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  • Saint Augustine's Book - Confessions

    Saint Augustine's Book - Confessions

    Saint Augustine’s book Confessions talks about how increasing your knowledge through reading leads you through a “conversion” in which you begin to recall things and their relevance through memory. Socrates stresses the concept of increasing knowledge as a way to grow. Socrates also was the one who wanted to have a “field day” teaching Saint Augustine. Saint Augustine uses his life to display to us the way one’s quest for God should be like. He

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    Essay Length: 1,253 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Top
  • Elie Wiesel’s Night

    Elie Wiesel’s Night

    Elie Wiesel’s Night Eliezer Wiesel was one of the few Jews that escaped Hitler’s evil hand during World War II. There are only a handful of novels that accurately depict the fate of those persecuted, and Night should be at the top of this list. Regarded by many as the memoir of the terror to read, teachers spanning the globe have presented this book to their students. The systematic extermination of the Jewish people all

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    Essay Length: 1,140 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Night Stalker

    The Night Stalker

    The Night Stalker Richard Ramirez also known as “The Night Stalker” was a notorious serial killer who tormented the lives of Los Angeles residents by raping, sodomizing, murdering, and torturing random citizens of the community. Ramirez was addicted to cocaine and was a Satan worshiper. His rain of torture throughout 1985 included over 29 victims. He has already outlived some of the victims that survived his attacks. In 1985 Ramirez was captured by an angry

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    Essay Length: 1,765 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: November 21, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Salem - Witches Today and Yesterday

    Salem - Witches Today and Yesterday

    Witches Today and Yesterday What is the difference between witches in today’s society and witches in the past? Why were people accused of being witches? What were the punishments people got when they were accused of being a witch and found guilty? How is the witch trials repeated in history? When someone talks about witches what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Most people think of witches from movies such as the witch in

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: July
  • Book Banning

    Book Banning

    Book Banning has existed in America since colonial times, when legislatures and royal governors enacted laws against blasphemy and seditious libel. Legislatures in the early American republic passed laws against obscenity. Though freedom of the press has grown significantly over the course of the twentieth century, book banning and related forms of censorship have persisted due to cyclical concerns about affronts to cultural, political, moral, and religious belief. Drugs, sex, and profanity are daily topics

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Max
  • Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture

    Circuit of Cultural Analysis - Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture

    Circuit of Cultural Analysis: Portrayals and Effects of Gender Roles in Today’s Culture Representations of gender are portrayed as essential norms in today’s culture, creating standardized myths and sexism within society through the media. The normative portrayals of gender in society consist of stereotypical roles and images that are created through media devices such as, film, television, popular fiction, music and advertisements. Judith Butler draws on the idea of gender performativity and explains how

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    Essay Length: 4,490 Words / 18 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Jon
  • Night Response

    Night Response

    “What idea does the author develop regarding the nature or effect of threatening forces?” As human beings, we are often faced with choices, challenges, and threats as we grow and mature. Although how we act in these situations defines who we are, the underlying importance of these issues is how we come to our final decision and how we face the threats that lie before us. In Elie Wiesels’s memoir Night, a huge groups of

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    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Artur
  • Night by Elie Wiesel and a Man's Search for Meaning By

    Night by Elie Wiesel and a Man's Search for Meaning By

    In reading, Night by Elie Wiesel and A Man's Search For Meaning by , many stories of the torturous life in the concentration camps during the second world war. In each book, the reader gets a different point of view from each book because in Night, you get to read about a teenager's view and in the book, A Man's Search For Meaning, you get to read about a middle aged man's view. In the

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    Essay Length: 1,615 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Gay and Lesbians Today

    Gay and Lesbians Today

    Gay and lesbians today In was late July of 1999, five of my buddies and I had just graduated from high school and we were enjoying one of the greatest summers of our lives in Ocean City, Maryland. We were renting out what we thought was the best bachelor pad in all of O.C. on 139th street. Even friends of ours that we graduated with and had known for several years were living at the

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    Essay Length: 1,512 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 22, 2009 By: Fatih
  • The Processes and Institutions That Appear to Be Challenging the Idea of the Nation as a Sovereign Territory in the Asia Pacific Region, and the Institutions That Keep the Nation Relevant.

