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Real Estate Agent Upton Sinclair
1,504 words
A French philosopher once said that the greatest
tyranny of democracy was when the minority ruled
the majority. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle gives
the reader a great example of exactly this. A man
who earns his living honestly and through hard
work will always be trapped in poverty, but a man
who earns his living through lies and cheating
will be wealthy. The Jungle portrays a Lithuanian
family stuck in a Capitalistic country. It shows
the ongoing struggle of a lower class that will
never get far...
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Gold And Silver Lycurgus Thought Spartans
622 words
Philosophy is a study that tries to define and
explain how people in a community should live
wisely. In his Life of Lycurgus, Plutarch wrote
Lycurgus produced an inimitable constitution,
showing the spectacle of an entire city acting
like philosophers (Readings, p. 185). Unlike other
philosophers, Lycurgus ideas were practical; his
laws didnt just describe the proper way of living,
but also put it to work. Using his constitution,
Spartans became harmonious, developed feelings of
honor, self-reli...
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Influence Of Alcohol Pre Prohibition
1,361 words
As under a spell, the people had suffered this act
to be brought to its fatal conclusion, but with
the first touch of cold reality the charm was
undone, and the law appeared in its true aspect.
Brought about by the Eighteenth Amendment and
enforced through the Volstead Act, lasted for over
a decade. Despite a growing lack of public support
for both Prohibition and restraint itself, the ban
on alcohol continued throughout the United States
least in the law books. In practice, however,
National Pr...
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The Cause Of Crime Today
495 words
The world is not the way it was. At one time
people could sleep with their windows up and doors
unlocked. In today's society people have to lock
their doors and close their windows. Crime is at
an ultimate high, and the world is slowly falling
apart. This is not the work of the older
generations, it is strictly the work of generation
X. Teenagers are not what they use to be. A long
time ago teenagers were loyal, respectful, and
helpful to their parents, but not anymore. Today's
teens live their ...
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Inversely Proportional Fair Share
1,342 words
4. You are not Superman; Marines and fighter
pilots take note. 5. A sucking chest wound is
Nature's way of telling you to slow down. 6. If
it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid. 7. Try
to look unimportant; the enemy may be low on ammo
and not want to 8. If at first you don't succeed,
call in an airstrike. 9. If you are forward of
your position, your artillery will fall short. 10.
Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than
yourself. 11. Never go to bed with anyone crazier
than yourself. 12...
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Crime Scene Santa Ana
1,096 words
After Kait was shot, her car traveled 719 feet,
crossed the median, and came to a rest on the
sidewalk east of the intersection of Lomas Blvd.
and Arno Street. The first officer on the scene
(not in uniform -- just passing by) observed two
vehicles parked on the sidewalk, Kait's red Ford
Tempo and a VW Bug parked next to it. He also saw
a man standing next to Kait's car. The officer
drove past the vehicles while he radioed in to ask
about an accident (none reported), then returned
to the scene t...
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Racial Prejudice Mark Twain
1,028 words
... the town and is nearly lynched before it is
discovered that Miss Watsons slave Jim has
runaway, and that he had been gone around the
exact time when Huck's murder would have been
taking place. With no other evidence but the fact
that Jims escape and Huck's murder occurred in
proximity to each other, the townspeople shows no
reluctance in putting an award on Jims head as the
murderer of Huck. In this instance, Mark Twain
once again cleverly illustrates the innate racial
prejudice characterist...
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O Henry Madison Square
1,552 words
After Mark Twain and Edgar Allen Poe, William
Sydney Porter (known as O Henry) is the most read
author in the world and bears the title of master
of the short story. He has been called many
things. Some people have called him the
twentieth-century Balzac. Some have called him the
American Maupassant because of his so well made
surprising endings. The short story is the one
fundamental and self-contained genre in American
prose fiction, and the stories of O. Henry
certainly made their appearance ...
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Persons Hand Women Pakistan
525 words
I was inspired to write this because i read an
essay that someone wrote on this site about
Pakistan. I was disapointed to see that that
person did no research when writing their essay.
They simply took what they heard from a person and
wrote it down. I want to clear some things up that
they wrote that were just wrong. They made
Pakistan seem like a country where people are
mistreated. They made it seem like women have no
class in Pakistan. This is not true. If you go to
pakistan you will see tha...
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Law Enforcement Officials U S Attorney
1,093 words
... s, social security numbers, and dates of birth
to steal refund checks, and withdrew cash from
bank accounts and spent thousands of dollars with
fake credit cards according to the prosecutor
(name not given). The two-year scam was punctuated
with shopping sprees where the employee and three
others used the credit cards at malls and picked
up added cash (from other people taken from bank
machines) according to a complaint to the FBI.
