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  • Summarize the Short Essay “why the Reckless Survive” by Melvin Konner

    Summarize the Short Essay “why the Reckless Survive” by Melvin Konner

    In the short essay Why the Reckless Survive by Melvin Konner. He gives an in-depth explanation of why people do reckless activities. His main point of thought is that people don’t think clearly about risk. He explains that “The American public, after years of education, wears seat belts at the rate of 20 percent and has reduced its cigarette smoking only somewhat, “The widespread success of lotteries alone shows that people do not think

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    Essay Length: 569 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Wizard of Earthsea Trait Essay

    The Wizard of Earthsea Trait Essay

    John Smith Ms. Tracey December 21, 2005 Honors English 1st The Wizard of Earthsea Trait Essay Ged’s pride, constantly taking advantage of Ged, prevents him from ever fully maturing into adulthood. As a wizard, Ged was entitled to some pride, yet Ged took advantage of this right by biting off more than he could chew. First, he roots through Ogion’s spell books to find a spirit-summoning spell to impress a girl he meets in the

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    Essay Length: 575 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Jon
  • Persusaive Essay Paper

    Persusaive Essay Paper

    In today's environment many suffer illnesses from pollution, and second hand smoke, and they seek for cleaner air. About five years ago, the health department was successful in banning smoking in public places and smokers needed to go outside unless companies set-up a designated area for smoking. Now, in Pierce County, smoking is banned in all public places such as restaurants, bars, casinos, hotels and taverns. This has caused an up roar with the business

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    Essay Length: 757 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Enlightenment Essay

    Enlightenment Essay

    What is Enlightenment, well it happened in the 18th century. It was a European movement in which thinkers such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and others attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society. John Locke thought people could reason, therefore they had the ability to govern themselves. The Enlightenment started because people began to realize that they could think for themselves and that monarchy was not

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    Essay Length: 656 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • America - Argumentitive Essay

    America - Argumentitive Essay

    Argumentative Essay “That Australia Should Resist American Influence” - Against For over 50 years now, the United States of America have been a source of inspiration for the people of our great nation. We watch their TV shows, listen to their music, eat their food, and this is all before we leave for work in the morning! Like it or not, America has had a positive influence on Australia, and their is no reasonable explanation

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    Essay Length: 460 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Drexel Music Program Essay

    Drexel Music Program Essay

    Music in My Life Since my youth I have been obsessed with music, singing, listening, and playing. It wasn't until the sixth grade that I could truly begin the journey which would allow me to express myself musically. I received a saxophone for Christmas and began taking lessons at Settlement Music School, while I do not play anymore, the saxophone helped me understand and develop a learning process for music. After one year of saxophone,

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    Essay Length: 317 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Vika
  • Panama Canal Essay

    Panama Canal Essay

    Panama Canal Essay The canal was the best thing that ever happened to Panama. The Panama Canal was started under President Roosevelt and completed by his successor, William Howard Taft. The canal was built across an isthmus, a narrow body of land that connects two larger land areas, which connects North and South America. In some places in Panama the isthmus is only 50 miles across. The French started the canal in the late 1800’s.

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    Essay Length: 424 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Jack
  • Reader Response Essay, John Kasson, Amusing the Million

    Reader Response Essay, John Kasson, Amusing the Million

    American culture changed at the turn of the century due to a challenging reestablished social order. Coney Island at the beginning of the twentieth century had a profound impact on societal norms. Outside of Coney Island, women were often treated as inferior while men ruled the throne in nearly all aspects of life. However, within Coney Island the gender gap was equalized. Coney Island served as a medium to a change in the traditional mindset.

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    Essay Length: 375 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Monika
  • Contract Essay

    Contract Essay

    CONTRACT LAW PRACTICE ESSAY 1 Gertie places a notice in the trade journal ‘Mung Monthly’ saying that she would pay Ј2000 against a ‘wood nymph’ Mung vase with its authenticity certificate. The question is to know whether Gertie’s proposal is an offer and could lead to a contract . The notice in the trade journal stays a proposal to the public. This proposal could amount to an offer if it is intended to result

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    Essay Length: 1,368 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Mike
  • College Essay

    College Essay

    "Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school." -Emerson The Rollingstones. I don't know when they first debuted, I don't know their songs, and I don't know the singers in the band. However, I do know that I must get a hold of their T-shirts. Before I actually purchased it, I already had outfits coordinated in my mind. But who knew that I would be matching clothes on display

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    Essay Length: 466 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Steve
  • Theory of Knowledge Essay

    Theory of Knowledge Essay

    Theory of Knowledge Essay ““Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.” evaluate to extent to which the characteristics Sartre claims for words affect - negatively or positively different areas of knowledge.” “A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetical value. Typically a word will consist of a root or stem and

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    Essay Length: 1,374 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Vika
  • Essay 1: Leibniz’ Principle of Pre-Established Harmony

    Essay 1: Leibniz’ Principle of Pre-Established Harmony

    Essay 1: Leibniz' Principle of Pre-Established Harmony In his Monadology, Leibniz describes the existence and nature of "Monads" or substances. Leibniz believes that it is impossible for there to be any kind of causal interaction between the Monads. Yet, he also states that each Monad reflects the system as a whole, including any change in any other Monad. So then, to explain how it is that this "mirroring" takes place, without the existence of any

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    Essay Length: 763 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Steve
  • Jobs for Teens - Persuasive Essay

    Jobs for Teens - Persuasive Essay

    I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve asked my parents for money for the movies or for the mall. Usually, they tell me to get a job or to be more responsible with the things I already have. The same thing is true for teens my age all around the world. What’s the solution, you may ask? One word, jobs. What would happen if the legal working age was changed from the average 16

