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Shows The Reader Early 1900
1,168 wordsThe Jungle is perhaps the most brutal novel ever written in America. It is one long scream of pain and tragedy (Cook 117). The novel shows the reader how hard being an immigrant was in the early 1900 s. Immigrants had to take any job they could, even if that meant working in the packing plants, which Upton Sinclair shows in the novel. Jurgis Radix is the main character. Jurgis and his family move to America searching for a better life. Jurgis works in a packing plant and is continuously loosing ...
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African American Soldiers Washington D C
1,407 wordsIn a variety of ways, ranging from the popular movie Glory, to a planned memorial in Washington, D. C. , African-American soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War have begun to receive the praise and recognition they have long deserved. But there were other African-Americans who fought in the Civil War who have been largely forgotten -- those who fought on the side of the Confederacy. Throughout the entire war, the slaves worked as noncombatant soldiers. Working as cooks, launders,...
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Influence Of Alcohol Pre Prohibition
1,361 wordsAs under a spell, the people had suffered this act to be brought to its fatal conclusion, but with the first touch of cold reality the charm was undone, and the law appeared in its true aspect. Brought about by the Eighteenth Amendment and enforced through the Volstead Act, lasted for over a decade. Despite a growing lack of public support for both Prohibition and restraint itself, the ban on alcohol continued throughout the United States least in the law books. In practice, however, National Pr...
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Three Times X X
779 wordsSelect the options menu and pick the CREDITS option. During the credits press L 1, Triangle, Up, Down, Circle Twice, Triangle, Square, Up, Circle. Select the options menu and pick the CREDITS option. During the credits press, L 1, Triangle, Up, Down, Circle twice, Triangle, Square, Right, Square. Select the options menu and pick the CREDITS option. During the credits press L 1, Triangle, Up, Down, Circle twice, Triangle, Square, Left, Triangle. Select the options menu and pick the CREDITS option...
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper
1,165 words... with the wallpaper she becomes. In her mind, the wallpaper becomes more than just wallpaper. It takes on human characteristics. This paper looks to me as if it knew what a vicious influence it had (107)! When the story begins, the narrator refers to the house as haunted. This theme is again brought to the forefront when she begins to describe the wallpaper. There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down (107). Gilman's senso...
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Side Of The Coin Oliver Twist
1,048 wordsOliver Twist and the Dark Side of British History Progress can be compared to a coin. On one side of the coin is wealth, and on the other side of the same coin are poverty, despair, misery, and crime. As Gertrude Himmelfarb explains: The Victorians were avowedly, unashamed, incorrigibly moralists. They... engaged in philanthropic enterprises in part to satisfy their own moral needs. And they were moralists in behalf of the poor, whom they sought not only to assist materially but also to elevate ...
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Political Institutions Political Order
800 wordsInstitutions The main idea in this essay, I believe, is how institutions can be so complex with their chain of laws, traditions, custom ideas that provide structure and order of political life. Civilization evolves and changes, and crafted by people who would mold institutions by their own ideology or philosophical view of politics. Political theorists, who writes in a period of chaos and anarchy, and believes politics is a power game, and life is reduced to avoid a pain and seek pleasure. Insti...
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B 29 P 51
846 wordsA Simulated Journal for Chuck Yeager It is January of 1944, My 357 th fighting squad and I are stationed at Random Wood Airdome in a country called Suffolk, a little east of England. The Germans have the European coast from the North Sea down to Spain. Our forces have damaged the German Air Force (the Luftwalffe) but they are still highly dangerous. I found out yesterday that our unit would be receive a new fighter called the P- 51 Mustang built by North American Aviation. I heard it was a fast ...
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The Great Gatsby Jay Greatness
1,422 wordsThe greatness of an individual can be defined in terms far beyond tangible accomplishments. In F. Scott Fitzgeralds classic American novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby's greatness comes from his need to experience success and his will to achieve his dreams. Nick Carraway narrates the story, and his cousin, Daisy Buchanan, is Gatsby's love. Daisy, however, is married to Tom Buchanan, a wealthy, arrogant womanizer who despises Gatsby. Gatsby feels the need to be successful and wealthy, and his pa...
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Bad Parents Make For Children
881 wordsBad Parents Make for Bad Children Genetics is not the only valid excuse for a childs mis behaviour. Society prides itself in the way a child is raised by parents. Children misbehave because something vital is missing in ones nurturing. These mothers and fathers allow young children to stray from moral equity, challenge authority and use violence as a resolution for anger. Nurturing should include deterrence from wickedness and inducement of morality all the while considering the childs perspecti...
