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Love Since Ancient Ruby Has Been Admired Rubies
948 wordsThe ruby has been admired by man throughout he ages. It has been coveted for its captivating color and rarity. It is made of surprisingly simple elements, and can be found mostly in southern Asia. It has been a symbol of love since ancient times, and is still highly prized and very expensive today. The ruby is a made of corundum, which is a mineral form of aluminum oxide. It comes in all shades of red, including pink. Sapphires are also made of corundum, and include nearly all colors of the spec...
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Martin Luther King Washington D C
476 wordsBrainard 1 Craig Brainard Mrs. Robinson Junior Honors English 8 January 1998 Martin Luther King, Jr. Essay On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Junior stepped up to the podium in Washington D. C. to deliver one of the most famous and influential speeches of our time. The crowd of over 200, 000 listened to his I Have a Dream speech, in which King attempted to convince people to live together in peace and understanding of one another. This was one of his many successful non-violent demonstration...
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Husband Dead Body
800 wordsThe Storm Analysis of? The Storm? In McKnight Malta? s frightening story? The Storm? she weaves a violent storm and murder together to heighten the horrific fear that engulfs Janet Willsom. The storm is a combination of mother nature, Janet? s emotions and her heartbreaking dilemmas. The story begins with Janet Willsom coming home from a vacation seeing her sister who is very ill. She has come back a week early hoping her husband, Ben, would be home so she could surprise him but he? s not. There...
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Hath Not A Jew Merchant Of Venice
1,007 wordsThe Merchant of Venice In The Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare, there appears Shylock. He is a Jew, that much we are told in the cast list. But, as the play unfolds Shylock is seen to be the villian. He is protracted as being cold, unbending, and evil. But is he? Is Shylock really the antagonist in this play or can he also be viewed as persecuted individual who resorts to revenge only after he has been pushed too far. To fully understand the character of Shylock we must first look at E...
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Duke Of Buckingham Heroic Deeds
957 wordsThe Three Musketeers In The Three Musketeers is a very good book. It is about 4 heroes who save the day like in most heroic books. They are successful in defeating the evil because of the heroic deeds of d Artagnan. D Artagnan is introduced to the three musketeers by incidentally insulting all of them. They each challenge him to a duel for what he has done to them, but while he is dueling with one of the musketeers, one of the cardinal s guards threatens to arrest them because there is a law in ...
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Turned Into A Witch Hansel And Gretel One
414 wordsThe Magic Circle The Magic Circle, by Donna Jo Napoli dealt with three main characters. In the story a woman named The Ugly One possesses the power to heal. The woman has a beautiful daughter named Asa. The Ugly one is a sorcerer; who also helps sick people who are possessed by demons. The Ugly one becomes a witch after biting the finger off a deformed baby child and desiring an exquisite golden ring. The main character is The Ugly Sorcerer who is a hunchback. At first she helps deliver children...
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30 P M Underage Drinking
1,393 wordsI think that I shall attempt to be original on this topic. Just joking. The worst act of deviance that I have taken part in to my recollection was underage drinking. Before I start talking about this particular act of deviance I would like to say that it was a blast and I would gladly do it again. Also I did know this act was one of deviance, I believe most people know what they are doing when they break the law and I particularly did about this act. My parents and I had talked about underage dr...
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Suzy See You Tomorrow Suzy Mum Car
294 wordsThe Wait Suzy was waiting at the kinder gate for her Mummy to pick her up and take her home. She saw a red car pull up, that was Sally's car Bye Sally! said Suzy see you tomorrow! A big blue car pulled up in front of the kind; that was not her mummy's car. That was Tom and Tims car They were twins. By Tom and Tim said Suzy see you tomorrow! A little yellow car drove into the kind driveway. Suzy's mum wasnt in it either. It was Lucy's car. Lucy's curls bobbed as she hopped in. Bye Suzy said Lucy ...
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Cause Of Death Alzheimer
907 wordsSociety is getting desperate. In our search for entertainment, we have found that watching two men beat each other to unconsciousness satisfies our needs. Furthermore, we call it a sport. The? sport? of boxing is inhumane, dangerous, and potentially fatal. Why, then, do we allow it to continue? Because of the preceding reasons, I believe all forms of boxing should be eliminated. As a result of boxing, many diseases and injuries occur. Parkinson? s Disease and Alzheimer? s Disease are head-relate...
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Browning Dramatic Monologue
1,054 wordsRobert Browning, an English poet, was born May 7, 1812, to Robert browning Sr. , Sarah Anna Wiedmann Browning. Sarah Browning, from German-Scottish descent, was a musician, a lover of nature, and a devout evangelical Christian. She was the stronger of the two parents, and also guided Robert through his developmental stages. Mrs. Browning was a woman of common sense and stability. Browning? s sister Sarianna, who was born in 1814, inherited his mothers? qualities. Browning? s father was employed ...
