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  • A Heart That Thinks Is a Heart That Waits

    A Heart That Thinks Is a Heart That Waits

    Crack. Such is the sound of a breaking heart. Oh how fragile the heart is, and yet how courageous; ever ready to face its destruction. Tears flow as the heart cries out in agony, as inconceivable pain tortures the soul, as sorrow clouds the mind, and as disappointment weakens the body. Only a few are wise enough to save themselves from the futility of love. But it is not because they are less courageous than

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    Essay Length: 1,091 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 15, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    In the novel, Heart of Darkness, the author Joseph Conrad makes some comments, and he uses different terms to describe people of color that may offend some people. Also the readers can see how racist the Europeans were toward blacks not only because they were turned into slaves. We can see how the European people seem to think the Africans are not equal to them. There are many examples of discrimination towards woman in this

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    Essay Length: 553 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Kevin
  • A Lesson Before Dying- Heroism

    A Lesson Before Dying- Heroism

    “A hero is someone who does something for other people. He does something that other men don’t’ and can’t do.” How does heroism play an essential role in the narrative? A man who has the courage and dignity to put themselves second for the greater benefit of others is a hero. In the novel there is a great need for somebody to stand up in the face of racism and show the community that black

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    Essay Length: 597 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: Steve
  • Clemens Uses Three-Layered Lesson

    Clemens Uses Three-Layered Lesson

    In Samuel L. Clemens’ short story entitled, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, he reveals to us that he believes that everyone is susceptible to gullibility. Using not only humor and characters in the story, Clemens actually makes his point by drawing the reader into the story as unwitting victims as well. The story illuminates gullibility on three separate levels. First, the main character of the story within the story, Jim Smiley, is

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    Submitted: April 18, 2010 By: regina
  • Piano Lesson Symbolism

    Piano Lesson Symbolism

    August Wilson’s use of symbolism is an important and effective method of storytelling in The Piano Lesson. Symbolism is a technique used by writers to associate one object or idea with another. This technique is essential in The Piano Lesson due to the small-scale, rural environment in which the story is told. Important thoughts and ideas that Wilson is trying to portray about African-American society could never be expressed without symbolism, due to this small

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    Submitted: April 22, 2010 By: Anna
  • Lose Heart

    Lose Heart

    T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Winter Evening Settles Down” and Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” both share the same theme of the alienation of the individual from society. It is the moods of desolation and despair, loneliness and struggle that reflect both authors’ observations of the individual alienated from society. In his poem, Eliot reveals the first clue to the mood of the poem in his first line. The winter evening settles down

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    Submitted: April 23, 2010 By: Yan
  • A Lesson on Booty

    A Lesson on Booty

    Booty is bad shit vorite Books: V.C. Andrews Favorite Quote: "Sucka!" -Me "Damn right" -Me "Get 'er done" -Larry the Cable Guy "This is some new level type shit here." -Me "Oh but how bout ya mama be boppin fa pocket change." -Me and my people "EMBRARRASED!!!" -Me and my people "... and then you woke up." -just me "Dooya-ta-ta-ta-ta!" -anybody that was in the 2005 DFWASB would know what I'm talkin bout "I guess"

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: regina
  • The Lesson by Toni Cade Banbara

    The Lesson by Toni Cade Banbara

    Kelli Parsons English 102 SJ Glassberg March 7, 2006 “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Banbara The theme of “The Lesson” is poverty vs. wealth. The narrator, Sylvia and her friends are “all poor and live in the slums”(3). The children have no concept of what being poor really means. They only know their neighborhood, which is dirty and in poverty. The children’s mentor Miss. Moore tries to teach her students about real life, poverty, and

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    Submitted: April 29, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    In Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Kurtz fails for many reasons and in many ways. Kurtz's failure is especially tragic because he once had the potential for great success. He was an eloquent, powerful, and persuasive speaker who at one point was adored by all the inhabitants of the heart of darkness, the great and mysterious jungle. Everyone from the innocent natives to the administration of his corrupt company was in awe of him. Why

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Piano Lessons

    Piano Lessons

    Piano lessons Jane Campion composes herself Difficult women come easy for Australian (nйe New Zealand) filmmaker Jane Campion, as can be seen from the retrospective of her films that's about to open at the Harvard Film Archive. From her brilliant first short films (February 3 at 9:15 p.m. and the 7th at 4 p.m.) to her masterpiece The Piano (1993; February 5 at 6:30 p.m., the 6th at 2 p.m., the 7th at 6:30 p.m.,

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    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Mikki
  • A Lesson Before Dying

    A Lesson Before Dying

    A Lesson Before Dying Written By Ernest J. Gaines Essay By Alli Francis Lessons are told so others can see the significance of a story or event. They are learned through instruction and support from others and by personal experience. Several characters in Ernest Gaines' A Lesson Before Dying experienced this, particularly Jefferson and Grant. Both men were able to learn from each other and in the end made each other better and more mature

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    Essay Length: 706 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 6, 2010 By: Mike
  • American Heart Association

    American Heart Association

    Although the Western States Affiliate's (WSA's) organizational model successfully increased fundraising revenue for the American Heart Association (AHA), the task force's initiative to adopt this structure and strategy at a national level indicates a lack of understanding of the AHA's overall vision and business strategy. If the AHA wishes to achieve even greater success while continuing to maintain its long-standing strategy of raising funds for research and community education, it should focus on developing a

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    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Narrator of the Tell-Tale Heart

    The Narrator of the Tell-Tale Heart

    The Narrator of the Tell-Tale Heart There are many things that people do not know about the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s story “The Tell-Tale Heart.” The only things that people know from the beginning is that the narrator is mad. The narrator’s condition is proven from his wild and excited speech at the beginning of the story. Also, his condition is based off of his crazy claims. To back up his speeches, the narrator

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    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: Jon
  • Ethnocentrism: With Whom Resides the Heart of Darkness?

