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  • Radical Feminism in like Water for Chocolate

    Radical Feminism in like Water for Chocolate

    There are many different definitions of feminism. Some people regard feminism as the idea that women deserve the same amount of respect that men deserve. There are the other schools of feminist thought that hold women superior to men. Yet another believes that the gender roles controlling women are artificially created and not innate knowledge, and thus men and women are equals with only history the determining factor and how gender equality is established.

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    Submitted: February 2, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Radio Speech

    Radio Speech

    Andy Wallace 21/10/14 Speech For the Radio Today I was having coffee with my friends and some funny stories were being told about our mothers. We all have a funny story to tell, don't we?. I was laughing when one friend recalled the time when his mum embarrassed him while getting petrol in a busy garage when suddenly she loudly exclaimed with joy that they stocked his favourite sweets while pointing at the condoms on

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    Submitted: December 9, 2014 By: awallace31
  • Radon Health Hazards

    Radon Health Hazards

    Radon222 is a colorless, odorless, radioactive gas that forms from the decay of naturally occurring Uranium238. Since Uranium238 occurs in soil and rock throughout the world, radon exposure is universal; radon is present not only indoors but outdoors. Radon exposure in homes is largely a result of radon-contaminated gas rising from the soil. This makes it an unusual indoor air pollutant in that it has a natural source, (Frumkin and Jonathan, 2001). Radon escapes from

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Raging Roids

    Raging Roids

    Peanuts, hot dogs, the cracking sound of a bat crushing a ball over the left field wall. The ability to thrill so many on limitless levels is a familiar characteristic associated sports. So much attention, time, and money are devoted to sports these days, maybe even too much. Perhaps all the pressure is what has sparked steroid use in sports and stimulated numerous controversies over the subject. The use of steroids is an unfair training

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Rain as a Symbol

    Rain as a Symbol

    In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, rain is used to symbolize and represent, principally, war, death, and love. After establishing the significance of rain in the first chapter, the reader instantly takes note. At the mention of rain in other scenes, the reader is wrought with strong feelings, usually of war, death, or love. Throughout the novel, Hemingway places rain in with many of the most important scenes, which the reader then connects

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Rain Man Journal

    Rain Man Journal

    Part One (Plot Summary) "Rain Man" directed by Barry Levinson was released in 1988.The story of this movie takes place in the United States (Cincinnati, Ohio) in 1988. Similar to John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men, the story of this movie is about friendship between two unequal men(one mentally challenged and the other, normal) that are on a journey and their friendship, but opposite to the story of the novel, the film has a happy

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    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Rainbow Boys

    Rainbow Boys

    The question of sexual identity is asked to many professional athletes when they are first diagnosed with HIV or tested positive for the AIDS virus. Magic Johnson is a five time championship winner with the Los Angeles Lakers, awarded MVP three times, and played amongst the first nine Olympic All-Star teams (Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame). Despite these great achievements in his life, his contact with the HIV virus caused him to face much

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    Submitted: February 4, 2010 By: Max
  • Rainbow Six

    Rainbow Six

    I Recommend Rainbow Six Author: Tom Clancy Number Of pages: 740 Characters: John Clark an ex Navy Seal Alistair Stanley executive commander of Rainbow Six Domingo Chavez, the captain of team two Clark is the commander and in charge of starting a new European anti-terrorist group called Rainbow Six. Rainbow Six is split into two teams; team one and team two. These teams are the best there is. They are based in Hereford, England, but

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    Submitted: February 14, 2010 By: Victor
  • Raisin in the Sun

    Raisin in the Sun

    Racism is defined as a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others. Now many pieces of literature that are in the Maine South curriculum involve the subject of race, but the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry puts a different spin on the race issue.

