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Oedipus At Colonus Oedipus The King
859 words
& # 9; In 495 B. C. there was a child born
about a mile outside of Athens. This child was to
be named Sophocles. He was a boy whose father was
a wealthy merchant. He now had the opportunity to
enjoy all of life's greatest expectations in the
Greek empire. Being that he was from a wealthy
family, he had the chance to study all of the
arts. By the time Sophocles reached his late
teens, he was already known for his charm and
elegance and was honored by being chosen to lead a
challenging group o...
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Engine Room Men Died
710 words
The USS Indianapolis (CA- 35) was commissioned at
the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 15 November 1932.
The ship served with honor from Pearl Harbor
through the last campaign of World War II, sinking
in action two weeks before the end of the war. On
30 July 1945, while sailing from Guam to Leyte,
Indianapolis was torpedoed by Japanese submarine
I- 58. The ship capsized and sank in twelve
minutes. Survivors were spotted by a patrol
aircraft on 2 August. All air and surface units
capable of rescue opera...
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Hide And Seek Home Base
621 words
It was a hot summer night and all of my friends
and I had decided to get a big game of hide and
seek going down at the park. This was going to be
the biggest game we had ever organized. This game
consisted of about 16 people, which was a lot for
the size of our neighborhood. This had been what
we all had prepared for. All those late nights in
the neighborhood strategizing and organizing plans
to safety. Finally their was chance to prove our
skill at this game, hunters versus the hunted. I
rememb...
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Martin Luther King Jr Affirmative Action Programs
1,014 words
... th a tremendous drawback. The negative aspect
can be attributed to the words of Supreme Court
Judge John Marshall Harlan. Asserting that 'our
Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor
tolerates classes among citizens, ' he expressed
the justified fear that the majority of the court
was consigning black citizens of the United States
to a permanent 'condition of legal inferiority. '
Justice Harlan's declaration, that blacks would
not become equals unless measures were taken,
proved to...
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Greek Philosopher Sense Perception
1,432 words
One Greek philosopher, Parmenides posits that to
think is the same as to be and that knowledge is
certainty. Like Descartes, Parmendies believes
that to know is to know with certainty. However,
Descartes' method of attaining knowledge is
through doubt, whereas Parmendies' manner is
through identifying with the circumstance. One can
associate Parmendies' definition of knowledge as
being eternal, unchanging, single, and
homogeneous. Parmendies lays out the two
requirements for achieving knowledge ...
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Lady Talla House Face Into Lady Talla Drec
1,234 words
"Correct, " replied Lady Talla, the elderly
Mythology teacher who also owned the town brothel,
"Drec, wake up and pay attention!"How can I pay
attention to the same thing every year? You
teachers need to teach us new things, " Drec
barked. It was the day before Halloween and since
this was the first year that Drec was too old to
go Trick-or-Treating, he and Sebastian decided to
dress up and petrify the local kids. They climbed
into Sebastian's Bronco and headed for the local
costume parlor. Drec...
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Phoenix Jackson Hostile Environment
1,075 words
In A Worn Path by Eudora Welty an elderly African
American woman named Phoenix Jackson picks a cold
December day to make yet another perilous journey
to a near by city to get medicine for her ailing
grandson. On the way this old woman faces many
obstacles, both natural and man-made. Phoenix
draws upon her perseverance and willingness to
sacrifice herself to help her throughout her
journey, but it is the undying love for her
grandson that truly guides and drives her to her
final goal. She is desc...
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Realized That Siddhartha Siddhartha Believed Money
557 words
After listening to Gotama's teachings, Siddhartha
had an awakening. He thought, "The reason why I do
not know anything about myself, the reason why
Siddhartha has remained alien and unknown to
myself is due to one thing, to one single thing-I
was afraid of myself, I was fleeing from myself. "
He realized that he was seeking Brahman and wished
to destroy himself rather than finding and getting
to know himself. This awakening set Siddhartha
onto another stage in his journey. During the
beginning o...
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Process Of Learning Speed Limit
639 words
Part of being a human being is learning from our
mistakes. It is a natural process that we all
experience at various periods of our lives. For
instance, throughout the process of learning how
to solve mathematics problems, the only method is
to practice solving the problems. During this
process of solving the problems, it is only
natural to make mistakes. By comparison, in life
in general, the only way to learn to become a
better person is by correcting the mistakes that
were previously experien...
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Battle Stations Graduation Hall Navy
906 words
On the night of September 30 th 1999, I was about
to begin what would seem to be the longest night
of my life. Weeks of physical, mental, and
emotional training would climax and end after this
final test. A test of endurance, teamwork, mental
focus, and most of all courage was about to begin.
