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  • The Amish: Living a Simpler Life

    The Amish: Living a Simpler Life

    Throughout the countryside in states like Indiana, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Ohio Americans in their SUV's and sports cars pass the horse drawn buggies of the Amish. Women dressed in designer suits or jeans would be out of place surrounded by the simple dresses warn by the Amish women. While the majority of the United States is preoccupied with the newest gadgets and latest technology the Amish continue to live the simple life that God intended.

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    Submitted: March 3, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

    The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass shows several instances in which his personal accounts of slavery are highlighted. These instances illustrate important realizations that Douglass makes concerning slavery, and/or about his own condition. The very first chapter of the novel produces the first example: loss of identity. Many slaves had absolutely no concept of time, in terms of factual dates. Slaves were kept "ignorant" as to the facts of the real world, in

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Life, Death, and the Political Issues Surrounding Abortion

    Life, Death, and the Political Issues Surrounding Abortion

    Life, Death, and the Political issues surrounding Abortion Few issues have embodied such controversy as abortion has. The various people involved in the abortion debate not only have strong beliefs, but each group has a self appeal that clearly reflects what they believe to be the essential issues. The abortion supporters see individual choice as central to the debate: If a woman cannot choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, a condition which affects her

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Early American Life

    Early American Life

    (paper not done) I am going to tell you a lot of facts in my research paper on Early American Life. In th paper I,m going to talk about religion, culture, education, and settlement. The next paragraph is on religion and here it is. Ok, the the Puritans considered the bible the true law of god and it provided guidelines for the church government. Also the puritans encouraged bible reading, prayer and preaching in the

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: July
  • Mutual Life Canada Case Study

    Mutual Life Canada Case Study

    Overview: Mutual Life is one of Canada’s largest insurers which served approximately 1.35 million people in 9,600 groups in Canada and the northern United States. It has five divisions each headed by a senior or executive vice-president which includes the Group Division headed by Alex Brown, senior vice-president. It specialized in employee group benefit programs such as life, health, rehabilitation, and pension products. In August, 1992, Mutual Life’s Group Division developed a service that offered

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    Submitted: March 4, 2010 By: Jon
  • The Language of Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist Successfully Evokes the Texture of Rural Life. Discuss.

    The Language of Seamus Heaney's Death of a Naturalist Successfully Evokes the Texture of Rural Life. Discuss.

    There are many themes in “Death of a Naturalist” and these are often played out against imagery, situations, descriptions and a background that constantly evoke the texture of Irish rural life. Often the focus is on the act of writing itself. Heaney's ploughmen, thatcher, diviners and diggers are all figures of the poet at work. Interestingly enough these role models are all men. Heaney's childhood world, true to life on an Irish farm in the

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Monika
  • Social Groups in My Life

    Social Groups in My Life

    Social Groups Hope Martinez University of Phoenix Sociology 100 Fay DeMeyer Introduction When examining the numerous “groups” I’ve been a part of, it better explains the person I am today. Many groups do not fall into a specific primary or secondary. At different time’s in life they are different things. While something’s stay constant—like church—the actual facility may change, a new pastor may come to teach. It is everyday unexpected items that change the familiar

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Fonta
  • The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Life & Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche TIMELINE * Born: 1844. Rocken, Germany * Died: 1900. Weimar, Germany * Major Works: The Gay Science (1882), * Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885), * Beyond Good & Evil (1886), * On the Genealogy of Morals (1887), MAJOR IDEAS Self deception is a particularly destructive characteristic of West Culture. Life is The Will To Power; our natural desire is to dominate and reshape the world to fit our own

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Victor
  • A Woman’s Choice

    A Woman’s Choice

    A Woman’s Choice Isabella Smith is 23 years old, has a child who is six years old, pregnant, and living off welfare. Isabella had her first child at the age of 17. She dropped out of high school because she was afraid of what people would think or say. Her family disowned her, so, she was all alone to have and take care of this child on the way. She has struggled extremely hard over

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    Submitted: March 5, 2010 By: Jon
  • Simaks Look at Life in Desertion

    Simaks Look at Life in Desertion

    Jason Warren ENGL-371-010 Paper #1 Within the short story “Desertion” written by Clifford D. Simak the human race faces the ultimate challenge of the choice of free will vs. life determination. When the story opens we learn of a mission to liberate and populate the jovian planet Jupiter. The head of this study, and protagonist of the story, is a man named Kent Fowler. Fowler has two by two sent four men to Jupiter already

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Mikki
  • School Vouchers: The Choice for Quality Schools

    School Vouchers: The Choice for Quality Schools

    School Vouchers: The Choice for Quality Schools Over the last few decades, society’s faith in the public school system has truly declined. The schools are under funded, overcrowded and student test scores have drastically fallen. These are all factors that have caused many people to form other ways to provide a quality education for students. One of the ways that has been implemented in many areas is the school voucher system. The voucher system allows

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Artur
  • Social Isolation in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

    Social Isolation in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

    Olaudah Equiano in his Interesting Narrative is taken from his African home and thrown into a Western world completely foreign to him. Equiano is a slave for a total of ten years and endeavors to take on certain traits and customs of Western thinking. He takes great pains to improve himself, learn religion, and adopt Western mercantilism. However, Equiano holds on to a great deal of his African heritage. Throughout the narrative, the author keeps

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Jack
  • Life and Times of Thomas Day

    Life and Times of Thomas Day

    Life and Times of Thomas Day Thomas Day was born in Dinwidee, Virginia in 1801 to a free slave mother. With the law that allowed children to be born free if their parents were free, Day was born free and did not have to be a slave. His family had been free since the early 18th century. He and his brother were educated by private tutors and they were trained by their father in cabinetry

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Top
  • Life at the Turn of the Century

    Life at the Turn of the Century

    Life at the turn of the century is getting better for many reasons. One reason is that there are new innovations in the field of photography. Another reason is that states are starting to require children to go to school. Lastly African Americans are fighting legal discrimination. One innovation in the field of photography is George Eastman (Eastman-Kodak) invented the first widely available camera. It cost only $25 for the camera which includes a roll

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    Submitted: March 6, 2010 By: Tommy
  • The Death Penalty - How Much Is a Life Worth?

