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  • The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction

    The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction

    The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction American history is a collaboration of all of the wonderful events and the not so successful ones that make up this great country that we call the United States. Records of this fabulous nation date back all the way to dates way before our original founding fathers. However, few episodes of American history have aroused such intense and continuing interest ad the trials and executions for the witchcraft

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    Essay Length: 1,373 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: March 23, 2009 By: Top
  • King Arthur: Fact or Fiction

    King Arthur: Fact or Fiction

    King Arthur is a legend that is known the throughout the world. It is loaded with chivalry and romance. To most people it is just a romantic story of a king and his adventures involving magic, where good conquered evil. If there were no historical basis for the legend, there would be no arguement that he existed. This legend however is thought to have been based on an actual person. Certain historical items show that

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    Essay Length: 498 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Jack
  • Spellbound ( Fact More Compelling Than Fiction)

    Spellbound ( Fact More Compelling Than Fiction)

    The documentary spellbound is good proof that fact can be more compelling than fiction. The director Jeffrey Blitz has created a fascinating documentary by using many different film techniques and ideas on an unusual but compelling event, the national spelling bee. Spellbound shows that something like a spelling bee can be just as exciting and rewarding as any sport, as the real life journeys of each contestant reals the viewer in. The way that Blitz

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    Essay Length: 280 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 16, 2009 By: regina
  • Hitler, Fact or Fiction; Effects of Labels

    Hitler, Fact or Fiction; Effects of Labels

    Many historical events and “facts” are given by the media, through texts, such as articles, movies and documentaries. Whilst the media claims they are representing media the best they can, every time history is retold, it discloses more and more discrepancies. To a point where it is not longer history being told, but rather a story; one such story, is the story of Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was a powerful German leader and commander of

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    Essay Length: 844 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Fahrenheit 451 - Fiction Is Now Fact

    Fahrenheit 451 - Fiction Is Now Fact

    Fahrenheit 451 - Fiction is now fact... Imagine this: The world no longer reads. Instead, they sit around for hours and watch giant screens at home, viewing mind-numbing programming with no real intellectual value. Then, they get in the car and drive 90+ mph, not even for a second thinking about the danger that they put themselves in. People no longer care about anything really. They no longer think for themselves. They have no ideas

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    Essay Length: 616 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: November 26, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Gladiator: Fact or Fiction

    Gladiator: Fact or Fiction

    Gladiator: Fact or Fiction The story of Gladiator takes place in Ancient Rome and contains intense action, great acting, and fantastic storytelling. Although most of this action drama is mostly fictitious, some certain events and characters appear in the history books. The movie starts out with an opening battle between the well-equipped Roman army and a Germanic tribe defending their lands. Russell Crowe is the main character in the movie and he plays a

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    Essay Length: 1,077 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction

    War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction

    Ariel Ashcraft Alice Eagly Psychology of Gender October 17, 2003 War Against Boys: Fact or Fiction One of the oldest debates in psychology is the nature versus nurture debate. Its roots extend far beyond the nineteenth century psychologists such as Freud and Skinner into the beginnings of scientific thought. Even Greek philosophers such as Aristotle and Plato addressed the issue of how personality is formed. Today, a relative consensus has been reached that nature and

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    Essay Length: 2,942 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Creatine: The Facts and The Fiction

    Creatine: The Facts and The Fiction

    Creatine: The Facts and the Fiction There are many different opinions people have when a conversation about creatine comes up. If one doesn’t know what creatine is, it is a popular dietary supplement taken mostly by many athletes around the world. The main problem people have with creatine is its safety. Some people say that it is very harmful to the body, while others will say that it is completely stable. The truth is that

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    Essay Length: 1,404 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Fact, Not Science Fiction

    Fact, Not Science Fiction

    What the world needs is fact, not science fiction. we have enough problems of our own to deal with, we don’t need to worrry about different worlds, aleins and disasters that may not even happen. science fiction is a waste of time. Science fiction is something we hear about day in day out. But do we really need it? In this essay I will be answering just that question. The definition of Science Fiction is:

