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  • What’s Hidden in Kate Chopin’s "the Storm"?

    What’s Hidden in Kate Chopin’s "the Storm"?

    What’s Hidden in Kate Chopin’s “The Storm”? Kate Chopin’s the storm is about a woman named Calixta who rekindles a lost romance with a former lover in the midst of a storm. This story centers on lost love and being stuck in relationships that are unwanted. There is a lot of hidden meaning in the story, told well behind the characters and their surroundings, and it also has a strong plot, and a lot of

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    Submitted: November 27, 2009 By: July
  • What’s So Different?

    What’s So Different?

    From an outside view, Sue Bridehead and Arabella Donn are complete opposites, when they are actually very much alike. Robert B. Heilman insists that they are on complete opposite sides of the spectrum. Sue and Arabella have different personalities, but they are still alike when it comes to Jude. This means that even though Jude compared them and saw that they were poles apart, both of them still had a similar effect on him. Both

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    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Steve
  • What’s So Funny

    What’s So Funny

    What So Funny? A humorous story is a comedy. A serious story is a drama. Put both of these kinds of stories together and you get Flannery O’Connor’s writing style. O’Connor’s short stories begin with an up beat tone, and then slowly trickle into a more serious, dramatical tone. This style of writing is what helped O’Connor’s stories stick in our minds from her death until now. Her short stories “A Good Man is Hard

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    Submitted: November 14, 2009 By: Mike
  • Wheel World of Chariots

    Wheel World of Chariots

    The "Wheel" World of Chariots Chariot Racing, popular public game in the classical world of ancient Greece and Rome, in which horses pulled a two-wheeled chariot, or small cart, driven by a charioteer. Often the chariot driver stood in the chariot, rather than sitting. A chariot driver cracks his whip to encourage his horses. Chariot racing was a popular pastime in ancient Greece and Rome and was recorded as an event in the ancient Olympic

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    Submitted: February 6, 2010 By: Janna
  • When a Flower Blossoms

    When a Flower Blossoms

    When a Flower Blossoms William Shakespeare addresses the question of identity in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark through the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. Although the play is centered on Hamlet's struggle for identity, a more important issue is addressed through Ophelias' struggle. She is ignored and left alone to find the truth about what it means to become a woman, while Hamlet receives constant concern while struggling with his identity issues as

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    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • When a Flower Blossoms

    When a Flower Blossoms

    When a Flower Blossoms William Shakespeare addresses the question of identity in The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark through the characters of Hamlet and Ophelia. Although the play is centered on Hamlet’s struggle for identity, a more important issue is addressed through Ophelias’ struggle. She is ignored and left alone to find the truth about what it means to become a woman, while Hamlet receives constant concern while struggling with his identity issues as

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Mike
  • When Death Is Not Always a Devil

    When Death Is Not Always a Devil

    When Death Is Not Always a Devil “Against all the injuries of life, I have the refuge of death. If I can choose between a death of torture and one that is simple and easy, why should I not select the latter? As I chose the ship in which I sail and the house which I inhabit, so will I choose the death by which I leave life. In no matter more than death should

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Artur
  • When Dreams Come True

    When Dreams Come True

    When Dreams Come True Few people, even in today’s world, are truly open-minded to the differences of others. They decide at an early age what, they believe, is the right way to live. But what happens when a truly unique boy is brought up in an environment where he is forced to believe he only has one option in life? “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather is a short story beautifully illustrating a young boy fighting

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    Essay Length: 988 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • When God Lets My Body Be

    When God Lets My Body Be

    when god lets my body be e. e. cummings In the poem “when god lets my body be”, e. e. cummings uses archetypal images to suggest that life is a never ending circle. His images display the idea that even after death you are still left on the earth circulating through nature’s cycle. To establish this idea at the beginning of the poem cummings creates the image of a tree growing from the soil of

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    Essay Length: 399 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 22, 2010 By: Wendy
  • When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton

    When I Consider How My Light Is Spent by John Milton

    “When I Consider How My Light Is Spent” By John Milton John Milton engages in a rhyme pattern and uses Biblical references with verbalism of archaic language that brilliantly completes this Petrarchan sonnet. The elements of meter, rhythm, and rhyme are consecutively parallel with the element of foundation. As a Petrarchan sonnet, the meter is iambic pentameter that guides itself to the definite rhythm this poem consists of. The rhyme pattern that Milton portrays is

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Steve
  • When I Grow Up

    When I Grow Up

    When I Grow Up University of Phoenix GEN/300 May 14, 2006 When I Grow Up As children, we all had similar aspirations to become successful in life. We may have wanted to become doctors or lawyers at one point, but the reality is that in order to become successful at whatever we decide as our career path, there are requirements that must be met and many, many sacrifices that will have to be made.

