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  • Any Journey Includes Both Realities and Possibilities

    Any Journey Includes Both Realities and Possibilities

    Any journey includes both realities and possibilities The imagination stands in some essential relation to truth and reality. An imaginative journey employing possibilities will see things to which the intelligence is blind and therefore reveal realities. Through my study of Coleridge’s This Lime Tree Bower my Prison, Kubla Khan, Frost at Midnight and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well as Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows, Margaret Atwood’s Journey to the interior,

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    Essay Length: 2,022 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: November 28, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Comparative Essay - Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story

    Comparative Essay - Romeo & Juliet and West Side Story

    Comparative Essay Romeo & Juliet ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘The West Side Story’ are both movies based on William Shakespeare’s play. They are very similar in many ways, but different in others. It is about two teens that fall in love and see each other without their families knowing, because their families have a feud against each other. I will be discussing the differences and similarities between, Romeo and Tony, Juliet and Maria and finally,

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    Essay Length: 887 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Janna
  • This Side of Paradise: Mirror Image of the 20’s

    This Side of Paradise: Mirror Image of the 20’s

    This Side of Paradise: Mirror Image of the 20’s “The Roaring Twenties,” as they have been coined, were a time of great change in the United States. The Jazz era was dawning, social classes were beginning to solidify themselves into our society, huge companies were forming and dominating markets, a new movement of females was beginning to fight for women’s suffrage, and a new group of youths known as the lost generation formed. The country

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    Submitted: November 29, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Comparison of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

    Comparison of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

    Important Note: If you'd like to save a copy of the paper on your computer, you can COPY and PASTE it into your word processor. Please, follow these steps to do that in Windows: 1. Select the text of the paper with the mouse and press Ctrl+C. 2. Open your word processor and press Ctrl+V. Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by

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    Essay Length: 2,366 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: November 30, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Negative Side of Politics with the Military

    The Negative Side of Politics with the Military

    The Negative Side of Politics with the military. Other soldiers and my self do not agree with being placed under U.N. Commanders. I will explain here in detail why we do not want or need this type of assignments. Firstly we shall cover the facts and background of this topic. What happens is say SGT. Reynolds and his squad maybe even a platoon or more is sent overseas and assigned to a U.N. a

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    Essay Length: 1,108 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Mike
  • The Reality of the Strain Economics

    The Reality of the Strain Economics

    Have you ever noticed that when you see an economically struggling society that you also see that the culture and social atmosphere is underdeveloped? When a society is struggling economically, often times the people will be more concerned with bettering the economic portion of their society rather than the cultural and social context. Food and money has a funny way of taking precedence over social and cultural activities. For example, in countries such as Brazil,

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    Essay Length: 1,150 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: July
  • Battle Royal - Morality Vs. Reality

    Battle Royal - Morality Vs. Reality

    Morality vs. Reality The story "Battle Royal" is the key in understanding and seeing the relationship between morality and reality. The characters in this story, namely the grandfather and his grandson, reveal to us their individuality, principles, morals, and ethics doing so they unfold a map that reveals their mental reality. Because their principals, morals and ethics reveal to us their mental reality, then their mental reality discloses the reality of the society in which

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    Essay Length: 704 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Anna
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    In Heart of Darkness, Marlowe’s tale begins and ends in literal darkness and even though Joseph Conrad allows many themes to present themselves, the strongest always prevails, Marlow’s darkness. The setting of the novel is often utterly dark, such as when Marlowe retrieves Kurtz or possibly the black skinned people that live along the Congo River; and, of course, the uncertain, almost eerie tone that suffocates the novel. Darkness can, for example, represent evil, the

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    Essay Length: 306 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 1, 2009 By: Top
  • How Reality Is Invented Not Discovered

    How Reality Is Invented Not Discovered

    In today’s society, many have discussed the birth of reality in the field of family therapy. It has been ask if reality is something that is invented or discovered. Based on research, reality is what one creates. According to postmodernism, reality can be defined by stories we and those we identify with, embrace to be true. Therefore reality is not objective but subjective and defined by each individual observer or community of observers. Family members

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    Submitted: December 2, 2009 By: Vika
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    We were wanderers on a prehistoric earth, on an earth that wore the aspect of an unknown planet. We could have fancied ourselves the first of men taking possession of an accursed inheritance, to be subdued at the cost of profound anguish and of excessive toil. But suddenly, as we struggled round a bend, there would be a glimpse of rush walls, of peaked grass-roofs, a burst of yells, a whirl of black limbs a

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    Essay Length: 341 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 3, 2009 By: Edward
  • Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

    Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

    “Heart of Darkness” written by polish –born writer Joseph Conrad and published in 1902 is the main basis for Francis Ford Coppala’s Oscar winning film “Apocalypse Now” created in 1979. Joseph Conrad show his great knowledge of the Imperialist activities and their consequences to man while Francis Ford Coppalla interprets the story in a setting involving the Vietnam War and sets out to show the damages of war. Both stories show the “civilized” interacting with

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    Essay Length: 315 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 4, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Heart of Darkness Vs. Apocalypse Now

    Heart of Darkness Vs. Apocalypse Now

    Heart of darkness vs Themes: the hypocrisy of imperialism: Marlow’s adventures show us the horrors and the realities of colonization and Civilization. Kurtz does not hide the harshness of the reality Of the cruelty that the natives are facing. He uses harsh words such as“extermination”. His direct honesty leads to his downfall because it exposes the realities that the outside world is not aware of or the colonizatIon of Africa. It also shows the negative

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    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Artur
  • The Reality of Rape

