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First Confession One Side
1,716 words... , and wondered were all religious people like that, really. It was my turn now. With the fear of damnation in my soul I went in, and the confessional door closed of itself behind me. It was pitch-dark and I couldn't see priest or anything else. Then I really began to be frightened. In the darkness it was a matter between God and me, and He had all the odds. He knew what my intentions were before I even started; I had no chance. All I had ever been told about confession got mixed up in my min...
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Effects Of The Aids Virus In 20th Century
1,939 wordsImagine what it would be like to contract a virus that causes the immune system to fail and slowly kill. Try to think what it would be like to have to live each day knowing this disease, which has no cure, is slowly and painfully taking over. Its almost impossible to imagine, but for millions of people in the United States that is the reality they are forced to live with everyday for the rest of their lives. Anyone who has had unprotected sex, a blood transfusion, or has used I. V. drugs is at r...
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Spider Woman Human Community
1,673 wordsIt is often said that a great work of art is like a dream, full of colours, greatness and splendour. The playful authors of Kiss of the Spider woman and Double Hook dont escape that definition, providing theirs readers with a writing that perpetually dance on the boundaries of fantasy, oscillating between realism, fairy- tale and dream. The resort to history and particularly to myth is a prerequisite for the entrance in this imaginary realm. In the two fictions, the mythical element w more used ...
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Synopsis And Analysis Of Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
1,583 wordsHis ship surrounded by ice, Robert Walton watched with his crew as a huge, misshapen "traveller" on a dog sled disappeared across the ice. The next morning, as the fog lifted and the ice broke up, they found another man, nearly frozen, on a slab of floating ice. By giving him hot soup and rubbing his body with brandy, the crew restored him to health. A few days later he was able to speak. This stranger, Victor Frankenstein, seemed upset to hear that an earlier sled had been sighted. Then he bega...
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Greek And Roman Healing Powers
1,860 wordsIn ancient Greek and Roman mythology, a mystical creature known as the unicorn made many appearances. As described throughout much of literature, the unicorn is reputed to look somewhat like a white horse, although it has a long, twisted horn protruding from its forehead. 1 The earliest description of the unicorn was by Ctesias (400 BC) (The New Book of Knowledge, Vol. U-V 19: 391). Unicorns have cloven hooves that are somewhat yellow in color; some are said to have a lion-like tail. Male unicor...
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Fall Of Rome Roman Empire
1,020 wordsWhat were the most important reasons for the decline of the Roman Empire? Why? The seemingly unstoppable Roman Empire was bound to fall after the many aspects that made Rome such a dominant empire started to fade away. Rome was the center of the world and the thought that such a worldwide power could decline was unheard of. It was not built in a day; therefore it couldn t be destroyed in one day. The marvelous city declined for many reasons yet there are only a few major reasons that led to its ...
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Create A Bond Reader To Visualize Fish
941 wordsGone Fishin The Fish by Elizabeth Bishop is saturated with vivid imagery and abundant description, which help the reader visualize the action. Bishop s use of imagery, narration, and tone allow the reader to visualize the fish and create a bond with him, a bond in which the reader has a great deal of admiration for the fish s plight. The mental pictures created are, in fact, so brilliant that the reader believes incident actually happened to a real person, thus building respect from the reader t...
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Dollars A Year Couldnt Afford
1,544 wordsThe Great Depression was the worst and longest period of high unemployment and low business activities that has ever occurred. During an economic depression, factories dismiss laborers, stores close, and small businesses and farms fall into ruin. The United States has experienced short periods of depression followed by periods of prosperity, but the Great depression of the 1930 s was a 10 -year long nightmare. (The Great Depression, Pg. 3) Usually the roots of the Great Depression are traced bac...
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Golden Apples Human Flesh
1,865 wordsHercules: His 12 Quests Like Perseus, Hercules was required to perform the miracle-lou's. But instead of having to bring only one mission to a successful close, Hercules was ordered to complete twelve great tasks, which are often referred to in literature as the labors of Hercules. This is how the challenge came about. Hercules was the son of Jupiter and Alcmene, daughter of the king of Mycenae. When Hercules was born, Juno in a jealous anger sent two serpents to destroy him in his cradle. But H...
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Guide To The Galaxy Pieces Of Paper
1,237 wordsTo begin with I would like to put the introduction of the book as an beginning: ? Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape- descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. This planet has or rather had a problem, wh...
