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Ninth Grade Authority Figures
937 wordsSmall-minded administrators and authority figures like to speak in clich? s. All my life I heard the same trite line: You can tell a lot about a person by the friends they keep. The black sheep of the honors program, I hung out with the so-called losers. During my freshman year, not a day went by when a teacher or family member did not deride my closest friends and warn me that by hanging out with bad seeds I would fall into a downward spiral, never graduate college, and have a miserable life. T...
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Eyes Wide Shut Rules Of The Game
1,615 wordsLike any film that is carefully constructed, Eyes Wide Shut is the sum of its elements and of the ways by which these interact with each other. The most significant elements of the film are color, (particularly red, blue and yellow) sound (such as voices plus external and internal music) and the repeated figures of the Female Nude and Masks. Eyes Wide Shut can be divided into three parts, each of which contains the elements mentioned above. Part I introduces the main characters and their relatio...
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Hundreds Of Years Gender Roles
705 wordsWhen analyzing gender roles in our age today, we are less likely to see the striking differences in the characteristics of men and women as they were portrayed lets say thirty years ago. However, a strong sense of Androcentricity still remains in not only our society but is stronger than ever in other societies around the world. From the beginning of time, from what weve learned in textbooks, television, and other sources of media, of course, the male figure has always been portrayed as powerful...
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20 Th Century Light In August
1,134 wordsa mans future is inherent in that man -Faulkner Faulkner's Light in August is a metaphor. In fact it is many metaphors, almost infinitely many. It is a jumble of allusions, themes, portraits, all of them uniquely important, many of them totally unrelated. In fact no 20 th century writer has even approached the sheer quantity of symbolism Faulkner packed into every page, with, perhaps, the exception of James Joyce who went so far as to surpass Faulkner in this regard. So obviously it would be foo...
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Chicken Soup Cost Effectiveness
1,192 wordsFeeling Down? Try Some Chicken Soup In 1989, Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield compiled 101 of their favorite inspirational tales and poems into a book and added a catchy title. Unfortunately, 33 publishers turned them down before a small publishing house in Florida agreed to put out the book, figuring that they could sell about 20, 000 copies. Seven million copies later, the two authors are living happily and have since added numerous titles to the series of Chicken Soup for the Soul. The st...
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Republic Of Pisa Liber Abbaci Fibonacci
510 wordsLeonardo da Pisa, or more commonly known as Fibonacci, was born in Pisa, Italy in 1175. He was the son of Guilielmo Bonacci, a secretary of the Republic of Pisa. His father was only a secretary, so he was often sent to do work in Pisan trading colonies. He did this for many years until 1192. In 1192, Bonacci got a permanent job as the director of the Pisan trading colony in Bugia, Algeria. Sometime after 1192, Bonacci brought Fibonacci with him to Bugia. Bonacci expected Fibonacci to become a me...
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King George Iii Declaration Of Independence
1,382 wordsFighting the War of Words The American Revolution, 1760 - 1800, was not only a war of weapons but also one of words. Along with swords and guns, the war was fought with pamphlets, speeches, and documents in order to inspire and justify the long awaited battle. Intellectuals such as Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson became important figures of the Revolution due to their literary accomplishments. Henrys Speech in the Virginia Convention convinced the House of Burgesses that war wa...
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Archimedes Syracuse Quot
372 wordsArchimedes (287 - 212 BC), preeminent Greek mathematician and inventor, who wrote important works on plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics. Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and educated in Alexandria, Egypt. In pure mathematics he anticipated many of the discoveries of modern science, such as the integral calculus, through his studies of the areas and volumes of curved solid figures and the areas of plane figures. He also proved that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the...
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Law Abiding Citizens Strict Gun Control
1,359 wordsThe gun owners almost talismanic faith in the protective efficacy of guns leads him to cling to them notwithstanding the indubitable evils to which guns all too often lend themselves. The other side seeks to outlaw handguns (many would prefer outlawing all guns), dogmatically convinced not just that, on balance, guns do more harm than good, but that In the hands of the general public handguns confer virtually no social benefit and, since legislatures have proved unwilling to ban handguns, Magist...
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Zora Neale Hurston Spanish Civil War
961 wordsThe Artists of the Harlem Renaissance and the Lost Generation diverged from the mainstream to begin separate cultures. Harlem was an area in New York with an extensive African American population. During the 20 s poets, writers and musicians like Langston Hughes, Claude Mckay and Zora Neale Hurston made the Harlem area the center of black art and culture. The lost generation was based mainly in Paris, France. It consisted of war torn men who could not re-enter society after World War I. In Europ...