    The Processes and Institutions That Appear to Be Challenging the Idea of the Nation as a Sovereign Territory in the Asia Pacific Region, and the Institutions That Keep the Nation Relevant.

    The processes and institutions that appear to be challenging the idea of the nation as a sovereign territory in the Asia Pacific region are predominately driven by loosening of economic policies, trade barriers and movement of capital throughout the globe. The term for the development of this integrated global economy is Globalisation. This trend towards Globalisation, as evidenced by the evolvement of organizations that link diverse countries together to allow for exchange of labour, goods

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    Essay Length: 1,648 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Mike
  • Kite Runner - Book Review

    Kite Runner - Book Review

    Book report Kite Runner Kite Runner is very interesting book. It is a very disturbing book with all of the graphic details and what not. You know when your watching a movie and someone is getting tortured very badly and there is blood everywhere and it is a really graphic scene? But you still watch even though it’s gross because you want to see what is going to happen to the person? That is how

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    Essay Length: 1,701 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Night Sheds Light

    Night Sheds Light

    Night Sheds Light Night is a horrifically detailed and informative narrative and personal experience of the holocaust, written by Elie Wiesel. Burning babies, mothers,and the sick, and beating husbands and sons. Who could ever imagine such a brutal reality, except for those that lived it? It is unfathomable. Although these acts may seem barbaric and not at all relevant to what goes on in this day and age, Night is relevant today for a

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    Essay Length: 456 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Book Reviews

    Book Reviews

    *** Essays - Topics *** Accounting & Finance - Personal Finance - Money & Banking - Corporate Finance - Economics - Economic Theory - Economic History - International Economics - International Finance - Misc. Economic Issues Africa Animal Rights & Zoology Anthropology Argumentative / Pro-Con Art & Architecture - Artists, Art Genre - Famous Works Of Art - Social Issues In Art - Political Issues In Art - Art From Ancient Cultures - Graphic

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    Essay Length: 1,733 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Jessica
  • How Is Leadership Depicted in Children’s Books?

    How Is Leadership Depicted in Children’s Books?

    How is leadership depicted in children’s books? Analysis of A Fine, Fine, School By Sharon Creech Pictures by Harry Bliss 1. Give overview and summarize book explaining how leadership or follower ship is displayed in the book. A Fine, Fine, School is the story of Mr. Keene, a gung ho principal any school would be lucky to have. This exuberant administrator loves his school so much he wants more and more school: first on Saturdays,

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    Submitted: November 23, 2009 By: Anna
  • When I First Picked up a Book

    When I First Picked up a Book

    EN105 Essay 1 Word Count: 779 Chapman Library I don't recall when I first picked up a book, but I do remember the ones that will be with me forever. Growing up I read comics and magazines, anything to do with Spiderman, batman, superman or any super hero. I had a brother and three sisters we all bounced around from one low income housing service to another. It was hard for my mom being a

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    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Anna
  • Tender Is the Night Summary

    Tender Is the Night Summary

    Rosemary Hoyt, a beautiful eighteen-year-old movie starlet, on vacation with her mother, arrives at a rather deserted portion of the French Riviera. There, Rosemary meets Dick Diver, a handsome American psychologist in his thirties with whom she instantly falls in love. Dick and his wife, Nicole, are exemplars of grace and sophistication, and move among a social set of similarly extraordinary people. Rosemary becomes part of this world, and in the gay times that follow,

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    Essay Length: 390 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Political Situation in Belgium as of Last Night

    The Political Situation in Belgium as of Last Night

    The Political Situation in Belgium as of Last Night (Nov 7th 2007). Yesterday’s resolution by the Flemish dominated Home Affairs Committee to split the electoral constituency of Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde (BHV) was more than just a political maneuver [VRT Flem]; it was another blow in a cultural fight that has been ongoing for 177 years. The motion however, will likely lead to a crucial timeout rather than a full-blown brawl. Since independence in 1830 [CIA], Belgium has