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Raisin in the Sun

    Raisin in the Sun

    Dream’s Recovered Everyone has dreams; everyone has goals they want to accomplish. Some know what it is instantly and some take time to realize what they want to do. But not everyone will achieve their dreams and some, because of sad circumstances lose their grip on their dream and fall into a state of disappointment. Langston Hughes poem relates to the dreams of Mama, Ruth, and Walter in Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the

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    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Raisin in the Sun

    Raisin in the Sun

    Since the 1930’s, the idea that a family, a home, opportunity, money and security being available to everyone in the US has been the “American Dream.” Unfortunately, in reality this dream isn’t really available to everyone, not then and not now. The idea of an “American Dream” is examined throughout Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun as the theme of the play surrounds itself around Langston Hughes’ poem, “Harlem” where Hughes examines if

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Raisin of the Sun Analysis

    Raisin of the Sun Analysis

    Discussion Post Focusing on Prompts 1 and 3 Peer Review: Literary Analysis 1 Instructions: Reviewers, when parts I and II are completed, copy and paste the peer review into the week 3 peer-review DF as a reply to the peer you reviewed. Do not attach a document; rather, please copy and paste into the DF. Writers, use the feedback on your peer reviews to help revise your essays for your final draft submission due in

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    Submitted: May 3, 2019 By: NickIgnite
  • Raising Driving Age

    Raising Driving Age

    Teens all over America are waiting to turn 15 years and 7 months old to get their permit. After driving for 6 months under parentsЎ¦ supervision, they can get their license. Soon they will get a car and drive their friends around, but what are the consequences for driving at an early age? For a teen to drive at 16 is dangerous. Some researchers have been working on a research and they found out 16-year-oldЎ¦s

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    Essay Length: 255 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Raising Legal Driving Age

    Raising Legal Driving Age

    Turning the age of sixteen is an important part of your life, you get to have that huge birthday party, your parents start giving more respect and responsibility, and of course, you get your drivers license. This might all change if congress pass a bill the was recently proposed. This bill will raise the driving age from sixteen years of age to eighteen years of age. This bill was proposed because teenagers make up

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Raising the Friving Age to 18

    Raising the Friving Age to 18

    Devin Luce Essay 2 Draft 1 English 109.02/ 11:00-12:20 Adena 120 April 27, 2005 McDonald’s Gone Country McDonald’s, the most successful and well-known fast food chain in the world. One of which is located in Coshocton, Ohio. Most McDonalds’ consist of three main colors blue, yellow, and red. McDonald’s has different themes among their many restaurants. However, the main goal is to stick with the main colors throughout the restaurant. In the Coshocton restaurant there

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Mike
  • Ralph Ellision’s Battle Royal

    Ralph Ellision’s Battle Royal

    In the 1940‘s racial segregation gripped southern American life. The notion of separating blacks from whites created immense tension. Separate water fountains, bathrooms, restaurants, etc. were variables that helped keep races apart. “Jim Crow” laws in the south were intended to prevent blacks from voting. These laws, combined with the segregated educational system, instilled the sense that blacks were “separate” but not equal (174). Many people of color weren‘t able to survive through this

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    Essay Length: 1,875 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 12, 2009 By: David
  • Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man Revision

    Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man Revision

    Throughout Ralph Ellison’s novel Invisible Man are events serve only to put the main character through hardships. By the end of the novel the narrator has hit rock bottom, forced to live underground in New York. When he begins writing his memoirs, he first states his rather unhappy conclusion of being an “invisible man,” a person people force themselves to ignore, and that he is stuck that way in his underground hovel. By the end

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Ralph Ellison's Battle Royale

    Ralph Ellison's Battle Royale

    In Ralph Ellison's Battle Royale, an unidentified African American protagonist elucidates upon the inhumane nature of slavery and segregation in the south. He portrays this through his vivid descriptions of his grandfathers last dying words, his involvement in a degrading boxing match & obstacle course with his peers, and the deliverance of his speech on the subject of humility and submission as a means of advancement in a white society. He is then awarded a

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    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Vika
  • Ramble on

    Ramble on

    I’m scared but I’m not. It’s this funny feeling like you are standing on the edge of something terrible, but you can’t fight the urge to peek over the side anyway. I keep looking. Life is like that, but love, love is certainly like that. In a relationship, you really are only certain of one thing: how YOU feel. You put stock, trust, hope and faith into another person without ever really knowing what they

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    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Ramon Magsaysay Essay

    Ramon Magsaysay Essay

    Ramon Magsaysay Essay “Change starts from within.” This is a motto that I bear in mind and try to live up to in my everyday routine. I believe that if we want something to happen, we should have self-initiative and must not always rely on other people to do things for us. But making a difference is not a rapid process. It is a gradual progression from the simple changes we make into finally achieving

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    Essay Length: 707 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • Randell Woodfield