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Word Of God Good Person
1,205 wordsIf you want to figure out who the hero is in Hope Leslie you first have to understand the meaning of what a hero is. There are many possible definitions of what a hero could be. A hero could be someone who physically rescues someone, or it could be someone who assists another in a task that is important to that one person. A hero could also be someone who sticks to their principles and is a good person, worthy of being looked up to by others. This last definition is the one that I will be focusi...
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Childhood To Adulthood Force Of Nature
1,196 wordsThe transition from childhood to adulthood is a complex but universal passage. Both Katherine Mansfield's The Wind Blows and D. H. Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gipsy embody adolescent angst in their characterization. Matilda and Yvette search for meaning beyond the lives they perceive they are condemned to lead. Both bring about greater understanding of the struggle between a young girls struggle of innocence versus sexuality. In similar uses of metaphor and imagery the stories tell the tale of...
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Four Small Gray Figures Small Gray Figures Aliens
546 wordsDiscovering aliens and UFOs For a while now there have been many UFO sightings around the world and many people have become amazed and astonished by this. Many scientists who study extraterrestrial life have come up with a lot of information that points toward the fact that aliens and UFOs are real. In China poor farmers in Beijing's barren hills saw an object covered in colored lights arcing heavenward that some say must have been a UFO. In addition to the farmers 12 other Chinese cities report...
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Mans Subordination To Nature Subordination To Nature Turner
634 wordsDescribe the term Sublime, Illustrating your definition through reference to the work of Two of these artists; Turner, Martin, de Loutherbourg, Danby, Ward. The Sublime is a term that has had several meanings over a period of time. The earlier usage would have been to describe very emotional scenes, depicting romance, love and glory. Later Sublime was used to mean deep thought provoking paintings of power, mans subordination to the powers of nature and dark emotions. This later meaning of the wo...
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Jane Fonda Fame Jane American
623 wordsWho is Jane Fonda? This is a question often asked by many people with no one right answer. She is an actress, a fitness guru, a former communist sympathizer, and most importantly, an antiwar activist during the Vietnam War. Although Jane Fonda was honored as one of the 100 Women of the Century, her infamous name is one Vietnam veterans will never forget. As American soldiers were losing their lives, she traveled into enemy-territory, defaming American POWs, many of whom were tortured to death. J...
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Enlightenment Period De L
678 wordsJean Le Rond d Alembert Quote: Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this. The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents. Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer. (Discours Preliminaire de L Encyclopedi...
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Huck And Jim Huckleberry Finn
2,379 words3 / 13 / 97 Jim? s Role in Huckleberry Finn When asked who the most important character in Huckleberry Finn is, almost all people would say either Huck himself, or Jim, the black slave. They are both essential to the story, though, and both give to the story an alternate perspective. Huck is the outsider, the nonconformist who just doesn? t fit into society, and Jim is the runaway black slave, fearing for his freedom, being persecuted only on the grounds of the color of his skin. Jim is the repr...
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Johannes Kepler Depth Perception
891 wordsJohannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Germany. Kepler's grandfather was supposedly from a noble background, and once Mayor of Weil. However, Kepler's father became a mercenary who narrowly avoided the gallows. Kepler's mother, Katherine, was raised by an aunt who was eventually burned as a witch. In later years, Katherine herself was accused of Devil worship, and barely escaped from being burned at the stake. Kepler had six brothers and sisters, three of which, died in...
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Figures Of Speech Figurative Language
692 wordsJohn Masefield's poem Sea Fever is a work of art that brings beauty to the English language through its use of store technical structure and a very strong well developed theme. Sea Fever employs meter, imagery, and figurative language to help strengthen the themes and help the reader gain an understanding of the speakers desire to return to the sea. From the intensity of the speakers feelings, literal and figurative themes are created that complement each other. The literal theme of the poem is ...
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J P Morgan Steel Corporation
1,170 wordsNo, sir, the first thing is character. Before money or anything else. Money cannot buy it Because a man I do not trust could not get money from me on all the bonds in Christendom (Sinclair XIII). With that line, John Pierpont Morgan ended his career in a show-stealing manner. Indeed, J. P. Morgan was a man of character; moreover, he was perhaps the greatest Wall Street banker of the decade. Unlike others who gained fame at a young age, Morgan lived in obscurity until 1895, where at the age of 58...
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