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    Essay Length: 687 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 24, 2009 By: Mikki
  • A Night to Remember

    A Night to Remember

    Many of the guests had already arrived. Everyone was looking magnificent, but the main attraction had not arrived yet for JV. The fireplace cast its shadows on the walls as the flames danced on the logs. The food table was set, candles lit and he had just put the finishing touches on the dinner when the doorbell rang. It was 7:00PM, and she was right on time. He had spotted her when he first

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    Essay Length: 1,327 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Top
  • Critical Book Review: "forgotten Fire" by Adam Bagdasarian

    Critical Book Review: "forgotten Fire" by Adam Bagdasarian

    In his book Forgotten Fire, author Adam Bagdasarian investigates the Armenian Genocide through the eyes of a twelve year old Armenian boy named Vahan Kenderian. Through Vahan, the reader experiences the atrocities committed during the 1915 genocide of Armenians in Turkey. The Turks, who were Muslim, viewed the Christian Armenians as inferiors and treated them as such; under Turkish law, Armenians had nearly no rights, no fair justice in Turkish courts, could not bear arms,

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    Essay Length: 991 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Kevin
  • Different Types of Race Car Drivers in Formula one Today

    Different Types of Race Car Drivers in Formula one Today

    Formula One, also known as Grand Prix racing, is known to be the highest class of auto racing in the world .In the world of formula one there exist a vast array of drivers and their different driving techniques, some drivers tend to have conservative, aggressive, and neutral racing styles. There is not a certain style or technique that is superior to all others; it all depends on the person. For the past two years

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Stenly
  • What Influences Have Made Me the Person I Am Today

    What Influences Have Made Me the Person I Am Today

    What influences have made me the person I am? It was a Tuesday afternoon and I was just getting to my psychology class and as usual I was chit chatting with my neighbors in class, Cpl Christie and Fausnight about the things that each of us did this weekend. Just when I had finished talking to Kara (Fausnight) about her weekend our psychology teacher Dr. Douglas walks in. As she is walking in I in

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    Submitted: November 25, 2009 By: Mike
  • Technology Today and Yesterday

    Technology Today and Yesterday

    A Computer Smarter Than Me? Growing up, I would frequently sit back and listen to my Great Grandma tell stories of her life. Several were of the adventures that she went on and things that she encountered throughout her years. To this day, I still sit back and ponder on how much different her growing up was then mine is. So many items of technology that I take for granted, she never had the opportunity

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Janna
  • Contrast of to Kill a Mockingbird Film and Book

    Contrast of to Kill a Mockingbird Film and Book

    One huge difference was the absence of Aunt Alexandra. Atticus' sister, Alexandra, was the thorn in Scout's side throughout the book. She always wanted Scout to act more like a lady. Towards the end, she became more like a mother in soothing Scout and trying to reassure her that Jem was not dead. I think Aunt Alexandra was a huge part of the story, and I think they should have kept her in the movie.

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    Essay Length: 350 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Comparison of Catch 22 and America: The Book

    Comparison of Catch 22 and America: The Book

    America is a work of non-fiction; though the information is presented in a comical manner, it is based on fact. On the other end of the spectrum, Catch-22 is a fictional piece that satires real events. While this might seem to make them different, it actually makes them extremely similar. Though America (The Book) and Catch-22 have many differences, there are certain similarities in theme and tone that can be used to link the two

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    Essay Length: 2,998 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Top
  • Website Book Selling Comparison

    Website Book Selling Comparison

    Website Book Selling Comparison Many commercial websites today offer a multitude of books for any reader to absorb in their lifetime. Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com are two of the largest websites on the internet. Between these two websites there are a few million books sold worldwide every year. I have chosen ten books from the New York Times bestseller list. I chose the top five for fiction and the top five for nonfiction hardcover books. Title

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    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Artur

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