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Story Always A Motive State Of Mind Joe
734 wordster> The Characteristics of Joe Manetti, a hopeless victim Joe Manetti, a confused young man, has lost his son in a tragic accident and is dealing with the loss of his wife who has left him. In Dan Ross story Always a Motive, the protagonist, Joe Manetti, portrays a hopeless victim struggling to survive. Dan Ross depicts the struggle of Joe Manetti through Joes state of mind, his demeanour, and through the gentle return of the Miller boy. Each example allows the reader to follow and em...
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Burke And Locke On Revolution
1,940 words... ged. (Burke, 1987, p. 94) Locke believes that government, the protector of our property, has no right to confiscate it, ... The supreme power cannot take from any man any part of his property without his own consent: for the preservation of property being the end of government... (Locke, 1980, p. 73) And Burke agrees with him by expressing his distaste for the massive amounts of church property that were confiscated by the National Assembly in the French Revolution... we do not approve your ...
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South Wales Sex Workers
1,236 words... multiple studies cited by the New South Wales Parliament's Brothels Task Force documenting reduced rates of infection, including a 90 % decline in gonorrhoea rates among sex workers for the period 1981 - 1989 (cited in Brothels Task Force, 2001, 23). During the debate, unsubstantiated statistics were also sometimes produced literally out of thin air, as when an Australian industry spokesperson remarked during an interview that the number of brothels in Sydney had increased by 400 % since dec...
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The Influence Of Discourse On Artwork Cindy Bernard
2,344 wordsThe Influence of Discourse on the Artwork of Cindy Bernard Over nearly two decades, Cindy Bernard's artwork has progressed and she has become one of the truly accomplished contemporary artists of today. Writings and discourses of her work have appeared in LA Weekly, Flash Art, The Serpentine Gallery, and the New Times. For Cindy Bernard, the discourse of her work has not created or transformed her art, but rather, her art has transformed and created the discourse. Cindy Bernard was born and rais...
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Young Goodman Brown Goodman Browns
1,004 wordsElizabeth Van Flue English 200 April 7, 1999 Losing Faith Throughout the short story Young Goodman Brown, written by Nathaniel Hawthorne the main character is searching for Faith in what appears to be an increasingly corrupt world. Faith takes on a double meaning in this story, for Faith is used both as the name of Young Goodman Browns pretty young wife and the spiritual devotion of Young Goodman Brown to the Puritan Faith. The dual usage of Faith in this short story, along with its theme of dev...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Marijuana Legalization
1,431 wordsThe controversy of legalizing marijuana has been raging for quite a while in America. From some people pushing it for medical purposes to pott-heads just wanting to get high legally. Marijuana has been used for years as a popular drug for people who want to get a high. All this time it has been illegal and now it looks as if the drug may become legal. There has been heated debate by many sides giving there opinion in the issue. These people are not only left wing liberals either. Richard Brookhi...
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Edgar Poe Poe
1,444 wordsSt? page Mallarm? , Mallarme (Poet) St? page Mallarm? St? page Mallarm? , a French poet, became one of the most important masters of French symbolism, a nineteenth-century movement in poetry that stressed impressions and moods rather than descriptions of reality (Online). The poetry of Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, and others strongly affected Mallarm? s writing (Online). He used symbolism to represent human emotions to make his poems unclear, thus avoiding direct communicat...
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London Oxford University York Schocken Books
2,151 wordsOliver Twist and the Dark Side of British History Progress can be compared to a coin. On one side of the coin is wealth, and on the other side of the same coin are poverty, despair, misery, and crime. As Gertrude Himmelfarb explains: The Victorians were avowedly, unashamed, incorrigibly moralists. They... engaged in philanthropic enterprises in part to satisfy their own moral needs. And they were moralists in behalf of the poor, whom they sought not only to assist materially but also to elevate ...
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Air Pollution Acid Rain
1,090 wordsProblems Caused By Air Pollution Some people think that air pollution is not harming the earth or the people, but it is doing worse, by killing the earth and getting people sick. Air pollutants, according to Gay, are known to cause respiratory diseases, cancer, and other serious illnesses (12). Air pollution not only threatens the health and life of humans but also causes damage to the environment (Gay 13). First, air pollution causes a great deal of health problems. Wanting clean air is a good ...
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Streetcar Named Desire Stanley Kowalski
914 wordsDO NOT TURN THIS PAPER IN! ! ESPECIALLY IF YOU ATTEND THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE, AND HAVE MARILYN HARDWIG FOR A PROFESSOR. THANKS ASHLEY In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, author Tennessee Williams does a wonderful job developing the character of Stanley Kowalski. To me, his character seemed most like that of a true person. On the other hand, Stella, Stanley? s wife, is mainly displayed as being the loving type, and because that is basically the only character trait she displays,...
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