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Golden Gate Twenty Nine
1,516 wordsAlthough Alcatraz sits in the middle of San Francisco Bay, only a little over a mile from the city, the island seemed as distant as if it were a thousand miles out to sea. The island seems uninviting and because of its un appeal, it played an important role in the history of California. The island had a number of uses. Alcatraz was the site of a powerful fortress, a military prison and a federal prison. The island is surrounded by treacherous cross currents and five-knot tides with a deadly unde...
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Lime Tree Bower Tree Bower Imagination
403 wordsSamuel Taylor Coleridge was responsible for attempting to present the supernatural as real where as his friend William Wordsworth would try to render ordinary reality as remarkable, strange. This Lime-Tree Bower is said to be Coleridge's most agreeable and engaging poem Coleridge ever wrote. The best poem I have read, it seems to share a bit of optimism and sincere generosity of impulse. The openness and selfless friendship need to be stressed, one must see as well that beneath the poem's relaxe...
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi East India Company
1,110 wordsIndias long struggle for independence started in 1857 with East India Company. British originally came to do business in India but later on took over India. There was a great battle fought in India in 1857. The kingdoms fought east India Company troops with weapons and many lives were lost. However, shortly after that in 1858, British rule was introduced. A British Governor was sent to India and India was made part of British Empire. India felt they needed democracy. They wanted to stop exploita...
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Locke Blank Tablet Nature Becomes Enlightened Voltaire
1,182 wordsFrancis-Marie About's, assuming the pen-name of Voltaire, L'Ingenu is a satirical story that begins in 1689 when a ship of English merchants are coming to France to trade. This is when the Ingenu is first introduced. The French are most intrigued by his appearance. Because of a picture believed to be the brother and sister-in-law of the Abbe de Kerkabon and Mademoiselle de Kerkabon, the Kerkabon's felt that they saw a resemblance and take him in as their nephew. This is only the beginning. With ...
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Dominant Submissive Relationship Open The Door
1,350 wordsThe Yellow Wallpaper - Journey into Insanity In "The Yellow Wallpaper", by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the dominant / submissive relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. Flawed human nature seems to play a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same attitude is seen in her brother, who is also a physician. While this attitude...
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Passive Resistance British Empire
916 wordsWhen asking a person who their hero is one might start pulling names of superheroes out of comic books. To most teenagers, heroes have to have the ability to fly, see through walls, stop a train with their bare hands, or save the world with their superhuman powers. There is a man, however, who exhibits none of these characteristics but is still considered a hero to most people. Such a man is Mohandas Gandhi. Heroes do not always have to be shown wearing a cape or costume. Instead, true heroism c...
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Faith In God Prison Cell
462 wordsImagine a situation in which you are arrested and imprisoned for being a Christian. What are you thinking as you sit in your prison cell? Write down your feelings and behavior as if writing a journal entry. As I sit in my prison cell for something that I have no control over, being a Christian by birth, I wonder why they would do this to me. They know there is nothing that I could do about being born a Christian. Even though I was born into Christianity I will remain strong in my beliefs of my r...
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Checks And Balances Van Buren
365 wordsIn the beginning of the movie Amistad, slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone in Africa and shipped them to Cuba to be traded. The Africans were purchased by Spanish men and put aboard a ship called Amistad. This abduction and trade violated treaties that then existed, because you could not be bought or sold as a slave unless you were a natural-born slave, which they were not. During the journey overseas, the Africans seized the ship, killed the head crewmembers, and ...
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Sexual Assault Sexual Intercourse
1,154 words"When she says NO, it's rape... even when she's married to him"Every woman has the right to control her own body and to make decisions about having sex, using birth control, becoming pregnant and having children. She does not lose these rights if she marries. " These quotes were taken from Stopping Sexual Assault in Marriage published by the Center for Constitutional Rights Much of the attention that has been given to marital rape has emerged from the legal community. This has occurred because t...
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Mr Rochester Red Room
1,058 words... academic life at Lowood such as the death of her friend, her search for a religion and her warming to her surrogate mother Miss Temple. Mr Rochester is introduced to us in a vulnerable position and under the care of Jane. Mr Rochester, the owner of Thornfield, cloaks himself in mystery and refuses to reveal himself to Jane. We already catch a glimpse of his mannerisms and his attitude towards to Jane and his feelings towards her. The mystery concerning Rochester deepens as the novel progress...
