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  • Great Chain of Being Paper

    Great Chain of Being Paper

    Great Chain of Being Paper By: Brian Zwolinski The Great Chain of Being is the concept that the order of the entire universe is under a very strict hierarchical system. The chain goes from god which represents perfection to the bottom level which are the minerals of the earth. Perhaps the most important thing to understand about this chain was that it was impossible for one to move from one level to the next. Wherever

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: regina
  • Influence of Weath - Great Gatsby

    Influence of Weath - Great Gatsby

    The American Dream, a simple phrase that can mean so much to a person. It holds many different meanings and is desired among characters in many American Literature novels. Sometimes the American Dream can be simply found, while for others, it’s a lifetime goal to find and pursue their American Dream. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is a short novel about a man, Gatsby, who lost his one true love when he was

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Music of the Civil War

    Music of the Civil War

    The War Between the States was complex. If you wish to understand the events, you should refer to a textbook. Music of the time, however, helps us delve into people’s thoughts and opinions on the war, slavery, and many other important issues in our country’s history. Prior to the civil war, American music followed its European roots. During the civil war, American music began to develop in its own way, largely influenced by the music

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Cold War Politics

    Cold War Politics

    This article examines the post Cold War political landscape in America, and explains the various points of view of the government and public attitude. As experienced after other shocking events such as the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Vietnam war, political ideology becomes divided between internationalists, who believe in multilateral cooperation and effective international organizations and isolationists who are against international involvement, thus “at the water’s edge.” The interesting aspect of this study

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • The Great Gatsby Paper

    The Great Gatsby Paper

    The Great Gatsby Paper The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, is told from the perspective of one of the main characters, Nick Carraway. Nick tells the story of a man named Jay Gatsby, who is his neighbor in the West Egg. Fitzgerald portrays Gatsby as a man who everyone wants to know and copy but deep down are very envious of him. Gatsby trusts few people and those whom he trusts know his

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Steve
  • Cold War

    Cold War

    In 1949 the cold war spread from Europe to Asia, affecting everyone in its path. China, Japan, and Vietnam were three countries affected by the Cold War. Out of these three countries China was the countries that was affected the most. The reason why China was affected the most is because its government, economy, and society were all affected by the Cold War. Chinas government was effected because it changed from a Nationalist government, that

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Steve
  • The War on Terror, Bogus.

    The War on Terror, Bogus.

    Several times in the history of America has the country been divided, by a single powerful thing. War. Each time the people of America have been at each others throats and as in the times of the Revolution, The Civil War, and Vietnam, we once again find ourselves a country divided. The war on Iraq is perhaps one of the most intolerable things the American government has ever supported and allowed, yet it has

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: regina
  • The Great Depression

    The Great Depression

    The Great Depression The Big Picture The Great Depression was the longest and most severe economic decline in American history. On October 29, 1929, the stock market crashed and began the depression. Although industry leaders issued optimistic predictions for the nation’s economy, the market crash wiped out nearly 40% of the paper values of stocks. Great innovations in productive techniques during and after the war raised the output of industry beyond the purchasing capacity

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    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Great Expectations Continued

    Great Expectations Continued

    I decided to invite Estella for dinner back at home with Joe and Biddy, not sure whether she would accept. Surprisingly she accepted my invitation. So we headed back to Joe’s and on the way we talked on just about every subject there is to talk about. I was already aware of what had happened to Estella, but she told me the whole truth. She even described the beatings she had received from Drummle. He

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Mike
  • Macbeth's Relationship with His Wife Was Not Always Great

    Macbeth's Relationship with His Wife Was Not Always Great

    Macbeth's relationship with his wife was not always great. This is shown in one of there conversations; MACBETH: "We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon."(Macbeth,I,vii, ) LADY MACBETH. "Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since? And wakes it

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Janna
  • Reconstruction of America After Civil War

    Reconstruction of America After Civil War

    At the close of the American Civil War in 1865, the United States’ government was faced with the tremendously difficult problem of re-integrating the Confederate States into the Union. Between 1865 and 1877 this problem was addressed by various forms of “Reconstruction,” programs whose goals also included the rebuilding of the ravaged Southern economy, and the integration of freed slaves and other African Americans into citizenship and culture at large. Complicated by an incompetent president,

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Vika
  • War Poetry Analysis: Comparison Between A.E.Houseman's “here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose” and Walt Whitman's “reconciliation”

    War Poetry Analysis: Comparison Between A.E.Houseman's “here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose” and Walt Whitman's “reconciliation”

    19 October 2006 War Poetry Analysis: Comparison between A.E. Houseman’s “Here Dead Lie We Because We Did Not Choose” and Walt Whitman’s “Reconciliation” The XX century was marked by warlike conflicts; the biggest of them were the two World Wars, which affected the entire world in many different ways, without forgot the millions of people dead in them. As result is not rare that most part of the English poetry created in the beginning of

