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Pearl Harbor Attack Aircraft Carriers
1,189 wordsDecember 7 th, 1941, was the opening of World War 2, in the Pacific arena. In 1931, Japan invaded China's northern parts and then in 1937, Japan announced a full invasion of China. The United States couldn't just stand by and let Japan take over Asia's parts, so they moved their fleets to Pearl Harbor. The strongest ships were the battleships, which were named after the states of the union. U. S. Arizona was made in 1915 and then was Rebuilt and updated in 1930. The ship was surrounded with over...
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Power Goes To Teachers Students And Discipline
1,793 words... e we all, teachers are subject to the subtle, nearly invisible workings of power. McNeil shows us how teachers are affected in ways that are extremely difficult to observe. 12 The teachers she presents to us are bright, intelligent professionals with a great deal of expertise in their areas. Mcneil's question when she began her project was why course content so often is shallow, simplistic, and disconnected from authentic scholarship. The common hypothesis is that teachers are the least inte...
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Teenage Pregnancy Mother Dies
937 wordsFrans mother is dying of cancer but she has lived a more full and satisfying life that her daughter although it had been a sad one. Frans mother had, of course, been married and at one time been devoted wife, mother and homemaker. She had endured a difficult marriage since her husband was rigid, inflexible and unforgiving. (p. 6) She probably put up with such a nasty man for the sake of her daughter Fran. She did experience the joy of motherhood and the trials and tribulations of parenthood whil...
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Pity And Terror Pity And Fear
1,301 wordsThe dramatis personae of mythical or literary tragedy are characters towards whom fate slowly reveals inevitable destruction, but tragedy is not limited to the unfolding of an unavoidable fate. In Hamlet, tragedy extends its concerns into landscape and axial directionality. Landscapes in plays of myth and literature give a specific location for imagining the moods and elements for the particular genre. Axial direction refers to the aim of the play's action, as in what direction is the play's act...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Moral Responsibility
508 wordsThe Great Gatsby is a story of Nick Carraways growing up and development of moral responsibility. Unlike Nick, Gatsby does not mature. F. Scott Fitzgerald illuminates these two characters and their changes throughout the course of the novel. Nick Carraway is a character that develops a sense of moral responsibility throughout the novel. He is a tolerant, understanding, and sympathetic man with high moral values, such as being honest and reserving all judgment: I am one of the few honest people t...
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Substance Abuse Treatment Criminal Justice System
1,520 words... ve and deadly drugs is cocaine. It can be injected, snorted, or smoked. It carries the risk of HIV if it is injected. Cocaine significantly speeds up the neuro transmissions in the nervous system. It accelerates the heart rate while simultaneously constricting the blood vessels, which are trying to adjust to the heightened blood flow. Temperature and blood pressure rise. Pupils dilate. A stroke, respiratory arrest, cardiac arrest, or seizures may accompany the physical changes induced by the...
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Grow Stronger Open Field
533 words'Open my eyes and allow me to behold the wealth of each curtained acre. Allow me to stand amidst the true complexity of land and hold me hostage beyond the hand of illustrations. As any mind may have it, such beauty is held too deep, so far away no ordinary soul could see. I ask you to bring forth the beauty of such things. Describe to me, young man, the definition of America... ' Close your eyes and open your mind. Feel that slightly chilled breeze upon your cheeks, barely rustling through your...
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Daisy And Gatsby Daisy And Tom
1,053 wordsDiscuss the ways in which a novelist explores the condition of the human heart in a novel you have studied. In the novel The great Gatsby, the novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald explores the conditions of the human heart through relationships that occur in this story. The relationships between Daisy and Tom Buchanan, Myrtle and Tom, Myrtle and George Wilson and Nick and Jordan, all are flawed by the selfishness of individuals and lack of actual love. Fitzgerald compares this to the time era the novel ...
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D H Lawrence Working Class
1,071 wordsH 2 > Introduction In this essay I will be discussing whether it is class or not which keeps the two lovers apart or whether it is Fanny's subconscious. There is a strong possibility that the story is developed around the idea of the conscious and subconscious, as many of D H Lawrence's short stories develop from Freudian concepts. His wife taught him about Sigmund Freud and since then he was hooked on writing short stories that made you think about your conscious and subconscious, Fanny...
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Divided Into Four City States
1,034 wordsA Brief Comparison of Florence and Venice Florence and Venice were the economic powerhouses of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. While there are vast differences between the two great cities, there are also some striking similarities, the most outstanding being their devotion to commerce. To both the Florentine's and the Venetians, riches had an extraordinary significance. To be rich was to be honorable and to be poor was a disgrace (Hibbert Medici 32). The Florentine's had a saying th...
