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  • Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Midsummer Night’s Dream

    Midsummer Night’s Dream Questions and Answers 1. What does Shakespeare accomplish by setting most of the action at night and in the wood? Explain thoroughly. Use examples. Setting most of the action at night and in the woods creates a dreamlike world. There is no other place that holds more myth than the forest. Obernon makes clear that nighttime is fairies’ time. Theseus, who is present during the daylight, represents reason.The visions of fairies and

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Andrew
  • The Quiet American - a Comparison

    The Quiet American - a Comparison

    Philip Noyce’s adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel The Quiet American to film was a large success. It stayed true to the script, and kept the basic essence of the characters; pulling them from the pages of the book and creating them visually into marvels on screen. The earlier film made on the book was made in 1958 by Joseph Mankiewicz. Fowler was played by Michael Redgrave, with Audie Murphy as Pyle. This version was forced

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    Submitted: December 15, 2009 By: Max
  • The American Prison System

    The American Prison System

    The American Prison System The American Prison system is home to many of the nations criminals. The ever-growing population is due in part to incarceration, where an alternate punishment would suffice. The sustenance of the inmates is drawn directly of of society's pocket, in the form of taxes. I believe that we, as a nation, should focus on providing more sensible, economical ways for criminals to pay off their debt to the community. There is

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: David
  • The Beginning of American Agricultural Literature

    The Beginning of American Agricultural Literature

    http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010107earlyam/010107earlyamsoil.html JARED ELIOT 1685-1763 THE BEGINNING OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL LITERATURE In colonial times almost every man was a farmer. Even the preachers and doctors were part-time farmers. Jared Eliot, a minister and doctor of Killingsworth, Conn., was no exception. In his spare time he practiced farming and when he rode horseback calling upon his parishioners and the sick in his community, he noticed the way other farmers farmed. He noticed that water running from a

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: regina
  • American History

    American History

    Throughout the 1800’s and to this day, many talented leaders have embraced the government and its people. One of the most important leaders of his time was Andrew Jackson, the “Old Hero”. Jackson and his supporters, known as the Jacksonian Democrats, helped shape our country into an improved and stronger nation. They provided individual and economic freedom to the people and established a more efficient government. The chief issue the Jacksonian Democrats argued was “shall

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: July
  • American Individualism

    American Individualism

    It is sometimes hard to determine early American literature from European literature. American literature begins to become distinct from European literature as the American Revolution becomes more imminent. Writers such as Hector St. John de Crevecouer and Henry David Thoreau illustrate these changes of American thought and America’s place in world politics. American citizens develop a sense of individualism which is unique to Americans. The early writers of American literature illustrate the transformation from

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Anna
  • Genocide and Americans Actions

    Genocide and Americans Actions

    Opinion 1: Lead the World in the Fight to Stop Genocide Military: According to the Genocide Convention signed and put into effect by the U.N December 9. 1948. Anyone committing genocide, whether constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials, or private individuals will be punished. Genocide is defined as the killing of members in a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, imposing measures intended to prevent birth, or forcibly transferring children of that group to another

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Themes of a Midsummer Nights Dream

    Themes of a Midsummer Nights Dream

    Themes of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a play that relies on opposing themes to generate the events in the play. The antitheses of order and disorder, reality and dream, amity and enmity, and harmony and dissonance represent the thematic oppositions of the play. There are also character antitheses that stem of the themes, for example how the peaceful relationship of Hippolyta and Theseus represents order and the volatile relationship

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    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Jessica
  • American Dreram

    American Dreram

    American Dream Throughout society people always have one focus to motivate them to do well. That is to live a live that is absent from poverty and to live happily. To prosper and succeed, rather then to beg and fail. In reading Maggie a girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, Maggie would have to be the one that stands out most for this attempt. She strives to do what she can to get out

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Janna
  • The Pan-American Student

    The Pan-American Student

    The Pan-American Student Forum has always, since sophomore year, been my activity of choice after school, not only for me but for many other students. This is due in part to the many new friends that are made each year at convention. I also chose to join PASF because I needed a way to let colleges know that I didn’t spend my four years of high school behind closed doors, be it in the classroom

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Victor
  • An Attack of American Ideals Through the Eyes of Assassins

    An Attack of American Ideals Through the Eyes of Assassins

    An Attack of American Ideals Through the Eyes of Assassins Ben Durocher Ms. James 12/28/06 ENG 4U An Attack of American Ideals through the Eyes of Assassins By Ben Durocher Since the first settlers arrived, the United States of America have projected a picture of prosperity, success and happiness around the world. The notion that “the New World” was a land of great opportunity inspired thousands to migrate from their homelands to seek a

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: regina
  • The North American Free Trade Agreement

    The North American Free Trade Agreement

    The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) The North American Free Trade Agreement is a free trade agreement among Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico, based on the model of the European Communities (today: European Union). NAFTA was signed separately by the leaders of the three countries, president Bill Clinton, president Carlos Salinas de Gortari and prime minister Brian Mulroney on December 17, 1992 and went into effect on January 1, 1994. The

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jack
  • Native Americans

    Native Americans

    In the early days of English settlement in the American colonies, the Indian-European relationship of each area was the determining factor in the survival of the newly established colonies. By working together and exchanging methods of food production and survival, an English colony could maintain its population and continue to support the arrival of new settlers. However, a colony that had trouble maintaining ties with their Indian neighbors had a tough time attracting settlers and

