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  • A Crime of Comparison

    A Crime of Comparison

    Frustrating Job My sister and I have been sisters for as long as I can remember. She might be able to remember not being a sister since she was the only one for the first seven years of her life. Once when I was seventeen she called me on a Friday night and left me a voicemail that she needed to ask me something. I called her back and she asked me to baby-sit for

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    Essay Length: 831 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Fatih
  • What Is Love, a Comparison of Love in Othello and King Lear

    What Is Love, a Comparison of Love in Othello and King Lear

    What is love? Love is the pinnacle of all emotions, it is the epicenter for life, what is the point of living if there is no love, ironically love is the cause of many a down fall. William Shakespeare has single handedly captured and embraced this necessary feeling and has allowed us to view in on it through the characters in his two masterpieces, Othello and King Lear. Three different kinds of loves explored

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    Essay Length: 1,513 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: regina
  • Comparrison Donnie Darko, 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Comparrison Donnie Darko, 2001: A Space Odyssey

    Donnie Darko and 2001: A Space Odyssey has central meanings that focus on science and religion. Richard Kelly's, Donnie Darko, introduces the protagonist as a teenage boy who is given the chance to live for twenty-eight more days after the mysterious jet engine crash that was intended to kill him. Donnie is plagued by visions of a giant sized evil-looking rabbit named Frank. Frank orders Donnie to commit acts of violence, warns of the

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    Essay Length: 1,310 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Comparison on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. : Who Had More Influence over the Civil Rights Movement

    Comparison on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. : Who Had More Influence over the Civil Rights Movement

    Throughout the Civil Rights Movement, many leaders emerged that captured the attention of the American public. During this period, the leaders’ used different tactics in order to achieve change. Of two of the better-known leaders, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., the latter had a more positive influence in the progress of the movement. Each of these two leaders had different views on how to go about gaining freedom. While King believed a peaceful

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    Essay Length: 1,210 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Mike
  • Weaknesses of Odysseus and His Crew in the Odyssey

    Weaknesses of Odysseus and His Crew in the Odyssey

    Through every obstacle Odysseus and his sailors face, Odysseus shows courage and wisdom that surpasses his shipmates’, but he also displays some of the same weaknesses they have. The sailors open the bag Odysseus received from Aeolus, who controls the wind, thinking that Aeolus had given him money. Instead, they release the winds and are blown off course. This act illustrates the greed of the sailors, but Odysseus also faults by his greed and

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    Essay Length: 304 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • Robert Scholes on Video Text’s -Comparison

    Robert Scholes on Video Text’s -Comparison

    According to Robert Scholes, author of On Reading a Video Text, commercials aired on television hold a dynamic power over human beings on a subconscious level. He believes that through the use of specific tools, commercials can hold the minds of an audience captive, and can control their abilities to think rationally. Visual fascination, one of the tools Scholes believes captures the minds of viewers, can take a simple video, and through the use of

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    Essay Length: 2,460 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Fonta
  • A Comparison of Greek and Norse Mythology

    A Comparison of Greek and Norse Mythology

    Hundreds of years ago people did not have the technology to explain different forces of nature. They created gods, each with separate powers, to rule their domains. Some of the gods were merciful, some were wicked, and others were merely servants of more powerful gods. Looking at the gods, it is easy to tell what the civilization most valued. I am going to look at the Greek and the Norse gods to compare what was

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    Essay Length: 1,838 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: July
  • Comparison: International Business Negotiation

    Comparison: International Business Negotiation

    Comparison: International Business Negotiation (China & USA) Word count: 3134. Introduction: With the globalization of world businesses, China has become an appealing market for foreign investors. The problem of cross-cultural management arises as the cooperation between China and its culturally different Western partners continues to increase at an unprecedented rate. This paper presents an understanding on the general cultural differences between United States of America and People's Republic of China (PRC) by applying the

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    Essay Length: 3,102 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Jessica
  • General Plot Summary of Homer's Iliad

    General Plot Summary of Homer's Iliad

    General Plot Summary of Homer's Iliad The Iliad is a lengthy poem of some 15,693 lines, divided into 24 books (cantos) and has as its theme the anger (menis) of the Greek hero Achilles, the greatest of the heroes to sail to Troy. In the tenth year of the war, Achilles quarrels with the leader of the expedition, Agamemnon, over a slight to Achilles' honor. In his anger, Achilles withdraws from the fighting and wins

