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  • The Author to Her Book

    The Author to Her Book

    “The Author to Her Book” A writer has to have a certain amount of passion about their work. In the case of Anne Bradstreet in her poem “The Author to Her Book,” compares a writer and their work to a mother and her child. As you read the poem you can see how she compares the growth of her work to the growth of a child. The first two lines of the poem show a

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    Essay Length: 866 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Book and Movie Comparison

    One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Book and Movie Comparison

    “The Power of Words” In recent years, it has become popular for many of America’s great literary masterpieces to be adapted into film versions. As easy a task as it may sound, there are many problems that can arise from trying to adapt a book into a movie, being that the written word is what makes the novel a literary work of art. Many times, it is hard to express the written word on camera

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    Essay Length: 1,887 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 18, 2010 By: Max
  • Fahrenheit 451 Books

    Fahrenheit 451 Books

    The Book In Fahrenheit 451 books are burned on sight without exceptions. If I had the choice to save three books and “become” one, the first would be The Black Road which represents what greed and power can do to any kind of man. The second is A Spell For A Chameleon; it shows how if you’re different in any way from society you will be exiled out of the “group”. The Far Side

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    Essay Length: 523 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Corporation - Book Review

    The Corporation - Book Review

    The Corporation: A Book Review Joel Bakan’s book, The Corporation: the Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, is a decisive look into the mind of the corporation, or big business. It outlines the importance of profit in business and how ruthless corporations are willing to be in order to bring in substantial revenue. The book uses a historical timeframe to portray the ruthlessness of business ever since the idea of the corporation arose in the

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    Essay Length: 1,631 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Monika
  • Report on the Investigation of West Indies Yacht Club Resort

    Report on the Investigation of West Indies Yacht Club Resort

    Report on the Investigation of West Indies Yacht Club Resort (WIYCR) I) Investigation Summary In British Virgin Islands (BVI), there are mainly five upscale hotels and WIYCR is one of them which is famous for its boat collection as well as its top of the line sailing instruction programs. The resort staff is composed of expatriate managers and local employees. This results in cultural communication problems and arises issues on cross-cultural management for the

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    Essay Length: 742 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Farewell to Manzanar Book Review

    Farewell to Manzanar Book Review

    Farewell to Manzanar Book Review “ What is Pearl Harbor?”(4). The book I read was Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki. This is what started World War II. During these times Japanese people were treated like animals. They were forced to live in internment camps throughout Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 was approved by Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, this order ordered the military to place Japanese or Japanese Americans into these internment camps. This is

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    Essay Length: 540 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Kevin
  • My Book Review

    My Book Review

    That’s no animal, I tell you! Listen to the dog bark-ing! It must be a human being.” The woman stared into the darkness of the sierra. “What if they’re soldiers?” said a man, who sat In-dian-fashion, eating, a coarse earthenware plate in his right hand, three folded tortillas in the other. The woman made no answer, all her senses directed outside the hut. The beat of horses’ hoofs rang in the quarry nearby. The dog

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    Essay Length: 418 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Yan
  • Fraudulent Financial Reporting

    Fraudulent Financial Reporting

    Fraudulent financial reporting has been on ongoing issue for decades, from the infamous Anderson and Enron case in 2001 back to the 1977-1984 ESM Government Securities and Jose Gomez case, where Gomez received a “loan” for silence and intentionally misrepresented the financial statements. In 1985 the National Commission on Fraudulent Financial Reporting, also known as The Treadway Commission (Commission) was formed to search and study factors that could be linked or lead to fraudulent financial

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    Essay Length: 594 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 19, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Crayfish Report

    Crayfish Report

    Crayfish are close relatives of the Lobster and resemble a small shrimp. They live in freshwater habitats in North America and Europe. The Crayfish has a joined head, thorax, and a segmented body. They range in colors for yellow, green, red, and brown. Crayfish are around 3 inches long. The Crayfish has two pairs of sensory antennae. The eyes are all long pieces of skin that allow the eyes to move. The appendages of the

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    Essay Length: 617 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Janna
  • Pox Americana Book Review

    Pox Americana Book Review

    Smallpox is an extremely deadly disease which, in one point in time, was the most feared disease on the planet. In the book Pox Americana, Elizabeth A. Fenn writes about the encounter with the deadly disease in the 1770’s to the 1780’s. Her book was first published in 2001 in New York City, where she originally wrote it. Her book contains just under 400 words that explain the disease, some of the first encounters with