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    Essay Length: 567 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Steve
  • Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction

    Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction

    Loch Ness Monster: Fact or Fiction Loch Ness is the most mythical and imaginable creature in story books and scientific papers today. It is common in Scotland, to hear a story from an eye witness and hear the feat of their encounter with the beast. The beast included in uncountable claims and the beast of the story books. The most famous mythical creature; is it a dinosaur from the past, or another imagination the public

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    Essay Length: 3,223 Words / 13 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Monika
  • The Weight Loss Industry: Fact or Fiction

    The Weight Loss Industry: Fact or Fiction

    The Weight Loss Industry: Fact or Fiction Through the years, we have watched and even ridden the waves that the weight loss industry has created in our lifestyles. However, as it continues to explode with growth, we are left in the wake wondering if we experienced any benefits from what it was offering in the first place. Instead of reducing obesity and improving health and fitness, the industry perpetuates the image associated with popular culture,

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    Essay Length: 1,602 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 17, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Ufo - Fact or Fiction

    Ufo - Fact or Fiction

    UFO Fact Or Fiction Unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, as they're fondly called, are one of the century's most intriguing and controversial mysteries. Since ancient times, UFOs of all types have been accounted for. More today than ever, hundreds of thinkers, theologians, and scientists have tried to answer why there are or whether there aren't UFOs. According to some, the speculation that UFOs are alien spacecrafts from another world is an absurd and foolish proposal.

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    Essay Length: 715 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: February 3, 2010 By: Max
  • Criminals and Crimes: Fact Vs. Fiction

    Criminals and Crimes: Fact Vs. Fiction

    Criminals and Crimes: Fact vs. Fiction Trends or fads come and go; some even take the world by storm. The latest storm is blowing toward the criminal justice field. It is a well known fact, no matter what the age; people will believe EVERYTHING and ANYTHING they see on television. Just like when we were little, we believed we could fly like Superman or solve crimes like Batman, now it’s all about being a CSI.

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    Essay Length: 1,159 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: March 21, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction

    The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction

    The Salem Witch Trials: Fact or Fiction American history is a collaboration of all of the wonderful events and the not so successful ones that make up this great country that we call the United States. Records of this fabulous nation date back all the way to dates way before our original founding fathers. However, few episodes of American history have aroused such intense and continuing interest ad the trials and executions for the witchcraft

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    Essay Length: 1,373 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Moll Flanders: Fact or Fiction?

    Moll Flanders: Fact or Fiction?

    Moll Flanders: Fact or Fiction? Although Daniel Defoe endeavors to portray Moll Flanders as an autobiography and convince readers that the sordid affairs of Moll actually occurred, readers can find through the reading of his work that Moll Flanders is undoubtedly a completely fictional character. It can be evidenced in the preface and mainly in the dichotomous nature of Moll that she could not possibly be a real person and is just a fictional character.

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    Essay Length: 348 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • Christopher Columbus Biography

    Christopher Columbus Biography

    Christopher Columbus was the oldest son of Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa. Christopher was born between August and October 1451, in Genoa, Italy. Christopher also had two younger brothers, Bartholomew and Diego. Christopher received little formal education and was a largely self-taught man, later learning to read Latin and Write Castilian. Columbus began on the sea early making his first voyage, to the Aegean Island of Chios, in 14. One year later he survived a

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    Submitted: December 1, 2008 By: Jessica
  • James Thurber - Humor in Fiction

    James Thurber - Humor in Fiction

    James Thurber was one of the most influential and unforgettable writers of his kind. He made modern-day problems seem preventable in the minds of people, and he tried to make them realize that the problems had to have a source. Thurber wrote of people struggling with day-to-day life that was once trouble-free and drew his ideas of humanity losing the direction it once had in the past. He attributed this change to wandering minds and

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    Essay Length: 1,525 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Anna
  • Lewis and Clark (quick Facts)

    Lewis and Clark (quick Facts)

