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Civil Rights Act Equal Pay Act
1,314 words
Women are only slightly more successful in
reaching the highest levels of business today than
they were in the colonial times. With the start of
the twentieth century, more and more women carry
the desire to have a career outside the home. They
would like to get out in the real world and be
independent. This is however hard to do
considering the average man with a high school
degree earns more than the average woman with a
college degree (Empowering). However, some women
are slowly walking away ...
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True Reality Real World
610 words
After reading Plato's cave several times, I
learned that every time I read it I gained a
completely different interpretation. You can
relate all of the different symbols to any aspect
of life, and still have a clear understanding of
what Plato is talking about. My first
interpretation of the cave was, the world as the
cave. The world is a cave to most of society. We
are chained to the wall, because we only know what
we have been taught. We havent had the urge or
desire to venture out into the wo...
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Edgar Allan Poe Timothy Findley
1,039 words
The human imagination is a very powerful thing. It
sets humanity apart from the rest of the creatures
that roam the planet by giving them the ability to
make creative choices. The imaginary world is
unavoidably intertwined with the real world and
there are many ways by which to illustrate this
through literature, either realistically or
exaggerated. Almost everything people surround
themselves with is based on the unreal. Everything
from the food we eat to the books we read had to
have been thou...
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Female Body Power Structures
631 words
Science fiction that was usually considered
literature of possibility, had consistently
offered different fantasies that were alternative
to the real world. These fantasies captured the
imagination mainly of a male audience. However,
the things were in such a way only until 1969.
Anne McCaffrey The Ship Who Sang was exploring
female complicity. It changed the traditional view
on gender roles and tropes. In the book it is
suggested that the male gaze is perpetuated in
such a way that the female b...
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Human Beings Education System
638 words
Since the Industrial Revolution, two main economic
systems have developed; these are capitalism and
socialism. Both of these systems have its
advantages and disadvantages. Adam Smith, known as
the father of capitalism, bases capitalism on
three main points: wealth, competition, freedom of
enterprise, and profit motive. A basic explanation
of capitalism would be an economy in which the
people are free to engage in any type of business;
the government doesnt have any control over the
peoples desti...
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Oedipus The King Riddle Of The Sphinx
1,732 words
Sophocles Oedipus the King and Homers Odyssey both
deal on the topic of morality and divine
intervention. In both works the character
Tiresias, a blind prophet, participates in the
different journeys by revealing various truths to
the main characters. While the main importance of
Tiresias in The Odyssey is to show that truth can
be helpful, his importance in Oedipus the King is
to attempt to discourage Oedipus on his journey to
find the truth because he knows the truth can be
negative as well. T...
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African American Women Easy To Read
1,649 words
Alice Walker It is very difficult to write about
womans literature and its women-writers. Such
writers like Alice Walker try to show the life of
ordinary African-American women with all their
joys and troubles. What are the main ideas of her
prose? What inspires her to write such short
stories like Everyday Use and such talented novels
like The Color Purple? Alice Walker is very
talented writer. Her works are dedicated to
serious problems of African-American population of
our country. Her books ...
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Peter Pan Psychological Disorder
1,457 words
Similar and Contrasting Psychological Disorders
between Kate and Peter Pan The most perfect
description of Peter Pens character is that
earlier or later all children grow up and become
adults except of Peter Pen. J. M. Barrie, the
author of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, writes:
Peter is ever so old, but he is really always the
same age, so that does not matter in the least
(Barrie 20). The main character of Doris Lessing's
novel The Summer Before the Dark on contrary,
embodies the woman who i...
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Forced To Live Real World
765 words
Sisyphus was given a punishment by the gods, to
push a rock up a hill, only to have it fall down
on him again. Mersault is a person accused of
murder who has spent over a year in jail. What
both these characters have come to realize is that
they are forced to live in these situations
created by the gods, therefore they might as well
enjoy or get used to them. Mersault is forced to
live in a cell, without his cigarettes, and with
limited visitation rights. When this happens,
Mersault recalls what...
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Losing Creativity Watching Tv
689 words
Effects of TV on Children Sitting in school,
little Bob sits anxiously watching the clock. The
teacher is talking to the class, but Bob just cant
wait to get home. When the bell finally rings, he
runs out of the classroom. From the classroom, Bob
is on his normal sprint towards home. After
blasting in the house, he runs to turn on the TV.
Having nothing more exciting to do, Bob will sit
in front of the television until his mom pulls him
away for dinner. This is an all to familiar
scenario in man...
