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Lot Of Problems Christmas Eve
626 wordsIn the British short story from 1992 we hear about Miss Massey a homeless woman who lives at the Underground station. Tony, a gay man working there helps her from time to time. Even though he might loose his job. It is Christmas Eve so he decides to bring her home with him. Tony lives with his boyfriend Jaz. Jaz has a lot of problems with his family. Or they have a lot of problems with him being gay. They froze him out of the family when they found out. It is very hard for him. They do not even ...
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El Barrio Underground Economy
772 wordsIn his book, In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois discussed his experiences living in El Barrio (East Harlem). An interesting new insight into the street culture found in New York was captured in this book. The amount of poverty in this portion of our country is much higher than that in most other areas. Bourgois argues that this neighborhood, which is well known for high rates of violence, does not have widespread violence occurring amongst all of its members. The higher crime rate, argues B...
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Heavy Metal T Shirt
1,030 wordsOh, so youre one of those people, she inquires, in a tone consisting of disdain and surprise, after telling her Im going to the Mudvayne and Ultraspank concert. She continues, so you get all dressed in leather and put in your nose ring to get ready, huh? I laugh, looking over my rather plain appearance of a Black Label Society t-shirt and jeans, wondering how many laughs I would get wearing leather and give a clearly sarcastic yeah answer. She looks clearly offended by my nature and explains tha...
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Tail Of A Meerkat Member Of The Mob Meerkats
1,080 wordsMeerkat, or their scientific name, Suricate, are small mammals that live in the desert where the food is scarce. In the desert, there are animals such as hawks, coyotes, snakes, and scorpions which all can either kill or harm a Meerkat really bad. With all the danger, the only defensive weapons that a Meerkat has are his own claws, which are only 2 centimeters long. Due to the extreme changes in temperature of the day and night of desert, there are few vegetation's or insects that can survive, a...
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Underground Railroad Slaves Escape
645 wordsThe underground railroad was a network of northerners that helped slaves reached the north and Canada for safety from their plantation. It was secret and railway terms were used to describe system as a way to hide the real nature of the operation. The underground railroad extended from Maine to Nebraska but was most concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indian, New York, and The New England States. More of the more specific spots were Detroit, Michigan, Erie, Pennsylvania, Buffalo and New York. Th...
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Plot Of The Story End Of The Book
737 wordsPlot A. The main idea of this story is for the colonists that landed on the new earth to get out of the terrain's (an alien life that lives on the planet) underground city, that was thought to be built a long time ago. 1. One event that is really important to the plot of the story was, the colonists were wondering in the dessert for days. They were running out of water, their best bet was to follow their tracers to the nearest body of water. An underground city was the closest thing to having wa...
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L U Taking Place
1,555 wordsWhile America sleeps safely at night, safe and secure in their world there is another world taking place, a more dangerous and wild world. A world going on right beneath their noses. Its taking place in their super markets, in empty whare houses, forgotten buildings, parks, and yes friends even there roller skating rinks. Many will never know hear about this world that usually takes place every Friday and Saturday. For it may be safer to not know, for if one knows one may be tempted to want to e...
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Historical Significance Of Grand Central Station
1,527 wordsWhen the words railroad station, are mentioned, the first thing that appears in most peoples minds is Grand Central Terminal in New York City. It has become known as the crossroads of the world. In the 1830 s it was becoming apparent that there was the need for an alternative to water travel because of the geographical expansion of the country. This lead to railroads, which could be extended easily, unlike canals that had to be dredged. From 1850 to the end of the nineteenth century, American ra...
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Brave New World Ministry Of Love
1,807 wordsGeorge Orwell 1984 - a book report by Olivier Still -Author: George Orwell (his real name was Eric Blair), was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Burma in the Indian Imperial Police, the following two years he lived in Paris and after that went back to England as a schoolteacher. Later he worked in a bookshop and went to Spain in 1937 to fight for the Republicans, but was wounded. During WW II he was a member of the Home Guard and worked for the BBC. I...
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Mother Post Modern
1,435 wordsPost Modern Indigo Amber Hutchison Post Modern Fiction Indigo February 23, 2000 People are born with passion. The irony is that most people spend all their lives searching for that passion without looking inside that soul to the heart of the passion. The trick to discovering that passion is to find what makes us happy. For Indigo the main character of Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by her passion lies in the music she creates from her soul while using her violin as her tool. From a modern literar...