    Randell Woodfield

    Loupu Nyenlekewoi March 30, 2011 INT 202 Mr. Sayers Summation Paper What is diversity means to a person, I have always wondered about this while in my INT 202 (Exploring Diversity) class? We discussed the various topics but culture relativism, , ethnocentrism, stereotype and prejudice stuck with me. I am writing you this information as an African person to feel proud about your culture and change some prejudice or stenotypes you have. I came

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    Essay Length: 1,884 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2011 By: director22
  • Random Passage Written by Bernice Morgan

    Random Passage Written by Bernice Morgan

    The novel “Random Passage” written by Bernice Morgan is not built around the plot she uses characterization to attract the readers’ attention. The typical culture of any time there are differences between the younger generation and the older generation for their experiences as well as their worldviews. This novel is a particularly good example of this because from the beginning to end of the novel it goes through one generation as they age and the

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    Essay Length: 508 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Monika
  • Random Passage Written by Bernice Morgan

    Random Passage Written by Bernice Morgan

    The novel “Random Passage” written by Bernice Morgan is not built around the plot she uses characterization to attract the readers’ attention. The typical culture of any time there are differences between the younger generation and the older generation for their experiences as well as their worldviews. This novel is a particularly good example of this because from the beginning to end of the novel it goes through one generation as they age and the

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    Essay Length: 508 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: March 19, 2010 By: David
  • Raneen Koko

    Raneen Koko

    At the age of eight, in 1924,1 was sent away to boarding school in a town called Weston-super-Mare, on the south-west coast of England. Those were days of horror, of fierce discipline, of no talking in the dormitories, no running in the corridors, no untidiness of any sort, no this or that or the other, just rules and still more rules that had to be obeyed. And the fear of the dreaded cane hung over

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    Essay Length: 888 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2011 By: raneenk
  • Ransom

    Ransom

    Sharks are very interesting animals. There are over 370 species of sharks. Sharks are on the top of the food chain. They’re the alto met water predator. The shark only has one bone in its body, there teeth. The rest is made out of cartilage. The sharks swallow there food whole. They can be both nocturnal and diurnal. The shark in the egg is called the embryo. It keeps growing until the tip of

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    Essay Length: 424 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Anna
  • Ransom of the Red Chief

    Ransom of the Red Chief

    Plot The story tells of a young boy held for ransom by two petty criminals, Bill Driscoll and Sam Howard. The two men are fugitives who have escaped to the deep South searching for an easy way to get their hands on $2,000 they need in order to launch a land fraud scheme in Illinois. They set their sights on the quiet town of Summit, Alabama because of the philoprogenitiveness - love for one's own

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Steve
  • Rap and Violence Go Hand In Hand

    Rap and Violence Go Hand In Hand

    Gangsta Rap and Violence Go Hand in Hand "Mr. Officer, I want to see you layin' in a coffin, sir," from The Chronic and "F--- the police," from N.W.A., are few lyrics from the music genre "Gangsta rap." This kind of music is being sold to young children without any thought of concern. When many children listen to this kind of music they think that was being said in the songs is not wrong or

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    Essay Length: 8,890 Words / 36 Pages
    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • Rap Is Crap

    Rap Is Crap

    Rap is Crap “She ain’t nuttin but a hoochie mama…Smackin’ on your lips, put your hands on your hips…She ain’t nuttin but a hoochie mama…Oh I love those big brown eyes and the way you shake your thighs, acting like you’re so damn cute...” Rap music with lyrics like this play on the radio and in home stereos every day. Rap music pounds messages of sex and violence into the minds of young adults leaving

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Rap Poems

    Rap Poems

    Nowadays, ain't no body what they say they are; A buncha middle aged men callin themselves politicians But really a buncha pussies jus makin more oppositions Sayin they got hope for the people So what they do, they got permission America: it's the people's rights World wars like mosquito bites Got the oil but can't stop the itchin Can't stop the vanity; the power brought insanity Never realizin that words are the true nuclear weapon

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    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Steven
  • Rap Violence

    Rap Violence

    Imagine an inner city kid having grown u in an environment where real life street violence is a way of life. His body, having survived personal experiences of violence, endured barely life sustained conditions, and many sleepless nights caused by the constant yet unpredictable call of death. His mind doubtful over where his next meal will come from, lost in search of some higher guidance, struggling through a world, not of innocent childish fantasies, but

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    Essay Length: 2,077 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Venidikt
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