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Holden Sees Gold Ring
746 words
"This fall I think you " re riding for- it's a
special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man
falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself
hit the bottom. He just keeps falling and falling.
The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at
some time or other in their lives, were looking
for something their own environment couldn't
supply them with. So they gave up looking. They
gave it up before they ever really even got
started. " Holden Caulfield's fall to
psychological breakdown begins with...
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Lost Love Life Force
1,070 words
... s lack of understanding of the Irish in him,
Gabriel knew his wife, Gretta, even less.
Throughout the evening, he refers to Gretta as his
wife, and not by her name. It was almost as if she
was not a person at all in Gabriel's eyes. While
Gabriel was preparing to leave the party, he went
to find his wife. He discovered her standing on
the stair case, attentively listening to Mr. DArcy
singing and playing the piano. As Gabriel did not
truly know his wife, he is portrayed standing in a
dark par...
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Snow Falling On Cedars Watching A Movie
1,524 words
... vel, and still portray the main plot and theme
of the novel. The director of the movie Snow
falling on Cedars did a superb job in staying with
the plot of the book without changing it much,
especially since he had a book with a difficult
plot to work with in the first place. I noticed
that the scenes were significantly shortened in
the movie compared to the book, but that was just
due to the directors time restraints. The director
also played around with the order of the plot too
which I fou...
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Light In My Hand Side To Side Rain
2,182 words
... This seemed to remind to remind me of my
lonesome childhood from the time I was born to the
time from when I had broken my left arm. I had
never known my inconsiderate and narcissistic
father; he left me before I had even come into
this world. My considerate mother then tragically
died two years after I was born. I was then
apparently sent to an orphanage were I had spent
the younger parts of my childhood. I was eleven,
and a young married couple that always wanted the
best for me eventually...
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Emerald Green Eyes Landed On Her Back Ryanna
1,156 words
The monster roared, its fury sparked a thousand
tongues of fire from its hide. With one almighty
sweep it sent Ryanna's father flying over the top
of the volcano, the wind ceased, the spell failed,
and the monster drew itself to its full one
hundred feet once again. NOOOOOOOO! Ryanna's
mother screamed in agony and despair, and with a
snarl that sounded more like a wolf than a woman,
she dashed forwards, a shower of electricity
falling around her. With a thrust of her arm and a
word, she hurled a...
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Catcher In The Rye Holden Caulfield
1,892 words
Catcher in the Rye's pallid cover, adorned only
with seven multicolored bands in its upper-left
corner, is not what one would call eye-catching.
Its reverse side lacks criticisms or reviews of
any sort; in fact, it is bare of anything except a
copyright date. Human beings are advised not to
judge books by their covers, rather that they
should look further than the obvious and try to
apprehend the implied meaning. The world has
peered past Catcher in the Rye's cover, cracked
its pure, uniform she...
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Film Components In The Composition Of Vertigo
1,648 words
When making a good film, many key elements such as
lighting, color, editing, visual design and sound,
come into play. Another very important element is
composition which refers to how subjects are
arranged in relation to each other and to the
sides of the frame. Framing, mise-en-scene or
staging, and photographing all play a significant
role in the composition of films, thus creating a
desired meaning of the film creator. Through the
unique composition of the Alfred Hitchcock film,
Vertigo, the ...
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American Policies During The Great Depression
1,959 words
It is straightforward to narrate the slide of the
world into the Great Depression. The 1920 's saw a
stock market boom in the U. S. as the result of
general optimism: businessmen and economists
believed that the newly-born Federal Reserve would
stabilize the economy, and that the pace of
technological progress guaranteed rapidly rising
living standards and expanding markets. The U. S.
Federal Reserve's attempts in 1928 and 1929 to
raise interest rates to discourage stock
speculation brought on a...
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Coal And Oil Lot Of Money
1,888 words
All energy sources have negative and positive
aspects. Coal and oil pollute the environment,
nuclear fission produces toxic waste, and solar
heaters are not efficient. When compared to other
energy sources, hydroelectricity has fewer
disadvantages and is being explored and widely
used today. Throughout the world an increasing
amount of people are turning towards hydroelectric
power as a new source of energy. Although the idea
of converting water to power might seem simple,
the process it must go...
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Falling Upon Earth 16 Th Century Haiku
712 words
Matsuo Basho Matsuo Basho radically redefined the
three-line, 17 -syllable haiku poetic form from an
entertaining pastime in 16 th-century Japan to a
major literary genre in the 17 th century. An
early Basho haiku provides an example of his
meticulous and sensitive approach in selecting and
arranging words and images to produce highly
evocative allusions: On a leafless bough In the
gathering autumn dusk: A solitary crow! Haiku
emanates from the 31 syllable, five-line tanka
(short poem) which was...
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Goods And Services Demand For Labor
2,207 words
Classical Laissez Faire laissez-faire Classical
Laissez-faire Economics The earliest organized
school of economic thought is known as Classical.
