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Worked Hard Ten Years
1,124 wordsIn the city of Aceh in what is now known as the island of Sumatera, Indonesia there was an ambitious and vain man named Abu Hasan who worked hard to become a wealthy and important businessman. However the one thing that continued to elude him was to gain fame and importance in Unfortunately Abu Hasan's wife was not what you would call a social butterfly and in her husbands eyes was the reason for him not gaining his expected place in society. "I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you. " Abu H...
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Anorexia Nervosa Eating Disorder
1,189 wordsBizarre, devastating, and baffling are three words that describe the anorexia nervosa disease. By definition, anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder in which a normal-weight person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continue to starve themselves. The term "anorexia nervosa" literally means nervous lose of appetite. People with the disorder are suppressing a strong desire to eat, because they are afraid of becoming fat. Anorexia is characterized by extreme starva...
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Teenage Girls Talent Show
1,151 wordsI chose to read this book because I thought it would be very interesting. I didnt really expect to see this book in the library because one of my friends had already spoken to me about it. He said that he read the book already and that it was really good. I immediately took the book and signed it out. This story began with a girl named Tiny, who was talking to her imaginary friend, Willa. Tiny had made her imaginary friend quite sometime ago. Now shes older and is attending high school. In the b...
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Sacco And Vanzetti Man Named
1,281 wordsIn May of 1920, Italian anarchists- Sacco and Vanzetti, were charged and tried for the murders of a paymaster and guard at a South Braintree shoe factory. After being found guilty and put to death, questions quickly erupted from the public. It is the belief of many, including myself, is that one or neither of these men were guilty. The trial was unjust and the judge was bias and lead the jury toward a conviction! These men were prosecuted without a proper chance to prove their innocence and were...
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Chill Ran My Spine Thoughts Were Lost Road
1,035 wordsThe movie had just ended and the picture on the television set screamed black and white fuzz. My eyes shifted to the window and were greeted by the same picture as that on the television. It had begun sleeting earlier that day. Later it turned to snow, which was still pelting the white-blanketed earth. After reading the time from my watch, three-thirty a. m. , I decided I should probably head for home. My mind was thinking of the basketball practice our coach had graciously scheduled for seven o...
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Mother Funeral Pay Attention
1,246 wordsEmma and Meursault were both strangers to society because of passion; Emma needed passion in a society that condemned it while Meursault refused passion in a society that promoted it. As early as Part I Chapter 5, Flaubert makes it evident that Emma is searching for passion. Before she was married, she mistakenly thought she was in love and therefore agreed to the marriage that could not consummate her desire for a passionate lifestyle. The world Emma lived in was constantly trying to downplay p...
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Realization Of His True Oedipus Threatens Creon
1,406 wordsA Puppet without Strings The theory behind fate or predetermination has been embedded in todays society partially due to literature. Sophocles Oedipus The King perpetuates this ideology that the title character pursues a path which happens to be foretold. Oedipus was determined to save his city and discover his identity, however he ultimately assists in his own downfall. An Oracle reveals that Oedipus is destined to murder his father and marry his mother, and Oedipus, unable to face his unspeaka...
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Marry His Mother Kill His Father
792 wordsIn the Greek play Oedipus the king, a child is born to a king and queen against the wishes of the gods. The gods had told the king and queen of thebes not to have children because they would be ill fated. The king and queen had a taste for wine however and they conceived a child while indulged in the drink. They soon took the child to an oracle to learn what its fate would be. The oracle told them that child would grow up to kill his father and marry his mother. The king quickly opted to have hi...
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Heinrich Himmler American Beauty
1,066 wordsConnections are a big part of Susan Griffins essay, Our Secret and the film American Beauty. In both we see connections and a common theme. Griffin ties the past together with the future and creates a web of life experiences which have shaped different individuals lives as well as their beliefs. In the film American Beauty a recurring theme also seems to hint at the past and how it has shaped the present as well as the future. Connections which are presented to us in Griffins essay give us a bas...
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Play The Piano Romantic Era
749 wordsLudwig Van Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770 in Bonn, Germany. He was the third child of Johann and Johanna Beethoven. Ludwig had a terrible childhood because his dad was an alcoholic. He woke him up in the middle of the night and made him play the piano until dawn. He would smack him every time he made a mistake. His father was a musician as was his grandfather. Ludwig loved spending time with his grandfather. His grandfather died when Beethoven was only three years old. At age four, he w...
