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Niccolo Machiavelli George Orwell
1,195 wordsMy focus is upon a piece by Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian prince from the renaissance period who writes "The Morals of a Prince", and in an opposite vein, an essay by George Orwell, an English author and enemy of totalitarianism whose essay is "Politics and the English Language." Within these essays I have found a similarity in which Orwell illustrates that 'political writing becomes the defense of the indefensible, most political writing is bad, where it is not the author is usually a rebel w...
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Shared Monopolies Mass Media Corporations
600 wordsThe generalized idea of every individual's personality is "I have my own thoughts. " When this statement is examined closer, the question arises of what influences one to believe the things they do? Mass media plays an immense role in the form shaping of people's opinions and views through means of ownership, commercialization and news coverage. The rich keep getting richer, including corporations. One way they do so is through owning and merging media outlets. Because single monopolies are ille...
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Four Principles Bottom Line
1,096 wordsThese Are the Facts, This Is the Outcome Abstract Since its inception in 1981, BATNA has proved to be a useful tool in solving potential conflicts. A win / win situation which is much sought in organizations is much easily achieved by utilizing options before coming to the negotiation and choosing the option that will best serve the purpose. In our case scenario, Troy could have developed a deep misunderstanding with his staff that is not only counter-productive but may well become personal as w...
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The Hazards Of Taking Children Out To Eat
773 wordsThe Hazards of Taking Children out to Eat. Outline: Dangers of fast food restaurants Dangers of family owned restaurants Conclusion (1) In recent years, many parents began to slowly realize that their practice of taking children out to eat actually represents a potential danger to kids well-being. It is not a secret that, according to recent sociological surveys, about 50 % of elementary school children in America, can be diagnosed with obesity. Apart from various genetic factors, which correspo...
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Pros And Cons Theodore Roosevelt
1,446 wordsThere are a lot of great works about American Presidents: Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. But there is the only one about both of them. John Milton Cooper in his work: The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt estimates strong and weak sides of their policy. It is evident that Roosevelt and Wilson were the political giants of a large period of American History. Though they were in conflict with each other they both possessed deep and extraordinary intellect. Thats ...
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Life Is A Game Men And Women
1,400 wordsThe Catcher in the Rye Does Holden need outside influence from other characters in the book to grow up? The answer is a definite yes. Within Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger uses Holden Caulfield to depict a confused teen who, through interactions with other characters, grows and matures. Holden, the main character has many different types of relationships with men and women throughout the book. Some relationships are more short-lived than others, and some are more intimate. Most importantly, h...
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Count Of Monte Cristo 14 Years
637 wordsWell noticed in the novel The Count of Monte Cristo, as in The Merchant of Venice, The themes vengeance, conspiracy and love are clearly shown throughout the book. The protagonist in these stories share qualities as do the antagonist. Many times in each book things that show each of these qualities are clearly visible. The reader of these novels can easily see that throughout the story line of each book the protagonist are put through many trials and tribulations, amidst all their problems and a...
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Head Body
1,783 wordsDO YOU Death english-creative writing DO YOU HAVE CARTOON MUSIC PLAYING IN YOUR HEAD TOO? Her tattoo was of a skull with wings. Doug reflected on the idea that a skull with angelic wings was a bit of an oxymoron. She had her hair pulled up in pigtails; a faux-cute self mockery that made her look the part of the raver she was trying so hard to be. Her black tank top was offset by the white vinyl pants that she was wearing. Her whole outfit couldn? t have been cheap. This was strange, because obvi...
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Edgar Degas Nineteenth Century
2,105 words(1834 - 1917) Edgar Degas EDGAR DEGAS (1834 - 1917) Aspects of Degas work mainly, his ballet paintings from the 1880 S have long been popular with a broad audience; too much so for their own good. But he has never been a popular artist like the wholly inferior Auguste Renoir, whose Paris-Boston retrospective in 1985 beguiled the crowds and bored everyone else. Degas was much harder to take, with his spiny intelligence (never Renoirs problem), his puzzling mixtures of categories, his unconvention...
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People Of Boston Dimmesdale
1,390 wordsIrish novelist Brian Moore observed, There comes a point in many people? s lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves (Bookshelf 95). From Hollywood movie stars to professional athletes, people have and will continue to lead false lives, under the public spotlight, concealing their personal travails. In literature, the preceding statement has held true numerous times, in works such as Nathaniel Hawthorne? s The Scarlet Letter. Minister and respected citizen, Arth...
