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  • The Glorious World of Stagnation: A Look at the Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader Film, “taxi Driver”

    The Glorious World of Stagnation: A Look at the Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader Film, “taxi Driver”

    New York City that is depicted in Taxi Driver seems to be too real to be true. It is a place where violence runs rampant, drugs are cheap, and sex is easy. This world may be all too familiar to many that live in major metropolitan areas. But, in the film there is something interesting, and vibrant about the streets that Travis Bickle drives alone, despite the amount of danger and turmoil that overshadows everything

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    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Mike
  • “the Most Irritating Things in My World”

    “the Most Irritating Things in My World”

    You know how people have those little habits that get you down? Like talking during the movie that you paid seven dollars to see. Or making smacking noises when they eat. Basically, things that bother you more than they should. Standing, waiting my turn in the salad line and the girl in front of me is taking forever! It is so vexing, all I want is some salad and ranch dressing, and here she is,

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    Submitted: May 23, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Xenotransplantation - How Bad Science and Big Business Put the World at Risk from Viral Pandemics

    Xenotransplantation - How Bad Science and Big Business Put the World at Risk from Viral Pandemics

    ISIS Sustainable Science Audit #2 Xenotransplantation: How Bad Science and Big Business Put the World at Risk from Viral Pandemics by Mae-Wan Ho and Joe Cummins ________________________________________ Summary Xenotransplantation - the transplant of animal organs into human beings - is a multi-billion dollar business venture built on the anticipated sale of patented techniques and organs, as well as drugs to overcome organ-rejection (1). It has received strong criticism and opposition from scientists warning of

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    Essay Length: 288 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: July
  • America After World War one

    America After World War one

    During the 1920s, tension arose between a new generation, with liberal and progressive ideas, and a more traditional peer group, who favored conventional values and sentimentalism. This social tension was caused by technological advancements, a revolution in society in the period of and directly following World War I, a revolution of morals and rapid urbanization. The new generation expressed themselves through the music of the times, greater sexual promiscuity, use of technology and advertising, whereas

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    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Jack
  • Real World Observations

    Real World Observations

    On the weekend of November 9th, 2007, I had the opportunity to join a couple of my friends to watch the Houston Rockets vs. Milwaukee Bucks basketball game in a box seat reserved for the lawyers and clients of Vinson & Elkins. The game wasn't expected to be the best game of the season but it was the first game where players from all 6 continents [including two players from China] was to be playing

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    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Hsbc - We Are the World's Local Bank

    Hsbc - We Are the World's Local Bank

    HSBC- we are the world's local bank The Business/Organization The HSBC Group is named after its founding member, The Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited, which was established in 1865 to finance the growing trade between Europe, India and China. The inspiration behind the founding of the bank was Thomas Sutherland, a Scot who was then working for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company. He realized that there was considerable demand for local

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    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Victor
  • Happiness in a Brave New World

    Happiness in a Brave New World

    It requires an effort of the imagination to conceive how a Universe in which all humans and non-humans alike led richly fulfilled and joyful lives could be a morally worse place than where we are now. If we were to discover an alien civilisation of ecstatics, would we try to introduce a bit of suffering into their lives to stiffen their moral fibre? I fear the critic, however, is likely to find this remark of

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Edward
  • Global Effects of World War I

    Global Effects of World War I

    "Everywhere in the world was heard the sound of things breaking." Advanced European societies could not support long wars or so many thought prior to World War I. They were right in a way. The societies could not support a long war unchanged. The First World War left no aspect of European civilization untouched as pre-war governments were transformed to fight total war. The war metamorphed Europe socially, politicaly, economically, and intellectualy. European countries channeled

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    Essay Length: 2,410 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: July
  • Demographics and World Commerce

    Demographics and World Commerce

    Demographics and World Commerce Why are some countries wealthy while others boarder on poverty? What are the contributing factors that impact global commerce? Both world demographics and topography have their respective relationships with regional and world commerce. Large countries in the mid-altitudes with ample technology and fertile environments will experience higher economic success as compared to those smaller countries with insufficient technology and infertile environments. J. Vernon Henderson writes, “High-income regions are almost entirely concentrated

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Should the Us Have Entered World War I?

    Should the Us Have Entered World War I?

    Should the U.S have entered World War I? The United States 1917 entry into World War I represents one of the crucial turning points in American history. The war began for America long before it started for the common man. On May, 1915, German sunk the British Lusitania boat. This even was cited as one of a series of outrages to which President Woodrow Wilson reacted with self-control and patience. Later Wilson was forced to

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: naz
  • Weapons of World War 1

    Weapons of World War 1

    Weapons Of WWI The weapons of WWI were revolutionary, the first of a long line of killing machines, the invention of the sustained fire machine gun, the reconnaissance and bomber plane, the invention of the tank. All of these inventions were the offspring of the 1st World War. The first signs of modern warfare started to show in this war to end all wars, the death of horses as a mainstay in the military,

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Tasha
  • The Destruction of the New World

    The Destruction of the New World

    The words in these books not only give us facts and stories, we get to share in their surprise, in their religious opinions, and in their fear. What these men share in common is the fact that they were there when these events took place, they lived through these adventures; however, they all differ in their attempts to present their story. The perspective that each of them hold separates their works, and gives forth great

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    Submitted: May 25, 2010 By: Victor
  • Othello - the Tragedy of a Black Man in a White World

    Othello - the Tragedy of a Black Man in a White World

    Othello: The Tragedy of a Black Man in a White World When William Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Othello around 1603, he was writing from the perspective of an individual living during the historical Elizabethan era. The play was set in Venice, Italy as was a good number of Shakespeare’s other works, and later Cyprus became the play’s final setting. The characters themselves attested to a Greek system of language, dress, and behavior. However, Othello’s

