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  • Cannery Row and Grapes of Wrath

    Cannery Row and Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck is a brilliant storyteller capable of crafting such vibrant and captivating literary works that one can effortlessly exit their own life and enter another. John Steinbeck has a passion for divulging the flaws of human nature and he is not afraid to write about the raw and tragic misfortune that plagued the lives of people like the Okies in the Grapes of Wrath and residents of Cannery Row. He was also a

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    Submitted: June 9, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Cannery Row by John Steinbeck- Short Summary

    Cannery Row by John Steinbeck- Short Summary

    Cannery Row By John Steinbeck In Cannery Row, John Steinbeck describes the unholy community of 1920s Monterey, California. Cannery Row is a street that depends on canning sardines. It is where all the outcasts of society reside. Steinbeck himself, in the first sentence of the book, describes Cannery Row as "a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream." Lee Chong, the owner of the

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Jon
  • Canseco’s Steroid Allegations

    Canseco’s Steroid Allegations

    In Jose Canseco’s 60 Minutes interview, he stated that he and some of his teammates used steroids in the past. With all the hoopla surrounding Major League Baseball and its connection with allegations made by BALCO president Victor Conte, this report is intriguing at the least. High profile athletes such as Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds have been under direct scrutiny over the past year because of the steroid issue. Canseco firmly states that he

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    Essay Length: 727 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Bred
  • Canterbury Tales

    Canterbury Tales

    In the book Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer, gives us a stunning tale about a rooster named Chaunticleer. Chaunticleer, who is the King of his domain in his farmland kingdom. Like a King, he quotes passages from intellectuals, dreams vivid dreams, has a libido that runs like a bat out of hell, and is described as a very elegant looking Rooster. He has every characteristic of a person belonging to the upper class. Chaucer's hidden

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    Submitted: February 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Canterbury Tales Essay

    Canterbury Tales Essay

    In “The Canterbury Tales” By Geoffrey Chaucer, Twenty-nine pilgrims meet by chance at the Tabard Inn and decide to travel together. The pilgrims are on their way to Canterbury to visit the Tomb of Thomas Becket. While at the Inn a contest is suggested by the host. Each pilgrim will have to tell two tales, on the way there and back. Two tales told are “The Wife of Baths Prologue” and “The Clerk’s Tale”. The

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Edward
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Capital punishment is a very controversial subject in today’s world. People should think about what will happen to them if they commit a crime, and the consequences that will follow the crime. Society has enough problems to deal with without people committing crimes, Therefore capital punishment is desperately needed. Above all else, it costs too much of hard working taxpayers’ dollars to send someone to prison. It costs a large amount of money

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    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment The topic discussed in this book was on the subject of capital punishment. capital punishment is the sentence of death for the commission of a crime. The author, JoAnn Bren Guernsey, covers this topic very well. She gives examples as to what has happened with different people and different cases in the past. She explains different peoples jobs involving capital punishment such as, judges, executioners, lawyers, attorneys, and prison guards. She shows how

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    Submitted: March 17, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Capital Punishment

    Capital Punishment

    What is Capital? Capital Punishment is the death penalty. It was used in ancient times as a punishment for a variety of offenses, but today it is used for one reason, first-degree murder. In the United States of America, when a person kills another person they are considered a murderer. The instant a first-degree murder takes place all rights should be revoked and that person should receive a death sentence. Capital punishment is necessary in

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    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Bred
  • Capital Punishment and the Media Slant on the Topics

    Capital Punishment and the Media Slant on the Topics

    Teryck Taylor Media 3 October 29, 2003 Word count 2,821 Capital punishment Capital punishment and the media Slant on the topics The media's attitude to executions varies widely depending on the age and sex of the criminal, the type of crime and method of execution. Middle aged men being executed by lethal injection in Texas for "ordinary" murders hardly rate a paragraph in the US press nowadays and do not get a mention in the

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    Essay Length: 2,863 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: April 11, 2010 By: Mike
  • Capital Punshiment

    Capital Punshiment

    First, punishment of criminals is supposed to serve two main purposes: to protect society from the same criminal repeating its crime and to act as a deterrent for other prospective criminals. Unfortunately, capital punishment fails in most cases. It does not prevent the criminal from committing their crime again. While some people may think that capital punishment would scare away other criminals from crime that is not the case. If a person compares crime rates

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Artur
  • Capitalism and Freedom

    Capitalism and Freedom

    CAPITALISM AND FREEDOM In the opening paragraphs of this "Manifesto for Laissezfaire"--for this is another in the fairly long list of similar publications that have been appearing in the last few years--the author introduces himself as a "modern heir of the nineteenth-century liberal" who "was a radical, both in the etymological sense of going to the root of the matter, and in the political sense of favoring major changes in social institutions." This alluring self-portrayal

