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  • Cars and Literature

    Cars and Literature

    It wasn’t until her, her family, and friend Bailey were walking up the hill to the school, when she started to feel the pressure of the moment. At the graduation ceremony everything was going smooth, until the principal’s speech left her in doubt of bad news coming. She was right, moments later two white gentlemen took over the stage and the speaker’s post. The man speaking was Mr. Eduard Donleavy, who was running for election

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    Essay Length: 384 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Andrew
  • Justice

    Justice

    Of course I looked "justice" up in the dictionary before I started to write this paper and I didn't find anything of interest except of course a common word in every definition, that being "fair". This implies that justice would have something to do with being fair. I thought that if one of the things the law and legal system are about is maintaining and promoting justice and a sense of "fairness", they might not

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    Essay Length: 712 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Stenly
  • Criminal Justice Work Force

    Criminal Justice Work Force

    But there are a few other explanations that can be given to explain the gap between the supply and demand of corrections officers within the state. For example, many prison wardens believe that their employees lack some of the skills and training that are required to perform the tasks prescribed by each position. Another common problem within the agency is the lack if experience. The agency shows that over 50% of the its employees have

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    Essay Length: 337 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • What Is Literature?

    What Is Literature?

    Since the 18th century, the definition of the concept “literature” has become a problematic and a controversial issue among various literary schools. What is literature? What are the qualities that distinguish a literary text from a non-literary one? Does literature have any particular function in society? These are some crucial questions whose answers were supposed to limit and define the scope of “literature”. However, various literary and critical schools have advanced different and contradictory responses

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    Essay Length: 1,566 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Janna
  • Ancient China

    Ancient China

    Ancient China Travis Herbst February 20, 2006 Day 2 Block The Chinese have a rich culture of dynasties. In early years, the Chinese people were ruled by one dynasty until that dynasty was overthrown by another dynasty. The most known dynasties are: Shang, Ch'in, and Mongols. The Shang Dynasty was the first dynasty of China. Around 2000 BC, the Chinese were starting to make bronze and developing a writing system. The Shang lasted about 700

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    Essay Length: 1,281 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: David
  • Modern Slavery

    Modern Slavery

    Lehman, David Lehman 1 English 2 Honors Gifted 14 May 2007 Mrs. K. Doyle Modern Slavery Our sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln spoke the following words in the Emancipation Proclamation, which were meant to free all slaves in the United States from bondage in 1863. “That on the first day of January A.D. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion

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    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Modern Weapons Seem to Hide More Dangers Than the Weapons of the Past Did

    Modern Weapons Seem to Hide More Dangers Than the Weapons of the Past Did

    Human beings have been using weapons since the time they lived in caves. The power of weapons has increased along the history of mankind. The problem is that the potential of mass destruction and hidden harmful effects of modern weapons insidiously reached a very dangerous limit. The brief history on this changing is commented hereunder: During ancient times, men used corporal fighting or throwing stones to each other to resolve their problems. They started the

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    Essay Length: 440 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Jack
  • Concept of Justice

    Concept of Justice

    Philosophy couldn’t explain it, physics can’t touch it, morals can’t define it and religion just can’t put its finger on it. Justice might be one of the most expressions used but all of us agree its one of the most difficult one to explain. So before I start giving my regards about what I understand justice is I’d like to remind it’s only my opinion and solely mine, so no offence is intended. If

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    Essay Length: 822 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Jack
  • Modern Urban Culture

    Modern Urban Culture

    MODERN URBAN CULTURE What is urban culture? According to the Encyclopedia Britannica (1), urban culture is any of the behavioral patterns of the various types of cities and urban areas, both past and present. Urban culture is basically the culture of cities. Cities around the world, past and present, have behaviors that differ from the rural areas. In today’s modern world, urban culture refers to a city’s sense of fashion, music, and way of life.

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    Essay Length: 1,271 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Women. Crime & Justice

    Women. Crime & Justice

    In “Historical Perspectives: From Witch Hunts to PMS,” the chapter of her book “Unruly Women,” Karlene Faith (1993) dwelt upon the ‘images of women’ within historical paradigm from witch-hunts to PMS. The scholar based her analysis on the histories of white Anglo-Saxon women from England and Canada in the period between the 15th and the 19th centuries. E. Comack (1996), in the turn, reflected over popular myths on the painful issue of women’s victimization. The

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    Essay Length: 268 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Victor
  • Aristotle on Justice

    Aristotle on Justice

    In this paper, I shall address two central contemporary criticisms of Aristotle's conception of justice. These criticisms of Aristotle's account of specific justice have focused on two central problems. First, Aristotle's insistence that all specifically unjust actions are motivated by pleonexia Pleonexia can be understood as the desire to have more of some socially availablegood, and is usually translated as greed or acquisitiveness. Close . Second, Aristotle does not identify a deficient vice with respect

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    Essay Length: 796 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: July
  • Modern Plato’s Cave

    Modern Plato’s Cave

    In the Allegory of the Den written by Plato. In his writing he explains human beings live in an underground den, here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move. Being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. The three areas in modern American life that relate to Platos cave are school, community, and home or personal issues. One of the areas of

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    Essay Length: 549 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Religion in Our Justice System

    Religion in Our Justice System

    There are three main ways that gays and lesbians are raising children and acquiring families without the courts becoming involved. The first way, which is also the most common way, is when heterosexual marriages dissolve after one parent apparentl y "comes out." With this situation, as long as there isn't a messy custody battle in court most often the child is raised by the gay or lesbia parent, and is also fully aware of his