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    Submitted: April 7, 2010 By: regina
  • When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer

    When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer

    “When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer,” by Walt Whitman is a very famous poem. The poem can be interpreted in a number of different ways, depending on the person who is reading it. Following in this essay are two interpretations of what I think the poem is actually about, and then my reasons and ideas to back up it up. The poem begins with a man telling the reader about his experiences in which he

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Kevin
  • When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

    When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer

    Upon rare occasion, my freshman brother actually decided to pull his nose out of his lousy video game, and join me upon reading this poem. Actually, I should say that I forced him to do this, because he needed to analyze a poem for his own English class, and the music coming from the television was beyond annoying. Anyway, my brother’s reaction to the poem was something along the lines of “So this guy is

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    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • When I Was Puerto Rican

    When I Was Puerto Rican

    When I was Puerto Rican It is amazing what books can do to people. They can make us laugh, when author demonstrates his/her unique sense of humor; they can make us cry by telling a touching love story or think about the life by brining up and refreshing our memories. People say that the book is good when while reading it is possible to visualize the event described in the book. Nevertheless, all readers have

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    Submitted: May 13, 2010 By: Jack
  • When Ignorance Blooms...

    When Ignorance Blooms...

    In the book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, one of the most prominent themes is the idea of ignorance in people. Ignorance, being the condition of being uneducated or unaware, is apt to be found all throughout the citizens of Maycomb county, whether it is in the form of racism and prejudice against blacks during the trial of Tom Robinson, or playing a part in the Finch children's attitude and views of others.

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Fatih
  • When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

    When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd

    How is it best to honor a great star after it has fallen and past on to death? For some, a mere funeral and wake would suffice, but for other monument are erected, schools and workplaces closed, parade and moment of silence where attributed to. Others like the late great Ray Charles movies are and to commemorate and celebrate their achievements over the years. So what then would you do for a person that freed

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    Essay Length: 1,555 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Jon
  • When My Love Swears She Is Made of Truth

    When My Love Swears She Is Made of Truth

    “When my love swears she is made of truth” (Shakespeare) Marriage is a wonderful and joyous experience. When two people get married they join hands in holy matrimony. Sometimes marriages aren’t as thrilling as they might initially seem to be. Many marriages recently have ended up in divorce because of one partner or both partners betraying each other. There are times that a partner has been betrayed but still stays with the betrayer because

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Top
  • When People Are Asked If They Got What They Wanted out of Their Lives, Hardly

    When People Are Asked If They Got What They Wanted out of Their Lives, Hardly

    When people are asked if they got what they wanted out of their lives, hardly anyone would say yes immediately. Most would reminisce and look back on what they have and have not done, but eventually the answer will most likely be no; Prufrock is not an exception. Prufrock is a timid, indecisive, isolated and suffering modern man who is searching for something to break him for the dull life that he has been

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    Submitted: June 3, 2010 By: Edward
  • When the Music Saved Me

    When the Music Saved Me

    When the Music Save Me Life is never easy and the obstacles you must face daily can either break you or make you stronger. As a child, you are full of pure innocence and the reality of how challenging and hard life can be is unknown territory. You follow and live what you are taught and believe that things in life are perfect and you’ll live happily ever after with your parents and siblings (if

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    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: regina
  • When the Wind Blows

    When the Wind Blows

    {rtf1ansiansicpg1252deff0deflang1033{fonttbl{f0fmodernfprq1fcharset0 Courier New;}} {*generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}viewkind4uc1pardbf0fs22 host:b0 hey everyone i am mitch burkie O donald , and wellcome back the the praogram .That was the killers with there track "sombody told me"par where going to kick off an new segment today that hopfully will come in handy , it is aimed at HSC students to help them through there studies.par and explain certain aspects of the sylibuss that might be a little tricky to grasp.

