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  • 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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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • American Revolution

    American Revolution

    Revolutionary War The revolutionary war was also know as the American revolution. The revolutionary war began in in 17 and ended in its cessation in 1783. British soldiers and American patriots fought at Lexington, Massachusetts and nearby Concord. In 1783 the Treaty of Paris ended the war. Great Britain was forced to recognize the independence of the 13 colonies of the United States. The Revolutionary War in America led to the birth of a new

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Tommy
  • On Freud’s “creative Writers and Day-Dreaming”

    On Freud’s “creative Writers and Day-Dreaming”

    On Freud’s “Creative Writers and Day-dreaming” Introduction Ethel Spector Person First presented in 1907 to an audience of some ninety intellectuals, Freud’s paper “Creative Writers and Day-dreaming,” as Marcos Aguinis tells us, established fantasy as “the fourth stroke of genius that he [Freud] inflicted on the stuffy academics of the time,” the first three being “his studies of dreams, parapraxes, and jokes.” The paper is bifurcated in that it stands at or near the headwater

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Europeans Vs. the Native Americans

    The Europeans Vs. the Native Americans

    How can 168 Spanish soldiers defeat an army of 80,000 Native Americans? Well in the year 1532, a Spanish conquistador known as Francisco Pizarro invaded the New World. He quickly got into a conflict with the largest state of the New World and managed to capture the absolute monarch, Atahuallpa. Francisco charged a ransom for his release and even after the ransom was given, he killed Atahuallpa. They were defeated and this cycle was continued

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    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ernest Hemingway - a Legacy for American Literature

    Ernest Hemingway - a Legacy for American Literature

    Ernest Hemingway, A legacy for American Literature Some say that Hemingway’s personal life should disqualify him from the literature canon. They state that his torrent affairs, his alcoholism, and his mental state should preclude him from entry into the canon. These are the very things that help to make Hemingway a unique writer. Although his genre is fiction, he relies on his real life experiences with the people and places that he visited. The very

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Why Americans Smell Funny – the Pandemic of Billions

    Why Americans Smell Funny – the Pandemic of Billions

    The reason why Americans smell funny is because they have large amounts of flab. This flab can be prone to trapping cats and other small animals in their midst and makes it hard to go to the toilet resulting in a foul aroma. Over 90% of Americans have this problem causing many other countries to reject American food. Evidence is shown that countries dislike the smell, which has built up over time slowly spreading around

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • Mary Oliver and North American Indians

    Mary Oliver and North American Indians

    QUESTION: Mary Oliver's representation of the culture of the North American Indian is one of celebration and lament. She celebrates a humane ecological consciousness that informs their cultural identity while also lamenting the terrible cultural dispossession that they have suffered at the hands of Western Imperialism. ANSWER: Mary Oliver's poetry is a critique of many different aspects of society, primarily the way in which nature is often devolved. She also examines the North American Indians

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mike
  • French and American Revolutions Compare and Contrast

    French and American Revolutions Compare and Contrast

    Every one says history repeats itself over and over in different situations. The French and American revolutions were very similar in their demands and end results however were in two different situations. In both the commoners wanted fair representation in the government and fair taxation however the French were revolting from a tyrannical government and the Americans were revolting from a tyrannical mother country. There were many causes that brought on the American Revolution. A

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Funeral Customs of African Americans and American Jews

    Funeral Customs of African Americans and American Jews

    Ў§The chaos of death disturbs the peace of the living. This unsettling fact of life has proven to be a rich source of inspiration for human efforts to find order in disorder, meaning in suffering, eternity in finitude. Religion, culture, social structures, the vitality of these rudimentary elements of communal life depends upon ritually putting the dead body in its place, managing the relations between the living and the dead and providing explanations for the

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Goals and Dreams

    Goals and Dreams

    Goals and dreams are an important part of many people's lives today. If it not for dreams, many people would be unhappy at their position in life and would hate their jobs and lifestyle. You see, dreams are what keep us going. You want to become something special as a little kid and if you work hard enough you might get there one day. So there is always a reward for hard work, which is

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Native Americans

    Native Americans

    Historias que no son todavнa historia The histories of the native peoples of Mexico are inappropriately termed "histories": they are not yet complete, though Europeans have thought them so since the eve of colonization. When Europeans first came to the Americas they saw the landscape, opportunities and inhabitants through their own presuppositions, derived from the Middle Ages and, for the Spaniards, the recent unification of all Spain into one nation. The Spaniards wanted to

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Max
  • Dream to Reality

    Dream to Reality

    On August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered a speech to more than 200,000 people during the March on Washington. King's speech was one of the most influential during the era of the Civil Rights Movement and is to this day recognized as a masterpiece due to its effect on the audience as well as for its eloquence and language. Many components went into this passionate speech that portrayed King's hopes for racial equality

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Bred
  • Dreams... What Are They Made Of?

    Dreams... What Are They Made Of?

