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  • The Realities of the Gulf War

    The Realities of the Gulf War

    The Realities of the Gulf War This movie kicks off at the very end of the Gulf War while America is liberating Kuwait. While searching through people on the grounds of the war some men come across a map which they believe will lead them to a stash of gold hidden by Saddam Hussein. The only problem is that these three men want to find their treasure without having everyone find out. This could be

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Run to the Wild Side

    Run to the Wild Side

    Plants found on plot Goldenrods--about 100 species, all native to this country, most found in the East--generally 2-4 feet high--summer and fall--composite family Queen Anne’s Lace--thrives in cultivated fields and exposed grounds--summer and early fall--parsley family Yarrows--typical roadside weed, growing 1-2 feet high--summer and fall--composite family Thistle--60 species--spiny bracts--flowers in spring and summer--fruit (seed) on plot was spiny and dry--composite family Aster--120-150 species--open fields and roadside--late summer to late fall--composite family Joe-pye weed--2-12 feet, habitat

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    Essay Length: 272 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • Realities of Greek Organizations

    Realities of Greek Organizations

    The Realities of Greek Organizations When a fraternity is mentioned, what are the first three thoughts that come to mind? Well most people would say beer, parties, and sex. Where do these misconceptions come from; where were they formed, and how are they maintained? The media messages that are sent to us everyday play a huge part in maintaining these myths and blurred perceptions of fraternities and what they are and represent. To begin to

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: July
  • The Dark Ages - Were They Darker Than We Imagined

    The Dark Ages - Were They Darker Than We Imagined

    As we approach the end of the Second Millennium, a review of ancient history is not what you would normally expect to read in the pages of Universe. Indeed, except for reflecting on the AD 837 apparition of Halley's Comet (when it should have been as bright as Venus and would have moved through 60 degrees of sky in one day as it passed just 0.03 AU from Earth - three times closer than Hyakutake

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    Submitted: January 8, 2010 By: Edward
  • Crashing into Reality

    Crashing into Reality

    "It's the sense of touch. In any real city, you walk, you know? You brush past people, people bump into you. In L.A., nobody touches you. We're always behind this metal and glass. I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something." Detective Graham Waters from Crash Racism, stereotypes, and prejudices…these three topics are some things that we deal with daily in current day

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Jon
  • Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

    Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now

    Comparing Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now The book Heart of Darkness and the movie Apocalypse Now have a similar plot but takes place in different times and a world apart. Apocalypse now is a modern version or interpretation of the book Heart of Darkness written in 1902. The theme of in both is that of a white man traveling to a foreign country where they dominate their own crew as well as the natives.

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    Submitted: January 9, 2010 By: Vika
  • Reality-Based Shows

    Reality-Based Shows

    REALITY –BASED SHOWS A few years ago people used to watch TV less than now. Nowadays, they started to watch TV more and more due to a new programme, Reality-Based shows.These shows are everywhere today and have some important points in people’s life.they are particularly why people watch these shows, why they participate in such shows and influences of reality shows on contestants and viewers. Reality shows are watched millions of people in the world

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    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Monika
  • Aids and the Representation of Social Reality

    Aids and the Representation of Social Reality

    Film, the artistic extension of Literature, has been at the heart of social controversy and societal change for the better part of the last one hundred years. Even before film, literature that focused on social change in the 19th Century played a role that many have argued caused the very change it sought. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which first came before the public as an 1851 serialized story in a Northern abolitionist magazine, played a significant,

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    Essay Length: 1,214 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 10, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Reality Tv

    Reality Tv

    Why is reality TV such a popular genre that is watched by many? It is quite simple because it shows regular people in the cast and the public and the viewers can relate to them. “The fact that…the �characters’ on the show are selected from �ordinary’ life is a key part of this appeal” (Maasik and Solomon 228). The “characters” are not celebrities but just average people around the nation cast by the producers. The

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    Submitted: January 12, 2010 By: Jon
  • Intellectual Thought and the Dark Ages

    Intellectual Thought and the Dark Ages

    The lower Middle Ages, generally accepted as the time period between 500 and 800 C.E., is a section of history that has been argued to be a dark age of human thought. This Dark Age, which was ushered in by the fall of Rome in the late 5th century, is not widely viewed as a time period where intellectualism was highly valued. However, there are several examples to the contrary of this notion that show

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The Reality of the Communist Manifesto

    The Reality of the Communist Manifesto

    The Reality of The Communist Manifesto Prophetic or paranoid, was the future of Europe outlined by Marx and Engels in their Communist Manifesto realized? Had they accurately predicted the course of history taken in the late nineteenth century? Class struggles were undoubtedly a fact of life, with a growing divide between those in power and the working class. Capitalism was in full swing; modes of production were changing, and technology was growing exponentially, yet an

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Bred
  • The Influence of Reality Television on America

    The Influence of Reality Television on America

    Reality television is the most popular genre of television in America. People love to sit and enjoy the unscripted dramatics or humorous situations, the ordinary people instead of famous paid actors, and the real situations. Reality television has existed in different forms since television began, but the term is most commonly used to describe the programs produced since the year 2000. Reality television contains a wide range of topics that range from game shows to

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    Submitted: January 13, 2010 By: Tasha
  • Nature’s Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics

    Nature’s Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics

    Nature’s Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematics By: Ian Stewart The main purpose of this book is to show how many uncertain things that are involved in math. The chapters dive into the deeper meanings of what is meant by some of math’s most complicated questions. The chapters are entitled; The Natural Order, What Mathematics Is For, What Mathematics Is About, The Constants of Change, From Violins to Videos, Broken Symmetry, The Rhythm of Life,

