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  • Scholarship Essay

    Scholarship Essay

    I have always wanted to make a career out of my music. For years, i was determined to go to college to major in Music Performance, so that I could become a mainstream trumpet player like Wynton Marsalis. I was sure of this up until my senior year in high school, when I realized that I don't need to take 4 years of college to learn something that I can learn on my own or

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    Essay Length: 761 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Exploratory Essay: Is the Minimum Wage High Enough

    Exploratory Essay: Is the Minimum Wage High Enough

    If you have ever worked for minimum wage, I am sure you have felt as if your time was worthless. After taxes you brought home next to nothing, no matter how often you worked. That’s at least how I felt when I worked for minimum wage. In high school I had nothing to pay for but a cell phone. I worked for minimum wage and it seemed like I barely could afford it. I had

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    Essay Length: 1,587 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Jon
  • Work Ethnic Conept Paper

    Work Ethnic Conept Paper

    Organization Commitment Michelle invested everything she had into Gene One and, as a result, feels a strong sense of ownership and emotional attachment to the company. Organization Commitment is when the employees emotional attachment to, identification with, and involvement in a particular organization.(McShane & Gilnow 2005.) Values Angela Thomas resign as VP of Technology Research, because her passion was doing pure and applied research, not pleasing Wall Street and become IPO. Values represent stable, long

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    Essay Length: 265 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Bred
  • Torrance Vs. Torrance - a Technical Essay on Stanley Kubrick’s “the Shining”

    Torrance Vs. Torrance - a Technical Essay on Stanley Kubrick’s “the Shining”

    Torrance Vs. Torrance: A technical essay on Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining” Every human, at some point in their life, experiences psychological and emotional conflicts within them and are forced to make a decision. In Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”, the main character, Jack Torrance is both the protagonist and the antagonist. Throughout the film, two sides of Jack’s own consciousness are in a constant battle against each other. The first side is an artist, a father,

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    Essay Length: 924 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Anna
  • The Notebook - Opinion Essay: Book Vs. Movie

    The Notebook - Opinion Essay: Book Vs. Movie

    The Notebook Author: Nicholas Sparks & Director: Nick Cassavetes The first time I saw the preview to The Notebook, I was already intrigued and had my heart set on seeing this film. Now, to be quite honest I am not a reader, but for some reason I had a gut feeling that this book would be worth my time, before watching the movie. After I purchased the novel, I sat down and finished it in

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    Essay Length: 394 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Top
  • Tithonus Essay

    Tithonus Essay

    Have you ever wanted something, and then you end up wishing you never got it in the first place? “Be careful what you wish for.” The poem “Tithonus” by Alfred, Lord Tenneyson provides an excellent example of the lesson conveyed in this phrase. Tithonus learns a very hard lesson because of his greed. This lesson stays with him for the rest of eternity. He thinks that being immortal will bring him joy, when all it

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    Essay Length: 514 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Macbeth Essay

    Macbeth Essay

    I highly disagree with the statement, “The play {Macbeth} is a tragedy only if the reader understands that Macbeth is a victim of circumstances which he cannot control.” I disagree and reject that thesis and substitute my own in support to my opinion. I believe that the play is a tragedy only because of Macbeth’s stupidity, which is ironically the only thing he is truly a victim to, stupidity. Right from the start, Macbeth is

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    Essay Length: 477 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Bred
  • Anthem Essay

    Anthem Essay

    Throughout many different parts of the world, rates of living vary. There are many countries that have an extremely high life expectancy well into the seventies and eighties then there are the countries who barley struggle to make it out of the thirties into the forties. In the book Anthem by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 the main character lives in a society that never has any change. Everyone’s life is pre-determined for them and they

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    Essay Length: 427 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: regina
  • Lord of the Flies Comparison/contrast Essay

    Lord of the Flies Comparison/contrast Essay

    William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a novel about a group of boys who are lost on a deserted island and must do what they can to survive. At the beginning of the novel, two of the boys, Ralph and Jack, become leaders. These differences will form the main conflict in the story. The differences will cause them to hate each other and the anger that results is a recurring part of the plot

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    Essay Length: 927 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Persuasive Essay

    Persuasive Essay

    Drinking age should be lowered. At eighteen years old, there are many responsibilities gained, such as being able to marry, but one cannot drink alcohol at the wedding because United States set the legal drinking age at twenty-one years old. If an eighteen years old is considered as an adult, the legal drinking age should lowered from twenty-one to eighteen years old. Many people believes that drunk driving is a key fact that leads to

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    Essay Length: 349 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Jon
  • Definitive Essay: Cannibalism

    Definitive Essay: Cannibalism

    Cannibal is a word used to describe a trait which most conscious creatures would rather not resort to. Creatures with no conscious have practiced cannibalism for millennia with no apparent unfavorable results. Only conscious creatures seem to have difficulty with the concept; the only socially accepted cannibals are those who became so out of necessity. Why do we have such difficulty with the concept; our answer lies with the origins and meanings of what it

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    Essay Length: 802 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Yan
  • Macbeth Sanity Essay

    Macbeth Sanity Essay

    The story of Macbeth tells of a man who presses his way to become ruler of a kingdom and ensure security of his throne. Along the way he is lead astray, which consequently, causes destruction, failure, and tarnishes him with an image of insanity. This paper argues that despite all of Macbeth's apparent flaws, he is still a sane individual. Macbeth's overwhelming guilty conscience shows that he is able to decipher between what is right

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    Essay Length: 1,116 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Vika
  • Critical Essay on Jane Austen

