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Mein Kampf Nazi Ideology
1,192 words
When Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30
th 1933, know-one could have predicted how rapid
his rise to dictatorship would have been. Within
months, Hitler had gone from being Chancellor to
achieving a one party state. Although his ideology
for Germany was mostly far-fetched and virtually
impossible to accomplish he was very consistent on
most of his objectives, such as the development of
an Aryan race, anti-Semitism and the concept of
Lebensraum to name but a few. I plan to outline
thes...
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Teenagers Drugs And Peer Pressure
1,269 words
Drug use is an increasing problem among teenagers
in today's high schools. Most drug use begins in
the teenage years, these years are the most
crucial in the maturing process. During these
years adolescents are faced with the difficult
tasks of discovering their self identity,
clarifying their sexual roles, assenting
independence, learning to cope with authority
figures and searching for goals that would give
their lives meaning. Drugs are readily available,
adolescents are curious and venerable...
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Ode On A Grecian Urn Ode To A Nightingale
963 words
This is one of the most discussed of Keats's odes
because of the ambiguity of the closing lines. To
determine their meaning, however, one must
consider the whole poem. The poet begins by
addressing the urn, a large sculpted vessels that
is unlike any real urn. Keats made up the figure
on the urn from a variety of sources among Greek
works of art. STANZA 1. The poet speaks of two
qualities of the urn. As an "un ravished bride" it
is a perfect object, unmarked by the passage of
time. As a "sylvan ...
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Abraham Lincoln Dark Haired
1,446 words
The year 1866 is an important time in nautical
history. It is the year that the world was first
terrified by an amazing ocean going monster, the
Nautilus. During that year several ships had met
with this "thing, " a long slender object far
greater in size than any creature known to man.
After numerous sightings and the pass of many
months the "monster" began attacking any vessel
that drew near. This alarmed all the world's
nations and the United States decided that they
would send out the Abraha...
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Macbeth Decisions Of An Ambitious King
1,097 words
The play of Macbeth is one, which involves the
depiction of Fate compared to free will. The play
shows the struggle of one mans determination to be
king. Despite all forces involved in Macbeth, it
is only Macbeth who is the controlling force in
his destruction. In the first act of the play
Macbeth and Banquo come across three witches,
which proclaim their fates. Macbeth is intrigued
by the prophecies and listens on. His choice to
take the fates as truth is evident when he says to
Banquo, Your ch...
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Grassy Knoll Kennedys Assassination
1,237 words
... et that wounded Kennedy wasnt the same one
that responsible for his wounds. A FBI
supplementary report states that the bullet that
entered Kennedys back had penetrated to less than
a finger length. If this is true, how can the
bullet have exited from the front of his neck?
There are of course other facts that warp this
theory such as the fact that the bullet was
mysteriously found on a hospital stretcher in
pristine condition. Yet the bullet should have
been out of shape and showing signs of...
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Bryan Adams Small Space Music
660 words
Through the years, rock stars have been providing
entertainment with their unique and diverse style
of music. However, a live performance by a rock
star has an altogether different effect which
elates one to higher levels of music thrill. An
opportunity of such kind came my way and I grabbed
it with both my hands. Music icon Bryan Adams
performed in the city of Mumbai in India which I
was fortunate to witness. What I did not expect
coming, was a memorable journey into the world of
sheer rock mus...
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Comparing Poetry Of Elizabeth Bishop And Robert Lowell
1,087 words
Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, both modern
poets, have many similarities, not only in their
writing, but emotionally as well. Bishop dedicates
her poem, The Armadillo, to Lowell. Remarkably,
Lowells poem, Skunk Hour, is dedicated to Bishop
in the same manner. That is not the only
similarity. Both Bishop and Lowell use symbols to
convey the relationships between humans and
nature. Personification is a most useful method to
describe the animals as the animals in their poems
are said to repres...
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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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One Of America Sister Lavinia
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'Best Things dwell out of Sight'; (# 998)
describes one of America's greatest poets. She
dweller out of sight for most of her life and her
poems, with the exception of seven published
anonymously, remained out of sight until well
after her death. Many literary scholars have
attempted a biography on this mysterious woman and
poet and yet none are conclusive. Dickinson
remains an enigma even today but biographical
speculation allows us to analyze some of her
poetry even though we may be completely...
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King Of Salem Soul Of The World Santiago
1,074 words
Sometimes in life, when a person wants something
with enough passion, everything seems to go
perfectly accordingly to how it was planned. Paulo
Coelho, the author of the Alchemist, calls this
desire a personal legend. Everyone, when they are
young, knows what their personal legend is, and at
that point in their lives everything is clear and
possible. However, as time goes on, a mysterious
force seems to blind us of achieving that goal.
