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  • Hephaestus Essay

    Hephaestus Essay

    Did you ever wonder what keeps you warm while in the living room with a lit chimney? Or what claims thousands or lives each year just by starting off as a tiny spark or match? That’s right, Fire, the Greek God Hephaestus is the god of fire, volcanoes, smiths, and craftsmen. Hephaestus was known to all the Greeks as the lame god for limping as he walked because he was thrown off Mount Olympus twice:

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    Essay Length: 671 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 24, 2010 By: Steve
  • Cause and Effect Essay: The Execution of King Charles I

    Cause and Effect Essay: The Execution of King Charles I

    Cause and Effect Essay: The Execution of King Charles I Similar to a recent promiscuous President of the United States, King Charles I was accused of dishonoring his political power and abusing his moral authority for personal satisfaction; however it is hard to imagine a modern leader being punished in the same way as King Charles I, who was sentenced to death by method of decapitation (Charles I, King. . . 147). Religion, money, a

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    Essay Length: 858 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 26, 2010 By: Jon
  • Sample Compare and Contrast Essay

    Sample Compare and Contrast Essay

    A Comparison or Contrast essay is an essay in which you either compare something or contrast something. A comparison essay is an essay in which you emphasize the similarities, and a contrast essay is an essay in which you emphasize the differences. We use comparison and contrast thinking when deciding which university to attend, which car to buy, or whether to drive a car or take a bus or an airplane to a vacation site.

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    Essay Length: 526 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: liu
  • King Lear Essay

    King Lear Essay

    Throughout King Lear, trust is given to characters who are dishonest and do not deserve it. For instance, Lear trusts his daughters Regan and Goneril when they tell him how much they love him. Although Lear believes he is making the right decision, he is blind to the fact that his daughters are pretending to love him in order to receive his land. Consequently, the lies that Lear is misled to believe results in the

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    Essay Length: 842 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Jack
  • Reflective Essay

    Reflective Essay

    Throughout the summer semester I have had to write a number of essays using a variety of techniques. Before college, I would write assuming that the only reader, or audience, would be my teacher. Composition helped me realize the many steps that are involved in the writing process from free writing to making a final copy. In order to create a good paper you need organize your ideas. Also, I realize what needs to

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    Essay Length: 518 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Steve
  • Comparative Essay on Don Quixote and Sir Gawain

    Comparative Essay on Don Quixote and Sir Gawain

    Character Comparative Contrast (Essay 2) In all of the literary works we've read this semester, all of them have contained characters with similar and distinctive qualities. Some of them were similar in the ways they handled what circumstances they were given, and others were not even near alike with their heroic actions or decisions. Two characters that I found to have similar as well as distinctive qualities was Sir Gawain from "Sir Gawain and the

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    Essay Length: 622 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 27, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Whitman Essay

    Whitman Essay

    Whitman Essay Love is the greatest gift that God has bestowed upon mankind. Defining love is different for every culture, race, and religion. Walt Whitman’s love is ever changing for anyone who tries to love him or understand his work. Love can be broken down into a multitude of emotions, and feelings towards someone or some object. In order to find love that is searched for, preparations must be made to allow the full

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    Essay Length: 1,710 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Essay Three Argumentation and Persuasion

    Essay Three Argumentation and Persuasion

    Essay Three Argumentation and Persuasion Despite the die-hard commitment of many Boston Red Sox fans, the New York Yankees remain, by far, the most accomplished team in Major League Baseball. The rivalry between New York and Boston is not a new phenomenon at all. This resentment has existed since shortly after the first ever World Series game in 1903. It all began in December of 1920 when the Red Sox sold player, Babe Ruth to

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    Essay Length: 866 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 28, 2010 By: Max
  • Alexander Pope Essay on Man

    Alexander Pope Essay on Man

    Alexander Pope was born May 21, 1688, in London. His father was a cloth merchant living in London, both his parents were Catholic. It was a period of intense anti-Catholic sentiment in England, and at some point Alexander's family was forced to relocate to be in compliance with a statute forbidding Catholics from living within ten miles of London or Westminster. They moved to Binfield Berkshire where Pope's early education was affected by his Catholicism.

