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Olympic Sport Martial Arts Judo
813 wordsJudo is different things to different people. Simply translated, Judo means the gentle way. To most people, thats all it means. To some, they know it simply as an Austin Powers lethal maneuver, but to many others around the world, it means so much more. It is a fun sport, an art, a discipline, a recreational or social activity, a fitness program, a means of self-defense or combat, and a way of life. Theres an ancient history behind Judo and many misunderstood beliefs about the art, some of which...
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Reader Get Inside Letting A Reader Get Inside Wells
1,019 wordsFirstly, dramatic tension is a literary device designed to provoke fear, suspense or excitement in a reader. Both Bradbury and Wells use it in their respective texts however they do not use it in identical ways. Many similarities can be drawn between the texts but there are crucial differences in the use of this device that are not so evident. Characterisation is used by Bradbury to bring many different profiles to the reader we have the emotional bordering on hysterical Francine, Helen who appe...
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Scene From Hamlet Laerties And Ophelia Walk
414 wordsMany different directors have made Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, into a movie. In this case, I am going to compare a scene from Hamlet directed by Kenneth Branaugh to another scene from Hamlet starring Mel Gibson. The scene I am comparing is when Laerties is giving Ophelia advice about Hamlets love for her. In Kenneth Branaughs version, Laerties and Ophelia are outside the castle in the snow-covered garden. The camera stays very close up to their faces as they walk arm in arm and discuss Hamle...
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Bugs Moran Johnny Torrio
1,080 words... Brewery. Knowing full well that there was going to be a raid, O'Banion arranged to close the deal with Torrio at the brewery. Not only did Torrio end up in jail, but O'Banion refused to return the money for a now padlocked brewery. Even worse, he bragged about how he had tricked Torrio. His fate was sealed. Dion's flower shop Mike Merlo, the head of the Unione Sicilana in Chicago, a group that provided national cover to gangsters of that era, died of cancer. A huge funeral was planned in whi...
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Year Old Shaker Aunt Matty Robert
1,009 wordsRobert, a twelve-year-old Shaker boy, leaves school without permission, in order to avoid a fight, because he is being teased on the playground for his strange clothes and strange ways. Not wanting to go home and get in trouble for cutting classes, he goes out into the field above his house. There he finds Apron, Mr. Tanner's prize calf, in pain and misery as she tries to give birth to a calf. Since Robert is a kind and helpful farm boy, he assists Apron in delivering the calf. When she begins t...
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Hollow Cedar Tree Love With Hatsue Ishmael
704 wordsIn the novel Snow falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, the theme of the novel is the love conflict between Ishmael and Hatsue. Ishmael is in love with Hatsue from when they are very little to when they are grown up. Ishmael thinks that Hatsue will love him just like he loves her. As children Ishmael and Hatsue play together in a hollow cedar tree. They have many memories in the hollow cedar tree, which turn into many complications about racial issues. Ishmael is in love with Hatsue as soon as h...
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Black Veil Secret Sin
1,349 words... added, except by a council of the churches, if, indeed, it might not require a general synod. But there was one person in the village un-appalled by the awe with which the black veil had impressed all beside herself. When the deputies returned without an explanation, or even venturing to demand one, she, with the calm energy of her character, determined to chase away the strange cloud that appeared to be settling round Mr. Hooper, every moment more darkly than before. As his plighted wife, i...
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Intelligence Agency President Truman
562 wordsFor some time I have been disturbed by the way the CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational arm and at times a policy making arm of the government President Harry S. Truman, December 1963. What president Truman meant by this statement was that when the Central Intelligence Agency first came about in 1947, its original intent was to further the foreign policies of the United States government by covert means, while containing the spread of its sworn enemy c...
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Joy Luck Club Chinese Culture
1,224 wordsMany, if not all people, at one time or another in their lives resent their mothers. In this novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan portrays four Chinese-American born daughters stories. Their trials and tribulations in dealing with their Chinese born mothers, culture and beliefs in 20 th century America are presented. Tan also portrays the flip side of how the mothers feel about their Americanized daughters. The Joy Luck Club has been on the New York Times best sellers list for nine months. The nove...
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Hear What Happened Flander Fields Mccrae
1,479 wordsJust north of the Danube River, west of Chartres, the earth is scarred with the trenches of the most vile and destructive conflict anyone has ever witnessed, or experienced. The earth, viewed from the heavens, has been disfigured to resemble the surface of the moon, with craters from the persistent onslaught of the German artillery. The shell smoke eclipses the sky and the only light is the man-made stars that light the horizon from the rifles and not the night sky as they have always been for t...
