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Anna Karenina Train Station
1,499 wordsCount Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy ranks as one of the world's great writers. He was also an important moral thinker and reformer. Tolstoy was born at Yasnaya Polyana, Russia, the fourth of five children. After being educated at Kazan in 1844, he joined the army in 1852. He fought proudly in the Crimean War, and after he left the army, he traveled abroad. He inspected German schools to insure their quality before going to his brother's side outside of Marseille, France. Nicolai died at a spa with hi...
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William Wallace Great Epic Film
496 wordsThe Tale of a Martyr The majestic Scottish countryside is a truly beautiful setting for an inspiring movie. Braveheart is a great epic about courage, betrayal, bravery, and most of all, freedom. Many epic films have a great, almost unattainable quest. This epic, much like Braveheart's predecessors, has a purpose. Scotland's quest for freedom from the tyranny of England's rule had been a dream that the main character, William Wallace, made a reality for his countrymen. This breath-taking movie pe...
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Root Of All Evil Pardoners Tale
1,964 wordsIn Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the Pardoner tells a tale which reflects some of his characteristics, but is not consistent with all of his qualities. The Pardoner sells pardons and relics not for the sake of the people he should be trying to save, but for his own monetary gain. The tale he tells is an ironic one, in which three friends set out to locate Death and kill him. However in the end, they just find death. The Pardoner is honest and so is the tale he tells. The three men in ...
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Crying Of Lot 49 De Familiarization
1,062 wordsIn his Course in General Linguistics, Ferdinand de Saussure differentiates language and speech by explaining language to be social and speech to be individual. (Rivkin 76) That is, language is the means through which communication and convention are established, while speech is the way in which the individual utilizes language as a means of expression of thought. By presenting linguistics as related to semiology, Saussure provides an effectively systematic method with which to view social scienc...
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Quick Fix Foreign Nations
658 wordsDescribe the dumbing down of the nations educational system. Our nation views all situations as a competition and, in some cases, goes to extremely deceitful lengths to protect the possibility of failure. All tasks assigned to Americans are assumed to be easy and conducted with concurring enthusiasm; however, when it becomes arduous, frustration overcomes us and we look for the first available quick-fix. Now that the task was completed-with the minimal amount of effort-we sit back and relax, bec...
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J R R Tolkien Character Analysis
630 wordsThe Fellowship of the Ring By J. R. R. Tolkien Book Report: Character Analysis Language Arts Class 2 nd period Shona Fenner 9 - 30 01 For this report I have chosen to write on The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien. This book is a classic that every individual should read. This book is also part of a trilogy, and the story becomes more exciting as you read the other two books in the series. For this character analysis report I will focus on the character Frodo Baggins of the Shire. Frodo...
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Attempt To Explain Evolutionary Theory
1,372 words... tenuously resolve to examine science face on rather than turn away from it. Tennyson condemns the notion that ignorance is a valid path to faith. Tennyson makes no attempt to refute the authority of science in its explanation of the corporeal world, but he does question whether scientific reason should have a role within the discussion of spiritual matters. CXXIV represents the climax of Tennyson's spiritual journey, as a passage that boldly asserts his new personal faith, a faith that is in...
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Quest For Happiness Herman Hesse
552 wordsHerman Hesse's Siddhartha In the book Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse, the main character Siddhartha had many teachers along his quest for happiness. Throughout his life he denounced teachers and their teachings. In his last meeting with his lifelong friend, Govinda, he mentions five in which he was indebted: a beautiful courtesan, a rich merchant, a dice player, a Buddhist monk, and Vasudeva. The first of these teachers along his way was Kamala a beautiful courtesan. Kamala taught him the wonderful...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Huck And Jim
1,268 wordsIt is no surprise that a book that elegantly combines American History, culture, and moral dilemmas along with controversial issues has become a classic novel. This novels effects were felt from coast to coast and its presence shaped the nation as no other has ever done. Therefore, it remains no surprise that what many people regard as the first truly American novel, set in the 1840 s and written after the American Civil War, should have at its heart the issue that divided the nation, slavery. M...
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Sonny Blues Paul Case
1,255 words? I think people ought to do what they want to do, what else are they alive for. (49)? This thought is what is reflected in both? Sonny? s Blues? by James Baldwin and? Paul? s Case? by Willa Cather. Both Baldwin and Cather illustrate the problem of a young man growing up and taking on the responsibility of finding out who they are and what they want out of life. In these stories the theme is most prevalent, developing the story and helping the reader form their own opinions on how they feel abou...