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Jay Gatsby Englewood Cliffs
1,288 wordsPathetic is a term used to describe someone who is pitifully unsuccessful. Success is not necessarily measured in wealth or fame, but it is measured by how much one has accomplished in life. A successful person is one who has set many goals for himself and then goes out in life and accomplishes some of them, but goes on living even if failing on others. In the novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby is a pathetic character because he wasted his whole life chasing an unrealistic dream. Gatsby's dream ...
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Healing Powers Ancient Greek
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Cause Of Death
1,382 wordsSudden Infant Death Syndrome SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) is a traumatic and tragic disease that affects thousands of babies throughout the world every year. There is no way of explaining the death of a child that has SIDS and there are no real ways of predicting if it could happen to any baby. What makes SIDS even worse is that the source of what exactly may be the cause of it is still unknown. Advanced research in the last 30 years has dramatically reduced the number of deaths. SIDS not...
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Edgar Allen Poe House Of Usher
986 wordsThe Single Emotional Perfect Essay written by Henry George When reviewing Nathaniel Hawthorne? s Tales, Edgar Allen Poe pronounced that the short story, if skillfully written, should deliver a single preconceived effect- an effect upon which incidents be fashioned to accommodate that effect. Edgar Allen Poe was indeed a skillful writer. His short story, The Fall of the House of Usher is a flawless example of a story in which all elements contribute to the delivery of a single emotional effect. P...
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Princess Diana Prince Charles
2,935 wordsAll the world loved Princess Diana and she could not help but love them back. She invested her life in the poor, lonely, and sick as well as the rich and famous. Her loving spirit warmed those that she came in contact with and her charm and grace delighted the world. Princess Diana? s glory and grace shed light upon many peoples lives, she will forever be our candle in the wind. Princess Diana was born July 1, 1961 at Park House on the Sandringham estate in Norfolk (web) Diana? s parents were Fr...
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Duncan Murder Ladies And Gentlemen
1,288 wordsProsecution Of Macbeth (if He Was Tried Prosecution Of Macbeth (if He Was Tried For The Murder Of Duncan) Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury, we have heard the defence glorify Macbeth in an effort to cloud the horrible acts of murder that he committed. The question that we are here to answer today stands, ? is Macbeth guilty of the murder of our beloved king, Duncan? . Many questions cloud our judgement today. Did Macbeth have a motive to kill the king? Did Macbeth meticulously premeditate the mur...
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Quot A Quot Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,206 wordsOne of the most complex and elaborate characters in The Scarlet Letter is Pearl, the misbegotten offspring of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Throughout the story Pearl, becomes quite the dynamic little individual, as well as an extremely important symbol- one who is constantly changing. Pearl? s involvement in the complex history of her parents inadvertently forced her to be viewed as different and is shunned because of her mother? s sin. Pearl is a living scarlet letter to Hester, Dimmesd...
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Act Of Violence Serial Killers
1,250 wordsI didn't want to hurt them, I only wanted to kill them. This is a quote from David Berkowitz, A. K. A. , the Son of Sam. David Berkowitz and all of the other serial killers tend to think in unique ways. This paper will talk to you about characteristics, motives, different phases, and the correlation between behavior and aggression. Serial killers like everyone else have certain characteristics that set them apart. To be considered a bona fied serial killer you must murder at least three to four ...
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Don T Understand Number Of People
1,938 wordsShould Organs Be Taken From The Dead Without Prior Written Consent Of The Deceased Or Consent Of The Family? Within the last few decades, one of the most amazing medical advances has been the ability to give organ transplants (Newkirk 11). Gary Newkirk states in Modern Medicine that these medical events are a bittersweet experience, since in many instances someone s untimely death facilitates the survival of someone else (Newkirk 11). The Pope John Paul II says organ donation is a genuine act of...
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Separation Of Church And State Establishment Of Religion
937 wordsShould the Ten Commandments be posted in public schools? October 1 st, 1997 -A 16 -year-old in Pearl Mississippi is accused of going to Pearl High School and shooting nine students. Two die. Dec 1 st, 1997 -Three students are killed and five injured as a 14 -year-old opens fire at s prayer circle in the hallway at Heat High School, West Paducah Kentucky. March 24 th 1998 -Four students and a teacher shot to death during a false fire alarm at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro Arkansas. April 20...
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