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Gas Station License Plate
1,900 words
Mary and Peter Jackson were driving down highway
50 in the middle of Nevada when Collie Entragian,
the Desperation police officer, pulled them over
for having a missing rear license plate. He told
Peter that he could take the front license plate
off and put it on the back and they should be ok.
Peter went to the trunk of the car to get a tool
kit under the spare tire. When he lifted up the
tire to get the tools, Entragian and Peter found a
bag of marijuana. Entragian started to get violent
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State Of Nature Supreme Court
1,507 words
... find themselves in a predicament such as
explorers, you can be sure decisions on whether to
live or die will not be controlled by the contents
of our law. Therefore, the statute in question
does not at all apply to the case at hand such as
the self defense plea. Foster's conclusions is
that the defendants are innocent of the murder of
Whetmore, and the conviction should be set aside.
Justice Tatting finds himself letting his own
emotions get the better of him when viewing this
case. He finds...
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Allegory Of The Cave Dream World
486 words
Allegories are small stories that deal with big
ideas and hopefully help people reach the state of
being enlightened. In Allegory of the Cave, a
person was enlightened. Enlightened is when you
have learned or found something new that amazes
you or leaves you in horror. You may believe it to
be true or not but you dont go on living the same
as before. You may be forced to see the real world
and be enlightened by everything there is. There
are many people living in the cave. They are all
chained u...
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Order To Survive Survival Pack
792 words
The book Hatchet, is about a typical 13 year old
boy, whose parents are divorced. He tries to cope
with his parents divorce but it is hard for him.
He is not happy about his mother's new boyfriend
either. Brian is very excited to go and visit his
father in the Canadian wilderness. But the only
problem is, he has to fly there. He is scared of
flying, but he goes anyway. Brian's mother drove
him to the airport. In the car, she gave him a
hatchet and told him to put it in his belt buckle.
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Beautiful Island Perfect Island Big
551 words
Theres a beautiful island in front of me. Its so
beautiful that I think I am in a dream. I am
sitting on the beach, and I cant remember what
happened to me. I think no one cares about what
happened when he or she is in such a perfect
island. I am a little hungry, and I should find
some food. Though there is a beautiful island, I
dont think I can eat something there. At the
moment, a big animal which I have never seen
before moves towards me. It looks like a wolf, but
I am sure its not a wolf. It...
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Sam And Eric Dead Airman
2,850 words
... , particularly those of the little ones, and
Piggy joins in his efforts. Jack, however, rudely
interrupts, talks about beasts, and fans the
flames of fright. Simon tries to explain that the
only beast present amongst them is the beast in
their hearts, but the boys only laugh at him. As
the darkness spreads, their fears grow more
intense and they tell monster stories. Before
long, the whole group, gripped by fear, is out of
control. The meeting turns chaotic with everyone
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Theory Of Justice Allegory Of The Cave
878 words
I am going to describe Plato's theory of justice
and sophist theory of justice in relation to a
happy life. I will describe Plato's theory on form
and how things derive their being or essence from
it and an analysis of the Allegory of the cave.
Plato says that justice, in short, is a virtue, a
human excellence. His next point is that acting in
accordance with excellence brings happiness. Then
he ties excellence to one's function. His examples
are those of the senses -- each sensory organ is
exce...
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F Distinctive Features Images F Handprints Art
920 words
Ever since the beginning of the humankind history
people were trying to express their thoughts and
feelings, and deliver them to the next
generations. The first examples of the art form
are dated back to the prehistoric ages. The
paintings on the cave walls is just one of the
many forms of art that managed to live through the
many centuries. Sometime between 30, 000 and 40,
000 thousand years ago modern humans began
creating the first signs ever created on earth.
These signs were something ther ...
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The Mine In Animal Dreams
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The Mine in Animal Dreams The mine in the novel
Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver plays two
roles. These two roles are in direct opposition to
each other. In one sense the mines are a provider
of fertility to the region. It provides jobs and
money to the surrounding area. In another sense it
is the destructor of fertility because it pollutes
the local water, making it unsuitable to use. This
is especially devastating because this is the only
local supply of water, for both the residents and
th...
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Curley Wife Lennie
4,140 words
OF MICE AND MEN IS A NOVEL WHICH EXPLORES THE
BURDENS OF RESPONSIBILITY AS MUCH AS ITS REWARDS.