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Edgar Allan Poe Cask Of Amontillado
1,498 wordsWhen picking a topic for my research paper. I thought of many different ideas. I started to think about my interests is reading literature, and I decided to write about my favorite author Edgar Allan Poe. This paper is going to look at Poe from a psychological perspective. There seems to be few attempts to look at the psychological causes of humor in Poe's work, and how his personal life may have had an impact on his writings. Many of Poe's tales are distinguished by the authors unique grotesque...
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Female Genital Mutilation Woman
1,715 wordsThesis Female Genital Mutilation OUTLINE Thesis Statement: The continued? underground? practice of FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) must be stopped in order to protect women throughout the world from a useless, unnecessary procedure that has been supported by male dominating societies as a means of control, at the expense, and lives, of women. I. Millions of girls and women have been mutilated by the practice of FGM A. Model Waris Dirie shares her story of FGM and the consequences it has had on h...
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Soviet Union Currency Exchange
2,332 wordsThere is evidence of Finland being inhabited as early as 10. 000 years ago. Those inhabitant's main occupation was hunting and fishing. They came to Finland by different routes through Karelia and over the sea from the west and the south. There are many language groups: the Finnish, the Finnish Swedish (coastal area, the? land islands), the Lapps (Lapland) and the Romany. There are two official languages in Finland Finnish and Swedish. At present the population amounts to a little over 5 million...
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Underground Economy Pollution Caused
336 wordsGDP As a Measure of the Economy The GDP is not a sufficient gauge of how the nations economy is doing. The GDP is a sum of the monetary value of what has been produced in the nation in the past year. The formula for calculating the GDP ignores a large percentage of the activities that transpire in the nations economy. The formula ignores several things as work done in the home and activities in the underground economy. In general, the GDP includes several items that in reality do not indicate th...
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Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad
1,633 wordsHarriet Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman Harriet Tubman was a poor slave girl who ran away from her plantation at the age of 28. Throughout the course of her life many people and many things challenged her. Each situation she was faced with tested either her mental or physical strength, usually both. She persevered through all of her trials stronger and wiser, and was willing to always help others through their own. Not one to instigate unless extremely necessary, Harriet was known for her quick th...
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Heart Of The Wood Lighting Lamps Eyes
945 wordsHeart Of The Wood The mole reached his porch by late afternoon. The door was neatly built into the hollow of an old tree, with double steps fitted into the thick roots, upon which new fallen leaves lay in all shades of green. He swept them away with his foot and turned the key. The entrance hall was round and wide, rising twenty feet to a second hollow. Warm sunlight shone through this window, dusky rays of soft gold. For a moment he saw her there, gliding in, downy wings of purest white. He sig...
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Beam Of Light Chichen Itza
1,009 wordsNoor Al-Kuwari Chichen Itza, The Maya Deep within the jungle of Mexico and extending into the limestone shelf of the Yucatan peninsula lie the mysterious temple and pyramids of the Maya. While Europe was still in the midst of the dark ages, these amazing people had mapped the heavens, evolved the only true writing system native to the Americas and were masters of mathematics. They invented the calendars we use today. Across a huge jungle landscape with an amazing degree of architectural perfecti...
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Ellison Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
1,225 wordsJames B. Lane s article Underground to manhood: Ralph Ellison s Invisible Man has many important points. All of these points connect to the theme of the Invisible Man, the search for the identity. The article discusses such issues as Ellison s use of symbolism in the novel and what it represents to the invisible man, Ellison s fundamental assumption of the problem, which leads the main character to the new understanding of the world, and invisible man s values and how these values helped to find...
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Island Of Iwo Jima Island Of Iwo Marines
718 wordsThe Battle for Iwo Jima The battle for control of the island of Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles in both Marine and American history, began February 19 th, 1945 as part of the island-hopping campaign of the Pacific theater. Ultimately, 26, 000 Marines would be wounded or slain exceeding Union losses at the battle of Gettysburg. Beginning in the summer of 1944, long range American B- 29 s had been pounding the Japanese islands. However, because of the great distances from U. S. bomber bases...
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People To Feel Uss Eldridge Montauk
900 wordsOn Montauk Point Montauk Point On the South-easternmost tip of Long Island, lies the small fishing hamlet of Montauk Pt, NY. Quiet and sparsely inhabited during the cold winter months of the bare season, it sits alone. Each summer season the population swells with a wave a tourists, fisherman, and others who are fortunate to have residence during this beautiful season. The largest attraction, a seaside historic landmark, is the lighthouse. This extravagant structure, was commissioned by our Firs...
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