    The Death Penalty - How Much Is a Life Worth?

    How much is a Life worth? Imagine that you are wrongfully accused of a crime, and due some factor, you are convicted of a crime that you did not commit, and your sentencing is the death penalty. How much would you say that your life is worth, and how much would you be willing to pay in order to know that you’ll have time to prove your innocence? This is the feeling that over 120

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Anna
  • I Was Running for My Life

    I Was Running for My Life

    I was running for my life I remember in 4th grade these people that lived up the street from me carpooled with all of us that lived in the same neighborhood to go to school. I think I was eleven years old at the time sever years felt so long ago. But it really felt like yesterday. I remembered being terrified of dogs. Especially the golden retriever at the Carney’s residence. It was 8:00 pm

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    Submitted: March 7, 2010 By: Edward
  • God Is Pro-Life

    God Is Pro-Life

    The reason I am pro-life, and oppose abortion, is because GOD is pro-life, and opposes abortion. Scriptural evidence of this is abundant; consider the words of Ps. 139:13-14: "For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well." God then forbids the taking of innocent life [viz. a life not

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Steve
  • Life in the Colombian Cocain Trade

    Life in the Colombian Cocain Trade

    Colombian Cocaine Trade Cocaine is produced from the Coca plants usually found in the mountain climates of Colombia. The first cocaine alkaloid was not achieved until 1855. The cocaine alkaloid was first isolated by a German Chemist Friedrick Gaedcke. Cocaine was first used in the 1880’s as an anesthetic in eye, nose, and throat surgeries because of its capability to provide anesthesia as well as to constrict blood vessels and limit bleeding. Its therapeutic

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Yan
  • Life on Land Compared to Life on the Mississippi

    Life on Land Compared to Life on the Mississippi

    In the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck lives in two different settings. One of the settings is on land with the widow and with his father and the other is on the river with Jim. There are many differences of living on land as opposed to living on the Mississippi River. On land, Huck has more rules to live by and he has to watch himself so as not to upset the widow

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    Submitted: March 8, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Hard Knock Life for Langston Hughes

    The Hard Knock Life for Langston Hughes

    Langston Hughes is often considered a voice of the African-American people and a prime example of the Harlem Renaissance. His writing does symbolize these titles, but the concept of Langston Hughes that portrays a black man's rise to poetic greatness from the depths of poverty and repression are largely exaggerated. America frequently confuses the ideas of segregation, suppression, and struggle associated with African-American history and imposes these ideas onto the stories of many black historical

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Mike
  • The Motorcycle Helmets, Educate Not Legislate Choice or Law?

    The Motorcycle Helmets, Educate Not Legislate Choice or Law?

    The Motorcycle Helmets, Educate not Legislate Choice or Law? Freedom of choice" is not about the thrill of feeling the wind in our hair any more than a young man's choice to serve in the armed forces of this country during a time of war is about the thrill of being shot at. The issue is about returning personal responsibility to trained and experienced adult motorcyclists. It is about rejecting the proposition that the government

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: July
  • Life on the Global Assembly Line

    Life on the Global Assembly Line

    Analysis of Ehrenreich and Fuentes Ehrenreich and Fuentes “Life on the Global Assembly Line”, World Views, Third Edition, is ineffective because the witness testimony cannot be validated, the use of illustrations is illogical, their examples are based on unfounded information and their statistical data is often not substantiated by scientific data. Ehrenreich and Fuentes’ article is ineffective because witness testimony cannot be validated. Often Ehrenreich and Fuentes supply titles but no documentation. They present alleged

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    Submitted: March 9, 2010 By: Kevin
  • Amistad Vs. the Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano

    Amistad Vs. the Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano

    CoMpArE and CoNtRaSt Both, “The Interesting Narrative Life of Olaudah Equiano” and “Amistad” are important stories about slavery in pre-civil war america because they both address the issues of slavery. These gentlemen in the story made a difference in the slave trade. In “The life of Olaudah Equiano”, Olaudah was sold on a slave ship that came to the Barbados. Olaudah worked for his freedom, and in the end became efficient in American language.

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: regina
  • Incidence in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Incidence in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl opens with an introduction in which the author, Harriet Jacobs, states her reasons for writing an autobiography. Her story is painful, and she would rather have kept it private, but she feels that making it public may help the antislavery movement. A preface by abolitionist Lydia Maria Child makes a similar case for the book and states that the events it records are true. Jacobs uses the

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Yan
  • Tennessee Williams’s Life Story

    Tennessee Williams’s Life Story

    Tennessee Williams's Life Story Tennessee Williams' play, The Glass Menagerie, originated in the memory of Williams. Williams' family embodied his father, Cornelius Williams, his mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, his sister, Rose Williams, and his younger brother, Dakin Williams. Cornelius was an alcoholic, always away from home; Tennessee and Cornelius did not have a strong relationship, "By the late 1920s, mother and father were in open warfare, and both were good combatants. He came home drunk

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    Submitted: March 10, 2010 By: Mike