    The Reality of Rape

    Running head: THE REALITY OF RAPE The Reality of Rape Crystal Hebert Southern New Hampshire University Rape is a crime of violence and aggression that not only hurts a victim for the moment, but it shatters her entire life. According to the Britannica Encyclopedia, rape is defined as “any kind of unlawful sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse, carried out forcibly or under threat of injury and against the will of the victim.” This definition has

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    Essay Length: 1,592 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Victor
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    One of the many similarities between Heart of Darkness and "Apocalypse Now" is race. Joseph Conrad and Francis Coppola both use white men as the characters that have dominance (Bradley). The white men not only dominate their respective crews, but also the peoples native to the country the white men are visiting. The character Conrad uses, Marlow, and Coppola uses his character, Willard, both look at the natives as though white men are the civilized

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    Essay Length: 649 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 5, 2009 By: Mike
  • Taking Sides Citigroup in Post-Wto China

    Taking Sides Citigroup in Post-Wto China

    Purchasing Power Parity The Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) is a theory of exchange rate determination. It asserts (in the most common form) that the exchange rate change between two currencies over any period of time is determined by the change in the two countries’ relative price levels. Because the theory singles out price level changes as the overriding determinant of exchange rate movements it has also been called the ‘inflation theory of exchange rates’. During

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    Essay Length: 2,061 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: David
  • Dark Water

    Dark Water

    DARK WATER Divorcee and daughter move into a creepy apartment building where strange events start to occur, and when the mom finds information about a missing girl that use to live upstairs, strange things start to happen. Director Hideo Nakata used a variety of techniques in his production design to portray specific themes in this film, Dark Water (2002). The overriding theme that was portrayed in Dark Water is that the past will come back

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    Submitted: December 6, 2009 By: Mikki
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    It can be said that a certain degree of darkness lies within every person, but this darkness will not surface unless given the correct environment. The darkness, however, can emerge and ultimately destroy the person if not checked by reason. If one's inner darkness does surface, the victim then is given the opportunity to reach a point in personal growth, and to gain a sense of self- knowledge from it. That is, when one's darkness

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    Essay Length: 863 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: David
  • West Side Story

    West Side Story

    West Side Story In this musical, it uses several types of narratives, for example, after the fight between the Jets and Puerto Ricans, after the police leave, they enter the ally and the girl is begging to join the gang saying how much she wants to fight is a part of narrative sexuality (B 34). The girl is more of a tom boy who wants to be like one of the guys. Also, in the

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    Essay Length: 559 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 7, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Dark Energy

    Dark Energy

    Dark Energy is a new idea. Little is known about dark energy, yet it takes up a huge amount if the universe. Scientist were able to show the universe was expanding at an accelerated rate by measuring the red-shift of an object by comparing the spectral lines of the elements and the spectral lines of the same elements measured in a lab. The more distant the objects that emit light the brighter the spectral lines.

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    Essay Length: 4,852 Words / 20 Pages
    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: Jack
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    HEART OF DARKNESS by James Conrad On a boat anchored in the Thames River outside London, a sailor by the name of Marlow observes to several friends that this land was once a place of darkness, an uncivilized wilderness. This reflection leads him to remember an incident in his past, when he commanded a steamboat on the Congo River; his story forms the remainder of the novel. In his tale Marlow is a young man

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    Submitted: December 8, 2009 By: July
  • Analysis: Children of Darkness

    Analysis: Children of Darkness

    Analysis: Children of Darkness Nat Turner's belief that he was a mystic, born for some great purpose; a spiritual savior, chosen to lead Black slaves to freedom, justified his bloody rebellion against slave owners in Virginia. His actions did not so much spring from the fact that members of his family had been beaten, separated or sold, but rather from his own deep sense of freedom spoken in the Bible. From the time Nat Turner

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    Submitted: December 9, 2009 By: Kevin
  • The Women of Heart of Darkness

    The Women of Heart of Darkness

    The Women of Heart of Darkness The novella Heart of Darkness illustrates readers with three different types of depictions that men had of women during the late 1800’s; also known as the imperialistic era. These depictions were as follows; the naive woman, the mistress, and the wealthy widow. The naпve woman was personified by Kurtz intended. The mistress was personified by the native African woman. The wealthy widow is personified by Marlow’s aunt. This assumption

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Jack
  • What Is Belief? What Is Religion? What Is Reality? What Is Life? Why Are We Here?

    What Is Belief? What Is Religion? What Is Reality? What Is Life? Why Are We Here?

    What is belief? What is religion? What is reality? What is life? Why are we here? The basis of religion and belief is thought. Without thinking we probably would not exist. But we mightЎ­ Can it be that anything is possible? According to scientists we can only use a tiny portion of our brain. If we were able to use more what would we be able to do? I believe anything is possible. Just because

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    Submitted: December 10, 2009 By: Bred
  • The Other Side of Title Ix

    The Other Side of Title Ix

    “The Other Side of Title IX” In the essay “The Other Side of Title IX,” by Ira Berkow, a story is being told about the problems that occurred after Title IX was implemented. What is Title IX? “Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 is the landmark legislation that bans sex discrimination in schools, whether it be in academics or athletics. Title IX states: "No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Gangs Are Violent Reality

    Gangs Are Violent Reality

    Analysis of Gangs Gangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with in today's cities. What has made these groups come about? Why do kids feel that being in a gang is both an acceptable and prestigious way to live? The long range answer to these questions can only be speculated upon, but in the short term the answers are much easier to find. On the surface, gangs are a direct result of

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    Submitted: December 11, 2009 By: Victor

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