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Views Of Mans Nature
612 words
Mans nature can be looked at in many different
ways. Observing a few of the several views helps
one to appreciate all of the positive and negative
characteristics man has brought forth. The
majority of the views are negative, or
pessimistic, and they are attracted to the thought
of whether man has any hope, whereas the positive
views focus on the outstanding needs and abilities
of man. Christmas has its positive and negative
characteristics to it as well, which is a good
example. One of the posi...
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End Of The Story Nursery Rhyme
1,799 words
... to society and will be a lasting book. Bauer,
Marion Dane. If You Were Born a Kitten. Simon &
Schuster, 1997. This book describes how various
baby animals come into the world and what happens
when a human baby is born. This is the first book
for the illustrator using dry pastels on dark gray
paper. The size of the book helps to create great
detail in the pictures of the animals and their
babies. The illustrator makes the animals
life-like. The author chooses a variety of animals
that a child...
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Boulder Colorado Ransom Note
1,246 words
The brutal murder of 6 -year-old Jon Benet Ramsey
on Christmas night in 1996 shocked America to its
core. Just as the Lindbergh baby kid napping and
murder seven decades earlier had seared the
nations consciousness, this murder of a beautiful
and talented child in a wealthy Boulder, Colorado
home -- renewed every parents worst nightmare. It
has been nearly three years since this violent
crime occurred and no one has been brought to
justice. At 6: 48 p. m. , Dec. 23, 1996, a 911
call was placed f...
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Forms Of Entertainment Air Conditioning
1,795 words
... the 1920 s were considered a roaring time
marked with prosperity and good times, than one
was overlooking the growing problems Prohibition
was creating. The 1920 s were also marked by
prosperity in another aspect of society: the
nations love for sports. Taking the family to the
ballpark on Sunday to root for your favorite
player, or listening to the Monsters of the Midway
on the radio was a way to get ones mind off the
rigors of everyday life. The 1920 s were a time of
dominance for the Chic...
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Cinco De Mayo Puerto Rico
898 words
You are home alone. Silence does not match your
personality so you decide to turn on a music
station. You are listening to Latin music and you
move to the rhythm. You cannot avoid it. You are
dancing! The music has body and soul and it has
taken over you. You close your eyes and feel the
music that has moved your senses. While you listen
to the sounds you recognize some musical
instruments, but there is one unusual, and
splendid sound unknown to you. The sound is
vibrant and captivating. The ins...
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Life Was Hard Back Life Was Hard Christmas
648 words
This is the time of year I like to sit back and
take a visit to my earlier years when times were
really tough. When I was a kid, we were so poor;
the people on Welfare were considered better off.
My father usually got laid off from his
bricklaying job around this time so things got
really got tight. We had coal and wood burning
stoves to cook and keep warm. My grandfather would
go to the fish market and get old crates to chop
up for firewood. My Grandfather always cut extra
wood to sell so he co...
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Baby Jesus Wise Men
530 words
Christmas festivities begin with Las Posadas, nine
consecutive days of can delight processions and
lively parties starting December 16. Throughout
Mexico kids get together each afternoon to reenact
the holy family's journey for a place to stay in
Bethlehem. The procession is headed by a small
Virgen Mara, often perched on a live burro, led by
a equally tiny San Jos. They are followed by other
children protruding angels, the Santos Reyes, and
a host of pastore's y pastorelas, all usually
decked o...
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People Day Food
738 words
An experience in life that forces you to grow up
and to take on responsibility, can only be
rewarding and uplifting in the future. When you
look back at all you came thru and the courage
that possessed you at that most trying time. I
only have one moment that really sticks out in my
mind. Christmas on 1997 my family and I went to
The Banquet which is a local food provider for the
less fortunate in Sioux Falls. Being thrilled
about this certain project my mom decided we
should do was not quiet my...
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Large Amount Living Room
1,496 words
I will never forget that cold December day,
December 20 th to be exact. My parents decided to
move because of their new jobs, I remember
thinking big deal. Christmas is about being with
friends and family, muttering to myself, not this
year. Were my parents punishing me for a crime
that I did not commit? The worst part about living
on Droopy-Willow Drive was that there were no kids
in my neighborhood. This could not be happening to
me; I was surrounded by old people. I knew that I
would be bored...
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White Witch Human Beings
2,500 words
C. S. Lewis Aslan in, The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, exactly
mirrors Jesus Christ. Aslan's sacrifice for a
crime committed by Edmund is an exact mirror of
Christs ultimate sacrifice for our sins. When
Aslan is killed on the stone table and comes back
to life he says, That though the Witch knew the
Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which
she did not know (Lewis, pg 185). Christians see
this deeper magic as the fact that Aslan, like
Christ was there since ...
