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Home From The Hospital Months To Live Dad
906 wordsIt was the month of June 1996. My dad was very sick in the hospital so my mother sent my younger brother and I to my cousins house for the week. It was a Saturday and I was more than ready to go home for the weekend. I missed my parents and I was anxious to see how my father was doing. My cousins drove us home later that afternoon. My mom had just brought my dad home from the hospital but she had to leave right away to go to work. My dad seemed to be doing great. He was in a very lively mood and...
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Lives Hard Gas Prices Making
632 wordsEveryone wants appliances such as toasters, microwaves and fridges to be cheap even though they are rich, but what about the poor people or so called middle class. What will they do if the prices are too high to afford? Petroleum is something that we all need to go from place to place, anyways most of us do; four to five years ago, when I first came to Canada, the gas prices were quite low, but in the past 2 - 3 years, it is still increasing up to date. Prices of toasters and petroleum etc shoul...
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Horse Dealers Daughter Hills Like White Elephants
1,104 wordsThe Representation of Women in Literature The role of women in society is constantly questioned and for centuries women have struggled to find their place in a world that is predominantly male oriented. Literature provides a window into the lives, thoughts and actions of women during certain periods of time in a fictitious form, yet often truthful in many ways. Ernest Hemingway Hills like White Elephants, D. H. Lawrence's The Horse Dealers Daughter and William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily each pa...
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Importance Of Being Earnest Lady Bracknell
1,570 words... yn wants even more to marry him, and the fact that he had a family makes Lady Bracknell approve of him just a little bit more. I could identify with Miss Prism because even though she was seen as intelligent, she was really quite ditsy. I wouldnt leave a baby in a handbag at a cloakroom, but I have done some things that make people wonder how I do so well in school. I could sympathize with both Algernon and Jack. I really wasnt fond of Cecily and Gwendolyn and I definitely didnt like the amo...
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Competition Between Gene And Phineas
1,372 wordsOften times between both the best of friends and the bitterest of enemies there is competition. It can be a friendly competition over some minor event or goal, or a ruthless quest between two rivals who will stop at nothing to be first to reach the pinnacle. In A Separate Peace by John Knowles, Gene finds himself in a self-created competition with both himself and Phineas. Gene first is in competition with his own emotions and his loathing of Finny which conflicts with his friendship with Finny....
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Child School One
908 wordsMost people do not feel change taking place within them. One of the reasons why this is so might be because it is happening in every moment of our lives. Looking at it from a scientific view, babies are born intellectually empty, devoid of memory or experience. Every detail that our senses take in triggers reactions in our brain, though at most times it is unconsciously. All of these little details and experiences of our lives are what shape us and change us. Humans are like sponges. We are cons...
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Son In Law Paranoid Schizophrenia
1,937 wordsWas the death of Marilyn Monroe: accident, suicide or cold-blooded murder? In order to understand whether or not the death of Marilyn Monroe was an accident, suicide or cold-blooded murder one needs to look in to the life, childhood and career of Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson at nine thirty am on the first day of June 1926. Her last name would later be changed to Baker. She was born to mother Gladys Monroe-Baker and a father who she would never know the true identi...
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Vietnam Veterans M 16
1,176 wordsThe Vietnam War is slowly fading into history. The 20 -year struggle between South Vietnam and its American, Australian an New Zealand allies against the communist North Vietnamese is remembered today through films, songs and poetry. Films such as Platoon and songs such as The Real Thing written by Russell Morris and I Was Only Nineteen written by John Schuman and performed by the band Red Gum are examples of this remembrance. Elected lines: When each step can mean your last one, On two legs: it...
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Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde Evil Will Prevail
1,527 wordsIn the 1886 classic, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, author Robert Louis Stevenson creates a mysterious tale of good versus evil and the dual nature of man. It is for the reader to decide if good or evil prevails in the end. In this argumentation, evil prevails. Jekyll asserts, Man is not truly one, but truly two, in other words every man has the ability to be good or evil. But Dr. Jekyll's potion, which he hoped would separate the two good and evil elements, succeeds only in bringi...
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Men And Women Due To The Fact
1,009 wordsCorrect preparation can help ease out problems in times of troubles. The novel A Night to Remember, written by Walter Lord, proves this statement true, by illustrating the Titanic's great tragedy that happened early morning on April 15, 1912. Through the sinking of the Titanic, three lessons that were to be learned, was that communication between ships had to be better; the Titanic's design was flawed and people shouldnt have put all of their hope and faith into a few nuts and bolts; and if the ...
