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  • Democracy Makes America Great

    Democracy Makes America Great

    When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, little did he know he would mistakenly anchor in what is now known as the most powerful country in the world, the United States of America. Benefiting millions of people, it could be said that this was perhaps the most profitable and greatest mistake ever made. Columbus had originally intended to find a western route to India. Not even knowing there was a ginormous land mass

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mikki
  • The Nature of Peter the Great

    The Nature of Peter the Great

    The Nature of Peter the Great Peter the Great ruled Russia from 7 May (27 April O.S.) 1682 until his death. Peter carried out a policy of "Westernization" and expansion that transformed Muscovite Russia into a major European power. He also created a series of reforms that have more political freedoms and flexibility in the nobility, or lack there of, of his citizens. But why did he do all these things, more greedy ulterior motive,

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    Essay Length: 698 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Great Gatsby Compared to the Wasteland

    The Great Gatsby Compared to the Wasteland

    Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby and Elliot’s The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties, and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a

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    Essay Length: 1,258 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mike
  • Mirror Stage of Development Analysis on the Wizard of Oz (magic Art of the Great Humbug)

    Mirror Stage of Development Analysis on the Wizard of Oz (magic Art of the Great Humbug)

    In the children’s story, “The Magic Art of the Great Humbug”, all of the characters run into problems with their identities. The old man has the most difficulty with his own identity. He wishes to be a great wizard with superhuman capabilities. The Tin Man, Scarecrow, and Cowardly Lion have trouble with desiring qualities that are only common to humans. Finally, Dorothy runs into trouble with the symbols around her that establish her identity. The

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening

    Identify the major reform movements of the Second Great Awakening. To what extent were reformers during the Second Great awakening successful in achieving their goals? The reformers of the Great Awakening were very effective in achieving their goals due to their future advancements, and the major reform movements included reforms in abolition, Women’s rights, and Temperance. The abolition movement spread the idea that that slavery was wrong. It would eventually lead to the outlaw of

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    Essay Length: 287 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Edward
  • Great Depression in the United States

    Great Depression in the United States

    The collapse of the US stock market in 1929 that led to a worldwide economic depression caused the Great Depression in the United States. For most of the nation, the "Black Tuesday" (also sometimes referred to as "Black Thursday" or "Black Monday") stock market crash of October 29, 1929, marked the beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, and deflation. Although some observers think the causes of the Great Depression are still uncertain, most

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    Essay Length: 262 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Yan
  • Great Gatsby Info

    Great Gatsby Info

    Response paper on Gatsby The narrator of the story, Nick Carraway, has just returned from war and goes east to work, but being restless in the west. In flashbacks he reveals the story of Jay Gatsby, his next-door neighbor. Immediately after Nick moves to West Egg, he visits Daisy Buchanan, his second cousin once removed and her husband Tom, a fellow Yale graduate, for dinner. Here Nick meets Jordan Baker, Daisy’s friend from Louisville, who

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: David
  • How to Be a Great Pr Client

    How to Be a Great Pr Client

    All us agency types know that we belong to the legion of the irredeemably gifted. It also seems that there may be some clients who are similarly touched by angels. My excellent colleague Morgan McLintic has even put up a guide explaining how to be a bad client, which as usual, is funny, to the point and insightful. However, as I'm not that keen to encourage bad clients, I thought I'd produce a few points

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    Essay Length: 280 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Vika
  • Causes of the Great Depression

    Causes of the Great Depression

    The Great Depression remains to be the worst economic slump ever in American history and one which spread practically all over the industrialized world. The Depression bombarded in late 1929 and lasted nearly a decade. Many factors elemented the depth of the widespread prosperity. However, combined, the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's and the extensive stock market speculation that took place during the latter part that same decade remain the key of

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    Essay Length: 3,370 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Great Harvest Executive Summary

    Great Harvest Executive Summary

    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Great Harvest: Keeping It Simple Building a Freedom-based Franchise Report Prepared by Steve Cannizzaro Table of Contents Executive Summary pg. 3 Objectives pg. 3 Mission pg. 4 Keys to Success pg. 4 Great Harvests’ History pg. 5 Key developments: Chronology pg. 5 Early History pg. 5 Company Summary pg. 8 Company Ownership pg. 8 Start-up Summary pg. 8 Location Map pg. 9 SWOT Analysis pg. 10 Strategy and Implementation Summary pg. 11

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Paper of Great Things

    The Paper of Great Things

    THE PAPER OF GREAT THINGS In the novel The God of Small Things by Arudhati Roy a relationship between a family is shown and the painful past comes through several memories and the presence of the caste system in India is used to juxtapose right vs. wrong. A very powerful closeness is observed between the two main characters and through their relationship one of the main themes of love through obscurity is showcased by the

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Mike
  • A Comparison of the Modern Are and the 1920 with Quotes of from the Great Gatsby

    A Comparison of the Modern Are and the 1920 with Quotes of from the Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920’s. A story of disillusioned love of men, women and money. During the rise of the stock market in the aftermath of the war led to a sudden, sustained increase in the national wealth and a newfound materialism, as people began to spend and consume at unprecedented levels. There for the novel will compromise a much larger and less romantic extent of their lives.