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    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Jessica
  • American Revoulition

    American Revoulition

    Whereas His Excellency the Palatine and the rest of the true and Absolute Lord's Proprietors of Carolina, having duely considered the privileges and immunities wherewith the Kingdom of Great Brittain is endued and being desirous that this their province may have such as may thereby enlarge the Settlement and that the frequent sitting of Assembly is a principal, safeguard of their People's privileges , have thought fit to enact. And Be It Therefore Enacted by

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Monika
  • American Modernist Poetry and the New Negro Renaissance

    American Modernist Poetry and the New Negro Renaissance

    A Rage in Harlem: The Redefinition of American Modernist Poetry Via the New Negro Renaissance Though American modernist literature has been intensely scrutinized since the end of the first World War, a great deal of ambiguity surrounds the history of the literary movement—especially the movement’s origins. Like any other artistic era, it’s impossible to measure or neatly book-end American modernism with specific dates or years. Disagreements among literary theorists and writers as to when the

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: David
  • The Meaning of Being African American for Richard Wright

    The Meaning of Being African American for Richard Wright

    Deanna Milano Writing 102 May 2, 2006 Research Paper The meaning of being African American for Richard Wright Racial discrimination has been rooted deeply in the United States and saturated into every aspect of society. A racist outlook assumes that the human species can be meaningfully separated into races, a viewpoint that is often coupled with hostility toward people of other races. For most of the 20th century, African Americans specifically experienced the worst kind

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

    In Philip K. Dick's, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, animals have nearly become extinct after World War Terminus and the resulting nuclear fallout. This has suddenly caused animals to become a symbol of wealth and prestige rather than simply a slab of meat bought at the grocery store. But all-the-while, throughout the novel, Dick makes it apparent that the role of animals is actually to satisfy the owner's desire to simply own a real

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Max
  • American Imperialism

    American Imperialism

    America had definitely played its role in its imperialism. First of all imperialism is the control from one country doing to another. America has controlled a lot of countries in its time. In this essay I will talk about the causes and effects that America’s imperialism played a role in. We have really controlled a lot of countries in our time but this essay will focus more on the 19th and 20th century. We play

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: regina
  • African American Athletes

    African American Athletes

    African American Athletes American student athletes have always faced stereotypes in and out of the classroom, being seen as self-segregating or “dumb jocks” that really wouldn’t be at school if it weren’t for their athletic ability. Although these stereotypes are applied to both white and black athletes, African American students, especially men, feel it more than their white counterparts. African Americans are already, for the most part, seen as intellectually inferior, so when they are

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Claude McKay - African American Lit.

    Claude McKay - African American Lit.

    Claude McKay African American Lit. Claude McKay was one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century African American literature. He was known world wide from the West Indies to the United States to Africa all the way to his birth place Jamaica. When mentioning controversial writers, Claude McKay comes to mind. He was first of many African American writers who would become known for speaking their minds through literature during the early 1900’s. He also

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Understanding the Cuban American Culture

    Understanding the Cuban American Culture

    Miami Florida has the biggest Latin population than any other city in the United States. The majority of Latin’s being of Cuban descent. Since the Cuban revolution there have been constant waves of immigrating Cubans to Miami. The result has been a Cuban American society that has created culture diversity within. In order to understand the Cuban American culture you must understand its ethnic origin, politics, and the varying times of immigration. CUBAS ETHNIC ROOTS

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Anna
  • Growing Concern of Aid in the African American Community

    Growing Concern of Aid in the African American Community

    The Growing Epidemic of AIDS/HIV In the African-American Community By Idris Abdul Zahir In the early 1980’s Kaposi's sarcoma, a cancer usually associated with elderly men of Mediterranean ethnicity. Eventually the men wasted away and died. As the realization that gay men were dying of an otherwise rare cancer began to spread throughout the homosexual and later the medical communities. The syndrome began to be called by the colloquialism "Gay Cancer". As medical scientists

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Top
  • Rise of Anti-Americanism

    Rise of Anti-Americanism

    Scott Van-Newhouse GVPP Book Review: Andrew Kohut America Against The World Rise of Anti-Americanism There are many conversations and explanations on why America has encountered an anti-American backlash in recent years. In reading Andrew Kohut’s America Against The World, I found it particularly useful to debunk the misconceptions that current foreign policy makers and news personnel both –explain as the reason why America is being viewed in such a negative light. Kohut’s book is a

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Yan
  • The American Family

    The American Family

    The American Family The essay “The American Family”, written by Stephanie Coontz, takes a historical perspective to examine the contrast between common beliefs about the past and the reality of that time. Furthermore, Coontz analyzes and challenges the conventional view that families today face worse problems than in the past. According to Coontz, families today face a multitude of problems, arising out of fears about inattentive parenting, teen violence, child abuse, conflicted marriages, and antisocial

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    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Victor
  • Dream Job English 1

    Dream Job English 1

    Just imagine this, your sitting in a chair surrounded by the likes of Denzel Washington, Julia Roberts and Johnny Depp; in a dress that was designed just for you by Versace. All the sudden you hear your named called and applause starts. You walk up to the stage and start to give your acceptance speech for winning an Oscar for Best Actress! My dream job is to be a sucessful, famous actress. As nice as

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    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Edward