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Vika
  • Vietnam - the War in America

    Vietnam - the War in America

    The War in America Vietnam is a small Asian country, 9000 miles away from the United States. Yet America felt that its national interest were threatened strong enough to fight a war over there. Their fear was caused by the spread of communism at that time. The role of communism was extremely important in this conflict. The United States had to enter the war to stop the spread of communism in Asia since the North

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Stenly
  • 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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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Japanese Americans Interned in American Prison Camps During World War Two

    Japanese Americans Interned in American Prison Camps During World War Two

    Japanese Americans Interned in American Prison Camps during World War Two Anyone who has taken any sort of history course is most likely to have learned about World War Two and how the basic cause of this war was the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, which was a United States Water Naval Base on an island in Hawaii. “This day is a day which will live infamy” (Taylor 50), is the famous quote formally

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • Cold War: Causes & Effects

    Cold War: Causes & Effects

    What were the causes of the Cold War, and the most disappointing development of the post-war era? There were many complex causes of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The US and the USSR always had their differences, especially when it came to the role of the government and economic structure. In reality, the only reason why they were on the same side in the Second World War was not

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Causes of the Great Depression

    Causes of the Great Depression

    Causes of The Great Depression The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. Many factors played a role in bringing about the depression. The main cause for the Great Depression was the combination of the greatly unequal distribution of wealth throughout the 1920's, and the extensive stock market speculation

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • Interviewing Individual on Vietnam War

    Interviewing Individual on Vietnam War

    Oral History II During the Vietnam War, Robert (Bob) A. Smith was in the navy. Although Bob did not fight in Vietnam, it did affect him a little. He knew fighters who've seen people die in the war, and he knew people who've died, themselves. During this time period, there was quite a bit going on in the United States: war, assassinations, even new trends- and Bob experienced it all. About one or two years

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • The End of World War 1

    The End of World War 1

    The end of WWI brought about many questions. What would be the "terms" that ended the war? How would Germany be treated? What would happen to lands that were in dispute? How could a future war be avoided? As the victors met in Paris President Wilson thought he had the answers...but would the Allies listen? I. The End of WWI At the conclusion of hostilities the Big Four (Wilson form the United States, Clemenceau from

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Edward
  • The Two Great Gods of Earth - Demeter and Dionysus

    The Two Great Gods of Earth - Demeter and Dionysus

    The Two Great Gods of Earth Demeter and Dionysus The broad topic of Mythology was somewhat forgotten, but is now being rediscovered. Mythology involves tales of gods and goddesses to explain things that are now used science for. Demeter and Dionysus are two different characters in this tale of gods from Greek mythology. Demeter and Dionysus are two characters that are closely related but are both very different at the same time in terms of

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Civil War

    Civil War

    1102, Spring 2008 Unit 3 Overview: The culmination of Unit 3 is Essay 3, a research paper and the central project of all 1102 classes. We will be doing the essay in parts, using writing tools you’ve been practicing, and introducing new ones. Some of your research and thinking will be done alone, some in groups, some as a class, and all if it will of it is done in response to the research and

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Vika
  • The Iraq War Is the Wrong Answer

    The Iraq War Is the Wrong Answer

    The Unjustified War on Iraq Saddam Hussein is a tyrant. His actions have caused fear and hate among the Iraqi citizens he ruled and people around the world. He ruled by oppression, committing atrocious acts such as testing chemical and biological weapons on the innocent civilians of his own country. During his time in power, he blatantly violated nearly all the United Nations laws that pertained to his country, and mocked those who attempted to

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Anna
  • Analysis of a Scene from Great Expectations

    Analysis of a Scene from Great Expectations

    Analysis of a scene of Great Expectations. I have chosen to look at how the relationship of Pip and Magwitch develops during the novel. I have chosen 3 key scenes in which Magwitch and pip meet and I will look at how each is portrayed in terms of character, development, setting and the messages or morals that dickens is trying to convey. Magwitch first meets pip at the graveyard on the marshes, from this we

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Mike
  • Advantages/disadvantages of Rev. War

    Advantages/disadvantages of Rev. War

    There are advantages and disadvantages in every war that can either be minute details or change the whole course of the war. In the Revolutionary war, there were many advantages and disadvantages of either side. America and Britain both had different things working for them or against them, many of these things were very significant by the end of the war. Although both sides had various advantages and disadvantages, America’s advantages outweighed those of

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Jack
  • The Great Trek, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal

    The Great Trek, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal

    The Great Trek or Voortrek is the central event in the history of South Africa, beginning in the mid-thirties of the 19th century and going out in the early forties. This great northward migration of the Afrikaner people, involved thousands of cattle and sheep farmers who fled British authority. Leaving the frontier regions of the Cape Colony, and founded the independent republics of Natal, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. The struggle of the

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    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Yan