This case, which was filed in federal court in
White Plains,...
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Post Secondary Education 3 Years
661 words
Education is all about life. When youre done four
years of attending high school, its time to become
ready for the big leagues. Post secondary
education can be divided into two major parts,
College and University. Canada has a lot of both
ball parks, but we have more Universities then
colleges. Canadas educations system is highly
recognizable in the world. In the United States a
lot of students decide to attend Canadian
Universities or Colleges. Although colleges have a
big population, a Univers...
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Cases Of Fraud In The Business Place
1,422 words
Being a businessperson includes many risks and
sacrifices in order to become successful. One of
the reasons that companies are failing is due to
the fraud of their employees. In order to avoid
these problems, the companies that contain a large
amount of employees must take the correct
precautions. All people in general are capable of
committing an action of fraud. Doing something
wrong or right is in the nature of all people.
Jack Bolgnas says in Corporate fraud, the
deference between people and...
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Things In Life Poor Boy
1,143 words
A Youth in Poverty To most, it's very easy to
imagine how it would feel to grow up without much
of anything in life. Hell... I can tell you first
hand what it feels like to not have a decent pair
of shoes or pants without holes in them, or old
"hand-me-down" toys while most of the kids you
know have "state-of-the-art" toys. To many
children in this kind of situation, it seems like
a very bleak world to live in. No child should
ever have to experience this kind of life.
However, due to ignorant p...
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Arabian Peninsula Bin Laden
1,486 words
Mr. Elmasry said there are bad Muslims just as
there are bad Christians and Jews. " We treat
them as such and so should you. But Islam is a
religion of peace. Muslims have a religious duty
to be tolerant of other faiths and other
ideologies. Mr. Elmasry said journalists need to
differentiate between the peaceful teachings of
Islam and the claims of some Muslim extremists
that their actions are justified by their
interpretations of Islam. He likened the situation
of Canadian Muslims today to...
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Arthur Miller Willy Loan
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It is every fathers dream for their children to
grow up and lead a better life than they did and
provide for their family better. Willy Loan was no
exception to the rule, because he wanted the best
for his children from a very young age, especially
for his promising son Biff. Biff was loaded with
potential as a boy in high school, and Willy
recognized it and promoted it more than he needed
to. Although Biff sees his life as not a complete
failure, his monstrous adolescent potential
transformed i...
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Antony Speech Quot Iv
716 words
Mark Antony's Speech In William Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar, Antony confronts a crowd that is
against him and on the side of the conspirators
who just killed Caesar. In order to turn the crowd
to his side; Antony uses rhetorical questions,
appeals, and irony in his speech to the people.
Without breaking his word not to wrong the
conspirators, Antony indirectly persuades the
crowd that the conspirators were wrong in killing
Caesar and that Caesars death should be avenged.
The use of rhetorical qu...
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Antony Speech Rhetorical Questions
698 words
Mark Antony's Speech In William Shakespeare's
Julius Caesar, Antony confronts a crowd that is
against him and on the side of the conspirators
who just killed Caesar. In order to turn the crowd
to his side; Antony uses rhetorical questions,
appeals, and irony in his speech to the people.
Without breaking his word not to wrong the
conspirators, Antony indirectly persuades the
crowd that the conspirators were wrong in killing
Caesar and that Caesars death should be avenged.
The use of rhetorical qu...
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Sir Isaac Newton Physical Science
666 words
Sir Isaac Newton When deciding on the list of the
greatest mathematicians in history, one name that
is sure to come up is Isaac Newton. Newton made
several important discoveries in the fields of
mathematics and physical science, and in doing so
changed the direction is which the sciences of
dynamics, optics and mathematics were all going at
the time. Newton was a master of science and
mathematics, and he refused to think like everyone
else, he was the only one that thought that the
universe work...
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Bad Person Bad Things
615 words
In the Pea Paragraphs Severance In the story
Severance by Lamb, Penny Ann is a bad person. This
story is about two sets of twins who become
separated. One set separated by death, the other
set by guilt. First, The teachers were less
patient with the poor kids than the rest of us.
But Penny Ann wasn t just poor, she was bad. The
teachers were less patient with the poor kids, but
she wasn t just any poor kid, she was a bad kid.
Second, Domnick was talking about Penny Ann and
said, She stole Calvin...
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Huck Finn Twain
1,421 words
Stories have existed since the beginning of
mankind. Going back as far as ancient Greece in
history, or even further back, one can examine the
many different types of stories that have been
passed down to us. The ancient Greeks wrote about
gods and developed drama; the Romans passed down
biographies of Caesars containing their life
achievements as well as their failures; numerous
stories questioning the institution of slavery
were produced here in America; and finally, due to
the development of ...
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