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Hard Faced Warm Waters
348 wordsThe warm rays of the setting sun break through the dark midnight clouds. Its rays scatter like children playing with the waters gleam casting amusing sparkles onto the sleeping eyes of the sea. The glistening blue waves huddle the warm wooden hull of the majestic ships. The white specks of foam appear from the depths of the ocean blue drift along sides the wake created by these behemoths of the waters. The white silk sails pull the majestic ark homebound. The gentle breeze of the warm easterly w...
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Pride And Prejudice Sense And Sensibility
1,576 wordsJane Austen was born on December 16, 1774, in the tiny village of Steventon, where her father, the Reverend George Austen, served as the town rector. Her mother, Cassandra Leigh Austen, was the daughter of a rector herself, and Jane was the seventh of eight children. She had an older brother, George, who suffered from epilepsy and did not live with the family. Wealthy, childless relatives who were very involved with the boy throughout his childhood adopted the Austen s third son, Edward. The rem...
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Homeless Person College Students
652 wordsLars Eighner's short essay, Dumpster Diving, reveals the stereotypes about homelessness in America. In order to confirm these known stereotypes about American culture, Eighner includes autobiographical accounts of the economically inferior class, as well as revealing his elitist rules that governs the life of a homeless person. According to Eighner, homeless people fall into the following categories, can scroungers, Dumpster divers, and scavengers. (Eighner, 1993). In addition, Eighner's blatant...
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Therapy Sessions Change Things
1,565 wordsGeorge Orr is tortured by his dreams because sometimes they come true. The world he wakes up to has changed into the world that he dreamed, sometimes radically, sometimes violently. As a teenager he dreams the death of his aunt and he awakens to finds that she was killed in a car accident six weeks before. He is horrified, and attempts to control his dreaming, but over the years some of his dreams and nightmares come true. Finally by the time he is thirty (in the year 2002) he is becoming psycho...
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Joyce Carol Oates Thoughts And Actions
790 wordsThe persona of a psychopath appears to be much like any human. In many cases, one would not be able to pick them out of a crowd. Their minds, however, differ greatly from most. A psychopath is extremely smart and methodical in thinking and most often is very meticulous in the way in which he / she acts. While many people are not thinking beyond the norm, a psychopath thinks about every breath, step, and word a person lets out into the open. In the short story Where are you going, Where have you ...
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Sierra Leone Cold Blooded
1,112 wordsReview: Diamond: The History Of A Cold-Blooded Review: Diamond: The History Of A Cold-Blooded Love Affair By Matthew Hart No stone unturned Diamond: The History of a Cold-Blooded Love Affair Matthew Hart 287 pp, Fourth Estate The story of diamonds has often been told, and with good reason: the mining and selling of the sparkling gems provides an exciting caricature of the extremes of capitalism. The exploration and digging in remote corners of the world; the huge investment in equipment and labo...
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National Catholic Reporter World War Ii
1,077 wordsRigoberta Menchu: A cry for justice In recent years, a new voice has been added to the world stage. It is the voice of Latin American women. Long oppressed both by their culture and their governments, these voices have risen in protest against the inequalities and injustices that have plagued their lives. The most notable example of this new genre to emerge thus far was published in 1992 and subsequently won the Nobel Peace prize for its author, Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian activist. Me...
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Wife And Mother Victorian Era
526 wordsEven though it was written in the Victorian era, Kate Chopin's The Awakening has several romantic qualities, especially with the main character, as she struggles between society's obligations and her own desires. Chopin writes about a woman who continues to reject the society around her, a notion too radical for Chopin's peers. Edna Pontellier has the traditional role of both wife and mother, but deep down she wants something more, difficult to do in the restricted Victorian society. The typical...
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Hester Prynne Scarlet Letter
1,007 wordsThe fate of all characters in The Scarlet Letter was determined by Hawthorne s revealing statement in the middle of the novel. This impenetrable truth dictates the behavior of the characters in the entire story. The public and the hierarchy of the society demanded punishments for all involved of such severity that even years after the crime its potential still resonated throughout the town, effecting the plot through its ending. Hawthorne s placement of this quote is typical of his clever artifi...
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Streetcar Named Desire Belle Reve
790 wordsA Streetcar Named Desire What do you call a drama that threads together all the aspects needed to create a masterpiece of literature? It is a play entitled A Streetcar Named Desire. In this drama each actor conveys a story about life, emotion and circumstance that weaves the play together. The first principle character in this play is Blanche DuBois. She is a neurotic nymphomaniac that is on her way to meet her younger sister Stella in the Elysian Fields. Blanche takes two 2 streetcars, one name...
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