huma...
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Race Car Common People
629 wordsThe ideal place for common people usually ranges from tropical vacation spots and outdoor activities, to stores and buildings. On the other hand, I do not fit this category of common people. The soccer field and music environment do make me feel at ease, but my real passion is towards automobiles. I could not think of a better place than to sit in the cockpit of one of Nissan's line of super-cars the Skyline, preferably the rare NISMO 400 R. The NISMO 400 R probably sounds like a space ship, but...
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1 2 Billion Balance Sheet
1,810 wordsExecutives at high-flying Enron Corp. (ENE) never seemed overly concerned with how the rest of the world viewed their business practices. Earlier this year, the California Attorney General had to get a court order to collect documents in an industry wide investigation into energy price fixing. And when an analyst challenged former CEO Jeffrey K. Skilling in a conference call to produce Enron's balance sheet, Skilling called him an "ass " Still, even some Enron executives worried that the company...
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Boys Cry Gay Violence In America
1,822 wordsNew Year's Eve 1993, in the dead-end town of Falls City, Nebraska, two men shot and stabbed Teena Brandon, a 21 -year-old who, in defiance of the laws of biology, wanted desperately to live her life as a man. On October 6, 1998, two men smashed the head of Matthew Shepard, a 21 -year-old gay man, and left him tied to a deer fence outside Laramie, Wyoming. Both killings have become national causes cables. Teena Brandon's tale, already the subject of the harrowing documentary The Teena Brandon Sto...
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Penelope Was Smart Waiting For Her Husband Odysseus
1,474 wordsOdyssey The major theme of Odyssey is loyalty. It teaches that those who have patience will be rewarded. Penelope had many problems when Odysseus had left. Women did not have many rights and were not very important. Women needed men to provide money and for protection. Women had it very hard living without a man. Most women during this time would have chosen one of the suitors that tried to win her favors. This temptation to choose a new man in her life went on for over a decade. Penelope's loya...
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Oil On Canvas Human Effort
549 wordsBrains, Blood, Sweat, and Tears C. Peters, Memorial Bridge (Oil on Canvas, 1932) R. Crawford, Whitestone Bridge (Oil on Canvas, 1939) You can accomplish anything with thought and hard work Justin Craig-Kuhn To overcome obstacles is human. When something stands in our way, its Give me liberty or give me death! in many cases. No matter how difficult a project may seem, hard work and determination will pull us through (or at least, thats what we tell ourselves). In many cases, it turns out that we ...
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Lord Of The Flies Rise To Power
1,076 wordsSymbolism in Lord of the Flies The story, Lord of the Flies, has many interesting symbols relating adult society to kids surviving on an island. Many of the characters and items in this novel such as Jack or the conch can be interpreted on a macroscopic scale but the most important being this; a microcosm of children on an island makes a great symbolic message about human nature, society and how grown-ups live and govern and how they cannot. When you consider the time period this book was writte...
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Public School System Reasonable Suspicion
627 wordsStudents Rights in the Public School System I chose to do my report on students rights in the public school system. Lisa Rowe, then sixteen a student at Teaneck High School, in New Jersey, thought she was doing a good dead when she returned a purse shed found in her English class. When she took the purse to the office instead of being rewarded she was told to step into the principals office and asked to pull up her sweater and pull down her slacks, and then she was searched. Why? In case she was...
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Family Room Number Three
1,736 wordsParties and Cops, name a better combo? Running from the cops isnt a very healthy experience, but it is by far one of the more bizarre and exciting things Ive ever gone through. I cant say I wouldnt like to go through it again, but at the same time my Ego seems to suppress my Id on this one. I dont exactly know the single reason for my desire to repeat such a treacherous event, but my analytical mind definitely comes up with a few logical conclusions. I like treating this experience and the event...
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Call Of The Wild Gambling Debts
451 wordsCall of the Wild Kerry JAy April 1, 1997 Call of the Wild Jack London. 104 pages, fiction book. The Call of the Wild has a very interesting plot. It is centered around a St. Bernard and Scotch Shepherd mix, named Buck. At home, which was a large house in the sun, he ruled over all dogs. Buck was Judge Millers inseparable companion, until a man named Manuel, who was the one of the gardeners helpers, committed a treacherous act. Manuel, to cover his Chinese lottery gambling debts, stole Buck from ...