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Primary And Secondary Affirmative Action
1,056 wordsAlthough it is imperative that minorities have equal opportunity with other Americans, it is not the governments responsibility to actively pursue and demand private businesses and organizations to adhere to minority quotas. The concept of being treated differently in an effort to achieve equality is entirely paradoxical and thus should not be forced by the government. Affirmative actions true effect comes not in pulling minorities up but holding businesses and organizations back. Forcing a comp...
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Terrible Storm West Africa Mary
391 wordsMary Kingsley was born in London in 1862. Her father was a doctor but his real interests were books about travel and exploration. Marys mother was an unhealthy woman and from an early age, Mary stayed at home to look after her. Mary never went to school and did not mix with children of her own age. She later wrote: the whole of my childhood and youth was spent at home, in the house and garden. I saw little of the outside world. People my own age did not like me because I knew nothing about the g...
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Thane Of Cawdor Hail To Thee Thane
1,099 wordsIt is said that ambition is the key to success. In the case of William Shakespeare, the most illustrious playwright to cross the threshold of the world of drama, it is the key to ones downfall as depicted in his blood-spattered tragedy Macbeth, written in 1606, during the English renaissance under the monarch of James I. Shakespeare was inspired to compose his greatest gore drama Macbeth as it most clearly reflects the playwrights close relationship with the sovereign, claimed to have descended ...
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Whos Chief Desire Whos Chief Marriage
1,473 wordsIn Oedipus we see a man whos chief desire is to improve the state of his nation. He treats both his wife and those below him in status with respect. In Othello, we see a man who has devoted his live to protecting his nation and whos chief desire is to be accepted by his wife and society as the hero he is. So why do such unbelievable terrible things happen to both of them? Their misfortunes are not causally related to any misdoing, so it is unjust for them to suffer and this is what makes for gre...
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Piece Of Evidence Eye Witness
677 wordsKIDNAPPED, on March 1 st 1932, between 8 and 10 pm, from his home in Hopewell New Jersey. The Lindbergh baby, Charles, roughly 20 months old, was taken from his crib. The first suspects were speculated to be gangsters, on one else would commit such a crime. The perpetrator left a ransom note on the baby? s window sill demanding $ 50, 000 dollars for the return of their son. After the money was paid a note was given saying the child was on a boat off Massachusetts coast. No baby was found there, ...
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Husband And Wife One Thing
785 wordsThe Moon Under Her Feet was a terrific book and I was very excited to have it revealed to me. I have always loved reading the Bible and learning about the times of Jesus. This book helped me to see if from a totally different point of view. In our church a play is always put on at Easter showing Jesus resurrection and Mari Magdalene was always a character they never told much about except that she was one of the three who discovered the empty tomb. It was wonderful to be able to see just how she...
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Anabolic Steroids Mood Swings
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Marcel M 246 Ring M 246 Ring David
585 wordsToys, food and time preserved The Dream Room by Marcel M&# 246; ring, trans Stacey Knecht 118 pp, Flamingo One of the many remarkable achievements of this precise yet mysterious novel is its brevity: into its 120 -odd pages Marcel M&# 246; ring folds a war memoir, a family psychodrama and a meditation on time and memory. With a winning lightness of touch, he pinpoints that cusp of adolescence when a child begins to wake up to what he is, feeling the first nudge in the back that later becomes the...
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Sierra Leone Boarding School
820 wordsThe truth about Daddy The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughters Memoir Aminatta Forna 409 pp, HarperCollins When western television screens began to show women and children with amputated limbs, and other devastating evidence emerged of the descent into violence in Sierra Leones civil war in the late 1990 s, the crude explanation was that a generation of drug-fuelled youths had been incited by diamond-hungry Lebanese and Liberians to rebel against the corrupt and incompetent status quo. Am...
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Control Over Events Desdemona Has Been Unfaithful Othello
1,086 wordsIago is passed over for a promotion by his commander, Othello, a Moor and a general in the service of Venice, and he vows revenge. Othello has just married Desdemona, the daughter of Brabantio, a Venetian Senator, and Iago enlists the aid of Roderigo, a rejected suitor, to tell Desdemona's father about the marriage. Brabantio goes to seize his daughter but is interrupted by news of a Turkish attack on Cyprus. The Duke and the Senate convene, and after hearing Desdemona and Othello testify to the...
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