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Worked Hard Ten Years
1,124 words
In the city of Aceh in what is now known as the
island of Sumatera, Indonesia there was an
ambitious and vain man named Abu Hasan who worked
hard to become a wealthy and important
businessman. However the one thing that continued
to elude him was to gain fame and importance in
Unfortunately Abu Hasan's wife was not what you
would call a social butterfly and in her husbands
eyes was the reason for him not gaining his
expected place in society. "I divorce you. I
divorce you. I divorce you. " Abu H...
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Anorexia Nervosa Eating Disorder
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Bizarre, devastating, and baffling are three words
that describe the anorexia nervosa disease. By
definition, anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder
in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes
significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat,
continue to starve themselves. The term "anorexia
nervosa" literally means nervous lose of appetite.
People with the disorder are suppressing a strong
desire to eat, because they are afraid of becoming
fat. Anorexia is characterized by extreme
starva...
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Teenage Girls Talent Show
1,151 words
I chose to read this book because I thought it
would be very interesting. I didnt really expect
to see this book in the library because one of my
friends had already spoken to me about it. He said
that he read the book already and that it was
really good. I immediately took the book and
signed it out. This story began with a girl named
Tiny, who was talking to her imaginary friend,
Willa. Tiny had made her imaginary friend quite
sometime ago. Now shes older and is attending high
school. In the b...
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Sacco And Vanzetti Man Named
1,281 words
In May of 1920, Italian anarchists- Sacco and
Vanzetti, were charged and tried for the murders
of a paymaster and guard at a South Braintree shoe
factory. After being found guilty and put to
death, questions quickly erupted from the public.
It is the belief of many, including myself, is
that one or neither of these men were guilty. The
trial was unjust and the judge was bias and lead
the jury toward a conviction! These men were
prosecuted without a proper chance to prove their
innocence and were...
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Chill Ran My Spine Thoughts Were Lost Road
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The movie had just ended and the picture on the
television set screamed black and white fuzz. My
eyes shifted to the window and were greeted by the
same picture as that on the television. It had
begun sleeting earlier that day. Later it turned
to snow, which was still pelting the
white-blanketed earth. After reading the time from
my watch, three-thirty a. m. , I decided I should
probably head for home. My mind was thinking of
the basketball practice our coach had graciously
scheduled for seven o...
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Mother Funeral Pay Attention
1,246 words
Emma and Meursault were both strangers to society
because of passion; Emma needed passion in a
society that condemned it while Meursault refused
passion in a society that promoted it. As early as
Part I Chapter 5, Flaubert makes it evident that
Emma is searching for passion. Before she was
married, she mistakenly thought she was in love
and therefore agreed to the marriage that could
not consummate her desire for a passionate
lifestyle. The world Emma lived in was constantly
trying to downplay p...
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Realization Of His True Oedipus Threatens Creon
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A Puppet without Strings The theory behind fate or
predetermination has been embedded in todays
society partially due to literature. Sophocles
Oedipus The King perpetuates this ideology that
the title character pursues a path which happens
to be foretold. Oedipus was determined to save his
city and discover his identity, however he
ultimately assists in his own downfall. An Oracle
reveals that Oedipus is destined to murder his
father and marry his mother, and Oedipus, unable
to face his unspeaka...
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Marry His Mother Kill His Father
792 words
In the Greek play Oedipus the king, a child is
born to a king and queen against the wishes of the
gods. The gods had told the king and queen of
thebes not to have children because they would be
ill fated. The king and queen had a taste for wine
however and they conceived a child while indulged
in the drink. They soon took the child to an
oracle to learn what its fate would be. The oracle
told them that child would grow up to kill his
father and marry his mother. The king quickly
opted to have hi...
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Heinrich Himmler American Beauty
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Connections are a big part of Susan Griffins
essay, Our Secret and the film American Beauty. In
both we see connections and a common theme.
Griffin ties the past together with the future and
creates a web of life experiences which have
shaped different individuals lives as well as
their beliefs. In the film American Beauty a
recurring theme also seems to hint at the past and
how it has shaped the present as well as the
future. Connections which are presented to us in
Griffins essay give us a bas...
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Play The Piano Romantic Era
749 words
Ludwig Van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770
in Bonn, Germany. He was the third child of Johann
and Johanna Beethoven. Ludwig had a terrible
childhood because his dad was an alcoholic. He
woke him up in the middle of the night and made
him play the piano until dawn. He would smack him
every time he made a mistake. His father was a
musician as was his grandfather. Ludwig loved
spending time with his grandfather. His
grandfather died when Beethoven was only three
years old. At age four, he w...