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    Submitted: December 21, 2009 By: Max
  • About My Great Padrino

    About My Great Padrino

    About My Great Padrino My padrino name is Guillermo “Mero” Montes, number 49 crossed Sigma Lambda Beta in the spring of 2002 (Pi Line) with six other line brothers and he was number six in the line. He was born in 1982, from Mexico, he his 22 years of age. He is a Biology major graduating may, 05. While he was pledging he ended up with a 4.0gpa I personally don’t know how he did

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    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: July
  • Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    Faith R. Sims Eng3010 11/24/2005 Great Expectations Hollywood and the movie industry have made many bold attempts over the past decade in bringing to life old classics. None however in my opinion have been done more boldly than the remoulding of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. This compelling piece is a rebirth storyline of the past retold in Modern times. Any attempt at bringing a Dickens work to the screen would be an awesome task to

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Edward
  • Surviving the Great Depression

    Surviving the Great Depression

    The nation was growing up. Movies were starting to show more violence and sexuality. Women were coming out of their shell so to speak. They were starting to dress and act much differently than ever before. Women were now showing a side that was not ever seen before in film. Such stars of the 1930’s Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Bette Davis appeared self confident and sexy. Before this women were seen as housewives and

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Call to Greatness

    Call to Greatness

    Call to Greatness The main point of the play is the idea of greatness. Willy longs to achieve great things as a salesman and to be remembered after his death, and tries to instill this hope in both of his sons. Where Willy, Happy and Biff all continue to fail, Ben, Charley, and Bernard succeeded. Willy is unable to see through his own delusion of the “American Dream”, which he perceives as the ability to

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Anna
  • The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a really good book that deals with many different issues with its many different characters. A few of these characters share some characteristics while they are completely different at the same time. In this essay I will show you the similarities and differences in Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway. First off the similarities. Although there are not many there is a few to be talked about. Number one

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    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening By the early 1700's religion had begun to slack in the colonies. Partly because many of the colonists were starting to worry more about personal riches than their own religious observances. It began after the religious developments in Europe as new ministers started arriving and spreading their word. One of the principal figures in the Great Awakening was Jonathan Edwards. Edwards is known for his “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry

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    Essay Length: 491 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Great Fear

    The Great Fear

    Times change and people come and go, but fear is a constant, and in “The Great Fear” by J. Ronald Oakley, he describes the wave of fear that occurred in the 1950s. In 1692, the townspeople of Salem were scared into believing that they were among witches, and in 1950’s the “Red” Scare destroyed thousands of peoples lives that were accused of being Communists. Those accused in both witch hunts were put on trial,

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Victor
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually all of the industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression; however, the main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the extensive stockmarket speculation that took place during

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Analyze the Responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration to the Problems of the Great Depression. How Effective Were These Responses? How Did They Change the Role of the Federal Government?

    Analyze the Responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Administration to the Problems of the Great Depression. How Effective Were These Responses? How Did They Change the Role of the Federal Government?

    Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government? Roosevelt’s first task upon taking office was to alleviate the panic that was threatening to create chaos in the financial system. He did so in part by force of personality and in part by constructing very rapidly an ambitious and diverse program of legislation. Much

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Artur
  • Cavour's Main Means of Politics Greatly Influenced His Aims and Actions That Led to the Unification of Italy

    Cavour's Main Means of Politics Greatly Influenced His Aims and Actions That Led to the Unification of Italy

    Count Camillo Benso di Cavour (1810-1861) was the second son of an aristocratic Piedmontese family. Being the second son of a nobleman, Cavour was supposed to be in the army, even though he was more interested in politics rather than the military. In July 1824 he was named a page to Charles Albert, the king of Piedmont who first opened war of independence against Austria. Cavour later resigned from the army at the end of

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    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Color Symbolism in Great Gatsby

    Color Symbolism in Great Gatsby

    The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is full of symbols and symbolic ideas. Fitzgerald portrays important messages in the novel by his symbolic use of color, names, places and characters. A lot of important messages in the novel are conveyed by color symbolism. Colors are an important part in Fitzgerald’s description of the lives of Jay Gatsby, Nick Carraway and the other characters. The color grey is used to descbribe the valley of ashes

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    Essay Length: 905 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Andrew
  • A Person Who Has Great Influence in My Life

    A Person Who Has Great Influence in My Life

    A strong and brave man. He has a pair of small and black dark eyes. He has a pumpkin shaped face. Not a very tall but average height he has. His lips are thick. And you will see two rows of yellowish teeth with streaks of white. He is my dearest father, Tan C*** K**. His actual age is fifty plus, but you can't realise it if you just look through his face. Keep smiling

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    Essay Length: 363 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Steve
  • Peter the Great

    Peter the Great

    Peter the Great Peter the Great was one of the most famous rulers in history. First, he ruled as king of Russia and later became Russia's first emperor. Peter transformed Russia from an isolated and backward country into a great European power. Peter was born in Moscow in 1672. He was the son of King Alexis. Alexis died in 1676 and was succeeded as king by his oldest son, Feodor. Feodor died in 1682. Peter

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Steve

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