    1. Lewis was shot by one of his own men. Pierre Cruzatte, who could not see well, shot Lewis through the buttocks on August 11, 1806, mistaking him for an elk. 2. Clark was not actually a captain. When Lewis asked Clark to join the expedition he said President Jefferson was willing to promote him to captain. Before the expedition began, the Secretary of War notified Lewis that Clark would receive a lieutenant's title. Lewis

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    Essay Length: 363 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Grim Grotto: Elements of Fiction

    The Grim Grotto: Elements of Fiction

    There are many elements of fiction. All of them together are a recipe for the perfect story. There are five elements all together. They are conflict, setting, character, plot and theme. “The Grim Grotto” displays all of these elements with an exceptionally well written storyline. Conflict is a very significant factor of fiction. Without conflict there would be no story. The main conflict in “The Grim Grotto” is locating the sugar bowl and keeping it

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    Essay Length: 1,490 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Jon
  • Facts Controllers

    Facts Controllers

    ABSTRACT With the ongoing expansion and growth of the electric utility industry, electricity has become a highly engineered product; it is increasingly being considered and handled as a commodity. In the evolving utility environment, financial and market forces are, and will continue to, demand a more optimal and profitable operation of the power system with respect to generation, transmission and distribution. Power electronics based equipment, Flexible AC Transmission Systems (FACTS), provide proven technical solutions to

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    Essay Length: 2,704 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: November 8, 2009 By: Edward
  • Pulp Fiction

    Pulp Fiction

    Probably the best film of the 1990s, well written with a great director and a superstar cast. Even if you’ve watched it many times it only gets better. If you want to see a great movie, watch Pulp Fiction. I am interested in many television programs, novels and films, but when posed the question to explain or evaluate a specific favorite, I easily choose Pulp Fiction. Released in 1994 and directed by Quentin Tarantino,

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Janna
  • Animal Cruelty and Family Violence

    Animal Cruelty and Family Violence

    For the past few years, I have been interested in learning about the problems society can face or do face; when it comes to animal cruelty and family violence. Even for a good amount of American families the family pet is loved and cared for. For others, it is a terrible thing to think about; but it happens. For many years, there has been a lot of issues families face when they witness animal cruelty.

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    Submitted: November 9, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Personal Beliefs Reflected in Fiction

    Personal Beliefs Reflected in Fiction

    Personal Beliefs Reflected in Fiction The Gilded Six Bits is a short story written by Zora Neale Hurston, an American author who wrote about her black heritage with great pride. Her short stories did not address the issue of racism but did consist of a setting with an all black community and the use of Negro dialect. Because of those characteristics she was ridiculed by critics and said to be opposing the Jim Crow ideas.

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    Submitted: November 12, 2009 By: Mike
  • Environment Analysis on the Philippines (fact Sheet)

    Environment Analysis on the Philippines (fact Sheet)

    APOPULATION COUNTRY – POPULATION – DATE OF DATA – WORLD POPULATION PERCENTAGE World 6,671,226,000 July 1, 2007 100% 1 People's Republic of China[3] 1,324,574,000 June 25, 2008 19.86% 2 India 1,134,556,000 June 25, 2008 17.01% 3 United States 304,429,000 June 25, 2008 4.56% 4 Indonesia 231,627,000 3.47% 5 Brazil 187,108,615 June 23, 2008 2.8% 6 Pakistan 163,639,000 June 25, 2008 2.45% 7 Bangladesh 158,665,000 2.38% 8 Nigeria 148,093,000 2.22% 9 Russia 141,927,900 April 1, 2008

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    Essay Length: 341 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: November 13, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain

    Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain

    Christopher Columbus: Hero Or Villain By: Martin Boykin Christopher Columbus can in no way, shape, or form be considered a hero. A hero is someone who performs good deeds for the sake of others and not for their own benefit. Christopher Columbus did not do a single good deed in any of his four voyages in the late 1400’s. Christopher Columbus was not the founder of the Americas we live in today because he did

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    Submitted: November 17, 2009 By: Victor

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