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  • My Dad

    My Dad

    My Dad I'm embarrassed to say my first thought was that of relief when my mother called to say that he was dead. It had been five long years and I was completely exhausted trying to deal with him. Finally, it was over. In the last few weeks, his health had worsened, so I had called the nursing home that Sunday morning and asked the supervisor if I should drive the 130 miles to see

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    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady

    Once she became a lady and living in Higgins' house she owned lots of clothes and lots of material culture but lost her freedom. Women were ruled by men and they didn't have a voice until Queen Victorian succeeded the thrown. This thought could have been drummed into her as a child. Even though Women's rights started in the early 1840's, a man was still legally able to "lock his wife up and beat her

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    Submitted: February 10, 2010 By: Edward
  • My Favorite Metaphor

    My Favorite Metaphor

    I think what the author is trying to say is that different people described by a metaphor is how we see them and value them in our mind. We see a person with a lot of money, so we think he has a higher status because of his money. Metaphors must not just be creative, but suitable to the idea and mood intended to be portrayed. The different words or actions can shape how

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    Submitted: April 16, 2019 By: efeliz1
  • My First Learning Team Experience

    My First Learning Team Experience

    My First Learning Team Experience My involvement in the Learning Team environment at the University of Phoenix has been a great learning experience. When we were assigned teams at the end of the first week, I did not really know what to expect. I have worked on teams numerous times in my career, both in the professional and private sectors. The teams I have worked on have always been to either produce a product or

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    Submitted: January 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • My Forbidden Face

    My Forbidden Face

    MY FORBIDDEN FACE is a true story written by a 16-year-old girl who faithfully recorded events over a five-year period as they happened to her and her family in their country of Afghanistan after it was taken over by the Taliban. Early last year, Latifa and her parents escaped Afghanistan with the help of a French-based Afghan resistance group. She is now 22 years old and living in Paris. The author's real name is unknown

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Max
  • My Forbidden Face

    My Forbidden Face

    I have been reading “My Forbidden Face: Growing Up Under the Taliban: A Young Woman’s Story” by Latifa. As I was reading this story I was remembering an article I had read in a magazine a few years back, I found it ironic that the article that I had read was the one that got this girl exiled from her country. This story talks about how the Taliban captured Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 27, 1996.

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Anna
  • My Hopes and Expectations for English Class

    My Hopes and Expectations for English Class

    My hopes and expectations for English class this school year. My second year at Silkeborg Gymnasium has begun, and a new year with English classes has also begun, and what are my hopes and expectations for this whole new year? First and foremost, I hope to expand my vocabulary even more than I did last year. To achieve that, I hope and expect that the difficulty of our English classes increases. I also expect that

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    Submitted: December 21, 2018 By: Sebastian Würtz
  • My Lai Book Review

    My Lai Book Review

    Matthew Speidel 2007 My Lai 4 by Seymour M. Hersh. © 1970, Random House, New York. The words “My Lai” will forever be infamous in the annals of American military history, for they denote the site of the event that shames America most in a war she would rather forget. The book in question is an account pieced together by journalist Seymour Hersh of the Associated Press. His account of the incident itself is

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Janna
  • My Last Duchess

    My Last Duchess

    My Last Duchess Robert Browning is the author of “My Last Duchess” and he shows the audience how it is a dramatic monologue. In a class lecture, the professor had mentioned that the poem is set in the 15th century. During that time, it was common for a young woman to be arranged in a marriage. As the poem unfolds, the audience learns the speaker of the poem, Duke Ferrara, is talking to another male

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Stenly
  • My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

    My Last Duchess - Robert Browning

    My Last Duchess-Robert Browning The poem “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning is a poem written about a Duke of the 16th the century. The Duke is the speaker of the poem an is explaining to a visitor about a portrait of a ex-wife. He tells how she was a flirt and had very disgraceful behavior. He claims she flirted with everyone and did not appreciate his "gift of a nine-hundred-years- old name." As his

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    Submitted: December 13, 2009 By: Stenly
  • My Learning Style

