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  • My Life

    My Life

    I moved to Peekskill. New York when I was about eight years old. I used to live in Yonkers, New York but then my parents realized we needed a change. The area that I lived in in Yonkers was extremely bad. There were a lot of drugs and violence and my parents didn’t want to finish raising their family in this awful neighborhood. My family and I lived in a small two-bedroom apartment on

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    Essay Length: 1,300 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Jack
  • Life of an Infant

    Life of an Infant

    The life of an infant During the first year of a child's life, the rate of growth and development is more rapid than any other time in their life. They will double their weight during the first 4-5 months and maybe triple their weight by the end of their first year. The most important thing though for infants is what we might call "a little Tender Loving Care." Without TLC, an infant's growth and development

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Wendy
  • Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

    Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Slavery, in my eyes, is an institution that has always been ridiculed on behalf of the physical demands of the practice, but few know the extreme mental hardships that all slaves faced. In Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet Jacobs writes autobiographically about her families’ and her personal struggles as a maturing “mullatto” child in the South. Throughout this engulfing memoir of Harriet Jacobs

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    Essay Length: 1,622 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Victor
  • Choices and Expectations for Pursing a Mba

    Choices and Expectations for Pursing a Mba

    Choices and Expectations for Pursing a MBA While at work one day I was asked by my boss at the last minute to fill in for one of our financial analysts and attend a luncheon that was being given by a company that was soon going public. It is common practice for us to attend a luncheon given by an IPO name in hopes of establishing some sort of relationship with the company prior to

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Mike
  • Stylistic and Structural Choices in Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities

    Stylistic and Structural Choices in Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities

    Anna Deavere Smith's unique style of drama in her play Fires in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities integrates theatre with journalism in order to bring to life and examine real social and political events. Each scene is created directly from an interview that Smith had held with the character, although Smith arranges the character's words according to her own purposes. She captures the essence of the characters she interviews, distilling their thoughts

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    Essay Length: 1,543 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: July
  • Life of Pi

    Life of Pi

    Title: Life of Pi Author: Yann Martel Year of Prize: 2002 Historical Context for Novel: Setting: Biographical Information about the author: Plot Summary: 500 words The Author‘s Note, explains that the author has traveled to India, restless and in need of a story. At a coffeehouse in Pondicherry, an elderly man named Francis Adirubasamy strikes up a conversation with the author saying, “I have a story that will make you believe in God.” He refers

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    Submitted: April 26, 2010 By: Kevin
  • The College Life

    The College Life

    The College Life Schedules are a difficult thing to balance. A person must find the time to complete a number of tasks in a day. A normal adult may have time to get everything done and still have time to spare. The normal college student on the other hand is constantly on the go. College students have busy schedules that include working, studying, and socializing. Most college students work. How else are they going to

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    Essay Length: 445 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: April 27, 2010 By: Mike
  • Value of Human Life

    Value of Human Life

    The beliefs and views of modern society are hypocritical and unjust. By the time an individual matures from a young child to an adult, they have been taught an uncountable number of life lessons. One of the outstanding lessons that each and every person has learned is that killing another human being is wrong. This is perhaps the first recognizable lesson on the value of human life. Most children know that killing is against the

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    Essay Length: 2,739 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Venidikt
  • Life Experiences in Farewell to Manzanar

    Life Experiences in Farewell to Manzanar

    Life Experiences in Farewell to Manzanar The book, Farewell to Manzanar was the story of a young Japanese girl coming of age in the interment camp located in Owens Valley, California. Less than two months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which stated that the War Department had the right to declare which people were a threat to the country, and move them wherever they so pleased1. Since the

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    Essay Length: 1,214 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Fatih
  • The Life of an English Boy in the 1920-30s

    The Life of an English Boy in the 1920-30s

    The Life of an English boy in the 1920-30s By Deana Aref My Grandpa’s name is Ian Rayner Nichols, Rayner being his mother’s maiden name. He was born on the 18th December, 1924 to Winifred and Frederick Nichols. They already had three sons, Ronald, Geoffrey and Derrick and a daughter called Cynthia. Three years after Grandpa was born, they had another son called Terrence. They lived at 148 Hilliard Road in Northwood, Middlesex, England and

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Steve
  • Donations of Life

    Donations of Life

    Introduction: After contracting a mild case of the flu, doctors told 21-year-old Lisa that her heart would last her for no more than 3 more months. Her only hope was to get a new heart. A month later, 20-year-old Sally was in an automobile accident and suffered severe head injures and died. Her heart could have saved Lisa's life. When Sally's parents were asked if they would allow their daughter's heart to be donated, however,

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    Submitted: April 28, 2010 By: Fatih
  • Life and Accomplishments of Edwards Deming

    Life and Accomplishments of Edwards Deming

    Running head: SUMMARY OF DEMINGS ACCOMPLISHMENTS The Life and Accomplishments of W. Edwards Deming Submitted by Jada Cansler For QMS 101 Spring, 2006 Abstract William Edwards Deming was known to many as one of the “Great Quality Pioneers.” He was born in Sioux City, Iowa and eventually became a statician. He attended school in a one room school house where he got his education early. He studied with Walter Shewhart for many years and

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    Essay Length: 1,527 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Mikki
  • How Will the Honor Code Impact My Academic and Campus Life?

    How Will the Honor Code Impact My Academic and Campus Life?

