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John Stuart Mill Greatest Happiness
928 wordsPeople go through many dilemmas during a lifetime. Many of them require a rational decision to steer them down the right path. During childhood kids do many things that they think are right, but have no idea how wrong they are. You have to learn from your mistakes so later on in life you wont make those mistakes. Especially teenagers when they get into high school they tend to meet other teen from different areas of town from different backgrounds. They go through fazes of their lives where they...
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Bye Bye Buddy Holly
1,880 words"Singing... bye bye, Miss American Pie, drove my Chevy to the levy... but the levy was dry... These lyrics, this song, sung today by Madonna, and years ago, a song that my Dad probably sung... as written by Don Mclean in the 70 's, symbolized for many an aspect of America of the 60 's and 70 's. Who was the American, and what did it mean to be American? What did America mean or represent? When I listen to that song, I see different things than what my dad probably saw. To talk to my dad, you'd l...
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Mad About The Insanity Defense
1,478 wordsToday in our legal system, there are many questionable defense tactics. They are designed to protect the rights of the charged, and further the cause of justice. However, in many cases this betterment of justice has been taken too far, and thus pleas such as "Temporary insanity" are born. Indeed, as will be proven, the insanity defense in itself has been stretched nearly to its breaking point. The insanity defense will be critically examined, here, and proven in some cases necessary while others...
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Mentally Disturbed Aiko Sama Of The Yano Family
2,097 words... ao's mother was diagnosed as having a cancer, I was really ashamed at not being able to help her at all. It has usually been the custom each year to celebrate the New Year at my home for the Yano and Tanabe families. My husband used to cook for the party. However, no one agreed to get together this year. On the second of January, I happened to get a call from my brother. The family of my brother had just been visiting Mother's hospital, and he said they were now at a short distance from my h...
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Sister In Law Side Of The Road
1,408 words... o seven months pregnant with her second child at the time. While driving along the country backroads at night, a strange car pulled up beside her and directed her to pull off onto the side of the road. She did as instructed, and the man in the car told her that her rear wheel was wobbling, and that he would fix it. The man got out, adjusted the tire, and then got back in his car and sped off. Kathleen drove a few feet before the rear tire fell completely off. The stranger returned, and profu...
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Fall Of Rome The Military Role
1,848 wordsH 2 >The Militarys Role in the Beginning of the End of Rome The fall of Rome occurred over many centuries and was caused by several factors including military decay, barbarian invasions, and the failure of the government to respond to these problems. While these problems existed to a greater of lesser degree, since the end of the 2 nd century, their effects were accelerated by the reforms of the emperors Constantine and Diocletian. These reforms changed Roman life as well as the face of t...
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Four Wheel Drive Set Up Camp
1,122 wordsBzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, I was awoken by the sound of my alarm clock next to my bed. I rolled over to check the time to see if I could close my eyes for a few more minutes. It was 4: 30 in the morning and it was time to get up and get ready to leave. I rolled out of bed only to find out that my friend was still asleep and snoring on my floor. I chucked my pillow at him and it hit him in the face. He immediately got up and I told him it was time to go. We tiptoed downstairs, being extremely careful so ...
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Grendel Mother Wanted Revenge
1,528 wordsIn Beowulf, Beowulf, the great warrior, encounters three supernatural creatures that reveal the true dark side of human kind. Beowulf encounters these creatures with the driving force of greed and heroism. All of the monsters go through some events that cause them to change their behavior. Beowulf trying to fix all of those problems falls in the same "dark side" that the monsters did. The motivation of there battles reveals the dark side of man - jealousy, revenge, and greed. At the beginning of...
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Montgomery Road Side Streets Police
612 wordsWith the TV. on and my mom asleep I found myself in a predicament. With my mind open and my knees bouncing I searched the house looking for something to do. After several laps around the house I bound a pone my moms keys. Without hesitation I bolted out the back door like slowly shutting it behind me. Jumping the fence and approaching the car I finally decided to get in. already knowing how to drive, I wasnt nervous. Leaving the lights off so that the glare wouldnt seep into my moms window right...
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Dead End Living Room
1,736 wordsIt was a normal Friday in March except for the fact that I got my license. So my friends and I thought about what we were going to do now that I have my license. Well, we cruised around town thinking we were hot stuff and that we were better that most kids in school since I had my license before many of my friends. We decided that we'd go off-roading since I had the huge truck. It was a hunter green 1979 Ford F- 250 Custom. It had huge 33 -inch tires, a loud crackling exhaust, and a unique 2 -in...