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Anti Communist Role Reversal
1,467 wordsWhat are the major themes of The Winter Oak and how does the author use the characters of Anna and Savushkin to develop these themes? There are four major themes in The Winter Oak. There is one obvious, very important theme, which is the huge contrast between both the settings and environments of the classroom and forest, and the ways the two main characters, Anna Vasilevna and Savushkin, behave in these places. Also, there is the theme of education, and how it continues from the classroom into ...
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University Of Pisa Galileo Galilei
309 wordsGalileo Galilei was born near Pisa in February 15 1564. As he grew up he was taught by Monks and entered into the University of Pisa. In the University of Pisa he studied Mathematics and he got a very high degree. After he graduated, around 1609 when the first telescope was invented he made a telescope of his own which magnified 20 times. Galileo was one of the first people to point his telescope to the stars. By looking in the sky he discovered one of Jupiter's 4 moons, the composition of the M...
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Kill A Mockingbird Political And Cultural
1,616 wordsThrough the study this term of the central text, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and related texts, films Rabbit Proof Fence by Phillip Noyce and In the Name of the Father by Jim Sheridan, my understanding of the concept of justice, or what constitutes justice, has altered considerably. We all think we know what justice is, or what it should be. In Australian colloquial terms, it is the principle of a fair go for everyone. In a perfect world, everyone is treated fairly. No-one is subjected ...
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The Russian Revolution Of 1917
809 wordsThe Russian Revolution of 1917 was a rebellion of the Russian people against the rule of the Russian emperor, Nicholas II. Russia was going through changes in the early 1900 s and the late 1800 s. This revolution brought forth the Soviet Union, and was known as the Marxist Revolution. In the 1905 Revolution, thousands of men, women, and children were led by a Russian Orthodox priest, marched to Czar Nicholas IIs Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. The other revolution was the February and October R...
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Literary Devices Figurative Language
698 wordsThroughout the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave Douglass constantly used system, figurative language, and selection of detail to strengthen his viewpoint of slavery, particularly in the 3 rd paragraph. In addition to the use of these literary techniques throughout the autobiography, Douglass also incorporated the use of parallel structure and repetition heavily in the body of the 3 rd paragraph. By doing this Douglass was able to portray his true feelings towards sl...
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Tele Screen Secret Police
1,044 words... ending well back... being able to remain outside the range of the tele screen" trying to avoid being seen writing in the diary even though "nothing was illegal since there were no longer any laws." Winston thinks about how dangerous it is to allow your thoughts to wander when you are in public or facing the tele screen. Your facial expressions are watched closely and the wrong expression can have dire consequences. For example, looking disbelieving when a victory is announced would be face c...
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E Cummings Life And Work
770 wordse e cummings e e cummings (no, this is not a typographical error, take note to the way he writes his name) was an unusual, yet highly acclaimed writer of the 20 th century. His style of writing was much different than that of any other contemporary or even 18 th and 19 th century writers. Although difficult to understand at times, e e cummings is a very profound and inventive writer. e e cummings was born Edward Estlin Cummings on October 14, 1894 in Cambridge Massachusetts. His parents were Edw...
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Piece Of Land William Penn
391 wordsIn this article William Penn is looked at as a legend. He was born on October 14, 1644. His father was an Admiral who was close friends with King Charles II. The King constantly borrowed money from the Admiral. Penn was kicked out of Oxford then sent by his father to Paris to study abroad. When Penn returned he had adopted the lifestyle of a Quaker. He believed that every man was equal. Being well educated and smarter then most he began to write pamphlets and publish them. Penn was ridiculed in ...
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Tale Of Two Cities Back To England
1,770 wordsA conversion in the Websters Dictionary is described as a change from one belief to another. In the novel A Tale of Two Cities, the acclaimed author Charles Dickens uses his great imaginative power to create a superior artwork in literary terms. A Tale of Two Cities is an in-depth story about the lives of people in the two countries of France and England during the French Revolution. Through the process of the novel many of the characters go through changes. The most drastic of these changes are...
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End Of The Story Yellow Wallpaper
1,032 words? The Yellow Wallpaper? -Journey into Insanity In? The Yellow Wallpaper? , by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the relationship between an oppressive husband and his submissive wife pushes her from depression into insanity. Flawed human nature as well as the wife allowing herself to be ruled by her husband plays a great role in her breakdown. Her husband, a noted physician, is unwilling to admit that there might really be something wrong with his wife. This same attitude is seen in her brother, who is ...
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