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Rest Of The World Playing Field
1,456 words
Is the Internet really a Global phenomenon? Since
the beginning of time, mankind has been involved
in a never-ending quest to learn more about the
world in which he lives. Our natural curiosity
leads us to question everything and investigate
the way in which the world around us works. Human
beings also have a natural tendency to want to
explore and see things in the world around them
which they have never seen before. It is in that
sense that the Internet is a perfect extension of
human nature. ...
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Downward Spiral Communist Manifesto
2,358 words
Karl Heinrich Marx was born on May 5, 1818, in the
city of Trier in Prussia, now, Germany. He was one
of seven children of Jewish Parents. His father
was fairly liberal, taking part in demonstrations
for a constitution for Prussia and reading such
authors as Voltaire and Kant, known for their
social commentary. His mother, Henrietta, was
originally from Holland and never became a German
at heart, not even learning to speak the language
properly. Shortly before Karl Marx was born, his
father conv...
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Downward Spiral Das Kapital
877 words
Marx s work seems to be more of a criticism of
Hegelian and other philosophy, than a statement of
his own philosophy. While Hegel felt that
philosophy explained reality, Marx felt that
philosophy should be made into reality, a hard
thing to do. He thought that one must not just
look at and inspect the world, but must try to
transform the world, much like Jean Paul Sartre s
view that man must choose what is best for the
world; and he will do so. Marx is unique from
other philosophers in that he c...
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Neural Networks Artificial Intelligence
2,450 words
Mind and Machine: The Essay Technology has
traditionally evolved as the result of human
needs. Invention, when prized and rewarded, will
invariably rise-up to meet the free market demands
of society. It is in this realm that Artificial
Intelligence research and the resultant expert
systems have been forged. Much of the material
that relates to the field of Artificial
Intelligence deals with human psychology and the
nature of consciousness. Exhaustive debate on
consciousness and the possibilities...
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Fairy Tales Child
2,316 words
? In children you should never let such angry
passions rise; their little hands were never made
to tear each other? s eyes. ? ~ Isaac Watts The
fairytale is often an entertaining story of
miraculous and supernatural happenings. Its
purpose is to galvanize the depths of our minds in
such a way as to make us a part of the landscape,
bound only by the limits of our own imaginations.
However, it is this very? free-for-all? fantasy
land that poses a very real threat to its intended
audience? children...
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Work Harder Current Policy
472 words
Research on the social and cognitive effects of
grouping students in mixed-abilities versus
same-abilities classrooms is gaining increasing
interest among practitioners and researchers. In
hopes of attaining higher scores, many schools
have adopted homogeneous ability grouping. Unlike
them, our school has adopted the policy of mixed
ability classes where students of different
academic abilities study together in the same
class. Indeed, there is a lot of research in favor
of heterogeneous ability...
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Critical Thinker Ultimate Truth
1,514 words
A critical thinker, you want to distinguish
between correct information, misinformation,
biased reporting, and deliberate persuasion in
your everyday news of the world. How might you do
so? Responsibility of Thought If Virtue is
knowledge, as Socrates claimed, then we are bound
to be wicked (Tivnan 4). For centuries, people
have been searching for the ultimate Truth, the
Absolute knowledge, only to further submerge
themselves in the oblivion to the fundamental fact
that there is no single truth,...
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Mother Daughter Relationships Literature Resource Center
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The Bond is Broken: Jamaica Kincaid accurately
portrays how adolescence can strain mother-
daughter relationships. The mother- daughter
relationships are universal but it is not clear
why we avoid the topic (Gerd). The father-
daughter relationships and the mother- sons
relationships are the issues mostly talked about.
In Jamaica Kincaid's novel, Annie John, she
explains and gives insight into mother- daughter
relationships. In Annie John, there are events
that make people think about their rela...
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Teddy Bear Political Correctness
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Political Correctness: Essay submitted by Joshua
Lewis The University of Southern California: The
Teddy Bear Massacre Like so many other traditions,
the burning of the bruin was put on the chopping
block recently. The long running University of
Southern California spirit activity consisted of
throwing a large stuffed bear in a bon fire the
night before the football game against their
rival, the University of California at Los
Angeles. The Black Student Union and other student
organizations recen...
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Patrick Mc Murphy Cuckoos Nest
2,072 words
Ryan Enfantin o Insanity The transfer from print
to film is neither a straightforward nor an
accurate process, and as such has left many
casualties by the wayside: The Cider House Rules,
Jurassic Park, and so forth. Typically poor
adaptations are either changed too much or too
little: many are made to be suitable to too wide
an audience or have additions which clumsily
contrast with the more directly transferred parts,
and many are so sloppily adapted that vestigial
scenes disrupt the movies flo...
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