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Epic Hero Normal Man
1,002 wordsIn the Clash of the Titans, Perseus, the protagonist, is an epic hero. Perseus is to be married to Andromeda. During their wedding ceremony, her mother, foolishly, says that Andromeda's beauty is greater than Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty. Furious at this mortal and her people, Aphrodite says, through the head of her statue, that Andromeda is to be sacrificed to the Crakin in thirty days. Because Perseus loves Andromeda, he decides to find a way to kill the prodigious creature that w...
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Digestive Enzymes Nerve Fibers
979 wordsPolyplacophora &# 038; Cephalopoda Polyplacophora The phylum Polyplacophora, meaning many plates, contains chitons, marine mollusks with oval bodies bearing eight dorsal plates. Chitons live only in marine habitats and are commonly found in rocky areas of the intertidal zone along the coasts of almost every sea. They are stationary and cling to their rocky surfaces. Chitons are supported by eight calcareous plates called valves. Depending on the species, these plates may be small or large, cover...
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Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy
1,078 wordsCindy Kenney English 355 Burn in Hell The Comedy, later renamed The Divine Comedy was written by Dante Alighieri of Florence, Italy. In the early 14 th century, while in exile, Dante wrote this epic poem which is broken down into three books. In each book Dante recounts his travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven respectively. The first book of The Divine Comedy, Inferno, is an remarkably brilliant narrative. He narrates his descent into and observation of hell through its numerous circles a...
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Characters In The Play Sir Toby
616 wordsTwelfth Night was the festival held on the night of the 5 th January (12 th night after Christmas), and the night before the Epiphany, the time the Three Wise Men visited Jesus. This gives rise to its French name, La Nuit Des Rois. In medieval and Tudor times, this festival was by tradition very rowdy (it is possible that 12 th Night was derived from the Roman festival of Saturnalia, held in December, which was renowned for its revelry). One of the activities was a masquerade, in which everyone ...
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Prisoners Of War Red Army
1,310 wordsRussias revenge Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 Antony Beevor 528 pp, Viking Six years ago, while writing his account of Stalingrad, Antony Beevor alighted upon the theme of his new book. In February 1943, a Red Army officer taunted a group of German prisoners in the ruins of Stalingrad. Thats how Berlin is going to look! Records of conversations bugged by the Russians two years later between the captive German commanders at Stalingrad told the same tale. Berlin was going to pay. It did. In many resp...
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Turn Of The Century Robinson Crusoe
976 wordsWhitbread winners ring of absolute truth A book on China written by a man whose only experience of the country was a one-hour stopover at Hong Kong airport is one of two surprise winners of the Whitbread awards. Sid Smiths debut novel at the age of 52, Something Like A House, is set during Chinas cultural revolution, and is praised by the judges for its ring of absolute truth proving that several months in the British Library poring over Taoist tracts and accounts of peasant life can be just as ...
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Church Of Saint Catherine
1,634 wordsSaint Catherine, originally named Caterina Benincasa, was born in Siena, a city in west-central Italy south of Florence. She was born on March 25, 1347, the feast of the Annunciation. She had a twin sister who did not live long after her birth. Catherine was the youngest of twenty-five children. Her father, Giacomo Benincasa, was a wealthy dyer. He lived with his wife La, the daughter of a then famous poet, in a spacious house which is still standing today. Catherine is described as having been ...
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Geoffrey Of Monmouth Original Purpose
1,379 wordsStonehenge is surely Britains greatest national icon, symbolizing mystery, power and endurance. Its original purpose is unclear to us, but some have speculated that it was a temple made for the worship of ancient earth deities. It has been called an astronomical observatory for marking significant events on the prehistoric calendar. Others claim that it was a sacred site for the burial of high-ranking citizens from the societies of long ago. While we cant say with any degree of certainty what it...
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Sun Also Rises Close To The Bulls Jake
580 wordsJon Franzese All the Way Up In The Sun Also Rises, bullfighting is a recurrent theme throughout the story. Jake is a true aficionado and travels to Pamplona every year for the bullfights. Jake admires the bullfighters and is impressed by Romero. Jake s thorough descriptions of the bullfights show his passion for the sport. His descriptions are long and detailed, and don t leave out any details. Jake s knowledge of bullfighting seems to be endless; he is able to answer every question that Brett p...
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Good Versus Evil J R R Tolkien
1,403 wordsComparing and contrasting the novels The Hobbit and The Sword of Shannara as the reveal the conventions of a middle-earth fantasy novel The two novels The Sword of Shannara and The Hobbit are traditional earth fantasy novels. In both books characters encounter the forces of good and evil. The central heroes travel on great and dangerous paths to experience difficult situations. Magic plays a large role in both novels and saves the characters several times, which makes the story more exciting. Th...
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