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Human Qualities Ordinary Man
1,053 wordsThe most admired classical hero is most certainly Odysseus, the mythological Grecian subject of Homer's epic tale, The Odyssey. This legendary figure displays excessive amounts of brains and muscle, seeming almost superhuman at times. He embodies the ideals Homeric Greeks aspired to: manly valor, loyalty, piety, and intelligence. The popularity of Odysseus transcends time. To this day he remains greatly admired as both a hero and an ordinary man who must deal with great adventures and retrieving...
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Rose Of Sharon Grapes Of Wrath
1,603 wordsThrough such hardships as the Depression, the Dust Bowl summers, and trying to provide for their own families, which included the search for a safe existence, we find the story of the Joad's. The Joad's are the main family in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, which he created to give voice to the hundreds of families that found themselves at their absolute rock bottom during the Great Depression of the 20 th Century in America. It wouldn't have been enough for Steinbeck to simply docum...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Find That Emerson Perfection
1,229 wordsPerfectionism, as defined in the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, is the "quality or state of being saintly and perfect as a freedom from fault or defect, as well as an exemplification of supreme excellence and an unsurpassable degree of accuracy. There are many times in a person's life when they must gain perfection in order to be complete. Ralph Waldo Emerson explains his perfection of soul in his famous essay "Self-Reliance." Emerson was born in 1803 in Massachusetts. He graduated and b...
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Journey To The West Spiritual Path Monkey
383 wordsThis historical and Chinese novel Journey to the West, which is also known as the Monkey, is the most popular book in East Asia. Originally written by Wu Cheng-en in the sixteenth century, which consisted of one hundred chapters but was traditionally cut-down to various lengths to suit different audiences. Then was translated into the words of David Kherdian who wrote the book that was chosen for our class. David Kherdian only based the Monkey on two complete translations, which takes a more tra...
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Ice Cream Public School
1,009 wordsOf the numerous jobs that I have had in the last few years, only one has maintained a lasting hold on me. I return again and again to the call of serving the same gratifying, palatable treat, that amazing creation called ice cream. With the experience I have had, I could have aspired for a more professional working environment than Frosty's Frozen Yogurt or Baskin Robins. Yet, for some unknown reason, I am strangely drawn to this type of work. Consequently, seems fitting that ice cream would be ...
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Death Be Not Proud Reading This Book
1,644 wordsDeath is a creature that takes the life of an individual. The book Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther tells a story of a young boy's life facing death. The reality is that everyone is born and everyone must die. Life for everyone is hard and no one said that life was going to be easy. Johnny Gunther, John Gunther's son, a young boy and he experienced death in a very cruel and painful ordeal. Death is nothing we can hide from and because of that we must face the fact that Death will appear in our...
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Ego Ideal Conscious Mind
938 wordsFreud didn't exactly invent the idea of the conscious versus unconscious mind, but he certainly was responsible for making it popular. The conscious mind is what you are aware of at any particular moment, your present perceptions, memories, thoughts, fantasies, feelings, etc. Working closely with the conscious mind is what Freud called the preconscious, what we might today call "available memory: " anything that can easily be made conscious, the memories you are not at the moment thinking about ...
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Incident That Displays Stronger Person Ellen
425 wordsThe German philosopher, Nietzsche, once said Whatever doesnt kill you, makes you stronger. This quote is intimately connected to Ellen's struggle to survive and find her way. This quote is very relevant to the novel because throughout the book Ellen comes across many hardships and has to find the courage and strength to overcome them. This is exactly what the quote is referring to, although Ellen lives a hard life and comes across many obstacles, she never gives up and in the end she is a strong...
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Gave Birth Early Days
1,194 wordsWhy would I do a paper on the New Jersey Devil? The answer to that is quite simple. Ever since I was a little child, I would travel on Route 206 to the shore, this road slices the pines all the way from Trenton to the Shore. Many thoughts entered my mind during this long drive. Will the beach be crowded? Will the salt water make me gasp as I stick my feet in? Will I hear the bells of the ice cream man? But as I asked myself these questions, I could not help to stair into the dense rows of pines....
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Native Americans Lou Ann
1,233 wordsThis book report deal with the Native American culture and how a girl named Taylor got away from what was expected of her as a part of her rural town in Pittman, Kentucky. She struggles along the way with her old beat up car and gets as far west as she can. Along the way she take care of an abandoned child which she found in the backseat of her car and decides to take care of her. She end up in a town outside Tucson and soon makes friends which she will consider family in the end. From as early ...