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    Essay Length: 638 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Bred
  • Critical Lens Essay

    Critical Lens Essay

    Accomplishment by definition means the completion or fulfillment of something. That definition tends to vary sometimes depending on the person life. An achievement is not only as a trophy but it is more of a moral value than anything. Two pieces of writing that illustrate this is the poem “soybeans” and Shirley Jackson’s narrative “fame”. The characters in both passages have some sort of achievement to their name. In “fame” the author takes pride in

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    Essay Length: 535 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Top
  • Montana 1948 Essay

    Montana 1948 Essay

    Montana 1948 Essay Maturity may come at any age and time in a person's life. One moment he or she may be a carefree child, and then suddenly realize that they have been transformed into a mature adult by a powerful and traumatic experience. An experience they will remember their whole lives. In To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the adolescence of Jem and Scout is threatened one fateful night by a dangerous man

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    Essay Length: 1,136 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: regina
  • Ralph Ellison Essay

    Ralph Ellison Essay

    "I am a novelist not an activist," he says, "but I think that no one who reads what I write or who listens to my lectures can doubt that I am enlisted in the freedom movement. As an individual, I am primarily responsible for the health of American literature and culture. When I write, I am trying to make sense out of chaos. To think that a writer must think about his Negroness is

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    Essay Length: 1,040 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Edward
  • A Midsummernight’s Dream Essay Exam

    A Midsummernight’s Dream Essay Exam

    A Midsummer Night’s Dream TEST 1. At the beginning of the play, Egeus comes to Theseus with a problem. What is he upset about? 2. What law does he ask Theseus to uphold? 3. What two choices does Theseus give Hermia if she refuses to do as her father tells her? 4. What do Lysander and Hermia decide to do? (what, where, when) 5. Who is the only person they tell and why do they

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    Essay Length: 349 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Anna
  • Black History Unit Opinion Essay

    Black History Unit Opinion Essay

    Q: What have you learned from our Black History unit? Have you changed your mind about past and/or current issues? How can you make a difference in eliminating discrimination in our society? A: I’ve always known that slavery and discrimination towards blacks used to exist. It’s always been a part of me, a part of my knowledge. However, I never realized the seriousness, and the unfairness of the whole affair until we began studying it

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    Essay Length: 556 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

    To Kill a Mockingbird Essay

    To Kill A Mockingbird Essay Symbolism is used extensively in the novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The theme of prejudice in the novel can be best perceived through the symbol of the mockingbird. Atticus advised his children that if they went hunting for birds to "shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird" (96). Miss Maudie explains this further by saying that "mockingbirds don't

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    Essay Length: 932 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Jon
  • Communism in Cuba

    Communism in Cuba

    Communism In Cuba The year is 1959 and the place is Cuba. It is January 1st and Batista, the president of Cuba has just fled the country fearing Fidel Castro, a Cuban revolutionary who mounted a rebel force called the 26th of July Movement against Batista. Castro assumes power on the 16th of February and establishes a dictatorship. Communist Rule In Cuba So far, the Soviet leader, Khrushchev is in question of what political track

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    Essay Length: 1,495 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Essay Comparing Arjuna and Rama

    Essay Comparing Arjuna and Rama

    Essay Comparing Arjuna and Rama Chris Brownlee World Lit. 11/27/02 In the Indian epics the Bhagavad-Gita translated by Barbara Stoler-Miller and the Ramayana translated by R.K. Narayan there are two heroes, both faced with difficult decisions that at times completely contradict the hero’s Dharma, or spiritual duty. The two heroes’, Arjuna Rama are forced to deal with their difficulties in separate but not unlike ways. In the Bhagavad-Gita, Arjuna has trouble fighting his friends and

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    Essay Length: 463 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • Short Story Essay

    Short Story Essay

    Short Story Essay on “A Rose For Emily” and “Barn Burning” Human behavior is one of the most studied and talked about traits of human beings, for it makes us who we are after all. It is prevalent in books, movies, stories, and most importantly life, everything we do involves it. In all of the short stories we read, aspects of human behavior where the basis of the writings. The short stories “A Rose For

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    Essay Length: 1,059 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Matt Groening Essay

    Matt Groening Essay

    Matt Groening is arguably one of the best cartoonists in the history of television. When people hear the name Matt Groening, they immediately think about the hit cartoon series “The Simpsons” or “Futurama.” However, not many people know much about Matt Groening as a person. Groening was born on February 15, 1954 in Portland Oregon. Groening graduated from Lincoln High School in Portland Oregon and graduated from Evergreen State College in Olympia Washington. Right after

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    Essay Length: 1,191 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Victor
  • Compare and Contrast Essay

    Compare and Contrast Essay

    Compare and contrast essay In 1997, Hong Kong was returned to China. Two years after that, it was Macau's turn. At first sight, it would be understandable to think that both cities shares a lot in common since they both share the same sub-tropical climate, having over 90 percent of their populations speaking Cantonese and were both once colonized by European powers. However, by taking a closer look, we realize that they are different in

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    Essay Length: 570 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund Comparative Essay

    Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund Comparative Essay

    Siddhartha and Narcissus and Goldmund Comparative Essay Hermann Hesse was a man that lived from 1877 and 1962 and faced a life of struggle as he coped with the effects of war. During this period of time the theme of finding yourself was quite popular and experiences affect his works. Hesse wrote both Narcissus And Goldmund and Siddhartha, two books that are about men who are searching for who they are. The novels themselves have

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    Essay Length: 697 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Anna