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Theodore Dreiser Sister Carrie
1,305 wordsTheodore Dreiser was born August 27, 1871 in Terre Haute, Indiana. The younger brother of Paul Dresser, a well-known songwriter, Theodore was a famous novelist known for his outstanding American writing of naturalism. He was also a leading figure in a national literary movement that replaced the observance of Victorian notions of propriety with the unflinching presentation of real-life subject matter. Even though a majority of his works were about his life experiences, he also wrote about new so...
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Webster Collegiate Dictionary Spinal Cord
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September 11 2001 Violence On Tv
1,277 wordsOn September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center crumbles to the ground, billions of people watch on their television sets, many of them children. As the children sit around with their parents they see planes crashing into buildings, innocent civilians jumping from windows, and later on, they see firefighters and volunteers sifting through the rubble, pulling out bodies. The children try and comprehend what has happened but they have virgin minds that are undeveloped and inexperienced. Just as they...
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Career Choice Law Enforcement
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The Horses Mouth By Joyce Cary
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Time Women Stay Home
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Jurassic Park Special Effects
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Salem Witch Trials Historically Accurate
1,157 wordsThe Crucible: A Film Review Whod have thought that simple dancing could cause so much chaos in a small town. This is precisely what happens in the film The Crucible (Nicholas Hytner, 1996), which was originally written as a play by Arthur Miller. This story is based on actual events, which helps in showing the accuracy of the events. The story takes place in Salem in 1692, during the Salem witch trials. The story starts when a group of young girls, particularly one named Abigail, are caught danc...
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Horror Movie Three Films
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Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
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Miss Horton Bill Mulvaney Book
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Decided To Make Correctional Facility
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Mumia Abu Jamal Write A Poem
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Wear Their Feathery Fire Wear Their Feathery Soft
383 wordsThere will come soft rains (War Time) By Sara Teasdale There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white. Robins will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird not tree, If mankind perished utterly; And spring herself, when she...
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2,054 wordsRacism in Angelou's I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou, the current poet laureate of the United States, has become for many people an exemplary role model. She read an original poem at the inauguration of President Clinton; she has also appeared on the television show Touched by an Angel, and there read another poem of her own composition; she lectures widely, inspiring young people to aim high in life. Yet this is an unlikely beginning for a woman who, by the age of thirty, had been S...
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Strong Feelings Teen Suicide
1,212 wordsSuicide is a very serious problem, and it happens too often for us to ignore. I have always been interested in the different things involved in suicide and what would cause a person to kill themselves, but have never had the time to find out, until now. I used to think it was something that was a spur of the moment decision, but it? s not always. I thought it only happened to kids whose parents abused them, but that? s not always true. I found that out when one of my friends that I had known sin...
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