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Edna Feels Positive Effect
1,257 words
Kate Chopin is an American writer, best known for
her description of culture in New Orleans,
Louisiana, and of women's struggles for freedom.
Many of her works including The Awakening, were
examples of local-color and helped establish
Chopin as a contributor to Southern regional
literature. The Awakening attracted a lot of
negative criticism for its description of a
woman's developing independence and sensuality.
This novel portrayed the progress of a wife,
mother, and a lady addicted to finding...
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Law Enforcement Officers Search And Seizure
1,489 words
... ive the officers the right to follow him and
pull him over in order to search him. The
plain-view doctrine allows law enforcement
officers to investigate and search someone they
feel may be hiding something illegal. The officers
give comments within the case and proceedings that
they clearly felt something was hidden within the
respondents clothing, this shows that they had the
legal right to remove the item. While it may seem
that the respondent was somehow robbed of his
Fourth Amendment ri...
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Tobacco And Alcohol Rain Forests
789 words
Legally defined, marijuana consists of the dried
leaves and flowers of the plant Cannabis sativa.
Cannabis is one of the most ancient and
historically important of cultivated plants. Hemp
or Cannabis has been cultivated for at least 6000
years (Frank 3). On account of the many advantages
that this multipurpose plant offers, I see reason
to believe that it should be legalized, to the
public, in all forms. The legalization of hemp
would reduce the size of our overpopulated jails.
As a result, mill...
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Marijuana Prohibition Marijuana Smokers
1,156 words
... e of the nation's leading ocular pathologists"
(Brazaitis unknown). Later in Randall's life he
discovered by accident that smoking marijuana not
only lessened the strain on his eyes, but
eliminated the tricolored halos that marred his
vision. Randall didn't believe that smoking an
illegal drug could stop the deterioration of his
precious eyesight. Then after six months of trial
and error, he became a believer. Randall began to
grow his own marijuana, due to the fact that he
could not afford ...
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Good And Bad World Book
1,603 words
During the early part of the 1700 's Joseph
Addison, the Tatler and Sir Richard Steele, the
Spectator, came together to write "The Tatler and
the Spectator." Through their hardships of life
they came about understanding what others were
feeling and the actions that they took. They
documented five hundred and fifty-five essays that
were depicted from the world around them. They
used the feeling of love to show about human
nature and what it did to achieve its goals.
Through stories, such as "Jilt...
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Kill And Eat Animal Nature
1,171 words
A Mirror Has Two Faces: Connecting with Our Animal
Nature in I remember watching nature shows on
television and seeing natural predation. There on
the screen lions stalk, chase, kill, and eat their
prey. A true vision of animal nature. Humans are
also animals, therefore, possessing animal nature.
This animal nature can be witnessed every fall as
thousands of hunters across the United States
forge into the woods to stalk, kill, and eat their
prey. Most hunters even display the heads of their
prey...
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Gun Control Activists National Rifle Association
589 words
Handguns exact an inordinate toll on American
lives, isn't it time that we ban handguns? "In
1989, guns killed 11, 832 Americans. " (Dolan,
Edward, page 203) " There are an estimated
sixty-five million firearms in the United States,
which means, there are sixty-five million people
carrying a firearm. " (page 203) "In 1997, the
most recent year available, there were eighty-nine
firearm deaths per day, about a death every
sixteen minutes!" (page 203) In every sixteen
minutes one of your family mem...
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Lady Macbeth Macbeth Character
915 words
"You do unbend your noble strength to think so
brain sickly of things. Go get some water and wash
this filthy witness from your hand. " Lady Macbeth
thinks everything will be okay if Macbeth will
just stop feeling guilty and hide the facts that
might expose his guilt. Macbeth's lust for power
and his willingness to please his wife leads to
his downfall. He murders the children of his one
time friend, and suffers the consequences of that
sin. However, Shakespeare uses Macbeth's guilt to
develop p...
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Wooden Ships Revolutionary Change
852 words
From the many inventions that emerged from the
American Civil War, the Ironclad, designed by
Captain John Ericsson and Robert L. Stevens, has
impacted the world by advancing naval warfare
technology. It gave America more influence in
Europe and put America ahead of Europe in naval
matters. The impact and influence changed naval
warfare's forever by forcing wooden ships to
become obsolete. The Ironclad was among the first
technological and modern tools of war. Its impact
on technology in navies c...
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Angel Clare Tess Life
793 words
Though the central action of Tomas Hardy's novel
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles" centres on Tess, the
other characters are not lacking in interest and
individuality. Undoubtedly, Tess's life is market
by two contradictory temperaments, those of the
sensual Alec d'Urberville and the intellectual
Angel Clare. Both characters are described with
artistic detail to show a blend of weakness and
strength governed by fate. Both are flesh and
symbol complementing the other in the fall and
rise, rise and fall...