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    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Top
  • Drexeler's World Famous Bar- B- Que

    Drexeler's World Famous Bar- B- Que

    1- What role do values play in how the Drexeler's restaurant interfaces with its neighbors and customers? Drexelers restaurant adopt values guarantee that customers as well as neighbors will receive excellent care, this value include honest, hard work and treading people fairly and with respect. Beside that they are inquiring about individual needs, equally for long time customers and new ones and always with a smile and warm greeting for all. Drexeler's restaurant believes

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    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: wadha
  • The World Is Flat

    The World Is Flat

    January 30, 2008 THE WORLD IS FLAT The world we live in today is going through enormous changes in economics, technology, culture, politics, etc. The effects of the changes are not so clear, since it is hard to predict how each sector would affect the other and how society will be affected. However, analyzing past and present occurrences provides some information for experts to interpret society’s reaction in the future to different transformations. Globalization can

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    Essay Length: 1,351 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Steve
  • World Oil

    World Oil

    With the world’s increasing demand for oil there are not enough countries supplying oil to meet these demands. Right now the countries who export the most oil are Saudi Arabia, Angola, Iran, Russia, Oman, Yemen, Sudan, Congo, Indonesia and Equatorial Guinea(NYT 4/19/06). Saudi Arabia produces approximately 265 billion barrels per year, Iran produces about 96 barrels, and Russia produces roughly 54 barrels a day (Aneki, 4/13/06). Compared to the world top consumers; China consuming 38.95%,

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    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: July
  • 1421 - the Year China Discovered the World

    1421 - the Year China Discovered the World

    Whenever something we have been taught all our lives as being true is challenged, it is always met with some resistance and doubt. More so when it is historical than scientific it seems. History is usually based on human events that have taken place. Those events are written into books and passed down through people in stories. But just like a scientific breakthrough, history is all about research and discovery as well. Of course growing

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    Essay Length: 507 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Comparison Between Brave New World and Freud’s Future of an Illusion

    Comparison Between Brave New World and Freud’s Future of an Illusion

    Freud and the Brave New World: Science can replace religion as a means of creating a stable civilization. This is what Sigmund Freud believes, and this is what Aldous Huxley tries to prove. Freud in his Future of an Illusion states that religion allows men to act according to reason, and not their instincts. People are taught with a religious background and are taught about a balance of crime and punishment. Punishment will be

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    Essay Length: 1,681 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Catholic Churchin the New World

    Catholic Churchin the New World

    During the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church played an all-encompassing role in the lives of the people and the government. As the Dark Ages came to a close, the ideas of the Renaissance started to take hold, and the church's power gradually began to diminish. The monarchies of Europe also began to grow, replacing the church's power. Monarchies, at the close of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance, did not so

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    Essay Length: 3,391 Words / 14 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Strategies to Write In English

    Strategies to Write In English

    Strategies to Write In English The writing process is an important part in academic writing. Pursuing a career or profession in any field requires someone to have a certain level of proficiency in writing. For most people it is evidently easier for them to produce a quality writing in their own language as it is always harder to write in a second language. For me, I speak three different languages, Bahasa Malaysia, Tamil, which is

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    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: Edward
  • World War 2 Draft

    World War 2 Draft

    During 1940 depression weary Americans hoped that the new decade would bring better days than the previous one. War swept Europe and Asia. People began to wonder whether when war rumours began to flood the newspapers. People tried to ignore the war by going to movies, watching sports, and listening to music. By mid 1940 war was no longer possible to pretend. The time had come for citizens and representatives in Washington to take

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    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: July
  • What Were the Results of World War 2

    What Were the Results of World War 2

    What were the results of World War 2? After World War 2, the borders of Europe changed. The losers were Germany who got its area decreased. The Soviet Union got a piece of eastern Poland, and Poland got a piece of Germany as compensation. A lot of people lost their lives during the war, so Europe was not what it used to be. Numbers of killed people around the world: Soviet Union: 7 million Germany:

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    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Gattaca - the World of Gattaca Is Focused on Genetic Perfection, Yet It Is the Imperfect Vincent That Achieves the Most

    Gattaca - the World of Gattaca Is Focused on Genetic Perfection, Yet It Is the Imperfect Vincent That Achieves the Most

    Set within a world governed by genetic engineering, Andrew Niccol’s film, Gattaca, portrays the dire consequences of such a society in “the not too distant future”. Given a pre-determined life as a “god child” due of his parent’s adherence to religious beliefs, Vincent Freeman is an individual who “refuses to play the hand he was dealt”. Vincent although seemingly cursed with an imperfect genetic composition manages to overcome considerable odds in order to achieve his

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    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: David
  • The World and Islam

    The World and Islam

    The Islamic religion, founded by Muhammad, has affected this world with a variety of ways. In 732, the religion was in full effect with people from the Middle East to North Africa learning about Islam and the Koran. The Islamic people, Muslims, had different attitudes toward life and what life was about compared to other religions across the globe. They believed those who were in the religion would live in paradise; thus, if they died

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    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Mike
  • 1993 Dbq - Early English Colonies in America

    1993 Dbq - Early English Colonies in America

    1993 DBQ Early English colonies in America hardly resembled the union of men and women that would later fight against England and build a new country. In fact, until the mid-eighteenth century, most English colonists had very little, if anything to do with the settlers in neighboring colonies. They heard news of Indian wars and other noteworthy events, not from the colony itself, but from England. The colonies in the New World appeared completely different

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    Submitted: May 31, 2010 By: Artur

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