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    Submitted: January 30, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Capote, Truman. in Cold Blood

    Capote, Truman. in Cold Blood

    Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood. New York: Random House, 1965. 343 pages. Summary. In Cold Blood is the true story of a multiple murder that rocked the small town of Holcomb, Kansas and neighboring communities in 1959. It begins by introducing the reader to an ideal, all-American family, the Clutters -- Herb (the father), Bonnie (the mother), Nancy (the teenage daughter), and Kenyon (the teenage son). The Clutters were prominent members of their community who

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    Submitted: April 21, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

    'Captain Corelli’s Mandolin' S U M M A R Y It is 1941, and a young Italian officer, Captain Antonio Corelli,arrives on the beautiful Greek island of Cephallonia as part of an occupying force. He is billeted in the house of the local doctor, Iannis and his daughter Pelagia. He quickly wins the heart of Pelagia through his humour and his sensitivity, not to mention his stunning ability on the mandolin. But Pelagia is engaged

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    Submitted: April 1, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Captain Underpants and the Big Bad Battle of the Bionic Bugger Boy, Part I

    Captain Underpants and the Big Bad Battle of the Bionic Bugger Boy, Part I

    A frustrated boy-genius is mad at his classmates Harold and George. But Harold and George have better things to do than listen to the boy genius, named Melvin Sneedly, whine all the time. Captain Underpants comics is used by Harold and George to embarrass other people. Desperate for attention, Melvin tries to become Bionic Boy, but instead, he sneezes at the last second, and becomes Bionic Bugger Boy. Everyone laughs and stays away from Bionic

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Edward
  • Cara Benson Quantom Chaos and Poems

    Cara Benson Quantom Chaos and Poems

    Cara Benson, Quantom Chaos & Poems – A Manifest(o)ation, BookThug, 2007, ISBN978-1-897388-14-3 The first thing that jumps at you is the cover. On it a braiding of some sort is systematically unraveled until it is 4 strands of the same piece of, let’s say, leather. That is what the reader is to do when reading these poems. Her writing style seems very unique and the book itself seems to follow the title, Quantum Chaos. The

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Caramelo

    Caramelo

    Caramelo Caramelo has been quite an interesting novel. It describes a Hispanic family to the tee. Sandra Cisneros chose her title perfectly for this book. Life’s hardships and possibilities are explored throughout this fascinating novel. The author describes the word caramelo in different ways and in two different occasions. The first occasion was to describe Candelarias’ skin color. Celaya quoted: “Her skin a caramelo. A color so sweet, it hurts to even look at her.”

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    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Caravans - Novel by James Michener

    Caravans - Novel by James Michener

    Caravans is novel by James Michener set in Afghanistan in the 1940’s. The main character in the story is Mark Miller who is a Jewish American working for the American embassy in Kabul. In the beginning of the story The United States send a telegraph requiring information about a missing American woman named Ellen Jasper. She married Afghani engineer named Nazrullah while he was studying in America. In Dorset, Pennsylvania Ellen’s father was an important

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    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Carcass of Consumption by Jeff Erwin

    Carcass of Consumption by Jeff Erwin

    Describing Art The sculpture “Carcass of Consumption” by Jeff Erwin was on display in the Hatfield Gallery at Adams State University. The piece was part of the Grad Preview 2016 exhibition, its purpose of which was to showcase the grad students works from the fall semester. Jeff Erwin’s sculpture draws in the viewer with his unique use of cow rawhide, discarded consumer items, paint steel and chain. The flesh-toned rawhide, which is hanging from a

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    Submitted: March 10, 2017 By: Brooke Hanlon
  • Careers

    Careers

    Careers for Sports Nuts & Other Athletic Types is an excellent resource for those who are interested in a career that involves sports. This inspiring book shows athletic career explorers how to examine the job market by looking at their own interests. This strategy is used to help guarantee job satisfaction. The author, Ray Heitzmann, a former “successful” athletic coach has put together vital information on careers in many areas ranging from coaching and

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: Mike
  • Careful Paper

    Careful Paper

    In his short story “Careful”, Raymond Carver criticizes the use of alcohol in America through his use of irony and symbols in his short story. Immediately after Lloyd moves of his house that he had been living in with his wife, he turns straight to alcohol and goes back to drinking his three or four bottles of champagne a day. Once again we see in Carver’s writing alcoholism fueling the fire of family and relationship

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    Essay Length: 266 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Caribbean