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Weapons World Countries
251 words
During World War I, countries used technology to
help them become more powerful and stronger
against the enemies. Unlike the days where spears
and sticks were used, the Industrial Revolution
allowed the new technologies to make new weapons
and upgrades for old weapons more deadly and more
powerful. The automatic machinegun was one of
these deadly weapons used to kill many invading
armies at once. From this new weapon and many
others, the world changed for the worse. Not only
did countries now ha...
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Miracle Drug Marijuana Aids
526 words
Fifteen years ago the word AIDS (Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome) was barely used in the United
States. Today, it's on the cover of every
newspaper, and parents and kids discuss it
regularly in the household. It is no longer
considered someone else's problem; it is now
everyone's problem. Not a day goes by that a
person doesn't worry about AIDS. The fear of AIDS
is heightened only by the fact that there is no
cure. People with AIDS must live with the fact
that they are eventually going to di...
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Daisy And Tom Tom And Daisy
1,237 words
Money Equals Happiness (The Great Gatsby)
Throughout history many societies have had upper,
middle, and lower classes. The classes formed
separate communities of diverse living and never
crossed social barriers. In the book, The Great
Gatsby, instead of streets and communities
separating each class there was a sound. On West
Egg, the rich received their money not from
inheritance but from what they accomplished by
themselves. They worked hard for their money and
received no financial support fro...
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Number 24 Angels Night
320 words
The Moving On Moving On The girls, all dressed in
white, uniformly marched up the red, tiled stairs.
Their perfectly coiffed pony tails swinging
happily behind. They were all different. Shapes.
Sizes. Personality. Ability. The tension was as
thick as fog on a damp fall night as they crossed
into the packed gymnasium. Number 24 turned to me,
gave me a quick hug, and whispered, ? This night
is ours! ? I smiled, knowing she was right. The
whistle blew as the over-weight referee tossed the
leather b...
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Angel Clare Tess Life
792 words
Though the central action of Tomas Hardy's novel
Tess of the dUrbervilles centres on Tess, the
other characters are not lacking in interest and
individuality. Undoubtedly, Tess life is market by
two contradictory temperaments, those of the
sensual Alec dUrberville and the intellectual
Angel Clare. Both characters are described with
artistic detail to show a blend of weakness and
strength governed by fate. Both are flesh and
symbol complementing the other in the fall and
rise, rise and fall of Te...
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Quot One For My Dame One For My Dame Quot Father
573 words
Diana Hume George The identification of a womans
husband with her father remains implicit in the
first two volumes, where it is hinted at, leapt
beyond, or discussed at one remove through
mythology, anthropology, or the buffer of an extra
generation. In Live or Die, Sextons third volume,
that identification is made explicit for the first
time. The speakers father was " a born
salesman" who sold wool and a born talker
" in love with maps, " who " died
on the road. " ...
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Narrative Poems Light Quot
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Robin Riley Fast For many Native American writers,
issues of audience and community are vexed by the
question of " What is ethical to tell? "
Can tradition be offered as a means to commonality
with an eclectic audience? These writers might,
for example, honor tradition by acknowledging in
their writing the stories that are their sources,
and in so doing continue the oral tradition that
is the ground of Indian cultural survival. On the
other hand, cognizant of the opportunities for
misu...
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Definition Of Evil Othello Iago
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How is Iago the PERSONIFICATION of evil? Be sure
to define evil and cite specific examples,
references, and incidents that support your
definition of evil. Iago is Satan incarnate.
Although Othello honestly believes that Iago is
one of the most truthful and faithful servants he
has ever had, Iago is truly innately evil because
Iago constantly plots against Othello and
repeatedly conspires against everybody in the
play. Because of Iago s evil characteristics, he
does not deserve the trust that Ot...
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Death Of Her Husband Characters In The Story
692 words
In The story of an Hour, Kate Chopin reveals the
complex character, Mrs. Mallard, In a most unusual
manner. THe reader is led to believe that her
husband has been killed in a railway accident. The
other characters in the story are worried about
how to break the news to her; they know whe
suffers from a heart condition, and they fear for
her health. On the surface, the story appears to
be about how Mrs. Mallard deals with the news of
the death of her husband. On a deeper level,
however, the story...
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Equal Protection Clause Due Process Clause
845 words
Over the past 100 years rights of U. S citizens
have evolved. In particular the rights of woman
and men have changed a great deal, also freedom of
expression has changed a lot. Each one of the
above rights have foot holds in several different
amendments, specifically the First, Fifth, and
Fourteenth for gender discrimination, and for
freedom of expression the First mainly. The
following cases are cases which I think represent
the evolution of gender discrimination and freedom
of expression best....
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