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Primary And Secondary Affirmative Action
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Although it is imperative that minorities have
equal opportunity with other Americans, it is not
the governments responsibility to actively pursue
and demand private businesses and organizations to
adhere to minority quotas. The concept of being
treated differently in an effort to achieve
equality is entirely paradoxical and thus should
not be forced by the government. Affirmative
actions true effect comes not in pulling
minorities up but holding businesses and
organizations back. Forcing a comp...
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Terrible Storm West Africa Mary
391 words
Mary Kingsley was born in London in 1862. Her
father was a doctor but his real interests were
books about travel and exploration. Marys mother
was an unhealthy woman and from an early age, Mary
stayed at home to look after her. Mary never went
to school and did not mix with children of her own
age. She later wrote: the whole of my childhood
and youth was spent at home, in the house and
garden. I saw little of the outside world. People
my own age did not like me because I knew nothing
about the g...
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Thane Of Cawdor Hail To Thee Thane
1,099 words
It is said that ambition is the key to success. In
the case of William Shakespeare, the most
illustrious playwright to cross the threshold of
the world of drama, it is the key to ones downfall
as depicted in his blood-spattered tragedy
Macbeth, written in 1606, during the English
renaissance under the monarch of James I.
Shakespeare was inspired to compose his greatest
gore drama Macbeth as it most clearly reflects the
playwrights close relationship with the sovereign,
claimed to have descended ...
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Whos Chief Desire Whos Chief Marriage
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In Oedipus we see a man whos chief desire is to
improve the state of his nation. He treats both
his wife and those below him in status with
respect. In Othello, we see a man who has devoted
his live to protecting his nation and whos chief
desire is to be accepted by his wife and society
as the hero he is. So why do such unbelievable
terrible things happen to both of them? Their
misfortunes are not causally related to any
misdoing, so it is unjust for them to suffer and
this is what makes for gre...
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Piece Of Evidence Eye Witness
677 words
KIDNAPPED, on March 1 st 1932, between 8 and 10
pm, from his home in Hopewell New Jersey. The
Lindbergh baby, Charles, roughly 20 months old,
was taken from his crib. The first suspects were
speculated to be gangsters, on one else would
commit such a crime. The perpetrator left a ransom
note on the baby? s window sill demanding $ 50,
000 dollars for the return of their son. After the
money was paid a note was given saying the child
was on a boat off Massachusetts coast. No baby was
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Husband And Wife One Thing
785 words
The Moon Under Her Feet was a terrific book and I
was very excited to have it revealed to me. I have
always loved reading the Bible and learning about
the times of Jesus. This book helped me to see if
from a totally different point of view. In our
church a play is always put on at Easter showing
Jesus resurrection and Mari Magdalene was always a
character they never told much about except that
she was one of the three who discovered the empty
tomb. It was wonderful to be able to see just how
she...
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Anabolic Steroids Mood Swings
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Youve seen them, and you thought you knew what was
going on. The muscle-heads at the gym, the
all-star basketball player, the amazing offensive
tackle, and the lightning fast swimmer. All of
them used steroids, and you knew it. They were all
unnaturally strong, and looked like gods. But what
you could not see is the terrible side effects
which come through the use of anabolic steroids.
These powerful drugs have both positive and
negative results from their use. Along with
increased strength and ...
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Marcel M 246 Ring M 246 Ring David
585 words
Toys, food and time preserved The Dream Room by
Marcel M 246; ring, trans Stacey Knecht 118 pp,
Flamingo One of the many remarkable achievements
of this precise yet mysterious novel is its
brevity: into its 120 -odd pages Marcel M 246;
ring folds a war memoir, a family psychodrama and
a meditation on time and memory. With a winning
lightness of touch, he pinpoints that cusp of
adolescence when a child begins to wake up to what
he is, feeling the first nudge in the back that
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Sierra Leone Boarding School
820 words
The truth about Daddy The Devil That Danced on the
Water: A Daughters Memoir Aminatta Forna 409 pp,
HarperCollins When western television screens
began to show women and children with amputated
limbs, and other devastating evidence emerged of
the descent into violence in Sierra Leones civil
war in the late 1990 s, the crude explanation was
that a generation of drug-fuelled youths had been
incited by diamond-hungry Lebanese and Liberians
to rebel against the corrupt and incompetent
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Control Over Events Desdemona Has Been Unfaithful Othello
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Iago is passed over for a promotion by his
commander, Othello, a Moor and a general in the
service of Venice, and he vows revenge. Othello
has just married Desdemona, the daughter of
Brabantio, a Venetian Senator, and Iago enlists
the aid of Roderigo, a rejected suitor, to tell
Desdemona's father about the marriage. Brabantio
goes to seize his daughter but is interrupted by
news of a Turkish attack on Cyprus. The Duke and
the Senate convene, and after hearing Desdemona
and Othello testify to the...
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