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Lot Of People Thousand Words
1,078 wordsThroughout this article the author says that if one school district tries to inform people that if one is not one of the few elitist than one should not go to college. He thinks that there are too many people that are going to college than there are jobs for. He says himself that "yet our colleges blithely go on "educating" many more prospective manager and professional than we likely need. In my own field, there are typically more students majoring in journalism at any giving moment than there ...
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Ha Ha Ha Dark Side
1,369 wordsI think I need some help. Faith said, staggering inside the old, haunted mansion. Her right arm had a big cut in it, and blood was gushing out. Her face had a few scrapes and bruises, as did the rest of her body. Faith had just came back from a battle with an Excel demon. Faith was a witch, about 19 years old. She had brown eyes, and short blond hair. Her skin was pale, and she was very small, but strong for her age. Faith had a past life, where her name was Enchanted. In her past life she was a...
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One Is Greedy Bad Thing Greed
412 wordsDo you want something? If you do youre greedy. Greed is not a bad thing it is actually good! Greed has been the primary motivating factor in every major historical, scientific, social, and economic event so far. Without greed, our economy as a hole would fail overnight. Without greed, there would be no religion. Without greed, governments would cease to exist. Without greed all the currencies in the world wouldnt be worth anything at all. It is the greed of the worker, striving to earn more mone...
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Lot Of Things Blonde Hair
1,675 wordsMichael Michael get up your going to be late for school mom yelled. Not again I said, as I rolled out of my warm and comfortable bed into the floor. I dragged myself to the bathroom and splashed some cold water on my face. And then it hit me Sarah! Sarah was my girlfriend. We had grown up together, only living a few houses apart. Her hair was as black as night, witch set off her deep, blue hypnotic eyes. She had two storybook dimples, and a smile to match. Her southern accent, and country manner...
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Modest Proposal Food Chain
786 wordsIrony in the Eighteenth Century It is common knowledge, that a lot of methods of expressiveness are common used in literature. Among them, undoubtedly, we may outline an irony. In general, the word irony goes from the greek mockery, so is a latent mockery, delicate ridiculing which makes a story originally expressive and bright. In this essay Id like to analyse some representative works, where the irony is being used. For the beginning, let us remember A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. It was...
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Homo Sapiens Ancient Civilizations
1,682 wordsNATIVISM AND RACISM It is an uneasy task to write on the subject of Racism and Nativism, as these issues are far too political and controversial. The social applications, are inevitably to be drawn if one is in favor if these doctrines or strongly against. What makes it even harder is the fact that there is way to much emotionalism involved, when it comes to discussing these matters. Let us try to remain objective in course of this study, only this way our attempt to reach any degree of scientif...
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Jury Of Her Peers Minnie Foster
1,440 wordsShort story: A Jury of Her Peers by Susan Glaspell I am Martha Hale. The action took place in Dickson County. It was a gloomy and cold March morning. Mr. Wrights farm-house. It was placed in the hollow and looked lonesome and sad. Even the poplar trees which surrounded the farm were lonesome-looking. Everything was dark and quiet inside. I was in the kitchen, which was messy and dirty. Things were half done as if someone suddenly had taken away Mrs. Wright from doing her usual work: her bread al...
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Racism In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
2,806 wordsRacism in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not a racist novel, nor is Mark Twain a racist author. The novel was a satire on slavery and racism that, as well as raising social awareness, was also one of the best American novels of all time. Since it was first published, Huck Finn has caused much controversy for mixed reasons, which recently included the use of racial slurs and accusations that the author himself was racist. The idea that someone like Twain,...
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Act Iii Scene Hath Not A Jew
1,366 wordsThe Merchant of Venice: Hath not a Jew Mercy? Kevin Jacoby Many of William Shakespeare's plays have sparked controversy. Probably the one that has sparked the most controversy is The Merchant of Venice, which many intellectuals have dubbed an anti-Semitic play. The character that this discussion centers around is Shylock, the rich moneylender Jew. The problem with most of these anti-Semitic arguments is that they lack the perspective of the sixteenth century audience. Throughout Shakespeare's Th...
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Kit Yuen Quan Girl Who Wouldnt Sing Culture
878 wordsIn the memoir The Girl Who Wouldnt Sing, Kit Yuen Quan describes her life experiences growing up as a Chinese girl in America. In her attempt to try and find her place in society, Quan intermingles with several groups of people. Her interactions with a feminist group, two young Cambodian girls, and finally her own father allow her to explore her Chinese background and how that affects her interactions with people. In order to find her own voice in a society that is not really hers, Kit Yuen Quan...
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