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Rose Of Sharon Uncle Johns
1,766 wordsType of Work: Social / political criticism Setting Oklahoma and California; 1930 s Principal Characters Tod Joad, a recent parolee in his mid-twenties Ma and Pa Joad, a strong, middle-aged Oklahoma couple Noah Joad, their strange eldest son Al, their wild sixteen-year-old Rose of Sharon, eldest Joad daughter, married and pregnant Gramma and Grampa Joad, an earthy old couple Jim Casy, a preacher and, later, a labor agitator Other Joad children Story Overview As Tom Joad hitchhiked his way home af...
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Catcher In The Rye Grab For The Gold Ring
1,644 wordsIn JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, a post war novel written in 1953 is about a troubled teenager named Holden Caulfield, who struggles with loss of innocence and the fact that everyone has to grow up. He yearns for perfection. He illustrates individualism and alienation in adolescents in American society, and JD Salinger uses symbolism and irony to get this point across to his audience. Holden? s language, his colloquial speech of teenagers above all provides the excitement, surprises and clue...
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U S C Fifty Fourth
1,690 wordsThe Fifty-fourth Massachusetts was organized in early 1863 by Robert Gould Shaw, twenty-six year old member of a prominent Boston abolitionist family. Shaw had earlier served in the Seventh New York National Guard and the Second Massachusetts Infantry, and was appointed colonel of the Fifty-fourth in February 1863 by Massachusetts governor John A. Andrew. As one of the first black units organized in the northern states, the Fifty-fourth was the object of great interest and curiosity, and its per...
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Battle Of Gettysburg Early In The Morning
961 wordsThe Battle of Gettysburg July 1 st, 1863 It began with a skirmish the most costly battle in the history of the United States. Two divisions of Confederate soldiers headed for Gettysburg to drive out the Federal cavalry that had arrived before them (in search of shoes). The Federal cavalry under General John Buford met the rebels west of the town at Willoughby Run. This skirmish quickly became a large battle, which was what General Robert E. Lee was planning for. He sent 25, 000 soldiers to the b...
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Rose Of Sharon Uncle Johns
1,388 wordsAs Tom Joad hitchhiked his way home after a four-year stay in prison for killing a man in a fight, he met up with Jim Casy, a former preacher who was returning from a sojourn in the " wilderness, " where he had been soul-searching. Tom invited Jim to walk with him on the dusty road to the Joad family farm, and to stay for dinner. Arriving there, he saw that " the small unpainted house was mashed at one corner, and it had been pushed off its foundations so that it slumped at an ang...
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Rose Of Sharon Uncle Johns
1,355 wordsAs Tom Joad hitchhiked his way home after a four-year stay in prison for killing a man in a fight, he met up with Jim Casy, a former preacher who was returning from a sojourn in the wilderness, where he had been soul-searching. Tom invited Jim to walk with him on the dusty road to the Joad family farm, and to stay for dinner. Arriving there, he saw that the small unpainted house was mashed at one corner, and it had been pushed off its foundations so that it slumped at an angle. The farm was dese...
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Miles Per Hour Seat Belts
2,158 wordsThe making of automobiles started in the year 1770. In 1770 a man named Nicholas Joseph Cung not from France built a large steam-driven vehicle. The vehicle didn? t last long because the vehicle could only be driven for 12 to 15 minutes before running out of steam and the vehicle was too heavy and had poor balance and made it difficult to steer. Nothing more had been done until in the 1784. In 1784 James Watt made a patent on a steam carriage, but nothing became of it. Then in 1785 John Fitch in...
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Modern History Hundred Days
1,356 wordsThe Battle of Waterloo was the final and decisive action of the Napoleonic Wars, that effectively ended French domination of the European continent and brought about drastic changes in the political boundaries and the power balance of Europe. Fought on June 18, 1815, near Waterloo, in what is now Belgium, the battle ranks as a great turning point in modern history. After raising France to a position of dominance in Europe from 1804 to 1813, Napoleon met defeat in 1814 by a alliance of major powe...
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World War Ii War Effort
2,414 wordsA burning desire to go forth and reach personal conquests exists inside every man. This passion often navigates the would-be hero into a state of tragedy involving pain and suffering for those around. One individual, in particular, inflicted strain and duress on others with a harsh, and often criticized unorthodox style of leading when he took his campaign across Europe and into Germany. General George Smith Patton, Jr. led an expedition across a continent to rid the world of its Nazi powers. Th...
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San Francisco Bay Francisco Bay Area
2,878 wordsThe late 1960? s and early 1970? s represented a great deal of things to a great deal of people. To the San Francisco Bay area, as well as the rest of California, the late? 60? s and early? 70? s represented terror, fear, and death. What started out as a seemingly random, but brutal murder on the night of October 30 th, 1966, turned out to be the start of a series of horrific murders that would span 2, 500 suspects, 56 possible victims, and over 400 miles. On the calm, cool night of December 20 ...
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