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Medicine Microsurgery Sew Small
889 wordsA man came into the emergency ward at one o'clock. His thumb came in an hour later. The surgeon's job: get them back together. The successful re-attaching of fingers to hand requires long hours of painstaking work in microsurgery. In the operating room, the surgeon doesn't stand, but sits in a chair that supports her body. Her arm is cradled by a pillow. Scalpels are present as are other standard surgical tools, but the suture threads are almost invisible, the needle thinner than a human hair. A...
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Lord Of The Rings Black Riders
1,103 words... etter for a certain Frodo Baggins, which Butterbur forgot to send to the Shire. Frodo and his company seem to match the description Gandalf gave to Butterbur, so he gives the letter to Frodo. Among other things, this letter contains Gandalf's advice to accept the help of a friend of his, a man called Strider (with the true name Aragorn), should they meet him. Thus Frodo decides to accept his help as a guide to Rivendell. Merry, who has earlier gone out to get some air, now returns and tells ...
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Russian Empire Arms Race
1,201 words... on but for the wrong reason, particularly every reviewer focused on this chapter "When the Russia Empire is Gone' (Drucker 1989, p 1). Many reviewers thought that the title sheer nonsense since the Soviet Empire was already falling apart; but Drucker, never attempted to prognosticate or forecast anything, but he attempted to describe the realities of our present world. By describing how the Russian Empire was falling apart, he gave us the time to develop a plan to face the effects of this im...
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Devoted His Life Main Character
1,636 wordsHamlet Hamlet is among the most famous tragical heroes in literature. The play was written in XVII century, but even now, reading it, we are amazed by strength and beauty of feelings of the main character. They play is interesting; it attracted attention of plenty of critics, the scientists from different fields of science. Their controversy about the play is still not finished, because William Shakespeare left for us the real puzzle to solve. Nowadays, the play was analyzed from the physiologic...
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Domain Names Los Alamos
1,670 words... But, if service providers want to keep their immunity that is granted to them by the Telecommunications Act, then they must successfully self-regulate and police their property without making themselves available to litigation. (Rosenoer, p. 223) If service providers police libel as seriously as they police spamming (the sending of unsolicited email messages), they would be well on the way to effectively policing themselves. Many have hypothesized that because of the global nature of the Int...
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Xvii Century Normal Person
1,762 wordsNowadays in our country we pay much attention to the mental health of the people. Psychologists and psychiatrists are considered to be the most important doctors. Today you can hardly find a person who doesnt need help in this area. It is understandable because our life is too difficult and the small nervous disorder that seems to be not essential can rise into the serious problem. Many people in our modern world are suffering from depressions, neurosis, manias and not all of them can receive th...
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Heart Rate Finish Line
1,431 wordsOn The Right Edge Anyone can do good when the going is good, but only someone special can do good when the going gets tough. Be that special person Someone who was on the edge BuzzzzzzThe noise was getting closer and finally I opened my eyes. Red neon lines flowed together, making 4: 00 am. I went downstairs to the kitchen to make coffee. Sipping caffeine I was enjoying every drop of the brown liquid, because it was my first cup of coffee for 45 days. Being very nervous in the evening, I had sle...
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Bob Marley Apr 2004
794 wordsSong Lyric Analysis Zimbabwe by Bob Marley "I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man. " Bob Marley The King of Reggae, Bob Marley was the first Jamaican artist who became famous all over the world and who popularized the culture and art of his country as no one had done, did and would do after him. Bob Marley was one of the founders of reggae, a style of music which was closely connected with Rastafari subculture and religious movement that arose in the ghettos of Kingston, Jama...
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Kansas City Star 30 A M
721 wordsErnest Hemingway lived his life as he wanted. His writing touched the hearts of millions. His sentences were short and to the point but his novels were strong and unforgettable. He wrote about what he felt like writing about. Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park Illinois on July 21, 1899... His parents were Dr. Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall Hemingway... His father was a practicing doctor, and later taught him how to hunt and fish. Hemingway did not have a good relationship with his mother. He...
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Compressed Air Game Played
1,114 wordsHave you ever played Paintball? Then you defiantly missed a look stuff. Paintball is about the coolest sport I know of. There is alot of rumors about it. Some people say its bad and violent and its supposed to glorify war. But the truth is, none of those lies are true. Paintball is a team game, it takes a lot of effort to succeed. Teamwork is one of the most important words. The fact that you play paintball with equipment that looks warlike is the only connection reminding of guns and war. But i...
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