The father of this school is Adam Smith. Smith
used the concept of the invisible hand to describe
the role of the market in the allocation of
resources. In the market, the interaction of
demand and supply determines how much of a good
will be produced and the price that is charged for
that good. Absent any explicit guidance mechanism,
the invisible hand...
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Carl Heine Pearl Harbor
1,294 words
Critique of Snow Falling on Cedars Snow Falling on
Cedars, by David Guterson, is a truthful tale
about a post World War II trial in which
Japanese-American fisherman, the first American
citizen in his lineage, is accused of killing a
well known American fisherman. The accused is
Kabuo Miyomoto; dead is Carl Heine Jr. The book
takes place in thermal town of San Piedro, one of
the scenic San Juan Islands in the early 1950 s.
The relationship of the token is deeper than being
fellow fisherman. Befo...
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Julius Caesar Caesar
1,093 words
Julius Caesar as a Tragic Hero Julius Caesar is a
play written by William Shakespeare during the
year 1597. Julius Caesar? s story involves a
conspiracy against Julius Caesar, a powerful
senator. The play involves a highly respected
senator, Brutus, who decides to join the
conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar, in the effort to
keep democracy intact. Brutus believes that if
Julius Caesar is allowed to live, Caesar will take
a kingship and turn the government into a
monarchy. Brutus, Cassius, and the ...
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Artist As A Young Man Portrait Of The Artist
1,718 words
English III Kim Nash Essay May 28, 1996 James
Joyce, an Irish novelist and poet, grew up near
Dublin. James Joyce is one of the most influential
novelists of the 20 th century. In each of his
prose works he used symbols to experience what he
called an epiphany, the revelation of certain
revealing qualities about himself. His early
writings reveal individual moods and characters
and the plight of Ireland and the Irish artist in
the 1900 s. Later works, reveal a man in all his
complexity as an art...
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Story Takes Place Moby Dick
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Moby Dick Outline I. Herman Melville lived a long
and interesting life that would affect not only
his literary works of art, but also our society
today. Many of his most notable novels would draw
from his days at sea, and from his experiences as
a result of those voyages. A. Herman Melville s
life was an intriguing one, with many interesting
aspects. He was born in 1819 to Allan and Maria
Melville in New York, NY and would have a total of
seven other siblings. Of these siblings there were
four g...
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Big Bang Theory 20 Th Century
3,306 words
Albert Einsteins theory Relativity Relativity
Albert Einsteins theory of relativity has caused
major revolutions in physics and astronomy during
the 20 th century. It introduced to science the
concept of relativity the notion that there is no
absolute motion in the universe, only relative
motion thus superseding the 200 -year-old theory
of mechanics of Isaac Newton. Einstein showed that
we reside not in the flat, Euclidean space and
uniform, absolute time of everyday experience, but
in another e...
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J D Salinger Catcher In The Rye
1,938 words
Catcher in the Rye? s pallid cover, adorned only
with seven multicolored bands in its upper-left
corner, is not what one would call eye-catching.
Its reverse side lacks criticisms or reviews of
any sort; in fact, it is bare of anything except a
copyright date. Human beings are advised not to
judge books by their covers, rather that they
should look further than the obvious and try to
apprehend the implied meaning. The world has
peered past Catcher in the Rye? s cover, cracked
its pure, uniform s...
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Romeo And Juliet Falling In Love
1,751 words
Was Romeo and Juliets love based on looks,
rebellion, external forces, or was it in actuality
true love? There is no denying the fact Romeo and
Juliet is a great play and an exceptional
Shakespearean work, but upon closer inspection, is
it a story of true love? Many hints and clues may
lead one to the belief that the love exhibited in
this play is truly due to no more than lust or
some other reason. The first and most obvious
reason for why Romeo and Juliet fall in love is
due to their infatuati...
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Side To Side Left Arm
4,347 words
As the unfriendly, ice-cold wind travelled
precipitously over the neglected heath, I made my
first brave step towards the enormous entrance
leading into the settlement of those abandoned
souls. While I continued at a steady pace towards
the screeching, corroded gateway I felt the
irregular and jagged rocks as they were slowing me
from reaching up to the gate. The closer I seemed
to get towards the overpowering, fully grown
gateway the darker the area became with the
stealthily moving shadows. Wh...
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Ski Resorts Younger Generation
2,230 words
One snowy Christmas day in Muskegon, Michigan, a
young girl by the name of Wendy Poppen tried to
stand up on her sled while sliding down the hill.
Seeing this, her father Sherman ran into the
garage and bolted a pair of skies together with
wood to act as foot stops (Crane). While watching
Wendy use the contraption, some of the local kids
ran up to Sherman and asked him to build one for
each of them. Little did he know that he had given
birth to the fastest growing winter sport (Prosl)
known as s...
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