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Jack London Young Man
954 wordsRough Draft I think that every book falls into one of a few different catagories. It either sucks, is entertaining, or changes your perspective. Martin Eden ranks in the highest of all posible catagories for changing my perspective. I tried to read Jack London on a number of occasions and just couldnt get into him. His stories would rate as entertaining at best. I dont know why I picked up Martin Eden, but will forever be grateful to the forgotten soul who recommended it. Martin Eden is differen...
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Ancient Mariner Paradise Lost
1,144 wordsFrankenstein, possibly Mary Wollstonecraft Shelleys most well-known work, is considered by some to be the greatest Gothic Romance Novel. Due to her marriage to Percy Bysshe Shelley and close friendship with other prolific Romantic authors and poets, namely Lord Byron, Shelleys works permeate with Romantic themes and references. Also present in Frankenstein are obvious allusions to The Metamorphoses by Ovid and Paradise Lost by Milton. Shelley had been studying these two novels during her stay at...
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Sammy Sosa Roger Maris
983 wordsA Season for the Ages Hes 65, and roughly 250 lbs, and for the most part he is about as average as you or me. Almost except for one major thing, he is the record holder of the most prestigious record in all of pro sports. His name is Mark McGwire and the record is his 70 homerun's, shattering the old record held by the Minnesota native named Roger Maris. On the Major League Baseballs final day of the season Mark McGwire hit two mammoth homerun's to give him 70 on the year, an astonishing 1 home ...
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Golden Fleece Play Medea
733 wordsIn the play Medea there were two main characters Medea and Jason. We have seen these characters before in the story of The Golden Fleece. Medea met Jason on his quest for the Golden Fleece. They immediately fell in deep passionate love for each other. Although Medea had a little help because she was under a love spell put on her by cupid. During this story Jason pledged his life long love for Medea. That life long love did not last for long because the entire play of Medea is about Medea's ways ...
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Reasonable Cause Great Pain
642 wordsRevenge A Cause for Murder? Is revenge a reasonable cause for murder? Medea gives her whole soul and life to the devotion of the man she loves so dearly only to be betrayed by him. Come, flame of the sky, Pierce through my head! What do I gain from living any longer? Oh, how I hate living! I want to end my life, leave it behind, and die. P. 840 Her pain was so great that her life no longer meant anything to her. She was obsessed with the hurt and badly wanted to inflect this horrible pain on the...
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Past Their Fifties Extend Life Elderly
368 wordsThroughout the years medical technology has increased tremendously. We have been able to transplant organs, increase the birth survival rate, and we are even able to clone animals. We are now able to live longer that ever before, trying to elude the inevitability of death. But, because of this quest consequences have arisen. In this essay I will demonstrate why I believe that physician should not use medical treatments to merely extend the life of an elderly person who is past the age of 85. Fir...
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Moby Dick Ahab Reader
859 wordsHerman Melville employs numerous motifs in the novel Moby Dick that all serve some purpose, though that purpose is oftentimes somewhat ambiguous. One of the more peculiar motifs that I traced throughout the novel was Melville s strange tendency to foreshadow events to come. Normally, most novels attempt to maintain a certain amount of suspense until the climax, which usually contains some sort of surprise for the reader. But before getting even halfway through Moby Dick, the reader knows that wh...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby
432 wordsGatsby s Greatness There is much controversy on why F. Scott Fitzgerald chose his masterpiece to be title The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald chose The Great Gatsby as the title to show the duality of how the central character of Jay Gatsby is great in trying determinedly to achieve his goal of Daisy, but how his greatness brings about his own downfall. Gatsby is, at first glance, truly great, for he pursues his dream of Daisy relentlessly. Jordan Baker, in a conversation with Nick Carraway, lets him k...
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Cd Rom Summers 1 Computer
656 wordsMy First Computer Wow, what an experience it was to see for the first time a machine that could think! This machine could do math, display graphics at the drop of a dime, and play two dimensional games (whic was all that was around back then). This wasnt something that you normally saw. This was something that seemed to come straight out of a science fiction film. At least that was what I thought. So my quest was clear to me. I was to learn how to manipulate a computer. So to start, all the comp...
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Notre Dame Didn T
1,936 wordsIt has become evident to me in the past few years that men, women and children alike are constantly on this quest for identity, always striving to become their own person unshackled by the bonds of society. We come in to the world, untouched and uninfluenced more or less like a clean slate. From the time we are born, everything said, done or experienced either by us or one another directly or indirectly effects the way we think, what we know and the way we act. These outside influences on our li...
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