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    Essay Length: 732 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Vika
  • Photography Essay: Artist Comparison

    Photography Essay: Artist Comparison

    Photography Essay: Artist Comparison. Three of the most influential artists of the century, known even to those outside the art world have made a huge impact on how we see our world. Two of these artists work together and one alone. Ansel Adams was a visionary figure in nature photography and wilderness preservation. He is seen as an environmental folk hero and a symbol of the American West, especially of Yosemite National Park. Adams' dedication

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    Essay Length: 575 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Edward
  • Router Comparison

    Router Comparison

    Connecting remote offices or home PC’s to the Internet and corporate networks can be troublesome Connecting remote offices or home PC’s to the Internet and corporate networks can be troublesome Connecting remote offices or home PC’s to the Internet and corporate networks can be troublesome Connecting remote offices or home PC’s to the Internet and corporate networks can be troublesome Connecting remote offices or home PC’s to the Connecting remote offices or home PC’s to

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    Essay Length: 304 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Jon
  • Comparisons and Contrasts of Asian and European Empires

    Comparisons and Contrasts of Asian and European Empires

    Comparisons and Contrasts of Asian and European Empires Foreign trade is one of the most important aspects of Asian and European Empires. Without trade, these empires would not have flourished in the manner that they did. Many different factors played a role in developing trade in their cultures. As various empires ruled from 2000 BC to 1911 in Asia and Europe, trade has had a major influence in the development of those cultures as seen

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    Essay Length: 1,023 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 23, 2010 By: Top
  • Comparison of Supply Chain for B2b Sites and B2c Sites

    Comparison of Supply Chain for B2b Sites and B2c Sites

    Comparison of Supply Chain for B2B Sites and B2C Sites Jamie Kear EBUS 400 June 10, 2006 There are several types of e-business but for the most part the different e-business sites on the internet can be categorized into 2 different categories: Business to Business and Business to Commercial or Consumer. There are many differences between these 2 categories and many similarities that we will discuss in this paper. We will be concentrating on the

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    Essay Length: 614 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Jon
  • Shareholder Wealth Comparison

    Shareholder Wealth Comparison

    A "structured finance" is defined as "a program where receivable interests and asset-backed securities issued by multiple participants are purchased by a special purpose entity that repackages those exposures into securities that can be sold to investors." It is also a service offered by many large financial institutions for companies with very unique financing needs which usually don't match conventional financial products such as a loan. In addition, structured finance usually involves highly complex financial

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    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Janna
  • Of Mice and Men Comparison Essay

    Of Mice and Men Comparison Essay

    In the story, there are two oddly paired men, who travel side by side and support each other with the goal of living the ideal life. In a world of loneliness and trouble, these characters, George and Lennie, find comfort within the presence of each other. Another friendship within the story is between Candy and his dog. In John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men, the author suggests that the friendships between the two sets

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    Essay Length: 473 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Bred
  • Last Supper Comparisons

    Last Supper Comparisons

    The sixteenth century witnessed the dramatic transformation from the symmetrical simplicity and preciseness of the High Renaissance, to the asymmetrical ambiguity and elegant illusion of the Mannerist Period. The Last Supper, a common theme in Renaissance painting, depicts Christ surrounded by his twelve disciples, seated at a long dining table. Leonardo da Vinci, the great, ambitious, pioneer of painting during the High Renaissance, illustrated consistency and symmetry in his version, while Jacopo Robusti, known as

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    Essay Length: 476 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Bred
  • Science/music Comparison

    Science/music Comparison

    Education provides each person with opportunities to grow uniquely, professionally, and as a citizen in accordance with his or her abilities and preferences. As education becomes more and more important throughout the past centuries; people have never stopped making efforts to find scientific and practical ways to improve the quality of education. Among various opinions and methods nowadays, there is a bias suggestion for all students to uptake courses in the sciences in school,

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    Essay Length: 645 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: January 24, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Odyssey

