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Ten Dollars Baseball Game
1,590 words
by mixed unknown authors The Lord's Baseball Game
Bob was caught up in the spirit where he and the
Lord stood by to observe a baseball game. The
Lord's team was playing Satan's team. The Lord's
team was at bat, the score was tied zero to zero,
and it was the bottom of the 9 th inning with two
outs. They continued to watch as a batter stepped
up to the plate whose name was Love. Love swung at
the first pitch and hit a single, because The next
batter was named Faith, who also got a single
because ...
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Hester And Pearl Hester Prynne
1,521 words
The story opens with Hester Prynne standing
silently on the scaffold in the middle of a town
square in 18 th century Boston. Hester, holding
her small child in her arms, is publicly on trial
for adultery. The town people, especially the
women, are not happy that Hester has been
sentenced only to wear a scarlet letter and to
stand on a public platform for a few hours of
public humiliation. However, the judge has decided
to be merciful to her because, over all, she has
been a good citizen up to th...
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Front Lines Medical Personnel
1,393 words
A Presentation of the issue Technology is seen as
a factor contributing to human well being,
improving quality of life, progress against
disease, discomfort. But it is also the cause of
loss of lives; by enabling the creation of the
most dangerous weapons. When dealing with
technology we always question ourselves on how
reliable or secure the technology is. Yet, we have
encountered situations were the developed programs
or software worked perfectly despite the amount of
questions it raised. Toda...
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Aluminum Foil Magnetic Force
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Summary of Investigation An investigation was
carried out to find out the relationship between
the force created in a wire (or solenoid) when
current flowed through it and the force from
gravity. This was investigated by connecting a
solenoid up to a variable power pack and then
placing a light ring of either copper or aluminum
around the solenoid. When the current flows
through the solenoid, a magnetic force created
from the solenoid should make the ring 'jump' up
or levitate. When carrying out...
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight Stanza 74
1,330 words
In stanza 74, fit III, the lady of the castle
offers a magical, green girdle to Sir Gawain and
explains to him that the wearer of this corset
cannot be killed by any cunning on earth. Sir
Gawain, amidst an ethical dilemma, accepts the
gift and chooses to conceal it from Lord Bertilak.
This passage contains three of the main themes of
the story the inner and outer conflicts between
Sir Gawain's ethics and desire to live, and the
test of religion. When Sir Gawain is offered the
girdle, his knightl...
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Ajax Patroclus Aeneas And Hector In Iliad
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h 2 >The Lesser Ajax: The son of the king
of Locrians Oelius and Eriopis. He was one of the
heroes who fought against Troy as commander of the
Locrians, bringing forty ships. A different
derivation is mostly used for his name: of the
earth from aia the poetic form of the word gaia
meaning earth. Sophocles related the name to
amazon, to wail, cry ah. (1) When the city of Troy
is about to be conquered by Achaeans, the daughter
of Priam: Cassandra was sheltered in the temple of
Athena. She ...
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Studies Have Shown Blood Vessels
1,197 words
Biological regeneration has been studied over the
years, in salamanders, and biological imitations
of life. Through research on the mitotic
capabilities of certain animals, to the DNA and
hormones that make regeneration possible,
scientists are slowly finding a way so that humans
can regenerate lost or missing limbs, or grow
organs used to save millions of lives in the
future. Because being able to reproduce a limb or
body part is dependent on nerves, scientists have
found it vital to perform es...
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World War I Ace Manfred Von Richthofen
871 words
Throughout the course of history, many wars have
taken place. Among these wars, World War I
particularly stands out for having contained
several war aces and heroes. Some of these aces
include Captain Ren Food of France, Major Edward
Manner of Britain, Manfred von Richthofen of
Germany, and Eddie Rickenbacker of America (21:
26). However, the one hero that stands out the
most is the famous Red Baron or Manfred von
Richthofen. Manfred von Richthofen, a German
aviator, was very prominent and well ...
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Foreign Hands Thy Died In Battle Pope
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In Alexander Popes poem Elegy to the Memory of an
Unfortunate Lady, Pope uses a great amount of
war-like imagery to enhance his vision of the
suicide described. He creates allies and enemies,
weapons and invasions, as well as the gruesome
death that only seems to come from war. These
pieces add to the overall meaning of the work and
the vision of the event that has occurred, giving
the reader an image of a battle occurring. The
first images of the war or battle are that of the
victim of battle. ...
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Lose Weight Thirty Percent
654 words
Gastric Exclusion Operations Over thirty percent
of the US population is currently obese. A scary
statistic. Contrary to popular belief, obesity is
not a psychological, nor an eating disorder.
Obesity is a hereditary disease, that can not be
treated by Jenny Craig, or Weight Watchers.
Surgery for obesity should not be considered only
as a last resort. Right now surgery is the only
effective treatment for obesity. One type of
surgical treatment is gastric exclusion. There are
four questions that ...