    Ethnocentrism: With Whom Resides the Heart of Darkness?

    Ethnocentrism 1 Ethnocentrism With Whom Resides the Heart of Darkness? Antonio Arevalo James Campbell High School Ethnocentrism 2 Abstract This paper discusses Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad’s most acclaimed novel, and attempts to determine what the “heart of darkness” that Conrad speaks of is. I found, through my interpretations, that the “heart of darkness” is the ethnocentrism that Europeans maintained in the age of colonialism. More specifically, this ethnocentrism brought about sweeping ignorance and failed

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    Submitted: May 7, 2010 By: July
  • Congenital Heart Disease

    Congenital Heart Disease

    Congenital Heart Disease Congenital heart diseases are lesions, caused by abnormal development of the structures of the heart. This happens in the embryonic life due to environmental or unknown factors. The cause of congenital disease is usually unknown, but there are multifactor reasons that are incriminated. They are said to be sporadic. This meaning that it is not secluded to one geographic location. However this incidence is increased in those with a positive family history

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    Essay Length: 1,319 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Jessica
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    Madness is closely linked to imperialism in this book. Africa is responsible for mental disintegration as well as for physical illness. Madness has two primary functions. First, it serves as an ironic device to engage the reader’s sympathies. Kurtz, Marlow is told from the beginning, is mad. However, as Marlow, and the reader, begin to form a more complete picture of Kurtz, it becomes apparent that his madness is only relative, that in the context

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    Submitted: May 9, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Heart of Darkness

    The Heart of Darkness

    Human behavior is dictated by basic desires and instincts. All our actions, even those that were initially undertaken with good intentions, are ultimately corrupted and guided by our inbred human nature. As humans, our primary motivation in any of our actions is our craving for control and power, and our false notion of righteousness serves as a justification for our barbarism. Author Joseph Conrad explores the stark reality of human nature in his novel Heart

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    Submitted: May 11, 2010 By: Anna
  • In the Heart of Night

    In the Heart of Night

    nspired by Beckett’s literary style, particularly in �Waiting for Godot’, Stoppard wrote �Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead’. As a result of this, many comparisons can be drawn between these two plays. Stoppard’s writing was also influenced by Shakespeare’s �Hamlet’. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as minor characters exist within Shakespeare’s world providing Stoppard with his protagonists. However, the play is not an attempt to rewrite �Waiting for Godot’ in a framework of Shakespeare’s drama. In studying these

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    Submitted: May 15, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Lesson Planning in the Esl Classroom

    Lesson Planning in the Esl Classroom

    What follows is a compendium of thoughts I have on the subject of lesson planning. As I want to make good use of this document when I start teaching again, I specifically formatted it like a “quick-look” reference sheet. In fact, its format speaks volumes about how I will apply what is listed below in the future. A good lesson: • Has a sense of coherence and flow (i.e., it is not just a sequence

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    Essay Length: 892 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 16, 2010 By: Steve
  • Angina Pectoris: The Heart Killer

    Angina Pectoris: The Heart Killer

    Introduction In today’s society, people are gaining medical knowledge at quite a fast pace. Treatments, cures, and vaccines for various diseases and disorders are being developed constantly, and yet, coronary disease remains the number one killer in the world. The media today concentrates intently on drug and alcohol abuse, homicides, AIDS, and so on. What a lot of people aren’t realizing is that coronary disease actually accounts for about 80% of sudden deaths. In fact,

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    Submitted: May 17, 2010 By: Max
  • Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

    Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness The Heart of Darkness is an intricate novel that captivates and delivers Conrad’s beliefs as well as leaves the reader with many ambiguous meanings and hidden messages that are for their own interpretation. The novel opens with a sailor by the name of Marlow recounting to several other shipmates about an incident in his past when he commanded a steamboat on the Congo River and the horrors and darkness he

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Steve
  • Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness

    Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, and Apocalypse Now, a movie by Francis Ford Coppola can be compared and contrasted in many ways. By focusing on their endings and on the character of Kurtz, contrasting the meanings of the horror in each media emerges. In the novel the horror reflects Kurtz tragedy of transforming into a ruthless animal whereas in the film the horror has more of a definite meaning, reflecting the war

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    Submitted: May 18, 2010 By: Mike
  • Lesson Plan

    Lesson Plan

    5E Lesson Plan: Using the Star Map Introduction: The night sky has such a beautiful display of stars; it seems such a shame not to be able to identify them. Using our star map, we will be able to see how the sky changes from hour to hour and night to night. With this we learn the names of the patterns of stars, which we call constellations. Using the map, you will be able to

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    Submitted: May 19, 2010 By: Steve
  • Heart of Darkness White Lies

    Heart of Darkness White Lies

    Heart of Darkness: White Lies Joseph Conrad's slender volume Heart of Darkness, published serially in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899, has probably received more critical attention per page than any other prose work. Layer after layer has been examined and analysed, and continually they seem to lead on to increasingly abstract strata. Critics have demonstrated how Marlow, fundamentally unreliable and partial in his capacity of first-person narrator, becomes involved in the action and is gradually changed

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    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: July
  • Heart’s and Eyes

    Heart’s and Eyes

    Most critics know Edgar Allen Poe as a mysterious man, with many thoughts and feelings of symbolism. He has put in his books so much psychological themes and has really, got hold of the human psyche. According to www.onlineliature.com, “Poe’s verses illustrate an intense faculty for technical and abstract beauty, with the rhyming art to excess, an incorrigible propensity toward nocturnal themes, a demoniac undertone behind every page. … There is an indescribable magnetism about

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    Submitted: May 21, 2010 By: Artur

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