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    Essay Length: 487 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: regina
  • Behavior Modification Essay

    Behavior Modification Essay

    In this essay, I have addressed a goal that I have and would like to use as an assignment in order to implement better change in my everyday lifestyle and health. A few personal goals that I feel need improvement on personally are to quit eating junk food, to quit smoking, to exercise more, and to sleep less. After thinking about which I would like to change, I decided to focus on exercising more, since

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    Essay Length: 964 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: monisa
  • Macbeth Essay

    Macbeth Essay

    Everyone is faced with choices throughout their lives. A choice is an act or instance of choosing or selection. In the tragedy play Macbeth written by William Shakespeare the protagonist, Macbeth, is constantly faced with choices. In the play the author is suggesting that sometimes the choices we make for ourselves end up causing unwanted consequences. Consequently, Macbeth's choices to kill his friends and their families, lie to himself and others, and believe the witches,

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    Essay Length: 698 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 29, 2010 By: Ciara
  • Essay on Malcolm X

    Essay on Malcolm X

    When Malcolm moved out, he moved out with Shorty to Boston and started mingling in the nightlife and Boston underworld. He was amazed at the difference in atmosphere relatively compared to small town suburbia in Lansing, Michigan. He was overwhelmed as anyone would be, and emulated a lot of things he saw different people do. He wanted the money as people in Boston flaunted it; he wanted the beautiful women, etc. He started trying

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    Essay Length: 291 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Yan
  • Midnight’s Children Essay

    Midnight’s Children Essay

    Midnight’s Children essay Salman Rushdie's creation, Saleem Sinai, has a self-proclaimed "overpowering desire for form" (363). In writing his own autobiography Saleem seems to be after what Frank Kermode says every writer is a after: concordance. Concordance would allow Saleem to bring meaning to moments in the "middest" by elucidating (or creating) their coherence with moments in the past and future. While Kermode talks about providing this order primarily through an "imaginatively predicted future" (8),

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    Essay Length: 2,425 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Jack
  • Mocking Bird Essay

    Mocking Bird Essay

    Blake Eastman A father is one who raises and nourishes his children. Kind, understanding, strict but fair, Atticus Finch is everything a father should be. Atticus is a great father to both of his children, Scout and Jem. A father’s behavior influences a child’s character. Scout and Jem show the tolerance and respect that Atticus has situated in them. They become curious, polite, intelligent, and giving. Atticus is a wise and intelligent man who

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    Essay Length: 1,291 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 30, 2010 By: Mike
  • Dust Bowl Essay

    Dust Bowl Essay

    The Dust Bowl was a treacherous storm, which occurred in the 1930’s, that affected the midwestern people, for example the farmers, and which taught us new technologies and methods of farming. As John Steinbeck wrote in his 1939 novel The Grapes of Wrath: "And then the dispossessed were drawn west- from Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico; from Nevada and Arkansas, families, tribes, dusted out. Carloads, caravans, homeless and hungry; twenty thousand and fifty thousand and

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    Submitted: May 31, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Loser Essay

    Loser Essay

    “You’re such a loser!” But what entails being a loser? Do losers fart and then make a farting sound to cover up, or are losers people who make up e-mail addresses like cool_girl22@hotmail.com? Our image of a loser has changed as we have progressed through life, but I find the way we defined losers when we were children the most entertaining. Not only did we once classify people as losers, but we also associated them

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    Essay Length: 497 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: May 31, 2010 By: Steve
  • Scholarship Essay

    Scholarship Essay

    Since childhood, the studies of philosophy and science have interested me profoundly. Having read many books on relativity, quantum mechanics, existentialism, religion, capitalism, democracy and post-Aristotelian philosophy, my quest for knowledge has only intensified. Certainly, the purpose of my life is to discover a greater understanding of the universe and its people. Specifically, I plan to better grasp the interrelationship among forces, matter, space, and time. In addition, I hope to find a unified field