    How will the honor code impact my academic and campus life? Throughout my years at Xavier and beyond I intend to follow the Xavier Honor Code so I can become a cooperative and responsible person. By being a student at Xavier I notice I will have to take responsibility of my actions and faults. In order for Xavier to trust me and to allow me to continue attending their school, I will have to follow

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    Essay Length: 553 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Jack
  • Her Life in one Hour

    Her Life in one Hour

    Her Life in One Hour Kate Chopin’s, “Story of an Hour,” tells of a woman named Louise Mallard who discovers some horrible news. She has just found out her husband died in a train wreck. As the story continues she rethinks all of her life, and the pros and cons of being married, and whether or not she will be happy again. Mrs. Mallard’s husband used to hold her back from a lot. With freedom

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    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Jon
  • Life in the Drive-Thru Lane: A Look at the Impact of Fast Food on America

    Life in the Drive-Thru Lane: A Look at the Impact of Fast Food on America

    Life in the Drive-thru Lane: A Look at the Impact of Fast Food on America Weight gain, high cholesterol, vomiting, headaches, depression, and vanished sex drive; these are the effects of eating nothing but McDonald's for a month. That is exactly what happened to Morgan Spurlock, a filmmaker who ate McDonald's for three meals a day, every day, for a month for his documentary on the harmful effects of fast food on the body called

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    Submitted: April 30, 2010 By: Yan
  • Life Outside the Ivory Tower

    Life Outside the Ivory Tower

    The twentieth century may be thought of as the century for Dewey, but it was the era of Mortimer Adler. The Adler Era was considered this partly because of his longevity but also included his authority within philosophy. As I began thinking about Adler and his contributions to the world of thought, I began considering him as an extra-ordinary person that lived life fully; yet, instead of slowing down to enjoy his “golden years” it

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    Submitted: May 1, 2010 By: Vika
  • The Life and Music of Louis Armstrong

    The Life and Music of Louis Armstrong

    The Life and Music of Louis Armstrong Among the most popular and appreciated musicians of our time, Louis “Satchmo” Armostrong brought a musical presence, technical mastery, and imaginative genius that “so overwhelmed musicians of his day that he became their principle model, leaving an indelible imprint on the music” (Kernfield 27). When reviewing Armstrong’s life work, his years with us can be divided into two aspects, his personal life and his music. While giving significant

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Fonta
  • Does Martin Luther King Junior’s Life Affect His Children’s Lives?

    Does Martin Luther King Junior’s Life Affect His Children’s Lives?

    Was Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's children affected by his life before and after his death? Were his children considered famous or just more people in a crowd? Did they remember their father or did they loose their memory of him? Where the children discriminated? Questions to answer, reasons to be found, that's what this paper is all about, answers. The people to answer these questions the best are the King children themselves. We will

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    Essay Length: 1,142 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Stenly
  • Life and Times of Alfred Wegener

    Life and Times of Alfred Wegener

    Alfred Wegener was born in Berlin in 1880. His father was a minister who ran an orphanage, Alfred was even brilliant as a young child he took interest in the land textures and topography. He took special interest in Greenland, and always walked, skated, and hiked. This prepared him of what was to come in his future. He studied in Germany and Austria, receiving his PhD in astronomy. But no sooner than he got his

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    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Music Is My Life

    Music Is My Life

    Music is my life. Especially rap. I listen to it all day and fall asleep with is playing by my side. And explicit or not I still love it. I even like to write my own music every now and then and if I couldn’t have explicit lyrics I really wouldn’t have a practical way of expressing myself. Explicit lyrics get the point through to the listeners most of the time. And it could be

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    Essay Length: 518 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: May 2, 2010 By: Mike
  • Does Life Have a Meaning?

    Does Life Have a Meaning?

    Does life have a meaning? Life, it might be argued, is the distinguishing feature of all organisms and may most usefully be thought of as involving various kinds of complex systems of organization providing individual organisms with the ability to make use of those energy sources available to them for both self maintenance and reproduction. Underlying this deceptively persuasive definition, however, lie those persistent traditional problems inherent in the search for an essential, distinctive substance

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    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Monika
  • Video Game Skills May Give Edge in Life

    Video Game Skills May Give Edge in Life

    The "wired" generation; from online gaming to Myspace, these are the new "norms" in our technologically driven society. I believe that video games do increase some skills but some they lack in luster. While helping children with their reaction time and vision, gaming removes the fundamentals of being a child. It has been twenty plus years since the invention of computer gaming, so now there is loads of data to study. I believe we

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    Essay Length: 755 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Mike
  • Granny’s Life

    Granny’s Life

    My Granny’s life More and more people are facing problems which are holding them back from achieving their goals and dreams. I think the number will increase if we do not get educated in those areas of our lives that are not working the way we would like them to. This particular essay portrays my granny Panjab’s life and her struggle for survival, which eventually brought her many great rewards in life. My grandma Panjab

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    Essay Length: 759 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: May 3, 2010 By: Bred
  • Choices

    Choices

    This is an era of survival with all the things happening around the world. Every person has to have certain needs met in order to survive and those needs are called necessities. People in different parts of the world practice different ways to achieve the goal of survival. The way to such necessities, is most of the time, motivated by a political ideology which is a type of thinking that motivates how a state should

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    Essay Length: 1,818 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: July
  • Settings Are Often Constructed to Expose Suffering and Injustice.Discuss with Reference to “one Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”

    Settings Are Often Constructed to Expose Suffering and Injustice.Discuss with Reference to “one Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”

    Settings are often constructed to expose suffering and injustice. Discuss with reference to “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” The novel, “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” illustrates the horrors of life in Russia under the Joseph Stalin. The novel portrays the repression of human rights at that time and it also shows the importance of freedom. “Freedom is found only when a person has been stripped of everything”. This is

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    Submitted: May 5, 2010 By: Anna

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