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    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Jessica
  • The Role of Family in Early Modern England

    The Role of Family in Early Modern England

    The Role of Family in Early Modern England During the early modern period of England's history, the role of family played an important part in society. This was the same for both governed and governing classes. The nuclear family (father, mother and children) as opposed to extended family was central to the residential and emotional affairs of most people. Patriarchachal society was the style of the time, males dominated in all aspects of life. The

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    Essay Length: 945 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: David
  • Justice Vs Charity

    Justice Vs Charity

    Justice versus Charity Generally speaking there is a moral distinction between an act and an omission. In dealing with euthanasia, it is rational to think that the active euthanasia is further morally wrong than passive euthanasia. One would never be able to create a morally absolute rule that could address all life and death situations. Conversely, what if it is in one's most immediate interest to be relieved of their life, but they choose not

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    Essay Length: 1,480 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Mike
  • Shaping the Modern Theater

    Shaping the Modern Theater

    Shaping the Modern Theater: Relating the Work to the Audience, Changing American Theater Forever Traditional theater is simply a portrayal of fictional events through an artistic display. Thornton Wilder, author of Our Town, created a different portrayal of fictional events that captivated the minds of audiences abroad. Utilizing techniques rarely seen before, Wilder connected his works to his viewers in a way never before seen in American Literature. In an effort to eliminate the barrier

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    Essay Length: 287 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Fonta
  • Ancient Maya

    Ancient Maya

    The ancient Maya occupied a broad territory roughly the size of the state of New Mexico. This area is located in the southeastern parts of Mexico including the Yucatan Peninsula and most of the modern states of Chiapas and Tabasco, much of northwestern Central America, and including the nations of Guatemala and Belize and the western parts of Honduras and El Salvador. The earliest known villages appeared along the seacoasts (6000-2000 B.C) where there was

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Important Aspects of Early Modern English Society

    Important Aspects of Early Modern English Society

    Early modern England is a lot different to New Zealand in the early twenty first century. Almost every aspect of early modern English society contrasts greatly with New Zealand today. Three aspects where this contrast is especially pronounced are in the society was structured, the political make up of the country and the economy. Society in Early Modern England was rigidly structured in a hierarchical system, in which God was at the top, and peasants

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    Essay Length: 439 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Jon
  • Modernization Versus Tradition

    Modernization Versus Tradition

    In the story “Dead Men’s Path” Chinua Achebe describe the controversy between tradition and modernization in the school of Ndume. Michael Obi is the main character of this story. He is confronted with the villagers and their resistance to change. All the characters go through different changes according to their belief. The theme between the main character and the rest of the characters is controversial. Because Michael is aims with intellectual arrogance, and the villagers

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Wendy
  • Justice in Book I of the Republic

    Justice in Book I of the Republic

    The Republic of Plato begins in a similar fashion that many other Platonic dialogues begin, with that of a question. The conversation between Socrates and the aged Cephalus becomes a philosophical discussion of what advantages money has brought to Cephalus' life. Cephalus replies that money has allowed him "to tell the truth and pay one's debts" (331 b). Nevertheless, Socrates believes this does not portray an accurate description of what justice is. The rest of

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Fatih
  • Dbq: Ancient Greek Contributions

    Dbq: Ancient Greek Contributions

    DBQ: ANCIENT GREEK CONTRIBUTIONS The Ancient Greek contribution ranged by the 1900-133 BC, however its influence on the Western Literate Society lasts to this day. As the Greeks expanded their empire, they spread their ideas to other countries, while also borrowing from other cultures. During this period of time, the Greeks made many significant and long-lasting contribution to our modern culture in Philosophy, Art, Democracy, Drama, Math, and Science. These givings of important ideas, inventions,

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Tasha
  • Absolute Justice

    Absolute Justice

    Does absolute justice exist or not? This essay will present arguments for the existence of absolute justice. Many people disagree that absolute justice exists. Thus they argue that justice cannot be derived from nature since contradictory and different forms of justice exist in nature; and one cannot derive the greater and perfect from the lesser and imperfect, also they argue that the idea of absolute justice is the ideas of different cultures and times. That

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Top
  • The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World

    The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World

    Seven Wonders of the World, works of art and architecture regarded by ancient Greek and Roman observers as the most extraordinary structures of antiquity. The listing of ancient wonders probably began in ancient Greece in around the 2nd century BC, but the Seven Wonders that were most commonly referred to were listed some time after that. All built in the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East area, some time from around 2600 BC up to about

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    Essay Length: 879 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Monika
  • Modern Day Rome

    Modern Day Rome

    Are we living in the modern day Rome? Current America is eerily similar to that of ancient Rome. Some people are very concerned that America will have the same fate as the Romans did. Rome fell for several reasons: decline in morals and values, inflation, military expansion and military spending just to name a few. All of these examples can easily be seen in modern day America. If we do not learn from the mistakes

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    Essay Length: 818 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Max
  • Ancient Greece

    Ancient Greece

    Ancient Greece influenced our western civilization in many ways. It produced philosophers, scientist, mathematicians, artists, writers and architects in our civilization. As Americans we have learned and took on many things from the Greeks. Greeks were one of the most advanced cultures. Having theaters, Olympics, myths and many other things. Our civilization today is still completely interested with folklore and folk tales. Today we don’t believe in more than one God unlike the Greek culture

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    Essay Length: 360 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Janna

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