    Caribbean

    Writing an outline in addition to the paper may seem like a lot of extra work, especially if your teacher doesn't require one. If you take the time to think about what you want to say and to put your ideas into an outline, writing the actual paper will be easier. An outline is a listing of brief ideas that will be in the paper. The Outline's Outline I. Reasons to write an outline

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    Essay Length: 783 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 10, 2010 By: Mike
  • Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan

    Carl Sagan is known as one of the most famous scientists of all time. He revolutionized how the world looked at space and the search for intelligent life beyond our planet. The author of many books, he is most known for Contact (which was adapted into a movie) and for the PBS documentary Cosmos. As one of America’s most famous astronomers and science-fiction writers, Carl Sagan turned a life of science into one of the

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Monika
  • Carly Fiorina

    Carly Fiorina

    “The Carly Fiorina way” has it’s foundations in the management lessons learnt during the initial formative years of her career. She paved her way to success in leadership through the four key managerial qualities of personality, loyalty, perseverance, and judgement, although sometimes questionable when at HP. Carly completed her MBA and M.S Business, held key positions, was influenced by key people (mostly her superiors and subordinates), and conquered adversities (from dealing with some troublesome peers)

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Carrier Sister

    Carrier Sister

    1. Introduction Theodore Dreiser is one of America's greatest writers, and its greatest naturalistic writer. With the publication of Sister Carrie in 1900, Dreiser delivered all his power of influence on literary to open a new chapter of American naturalism. 1.1 Background information This novel was written hundreds of years ago and has been called the typical and essential modern American novel. Through its characters and story, it cites the effects of the changing economic

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    Submitted: February 12, 2010 By: David
  • Case 10 Nascar's Racing Teams

    Case 10 Nascar's Racing Teams

    Case 10 NASCAR’s Racing Teams Case Summary In 1998, the NASCAR was 50th anniversary and vary famous at that time. NASCAR is all about racing car, and had become a marketing powerhouse, with races, merchandise, collectible, apparel, gift, accessories, toys and co-marketing tie-ins with Coca Cola which was the huge promotion of the soft drink company had done. As organized sport, NASCAR is unique in that, its drivers are treated like independent constructors rather

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    Submitted: November 15, 2009 By: Bred
  • Case for Class Discussion

    Case for Class Discussion

    Preparing a Case for Class Discussion: If this is your first experience with the case method, you may have to reorient your study habits. Unlike lecture courses where you can get by without preparing intensively for each class and where you have latitude to work assigned readings and reviews of lecture notes into your schedule, a case assignment requires conscientious preparation before class. You will not get much out of hearing the class discuss a

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    Submitted: December 19, 2011 By: arerisya
  • Case Study

    Case Study

    The article that I read was found in the October 29 issue of the Wall Street Journal. This article is called, “Verizon Net Drops, But Wireless Area Sees Revenue Rise.” Verizon Communications Inc. reported that third-quarter net income fell fifty-nine percent from the year-earlier period, when results were helped by asset sales and tax benefits (p.B7). However, there was an eighteen percent jump in revenue at the wireless affiliate. Verizon’s total number of residential phone

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    Essay Length: 388 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: March 12, 2010 By: Steve
  • Cask of Amantillado

    Cask of Amantillado

    “The Cask of Amontillado” Revenge can be sweet, but in this case it is just down right grotesque! In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” it talks about a gentlemen named Montressor and how he is angry at Fortunato for insulting him in the past. Montressor will not let this go unpunished, so he thinks up a clever scheme to get back at him. This plan is in a way, ingenious but most definitely

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    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Victor
  • Cask of Amontillado Anaylysis

    Cask of Amontillado Anaylysis

    The terror of “The Cask of Amontillado,” as in many of Poe’s tales, resides in the lack of evidence that accompanies Montresor’s claims to Fortunato’s “thousand injuries” and “insult.” The story features revenge and secret murder as a way to avoid using legal channels for retribution. Law is nowhere on Montresor’s—or Poe’s—radar screen, and the enduring horror of the story is the fact of punishment without proof. Montresor uses his subjective experience of Fortunato’s insult

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    Submitted: April 24, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Cass Mastern (all the King’s Men)

    Cass Mastern (all the King’s Men)

    In All The Kings Men, Jack, finds for his dissertation to get his PhD, he writes on his great uncle, Cass Mastern. Cass Mastern was a poor when he was born, but his brother, becoming rich from cotton plantations, came back and supported Cass financially. By the suggestion from Jefferson Davis, he went to Transylvania College in Lexington where through Jefferson, he becomes good friends with Duncan and Annabelle Trice. He fell “head over heels”

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    Essay Length: 820 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: April 4, 2010 By: Tasha
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