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    Essay Length: 800 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Maltese Falcon: Book Vs. Movie

    The Maltese Falcon: Book Vs. Movie

    The Changing Of Characters Many time in our lives, we have seen the transformation of novels into movies. Some of them are equal to the novel, few are superior, and most are inferior. Why is this? Why is it that a story that was surely to be one of the best written stories ever, could turn out to be Hollywood flops? One reason is that in many transformations, the main characters are changed, some the

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    Essay Length: 1,136 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 21, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • A Million Little Pieces Book Review

    A Million Little Pieces Book Review

    The book “A Million Little Pieces” by James Frey is a heart wrenching story of James’ time in drug rehab. In this book Frey is trying to inform the reader about what it is like to go through rehab. He describes his entire time, from the day before he arrives until the day he leaves. He describes all his feelings and the routine life they give him at the clinic. The main themes of this

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    Essay Length: 1,582 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Jon
  • Great Gatsby Report- Obsessing over the Past Theme

    Great Gatsby Report- Obsessing over the Past Theme

    An Obsession For The Past Obsessing too much over anything is unhealthy for a human being. Gatsby, in The Great Gatsby, dedicates his life to finding his lost love, Daisy, despite changes that may have occurred since the relationship ended. It is a love from the past that he longs for once again. Gatsby’s obsession gets to the point that he will do almost anything to retrieve the life that he once lived. Due to

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    Essay Length: 1,890 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Max
  • Compare and Contrast to Kill a Mockingbird Book and Movie

    Compare and Contrast to Kill a Mockingbird Book and Movie

    To Kill A Mockingbird - Differences between Movie and Book There are usually differences in two different versions of something. This can often be seen when a book is made into a movie. There are many similarities and differences in the book and movie versions of To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee. To begin with, there are many similarities between the book and movie To Kill A Mockingbird. For example, Tom Robinson died in

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    Essay Length: 788 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: February 22, 2010 By: Top
  • Report on Greenhouse Calculator

    Report on Greenhouse Calculator

    Report on Greenhouse Calculator Introduction: The Greenhouse Calculator is a program that calculates a person’s annual greenhouse gas emissions from everyday activities such as washing dishes and watching TV. The program guides the user through a series of questions relating to the everyday or weekly use of certain household related items including; transport, hot water, heating, cooling, refrigeration, cooking, lighting, clothes drying, other appliances and waste. Once the Annual household greenhouse gas emissions were recorded,

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    Essay Length: 489 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Jon
  • Segmental Reporting

    Segmental Reporting

    2nd Hope House Fundraising Committee Meeting Minutes African Growth Ministries, Hope House Baby Home Date: Saturday, May 14, 2005 Time: 3-5 pm Location: 16 Loresho Grove Attendance: Virginiah Nyambura Mainah, Carolyn Scanton, Maryke Gathaiya Perinus Wainaina, Terry Howard, Rosaline Knobbs, Katherine Maloney and visitor Katherine Kavinagh. Regrets: Jim Kimotho 1. Review and approval of the previous meeting’s minutes. 2. Financial overview from Rosaline, on Jim’s behalf. She shared the annual budget of Hope House (see

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    Essay Length: 459 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 23, 2010 By: Jon
  • Odyssey Book Review

    Odyssey Book Review

    The original author, Homer, was a Greek poet who wrote epic poems. Not much is known about Homer, but there are different theories of what Homer seems to be. Some believe he was not even a real person, some think that it was a group of people that made up the poems, some think he was a woman, and according to the legend, he was a blind, poor poet who lived in Ionia. The author

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    Essay Length: 1,071 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 24, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Case Study Report, Palm Inc.

    Case Study Report, Palm Inc.