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    Submitted: January 14, 2010 By: July
  • The Two Sides of Abortion

    The Two Sides of Abortion

    In this world there are at least two sides to every story. The opposite sides are not necessarily good or bad, but different from each other. One of these “stories” is the story of abortion. Abortion is defined as the destruction or termination of a fetus while still in the mother's womb. However, abortion is so much more then just the definition. There are consequences. There are two sides: pro-life and pro-choice. There is controversy

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: July
  • Planning for the Future: the Legal Side of Death

    Planning for the Future: the Legal Side of Death

    According to a recent study, everyone dies. Not just the old, the sick, or the evil. Everyone. It’s not something that most of us like to think about. It’s not something that many people look forward to even. Actually, people spend fortunes trying to prolong the inevitable and years of their lives fighting for pardons and clemencies to avoid the death penalty. It is for this very reason that I chose to do my final

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    Essay Length: 1,728 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Victor
  • One Sided Love

    One Sided Love

    The story was written by John Steinbeck by the name “The Chrysanthemums”. The story takes a place on a farm in December 1938. The story is based on three characters: Elisa, her husband Henry, and the tinker. Elisa was 35 years old and was married to Henry. She was a hard workingwoman on a farm. It was a virile occupation, compared with her husband who was a businessman. Their relationship wasn’t normal. He didn’t

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    Submitted: January 15, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Darker Side of Globilization

    The Darker Side of Globilization

    The Darker Side of Globalization Globalization has been a good thing for the rest of the world especially 3rd world countries but not necessarily for our country. Many Americans have lost jobs because of outsourcing because it is cheaper to just outsource all of the jobs. This makes it harder for people without college educations to get jobs in this country. Although it helps bring more jobs for 3rd world countries and many of these

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    Submitted: January 16, 2010 By: Victor
  • Virtual Reality

    Virtual Reality

    Casey Jameson Mr. Brookfield English 105 September 14, 2001 Virtual Reality Virtual reality (VR) is the use of a computer to create a simulated environment that appears and feels like a real environment and allows users to explore a space and manipulate the environment. In its simplest form, a VR application displays what appears to be a three-dimensional view of a place or object, such as a landscape, building, molecule, or red blood cell, which

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Edward
  • Living in a Nursing Home: Myths and Realities

    Living in a Nursing Home: Myths and Realities

    Myths and Reality are very far apart when it comes actually being placed or living in a nursing home. After working at a couple of private owned nursing facilities and two state funded nursing facilities I was able to see first hand the difference in the two. This also allowed me to eradicate these so called questions or myths. According to a reprint from the American Health Care Association; “Many myths, or misconceptions, persist about

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Vika
  • Dreams and Reality

    Dreams and Reality

    Dreams and Reality Dreams…do you have any? Of Coarse you do; everyone does. Everyone has dreams and personal desires that they would wish to fulfill. Dreams provide us with something to look forward to in life and they even sometimes comfort us: but these can often be misleading in reality. Dreams could be within your grasp one minute but slither away and demolish the next. This is portrayed in the novel Of Mice and Men

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    Submitted: January 18, 2010 By: Steve
  • The Hidden Side of Freakonomics

    The Hidden Side of Freakonomics

    The Hidden Side of Freakonomics Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner is a book aimed at exposing the secret within everything. The authors prove that in many cases, two items don’t have to be connected because they are correlated. Moreover, two unrelated items can in fact be connected. Proving so was less difficult than it would seem. All it took was the right information. They were able to prove the most unlikely

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    Submitted: January 19, 2010 By: Tommy
  • Summary of Heart of Darkness

    Summary of Heart of Darkness

    Part I Beginning through Marlow’s being hired as a steamboat captain. Summary At sundown, a pleasure ship called the Nellie lies anchored at the mouth of the Thames, waiting for the tide to go out. Five men relax on the deck of the ship: the Director of Companies, who is also the captain and host, the Lawyer, the Accountant, Marlow, and the unnamed Narrator. The five men, old friends held together by “the bond of

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Reality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

    The Reality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

    The Reality in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein It was a stormy day in Geneva. Mary Shelley was accompanied by her husband and friends when a wager was proposed. Lord Byron, the owner of the villa in which they occupied, wanted to see which one could write the best ghost story (Woodbridge, “The Summer of 1816“). Even though this task was not strongly pursued by the others, Mary Shelley was determined to write a ghost story that

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    Submitted: January 20, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Violent Reality of Gangs

    The Violent Reality of Gangs

    Reality of gangs 3 The violent reality of gangs Gangs are a violent reality that people have to deal with in today's society and ask, what has made these groups come about? Why do kids feel that being in a gang is an acceptable way of life? In criminology, the strain theory state that social structures within society may encourage citizens to commit crime. To the rest of society, gangs are a direct result of

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    Essay Length: 1,704 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: January 21, 2010 By: Victor
  • Appearance Vs Reality in Hamlet

    Appearance Vs Reality in Hamlet

    Appearance versus reality is one of the central themes of Shakespeare's play, Hamlet. The characters frequently put on guises which conceal their true intentions. For example, Claudius, in reality a murderer and usurper, plays the roles of grieving brother and rightful king and the adulterous Gertrude plays the role of a virtuous queen, when she is, in her son's view, a truly insidious woman. Even Hamlet himself assumes the role of a madman in his

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    Submitted: January 22, 2010 By: Tommy

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