    My Learning Style

    My Learning Style After completing the Kolb Learning Style Inventory I learned that I am a converging learner. A converging learner is someone who learns by thinking and doing. Each learning style have five behavior levels which consist of an assertive personality, education in engineering or medicine, professional career in engineering, medicine, or computer science, current job in a technical field, and adaptive capabilities in decision skills. I work best from thinking and doing over

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • My Life According to Me

    My Life According to Me

    My Life According to Me My name is Biff Loman. I had a very confusing life, now that I look back upon it. My mother, Linda was a very loving and caring person. And I have a brother, Happy also; he is a very entertaining guy. But then we have my father, Willy. Willy always had these preconceived notions about how I was going to live my life, and how I was going to

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    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Stenly
  • My Life in a Key Ring

    My Life in a Key Ring

    Kristen Hanna title When I introduce myself to other students on campus, I always describe myself as an education major from Blythewood, South Carolina. It’s pretty straight forward, but that’s not all there is. I am a small town country girl, who’s dreams go far beyond my city limits. When I focus in on who I am and where I want to go in life, I can see images of all those things in my

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    Submitted: October 3, 2015 By: kristenhanna
  • My Memoir - Noah Tends to Be a Little Slow

    My Memoir - Noah Tends to Be a Little Slow

    “He is smart”, “He is giving”, “He is kind”, said most of my friends, but as they say that I doubted the reliability of those statements “Are they just trying to make me feel better?” I thought. As far as I know and was said about me before, “Noah tends to be a little slow” and “Noah just cares because he has to.” Now I have had the issue of over-forgiving for a while now,

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    Submitted: October 16, 2018 By: Noah'sComputerNetwork
  • My Mother Tongue

    My Mother Tongue

    My Mother Tongue Summary: The story of Amy Tan is a story of triumph and overcoming the odds. She was born in Oakland, California. Her mother and father raised her in America. When she was still young her father and brother both died form malignant brain tumors. Amy suffered a hard childhood but remained loyal to her studies. Tan went on to receive a B.A. with a double in linguistics and English. Then furthered her

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: David
  • My Papa Waltz

    My Papa Waltz

    Lines 1-2 The first order of business in a poem is to establish situation and mood, and Roethke selects the father’s drinking as the foremost fact to be conveyed. The tone is slightly comic, as the speaker suggests that there was enough alcohol on the father’s breath to inebriate a child. This observation implies that the father had consumed a substantial amount of whiskey, since the smell of it was very potent. These lines also

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    Submitted: March 27, 2010 By: Jon
  • My Paper

    My Paper

    Jane Goodall is one of the foremost authorities on chimpanzees after having studied the primates' behavior for more than 30 years. Jane Goodall is known worldwide for her studies of the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream Reserve in Tanzania, Africa. She is well respected within the scientific community for her ground-breaking field studies and is credited with the first recorded observation of chimps eating meat and using and making tools. Because of Goodall's discoveries,

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Vika
  • My People by Langston Hughes

    My People by Langston Hughes

    ___ My People by Langston Hughes The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun. Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people Literal analysis The title of the poem simply states the subject of the poem, contributing to the conciseness of the piece. It suggests to the reader that the poem will be one that describes the subject

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    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Mike
  • My Personal Response to the Call of the Wild

    My Personal Response to the Call of the Wild

    My Personal Response to The Call of the Wild The novel The Call of the Wild tells a story about how Buck, a domesdicated dog in the "sun-kissed" Santa Clara, managed to survive in the wilds of Klondike. Jack London conveyed many of his own ideas about living in this novel by telling readers what Buck went through to adjust to the harsh realities of life in the frosty North, where survival was the only

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    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Max
  • My Poem

    My Poem

    Le film Joyeux était un spectacle très touchant. Il a été montré que, les valeurs de l'humanité et de l'amour pour les soldats sont les plus importants, même en temps de guerre et des temps laides. Que serait-ce pour un monde quand le tir à Noël ensemble. La projection du film très bien. Les trois côtés avec Eingland, France et l'Allemagne sont également traités et évalués. Le film avait précisément cette flair qu 'il consiste

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    Submitted: April 26, 2016 By: milanbadelj14
  • My Sisters Keeper