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Bobby Kennedy Invade Cuba Missiles
907 wordsIn October 1962 USA discovered Soviet nuclear bases on Cuba. This was only seventy miles away from the US coastline. It was literally in America s back-yard. It came as a shock to the Americans because Cuba and the US had such close ties so recently and this was going against such ties. This source is from a historian named Stephen E. Ambrose. This means that it is a reliable source because history books have to go through checks from other historians. It tells of the Executive Committee that Ke...
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Leaves The Reader Harley Davidson
1,443 wordsDesperation, a recent Stephen King novel, is not just a book, but an experience that leaves the reader frightened, paranoid, and questioning his moral beliefs. Picture, if you will, a lone, crazed Nevada policeman who pulls over vehicles on a lonely desert highway and forcefully takes away their occupants. Whichever of them he doesn? t kill immediately, he locks up in the jail of the small desolate town of Desperation. Among those captured are the vacationing Carver family, whose RV is sabotaged...
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Pull Out His Eyes Artist As A Young Man
1,217 wordsReligion In James Joyce's A Portrait Of Religion In James Joyce's A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man. Religion and Its Effect on Stephen Dedalus Religion is an important and recurring theme in James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Through his experiences with religion, Stephen Dedalus both matures and progressively becomes more individualistic as he grows. Though reared in a Catholic school, several key events lead Stephen to throw off the yoke of conformity and choose his ...
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British Empire Wasn T
1,050 wordsHow to build an empire on an orange crate or 121 lessons I never learned in school by: Ed Mirvish If you have ever been in the vicinity of Bloor St. West, then you have mostly probably seen Ed Mirvish's empire. He owns 6 restaurants, 3 theatres, and one giant four-floor bargain store. He is a man that went from nothing to everything. He originally started off in a grocery store, which was owned by his dad. Since his father didn t have enough money to hire employees, Ed had to work long hard hour...
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Compressed Air Game Played
1,114 wordsHave you ever played Paintball? Then you defiantly missed a look stuff. Paintball is about the coolest sport I know of. There is alot of rumors about it. Some people say its bad and violent and its supposed to glorify war. But the truth is, none of those lies are true. Paintball is a team game, it takes a lot of effort to succeed. Teamwork is one of the most important words. The fact that you play paintball with equipment that looks warlike is the only connection reminding of guns and war. But i...
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Life On Earth Kilometers In Diameter
1,119 wordsWhat would happen if the moon was destroyed? I have often wondered what would happen if the moon were destroyed and how it would be destroyed. Would a crazy scientist nuke it? Maybe an asteroid would hit it. Astronomers have catalogued all large objects in space that are larger than 500 kilometers in diameter and non-of them seem to be headed towards our moon. Based on this information, the only conclusion that I can come up with, was if the moon was to be blown up by some crazy scientist. Many ...
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Beginning Of The Book End Of The Book
865 wordsIn the book Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers, we read about the hardships and troubles of the main character, Richard Perry, during the Vietnam war. We learn a lot about Perry throughout the book, and by the end of the book we feel like we know exactly how Perry feels, and we have a understanding of some of the hardships that the soldiers faced in Vietnam. In this book, Perry kills a Vietnamese man in a hut he was supposed to check out, and from this point on he does a lot of thinking about wh...
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Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou S
834 wordsI will not allow anybody to minimize my life, not anybody, not a living soul- nobody, no lover, no mother, no son, no boss, no president, no body. (Maya Angelou) In Maya Angelou s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, she, Maya, tells the reader about the challenges and praises throughout her life. She gets across to the reader that the number of things that have occurred to her in her life will never add up to make her feel unworthy. Because Angelou is a spirited journalist, (pg. 5) she was inspired...
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Polite And Courteous Additional Funds Phoenix
465 wordsA Worn Path, written by Eudora Welty concerns the life of an elderly woman, Phoenix Jackson, and her enduring love for her chronically ill grandson. Her enduring love for her young grandson is what keeps her going. Her life is one full of amazement. She is frail, old, and encounters many struggles. Though she manages to overcome all the trials, along with her brief lapses of mentally wondering. When she comes to her senses she realizes that she needs to be on her way and quickly moves on. Amazin...
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Gun Control Laws Stricter Gun Control
1,003 wordsGun control is an issue that plagues out nation. It is a test of the very liberalism our great nation was founded on. Throughout time, many people have fought to have tougher gun laws, while groups like the NRA fight to have more lenient laws. This essay will discuss arguments for both those in favor of gun control and those who oppose. It will then discuss the current laws in effect now to control gun issues. Finally, the author will share his opinion on the subject. Proponents of stricter gun ...
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