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Failed Dreams In The Great Gatsby
887 wordsThe Great Gatsby, a novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is about one mans pursuit of the American Dream and his downfall as he tries to reach this imaginary goal. Although the dream is different for each person, the principal idea behind the dream is if an individual is determined to reach a goal, he or she has of chance of achieving wealth, and the happiness that accompanies it. In The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby believes that one can acquire happiness through the accumulation of wealth and power. Jay G...
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Biological Warfare Fat Soluble
1,356 wordsSince man first started using his hands to make tools and weapons, he has always struggled to be more powerful and have better weapons than his enemies. Today is no different. Perhaps one of the newest, most publicly known type of weapon being created and tested is biological warfare. This type of warfare is believed to be the best and most deadly of all weapons, however, the big question is, how safe is it, and what are its effects on the environment? In James Powlik's Sea Change, the author cl...
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Coral Reefs And Algae
1,656 wordsCoral Reefs and Algae Coral reefs are unique ecological systems of the Earth Nature. These systems are very complicated and provide natural balance in the global ocean environment. Unfortunately, the human technological activity impacts coral reefs in the same harmful way as it impacts other ecological systems. Coral reefs are inhabited of approximately 25 % of marine species. They are very valuable because of their economic attractiveness through tourism and fisheries. A recent economic estimat...
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A Dolls House By Henrik Ibsen
1,352 wordsA Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen History has proven that the holy sanctity of marriage has faltered. Women no longer feel obligated to remain in a union that does not suite her needs or hold her best interest. In the late nineteenth century, it was considered scandalous for a woman to walk out on her family obligations. Henrik Ibsen's "A Doll's House, " written in 1879, is a direct attack on the values of family and marriage regarded as sacred to many during that time. Through Nora in A Dolls Hous,...
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Canterbury Tales Chaucer Describes
787 wordsCanterbury Tales Chaunticleer- In the book Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, gives us a stunning tale about a rooster named Chaunticleer. Chaunticleer, who is the King of his domain in his farmland kingdom. Like a King, he quotes passages from intellectuals, dreams vivid dreams, has a libido that runs like a bat out of hell, and is described as a very elegant looking Rooster. He has every characteristic of a person belonging to the upper class. Chaucer's hidden meanings and ideas make us think...
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Traumatic Stress Disorder Post Traumatic Stress
1,336 wordsThe images of war remain imbedded in an individuals mind, making it difficult for anyone who has faced the horrors of war to re assimilate themselves within society. People who have never faced the horrible images lack the understanding and compassion needed for a war veteran to reestablish themselves. The alienation an individual suffers from family and friends thrusts them further into a world of confusion, forcing them to take drastic actions to find peace. The effects of war have the capacit...
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Deep Water Life Span
1,477 wordsLife of Octopus Dofleini Introduction This is a research report on octopuses in general, however will focus in on a particular species of octopus, the North Pacific Giant or octopus dofleini, which is a bottom dwelling octopus that lives on coasts of the pacific ocean, from California to north Japan. This report will cover the habitat, and lifestyle of this amazing mollusk, that is so often misunderstood. The octopus is a very intelligent, and resourceful invertebrate whose natural abilities sho...
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Gold Rush 6 M
805 wordsMining Techniques The way to discover large amounts of gold, was to have the perfect mining technique. One of the earliest techniques was panning and cradling. This method consisted of a pick, a shovel and a washing dish and people either worked by themselves, or in a small group. First of all, panning was a simple method but required a lot of skill. It worked by loading sediment onto the washing device which had a sieve (strain), and moving the pan to and fro until the heavier gold was separate...
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F Scott Fitzgerald Daisy And Tom
1,610 wordsF. Scott Fitzgerald, in The Great Gatsby, imparts upon the reader a very specific impression of glamour and allurement in a perfect, yet shallow, upper class society. We have the perfect metaphorical contrast; Nick s inner struggle between being surrounded by beautifully rotten people or himself alone as a true man. When Nick comes to the point in his life where he is torn between the two, Nick s metamorphosis takes place. Through the duration of the novel, he experiences an epiphany through the...
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Upper Middle Class Due To The Fact
1,588 wordsStill Life Paper Assignment In A Roemer with Grapes, a Pewter Plate and a Roll, van Beyeren depicts a pewter with some grapes on it on a table with a glass of what I see as wine, and off to the side there is a roll with some sort of topping. My first thought was that this was a snack / meal for someone of the upper or upper- middle class. The caption said, however, that this was a painting of an everyday scene. I can only derive two things: 1) van Beyeren was upper or upper-middle class 2) peopl...
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