    Case Study Report, Palm Inc. BACKGROUND: Jeff Hawkins founded Palm Computing Inc, a hand-held computer business, in 1992 which has since changed names (Yoffie & Kwak, 2001). In 1999 it changed to Palm Inc (Yahoo Finance, 2006). The case study concentrated on Jeff Hawkins, the founder of Palm, and Donna Dubinsky the former CEO of the company. These two left Palm in 1998 and founded a company called Handspring, the only company as of

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    Essay Length: 1,166 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • Scarlet Letter Report

    Scarlet Letter Report

    Summary The novel opens with Hester, the protagonist, being led to the scaffold where she is to be publicly shamed for having committed adultery. Hester is forced to wear the letter "A" on her gown at all times. Hester carries Pearl, her daughter, with her. While in public, she recognizes her husband from Amsterdam, Roger Chillingworth, the antagonist. Chillingworth visits Hester after she is returned to the prison. He tells her that he will find

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    Essay Length: 1,152 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 25, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Compare and Contrast of the Book Night

    Compare and Contrast of the Book Night

    Compare and Contrast Paper “Through love, through hope, and faith’s transcendent dower, we feel that we are greater than we know.”- William Wordsworth. As stated in this quote, when we have something to hope for, and someone showing us love, we are capable of many things. In the movie Life is Beautiful and the book Night love and hope are the only things that keep the characters alive. This is shown through Elie and his

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    Essay Length: 1,072 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Book Review on a Thousand Spledid Suns

    Book Review on a Thousand Spledid Suns

    Khaled Hosseini was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and moved to the United States in 1980. His first novel, The Kite Runner, was an international bestseller, published in 34 countries. In 2006 he received the Humanitarian Award from the United Nations Refugee Agency and was named a U.S. goodwill envoy to that agency. Told through the alternating voices of two women, the story spans the turbulent period from the 1970s to post-9/11. The story is set

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    Essay Length: 681 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Book Review Of: To Kill a Mockingbird

    Book Review Of: To Kill a Mockingbird

    Book Review of: To Kill a Mockingbird Genre: Fiction/Realism First published in 1960 by William Heinemann Ltd. F Plot To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story of Scout Finch and her brother, Jem, in 1930's Alabama. Through their neighbourhood walk-abouts and the example of their father, they grow to understand that the world isn't always fair and that prejudice is a very real aspect of their world no matter how subtle it seems. The

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    Essay Length: 281 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: July
  • Alitalia Industry Report

    Alitalia Industry Report

    1 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................... 2 ALITALIA AIRLINES.......................................................................................................................................... 4 HISTORY OF ALITALIA....................................................................................................................................... 4 FACILITY OF ALITALIA....................................................................................................................................... 5 FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE............................................................................................................................... 7 ALITALIA BUSINESS UNIT AND SEGMENTATION.................................................................................... 8 INDUSTRY SCOPE.......................................................................................................................................... 10 INDUSTRY MATURITY: .................................................................................................................................. 13 GROWTH RATE: SUBJECT TO CYCLICALITY .................................................................................................... 13 INDUSTRY POTENTIAL: .................................................................................................................................... 14 PRODUCT LINE: .............................................................................................................................................. 15 NUMBER OF COMPETITORS: ............................................................................................................................ 15 MARKET SHARE:............................................................................................................................................. 15 PURCHASING PATTERNS: ............................................................................................................................... 15 EASE OF ENTRY: ............................................................................................................................................. 16 TECHNOLOGY: ................................................................................................................................................ 16 COMPETITIVE INTENSITY FORCES (PORTER)........................................................................................ 18

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    Essay Length: 2,747 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: February 26, 2010 By: Bred
  • Sociolgy Report

    Sociolgy Report

    In this paper I will cover the top 3 men who are considered the founding fathers of sociology. I will discuses a brief biography on them. Also how they contributed to the creation known as sociology. If you don’t already know sociology is the study of human behavior and it is a valuable tool for many law enforcement employees. I will begin with a man called Karl Marx. Karl Heinrich Marx was born the

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    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Jon
  • Good Morning, Midnight Short Analysis of an Extract Ot the Book

    Good Morning, Midnight Short Analysis of an Extract Ot the Book

    Jean Rhys (1894-1979) a West Indian writer. Discuss how Rhys' style and thematic concerns in this passage are reflective of the period studied. The extract from Good Morning, Midnight, by Jean Rhys starts off with the entrance of "an old Englishwoman and her daughter", told to the reader by the omniscient narrator written in first-person. This extract is written in a stream-of-consciousness as there is some attempt of presenting to the reader what is going

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    Essay Length: 372 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: February 27, 2010 By: Edward