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Patently Offensive Legally Obscene
5,385 words... to Sound Warehouse, a record store in Broward County, and bought a cassette version of the "Nasty" recording. He listened to the album, had six of its songs transcribed, and prepared an affidavit stating these facts. On February 28, 1990, Deputy Wichner sent the affidavit, the transcripts, and a copy of the "Nasty" tape to Judge Mel Grossman of the Broward County Circuit Court, requesting that the judge find probable cause that "Nasty" was legally obscene. On March 9, Judge Grossman issued a...
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Total Quality Management Quality Management Tqm
1,634 wordsWhat is Total Quality Management? For many companies the attainment of Total Quality Management is a valuable first step towards improving their overall quality performance. However, the most successful companies are increasingly making a commitment to a quality practice which extends to every aspect of their business. This practice is known as Total Quality Management (TQM). Total Quality Management means organizing your business to improve its effectiveness, flexibility and competitiveness as ...
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Puerto Ricans Parking Lot
4,001 wordsBeing a New Jersey public school teacher for thirty-four years meant that I had to find summer employment to supplement my mediocre yearly income. Since schoolteachers are contracted employees they are not eligible to collect unemployment benefits during their ten-week unpaid summer vacations. In fact teachers dont receive paid vacations at all! My job predicament allowed me to find and explore many different alternative occupations that I wouldnt have dabbled in if I had been in a profession th...
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Epic Hero Trojan War
1,287 wordsAn epic is a poetic account of the deeds of an exulted and grand hero. In Homer's Odyssey, the great protagonist is Odysseus, a man who departed from his home to fight the Trojan War and who comes back after twenty years to find his household overtaken by lofty and contemptuous suitors courting his wife Penelope against her will. Throughout his journey, this rich and complex character battles life's temptations towards purification, since he must overcome his sins and flaws in order to obtain re...
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Sir Isaac Newton Galileo Galilei
4,910 wordsIt was a cold, crisp, and damp morning on the Florida Space Coast as the space shuttle Challenger raced through the sky at speeds approaching mach 2 at an altitude of 104, 000 feet when something went perilously wrong. All of America watched, including the family members of the seven doomed crew members, as Challenger exploded into an expansive ball of fire, smoke and steam. An Oh... no! came as the crew? s final utterance from the shuttle as the orbiter broke-up. As the reality of what she was ...
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Code Of Conduct Lord Byron
1,178 words&# 65279; DEMOCRATIC OUTLAWS? Pirates, the outlaws of the sea. If like me, the first idea that comes to mind regarding pirates is a group of raiding and plundering individuals. This is due to today s society glamorizing the pirates as fascinating characters. Historically, not much written information has been left behind. The pirates did not leave ship logs or accounts of plunders, because it could be used to incriminate them. Society today has invented the pirates to fit a romantic mold. Theref...
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Heart Of Darkness Frame Of Mind
2,251 wordsJoseph Conrad once wrote, the individual consciousness was destined to be in total contradiction to its physical and moral environment (Watt 78); the validity of his statement is reflected in the physiological and psychological changes that the characters in both his Heart of Darkness and Coppola s Apocalypse Now undergo as they travel up their respective rivers, the Congo and the Nung. Each journey up the tropical river is symbolic of a voyage of discovery into the dark heart of man, and an enc...
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Rio Grande Director Producer
2,914 wordsDorothy John Ford John Ford Dorothy R. Donahoo English 2145 Dr. Klink 04 / 03 / 99 John Ford was an American motion-picture director. Winner of four Academy Awards, and is known as one of Americas great film directors. He began his career in the film industry around 1913. According to Ellis, Fords style is evident in both the themes he is drawn toward and the visual treatment of those themes, in his direction of the camera and in whats in front of it. Although he began his career in the silent f...
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Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad
2,345 wordsLeggatt as an Independent Character in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer This essay examines Leggatt as an independent person, rather than as a symbol connected to the captain-narrator, a view shared by many critics. Leggatt is not a negative influence on the captain per se. From an objective point of view, it can be seen that Leggatt's portrayal depends entirely on how the captain (as narrator) perceives him, and that he deserves to be treated as the individual being that he is. Many of Conrad'...
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Moby Dick Captain Ahab
2,364 wordsAhab's Struggle for Revenge Many writers over time have attempted to do the exact same thing. They have tried to create a story about one characters journey, an explanation of the events leading up to that journey, and the results of it. Throw in a little symbolism, and you have a format that has been used and reused over the years. This type of plot can be seen in such classics as The Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, and The Odyssey. Besides these popular stories, there are inevitably fail...
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Ahab Moby Dick
1,728 wordsEnglish Moby Dick Andrew Woollard English 367. 02 WI 2000 Moby Dick Character Analysis: Ahab Moby Dick can be viewed as a tragedy. Webster? s Dictionary defines tragedy as a? dramatic composition, dealing with a serious or somber theme, typically that of a great person destined through flaw of character or conflict with some overpowering force, fate or circumstance to downfall or destruction. ? This describes Moby Dick very well, as we discover as the story unfolds. Ahab, one of the key characte...
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Moby Dick Quot Quot
2,110 wordsHerman Melville? s Moby Dick is a novel that uses many forms of religious imagery. Through the adventure of captain Ahab in his search of Moby Dick it describes the battle between the evil powers of the Devil against the good powers of God and Jesus. In this metaphor, the Devil is in Captain Ahab, God is in nature, Jesus is seen in Moby Dick, and mankind is represented by the crew of the Pequod. The voyage of the Pequod represents the journey of mankind on earth until the death of Jesus. " ...
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Treasure Island Side
3,881 wordsCharacter of Interest My favorite character in Treasure Island is captain Long John Silver. This character really stood out to me. The reason being that he was a very respected and or feared pirate among everyone that knew him. He had a very complex personality, at first he seemed to be the kindest person is the whole book, but later he really reveals what he is capable of and you soon learn it is really a act. Long John Silver is a very hard man to understand. It? s very hard to even describe h...
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U S Navy World War Ii
5,009 wordsWouldn? t it be fun to ride a torpedo, or drive a nuclear reactor around underwater? In this research paper I am going to illustrate the ingenious submarine. The submarine is one of the most important strategic and tactical weapons systems of the 20 th Century, and this importance will increase in the 21 st Century. The tiny, leaking, creaking, and unsafe submarine boats of the 1890? s, displacing under two hundred tons and carrying a handful of men and a few torpedoes have grown into massive, s...
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Rocket Boosters Launch Pad
4,848 words7 December 1999 The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster The morning was clear, bright, and cold on January 28 th, 1986, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The skies were clear allowing the sun to shine over the launch area at the Kennedy Space Center and attempt to increase its freezing temperature. On launch pad 39 B icicles dangled from the launch tower, pad structure, and other launch equipment (Lewis 127) as the space shuttle Challenger stood in a powerful vertical silhouette against the morning ligh...
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Coca Cola Spy Plane
795 wordsWHIDBEY ISLAND NAVAL AIR STATION, Wash. (Reuters) The 24 Navy crew members of a U. S. spy plane detained in China for 11 days arrived back at their home base to a heros welcome from thousands of relatives and supporters. About 5, 000 people, many waving Welcome Home posters, American flags and yellow ribbons, gathered at the Naval air base on Washington states Whidbey Island, north of Seattle, as the crew stepped off the military plane that flew them home after a debriefing in Hawaii. Politician...
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