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People Who Commit Huckleberry Finn
1,476 wordsThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story about a boy without a family who teams up with a black slave and journeys down the Mississippi River in search for the slaves freedom, and the boys independence in his escape from society. Throughout the journey down the river, Huck, who is a white boy, matures constantly and becomes more independent. He also produces a great friendship with Jim, the slave. The two of them encounter the adventure of their lives, and escape many close calls of being c...
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Teenage Girls Talent Show
1,151 wordsI chose to read this book because I thought it would be very interesting. I didnt really expect to see this book in the library because one of my friends had already spoken to me about it. He said that he read the book already and that it was really good. I immediately took the book and signed it out. This story began with a girl named Tiny, who was talking to her imaginary friend, Willa. Tiny had made her imaginary friend quite sometime ago. Now shes older and is attending high school. In the b...
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Back To The Hotel Fell Asleep
1,200 wordsIt was the summer of 98, and my friends had just graduated high school, and we all decided to take a trip. Where to go we all thought? We were thinking where could we all have fun and not have any age requirements? So Cancun was the place to be, first thing I did when I got off the plane was transfer some money to some pesos. When I tried to get pesos the cashier tried to rip me off, but there was nothing I could do. So I got my pesos and picked up a curves. All I knew was how to say was Canvas ...
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Power And The Glory Whiskey Priest
855 wordsIn todays society, people often picture their heroes as flawless characters with superhuman strengths and powers, such as the Superman and Batman types. Others picture their heroes as ordinary individuals who have great talents, such as the Michael Jordan type. During ancient history, the Greeks recognized their tragic heroes as those who possessed four essential qualities: a man noble by birth and talent, possessing a tragic flaw, having a recognizable downfall that is partially his fault, and ...
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Cinderella Job Supposed
322 wordsOne day this girl decides to waltz into our home and tries to be Miss Everything, but to us, shes nothing. Its as if shes trying to steal all the good things we have, but thank G-d we have the control over her. We are allowed to say, Cinderella, do this! and, Cinderella, do that! , but we cant take complete advantage of her (unfortunately). In our opinion, we think that since she is just here for no reason but for our mother and ourselves to boss her around, she should clean up her act and get a...
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U S Armed Forces Drinking Alcohol
661 wordsWhen one turns eighteen in the U. S, they can drive cars, fly planes, marry, vote, pay taxes, take out loans and risk their life as a member of the U. S. Armed forces, but it is illegal for them to drink. Why do young adults have the liberty to do everything else besides drink at the age of eighteen? Turning eighteen comes with adult responsibilities as well as privileges. The drinking age should be lowered to eighteen. It is necessary to educate teens about drinking alcohol if the drinking age ...
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High School And College Binge Drinkers
451 wordsOne of the most serious problems in today's youth is drinking. Amoung high school and college students a popular and very dangerous kind of drinking. Binge drinking can cause serious injury and many college and high school kids are dying from Binge drinking is identified as the number one health hazard for American college students today. For men binge is defined as having five or more drinks in a row. For women, binge is defined as having four or more drinks in a row. A drink can be considered ...
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Good Person One Night
428 wordsIn the book, a StreetCar Named Desire, there are many main characters that stand out in my mind as having a few personality disorders. Most of all though, Stand and Blanch stand out in my mind. They are both decent people in some ways, but in most they have some problems. Stanley, the husband of Stella, is a hardworking man. He enjoys poker, and one night while in a game with a few other buddies something happens which gives me my opinion of Stanley as a person. One night while him and his crew ...
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Cinderella Job Supposed
322 wordsOne day this girl decides to waltz into our home and tries to be Miss Everything, but to us, shes nothing. Its as if shes trying to steal all the good things we have, but thank G-d we have the control over her. We are allowed to say, Cinderella, do this! and, Cinderella, do that! , but we cant take complete advantage of her (unfortunately). In our opinion, we think that since she is just here for no reason but for our mother and ourselves to boss her around, she should clean up her act and get a...
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Teen Agers Feel Good
778 wordsLebanese nightlife mixes people of all ages & backgrounds together into a very unique mode of entertainment. Some people are against going out at night and others are addicted to going out nightly. The different perspectives of the various people give better insight on finding out just how serious some issues on nightlife affect one another. If there is a direct way to find out just how the night life is for those that go out, no other person would be better to hear it from then the average coll...