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    Submitted: May 31, 2010 By: Bred
  • Mys Political Roots Essay

    Mys Political Roots Essay

    Nathan Newton Date: 03/14/06 Pd. 2 CIVICS Political Roots Essay Pg. 125 Political Roots My political attitudes are more set towards liberal. Because when it comes to racial issues and paying back past mistakes, i dont think that we should have to. Now im not bein racist what so ever its just that our mistake was close to a couple hundred years ago, and its not like anyone that was a slave or discriminated against

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    Essay Length: 586 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 31, 2010 By: Monika
  • Contextual Essay: The Importance of Being Earnest

    Contextual Essay: The Importance of Being Earnest

    It is clear to me that throughout Oscar Wilde’s life there was a degree of personal uncertainty he bestowed upon himself. This was very much reflected in his social lifestyle, personality and dress sense; but above all through his many dramatic works that reflect his often contrasting attitudes toward himself in his extravagant and highly esteemed approach to his writing of classic English literature. This is true for drama: the playwrights who write plays often

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    Essay Length: 736 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 31, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Cost Accounting Ethics Essay

    Cost Accounting Ethics Essay

    Accounting has a long history of being an ethical profession. In recent years, however, some companies have asked their accountants to help “manage earnings.” What does it mean to manage earnings? Who is more likely to be involved in such a situation, the financial accountant or the management accountant? Why? Do you believe that managing earnings is ethical? Discuss the rationale for your answer. The major role of financial reporting is to effectively communicate financial

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    Essay Length: 562 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 1, 2010 By: Mike
  • First Essay on Population

    First Essay on Population

    The following Essay owes its origin to a conversation with a friend, on the subject of Mr. Godwin's Essay, on avarice and profusion, in his Enquirer. The discussion, started the general question of the future improvement of society; and the Author at first sat down with an intention of merely stating his thoughts to his friend, upon paper, in a clearer manner than he thought he could do, in conversation. But as the subject opened

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    Essay Length: 1,738 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: June 1, 2010 By: Yan
  • Things Fall Apart Essay

    Things Fall Apart Essay

    Okonkwo’s story is similar to the western tragedy and the tragic hero because in the western tragedy it says how the main character has great importance not only culturally but economically. Okonkwo is also well respected in his tribe and admired due to the wrestling match he had with a bully of the tribe. The only thing from the western tragedy is that onkonkwo didn’t have a noble birth of childhood because his father

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    Essay Length: 365 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: David
  • Byronic Hero Essay

    Byronic Hero Essay

    Typical heroes are perfect, they do everything right. However they are unrelateable because of it in the Romantic Era. Byron created a new kind of hero the Byronic Hero, in the movie First Blood, John Rambo is the perfect example of a Byronic Hero. In this movie John Rambo is rebellious, dark natured, hyper-sensitive, and passionate. He is willing to do whatever it takes for his cause. John Rambo is an ex-Green Beret, a

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    Essay Length: 388 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 4, 2010 By: Max
  • Essay of Definition - Social Pressures of School

    Essay of Definition - Social Pressures of School

    Lenny Versoza Period 6 10/4/04 “Essay of Definition”-Social Pressures of School Parents never really give their teens enough credit these days. A teens mistake is a parents reason to bring the whole world down on us. Support and comfort may be the only thing we teens want, but it’s the only thing most of us don’t get. Being a teen is one of the hardest periods of any single persons lifetime. Among all things, school;

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    Essay Length: 586 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: Tommy
  • "contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets" Main Character Essay

    "contents of the Dead Man’s Pockets" Main Character Essay

    In the story, “Contents of the Dead Man’s Pocket,” the main character is Tom Benecke. As the story progresses, he is faced with many decisions. He is forced to act quickly and because of this, many things about him change. In the story, Tom is ambitious, self-centered, and impatient. These three traits change significantly throughout the story. Tom is a very ambitious person when it comes to his work. He is caught up in getting

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    Essay Length: 413 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: June 5, 2010 By: Monika

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