By evaluating the novel of mice and men carefully
I have found that every character in the novel has
a facet of life that consists of burdens and
responsibilities. The characters in the novel
basically have three options in which they can
live their lives. They can knuckle down, work
hard, keep a positive frame of mind and try
earnestly to improve their standard of living. An
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Gods And Goddesses Greeks Believed
1,335 words
Odysseus: A Hero Heroism was not an invention of
the Greeks. Yet, through the first hundreds years
of their civilization, the Greek literature has
already given birth to highly polished and complex
long epics that revolved around heroes. These
literature works gave many possibilities of
definition of heroism. The Greeks illustrated
heroism to obey the rules laid down by the gods
and goddesses, and those who obey the rules would
gain honor and fame. The Greeks regarded
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Ebola Zaire Ebola Virus
1,560 words
The Ebola Virus Descriptions of the Ebola virus:
The Ebola virus is a complicating object (viruses
not being considered living creatures, so it is an
object). Named after the Ebola River, the Ebola
virus particle contains seven different proteins
of which only three have vaguely known purposes.
While the exact function of the other four
proteins are still unknown, we do know that they
attack immune system. Ebola is known to jump hosts
and known to be lethal to both monkeys and humans.
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World War Ii Back And Forth
5,910 words
The English Patient She stands up in the garden
where she has been working and looks into the
distance. She has sensed a shift in the weather.
There is another gust of wind, a buckle of noise
in the air, and the tall cypresses sway. She turns
and moves uphill toward the house, climbing over a
low wall, feeling the first drops of rain on her
bare arms. She crosses the loggia and quickly
enters the house. In the kitchen she doesnt pause
but goes through it and climbs the stairs which
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Exposed To The Virus Ebola Zaire
1,027 words
Reston Maryland which is a suburb of Washington
DC. and the second major area is in Kenya Africa.
The story takes place in the 1980 s. Main
Characters: Since this story is a true story there
is no one character that is a main character. The
author does not create the story around any one
main character so Ill just list every character I
can remember from the book. 1. Charles Monet: He
was the first host to the deadly ebola virus
breakout in Africa. He was 56 years old and was
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Death And Rebirth Light And Dark
1,243 words
The Odyssey, by Homer, is a classical piece of
Greek literature. Throughout The Odyssey, Homer
makes use of many literary techniques in order to
give meaning to the poem beyond its significance
as a work of historic fiction and help his readers
in the comprehension of the story. One of these
techniques is the use of motifs. In The Odyssey,
perhaps the most important of Homers motifs is the
symbolic death and rebirth theme. This motif is
used throughout The Odyssey to emphasize the
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Jackson Island Tom And Huck
981 words
Mark Twain: Structure Mark Twain has been
criticized for many years on his loose structure
in his novels. Structure did not seem to conform
Twain? s style. ? The plot in The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, is not tight knit, yet is a series of
adventures strung together. ? It has both unity
time and place along with a unique unity amongst
the characters. Organization of Tom? s life in St.
Petersburg over a period of several months during
summer. Just to add some spice, Twain occasionally
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Perfect State Lead One
1,980 words
Oh, Divine Poetry In his Republic, Plato seems to
condemn art, especially written art, as evil and
does not allow its presence in his ideal polis.
Plato writes that art has the power to corrupt and
teach its audience ignoble ways. He writes that it
can only ever be an imitation of reality and thus
is far from the true and the Good. Interestingly,
however, in his Phaedrus, Plato seems to speak
opposite this view of art as evil. In fact, he
proclaims inspiration by the Muses divine actually
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View Of Reality Plato Allegory
395 words
1. Plato's Allegory of the Caves. 2. In Book VII
of The Republic, Plato tells a story entitled The
Allegory of the Caves. In this story he describes
a dark underground cave where a group of people
are sitting in one long row with their backs to
the caves entrance. Bound to their chairs since
childhood, all the humans can see is the distant
cave wall in front of them with shadows being
displayed. Their view of reality is solely based
upon this rather limited view of moving shadows.
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Allegory Of The Cave Light Of The Sun
442 words
Plato was born 427 BC and died 347 BC He was a
pupil under Socrates. During his studies, Plato
wrote the Dialogues, which are a collection of
Socrates teachings. One of the parables included
in the Dialogues is The Allegory of the Cave. The
Allegory symbolizes mans struggle to reach
understanding and enlightenment. First of all,
Plato believed that one can only learn through
dialectic reasoning and open-mindedness. Humans
had to travel from the visible realm of
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Oxford Oxford University Kind Of Life
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In his works, Plato writes about truth, justice,
and reality in full detail. His ideas are greatly
deep and persuasively argued. It is from him that
all western philosophy is a footnote. He describes
his view in a series of numerous dialogues. For my
report, I have chosen four of his works to study,
which I think were his most important. The
Republic is a dialogue composed of 10 books. The
theme in its entirety is justice. The characters
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