    Critical Essay on Jane Austen

    As an extremely well versed (OK, modest) critic of English Literature and a fairly decent judge of people and character, I have chosen to write my critique, or paper, on a particularly good (a brewing controversy in some circles) author of the times. This particular author was born in Steventon, Hampshire, England on December 16, 17 to a loving, well-educated, mother and father (1, page 1). Her loving parents did welcome this seventh (of eight)

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    Essay Length: 1,490 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Mike
  • Change over Time Essay

    Change over Time Essay

    Change Over Time Essay The social and Economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to 10 increased and decreased populations of the Atlantic world due to the slave trade and flourishing economy. Also in the Americas, European colonists stopped mining for silver, and moved on to agriculture. Due to the new contacts within the Atlantic world, economies flourished as

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Monika
  • Religions of the World Essay

    Religions of the World Essay

    Rosicrucian Although some people believe that the Rosicrucian following is relatively new considering other much older beliefs, Rosicrucians claim much earlier beginnings for themselves than can be documented. One group even claims ties to Thutmose III, about 1500 B.C. in Egypt (Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, 1915). Their founder is generally claimed to be Christian Rosenkreuz, supposedly born in 1378 and died in 1484 (Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, 1915). However, the Encyclopedia Britannica, says,

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Jack
  • Essay

    Essay

    Joyce Wright English I Mrs. Reno February 11, 2007 Are You Depressed Being in a dark locked closet feeling as if you will never be able to get out is a lot like being in the mind of a depressed person. Most of the time you can not wait till the sun goes down to go to bed and hate knowing the sun has risen that you have to get up for another day

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    Essay Length: 570 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Bred
  • A Counterculture Rooted in Anger

    A Counterculture Rooted in Anger

    Young men walk down the urban streets bopping their heads to the music that has been etched there through time and recitation. They murmur lyrics of drug wars, the “bitches” they’ve slept with, and the men they’ve slain. The music blaring from nearby car speakers verbalizes images of mansions and endless women; cars and jets; sexual promiscuity and violence. Gathering money by any means necessary is a way of life for them; they look

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    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Victor
  • Essay on Ambrose Bierce

    Essay on Ambrose Bierce

    “An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge“ is an original short story written by Ambrose Bierce in 1890. Bierce has written many supernatural stories and was inspired by his own experiences as an officer in the American Civil War. The story is set in northern Alabama during the American Civil War. It is a story about a man named Peyton Farquhar. He is a slave owner and a politician. Because of “circumstances of an imperious nature”(line

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    Essay Length: 496 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 4, 2010 By: Top
  • Ethnic Groups and Discrimination

    Ethnic Groups and Discrimination

    African Americans, did they colonize or immigrate to the United States? Going by the definitions given by several different references, it is kind of difficult to determine if Africans immigrated or colonized over into the United States since they were not given a choice in the situation. In the Modern Language Association (MLA)(2007): immigrate (verb) means to introduce or send as immigrants. Going by this definition, I think that they were immigrated to the U.S.

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    Essay Length: 803 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Wide Sargasso Sea Motif Walls Essay

    Wide Sargasso Sea Motif Walls Essay

    Wide Sargasso Sea Essay Walls Walls. They have acted in the same way for centuries; they have given people a sense of security, yet at certain times walls turn on people. For some these walls of safety become walls of entrapment. Walls take the very same actions in Jean Rhys' novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, as they surround the main character, Antoinette Cosway, for her entire life. The use of walls acts as a significant part

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    Essay Length: 756 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • Lamborghini - Descriptive Essay

    Lamborghini - Descriptive Essay

    In 1996 my dad rounded up a huge chuck of his savings to buy a 1969 Lamborghini Espada that’s been parked in somewhere in connecticut for 13 years; my mother least to say wasn’t very pleased with whole idea , in her eyes it was just a “waste of money on a car, that will eat him alive”. Well, actually the body was in one garage and the engine was in another garage packed in

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    Essay Length: 460 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Yan
  • An Essay on the Challenges of Network Society

    An Essay on the Challenges of Network Society

    Introduction: A network society is a society where the key social structures and activities are organized around electronically processed information networks. The Internet is indeed a technology of freedom-but it can free the powerful to oppress the uninformed, it may lead to the exclusion of the devalued by the conquerors of value. Castells describes a number of challenges, which he argues will "affect us all in a very fundamental way" . Freedom: The first challenge

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    Essay Length: 682 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Anna
  • Early Roots of Policing

    Early Roots of Policing

    Early roots of policing During the following pages this paper will discuss Sir Robert Peel and his nine principles of policing. Sir Robert Peel was born on February 5, 1788 and died on July 2, 1850. He had many accomplishments during his life. He was the Conservation Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; he was in the cabinet at Home Secretary. He changed the United Kingdom’s penal code reducing the number of crimes punishable by

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    Essay Length: 978 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • College Long Essay

    College Long Essay

    By unlocking the door to my past, one sees his thoughts and actions when they first took hold of his persona. This essay serves as a key to that door and to my current personality. The first beloved books in my life were the Sesame Street Encyclopedia volumes. At three, I wasn't old enough to read them, but I always wanted to have them read to me. In fact, I memorized the ten volume set

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    Essay Length: 462 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Yan
  • Discussion with Someone Outside of Class for Chosen Essay from the Brief Sundance Reader

    Discussion with Someone Outside of Class for Chosen Essay from the Brief Sundance Reader

    I had the discussion about Samuel Scudder’s piece, Take This Fish and Look at It, with my 25-year-old sister, Safoora. I’ve noticed that a lot of the works in our text is quite shortened, so I figured that our discussion would be brief. From the beginning of our discussion, though, we really hit the ground running and I was glad to know that we had similar thoughts about Scudder’s essay. I didn’t read the essay

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    Essay Length: 645 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: July

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