Thoughts raced through my head as I anxiously
prepared myself. Will I remember everything I have
been trained? Will my shipmates let me down? Some
had dreaded this night for weeks; others awaited
its arriva...
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Third Largest Net Income
778 words
The Kmart as we know today wasnt always the
nations second largest discount retailer and the
worlds third largest general merchandise retailer.
Kmart was born in 1899 by the ideas of S. S.
Kresge. Mr. Kresge opened a variety store in
Detroit and sold everything for 5 and 10 cents.
These low prices appealed to the shoppers and
brought success to this variety store. In 1912,
Mr. Kresge had already opened 85 stores and was
incorporated in Delaware. S. S. Kresge Company was
then reincorporated in Mi...
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Christian Church Growth Persecution
582 words
Many Gentiles also read it and became familiar
with the tenets of the Jewish faith. This fact is
indicated by accounts of the numerous proselytes
to Judaism. With all of these factors in place,
the growth of Christianity was rapid. Jews from
all parts of the Mediterranean world were present
at Jerusalem to observe t Feast of Penecost at the
time of the founding of the church. Peter made
this the occasion for the first and possibly most
fruitful sermon ever preached, the declaration of
Christ's m...
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Hellenistic Period Classical Period
955 words
Greek art has gone through many stages through out
the course of its history. Over the years, the
Greeks strived to perfect the faces, bodies as
well as the human form in their sculptures. They
experimented with many types of techniques.
Archaic Period was the beginning of the
advancement into a more realistic depiction of the
human form for the Greeks. The Early Classical
Period is a time where sculptors are trying to
depict the human body in the most realistic
fashion as possible. In the Early...
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Nypd Shooting Of Amadou Diallo
969 words
Police brutality remains one of the most serious
and divisive human rights violations in the United
States. The excessive use of force by police
officers persists because of overwhelming barriers
to accountability. This fact makes it possible for
officers who commit human rights violations to
escape punishment and often to repeat their
offenses. Police or public officials greet each
new report of brutality with denials or explain
that the act was an aberration, while the
administrative and crimi...
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First World War Progressive Movement
748 words
Carl C. Gregory Dr. Thomas Green 23 February 1999
History Kennedy s Theory David Kennedy does a good
job in explaining the changes in American society
during the first World War in his book Over Here.
Kennedy goes into deep discussion of how the First
World War and progressive movement combined to
change early twentieth century society. With
Kennedy s report of how the war effort is in
Europe, the American people begin to shift their
thoughts on the war. Even though America remained
a neutral co...
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Shatter Her Illusion Hagar Is Depressed Laurence
1,412 words
At one time in life, every individual is faced
with the horrible fact of death. Death is a
subject that everyone fears because they associate
death with their end and not a new beginning. In
The Stone Angel, by Margaret Laurence, Hagar is no
different. When she faces the reality of the
implications of growing old she is faced with a
journey, not one of her choice but one of destiny.
Through her journey Hagar goes through the five
different stages leading up towards death: denial,
anger, bargaini...
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Beach Boys Wilson
826 words
The Beach Boys The Beach Boys formed in 1961. The
band members are; Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson
who are all brothers, Al Jardine and Mike Love.
All but Al Jardine lived in Los Angela's. They
were first called the Pendletones which was a
shirt brand, but a record label executive named
them the Beach Boys. One of their first big hits
was? Surfin? that was credited for starting the?
surfing craze. ? 1962 they released the album
Surfin Safari with the song? Surfin Safari?
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Governor Of Ceuta Mission Of Discovery Henry
1,640 words
Henry the Navigator Henry was the third son of
King John I and Philippa of Lancaster, the
daughter of John of Gaunt of England. Henry and
his older brothers, the princes of Duarte and
Pedro, were educated under the supervision of
their parents; they were taught soldiering,
statecraft, and the appreciation of literature.
The starting point of Henrys career was the
capture of the Moroccan city of Ceuta in 1415.
According to Henrys enthusiastic biographer, Gomes
Eanes de Zurara, the three princes p...
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Siddhartha Inward Journey Learns Many Things Life
930 words
Siddhartha's Inward Journey Siddhartha was written
by Hermann Hesse, as a fictional adventure for the
body and soul. Siddhartha was once an intelligent
boy who dared to think of something more.
Siddhartha is now an enlightened man, who dared to
think of something more. Siddhartha traveled
though life the best he knew how, and many times
he did all he could. Siddhartha's inward journey,
from innocence to guilt and despair, then finally
to destruction or salvation, and how the book
reflects this a...
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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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