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Steve
  • When War Becomes an Evil Necessity

    When War Becomes an Evil Necessity

    When War Becomes an Evil Necessity No one can deny the fact that war can be gruesome and bloody. It can cause tremendous amounts of human suffering, death, and destruction. Images of the bodies of men torn apart from a battle will make you cringe. Although these more tangible repercussions of war trouble distress most people, it is short sighted to condemn war based solely on its bloody consequences. Death and destruction are not the

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • When Words Do Not Mean What They Say -An Analysis of Swift’s "modest Proposal"

    When Words Do Not Mean What They Say -An Analysis of Swift’s "modest Proposal"

    Jonathan Swift's, A Modest Proposal has become a classic example and much studied work of satire throughout the years. It is interesting not only in the absurdity of it's sly innuendo, but it also acts as a history lesson for the world to see the struggles of people of Ireland. What interests me most about this work is how Swift is able to show compassion through context in a work whose words would normally shock

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Where Are We Going?

    Where Are We Going?

    ENG 01/A Paper #3 Where Are We Going? In the final years of the twentieth century, I thought we had come to the end of the history, and I firmly believed there would be no war on this planet anymore. When I heard of continuing clashes between countries, I would ask myself how those people could be so stupid in this age. Yet the history continued and so did war. I now see that as

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

    Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

    Edgar Allen Poe is a great writer. In my opinion what make him great are his gory, murder short stories. There is similarly and difference his two stories named, The Cask of Amontillado & Hop Frog. They are both great stories but like all of Poe's stories they have someone dying. To begin with, in The Cask of Amontillado story the narrator who is named Montresor and his friend named Fortunato go into a crypt

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Yan
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

    Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?

    The short story by Joyce Carol Oates “Where are you going, Where have you been?” is one that has had many interpretations over there years, by many literary critics and readers alike, generating a vast list of themes and meanings to the story. Some have declared the story to be a “feminist allegory,” while others argue that one of the main characters, Arnold, is a “savior” or “messiah figure,” as popular figures during the 1960’s

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    Submitted: March 24, 2010 By: July
  • Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Response Paper

    Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Response Paper

    Where are you Going, Where have you been? Is a short story written by Joyce Carol Oates. The story involves a 15 year old girl named Connie that is rebelling against her mother’s whishes. Connie often rides with her friends to a shopping plaza to hang out and meet other people. One evening while she is out with her friends she leaves with a boy named Eddie. On the way to Eddie’s car she sees

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    Submitted: March 2, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Where Do You Get Love

    Where Do You Get Love

    Where Do You Get Love As individuals, we seek a fantastical encounter with "true love." Through the plays A Midsummer Nights Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night, Shakespeare's characters find "true love" through various tests in which one of the lover's identity is masked, either physically or subconsciously. While these three plays share different plots, they all portray Shakespeare's stance that romance exists in human love, and that if the love is pure,

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    Submitted: March 19, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Where Do You Stand on the Usa Patriot Act?

    Where Do You Stand on the Usa Patriot Act?

    Freedom in the United States has become increasingly constricted since 2001. Not only did the terrorist attacks of September 11 have a drastic effect on the U.S. economy, but our nation's response has tested the limits of America’s core freedoms. Congress passed the USA Patriot Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) in 2001 just weeks after the attacks, with the intention of helping law enforcement act

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    Submitted: March 29, 2010 By: Janna
  • Where Does the Order Lie

    Where Does the Order Lie

    Where does the Order Lie? The social and political orders of William Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Merchant of Venice vary, but still exhibit firm criticisms of the role of government within society. The conclusions of both of these plays return to their original order and the characters are resolved in their own ways. Measure for Measure gives the most demanding criticism of the role of political order out of most of Shakespeare’s plays. Through

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    Submitted: November 11, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Where Have All the Swift Foxes Gone?

    Where Have All the Swift Foxes Gone?

    Where Have All The Swift Foxes Gone? The swift fox (Vulpes velox), one of the smallest foxes in the world, and can only be found in the Great Plains of North America. Smaller and more slender than the Red Fox, the Swift Fox has lighter tones of colors. A buffy-yellow with a black tip on its bushy tail signifies the Swift Fox. With relatively large and pointed ears, the Swift Fox has excellent hearing. The

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    Essay Length: 1,936 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Jon
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