Through Santiago, the main character, and his
attempts at re...
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Odyssey Odysseus Important Theme
732 words
The Odyssey and Its Themes Homer's great literary
classic, The Odyssey, represents and illustrates
many emotional and mental values. All of these
values can be classified under three different
main themes that are constant throughout the epic
tale. These themes are: A boy's struggle to be a
man, a king's struggle to reclaim his kingdom, and
a man's struggle to return home. As one reads this
book it will become more and more evident to them
that a man's struggle to get home is the most
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Relationship With His Wife Source Of Knowledge
1,205 words
Plato? s? Myth of the Cave? and Carver? s
Cathedral provide insight into parallel words. The
protagonists in each story are trapped in a world
of ignorance because each is comfortable in the
dark, and fearful of what knowledge a light might
bring. They are reluctant to venture into
unfamiliar territory. Fortunately the narrator in
the Cathedral is forced by circumstances to take a
risk. This risk leads him into new world of
insight and understanding. The narrator in? The
Cathedral? begins the st...
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Face To Face Blind Man
1,267 words
" For now we see through a glass darkly; but
then face to face: now I know in part; but then I
shall know even as I am known" (1 Corinthians
13). The narrator of Raymond Carvers "
Cathedral" is a man living a life of
monotony, continuously feeding the cold and
bigoted mind that we witness for the first part of
the story. The process of guiding Robert through
the drawing of the cathedral, removes the narrator
from that dark looking glass and initiates a tran
formation in which...
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Nk Guys Pointed Didnt Think Theyd Team
756 words
The Jerks from NK November 14, 1999: What must
have been the worst day in racing history, an
entire cross country team was lost and found dead
21 miles off course by the Pacific Ocean. Here is
the story of what was once thought to have been
the best X-Country team ever. NK Runner: (Heading
to police car) I swear I didnt think theyd do it!
It was just a joke. I mean, who in gods name would
go that far of course anyway! ? Im innocent I
tells ya. INNOCENT! Police Man: Why did you tell
them to run a...
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Strike Her Dead Wanted To Strike Imogen
713 words
Shakespeare's Cymbeline is a story of love,
hatred, and betrayal. The main character, Imogen,
is hurt by all of these emotions and actions. Not
just by one person, by many throughout the play.
These would include her father Cymbeline, lover,
Posthumus, an Italian named Giacomo, the Queen,
Posthumus servant, Pisanio, and the Queens son,
Cloten. The following paragraphs include examples
from the play and explain the ways in which Imogen
was abused and by who. Among the characters
listed, one would...
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Home Front Light
648 words
Darkness has fallen across the land. The harvest
moon struggles to show itself through thick, dark,
shadowy clouds. A lazy breeze brings waves of
goosebumps to the surface of my exposed flesh.
Each time I hear the whisperings of the wind
through the decaying tops of the trees, an
involuntary shudder courses through my tensed,
overstressed body. I can hear the screams and
cries of the frightened, their discordance
swelling and ebbing like the tide. I walk on,
shoulders bent forward, eyes darting ...
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Death Of A Salesman American Dream
973 words
Death of a Salesman and The Price- When people
accept an ideal to live by it can be a glorious
and noble thing unless they become so obsessed
with the the ideal that it becomes a yolk and they
are unable to realize their dream. This is
especially true for two characters in Arthur
Millers plays Death of a Salesman and The Price.
In these two plays Miller portal two lower-middle
class men, Willie Loan and Victor Franz,
respectively, who each live by an ideal that
ultimately is self-defeating. Will...
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Story Of An Hour Mallard
1,150 words
Kate Chopin? s The Story of an Hour and Gail
Godwin? s A Sorrowful Woman are both similar
pieces of literary work in that both stories
offers a revealing glimpse of extremely unhappy
marriages. Both Mrs. Mallard and the unnamed
mistress in A Sorrowful Woman called (the wife)
seem to reveal a problem or possibly a disease
which is plainly inherited through the institution
of there marriages. They are so unhappy with the
lives they lead and the person (s) in them they
seem to drive themselves to t...
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Evil Demon External World
737 words
It took Descartes a long time before he realized
how many false beliefs and assumptions he had from
his childhood. To start over with a new mind set,
he had to totally rid himself of assuming things
been true or things that he had not questioned but
had rather accepted as a truth. Descartes waited
for a when he was retired to come up with his
opinions and question the truths. He therefore had
plenty of time to ponder and really nothing to
loose in terms of leisure, care and passion. What
Descart...
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