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Couldn T Wasn T
939 words
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL? A wound becomes a scar that
goes away or stays forever; of course, this
depends on how deep the wound is. Scars that are
permanent are usually unpleasant to see and cause
embarrassment. Though scars usually occur on the
skin they can also make their mark on the heart.
Scars to the heart are not made physically but
emotionally. It is said that these types of scars
are permanent if not deadly due to their cause. I
found that out one day while I was taking full
advantage of rece...
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First Degree Murder Put An End
1,068 words
The Affect of Racism 9; In a community of
" five thousand damp souls" (Guterson 5)
as described by David Guterson in his novel, Snow
Falling on Cedars. A community that concentrated a
variety of ethnicity, among them was both Whites
and Japanese. As a result of the racial
differences, racism has came into existences and
have impacted the life of both children and adult
in that isolated island called San Pedro. It is
responsible for the internment of Kabuo, Hatsue,
and their families...
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Healing Powers Ancient Greek
1,882 words
In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, a mystical
creature known as the unicorn made many
appearances. As described throughout much of
literature, the unicorn is reputed to look
somewhat like a white horse, although it has a
long, twisted horn protruding from its forehead. 1
The earliest description of the unicorn was by
Ctesias (400 BC) (The New Book of Knowledge, Vol.
U-V 19: 391). Unicorns have cloven hooves that are
somewhat yellow in color; some are said to have a
lion-like tail. Male unicor...
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Sun Also Rises Man Of Action
759 words
Ernest Hemingway is a renowned American author of
the Twentieth century who centers his novels
around personal experiences and affections. He is
one of the authors named The Lost Generation. He
could not cope with post-war America, and
therefore he introduced a new type of character in
writing called the code hero. Hemingway is known
to focus his novels around code heroes who
struggle with the mixture of their tragic faults
and the surrounding environment. Traits of a
typical Hemingway Code Hero...
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Red Badge Of Courage Color Red
1,488 words
The Red Badge of Courage, by its very title, is
invested in color imagery and color symbols. While
Crane uses color to describe, he also allows it to
stand for whole concepts. Gray, for example,
describes the both the literal image of a dead
soldier and Henry Flemings vision of the sleeping
soldiers as corpses and comes to stand for the
idea of death. In the same way, red describes both
the soldiers physical wounds and Flemings mental
visions of battle. In the process, it gains a
symbolic meanin...
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Henry Fleming Civil War
791 words
Bullets began to whistle among the branches and
nip at the trees it was as if a thousand axes, wee
and invisible, were being wielded. Henry Fleming
says as he describes the terrible ordeals of war
in The Red Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane, the
author of this novel, hadn t been an actual
soldier in any war, but he was able to accurately
portray battle scenes of war. Crane was also able
to thoroughly develop his protagonist, Henry
Fleming, in the novel from first hand accounts of
actual Civil War...
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Red Badge Of Courage Jim Conklin
1,728 words
The Red Badge of Courage is the story of a young
man named Henry Fleming. The novel concerns only
two days in his life and he is a boy when the
novel begins, a man when the novel ends. He
enlists in the 304 th Regiment of New York
Volunteers against his mothers wishes, and spends
many boring months in training. He is sent into
battle finally. The battle of Chancellorville is
the agreed upon location where the book probably
takes place. It is mentioned that he travels along
the Arappahanock River...
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Red Badge Of Courage Henry Fleming
978 words
Growing Up Throughout the novel The Red Badge of
Courage, Henry Fleming is in a constant struggle
between his illusions of war and reality. When
Henry first decides to enlist their is a
perception of war that he has in his mind; he
later finds out that war is not as glorious and
courageous as his mind had perceived. As the novel
progresses Henry comes to realize that his
idealized notions of war and death, for his
country, were all illusions he was creating for
himself. Being a young man from a ...
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Arthur Court Faith In God
1,364 words
In stanza 74, fit III, the lady of the castle
offers a magical, green girdle to Sir Gawain and
explains to him that the wearer of this corset?
cannot be killed by any cunning on earth. ? Sir
Gawain, amidst an ethical dilemma, accepts the
gift and chooses to conceal it from Lord Bertilak.
This passage contains three of the main themes of
the story? the inner and outer conflicts between
Sir Gawain? s ethics and desire to live, and the
test of religion. When Sir Gawain is offered the
girdle, his kn...
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Heart Love Life
391 words
Love bears all the happiness and all the pain;
true satisfaction will come from loving another
with all your heart. My mother always told me to
remember that because that to her creates and
embodies the genuine essence of life. Those words
still echo through my head like ringing chime
bells lost in the mist. She never hurt another
soul, nobody as kind as she. Then she left me that
night, no word of good bye or any wave, or hug.
Nights after that I cry myself to sleep, the
anguish so harsh, the w...
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