    Odyssey

    The Odyssey, by Homer, is one of the most poetic and vivid verses of its time. Many of its phrases and stanzas are memorable, but select few stand out above all the rest. They contain pictorial descriptions, are dramatized, and deal with major situations in the play. These characteristics combined make an impacting and memorable part of the book. One of these is in Book 11, lines 233-256. I noted this part because of its

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    Essay Length: 363 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Andrew
  • Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King: A Comparison and Contrast of Their Writing Careers

    Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King: A Comparison and Contrast of Their Writing Careers

    Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King: A Comparison and Contrast of Their Writing Careers Essay written by: Janice Johnson (jdewitt70@yahoo.com) In human nature there exists a morbid desire to explore the darker realms of life. As sensitive beings we make every effort to deny our curiosity in the things that frighten us, and will calmly reassure our children that there aren’t any creatures under their beds each night, but deep down we secretly thrive on

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    Essay Length: 2,586 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: January 25, 2010 By: Monika
  • Comparison of Two Irish Writers (no Bibliography)

    Comparison of Two Irish Writers (no Bibliography)

    Casey Imperiale Irish Lit Final Exam Paper An important part of Irish literature is family and roots. Where the character comes from and who his family is. Your parents make you what and who you are. In two important pieces of work from Synge and Joyce we see that a character’s father is a huge influence on who and what that character is, for good or ill. In Playboy of the Western World, we hear

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    Essay Length: 1,218 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: Steve
  • Company Comparison

    Company Comparison

    Some of the richest businesses in the world are companies which deal in public transportation. Aircraft are extremely complex and costly to build. Many man-hours are spent designing and manufacturing the preferred mode of long distance transportation. For this reason we felt that picking three major manufactures of aircraft would be an interesting sector of business with volumes of information and links to follow and utilize including the ease of navigation, look and feel. Boeing

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    Submitted: January 26, 2010 By: regina
  • Catcher in the Rye Vs. I Am Sam. a Pop Culture Comparison

    Catcher in the Rye Vs. I Am Sam. a Pop Culture Comparison

    Just as one can find recurring topics of discourse and discussion in many different artistic representations, one is frequently able to relate such themes to the experiences they endure in life. One prime example of this can be found in the literary composition The Catcher in the Rye to the film production I Am Sam by Jessie Nelson. Both The Catcher in the Rye and I Am Sam illustrate the notion of childhood versus adulthood,

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Jon
  • Comparison of Robert Burns' "a Red, Red Rose" and Christina Rosetti's "a Birthday"

    Comparison of Robert Burns' "a Red, Red Rose" and Christina Rosetti's "a Birthday"

    Comparison of Robert Burns' "A Red, Red Rose" and Christina Rosetti's "A Birthday" Though the subject of both Robert Burns' "A Red, Red Rose" and Christina Rosetti's "A Birthday" is love, the tone, diction, and form of each underline the different themes. The theme of the Burns poem is the beautiful ardency of the lover saying farewell to his love, while the Rosetti poem focuses on the joyous feelings of lovers being reunited. Both poems

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Comparison Between "countess P’s Advice for New Girls" by Natash Tretheway, "skinhead" by Patricia Smith, and "negro Hero" by Gwendolyn Brooks

    Comparison Between "countess P’s Advice for New Girls" by Natash Tretheway, "skinhead" by Patricia Smith, and "negro Hero" by Gwendolyn Brooks

    Persona is defined as the narrator of or a character in a literary work, sometimes identified with the author. Persona poems are written in the first person as if the author is to be perceived as the character in the poem. Three poems that have persona as a theme are “Countess P’s Advice for New Girls” by Natasha Tretheway, “Negro Hero” by Gwendolyn Brooks and “Skinhead” by Patricia Smith. These poems are about different types

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    Submitted: January 27, 2010 By: Wendy
  • The Horrors of War: A Comparison

    The Horrors of War: A Comparison

    “Only dead have seen the end of war” -Plato The world has turned a blind eye to the wars that are occurring at this very moment, while subconsciously knowing how vile and pestilent these wars are. Millions die, millions more are injured, and survivors are left with crippling memories that will never heal. Shell-shocked soldiers could not fall asleep at night because they are tormented by the nightmarish sounds; the non-stop barrage of mortars and

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    Essay Length: 3,140 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 29, 2010 By: David

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