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Put The Chops Hair Grows Jim
1,087 words
... ose-lying curls that made her look wonderfully
like a truant schoolboy. She looked at her
reflection in the mirror long, carefully, and
critically. "If Jim doesn't kill me, " she said to
herself, "before he takes a second look at me, he
" ll say I look like a Coney Island chorus girl.
But what could I do -- oh! what could I do with a
dollar and eighty- seven cents?" At 7 o'clock the
coffee was made and the frying-pan was on the back
of the stove hot and ready to cook the chops. Jim
was never...
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Holden Critiques The Weaknesses Of Society
439 words
Holden attacks various weaknesses in our society.
Many incidents in the novel portrayed Holden as a
person with full of hate in society. He critiques
everything that had happened to him, many of the
situations that he has experienced come across in
todays society. His point of view on phonies;
loosing a loved one; not remembering the true
meaning of Christmas, are all the weaknesses in
society. As we read further, we start to
understand Holden's reason for hating phoney's.
The many people that H...
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Dinner I Cleaned Sharp Pains In My Heart Smit
784 words
It seems like all of my life I have been changing
homes. Even as a toddler, I never really knew what
it was to have a Mom and Dad. I did have a lot of
temporary parents, but they were never stable. The
impact that it had on my life was pretty
tremendous. I went from home to home, never really
understanding what it was that I would do wrong to
get kicked out. Finally, I have moved in with a
white family. Its almost been a year now. This is
my longest stay at a foster home. Mr. and Mrs.
Smit have ...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
1,553 words
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight is a fanciful tale of Sir Gawain, a
young noble knight of King Arthurs round table,
and his adventures to hold up a challenge made by
a mysterious Green Knight. This epic poem is not
your usual story of adventure, the challenge that
the Green Knight gives Gawain is more about
integrity and bravery. (Silverstein, 29) In the
book Gawain comes across a lords manor and takes
refuge there, The lord gives him another test of
integrity bef...
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Falls In Love English Patient
2,153 words
The English Patient, directed by Anthony
Minghella, is a romantic, melodramatic film which
defines the art of cinematography. The internal
and external rhythms, lighting, camera angles,
lenses, music, dialogue, and editing are displayed
in a way which conveys the meanings and themes to
the viewer in such a clear and efficient manner.
Due to this fine exhibition, it is of the belief
that film schools should use this piece of artwork
as a guide to students who wish to learn what
cinematography act...
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Good Teacher Subject Matter
960 words
Teachers have the very important responsibility of
shaping the lives of young, impressionable
children. With this responsibility comes great
pride and joy. Therefore all teachers should
strive for what can be considered to be a? good
teacher. ? A good teacher can be defined as
someone who always pushes students to want to do
their best while at the same time trying to make
learning interesting as well as creative. A
positive or negative influence from a teacher
early on in life can have a great ...
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B C E Egypt And Israel
1,863 words
Judaism is a much different religion from
Christianity. Jews have different beliefs,
traditions, and different ideas about how the
world should see God. I personally believe that
the most fascinating tradition of Judaism is
Hanukkah. The hope of this essay is to discuss
some of the many aspects of Hanukkah. An example
of which is the history of Hanukkah, the
celebration of candles, and the activities in
which partake in to celebrate this special
occasion. The history of Hanukkah is a story of
th...
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Louisa May Alcott York Henry Holt
4,615 words
Louisa May Alcott and Little Women The morality of
the 19 th century Victorian Era is renown in
modern times as a standard, from which the society
of today has deferred from in as many ways as
conceivably possible. Yet there were those at that
time whom thought even then that the moral
integrity of youthful society was degrading at a
vicious speed. So when a novel filled with
didactic tones, professing the assets of domestic
ism along with feminism, appeared in 1868, parents
were clamoring to bu...
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Louisa May Alcott Older Sister
3,947 words
Louisa May Alcott was an exceptional novelist in a
time when few female authors were recognized. She
lived in the midst of the turmoil caused by the
American Civil War. As a nurse in that war, she
saw horrors that no one should have to experience.
Later, she would draw on these experiences to
write Hospital Sketches (1863). Bronson Alcott,
Alcott's father, was a pioneer of the
transcendentalist movement, along with Ralph Waldo
Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. He founded
several schools that all ...
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Hand Of God Christmas Eve
1,056 words
ON THE LEFT SIDE When a rich man donated some
money to St. Final? s, which is a catholic church
in Conn in Ireland, some of the money was spend on
electrical wall-heaters in the right half of the
church and some of it was spend on medical aid to
the people of Burundi. A missionary, Philomena O?
Halloran, was sent to Burundi and to raise money
to support her mission, a special missionary box
was mounted on the counter of the grocer? s. At
Christmas after twenty years O? Halloran sent a
young man ...
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