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School Yard Pain Father
813 wordsHe looks through the scope of his rifle, concentrating, looking. He feels pain, sorrow. A tear streams down his face and thinks to himself that this has to happen. He feels rage rush through him, that feeling that he gets when he forgets to take his medication. Josh is only fifteen. His father bought him this hunting rifle when he was twelve. He would remember those times when his father was drunk and would beat him mercilessly for hours on end. Such rage streams through in a steady flow. He doe...
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Doesnt Care Younger Family
1,306 wordsIn the story Raisin in the Sun there is basically a group of characters all in one family living in a small apartment with everyday their love dying a little more. The family is black and through the whole play it shows how segregation was played in the 1950 's. Ruth Younger is a wife of Walter Younger and a Mother of Travis Younger who is living in a small living assortment and just wants to get away and move on to something bigger and something more independent. Now with her being pregnant eve...
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Aggressive Drivers Aggressive Driving
540 wordsThe number of vehicles on freeways and streets is increasing at an alarming rate. This influx of motor vehicles is creating hazardous conditions. Moreover, drivers are in such a rush to get to their destinations that many become angry or impatient with other motorists who are too slow or who are in their way. Aggressive drivers react foolishly towards others in several dangerous ways. One way an angry driver may react is to cut off another motorist. This, however, can cause both: serious acciden...
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Gin Act Of 1751 Act Of 1751 People
702 wordsIn 1688, gin had became really popular drink in England. Some people were against the excessive selling of gin, but others liked gin. So the English government decided to open the distilling trade to all English people who paid taxes and over the next sixty years the government regulated the sale of gin with irregular taxation policy. Finally they come up with the Gin Act of 1751, which seemed to work for the people who didn't like the production of gin. For many people, gin just made life worse...
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Sun Also Rises Hemingway Style
515 wordsAfter a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain" (332). This last line of the novel gives an understanding of Ernest Hemingway's style and tone. The overall tone of the book is much different than that of The Sun Also Rises. The characters in the book are propelled by outside forces, in this case WWI, where the characters in The Sun Also Rises seemed to have no direction. Frederick's actions are determined by his position until he deserts the army. Floatin...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Style Of Writing
882 wordsMark Twain, a famous American writer-satirist wrote many books highly acclaimed throughout the world. For his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. This novel is about a teenage boy by the name of Huck Finn whose father is an alcoholic. Because of his violence, Huck runs away and finds a runaway slave Jim. Instead of turning Jim in, Huck goes against society and makes a decision to...
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Science Fiction Los Angeles
1,243 wordsIn The Martial Chronicals, Ray Bradbury provides a glimpse into the future that not only looks at people from a technological standpoint, but from a human one as well. His well crafted, almost poetic stories are science fiction in setting only. They put much more emphasis on the apathy and inhumanity of modern society, rather than the technology. (Bryfonski, 68) Ray Douglas Bradbury was born on August 22, 1920 to Leonard Spaulding and Ester Bradbury in Waukegan, Illinois. He began his writing at...
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Potential Helping Situation Fundamentally Selfish Egoism
599 wordsTo discuss why people help others we must consider whether people are by nature selfless or selfish. The dominant view today in psychology is of universal egoism; that we are fundamentally selfish, and that altruism (helping motivated by the wish to benefit another person) an impossibility. One form of universal egoism is Piliavin et als "arousal: cost-reward" model, whereby faced with a potential helping situation we weigh the probable costs and rewards of alternative courses of action, then ar...
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Live A Normal Fathers Death
760 wordsSome people only get to dream about what life might be like if they had accomplished their life goals. Some people dream about what it might not be like. Steven was one of these more fortunate people until... Steven had to overcome more pain during his lifetime then some could imagine. He dreamed of becoming a wealthy, well known business man, with a loving family. He had no clue that it would be so hard to accomplish the few things that mattered the most to him, his dreams. Steven grew up in a ...
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Sugar Cube Bohemian Culture Absinthe
1,351 wordsAbsinthe, also known as the green fairy, has a romantic history like no other drink (Conrad, 1953). From humble beginnings as a cure for all to its height of popularity amidst the Parisian caf scene of the late 1800 s, right through to its demise in the early 1900 s. In this essay I will outline the drinks history, from its origins to its spread, illustrate how absinthe was consumed and its taste, its constituents and controversial properties. Absinthe influenced many an almighty mind and had it...
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