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Achieve Happiness True Love
1,072 wordsVoltaire's Candide: "All is Not for the Best" Voltaire's Candide is the story of an innocent man's experiences in a mad and evil world, his struggle to survive in that world, and his need to ultimately come to terms with it. All people experience the turmoil of life and must overcome obstacles, both natural and man-made, in order to eventually achieve happiness. In life, "man must find a medium between what Martin (scholar and companion to Candide) calls the "convulsions of anxiety" and the "let...
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Twenty Years Black People
1,292 words"Slavery! How much misery is comprehended in that single word... Unless the image of God be obliterated from the soul, all men cherish the love of liberty" (Garnet, Henry). Due to slavery, it has made it hard for blacks to survive economically and to be accepted by society. Yet Negroes, at that time, were considered to be subhuman, therefore having no rights. Today, when African-Americans have been free for over a hundred years, it is obvious that blacks too are people and how immorally they hav...
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One Of The Most Influential Hard Work
321 wordsOne of the most influential people in my life was my grandmother. After graduating from high school she attended Loyola University and graduated with a nurses certificate. She then married, had 11 children and at the age of 42 became a widow, with many obstacles to overcome. Through her influence, I now confront life's obstacles with strength, determination dn hope. Without her nursing certificate it would have been very difficult for her to support her family. Her courage, strength and hard wor...
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Damsel In Distress Good And Evil
343 wordsThe concept of a battle between good and evil is ageless and has always been entertaining. Society has been drawn to this age-old idea for countless years. Even today people look for a damsel in distress, impatiently awaits as the hero labors through countless obstacles and works towards the goal everyone is hoping for, that he saves the day and is finally rewarded with his fair ladys hand. The public looks for this in the books that they read and the movies and television shows that they choose...
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Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Twain
1,252 wordsThere have been a number of influences that have shaped American literature. From the time that Western Europeans founded the country to the inclusion of Native American lore to the contributions of such literary giants as Mark Twain and Carol Sandburg, the composition of American Literature has been both constant and ever changing. In deed as much as America, itself, is a melting pot of diversity within a cultural concern, so too is this considerable diversity a significant aspect of its emergi...
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Choices And Decisions Definition
591 wordsHarvey Quotation Speech Quotation Speech Harvey Fierstein once said? Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one? s definition of your life; define yourself. ? Only you can define yourself... there? s something so special about that concept; something so intimate about the fact that only you can control your destiny. You choose what weaknesses you? re going to overcome what strengths you will allow to flourish. We are set into this world, this fast-pace...
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Kill His Uncle Hamlet Revenge
959 wordsDuring some point in our life, we realize how much wrong there is in the world. It is always difficult to know what the right thing to do is. In William Shakespeare s Hamlet, Hamlet takes on the course of revenge. Revenge is more than angry feelings. Hamlet s revenge is a deadly feeling that starts once the damage is done, but takes time and planning to succeed through the many delays that may occur. Hamlet s desire to right a wrong has forced him to take matters into his own hands and use reven...
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Choices And Decisions Roads Diverged
851 wordsExplication of a Poem When reading The Road Not Taken, by Robert Frost, I found that it was personal, especially to the author. The fact that it was written in first person form helped me to conclude that it was probably about the author. I think the reasoning behind his writing of this poem was because in life, you have many obstacles to overcome and many choices and decisions to make, which opens a path that leads the way to your future. Since those things relate to Frost, I think it motivated...
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Mary Shelley Mary And Percy
932 words? Inspired by this wind of promise my daydreams become more fervent and vivid? (Shelley 1). Mary Shelley, a great poet of her time, left many legacies and inspired writers all across the nation. From childhood to adulthood, she overcame obstacles in life. Her inspiring life can only begin to be described in words, and her works live on today. Mary Shelley? s elaborate life, little known fictions, and horrific monsters have nationally been defined through the years. In order to separate Mary Shel...
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Stephen Kumalo Son Prostitute
329 wordsStephen Kumalo Stephen Kumalo, who was an Anglican preacher with great moral value. He was very firm in his beliefs, yet very nave when it came to the real world. Many people who knew Kumalo would call him? Umfundisi? , which is a title and used with respect. Kumalo is seeking out lost members of his family who have left the townships for the lights of the big city. He is looking for his sister Gertrude, who has become a prostitute and mostly, his son Absalom, who has disappeared into the darkne...
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