    A Dream's Worth A picture is worth a thousand words. You've heard it so many times that it sounds trite. But a picture really IS worth a thousand words. And if a dream is a very special kind of picture, how much is IT worth? Maybe more? What about very simple pictures and very simple dreams? No doubt they're worth a little bit less than complex, elaborate ones. Or are they? In my psychotherapy course

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    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • Postmodernism in American Literature

    Postmodernism in American Literature

    Postmodernism in American literature The novel Beloved by Toni Morrison often makes us question the credibility of what is being told, and uses many striking, sudden shifts between the past and present, making it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction. This blurring of the truth is a common element of postmodern fiction. In fact, many scholars would say that Beloved is a great example of postmodernism. (Ebrahimi 2005) Morrison uses this technique to bring

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Edward
  • American Federalism

    American Federalism

    American Federalism American federalism was created as a response to the unsatisfying effects of the Articles of Confederation. Delegates were sent to the constitutional convention in Philadelphia, and decided at this union that in order to create a satisfactory establishment, they must protect the safety of the citizen’s, keep civil disruption at a minimum, provide for every citizen’s well-being as well as protect their rights and freedom. A federal system checks the growth of tyranny,

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • The American Revolution

    The American Revolution

    The American Revolution The American Revolution consists of many causes. Following these causes, there followed many aftermaths. The people of the American revolution consisted of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Betsy Ross, and Benedict Arnold. In the years following the American Revolution, the causes were quite sensible. Post revolution included the Treaty of Paris, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution. One cause of the revolution was the acts put in place to restrict

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Fonta
  • An American Requiem by James Carroll

    An American Requiem by James Carroll

    In An American Requiem, by James Carroll, Carroll describes his struggle for knowledge, individuality and separation from his father’s beliefs. The relationship between them slowly degenerates with age, and as James becomes more aware of the life happening outside of his family. Throughout the novel, Carroll focuses on many of the prominent world issues of the time, giving light to both extreme sides through his father and himself, as his father eventually comes to represent

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Edward
  • Manifest Destiny -- the Intangible of American History

    Manifest Destiny -- the Intangible of American History

    American history was built on a chronological record of significant events, each event having a cause and subsequent effect on another event. Historical events are presented in history as being tangible, being tied to a date, or an exact happening. Manifest Destiny on the other hand, is a phenomenon. It can not be tied to a date, event or even a specific period of time. Manifest Destiny existed and still exists as the philosophy that

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Love for American Football

    The Love for American Football

    Someone who is from another country like yourself, may believe that life in the United States is very diverse from life anywhere else. Countless people from other countries have a completely distorted image of how we may live here in America and the mentalities that we all possess. Not all of us are spoiled, overweight, or are obsessed with football. All of us are completely different for the most part, and are actually concerned about

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    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Yan
  • Eminem: An American Icon, Is He? or Is He Not?

    Eminem: An American Icon, Is He? or Is He Not?

    WRITTEN BY BRADIS MCGRIFF!!!DO NOT COPY MY PAPER JUST USE IT 4 RESEARCH!!!! April 3, 2007 History 196m Prof Gus Lease Eminem: an American Icon, is he? Or is he not? Eminem is one of the most if not the most talented rap artist to ever step up to the microphone. Although he may be one of the most talented rappers to ever perform, he is also one of the most controversial. Teenagers and young

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Vika
  • What Is an American Citizen?

    What Is an American Citizen?

    "What is an American Citizen?" By definition, an American Citizen is a person owing loyalty to and entitled by birth or naturalization the protection of the United States. American Citizens are entitled to vote and enjoy many rights and privileges of the United States (1-p.263). When I think of what it means to be an American Citizen, I think of freedom. America is known as the land of opportunity for its freedom. Freedom is

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Janna
  • King "i Have a Dream

    King "i Have a Dream

    Courtney Moore Mrs. Ramos Part One Composition II Journals “Utopia” Sir Thomas Mores’ Utopia is a story in which the author describes, in his opinion, the model society. His main focus is to show us a world without poverty, greed, or crime. The heart of this society is based on the fact that there is no such thing as class or inequality; socially, economically, or otherwise. More tells us of a Utopian society that shares

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Victor
  • The Controversy on Eugenics in the American Culture

    The Controversy on Eugenics in the American Culture

    Heredity improvement by genetic control. Why would people want to control heredity? What exactly is genetic control? These are some things that people have been questioning for decades. Eugenics can not be ignored because it is suddenly coming up everywhere. People are experimenting and taking huge risks not to their knowledge. At one point in time it was said that eugenics could change the world for the better. That is how some people could look

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Artur
  • A Mothers Dream

    A Mothers Dream

    A Mother's Dream For a lot children growing up, our mothers have been an complete part of what made us who we are. Mostly all good mothers want the best for their child and they are determine to do whatever it takes for them to get it. The central struggle in Amy Tan's story ‘‘Two Kinds'' is a battle of wills between the narrator, a young Chinese-American girl, and her mother, a Chinese immigrant.

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Analysis of "i Have a Dream"

    Analysis of "i Have a Dream"

    I Have a Dream Analysis Everybody has a dream, but not every one of them will come true.One of the most famous quotes in modern time, and also one of the most influential speeches ever given on the earth was given on a potiumat the Lincoln Momorial in Washington D.C on Augest 28th 1963. The great speech was given by Martin Luther King Jr. who deciatied his time on earth to prove that all people

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Stenly

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