    My Sisters Keeper

    Anna lawsuit and Campbell decision to end his relationship with Julia is out of love. They both care about them and want them to happy with their lives. Anna has very strong willed and independent. Anna went against her parents will for her to be a donor and sue them for the rights of her body. Anna realizes that the lawsuit is what she truly wants and she states, "I just can't give a kidney

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    Submitted: May 18, 2011 By: rugie
  • Myself

    Myself

    Hi, my name is Dorothy Dukes and I'm currently attending Boyd H.Anderson High School. There’s some things that have influenced who I am today. But one particular thing has been my family history. My family is very important to me. Without my family I wouldn’t be who I am today and that is a wonderful , kind , trustworthy , and skillful young man. My family raised me to be a very nice person. Of

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Myself

    Myself

    OVERALL COST LEADER An overall cost leader will attempt to be the low-cost producer in both segments of the market. It will have good profit margins on all sales while keeping prices low for price-sensitive customers. Firm Profile: „X More likely to reposition products than introduce new ones to the market „X Capacity improvements are unlikely to be undertaken (may run overtime instead) „X Automation may be pursued to increase margins „X Investments will

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Mythology by Edith Hamilton

    Mythology by Edith Hamilton

    Mythology is a book made by Edith Hamilton in 1942 that tells timeless tales of gods and heroes, every story in the book comprises from different sources, that gives the book a very unique taste. The book was published by Grand Central Publishing in New York, but it was originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company. The topic and purpose of Mythology by Edith Hamilton is to help readers gain knowledge on the

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    Submitted: February 7, 2017 By: Animentalz
  • N/a

    N/a

    My boss was off island for a period of 2 weeks. During my bosses brief absent I was empowered to make slight business decisions pending my boss’s approval through means of communication of email or telephone. A situation arose where we needed 20 barrels of oil for the daily operation of one of our wastewater plant but was unable to purchase any from our vendor because we had an over due invoice. The vendor refused

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    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Nagel

    Nagel

    I chose the author Thomas Nagel. He writes about the relation between the subjective and the objective. the contines to explain this further by giving the example of bats. Bats perceive the world by sonar detecting the reflections from objects within range. The information their brains receive from the impulses with the echoes enables bat to make discriminations about their surrounding and movement. Bat sonar isn't comparable to any sense that a human posesses. Humans

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    Submitted: January 31, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Napoleon Book Review

    Napoleon Book Review

    The ideas of modern war can lead back to the 18th century during a certain campaign by a French military leader. This military leader was named Napoleon Bonaparte. He started a campaign against Western Europe that defined war and his strategies echoed throughout time up until the Second World War. His strategic plans were legendary up until his biggest mistake, which was invading Russia during its winter during the battles in the Waterloo Campaign. Before

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    Submitted: December 14, 2009 By: Edward
  • Narrative of My Escape from Slavery

    Narrative of My Escape from Slavery

    Although John Ross (1842-1915F) is not one of the best-remembered names in the history of Christian missions, he deserves to be recalled as one of the most effective missionaries of his generation. Making his home in China for almost four decades, he became the father of Protestant churches in both Manchuria and Korea. He had a grasp of eleven languages, made significant contributions in Bible translation and commentary, opened new vistas in the theory

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    Submitted: April 13, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Narrative of My Escape from Slavery

    Narrative of My Escape from Slavery

    Narrative of My Escape from Slavery Moses Roper This book is about a slave with a half-white mother and a white father. He was born in North Carolina and missed death in the first few days of his life. His mother’s mistress wanted to kill him because he was the son of his mother’s slave master. She went to his mother’s room at night with a knife but his Grandmother saved his life. Not to

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    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    The Role of Education in the Narrative Slavery tends to be looked at casually by people in today’s society. People have little knowledge of the truths that lie behind slavery. Many people view slavery as white plantation owners abusing the civil rights of colored people and forcing them to work using physical punishment to reinforce their authority over them. Although these events did occur, slavery was more complicated than this. Frederick Douglass' autobiography opened

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    Essay Length: 486 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Tasha
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